Why does Israel build settlements if they are illegal according to international law?

[devon]

I don't understand, could someone please explain it to me? I don't have much knowledge on the conflict. but I do know that the settlement building is one of the issues and it seems to be harmful to israel itself, since it's illegal and it is obviously going to make whoever that the area belongs to fight back.

-not meant to offend or incite anything btw. just want to understand the situation.

[egan]

that is the major problem

[gabrielo19]

You need to first understand who and what is the international law? The United nations, Nato, are controlled by, you guessed it the US. The US and Israel have close ties, mainly because of the business ventures the jews have with the US.
Think of this for a moment, why are there many jewish actors, singers and businessmen in America that allot of people are not aware of, (obviously they have changed their names since world war 2) you need to understand why they control the large markets businesses govt etc.
Then you will understand that Israel will build what every they want, when ever they want. Why does the US hate muslims?
Again you need to dig deep in this.
By the way i am neither jew or muslim.

[aviya]

You mean like those apartments in the west bank? The west bank was lost by the muslims when they attacked Israel and got their asses kicked. I wouldn't give that land back either, no freaking way. And i'd cover it with buildings and whatever else I wanted in there.

"Why does the US hate muslims? We have to dig deep." Yes dig deep down and think. What could the Muslims have possibly done to piss of America. Hmm, lemme think. I think somethings coming.

[benon]

nato is full of self-serving drones, they have no backbone when it comes to human rights. u.s foreign policy condones and assists the israeli fundamentalists in illegal settlements on illegally annexed palestinian land- as defined by nato itself.

[doran]

unlike palestinians, they envisage a future generation of civility
one that contributes to society in general
I have yet to see or hear of an Israeli strapping/pramming/or sending a female
civilian with a bomb.........As a nation they have survived genocide
as an aside - check out your history Palastinians are bedouins - treated by their arab neighbours much like the Romanny gypsies of Europe

[baigh75]

Because Israel has long assumed and eagerly demonstrated a willingness to not only demand respect from their detractors, they have been given carte blanche by the UN that created the fiasco that forced a man-made religious fantasy on the Palestinian people, to do as they please on occupied, (Palestinian) land.

Where reality ends and religious fantasy begins, that's the jumping off point for attempting to understand why DP's, a term used after WWII to describe displaced people or unwanted, (not really unwanted, but they decided that they were going to leverage as much guilt against the world community by insisting that the UN force a perceived weak country to surrender their land so that these DP's could then subjugate these people in order to create their own reality-based country) Jews freed from German concentration camps.

Nobody has the temerity to tell the bullies, (Israel) to stop stealing more occupied land.

Obviously, if you're an Israeli settler, you're probably under the mistaken impression that if something is written in the Talmud, then it's not only historically accurate, but nobody is allowed to criticize Israeli illegal occupation or expansion subjugation, because to do so gets you labeled as an anti-Semite or Jew-basher.

All of which is ludicrous considering there is a difference between criticizing Israeli government actions vs. criticizing Jewish ethnic groups all of which are not too surprisingly, of Arab decent.

The only difference besides interbreeding with Europeans long before the state of Israel was formed by UN mandate, it's obvious that their appearance is different, but their religious differences are perhaps the only real difference between a Jewish Arab or a Palestinian Arab.

[osryd]

It's against int'l law to attack another yet the Arabs do it constantly. If they had simply left israel alone, this whole hosing thing would never have been.

[mate]

It's against int'l law to attack another yet the Arabs do it constantly. If they had simply left israel alone, this whole hosing thing would never have been.

International Law doesn't exist, it's basically a rouse by world wide organized crime players. It's crap made up by a cartel attempting to push it's way into control of the world. They hate Israel because Israel is a free market country that respects individual rights. Israel has shown the Middle East what that philosophy can do for a people, they are successful without oil wealth, because their people are free to seek their betterment. This is NOT what the Fabian Society wants to see, because they want all people dependent on a strong central government so they can impose themselves as Oligarchy and rule the world of people as live stock while they live as royalty.

The Fabian Society, big bankers, Families like Rothschild & Rockefellers ect ... are behind all this garbage and they are working with the Muslim brotherhood, basically using them as dupes just as those involved with these families have used others as dupes, like the Bolsheviks they used and financed revolution to gain power of Russia, then killed their leaders, didn't implement Communism but Oligarchy in which they held powerful positions and gained billions of dollars equivalent in wealth.

The international law thing is crap, pure crap. You've got here the real story without the crap. Most people won't believe it, but it's what's real in the world under all the crap that doesn't make any sense.

[napayshni65]

1. It is not clear that they are illegal. Legal scholars disagree on whether they are legal or illegal.

2. They are building primarily on land that is either private property owned by Jews or government owned land. The land was ethnically cleansed of Jews in 1948. (Depending on who you ask, the land is either 100% or 80% Jewish Private property and/or govt owned property.)

3. So, the land does not "belong" to someone else. Rather, the Palestinian Arabs want that land to become part of a future Palestinian state. Under UN SC Res 242, that land does not "belong" to any particular state (neither Israel nor Palestine nor Jordan, nor anyone else). The whole point of UN SC Res 242 is that the land is in legal limbo (sovereignty-wise) and Israel may administer it until and unless all relevant parties peacefully negotiate final status borders.

4. Israelis (and many others) don't believe that the settlement building really is a key issue.

Their Arab neighbors were trying to destroy Israel in 1967, which is how Israel ended up with it.

Israel immediately offered to trade it all for peace. No takers. Instead, the famous "three no's of Khartoum."

The PLO was formed and began terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians in 1964, 4 years before Israel had the WB or Gaza and so no settlements.

They tried to destroy Israel in 1948 (which is when they ethnically cleansed the Jews from Jerusalem and the West Bank and Gaza.

They ethnically cleansed all the Jews from 80% of Palestine in 1946, when it was granted independence and renamed Jordan.

They ethnically cleansed the Jews from Hebron in 1929 (about 20 years before Israel...)

And they were slaughtering Jews throughout the 1920's...