Palestina The Land Seizure In The West

TimeIsNews.com - A Palestinian village called Qariout in the besieged West Bank Jewish settlement complex has become one of the witnesses the battle over the future borders of Israel and the Palestinian state that will be determined in later negotiations.

A Palestinian farmer named Muhammed Muqbil claims to have documents about the ownership of the plot of land in the village of the government of Israel and Jordan (Jordan controlled the West Bank before the year 1967).

However, in the same time, a resident of Shiloh Jewish settlements in the West Bank named Medad also admitted Betya have letters of ownership of a plot of land.

Muqbil born in the village in 1939. Muqbil father was a farmer and cultivation of the lands owned before Muqbil born.

Medad also live in neighborhoods neighboring Palestinian village of Shiloh since four decades ago, precisely since 1970. Medad and her husband immigrated from New York, United States, to Israel in 1970.

Although neighbors for so long, they speak different languages. They never even face to face.

Palestine today balked at starting peace talks if Israel did not halt construction of Jewish settlements in total.

The Israeli government last week announced a temporary freeze for 10 months for the construction of new settlements in the West Bank. However, Israel continued to build settlements in East Jerusalem.

Palestinians rejected Israel’s decision to freeze construction of settlements is only temporary and is still not willing to start peace talks.

Land seizure

Qariout is a barren rocky village inhabited by about 2600 residents and is located about 20 miles north of Jerusalem city. Qariout become a symbol of resistance against the expansion of Jewish settlements.

The residents of Jewish settlements every day continue to displace or at least threatening hundreds of villages and agricultural land in the West Bank Palestinians, in order to influence the final borders of a Palestinian state and Israel later.

Qariout village has lost two-thirds of its territory since 1979 due to seizure or occupation by the Jews.

Human rights groups Israel, Yesh Din, express, Jewish settlements are now besieged village from three directions Qariout and close access to two-thirds of village land.

According to Dror Etkes of Yesh Din, a Jewish settlement residents often build fences or plant Qariout village land to the Palestinians access to the village running out.

In fact, more Etkes, the Israeli authorities often confiscate land in the village under the pretext Qariout built military outposts on the road that connects between one and the other settlements around the complex the village.

Meanwhile, expressing Muqbil has lost two of three areas of land in Qariout. “One area of land confiscated by the Israeli military in 1982 and the Jewish settlements and residents take back another piece of land in 2003,” he said.

Muqbil said, the remaining plot of land located near the Jewish settlements, Shvut Rachel. However, he continued, maintaining ownership of a parcel of land is a fight since 2000.

“The inhabitants of the settlement of a time digging my property and they keep me from coming to the land. Once again in 2007, the residents of settlements uprooted 300 trees on the land with a bulldozer,” says Muqbil.

Yesh Din institutions claim to have 14 documents on various criminal actions of the residents of Jewish settlements on Palestinian residents in the surrounding villages Qariout during the last two years.

Qariout mayor said Abdelnaser Bedawi, a just peace requires them to leave the area. “How do you make a country when a Jewish settlement covering all areas of the West Bank?” Said Bedawi.

The Shiloh (Qariout Village neighbors) is a Jewish settlement or village has a population of about 2200 inhabitants. Shiloh is now characterized a new building frenzy in which there are two schools, a seminary, three synagogues (Jewish place of worship), and a swimming pool.

“The Book of Bible (Old Testament) gives rights to the Jews to live in Shiloh. Most of the Western world believe that if you swear by the Bible, you also swore that Shiloh’s Jews,” Medad said.

According to him, did not need permission to anyone to live in Shiloh. Jewish people have a long history in this area. He rejected the Arab nation has a history in the region.

“If they (Arabs) want to live in peace with us, they can stay here. If you do not want to live in peace, please go,” said Medad. (MTH)