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U.S. 'concerned' about Israel destroying Palestinian homes - spokeswoman





The United States is "concerned" about Israel's demolition of Arab buildings in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, a State Department spokeswoman said on Friday, adding that it raised questions about Israel's commitment to a two-state political solution to the Palestinian conflict.

Israeli forces bulldozed a school in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Tana in the West Bank early in March, leaving 23 children with nowhere to study in the community overlooking the Jordan valley. The school had been built by the European Union in an effort to help the community of about 40 families.

After destroying the school, the Israeli forces returned two weeks later and demolished 17 homes, 21 pens for sheep, goats and chickens, and five outhouses, according to B'tselem, an Israeli nongovernmental organisation.

"These actions are indicative of a damaging trend of demolitions, displacement and land confiscation," spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told a State Department briefing.

She said Washington was "concerned" and the demolitions, coupled with continuing Israeli construction and settlement activity "undermine the possibility of a two-state solution."

"They also call into question the Israeli government's commitment to that two-state solution," Trudeau said.

The State Department previously made similar comments.

So far this year, Israeli forces have destroyed or dismantled around 400 homes and other structures across the West Bank, more than in the whole of 2015.

Israeli forces also confiscated 579 acres (234 hectares) of Palestinian land near the city of Jericho in the West Bank, a step the State Department also criticized.

 

[timschochet]

Yeah they should stop doing that. 

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

It's morally wrong and is a kind of ethnic cleansing (not the genocidal kind but the forced migration kind). This is a real problem for the US. It rankles nationalists and extremists in Palestine & the ME. And this is a repeat of what was done to the Jews in East Jerusalem decades ago, so it is a never ending ethnic battle over one corner of a city. However the US has abandoned all carrots and sticks with Israel, we give them few to no reasons to cooperate with us on these kinds of things. We do not even seriously pursue the peace process.

 

[mr roboto]

When 2 children are fighting over anything (a toy, ball, a seat on the bus etc.) the fact that there is one other person who wants the thing makes it that much more desirable. 

The best way to diffuse the situation is to not give the thing to either child but to someone else instead. We should remove the Jews and Palestinians and let, oh I don't know, the Canadians have it. 

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

The U.S. should definitely be more involved, everytime we get involved in ME affairs good things happen.