{"id":9203,"date":"2014-10-05T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/article\/the-peace-camps-recycled-outrage\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:28:08","slug":"the-peace-camps-recycled-outrage","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/the-peace-camps-recycled-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peace Camp\u2019s Recycled Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"Lacking new activity to decry, the peace camp seizes on old projects, planned by prior governments, and passes them off as new. This is the story behind last week\u2019s outrage over the Givat Hamatos neighborhood in Jerusalem. The area is one where Jews already live, and immediately abuts the huge neighborhood of Gilo. It is \u201cover\u201d the Green Line by a few meters.\n\nDefining \u201csettlements\u201d has always been difficult. The relevant international law instruments speak only of people being \u201ctransferred or deported\u201d by an occupying power. However, most Jews in the West Bank have not been moved there by the Israeli government (that is why they are called settlers, not transferees and deportees).\n\nBut recent months have seen an unprecedented broadening of the concept of settlement activity to include things that do not involve Jews moving and, in this week\u2019s dust-up, things that have already happened. The peace camp has been defining settlements down.\n\nThe Israeli government has not issued new authorizations for the building of new homes in the \u201csettlements\u201d since before the collapse of negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas. Even Peace Now grudgingly concedes a \u201csemi-freeze.\u201d Yet the absence of new tenders creates a problem for peace processors: they traditionally blame any foot-dragging by Abbas on these tenders, and insist that if Israel desisted, the primary obstacles to fruitful negotiations would be removed.\n\nYet as the moratorium grows longer, Abbas has, contrary to peace-process predictions, only moved farther away from negotiations. Indeed, he has fully adopted a new strategy of using international pressure to give him his demands without the trouble of having to make compromises.\n\nUnable to blame \u201cnew settlement activity,\u201d the peace camp, uncritically parroted by the media, has defined settlements down. Anything is now called \u201cnew\u201d settlement activity. Last month, Peace Now treated a surveying decision that certain lands were not owned by private parties\u2013Jewish or Arab\u2013as a massive outrage, though the technical and administrative action would not result in a single hut being built for a single Jew.\n\nNow, lacking new activity to decry, the peace camp seizes on old projects, planned by prior governments, and passes them off as new. This is the story behind this week\u2019s outrage over the Givat Hamatos neighborhood in Jerusalem. The area is one where Jews already live, and immediately abuts the huge neighborhood of Gilo. It is \u201cover\u201d the Green Line by a few meters.\n\nHowever, this project received final approval in 2012. This week\u2019s outrage is literally a rewarming of the statements from two years ago.\nDaniel Seidemann is an influential European-funded activist focusing on keeping Jews out of parts of Jerusalem formerly occupied by Jordan. His NGO said this when the plan was adopted back then:\n\nGivat Hamatos is happening NOW, and approval of just the first part of the plan \u2013 Givat Hamatos A \u2013 suffices in having the full detrimental impact of the scheme\u2026 Construction of Givat Hamatos, whether private or public. (sic) can take place within a few short months, since building permits may be issued at any time.\n\nPerhaps the action two years ago was not final? No, the NGO reported back then that it was indeed \u201cfinal.\u201d So by definition no new decision of substance has been taken since\u2013but that has not stopped Peace Now and Seidemann from recycling the outrage, which resulted in raining the ire of the U.S. down on Israel, or as they see it, on Netanyahu.\n\nPart of the problem is the permanent industry of European-funded settlement snoops. They count every new shack and every new permit (whereas ironically the EU has a limited grasp on how many Turkish settlers are on its own territory). They will not be silent simply for lack of what to report. One wonders if they will be even silent if all their political demands were realized, or whether they would, as has happened in Gaza, define occupation down.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lacking new activity to decry, the peace camp seizes on old projects, planned by prior governments, and passes them off as new. This is the story behind last week\u2019s outrage over the Givat Hamatos neighborhood in Jerusalem. The area is one where Jews already live, and immediately abuts the huge neighborhood of Gilo. 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