Sanctions are not the right response

Israel said to be considering sanctions against Palestinians

    After talks break down, officials draw up options, including withholding tax revenue and restricting access to parts of West Bank

    Also, Among the measures, it was decided to freeze the transmission frequencies for the Palestinian cellular company Wataniya and halt its introduction of 3G data.

Sanctions are a wholly inadequate response. Especially these sanctions.

We should pay off what they owe us for electricity with the tax money collected. But don’t call such a move sanctions or a penalty. It would hurt us too much if we cancelled their work permits.

The PA has initiated a game changer, so should we. Annex the settlement blocs.

April 4, 2014 | 4 Comments »

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  1. Annex the settlement blocs–and much more. Abrogate Oslo (massive breach of contract by the other side is reason enough). Adopt the Levy Report, with massive publicity. Tell the world that the terms “occupied territories” and “illegal occupation” have been slanderous fictions all along, without basis in law.

  2. forget sanctions, just deduct bills from their revenues. Annex C for now which has a jewish majority and can even weather a self-determination vote for annexation or independence. Continue to maintain a claim on A & B subject to negotiations ONLY of those areas. Israel is the one who should apply the piece meal approach to acquiring YS. The self determination principle of the UN charter as applied to C is just one of many legal argument to annex area C. The detractors will want to combine it as part of a & B in order to show that it violates self determination as there is an arab majority of the whole YS. The fact is that even 2 disputing states are saddled with the fact of who is in possession and there is no doubt as to who is in possession of C and who is the majority population of C. Anexation of C would be the sensible and legally justified reaction to the abandonment of the oslo agreement. Oslo is the only agreement which legally prevents annexation of C. Every other claim against annexation of C is murky. A & B can be annexed later and “occupation” continued there now subject to new agreements on cooperation and negotiations. The pals must have agreemnts with israel to be able to import or move outside of A & B. Declaring a state will be of no value to them because they still must negotiate over disputed terriotry that has been in Israels control since before there was even talk of a “pal state”It troubles me that the all of C is not being discussed: only all of YS or just the settlement blocks; in such a choce I fear a move to ONLY annexing settlemnt blocks and leaving the rest of C to the pals or subject to occupation based on security.No matter what there would be a kangaroo court and Israel must have a plan to combat that. Legal bases are a good beginning not for “court” but as a post unilateral excuse for those who wish to continue relations with Israel to have something to hang a hat upon.

  4. Annex the whole of J&S. Should have been done in 67 but now it’s now or never. Make the pali-posers and Gazans pay for EVERYTHING. If they can’t, cut them off. Are Jews treated differently? Of course not so why should Israel be more lenient with its implacable enemies then its own citizens? This idiocy must stop. If anything they should pay more.

    Next shut down the pali media that speaks disparagingly about Jews and arrest the Imams that incite. Make incitement a capital offence.

    Next take over the pali school curriculum and dispense with “narratives” and instead teach the truth.

    This all would be a good start and there is lots more to do.