Episode 7: The future – are settlements an obstacle to peace?

Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a former US diplomat in the Middle East, examines settlements in the context of negotiations, the US role in the peace process and why negotiations have so far failed.

Total garbage

So 7 episodes only one episode had anyone pro Israel. Totally biased anti Israel garbage.

Missed opportunity

I wouldn't call this total garbage, although it certainly was extremely one-sided against Israel. I would call it a missed opportunity. The interviewees were not asked many basic questions. Why should Jews not move to and live in Judea and Samaria even though they are entitled to do so under the League of Nations mandate? Why should Jews living in Hebron be considered "settlers" even though Jews lived there for thousands of years until they were expelled in a Palestinian pogrom in 1929? Why should Israel uniquely be prohibited from treating its citizens better than noncitizens? How does the treatment of Palestinians under Israeli rule since 1967 compare to the treatment of Palestinians under Jordanian rule from 1948 to 1967 or the treatment of Palestinians living in other Middle Eastern countries? Why do the interviewees claim that the so-called settlements are illegal while using inflammatory terminology such as Apartheid even though United States law says that they are not illegal? If so-called settlements are an obstacle to peace, why was there no peace before any were created in 1967?