Alternative Radio on 04/05/11  Alternative Radio Air date:  Tue,
04/05/2011 - 9:00am - 10:00am Short Description:  Kathy
Christison speaks on Settlements: Obstacles to Peace  Kathy
Christison - Settlements: Obstacles to Peace (lecture)  There
are some 500,000 Israelis living in settlements on what is
almost universally regarded as Palestinian land. The first
houses went up in the late 1960s and have continued under both
Labor and Likud governments. They are the “facts on the ground”
Israeli leaders said they wanted to create. There are freezes,
partial freezes, and temporary halts in construction. But the
trend in more and more building continues. The stalled peace
process goes off track. Road maps are redrawn. The Obama
administration vetoes UN resolutions condemning Israeli policy.
Benjamin Netanyahu once proclaimed, “Semantics don’t matter.”
You can call a Palestinian state “fried chicken.” Land for a
Palestinian state has been cut into unconnected bits and pieces
without much water. Many people say the se