“The Diplomacy of Walls”
Israel’s way to impose facts on the Ground to stamp out the Two State Solution
Moreover, the successive Israeli governments encouraged the Israeli settlers to live in the Jordan Valley settlements by granting them privileges such as financial incentives and various tax exemptions; More than that, the Israeli occupation authorities encouraged them to cultivate the agriculture lands adjacent to their settlements in attempt to de facto capturing these lands and annexing them to the settlements in the area. To date, the area of agriculture lands that were seized by Israeli settlers in the Eastern Segregation Zone is 64,000 dunums – 64 km2 (7.4% of the total area of the agriculture lands in the Eastern Segregation Zone which amounts to “864 km2) and 3.9 % of the total area of the Eastern Zone; meanwhile the Palestinian residents of the area had been deprived from their legitimate right to exploit and cultivate their lands that were forcibly confiscated from them. See Map 1:-