Zuhdi Shubeitah
العربية

The Jewish Agency: Permanent Settlement Empowerment

Examines the Jewish Agency’s role in buying land, facilitating Jewish immigration (about 70,000 arrivals in 2022), and its historical roots since 1908, and the implications for settlement—especially in Area C of the West Bank.

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Zuhdi ShubeitahBanking executive (former)
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●      The strongest executive arm of the Zionist movement, in buying land and seizing it, and in attracting and importing Jewish settlers from all over the world to Palestine... (70,000 immigrants in 2022)

●      It is clear that the incoming Jewish immigrants... will not be accommodated by the land of Palestine occupied in 1948, on which Israel was established in that year.. rather the remaining Palestinian lands will be confiscated, especially Area C, to complete their settlement there.. in the West Bank.. which they carve a name for in their minds and rites under the name "Judea and Samaria"...!

●      Al-Quds Al-Muqaddasiyya newspaper reported in its issue published today, Friday 23-12-2022, and on its "Israeliot" page... that approximately 70,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel during the current year 2022, from 95 countries around the world, with the assistance of the Jewish Agency and in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption.. and this is the largest number of immigrants in 23 years and greater than the number of immigrants last year which amounted to 28,600 immigrants..!

●      Most of the immigrants arrived from Russia and Ukraine, as a result of the war that broke out last February, in the context of what was described as an operation to rescue the Jews of Ukraine, which was initiated by the government in cooperation with the Jewish Federations of North America, and other parties contributed to this operation!

●      During the 11 months of 2022, 37,364 arrived in Israel from Russia, and 14,680 people from Ukraine, while the remainder are from various countries around the world.... 27% of these immigrants were young people aged 18-35 years.. and 24% were under 17 years of age... those older than 65 years accounted for about 13%..!

●      It is known, according to documentary sources, that the Jewish Agency for Israel established an office in Jaffa in 1908 called the "Palestine Office", and it is the executive body of the Zionist movement.. under Ottoman rule, tasked with representing the Jews before the Ottoman Sultan, and other foreign authorities, and purchasing land for the Jews, with the help of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet) ... and it has continued to operate until today.. and under other names at times.. such as "the Jewish Agency for Israel"

●      The Jewish Agency.. still operates effectively after 114 years, on opening an office for itself in occupied Palestine... and is considered the principal tributary of settlement in the lands of the Palestinians occupied before 1948 until now..

●      I wonder....what to do... ? Will the famous "two-state solution" ...provide a solution... after it is too late?..especially in light of the composition of theIsraeli far-right governments… and in light of our inability even to retrieve the bodies of our righteous martyrs .... the immigrants to their Lord, the Creator of the earth and the highest heavens ...Glory be to Him...

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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “The Jewish Agency: Permanent Settlement Empowerment” (English translation of «الوكالة اليهودية..التمكين الاستيطاني الدائم», originally published 23 December 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/the-jewish-agency-permanent-settlement-empowerment

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