Settler Population News Today

♪ hello, everyone, and welcome to the amanpour hour, heres where were headed this week. running out of patience, biden counts the political cost of the carnage in gaza, as netanyahu rejects the two-state solution. >> weve been doing a make-believe peace process for 30 years. also ahead, combat veteran, test pilot and space shuttle commander, nasas number two pam melroy on why returning to the moon is a giant leap for all human kind. >> this is not about a camping trip, this is ac...

Have any idea how broad and systematic the process has become, but the facts speak for themselves. the number of settlers in the roughly 130 israeli settlements each of the 1967 lines has steadily grown. the settler population in the west bank alone, not including east jerusalem, has increased by nearly 270,000 since oslo including 100,000 just since 2009, when president obamas term began. theres no point in pretending that these are just in large settlement blocks. nearly 90,000 settlers are li...

Themselves. the number of settlers in the roughly 130 israeli settlement east of the 1967 lines has steadily ground. the settler population in the west bank alone not including east jerusalem has increased by nearly 270,000 since including one hundred thousand just since 2009 when president obamas term began. theres no point in pretending that these are just enlarged settlement blocks. nearly 490,000 settlers are living east of the separation barrier that was created by israel itself. in the mid...

They signed this oslo peace accords in the rose garden of the white house. the peace process has collapsed, been revived, collapsed, been revived and so on. the walls that separate the palestinians and israelis only grow higher. over the last 20 years the settler population in the west bank in east jerusalem has grown from 100,000 to more than half a million. israel has built a security barrier, the apartheid wall that snakes around towns and cities. a long and bloody uprising and two wars in ga...

Marry the two? the two havent managed to get a unity government and to agree on a unity government at this point. and while you possibly cant start these talks without hamas on board, you really cant finish them without half the palestinian people being represented. tony? >> paula appreciate it, thank you. ben, same question to you. what is the main obstacle to peace in the eyes of palestinians? >> well, for palestinians for quite sometime, its been the question of the israeli settlements in the...