In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading
intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of
the right wing of that movement, wrote:
"Zionist colonization must either
stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population.
Which means that it can proceed and develop only under
the protection of a power that is independent of the
native population - behind an IRON WALL, which the
native population cannot breach."
From that day these words became
the official and unspoken policy of the Zionist movement
and later the state of Israel. Settlements were used
from the beginning to create a Zionist foothold in
Palestine.
After 1967 and the occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza, the aim of the settlement
movement became clear - create facts on the ground
and make the creation of a Palestinian state impossible.
Thirty nine years of occupation and the policy started
showing results. There are now more than 200 settlements
and outposts scattered throughout the West Bank blocking
the geographic possibility of a contiguous Palestinian
territory.
The Iron Wall documentary exposes
this phenomenon and follows the timeline, size, population
of the settlements, and its impact on the peace process.
This film also touches on the latest project to make
the settlements a permanent fact on the ground - the
wall that Israel is building in the West Bank and
its impact on the Palestinian's peoples.
Settlements and related infrastructures
are impacting every aspect of life for all Palestinians
from land confiscation, theft of natural resources,
confiscation of the basic human rights, creation of
an apartheid-like system, to the devastating impact
in regards to the future of the region and the prospect
of the peace process.
Palestinians and Israelis began the
peace process based on a very simple principle: land
for peace. Settlements destroy that principle and
create a land with no peace.
