Public attention shifts to other matters. We are outraged that apathy allows our government to make policy which serves the few who can bring undue lobbying influence on our elected representatives. Amnesty International reports that Israel has demolished 2,650 Palestinian homes and confiscated some 750,000 of the available 1.5 million acres in the West Bank since Israel occupied it by military force. Confiscated land is used for illegal settlements, usually built on hilltops interspersed between Palestinian villages.
Many settlements discharge their untreated sewage on Palestinian land.
Israel implemented draconian regulations and military orders that severely restrict Palestinian movement between cities and which affect Palestinian quality of life at the most basic level. These include deportation, unequal allowances on water usage, building permits and the availability of essential services. Daily life is interrupted by numerous army checkpoints, which harass the population and make travel uncertain. All this in the name of security, but with the real nefarious design, confirmed by Israeli historians as state policy, to encourage Palestinians to leave. Currently, there are 300,000 Jewish settlers, about 70,000 of them moved in since the start of the Oslo peace process.