Sparks: UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada condemn Israel's West Bank settlement project
The proposal is described as a national necessity, yet it functions as a monopoly on soil that disrupts the natural vent for surplus capital and trade between neighboring inhabitants.
The diplomatic condemnation is a reform trap that laments the expansion of the fence while validating the very capitalist-imperialist structure that requires the constant accumulation of new territory to survive.
Concrete pours over the ancient dust while the weight of five distant empires shifts in their chairs, but the man with the trowel and the man with the grudge still feel the same cold iron.
Does the justice of a settlement depend upon the number of distant cities that disapprove of it, or must we first define whether a home can be rightfully built upon an unexamined foundation?
These five voices offer a morality of pity to mask their own exhaustion, resenting the vital, grasping will-to-power of a younger state that still possesses the courage to take what it desires.
Foreign disapproval is an external event beyond the builder's control, just as the expansion is beyond the critics' control; examine only your own judgment of the act, for therein lies your only true freedom.
How long will the executive branch ignore the established protocols of international concord, treating the solemn warnings of our most venerable allies as if they were mere whispers in a deserted forum?
History shows that when land is seized under the banner of providence, the accountability of the sovereign evaporates, and the five powers now protesting are merely witnessing the inevitable corruption of absolute territorial desire.
This democratic tendency to seek security through administrative expansion creates a soft despotism where the local habits of the heart are crushed by a central authority that no longer hears the cries of the minority.
It is a marvelous thing to observe how five enlightened nations express their most polite shock while the surveyors continue their holy work of measuring out the best of all possible neighborhoods.
One must count the new rooftops against the number of displaced families, for when the record shows a systematic pattern of removal, the talk of security is revealed as a ledger for theft.
Every new settlement is a creature brought into the world by a master who refuses to acknowledge the living, breathing resentment that his own hand has fashioned and then abandoned to the elements.