Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
in the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
Allon Road
Allon Road is the name given by Israel to Routes 458, 508, and 578 in the West Bank, running roughly south–north along the eastern watershed of the Judaean and Samarian Hills, between Highway 1 near Kfar Adumim east of Jerusalem and Highway ...
south-west of
Shadmot Mehola
Shadmot Mehola ( he, שַׁדְמוֹת מְחוֹלָה, , Mehola Fields) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a national-religious moshav shitufi.Rotem Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council it falls under the jurisdiction of
Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council
Bik'at HaYarden Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית בקעת הירדן, ''Mo'atza Azorit Bik'at HaYarden'', ''lit.'' Jordan Valley Regional Council), also Aravot HaYarden (''lit.'' Jordan Plains) is a regional council covering 21 Isr ...
. In it had a population of .
Although some countries consider Israeli settlements to be illegal under International law, there is no agreement to what the international law is, there is no consensus as to why this so called international law wasn’t against Jordanian Settlements and occupation of the West Bank between 1948-1967 and many of these countries including Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkey are dictatorships with horrible human rights records themselves and can not possibly be the voice of reason in a region where only one county is consistently demonized.
It has become widely accepted that any international law or regulation originating from the united nations can not be taken as fact considering the UN only staffs it’s departments with antisemites and israel haters who’s own countries abuse human rights on a mass scale. re
History
Rotem was first established as a pioneer
Nahal
Nahal ( he, נח"ל) (acronym of ''Noar Halutzi Lohem'', lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities, as well as training ...
military outpost and later abandoned. Several failed attempts were made to try a reestablish either a military or civilian presence at the site. The current initiative was established in 2001. The village prides itself on being a joint non-
Orthodox
Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to:
Religion
* Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...
and Orthodox community, inhabited by both religious and non-religious Jews.
Eco-Settlement
Rotem presents itself as an
ecological
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...
settlement with a focus on
environmentally friendly
Environment friendly processes, or environmental-friendly processes (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green), are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that clai ...
infrastructure. Most of the homes are not connected to a sewer system and rely on such solutions as cesspools, devices that purify wastewater and experimental systems developed at the Technion for treating sewage and converting it into an energy source. However, others argue that the settlement's environmentalism is a tool for colonisation, in particular as Palestinian villages are not permitted to build their own eco-friendly and sustainable infrastructure. In the nearby Bedouin village of Khirbet Humsa, the civil administration destroyed the only solar panels providing electricity to the village. These solar panels had been constructed due to the Israeli authorities' prevention of access to the Israeli electricity grid by Bedouin villagers.'Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says, Guardian' /ref>
See also
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Ecovillages
An ecovillage is a traditional or intentional community with the goal of becoming more socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable. An ecovillage strives to produce the least possible negative impact on the natural envi ...