[patlin]

construction spans tens of thousands of dunams, and includes the establishment of hundreds of residential buildings, schools, clinics and mosques

pardon me if I find it less than convincing that something of this mass of scale, built on Israeli military occupied land, escaped the radar of the Israeli government, Geez, just how stupid do people think we Americans are?

[norton]

"...less than convincing that something of this mass of scale, built on Israeli military occupied land, escaped the radar of the Israeli government"

The way I read it, government was aware but failed to act - therefore, they are complicit or at least suicidally tolerant.

Sound anything like our own federal policies?