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Technorati'Israel Won't Yield to US Demands, Won't Halt Settlement Construction'
Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon spoke to Channel 2 on Saturday about the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, held earlier this week, saying that Israel's government will not allow the U.S. to dictate its policy, and that "settlement construction will not be halted."
"Settlements are not the reason that the peace process is failing, they were never an obstacle, not at any stage," Ya'alon told Channel 2 News. "Even when Israel pulled out of [Palestinian] territory, the terror continued. Even when we uprooted [Jewish] communities, we got 'Hamastan.' That is why I propose that we think about it - not in slogans and not with decrees."
According to Ayalon, "we will not halt the construction in the settlements within the framework of natural growth. There are people here who are living their lives, raising children. Housing is required ? it wasn't housing that has prevented peace."
In reference to the illegal West Bank outposts, which Israel has vowed to evacuate and has begun to do so, Ya'alon stressed that "the government will not permit illegal settlement, as we've proven with our actions this week."
Some believe that the evacuation of the outpost of Maoz Esther on Thursday morning, which came a day after Defense Ministry sources told Haaretz that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak had agreed on a plan to evacuate illegal outposts in the West Bank, was carried out in accordance with U.S. pressure. However, Barak denied any correlation between the Netanyahu-Obama meeting on Monday, and the evacuation.
Ya'alon also addressed reports that the U.S. had upped its demands and was trying to dictate Israel's next moves in the negotiations with the Palestinians. "What the U.S. is asking is not a demand, we'll see whether their declaration become actual demands," he said.
"[U.S. envoy to the Middle East George] Mitchell will come, and we'll talk to him. I suggest that Israel and the U.S. don't set a timetable. We won't let them threaten us," Ya'alon added.
"From the banks of the Potomac in Washington it is not always clear what the real situation here is," Ya'alon concluded. "This is where Israel must step in and help her ally understand the situation."
Ya'alon also criticized Israel, saying that "the Israeli discourse paints us as hostile, the problem is within us."
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Show AllStrategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon spoke to Channel 2 on Saturday about the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, held earlier this week, saying that Israel's government will not allow the U.S. to dictate its policy, and that "settlement construction will not be halted."
The present government of Israel has a lot of nerve. They should be cut off from their little American teat and see how they fare. Israel has been dictating policy to the United States for decades. Israel is an abomination, not to mention a thorn in the side of the United States. Jesus, what does it take? They've already attacked and damaged one of our ships, killed our sailors. They are the spoiled brats of the middle east, and it's time we stopped coddling them.
Settlement has always been the agenda of Israel. How many times must they spell it out to us before we get the message. Oh, that's right, we have the message. It takes a land grabbing culture to know one.
"Israel's government will not allow the U.S. to dictate its policy, and that 'settlement construction will not be halted'"
So don't give them any money. But here's the glitch. 70% of the billions we give them is earmarked and must be spent on buying US weapons.
Our tax money ---> Israel ---> US arms manufacturers
That is one solid non-ideological reason we do not cut off the money or censure Israel. Nonetheless, to keep it simple, I think we should ask why, in this time of layoffs and general fiscal distress, we are subsidizing Israel's wars as well as our own stupid wars. I believe the answer is to feed the war machine.
Joe
So let's starve the war machine world-wide.
Hmmm. We could cut off the $$$ to Iz(not)real and give it to the Palestinians, with the same conditions. Wouldn't THAT be a hoot!
In spite of all the treasures and our sacred honor that we have showered on Israel
all we ever get in return from these genocidal monsters is a giant circumcised finger!
I'll never again vote for any politician or party that sends my tax money to these ZioNazi Bastards.
This is getting ridiculous-and old.
I think it's about-no long since time to finanically cut isreal off (adding that if you launch the first nuke, the US will hit you with the second one). Lets see how long they last without US cash. And who knows, maybe it'll be just the thing for them to start thinking rationally.
Nothing shall deter the imperative quest for Lebensraum!
· Yr Obd't Servant
"We won't let them threaten us" says Minister Moshe Ya'lon of Israel.
Instead of trying to urge Israel to stop stealinig Palestinian land, and killing as many Palestinians with all those guns, bombs, fighter planes, bulldozers and phosphorous melt your flesh weapons that our government gives to the State of Isreal, I suggest we disengage.
Let's stop funding the Israeli military -- no threats - just "Good bye, you're on your own."
Oh, dear...is AIPAC going to say that I am anti Semite?
Perhaps in the near future one or two nations may decide to implement the "Delilah Option."
[According to Ayalon, "we will not halt the construction in the settlements within the framework of natural growth. There are people here who are living their lives, raising children. Housing is required ? it wasn't housing that has prevented peace."]
Isn't housing required by the Palistinians? Don't they too have lives to live, children to raise?
There will come a time when the usa can't afford to keep funding Israel's armed forces, or when the usa will just get distracted by other events that are more important to them. Just like after the Crusades established a 'Christian' Holy Land, the Europeans stopped sending money, arms and people to defend that holyland. If the Israeli's haven't figured out how to live in peace with their neighbours, the neighbours are going to kill them. But unlike the 13th century, this time the holyland has nukes, and the notion that should they go down, they'll pull a 'Samson' option out of their arse and take the rest of the world with them.
Yes, that is the nuclear core of it all. As the money, arms and people stop coming in the colonization of Palestinian lands can only be kept up by lowering the living standards of the ordinary people within Israel, and these are going to protest. This is the road to an apocalyptic Third Temple with nukes.