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Palestinians Furious at Israeli Plan to Build More Homes in East Jerusalem
Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, accused Israel of "killing" opportunities to revive peace talks, which have stalled over the issue of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Jewish settlers watch as cement is poured during a foundation laying ceremony. (Photo: REUTERS)
Israeli officials said the announcement of 238 new housing units in the east
Jerusalem neighbourhoods of Ramot and Pisgat Ze'ev was part of a wider
housing plan. They said the number of new apartments planned for east
Jerusalem had been cut following criticism from Washington. According to the
Israeli officials the US protest had been mild.
Yesterday's was the first tender issued for new Jewish homes in east Jerusalem
since the visit by Joe Biden, US vice-president, to Israel in March. Mr
Biden was embarrassed when an announcement that 1,600 housing units would be
built was made during his trip.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egyptian foreign minister, said that in response to the settlement construction that Arab states might ask the United Nations to recognise the declaration of a Palestinian state as early as next month. "If Israel does not respect the settlements freeze," he said, "the Arab League will study some other option aside from the peace process."
Israel captured Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day war and has declared the whole of the city its unified capital. Palestinians want east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem were not included when Israel declared a 10-month moratorium on West Bank settlement construction last November. However, Israel promised Washington that there would be no "provocations" regarding east Jerusalem.
The latest announcement follows last month's end of the 10-month freeze, and the refusal by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, to extend the moratorium – a move that prompted the Palestinians to suspend direct peace talks. This week the Palestinians rejected out of hand an offer from Mr Netanyahu to extend the building freeze in return for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
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Show AllAnd once Palestinians recognize Israel as the state "of Jews, by Jews, and for Jews", more explusions will be next item on the agenda. Or, as the Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, in a moment of undiplomatic candor, admitted when addressing a group of secondary school students:
"And among other things I will also be able to approach the Palestinian residents (note not even citizens of the state they are supposed to belong to) of Israel, those whom we call Arab Israelis, and tell them: 'your national aspirations lie elsewhere.'"
http://www.france24.com/en/20081211-israeli-arabs-should-live-palestinian-state-livni
No wonder notions such as rule "of the people, by the people, and for the people" cause such heartburn among the rulers of Israel.
Obama and Clinton are not. Then again neither is anyone who resides in Tel Aviv's most important gated community, which we Americans refer to it as Congress.
This is how one historian explained it to me:
2000 years ago, Jews were missionary, much like Mormons today. Many were successful in Russian and Europe, converting natives and frequently intermarrying. How else could what we think of as "Jews" -- people of the Middle East -- be primarily of Russian and European blood?
And what of the Jews who remained in Palestine ... the ones promised that land by God, according to the Old Testament? .... i.e., the real unalloyed semites? They converted to Islam.
Ironically, the "originals" have been displaced by a bunch of Russian and European invaders who charge anyone spotlighting their crimes as being "antisemitic".
If this is the true history, why aren't historians making it more public?
Here's a talk by Israeli academic Shlomo Sand on 'Invention of the Jewish Race'. Interestingly, his book of the same title was a bestseller in Israel for almost 5 months, but debate on such historic issues is not likely in mainstream media here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmvANgw9Mk
For anyone who cares to examine history and the creation of the Balfor aggreement, you will realise israel is a ilegal state. But no! Watch your TV, and go to your churches, and drink more Kool-aid so you too can support crime in the Middle East. Ignorance is bliss, it allows you to feel good about yourself. For all you fellow Americans out there; What happened to our country? How did Washington DC become occupied Israeli territory? Are you disgusted yet?
"If this is the true history, why aren't historians making it more public?"
Because it's not close to being the true history. There are genetic links between European Jewish populations and the Middle East. Consider also the Jews who have gone to Israel since 1949 from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, etc.--clearly not all of the Jews who remained in the Middle East converted to Islam.
I am not aware of Tzipi Livni advocating the expulsion of Arabs from Israel. She is saying that Arab citizens of Israel who wish to live in a self-defined Palestinian Arab state will have to realize their national aspirations outside of Israel.
As much as I reject racial stereotypes, it is hard not to recognize the Zionists living up to them all.
Nobody can accuse Zionists of not being smart or hardworking or forward thinking.But the internet caught them off guard. Conventional media, print, television,radio, movies are all sewed up,and as Helen Thomas found out, Israel is the third rail of American politics. But the internet emerged too fast and controls on net content are being implemented very slowly so the forbidden is being spoken out loud all over the place now.
Zionists know the power of public opinion. Israel would not exist if public opinion in Britain and America had not forced the British and American governments to make what seemed a more humane decision about what to do about the Jewish refugees on the Exodus than return them to Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Exodus
Now many people are beginning to ask, was this a very humane solution for the people who were already living on the land the Jewish refugees were given as a new home? It is a legitimate question given what we have seen of Zionist treatment of the land's current people. We are just lucky that an unexpected development is allowing us to ask the question.It's probably going to be a small window of opportunity, I'm sure that that there will be a clamp down on net content eventually. We will not be able to ask that question for very long so it's important to ask for answers to that question and push for a fair resolution that respects Palestinian rights while we still can.
Here's some of the mainstream media discussion of Sand's book, the question of Jewish origins, and the history of Jewish populations. It's hardly a taboo subject:
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/indecent-proposal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574464023091024180.html?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html?_r=1
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/03/the-dna-of-abraham-s-children.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/06/tracing-the-roots-of-jewishness.html
not only jerusalem:
by ziad abbas:... Israel controls and uses 89% of the water resources in the West Bank, leaving 11% for the 2.5 million Palestinians. The Israeli Occupation continues to limit Palestinian access to clean water as form of collective punishment by controlling the water resources and distribution and by destroying the water that we are able to get. During Israeli military incursions, and especially during curfews, when we could not leave our homes, Israeli soldiers would shoot the water storage tanks on our roofs. Our water would pour down the sides of our buildings unused. During the recent attack on Gaza, Israel targeted the entire water infrastructure including the largest water purification system in Gaza. They also targeted electrical generators that supported water purification and sewage treatment. This kind of collective punishment is also used against Palestinians inside Israel. Palestinian villages “unrecognized” by the Israeli state are not connected to the national water grid that serves all Jewish communities, and the residents suffer from a lack of clean water.
It's not even just a matter of being against International Law, It is against the Torah. www.nkusa.org
The State of Israel is a Golden Calf.