The Israeli government has been announcing major settlement expansions apace throughout the peace talks with the Palestinians, each time gambling that the Palestinians would complain but ultimately look the other way to keep the process going. Today, it looks like they went too far.
After getting away with several expansions of a few thousand settlement units, Israel was confirmed today to be making plans for an expansion of nearly 24,000 additional units across the occupied West Bank, with about 4,000 of those in East Jerusalem.
Within hours, the US State Department issued a warning of “deep concern” about the plan, and Palestinian officials walked out of the peace talks, suggesting their involvement may have come to an end.
Apparently recognizing they’d crossed the line, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced shortly thereafter that they were backing off the plans, saying they were causing “unnecessary conflict” at a time when Israel is intensely lobbying the international community to avoid diplomacy with Iran.
How about the US just stay out of the "peace process?" Then the US would not have to be bothered by it.
This is a momentary pause. Israel is determined to expand its size and Israel is determined to 'lose' its non-Jewish inhabitants. This requires some patience.
Israel will continue to build Jews Only housing in Palestine, but at a slower pace. At the same time, the Zionist entity will make sure that life in the world's largest open air prison (Gaza) remains as unpleasant as possible. Strategy: Talk peace, keep the pressure ON and make no concessions.
Ideally, Israel wants its native gentiles to 'self-deport'. When they say 'Jewish State', they mean it.
Integration, miscegenation and multi-culturalism are for the goyim.
I agree, which is why we all need to demand that the US stops blocking international law from being enforced on Israel: http://empireslayer.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-solu…
If it looks like a racist, walks like a racist, quacks and squeeks like a racist then of course it is a racist
some phenomena never have change. one of them is that what's lost in a war can be gotten back only by a war.
this means, that if palestinians don't acquire nukes or an econo-military might equal to or greater than that of israel, palestina is gone until such a time.
kerry either doesn't know this or feigns ignorance or plays wounded bird or scorned wife.
Dr. Norman Finkelstein believes that a mass movement by the Palestinians, backed up by the rest of the world, which agrees on the law here, to call for international law to be enforced on Israel, could work.
He describes hundreds of thousands of Palestinians marching, with hammers, and deconstructing the illegal wall, since that is what international law requires. He says the Israelis will shoot, but maybe seeing that killing and suffering, along with the message that the Palestinians simply want international law enforced, might force the US to stop blocking enforcement.
without the US blocking it, the law would be enforced. (the internationally agreed upon law being that Israel's occupations of gaza, west bank, east Jerusalem and golan are illegal)
Could it be possible that this is just propaganda and those units will be secretly built?