Meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not only ruled out a new settlement freeze as a condition of resuming peace talks, but demanded the international community formally endorse all future expansions of the settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu reportedly told Kerry that if the international community ever wanted to see the Palestinians permitted to build another building in the West Bank they’d have to unconditionally recognize the “right” of Israel to build as it sees fit in the settlements.
Most construction in Palestinian cities and towns is done without formal permits from the occupying Israelis, since those permits are all but impossible to obtain at any rate. This has, however, provided some legal pretext for the Israeli military to go in and demolish new buildings wholesale for being “illegal.”
Netanyahu’s meeting with Kerry also reflecting on his fury at Palestinian unrest and recent violence in the West Bank, with diplomatic sources saying Netanyahu blamed “incitement” on social media for it, and said the Palestinian Authority was leading the effort to fuel violence.
Sure! When you have the backing of ISIS in the region Nathanyaho can make such a demand from other countries!!! There are daily parties in Israel because their creation, ISIS, has internationalized Israelis' wars in the ME!
The goal of the zionists has always been to make Syria into a failed state with many warring factions. That would allow them to not only formalize the theft of the Golan Heights but to steal more Syrian territory with no opposition. Lebanon is next so that Israel can take all the land leading to and including the Litani River. And the U.S. has a zionist fifth column infesting key senior government position along with zionist moneybags like Adelson, Singer and Saban to insure U.S. blind support
Go ahead continue to crap all over America and the world and start murdering more Palestinians.
No means no.
Bibi's buffoonish blackmailing burst of bravura is an attempt to implicate in his Racist policy of Genocide. Outside of Zionist occupied Washington this criminality will not be endorsed. His policy is to isolate Israel, except for the US and its clients. It can work only until the American people dump him and daily that nears as his ever more outrageous demands cannot be squared with ethics or sanity. Bibi is bonkers. It is time for men in white coats and butterfly nets.
The Israelis always start making huge demands in the run-up to a US presidential election. He who pays the piper …
This is like the recognition of a "Jewish Israel" that excludes Christians and Muslims. It isn't going to happen, and he is demanding it exactly because he knows it isn't going to happen. He means to "justify" further mistreatment of Palestinians, in this case the longstanding refusal of all building permits for anyone not Jewish.
Hey Netanyahu, you racist, war mongering, usurper. Blow it out your chosen a$$!
Why are we listening to WAR god worshipers?