As was widely expected, the Israeli government today proposed a 10 month settlement freeze of sorts in the West Bank, saying they hoped it would be enough to secure the restart of peace talks.
Yet while the 10 month freeze was a bit longer than the three month version proposed previously, it contains many of the same caveats. It would allow the continuation of existing projects, some 3,000 housing units, and would exempt East Jerusalem, where much of the new construction is happening at any rate. They will also allow for new construction of schools, synagogues, etc.
The Palestinian Authority quickly rejected the move as more of the same. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Israel for the move, and said her commitment to Israel’s security is unwavering. Envoy George Mitchell said that while it was well short of an actual settlement freeze it was “more than any Israeli government has done before.”
Though the move seems to amount to little in practice, it still drew condemnation from members of his far right coalition government, saying it was a betrayal of everything his government was supposed to stand for.
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Netanyahu is the new 'Hitler' – the ONLY 'peace' that Israel desires is to murder all of the Palestinians and to steal all of their lands – then to drive all of the Arabs off their lands. Israel is a rogue nation run by Communists and Nazis! Hillary Clinton is as dumb as dumb gets – she should move to Israel! When will the U.S. wake up to the fact that Israel is our ONLY enemy in the Middle East? – and AIPAC is nothing but an organization of TRAITORS to the US.
conveniently the ten months is exactly how long it will take to complete the new settlements which were announced last week and are exempt from the freeze.
what b@$tards….