Though it is unclear when the deal will actually come, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks poised to win a very narrow victory for a 90 day settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank, a move conditional on the US providing several billion dollars worth of “incentives.”
The Even without Shas the vote is expected to be close, and a number of members of Netanyahu’s own party (including Moshe Ya’alon and Silvan Shalom) are expected to vote against him. Netanyahu insists that the exact package of offers from the Obama Administration still needs to be finalized but it is expected to include several billion dollars in military aid and diplomatic pledges.
If a freeze is secured, it will likely only have a minor impact on settlement construction, as the Israeli government has approved in excess of 1,500 settlement buildings since the last freeze expired in September. The expiration of the last freeze ended the peace talks with the Palestinian Authority but it remains to be seen if a new freeze will immediately restart the talks. The Palestinians insist they have not been informed of the US proposals for the new freeze.
At what cost to America is this temporary settlement freeze?
Planes? Money? Weapons? Dignity?
Yet again Israel wins–settlement will resume once the extortion checks
clear and the no-cost-to-Israel deals are signed.
Israel ought to hold out for a pledge from the USA to Blitzkrieg Iran, free Pollard and look the other way when Israel sells F-35 technology to Russia, This would be in appreciation for canceling the sale of air defense systems to Iran. Then they should change the length of the settlement freeze to ninety minutes, since ninety days is a long time to feign honoring a commitment, made to craven moron traitors by a people bereft of shame and incapable of behaving honorably..
I forget where I saw this… maybe Lynch's site, suggesting the Palistinians should offer to recognize Israel for 90 days.
He was half kidding, but I thought it was brilliant.
How much is this going to cost us this time?
wonderful. 90 day construction pause giving all the time to ship in all the materials need to continue constuction. and then at the end of 90 day every thing goes on…
expect they will be far better armed for their next attack on ,,, im gona say lebanon right around the time the hariri report comes out.
Those f-35s are estimated to cost $3 bl. but with cost overruns etc. it turns out they cost twice that – and that's for a mere 90 day freeze ? Why don't they just have the entire US population get down on their knees and give BJs to all the Israelis instead ? Or is that in the package too ?
I wouldn't give Israel a single penny.
Why Americans continue to tolerate being black-mailed by Israel to do what is internationally right is beyond my imagination. Whatever billions of dollars of incentives they have extracted from the USA on this one, Americans must know that it comes from monies borrowed from China and the Middle-east. I'm sick and tired of paying monies to this rouge state that will not comply with international law just to get them to execute another 90-day stay of construction in Palestine. Stop giving them their annual 3 billion free dollars plus all the other security materials and let them drown in their own arogance.
lap dog england gets a kick in the face, winy scratchy do your own thing ingrate cat gets the multi-billion $ bribe and an apology which is reluctantly and sulkily accepted.