Fresh off a week of bickering at the UN General Assembly and Israeli claims that they’re trying to restart the peace process with the Palestinian Authority, Israeli officials announced a major new settlement expansion in occupied East Jerusalem.
The expansion will involve 1,100 new settlement units in Gilo, one of the “ring neighborhoods” created in territory conquered by the Israeli military in 1967. The Palestinian Authority termed the announcement “1,100 no votes” against the peace process.
The announcement was also met with international criticism, with the US terming themselves “deeply disappointed” by the move and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisting it was “counterproductive.” The European Union Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton said Israel should “stop announcing them and, more importantly, stop building them.”
The Israeli government has yet to offer specific comments related to their announcement, but they consider occupied East Jerusalem part of their “eternal, undivided capital” and insist that the settlements aren’t technically part of the West Bank.
Hillory says it's "counter productive", but Hillary it is not "unpresendent" like you said of the "freeze". Hillory, how can you show your face and continue to pretend that what you or step and fetch Obama say is nothing but what you are told to say by Isreal?
There will never be peace until Israel is on the face of the map ….
Did you mean off? Where can we put palestine on this map? Israel eclipses it.
america and the eu love israel to crap all over them they like being humilated and love the smell of the crap that is thrown at them,and go back for more and more always trying to put some of it on the Palestines.
Because Zionist Israel did it — it is now established as permanent and perpetual international law. For Israel has the seal of approval of all Western nations, so is this how it must be, until our great grandchildren grow old and gray?
My peace plan.
A recognised israeli state, in the US.
"Counterproductive." Talk is cheap. Only consequences matter. America needs to establish "facts in the budget," as in, cut all aid to the racist terrorists of Tel Aviiv. The only word an Isreali understands is "ka-chink." When the American money machine stops ringing in their ears and wallets they might take notice because they inhabit a failed state that needs outside money to live their high flown parastitic life style. Shekels talk, bullshit walks
With the aid of the Quartet who's busy staging the charade. But just the same, sooner rather than later, the Zionists are going to find themselves with a de facto one state and with a majority of Arabs. I can only hope then that the Palestinians are gentler, kindler and more humane to the Isralites than they've been to the Palestinians.