In comments delivered today by his spokesman Mark Regev, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international criticism of his latest announcement of a massive settlement expansion, insisting it isn’t technically a settlement at all.
“Gilo is not a settlement nor an outpost. It is a neighborhood in the very heart of Jerusalem,” insisted Regev, adding that it was consistent with Israel’s “desire for peace based on two states for the two peoples.”
Though this isn’t a new claim from Israeli officials, Gilo is built on a hilltop captured in 1967 by the Israeli military and is considered part of occupied East Jerusalem. The Israeli government, of course, insists all of East Jerusalem belongs to them.
The expansion of the settlement was roundly condemned yesterday, and the condemnations continued again today, with Egyptian officials terming the move a provocation that harmed efforts to restart the peace talks, which have been stalled for over a year now.
Occupied East Jerusalem, Israel is a Signatory to Geneva, all of Geneva, it is well aware of what it says. Want to bet that if the roles were reversed do you think that the Israelies would not be raising merry hell!
Jerusalem was divided by the capture of the misnamed East Jerusalem by the Jordanians in 1948,,They occupied her, converting synagogues to latrines and stables and prevented jews from visiting or praying in the Jerusalem east that jordan gated off.In 1967 Israel captured jerusalem..East…She is unified as she was before Jordan took her in war,, ,open to all who wish to pray or simply visit.. The idea of Judenrein areas in Israel to be prepared in case the misnomered Palestinians will someday come into the 21st century and stop stoning fathers and babies and or cutting their throats and seek true peace with their Jewish neighbors is as obscene as it is psychotic, Why are 7million Jews so irksome to millions of Moslems…the postage stamp Israel such a bother to the football field of Arab states/ Xenophobia and racism for starters, backed by all the other countries who hate and envy israel, An attic or house for a married child in Gilo threatens peace? Rockets and knives dont?
Just as the world should have known from continued aggression that the Germans weren't serious about peace in 1938, so now should the world realize that Israel, with its continued illegal expansion into Palestinian land, isn't either.
As with any aggressor nation they need to be judged by their actions, not by their words.
"They occupied her, converting synagogues to latrines and stables and prevented jews from visiting or praying in the Jerusalem east that jordan gated off."
Oh, look! And now the jews have done exactly the same with the mosques and the Arabs. But, of course, in your particular case it's okay because after all y'all are self-appointed god's Chosen People(tm). Yah, yah, yah, we get that.
Nina is a zionist Israel has done thousands of crimes they are a terrorist state calling other exactly what they are.I could go on but all you need to do to see the truth is look at Isreals Sampson Option.Also as bad as the holocast was there were other races killed and other similar and worse thing done to races like the Native Americans and they don't use it as a reason to commite crimes and use to there advantage.All the crimes ever commited in the worlds hisatory the holocast is used more than the rest put togeather to try to justify crimes so brutal there is no excuse.
The new construction is not in Jerusalem proper, but part of the west bank that was annexed to Jerusalem by Isreal.
"[Nutayahoo] insists settlement not really a settlement." That line shows Bibi as the master of Newspeak, doublethink and reality control. If he weren't so utterly evil and real, it would be reminiscent of something Groucho Marx would say "settlements not really settlements unless they are settlements, of course."
Israel is a criminal terrorist nation with Netanyahu the new Hitler.
Netanyahu is a ZIONIST hell bent to make the Zionist movement come true. What was it that Christ said about the Zionist / Pharisees of his days, they answer to their father of lies. Yesterday one Jewish writer did a piece calling Netanyahu a liar. There's no truth in the man, only treating words like Clinton did with "is". Haaretz the Jewish paper prints more truth about the Zionist's than the media in America does. This getting to go to Americans bellies and there is an awakening in America. Netanyahu prides himself having America by a ring in its nose.
You probaby mean Netanyahu is a NAZIONIST !!