With government spokesmen terming yesterday’s UNESCO vote a national “tragedy,” the Israeli government announced today that it will dramatically accelerate the construction of settlements in the occupied territories to spite the Palestinian Authority.
The new plan, which came in the wake of an emergency cabinet meeting, will see 1,650 more housing units built in occupied East Jerusalem and hundreds more in the rest of the West Bank.
Palestinian officials condemned the move, saying it would further damage the prospect of peace talks since the expansions are coming in territory that the Palestinians intend to be a part of a future state.
The Israeli government insists that the UNESCO vote, in which the UN body recognized Palestine as an equal member, was an act of “aggression” against Israel and that Israel would not stand idly by and allow Palestinian recognition without making further unilateral moves of its own.
I'm not sure I'm following the logic here.
A cultural body (UNESCO) accepts Palestine as a member.
Therefore, we (Israel) must build even more settlements.
What does one have to do with the other? It's not like the UNESCO has powers like the Security Council.
As if Israel was ever an honest broker in this sordid mess. They've been foot dragging for decades all the while fully intending to do just what they did until the day came when they'd look everyone in the eye and say, "Hey, so what are you gonna do about it now that we've moved in?"
It's all Kabuki – and the only one unaware of that is the USG. As MoT states, this has been the plan for decades. They want to squeeze the Palestinians into smaller and smaller enclaves so eventually they will be able to eliminate them from the land the Palestinians once called home. And with the mighty USG standing behind the Israelis, they are emboldened to thumb their noses at the rest of the world when confronted with their duplicity.
euahh, wah, the warlock is throwing a pre-emptivly paranoid sykosis tantrum “again”, add it up xeon, under the prime “real” estate, ya but, ya but, we got warheads & no validation or NPT signature being illegitimite and all of non-viable in its actual current ?structure? of about an imbecile the standard M O lacking even the maturity of a kid, gd cronie warlocks gone wildly idiotically insidous & inane as if a braying ass instead of joinig the race,,, humane,, wah, even the anti beast must be revulsed of the pity, centerd in self & serving only uncertified ashes & dust