Israel last week authorized new settlement construction in the controversial area of East Jerusalem known as E1 in a punitive attempt to nullify a contiguous Palestinian state following the successful UN-bid for implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The project Netanyahu’s government began moving forward on Friday would cut the West Bank itself in half, dividing its north from its south while barricading off a bit of Jerusalem in the bargain, and with it, in all likelihood, the plans to name the Arab sections of the city as Palestine’s capital,” writes Karl Vick, columnist for Time.
“The impact,” specialist Danny Seiedmann tells Vick, “is basically the creation of facts on the ground that would make the two-state solution dead. It’s not only a game-changer, it’s a game-ender.”
The settlement plan exposes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to prevent the viability of a Palestinian state at all costs.
Not only is it clear Israel is using Palestine’s successful UN bid to punish them, but Israeli officials were quoted as saying that the decision to build settlements in E1 was also intended as retaliation against the Obama administration for not already giving the green light for such plans.
President George Bush gave the green light in a 2004 letter to the Israeli leadership that said, “we no longer feel that we are bound by any commitment on E-1.”
“What that suggests to Washington is that Jerusalem was waiting for an opportunity to do this, that it was designed to provoke anger in the Administration, and that they picked what they thought was a convenient moment,” Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Kurtzer told Haaretz. “It was a low blow.”
While the White House has denounced the plans as counterproductive, they have done nothing of substance in response and continue to support Israel economically, militarily, and diplomatically.
Look: there is no reasons for anyone to get excited.., here.., the on,y language that this Israeli regime understand is a total boycott of Israel, you can say whatever you want, the UN, the European, or this and that organizations. Look: the western militarized civilization "thought" that Iraq had a WMD, they boycotted the country for 14 years, they couldn't prove it but they invaded the country killing more then a million people and lied about the process invading the country.., in regard to Israel they have all the proof, it's documented from day one, its in the state department archive, its in the UN archive, its been filmed, photographed, news and etc. regarding Israel and its act against humanity, war crime, illegal settlements and more for last 60 years they don't need any more proof to boycott Israel, they just need to act accordingly.
One low blow deserves another. The convenient moment is here, the opportunity to express anger with the Israel administration; time for Obama to cut funding to Israel. Now that would be a real game changer.
All because of america but then america showed the world how to get rid of 43million native americans.
thare she blows, 1 space trash mfqr, maybe 2