Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Israel and the West Bank aims at salvaging a peace process that is in all likelihood heading for collapse, and has both sides sharpening up their tone, to make it clear when that collapse does happen, it wasn’t their fault.
The biggest example of this effort is the already unofficially announced settlement expansions, which were supposed to come this week on the heels of prisoner releases. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to hold off on the announcement until Kerry leaves.
Announcement timing is a fairly minor point, but significant in this case because Israel has generally been putting its announcements of settlements into the most confrontational times possible, aiming to underscore their determination to keep expanding settlements no matter the cost.
The decision to delay the announcement specifically to avoid making it an issue underscores Netanyahu’s appreciation that, despite his own public claims, the settlements are very much a problem in the ongoing peace talks, and will be part of the reason for its collapse.
Because firing rockets into Israel has nothing to do with undermine the peace deal. As usual the Palestinians will get to have their cake and eat it too: they'll get their prisoners and back out of negotiations at the last minute and blame it on settlement building.
Because firing rockets into Israel has nothing to do with undermine the peace deal. As usual the Palestinians will get to have their cake and eat it too: they'll get their prisoners and back out of negotiations at the last minute and blame it on settlement building.
Because building settlements on land that doesn't belong to you has nothing to do with undermining the peace deal. As usual the Palestinians won't be eating cake because of the Israeli blockade, and Israel finds a way to block any deal by claiming rockets fired by Mossad agents came from Palestine.
IDF and rabid settlers firing neutered rockets into empty fields, not Palestinians. Cui bono? The Palestinians have NOTHING to gain by firing rockets, except Israeli bombs and tanks killing yet more their families and destroying homes and property. These rockets are a false flag Zionist excuse to kill more inconvenient brown people, and never accept peace. Psychopathy in action.
Yeah you notice that? No one ever gets killed in terrorism perpetrated against Israel or Israelis anymore. Except for an exploding bus in Bulgaria last year (which I believe only killed a few precious IDF soldiers, ie, the one that was probably NOT a false-flag), I'd say they are doing pretty well at playing the victim card, drumming up manufactured and unwarranted sympathy whenever they bomb themselves.
Thay Bulgarian bus remains a 'mystery' blamed on Hezbolleh. Much like the Buenos Aires Jewish center bombing was blamed oin Hezbolleh and the Iranians and is now laid at the feet of the former Argentine interior minister Carlos Vladimir Corach – a getleman of the hebrew persuasion.
Why not cease settlement expansion, which is illegal anyway, and not give them anything to use for blame?
And the rockets of course have nnothing to do with the flooding of Gaza? Or the complete 'rationing' of diesel fuel for the sewage works pumps?
Did Kerry ask Netanyahu to hold off the announcement so as to not make him look like a complete Moran, or is he just too embarrassed to admit that he is a failure?
Stay there John, stay there. You'll doing good for a change.
The Zionist have the American government by the short aND curleys