A day before the Israeli elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a dramatic right-ward shift, first vowing to never allow Palestinian statehood so long as he’s in power, disavowing years of nominal support for the two-state solution, and now vowing massive settlement expansions in occupied East Jerusalem.
Netanyahu declared his intention to build “tens of thousands” of new settler homes across Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, explicitly intended to make it impossible for any future government to cede the territory in part of a Palestinian statehood deal.
The comments were followed by another round of denunciations for the center-left Zionist Union, which is running against him, saying they intend to establish “Hamastan 2” in East Jerusalem.
Today’s comments also dramatically extend the split with the US government, which has previously insisted they expect any Israeli government that results from the election to be in favor of the two-state solution. Netanyahu has made it clear he is taking the opposite position.
He is crapping all over America and with adelson`s US money.Being whipped with your own.
Zionist Scum – is my (opinion) of Nutty Yahoo.
America's official position is in line with prior UN decisions. I wonder how our Israeli-centric government is going to manage the flip-flop. Is it time yet for "never mind what we said before, this is what we are doing now — and shut your mouth unless you want to get shot!" ?
One a stolen lands, off course, few week back he was asking for european Jews to start packing and moving to israel to vote for him to get re elected, which shows that he haven't got enough vote from people to stay in piwer. He assures the new european and American for that matter, if they don't have the double citizenship, he will provide them with Israeli passport at the airport.
No doubt my (US) Government's reply to this latest Israeli rejection of my Government's "official position" will be for the State Department to whimper that this is "unhelpful", for the President to renew his pledge of "unwavering support" for whatever Israel chooses to do, and for the Congress to vote supplemental appropriations to the regular $3 billion already being shoveled into Israel. Anything less would surely be "anti-Semitic," right?
Let me guess- along with those housing units, he's offering free 'Netanyahu phones' for settlers. Probably going to pay for it all from his 'Netanyahu stash', right?
Ain't nobody got time fo dat.