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West Bank settlements stopped by Netanyahu

Russia News.Net
Wednesday 25th November, 2009

The Obama administration in the US has welcomed an action by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze for 10-months any new settlement construction in the West Bank.
The Obama administration in the US has welcomed an action by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze for 10-months any new settlement construction in the West Bank.

While administration officials have said the commitment falls short of a complete freeze, they have urged Israel and the Palestinians to seize the opportunity to resume peace talks.

After the announcement by Mr Netanyahu, US Middle East envoy George Mitchell told reporters that while the United States shared Arab concerns about the limitations of the gesture: "It is more than any Israeli government has ever done."

he said: "In the moratorium just announced by the government of Israel, there will be no new housing construction starts during the 10-month period. There will be no approval of any housing projects. None. No Israeli government has ever taken this step and nothing remotely like this occurred during the Bush administration."

The US envoy said he would soon return to the region to try to build on momentum generated by the Israeli gesture.

The freeze still allows for buildings already under construction in West Bank settlements to be completed and does not apply to East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want to claim as their future capital.
 

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Dick Splan
11-25-09, 10:18 PM

Netanyahu agrees to settlement moratorium

Since 1949 we have supported, financed and defended Israel. For 60 years we have been dishonest brokers between Israel and the Palestinians. At this point we should quietly tell Israel that we will no longer tolerate further building in the West Bank and that they must put in place a program to remove the existing settlements within the next 10 years. Failing this they will lose our political,diplomatic,military and financial support. We have done enough for these people who have indeed suffered terribly. We must not continue to be controled by wealthy and influential Jews in this country or a bunch of old bearded men in Israel living 2000 years ago. This action would go a long way toward calming the fury and hatred of the middle east.

rdm
11-26-09, 12:10 AM

Your dreaming, this country has been bought and payed for just like Europe was before WWII.

Watcher
11-26-09, 03:41 AM

Freeze the construction

ISRAEL will freeze their construction for 10 months and They will restart their construction after the 10 months freezing term is done.
so the month after the 10 month we will see the new construction again.

Watcher

thegoodoldusa
11-26-09, 02:12 AM

To Dick Splan, A Message From Hitler

Stop spewing your venom against the Jews, because you are going to wind up burning in hell like him...

kawahchan
11-26-09, 11:18 AM

Palestinians WON'T buy this kind of tricky Netanyahu's offer.

(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Foreign Policy & Affairs: Palestinians are NOT a 5 years old child that let the Nazified Israel to fool them for stealing their lands and occuption. Frankly, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu knows deeply that the 3rd party’s new Iranian nuclear weapons are what Israelis facing one-on-one; Palestinians have this advantage over Israel. Netanyahu offers the Jews settlement moratorium is NOT good enough but comes out short, too little, too late for that. American taxpayers ought to STOP foreign-aid to Israel but the US Congress and Senate are so numbed from the American-Jews political blackmail their votes and election. No Palestinian side is interested to waste their time to talk with the Obama’s US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, they DON’T trust him. The 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House will NOT practice the same old song of Intimacy -or- Sparsity foreign policy like the Bush and Obama. Dan’s presidency will fulfill 2 stages before to spend our American taxpayer money to offer anymore foreign-aids to Israel and Palestinian. The 2 stages are the following ...
STAGE 1) will agree a go ahead 2009-2012 Palestinian Interim Government to fulfill a (Palestinian’s) West Bank and Gaza strip Special Administration Region (SAR) government under the Arab League and BIG “money boss” Saudi Arabia’s financial supports; more Palestinian migrant-workers to work in Saudi Arabia to earn income to feed their families back home. If the Jews want to settle to live in the SAR of West Bank and Gaza strip, first thing first, the Israeli government agree to grant the homeless Palestinian landlords a compensation to give a new unit of townhouse to EACH homeless Palestinian landlord’s family.
STAGE 2) The 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House will assist the Palestinians to draft a Palestinian Constitution that is similar to Muslim Malaysia’s one nation within one Muslim-Malay law and one Christian Malaysian-Chinese (or minority Asian Indians) law; towards the United States of America to recognize Palestinian Independent State; to satisfy our Arab-American citizens in the States as well.

hhhh hasan
11-26-09, 04:56 PM

Never ending story how the insincere jews fool the world

American citizen and leaders, pity them.... succumbing to the jewish lobby in the congress. See how US politic is under the influence and directed by Tel Aviv

TheAZCowBoy
11-27-09, 04:45 PM

Genocidal Jews will stop building and catch up with their killing in Gaza and the W/B.

Three medium sized 12 kiloton nukes over Dimona, Tel Aviv and Haifa will give the Jews plenty of time to reflect on what they’ve done to the Palestinians since 1967.

Houston Rock
11-28-09, 12:18 PM

Jewish Lobby

Let’s be honest. US provides financial and military aid to Israel only because of the power of the Jewish Lobby, not because Americans love Israel. It is a mere observation of fact that very wealthy Jews control Congress and the executive branch with their money and ownership of our media. One Senator confided that if there was a secret vote, aid to Israel would never be approved. But every Senator and Congressmen rubber stamp $4 billion in annual aid to Israel because they are afraid to wake up the next day to find a well funded challenger (of course funded by wealty Jews). Our financial and military support of Israel has come at a heavy cost. Al Qaida attacked us on 9/11 because of our support of Israel. The Jewish Lobby pushed us to go to war in Iraq. No other country has paid such a heavy price to support another country.


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