US Warns Israel Over Settlement Expansion

[Lankan Ranger]

US Warns Israel Over Settlement Expansion


The United States has warned that Israel risks damaging the prospects of peace with the Palestinians by approving the expansion of a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined a wave of international condemnation of Israel’s decision to approve the construction of 1,100 new homes in Gilo.

The large, well established settlement - between Jerusalem and Bethlehem - was built on land seized by Israel in the 1967 war.

Mrs Clinton said the move could be seen as "provocative" and "counter-productive" at a time when efforts are being made to restart peace negotiations.

Lady Ashton, the EU's head of foreign policy, said the settlement expansion "threatens the viability of the agreed two-state solution" and called for the decision to be reversed.

The Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the move was "a slap in the face".

The Middle East Quartet - made up of Russia, the EU, the US and the UN - is trying to bring both Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table within the next month.

The urgent effort to restart talks follows the Palestinian bid to be recognised as a state by the United Nations.

The Palestinians have called for a freeze on settlement construction as a condition for joining the talks. Israel has indicated a willingness to return to negotiations but is yet to announce its terms for participation.

More than 500,000 Israelis live in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, built on occupied territory that the Palestinians want for their state. The settlements are considered illegal under international law but Israel claims the communities are legitimate.

The expansion of Gilo has been planned for more than two years and will still be subject to a round of public consultation before it is finally approved.

The Quartet is anxious to re-start the negotiations before the UN Security Council votes on the Palestinian bid for statehood with the US poised to veto the move.

There are fears that the rejection of the bid could trigger a new wave of violence in the absence of any progress in negotiations with Israel.

Israel Gilo Settlement Expansion: US Warns Palestinian Peace Process At Risk If Move Goes Ahead | World News | Sky News

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Oh please end this drama - bazi ....

 

[PERSIAN GOD KING]

I hate it when the usa tries to seem like they are angry at Israel when in reality they are funding them..

 

[regular]

Yes! US and Israel are suppose to take it seriously and comeupto some acceptable solution within the region for all groups involved there.

 

[RazPaK]

USA sounds bi-polar..

 

[DADU]

USA is no friend of Israel AND the Israelis know it

The U.S. OF A is trying to use Israel to its own advantage.

Israel should try and improve relations with European countries

Even with all the economic and military development when the call for help Comes America will abandon Israel just as it has abandoned nearly all its allies European or others.

Like it used UK to go in to Iraq, USA will use Israel against the Arabs for its own evil ambitions!

Peace

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I analysed this and I came to this conclusion with my vast experience in dealing with International crisis

a) USA fund Israel
b) It pretends to support Palestine , to shut up its Arab allies
c) It gives a truck full of apples to Israel , and then gives 10 slices of apple and expired apple or two to Palestinians calls it aid
d) US people majority support moral right of Palestinians , to counter it US media fuels stories about Israel
e) Every US president , follows same path

Year 1 : They come and say they will do what is right for Israel , and other party
Year 2 : Financial crisis sparks and wars they forget the agenda , Israel builds and expands crushes homes
Year 3 : Arab allies show discontent , US sends a minister or two calm things down , and Peace plans are initiated which
are scheduled to be implemented "SOON"
Year 4 : US president gives a public speech about how a state is close, and then Israel announces new settlement and
government changes


New president comes in


Year 1 : He comes he is bright and young think he will do this
Year 2 : Financial crisis sparks and wars they forget the agenda , Israel builds and expands crushes homes
Year 3 : Arab allies show discontent , US sends a minister or two calm things down , and Peace plans are initiated which
are scheduled to be implemented "SOON"
Year 4 : US president gives a public speech about how a state is close, and then Israel announces new settlement and
government changes

New president comes in

Year 1 : He comes he is bright and young think he will do this
Year 2 : Financial crisis sparks and wars they forget the agenda , Israel builds and expands crushes homes
Year 3 : Arab allies show discontent , US sends a minister or two calm things down , and Peace plans are initiated which
are scheduled to be implemented "SOON"
Year 4 : US president gives a public speech about how a state is close, and then Israel announces new settlement and
government changes

Then Israeli leaders go in United Nation and say that Palestinians are not serious, Then US media starts , a campaign where they show Palestinians causing unrest ...

But they don't see , that that 12 years have passed and nothing was done Israel stole land and build new homes and city is expanded .... which deepens the crisis


On a bigger 200 year cycle , the pattern we see being deployed in Israel is that of a calculated genocide , a genocide which occurs over 200 -300 year period.

Similar to how Native Americans were ... dwindled from 100% to just 0.01 % in USA now same strategy which depends on limiting jobs, economic benefits , and living conditions ... which forced out the Native Americans to deserted areas

The strategy focuses on , reducing land , and population of Palestinians , untill Israelis will be dominant population 90%-95% and Palestinians would occupy 5% and then Israel will go to United Nations for Voting

 

[Chogy]

^^ Yes, all a well-scripted plot to fool everybody. You have nailed it.

 

[lem34]

^^ Yes, all a well-scripted plot to fool everybody. You have nailed it.

But Chogy mate we have heard these kind of gestures from american govt so many times then they end up not doing anything. Cant you sort washington mob out?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Previous successful resolution was made during Salah Ud Din ... and I think in modern times that is the approach Muslims should take in order to resolve the issue

I am in favor of military intervention ...in Israel

Its just matter of justice and doing whats right and militarily the response should be to

a) Open Palestinian ports by force
b) Have nuclear pacts for all Muslim nations
c) Force a state formation
d) Blockade Sea route to Israel

Other option is UN voting and two states are formed which is also ideal

A military intervention in Israel should not take more then 2 -3 weeks max considering how small the territory is

 

[Chogy]

But Chogy mate we have heard these kind of gestures from american govt so many times then they end up not doing anything. Cant you sort washington mob out?

There's nothing I can say that will make everybody happy. It's no-win. The roots of the ME stresses go waay back but the part we are most concerned about is the cold war era. That was also the time of the greatest (by far) blood-letting.

The USSR had client States in Syria, Egypt, etc. We had client States in Iran, Israel, etc. The world was totally polarized. The USA and USSR both were puppet-masters, to the detriment of smaller nations. It wasn't right, but it was just the way it was. As the cold war chilled a bit, the U.S. tried to legitimately broker peace. Camp David, all that jazz. There was nothing nefarious about it. But both Israel, and the Egyptian/Syrian/Palestinian camps were hacked and at each other's throats, and remain so to this day.

The U.S. Government is trying to please both sides, and it doesn't work. It's no more complicated than that. There's no giant Zionist conspiracy, no cabals, it's just the U.S. refusing to abandon an ally (Israel) but at the same time, trying rapproachment with traditional Soviet client States like Egypt.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

American gov is hopeless , has no clue on nothing ... when they try to act Jew firms / bank pull out money form market and their economy tumbles ... its not easy for them to act ... its a black mail at very high level

They should do a disclosure of which companies pull out funds and I am 99% sure that the companies that do this act are all doing in a coordinated "PLANNED" approach to pressure europe and US on their policies