Posted on 10/01/2014 2:13:55 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Israel is to press ahead with the planned construction of 2,610 homes in Jerusalem, extreme leftist group Peace Now complained Wednesday to AFP.
The housing units, which have been slated for construction since 2012 in the neighborhood of Givat Hamatos, were given final approval last week, Peace Now said in a statement.
Peace Now spokeswoman Hagit Ofran told AFP the government could now publish tenders for the project, but that it would be months before building actually began.
Ofran, true to the Peace Now agenda, also stated that the plans damaged prospects for peace and an eventual independent Palestinian state.
"Givat Hamatos is destructive to the two state solution," the organization said in a statement. "It divides the potential Palestinian state... (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu continues his policy of destroying the possibility of a two state solution."
The timing was a political decision, Ofran said, but the exact reason was unclear
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“Peace Now” people should be put up against the nearest brick wall and shot!
Why Israel puts up with The Enemy Within, exceeds imagination
Building housing is only a problem if jews live in them...
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