Members of Israel Foreign service look at displayed exploded rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, during a visit at a police station in the southern Israeli city of Sderot Tuesday Dec. 26, 2006. A homemade rocket launched from Gaza landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Tuesday morning, causing some damage to property but no injuries. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Why should any sovreign nation "promise" not to build houses on its own land? Why would Reichsmarshall Rice demand such a promise?
Don't thank me for fixing it; just doing my job.
There will be no scientific research, no reading at the libraries and universities, no rights for women and the worst thing of all, no bacon.
"Israel settlement breaks promise to U.S."
Who has a better right? It's not the United States' land.
If it were not for the Israelis undertaking construction in the disputed areas, there would be NO construction going on in West Bank at all. That is way more than the Palistinian Authority is doing.
Besides, there is no certainty the Palestinians have a clear title to the land. So if there is a dispute, it is because the Palestinians just want to jump the claim on the land.
"What message are they trying to send?" Erekat asked.
Maybe Israel is saying to the PA .... STOP SHOOTING FRAKKIN MISSILES AT US
Another AP headline writer with poor English skills. The "settlement" didn't break a promise...the Israel government did.
Israel Breaks Promise to U.S. On Settlements
Now I'm happy.
"Israel has approved a new settlement in the West Bank to house former Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, breaking a promise to the U.S. to halt home construction in the Palestinian territories."
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Seems to me that Israel is reacting to what the US has done:
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2006/december/12_24_3.html
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- The Bush administration has blocked arms and technology transfers to Israel.
Israeli and U.S. sources said the State Department has blocked the transfer of weapons and technology to the Jewish state over the last three months. The sources said the halt reflected deteriorating relations between the two countries since the end of the war in Lebanon in August 2006.
"Nobody will say openly that there is a problem," a government source said. "But there is a serious problem that reflects the marginalization of Israel in U.S. strategy."
The unofficial suspension of U.S. arms deliveries began in late September, the sources said. They said the suspension halted the airlift of air-to-ground and other munitions conducted during and immediately after the Israeli war with Hizbullah.
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Can someone please tell me WTF is going on, that we are pressuring our only true ally in the area, and the only civilized nation in the area to boot, while simultaneously doing everything we can to give our extremely UNcivilized enemies everything that they want??? This is a recipe for utter disaster, politically, militarily and spiritually. What is WRONG with Bush that he is doing this crap?
maybe russia will break a deal with the US on Alaska and try and take it back....or the french with the Louisiana purchase...ok (french - bad example) but you get the point!!!!
when have the muzzies/palis ever kept their word on any deal?...screw them...hope Israel establishes more and more settlements and builds high walls to protect them....let the palis go where they belong...jordan & egypt!!!!
after all...there were no palis until 1967!!!!
The headline should read "arabs break their promise, launch missile attack on Israel".
My position has been that Israel must choose the border it is prepared to live and die by, get their people on the right side of it, and seal it.
Its not up to me to decide where that line should be, but they have to do it unilaterally; negotiating with their murderers is not a solution, it is the ultimate indignity, and it is pointless.
That seems to be what they are doing, they have removed these people from Gaza, and have relocated them to the West Bank. I would take that to mean that this part of the West Bank will not be returned.
The next part of the "marron peace plan" is this; having sealed the border to ordinary ground attackers, they must answer rocket attacks by moving the border forward every time a rocket clears the fence. Move the fence, bulldoze any structures that wind up on the wrong side of the fence, compensate the owners, and push them to the arab side of the fence. Repeat as necessary. You won't have to move the fence very many times before they get the message.
Nothing else will ever work. Killing the attackers, while necessary, is insufficient; there is an endless supply of misfits ready to take their place, and their arab brothers and parents don't care if they live or die, astonishingly their Israeli enemies care more for their lives than do their own people. Killing them, alone, will never end it. The only pressure point that actually transmits pain, is land. Every act of war must be answered by the permanent annexation of previously arab land.
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Neither side has followed through.
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That says it all but we only hear about Israel's actions that are counter to the spirit of the road map. It's always Israel who is throwing wrenches into the peace efforts. As far as Palestinian territory is concerned, there is none as it has yet to be negotiated. How can there be peace when one side refuses to even recognize the other's right to exist. I hope I never see a Palestinian state in my lifetime.