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Merkel ups pressure on Israel on settlements
Reuters ^ | August 27, 2009 | Reuters

Posted on 08/27/2009 6:57:37 AM PDT by SolidWood

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday raised the pressure on Israel to freeze its settlement building program and resume the Middle East peace process.

"We must make progress in the peace process ... and a stopping of the settlement (building) is very important," Merkel said at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the German capital.

"Time is of the essence," she added.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: germany; israel; merkel; settlements

1 posted on 08/27/2009 6:57:38 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: SolidWood

This is none of your business, Angela. This is none of Germany’s business.


2 posted on 08/27/2009 7:00:37 AM PDT by RoadTest (Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Psalm 129:5)
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To: RoadTest

Germany lecturing Israel, now that is rich


3 posted on 08/27/2009 7:31:44 AM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: italianquaker

“Germany lecturing Israel, now that is rich”

It is, now that you mention it. I thought they were seeking Israel’s forgiveness.


4 posted on 08/27/2009 9:55:56 AM PDT by RoadTest (Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. Psalm 129:5)
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To: SolidWood

The idiots here are the Germans. Only an idiot country allows Muslim immigration. Keep it up Germany and you will have your own infitadas in a few decades. Then we will find out how pathetically you compare to the Israelis


5 posted on 08/27/2009 10:01:42 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: SolidWood

Germany once more backing Judenrein.


6 posted on 08/27/2009 3:21:28 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
"We must make progress in the peace process ... and a stopping of the settlement (building) is very important," Merkel said...
I agree. Arabs should not be permitted to build any more of their squatter shacks, and all the existing ones should be demolished, and all Arabs deported from Israel.
7 posted on 08/27/2009 4:20:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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That's nice, as though anyone cares.

8 posted on 08/27/2009 5:04:33 PM PDT by SJackson (There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam hashish, the West woman, Malraux)
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To: SolidWood
"We must make progress in the peace process ... and a stopping of the settlement (building) is very important," Merkel said at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the German capital.

I agree, stop all illegal Palestinian settlement growth in the illegally occupied Judea and Samaria. They should return to their ancestral homelands in Syria and Jordan.

9 posted on 08/27/2009 7:14:59 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: SolidWood

Cue Count Floyd...


10 posted on 08/27/2009 8:33:15 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: SolidWood

I really don’t know what Germany has to do with that peace process thing. It’s obviously not working and trying to mediate will just give us bad press with the radicals on both sides. Most Jews obviously took a totally different lesson - our “never again” means never again bystander, never again perpetrator, while theirs means never again victim. No wonder common ground is hard to find.


11 posted on 08/28/2009 3:30:46 AM PDT by PoliticsAndSausages
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