U.S. cuts UNESCO funding after Palestinian vote

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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    -Israel plans to build more than 1,000 homes in West Bank, East Jerusalem

    The Housing Ministry published tenders on Sunday for 1,028 homes to be built in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, part of a plan to build 6,000 housing units throughout Israel.

    According to a statement by the ministry, 500 homes will be built in Har Homa in south Jerusalem, on land occupied during the 1967 Six Day War; 348 in the West Bank settlement of Betar Illit; and 180 in Givat Ze'ev, which lies between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

    This apparently marks another step taken by the Israeli government to punish the Palestinians for their successful effort to join UNESCO in October.

    The ministry estimates that construction will start at most of the sites within a year.Previous decisions by Israel to construct homes on land captured during the Six Day War have aroused anger among Palestinians, and been heavily criticized by the international community.

    In September, 1,100 new housing units were approved in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, prompting condemnation from around the world, including the United States and European Union.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.402159
  • MayDay Malone
    MayDay Malone Posts: 641
    Idris wrote:
    -Israel plans to build more than 1,000 homes in West Bank, East Jerusalem

    The Housing Ministry published tenders on Sunday for 1,028 homes to be built in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, part of a plan to build 6,000 housing units throughout Israel.

    According to a statement by the ministry, 500 homes will be built in Har Homa in south Jerusalem, on land occupied during the 1967 Six Day War; 348 in the West Bank settlement of Betar Illit; and 180 in Givat Ze'ev, which lies between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

    This apparently marks another step taken by the Israeli government to punish the Palestinians for their successful effort to join UNESCO in October.

    The ministry estimates that construction will start at most of the sites within a year.Previous decisions by Israel to construct homes on land captured during the Six Day War have aroused anger among Palestinians, and been heavily criticized by the international community.

    In September, 1,100 new housing units were approved in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, prompting condemnation from around the world, including the United States and European Union.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.402159


    Awesome news!! Thanks for posting!

    Happy Hanukkuh and Merry Christmas everyone!!
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    Idris wrote:
    -Israel plans to build more than 1,000 homes in West Bank, East Jerusalem

    The Housing Ministry published tenders on Sunday for 1,028 homes to be built in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, part of a plan to build 6,000 housing units throughout Israel.

    According to a statement by the ministry, 500 homes will be built in Har Homa in south Jerusalem, on land occupied during the 1967 Six Day War; 348 in the West Bank settlement of Betar Illit; and 180 in Givat Ze'ev, which lies between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

    This apparently marks another step taken by the Israeli government to punish the Palestinians for their successful effort to join UNESCO in October.

    The ministry estimates that construction will start at most of the sites within a year.Previous decisions by Israel to construct homes on land captured during the Six Day War have aroused anger among Palestinians, and been heavily criticized by the international community.

    In September, 1,100 new housing units were approved in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, prompting condemnation from around the world, including the United States and European Union.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.402159


    Awesome news!! Thanks for posting!

    Happy Hanukkuh and Merry Christmas everyone!!

    You welcome!

    But why is this news "Awesome"?
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,431
    Idris wrote:
    -Israel plans to build more than 1,000 homes in West Bank, East Jerusalem

    The Housing Ministry published tenders on Sunday for 1,028 homes to be built in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, part of a plan to build 6,000 housing units throughout Israel.

    According to a statement by the ministry, 500 homes will be built in Har Homa in south Jerusalem, on land occupied during the 1967 Six Day War; 348 in the West Bank settlement of Betar Illit; and 180 in Givat Ze'ev, which lies between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

    This apparently marks another step taken by the Israeli government to punish the Palestinians for their successful effort to join UNESCO in October.

    The ministry estimates that construction will start at most of the sites within a year.Previous decisions by Israel to construct homes on land captured during the Six Day War have aroused anger among Palestinians, and been heavily criticized by the international community.

    In September, 1,100 new housing units were approved in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, prompting condemnation from around the world, including the United States and European Union.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.402159
    shameful.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • MayDay Malone
    MayDay Malone Posts: 641
    Idris wrote:
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    Idris wrote:
    -Israel plans to build more than 1,000 homes in West Bank, East Jerusalem

    The Housing Ministry published tenders on Sunday for 1,028 homes to be built in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, part of a plan to build 6,000 housing units throughout Israel.

    According to a statement by the ministry, 500 homes will be built in Har Homa in south Jerusalem, on land occupied during the 1967 Six Day War; 348 in the West Bank settlement of Betar Illit; and 180 in Givat Ze'ev, which lies between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

    This apparently marks another step taken by the Israeli government to punish the Palestinians for their successful effort to join UNESCO in October.

    The ministry estimates that construction will start at most of the sites within a year.Previous decisions by Israel to construct homes on land captured during the Six Day War have aroused anger among Palestinians, and been heavily criticized by the international community.

    In September, 1,100 new housing units were approved in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, prompting condemnation from around the world, including the United States and European Union.

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... m-1.402159


    Awesome news!! Thanks for posting!

    Happy Hanukkuh and Merry Christmas everyone!!

    You welcome!

    But why is this news "Awesome"?



    I love happy stories about families finally being able to own a home.
  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    MayDay Malone wrote:


    I love happy stories about families finally being able to own a home.

    Me too, but not at the detriment of others. Having said that, it might be rather interesting seeing (for example) some other family coming onto your yard and taking over part of your house Building a settlement. Then inch by inch, yard by yard they take even more land, more of your home...

    A happy story you love? Perhaps,
    ---
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    Awesome news!! Thanks for posting!

    Happy Hanukkuh and Merry Christmas everyone!!

    So you support ethnic cleansing?

    Interesting.
  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    MayDay Malone wrote:
    I love happy stories about families finally being able to own a home.
    Almost brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it?
    mr_fish_israeli-real-estate-agent.jpg
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Once again, the U.S stands completely alone in the World by showing support for Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16279947

    UN groupings criticise Israeli settlement activities
    20 December 2011

    All the regional and political groupings on the UN Security Council have criticised Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, in a highly unusual move.

    The envoys said continued settlement building threatened chances of a future Palestinian state.

    They also expressed dismay at rising settler violence.

    However, the US - a staunch Israeli ally with veto powers in the Security Council - did not join the criticism.

    Israel has so far made no public comment on the criticism.

    Israel last week issued tenders for more than 1,000 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
    No joint statement

    The envoys who criticised Israel represented the European Union, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab Group and a loose coalition of emerging states known as IBSA.

    They were were reacting to a briefing by Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, the UN assistant Secretary General for political affairs.

    Mr Fernandez-Taranco said that the search for peace by Israel and the Palestinians "remained elusive in a context of tensions on the ground, deep mistrust between the parties and volatile regional dynamics".

    Reading a statement by the EU group, UK Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said: "Israel's continuing announcements to accelerate the construction of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, send a devastating message."

    "We believe that Israel's security and the realisation of the Palestinians' right to statehood are not opposing goals. On the contrary they are mutually reinforcing objectives. But they will not be achieved while settlement building and settler violence continues."

    Russia - another veto-wielding member in the 15-member Security Council - also criticised the Israeli policies.

    Despite the unanimity of views, the envoys did not try to draft a single Security Council statement because they knew the US would veto it, the BBC's Barbara Plett at the UN headquarters in New York reports.

    Washington argues that anything to do with Israeli-Palestinian peace talks belong in a US-led bilateral process, not at the UN.

    About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
  • 7RayZ
    7RayZ Posts: 488
    Human rights abuses are awful in Palestine. People tell me everyday.

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