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WARSAW, Poland – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his two-day visit to Poland, which Germany's Nazis occupied during World War II and where they committed the worst crimes ever against the Jewish people, with a stern warning about a potential Holocaust from Iran.
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for him to even try to compare the holocaust to today's events is an insult to those that died in the holocaust.
as if iran can invade the country with the greatest military in the region....
fear mongering at its finest.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Israel moving ahead with new settler housing
http://www.bnd.com/2013/06/13/2654470/i ... ttler.html
JERUSALEM — Israel is moving forward with plans to build more than 1,000 homes in two small isolated Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank, a spokesman said Thursday, as Palestinian officials complained that Israel is undercutting U.S. peace efforts at a sensitive time.
The settlements to be expanded, Itamar and Bruchin, are located in an area of the West Bank that would not be part of Israel in any foreseeable partition deal with the Palestinians. The building plans, which still need final approval, would increase the number of homes in both settlements far beyond any needs for accommodating natural population growth.
The Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now initially reported the proposed expansions of the two settlements, a decision later confirmed by Guy Inbar, a spokesman for Israel's Defense Ministry, which helps oversee settlement policy. He said the plans were advanced in the past two weeks.
The construction plans were given preliminary approval last year and still require official endorsement following public appeals.
Israeli settlement building lies at the heart of the current impasse over restarting negotiations on the terms of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Such talks broke down nearly five years ago, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has shuttled between the two sides in recent months to bring them back to the table, so far to no avail.
The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967. Before going to talks, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize Israel's pre-1967 line as a starting point or promise to stop building in settlements. The Israeli leader has refused to do either, saying all issues should be discussed in negotiations.
Moving ahead with plans to expand isolated settlements in the heartland of the West Bank is an "Israeli escalation," Nimr Hamad, an Abbas adviser, said Thursday.
"It's not the first time that they do this to challenge and embarrass the American administration," he said. "The Palestinian position is clear. The settlement activities are illegal."
Senior Israeli government officials were traveling with Netanyahu in Poland and not immediately available for comment. An official in Netanyahu's office said he was not authorized to comment on the record.
More than 550,000 Israelis live in dozens of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, a majority in larger communities close to Israel's pre-1967 frontier. In addition, the West Bank is dotted with smaller settlements, such as Bruchin and Itamar, as well as dozens of outposts not formally sanctioned by the government that would likely have to be dismantled in any partition deal.
Kerry has been searching for a formula that would bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. It is expected to include a slowdown in settlement construction, security guarantees to Israel and economic incentives to the Palestinians.
Kerry has urged both sides to avoid provocative actions that could hurt the negotiating climate. There was no immediate U.S. comment Thursday.
The international community considers Israeli settlements on war-won lands illegal or illegitimate.
Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog group, said the new plans included construction of 1,000 homes, and retroactive approval of 200 existing homes. She said construction could begin in about a year.
Bruchin, which currently has 52 apartments, started out as an unauthorized settlement outpost, one of dozens settlers put up since the 1990s with the declared aim of preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state. A year ago, the government began the process of retroactively legalizing Bruchin, said Ofran. Bruchin is to have a total of 550 homes.
In Itamar, the planners retroactively legalized 137 homes built without permits and decided to add another 538, for a total of 675, Ofran said. Itamar also serves as a "mother settlement" for several outposts.
The latest plan exposes the Netanyahu's government's intentions, Ofran said. "While he is saying he is ready for peace and two states, he is acting to prevent it on the ground," she said.
In this Sept. 20, 2011file photo, Israeli settler youths wave Israeli flags at the start of a protest march against Palestinian statehood, from the West Bank Jewish settlement of Itamar near the Palestinians town of Nablus. Israel is going ahead with plans to build more than 1,000 settler homes in the West Bank, a spokesman said Thursday, a step that drew criticism from the Palestinians and may pose a challenge to peace efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yup, Israel WANTS peace, and it's the Palestinians who are the road block. :roll:
That would make a good comparison... if the Jews in Germany had nuclear weapons.
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But in reality, Israel of today is the one with the superior German-class weapons systems, not Iran. Remember, thise is the SAME Iran that thought they would be able to over run Iraqi machine gun positions by using 'Human waves'... uneducated people, many of them in their teens, armed with swords, pitch forks and rakes. The year was 1988, mind you. And Iran has not developed much further since then.
Hail, Hail!!!
Ya, Israel wants peace :roll:
I couldn't even bring myself to read the article in the OP. Fuck Netanyahu. He's been making this exact claim about a second holocaust at the hands of Iran, for nearly a decade already (maybe longer, 2006 is as far back as I could find quotes from him saying this). In reality, his policies create more danger for Israel than anything Iran does.
Approval for settlement plans jumped 300% in 2012, says Peace Now
Report by the Israeli NGO says 1,747 new settler homes built in 2012; more than 300 built without permits.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-d ... w-1.494316
The number of approvals for home construction plans in the settlements leaped in 2012 compared with the two previous years, says the Israeli non-governmental organization Peace Now.
Building plans for 6,676 residential units were approved in 2012, the vast majority in settlements east of the fence. This represents a huge increase from 1,607 housing units approved for construction in 2011 and the several hundred housing units approved in 2010.
Among the housing construction plans approved were 3,500 residential units intended for the E-1 corridor, 523 for the new settlement of Gevaot and more than 500 in Itamar.
Construction began on 1,747 new housing units in West Bank settlements last year, the Peace Now report also says. More than a third of the construction in the settlements was east of the West Bank separation fence, according to the Peace Now report.
Four new outposts went up in 2012: Nahlei Tal near the Palestinian city of Ramallah, Tzofin Tzafon (Tzofin North) near the Palestinian city of Qalqilyah, Nahalat Yosef near Nablus and Hill 573 as part of an expansion of the Itamar settlement.
Altogether, 317 new housing units were built in settlement outposts without building permits, which is against the law.
The Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza District (commonly known as the "Yesha Council") that represents Jewish settlers in the West Bank commented that Peace Now's efforts to halt settlement activity has proven ineffective.
"We welcome Peace Now's settlement documentation project," stated Yigal Dilmoni, the council's deputy director. "There is a warm place in our hearts set aside for Peace Now. Following the cases they and other leftist organizations filed with the High Court of Justice, building plans were approved and moved forward for neighborhoods and settlements throughout Judea and Samaria."
No peace desired from this clown