Israeli settlement freeze ends

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 25,076
    polaris_x wrote:
    it's all in the electorate tho ... that veto on the security council would be useless if americans demanded that human rights and justice take precedent ...
    the majority of americans are unaware what is occurring there and our media doesn't tell us about it so we are kept like an ostrich with our heads in the sand, "if i don't see it it does not exist".

    in general most people just can't be bothered....besides dancing with the stars is on, and people are too worried about what "snooki the hut" is doing these days... :roll:
    "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."
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    "Responding to an offer by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to extend a freeze on building in West Bank settlements if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, a top Palestinian official said Wednesday that such recognition could be granted to Israel within its 1967 borders, without the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. "

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05017.html

    "YASSER ABED Rabbo, a senior Palestinian official, yesterday called on the US and Israel to provide a map of the state of Israel that Israel wants the Palestinians to accept.

    “Israel is an unknown entity in terms of borders, [so] how does it suggest we recognise it as a Jewish state?” he asked.

    “We want to know whether this [Israeli] state includes our lands and houses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem” – occupied by Israel in 1967.

    “If the map is based on the 1967 borders and provides for the end of the Israeli occupation over Palestinian lands . . . then we will recognise Israel by whatever name it applies to itself in accordance with international law.”

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/wor ... 65246.html

    Fair enough..... The ball is back in the Israel court. Though they will probably say it's a ridiculous counter offer. Not as ridiculous as the Israeli offer.....
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    redrock wrote:
    “If the map is based on the 1967 borders and provides for the end of the Israeli occupation over Palestinian lands . . . then we will recognise Israel by whatever name it applies to itself in accordance with international law.”

    Seems perfectly legitimate to me and is in accordance with world opinion - excluding the U.S - and international law, though the Israeli's will of course reject it, along with the Americans.

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