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Israel Faces Pressure From International Community on Settlements

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Posted on Mar 19, 2010
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From left, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton pose for a photo in Moscow on Friday. Clinton is participating in a meeting of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators: the U.S., Russia, the EU and the U.N.

The negative reactions are snowballing on multiple fronts against Israel’s highly controversial decision to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, an announcement that put the kibosh on Vice President Joe Biden’s good-will visit last week. As The Christian Science Monitor reported Friday, the settlement plan has drawn criticism from the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, as well as the U.S., and the Israeli people are apparently far less aligned with their government’s settlement plan than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated they were.  —KA

The Christian Science Monitor:

The Middle East quartet issued a call from Moscow today for an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank as well as East Jerusalem, and backed a peace treaty by March 2012.

The joint statement from the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and the US, ratchets up diplomatic pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he tries to defuse what some have said is the worst dispute with Washington in decades. The statement said the group would “monitor closely’’ Israeli construction in Jerusalem and condemned the 1,600 unit building project that upended Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and sparked a diplomatic crisis between the two allies.

The call got a cold reception from the Israeli government.

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By call me roy, March 24, 2010 at 6:52 am Link to this comment

Arabian Sinbad
Now, now, Sinbad, it seems that you have lost your temper over a simple “Socratic method” of thinking and discussion. Apparently, you “Arabian” types have a anger management problem? I would think so considering that most of the free world is hunting down these “types” of vomit called terrorists but who in actuallity are just simple cowards who send out women and children to commit suicide and mass murder. If i was you, Sinbad, I would seek professional help, it is available if you seek it out.

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By Wilson, March 23, 2010 at 2:38 am Link to this comment
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“The Hitlers and Saddams of the world make the advancement of Judaic ‘equilibium’ possible. Without violent, implacagble opositition to and hatred of all
Jewish persons,including the law-abiding ones of good
will, the rabbinic work cannot be done.”
—The Kabbalistic Secret of Purim

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By Arabian Sinbad, March 22, 2010 at 6:31 pm Link to this comment

By call me Roy, March 22 at 4:06 pm #

Arabian Sindad
Say, are you a movie star? Your terrorist sounding rhetoric sounds just like the bad guys in the Arnold Swartzennegger movie “True Lies.”  It’s almost verbatim.
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Well, what one can say to a fanatic looser who takes his education, culture and values from the garbage of Hollywood!

All I can say, “Just get lost you idiot, son of a bitch and scum of the earth!”

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By call me roy, March 22, 2010 at 12:06 pm Link to this comment

Arabian Sindad
Say, are you a movie star? Your terrorist sounding rhetoric sounds just like the bad guys in the Arnold Swartzennegger movie “True Lies.”  It’s almost verbatim.
Also, the famous author Joel Richardson breaks new ground with a devastating account of the possible connection between the Biblical Antichrist and the Islamic Mahdi. The Bible predicts that in the last days a charismatic leader will establish a global following in the name of peace. The Quran also predicts that a man will rise up to lead the nations, pledging to usher in an era of peace. The man in the Quran is called the Mahdi, or Islam’s savior. However, the man in the Bible is the Antichrist. Could it be possible that they are one and the same person? Richardson’s stunning research and analysis suggest that it is.
Hey guy, I would recommend that you put this on your reading list, it could open some eyes?

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By omop, March 21, 2010 at 6:37 am Link to this comment

If the interview/story covered by veteranstoday.com is validated Israel will be
facing more than condemnation.

  “ISRAEL DID IT”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Meet Dr. Alan Sabrosky, a brave man, a USMC Vietnam vet, an American of Jewish
religion and ancestry and someone devoted to the security of the United States at
any cost.

http://veteranstoday.com/tag/alan-sabrosky/

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By gerard, March 20, 2010 at 6:11 pm Link to this comment

hidflect:  Yes, now that you mention Japan—the discrimination (and reverse discrimination) there, have nothing to do with religion—or at least not much.  It’s more ethnic and racial.  Might be a point though in the idea that religions make things worse because of the history of religious wars and the rivalry over evangelistic efforts.  At least they don’t have those elements in Japanese discrimination.

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By hidflect, March 20, 2010 at 5:41 pm Link to this comment

@Gerard
I would think that a lot of this religiosity is a cover for naked racism. The code word seems to be “exceptionalism”. In a number of cases here in Japan I have seen Israelis quickly bundled out of the country by their embassy to escape local charges and be spirited back to Israel where they never face prosecution. This doesn’t seem to have a lot to do with religion and more with the belief that Israelis are above the law of “others”.

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By gerard, March 20, 2010 at 5:26 pm Link to this comment

What a tangled web these religious people weave!
Fear - hate - violence - revenge - more fear - more hate - more violence - prejudicial beliefs - incitements - lack of compassion - stubborness - rage - hate. Christians, Moslems, Jews—all to blame.  When will they ever learn? Why would anyone want to believe people who act like this year after year—and for hundreds of years, off and on, more or less.  Sickening!

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By Arabian Sinbad, March 20, 2010 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment

Another diplomatic bullshit, among the many we have heard about over the years, intended for further public consumption and deception, while in secret those same people either get paid or pressured to succumb to the commands of the Zionists.

Everyone knows how the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a profiteering industry, from which they have received untold billions of dollars over the years. There is even a book written by a consciousnesses Jew about this ugly Business.

Like the Holocaust, the illegal settlements in occupied Palestine is another huge industry from which many worshipers of mammon greatly benefit. I know, for example, about the millions of dollars that the U.S. Evangelicals and the Christian Zionists pour into Israel for the sole purpose of expanding the settlements, in preparation for their sick notion of the so-called “Rapture.”

I prophesize that with every stone and every unit the Zionists add to their illegal settlements, they are erecting the foundations for another future Holocaust when the fortunes of nations turn around and the victims get a chance to avenge the wrongs heaped upon them. This future Holocaust will be the making of the Zionists whose victims would be also many good and innocent Jews who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time!

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By Catchall, March 20, 2010 at 3:23 am Link to this comment
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Israel exists in a community of tyrants where she is wrong for breathing. She is surrounded by hostile nations & needs to secure her survival. Pulling out of Gaza as a gesture of peace was answered by 4 years of constant rocket fire from the very land she yeilded.
    It is somehow lost that during the period of 1940 - 1965 1 million Jewish citizens were expelled from Arab & North African lands. These same sheiks are now controlling the UN Council on Human Rights!

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By Shingo, March 19, 2010 at 9:35 pm Link to this comment

Arabian Sinbad,

“It comes from the fact that Israel will always continue to be the guarantor that the Middle East continues the most lucrative market for the neocolonialist to sell their weapons of mass-destruction!”

Actually it won’t.  The only reason Israel has been a lucrative market is because the US has been giving them the money with which to do it, but that won’t last forever.  The US is bankrupt and the dollar will soon be worthless.

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By john from ojai, March 19, 2010 at 9:22 pm Link to this comment
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Israel has demonstrated that it doesn’t want peace by continually building settlements since 1967. The only unique part of this uproar is the timing and visibility.
Since they’ve stolen so much land the only viable solution is one democratic state, condo style, for Palestinians and Jews. They lived peacefully together before Zionism so let’s use the model that worked.

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By hidflect, March 19, 2010 at 5:38 pm Link to this comment

Israel is doing this because they have a time limit. In 2050, demographically, they will become a minority population in their own country thanks to Israeli Arabs pursuing a “baby war” strategy. The day they become a minority they become an apartheid state. Thus they’re desperately trying to expand any way they can before the unpleasantness starts. I have a little sympathy for that but this mess is all their own making.

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By Arabian Sinbad, March 19, 2010 at 11:23 am Link to this comment

What pressure?! We have heard about this many times before!

Israel, the spoiled, illegitimate love child of colonialism will continue to be in control of the politics of her misguided parents!

Do you know where the strength of this child comes from?! It comes from the fact that Israel will always continue to be the guarantor that the Middle East continues the most lucrative market for the neocolonialist to sell their weapons of mass-destruction!

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By RdV, March 19, 2010 at 10:50 am Link to this comment

Rogue state.

Cut them off and set them adrift.

      Bye.
No more grabbing the taxpayer teat and enjoying a higher standard living while we are told we can’t afford healthcare and decent education.

  If only.

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By Frank, March 19, 2010 at 10:11 am Link to this comment
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There is no pressure about the settlements; Obama and Biden both support Israel’s continued settlement expansion in Jerusalem

The “pressure” was just about ruining Biden’s propaganda photo ops on his middle east trip. 
They object to the timing of the announcement not the policy

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