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Agorism
05-10-2011, 10:47 PM
Israeli FM: No Halt to Settlement Expansion

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/05/10/israeli-fm-rules-out-any-halt-to-settlement-expansion


Nine months in, the international community is increasingly wondering if the Israel-PA peace talks with ever restart. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, an outspoken opponent of the talks to begin with, came forward with an offer of immediate talks.

Which sounds good on the surface, but in the same talks with foreign diplomats, Lieberman also ruled out making any concessions, including the only one the PA actually wants, a freeze in the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.

“Not for three months, not for three days, not even for three hours,” Lieberman insisted. The PA has said it is willing to return to the talks the minute a new freeze is announced. The Israeli government ended its last freeze in September, which also ended the talks.

Israeli officials have repeatedly blamed the Palestinians for the halt to talks, and have recently cited the attempted reconciliation of Fatah and Hamas as the reason behind the lack of progress is restarting them. At the end of the day, however, the only thing that can restart those talks is a settlement freeze, and that is poltiically impossible for a far-right coalition in Israel which depends on pro-settler factions for support.

doodle
05-11-2011, 12:39 AM
Religious nutcases will be kicked out of illegal settlements soon, they don't seem to learn their lesson well.


01.03.11
Settlers attack West Bank villages following outpost demolitions
Police and Palestinians say settlers threw petrol bomb into a house, damaged several cars in West Bank.
By The Associated Press and Reuters


http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.346200.1298881645!/image/1850754183.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_295/1850754183.jpg

Police carry away a settler during clashes at entrance to Gilad Farm outpost in West Bank, 2009.
Photo by: AFP
LINK (http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/settlers-attack-west-bank-villages-following-outpost-demolitions-1.346451)


Obama is soft on settlers compared to Bush perhaps due to funding of his campaign by Israel lobbies, Bush had exerted much more pressure on then Israeli PM who reportedly went into comma after Gaza settler "outpost" removals.

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/08/15/israeli_wideweb__430x310.jpg

Violence flares as Israel begins withdrawal
Neve Dekalim, Gaza
August 16, 2005
Israel is bracing for one of the biggest political showdowns in its short history tomorrow, when troops and police are due to begin evicting thousands of far-right Jewish fundamentalists from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
LINK (http://www.theage.com.au/news/middle-east-crisis/violence-flares-as-israel-begins-withdrawal/2005/08/15/1123958007013.html)