E.J.Armstrong
17th November 2009, 10:04 AM
'... The Israeli interior ministry has approved planning applications for 900 new housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.
The planning and construction committee authorised the expansion of Gilo, which is built on land captured in 1967 and annexed to the Jerusalem municipality.
The project still faces review and the public will be able to make objections.
Settlements on occupied territory are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
Israeli media reported earlier that the government had rejected a request from Washington to freeze the construction work at Gilo. ...'
from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8364815.stm
1/ It is now abundantly clear that the apartheid Israeli government is going to continue its land theft unless they are forced to stop by the international community.
2/ In the absence of any indications to the contrary, it seems that the hard pressed US taxpayers will continue to fill the extremist Netanyahu's begging bowl and thereby fund the apartheid government of Israel, even while it continues to flaunt its contempt for the US taxpayer.
3/ It is time that the EU and the UN sideline Israel and recognise Palestine as a separate state on all the land within the 1967 boundaries invaded by Israel. 18 years of negotiating with any party that is not interested in peace is enough.
It is clearly time for the international community to move on and address the ongoing apartheid treatment and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people for once and for all because, as usual, the current extreme, right wing Israeli government is issuing more threats to the Palestinians.
This time the EU and the UN should agree the boundaries of Palestine without Israel's involvement and give Israel say 3 - 5 years to vacate the occupied territories completely - under pain of international sanction.
The planning and construction committee authorised the expansion of Gilo, which is built on land captured in 1967 and annexed to the Jerusalem municipality.
The project still faces review and the public will be able to make objections.
Settlements on occupied territory are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
Israeli media reported earlier that the government had rejected a request from Washington to freeze the construction work at Gilo. ...'
from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8364815.stm
1/ It is now abundantly clear that the apartheid Israeli government is going to continue its land theft unless they are forced to stop by the international community.
2/ In the absence of any indications to the contrary, it seems that the hard pressed US taxpayers will continue to fill the extremist Netanyahu's begging bowl and thereby fund the apartheid government of Israel, even while it continues to flaunt its contempt for the US taxpayer.
3/ It is time that the EU and the UN sideline Israel and recognise Palestine as a separate state on all the land within the 1967 boundaries invaded by Israel. 18 years of negotiating with any party that is not interested in peace is enough.
It is clearly time for the international community to move on and address the ongoing apartheid treatment and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people for once and for all because, as usual, the current extreme, right wing Israeli government is issuing more threats to the Palestinians.
This time the EU and the UN should agree the boundaries of Palestine without Israel's involvement and give Israel say 3 - 5 years to vacate the occupied territories completely - under pain of international sanction.