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Israel to build 1,800 new homes in East Jerusalem (Extra)
Jul 9, 2008, 13:06 GMT
Jerusalem - Israel plans to build some 1,800 new homes in two Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem built on occupied West Bank land, Israel Radio reported Wednesday.
Some 900 homes will be built in Homat Shmuel G', an eastern extension of Israel's controversial Har Homa neighbourhood, on Jerusalem's southern outskirts, the radio said.
A similar number of new apartments will be built in western Pisgat Ze'ev, another Jewish neighbourhood on Jerusalem's northern outskirts built on occupied West Bank land.
The Jerusalem municipality's Planning and Construction Committee gave preliminary green light to both projects, the radio said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has expressed outrage over continued Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, saying they undermine negotiations which were revived late last year after a seven-year freeze in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
But Israel has vowed to continue building in Jewish neighbourhoods like Har Homa and Pisgat Ze'ev, which it has called an 'inseperable' part of the city and which it wants to keep as part of its capital under a future peace agreement.
Palestinians demand East Jerusalem as the capital of their future independent state.
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Marge, your comment is laughable. Israel was born with a handful of fighters and without major armaments, pitted against the mighty Arab nations, who tried to destroy the nascent state. Nor was this the only attempt to destory the country. War after war...initiated by the Arab nations to destroy Israel. You are right, Marge. 'It' s incomprehensible and shocking' how Israel can be accused of Naziism and aggression when all of it's efforts have been directed against protecting it's citizens against foreign aggression and terrorism. Jews have been an integral part of the holy land forever. There was never a Palestinian state. There would have been if the Arabs had agreed to the partition of the disputed territory into a Jewish state and Palestinian state, but they never did. They devoted their efforts to destroy Israel time and time again, and have lost. Further, Israeli Arabs enjoy freedoms that Arabs in Arab countries can only wish for. Sorry Marge, just because of your perverted sense of reality, Israel is not going to lay down and die. and when the attempt to send 'Israeli Jews...packing' by 'arab countries and Iran [in order to] remedy a wrong', I pray that you will be on the front lines showing your support.
John, your comments are ridiculous and false. It is sad that Jews and supporters deny and try to cover up the true about Israel's atrocities, warcrimes, and human rights violations of the Palestinians. The Israeli Jews have treated the Palestinians worst than any people in the history of mankind.
First, your claim that arabs started all the wars with Israel is totally false. Israel has been the aggressor in many of the conflicts. The most widely known 'Six Day War' was a pre-emptive strike on Egypt by Israel. Zionist Jews had lied and spreaded propaganda for months leading up to the war that arabs were planning to annihilate Jews and Israel, same as Jews are propagandizing today about what would happen if Iran gets nuclear bombs. Israel planned the war to expand the borders of Israel and to get control of the Sinai Peninsula. This is why numerous UN mandates have required Israel to return to pre-1967 borders, in accordance with international law that countries who are the aggressors cannot benefit from their gain.
The only thing Jews and supporters should find incomprehensible and shocking is the fact that Israeli Jews are following Nazi tactics and technics in with their apartheid policies and brutal treatment of the Palestinians. I'll just list a few:
deliberately killing innocent palestinian civilians, including many women, babies, and young children.
assassinating and killing palestinians almost daily.
deliberately splitting up and separating palestinian families into ghettos by separation walls, barriers, road blocks, and apartheid policies.
Denying palestinian students in Gaza the right to attend universities in Israel or to travel abroad to attend universities on scholarship.
confining Palestinians to Gaza and denying them passes to leave Gaza for employment or agricultural purposes.
holding palestinians in jail without charges, many of whom are palestinian leaders, educators, journalists, and children as young as 12yo.
imposing curfews on Palestinians for weeks and months.
demolition of palestinian homes and businesses to confiscate their land.
closing down, banning, and destroying palestinian institutions as charities, organizations, schools, orphans, daycare centers, shopping malls, milk factory and etc.
stealing over 80% of palestinian land and looting 85% of the water out of ground of palestinian land, as well as taking over control of their airspace and waterways.
collecting over 50 million dollars a month in taxes for Palestinians and refusing to give them their money while watching them go hungry and without medical care.
refusing to allow ambulances and doctors into Gaza to treat sick Palestinians and causing many to die, especially pregnant women with complication.
As for your prayers of me being on a front line for Jews, save your prayers because it will never happened unless Jews begin showing humanity for all people. And, the perverted sense of reality is owned by Jews and supporters who deliberately lie and try to hide the truth about Israel's atrocities, war crimes, and injustices against the Palestinians who are also God's children, if there is a God.
BTW, I really think Jews have a monopoly on greed. They started off with no country and were given land to build a country. Then Jews became greedy and decided they wanted all the land and began killing and enslaving the indigenous people (Palestinians) for their land. Jews have become modern day Nazis who doing some of the same things to the Palestinians that they claim the Nazis did to them. Jews have disgraced the meaning of the holocaust.
John, I forgot to include israeli house raids 24/7, which is used as psychological warfare on Palestinians If I had the power, I would force Jews in the diaspora as well as Jews in Israel to live in Gaza under the same conditions as Palestinians. That would solve the problem of Jews being monolithic in their unconditional support of Israel toward the Palestinians.
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margeJul 9th, 2008 - 15:30:41
It is sad that Iran has to go it alone in standing up to the Nazi State of Israel. Iran must have nuclear bombs before it can protect its people and sovereignty from Israel's war crimes and human rights violations. It is truly incomprehensible and shocking that a half million Arabs have allowed Israel with its 5 or 6 million Jews to subject the Middle East to a reign of terror for 40 years without any serious consequences. Israeli Jews should have been sent packing years ago and the Palestinians given back their land. However, its not too late for arab countries and Iran to remedy a wrong.
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