Of course, I'd expect nothing different from the Israelis at this point.
And the sounds emanating from the White House?
(Hear those crickets?)
"Israel seizes land for settlement; Expansion plan draws criticism" by Karin Laub, Associated Press | February 17, 2009
EFRAT, West Bank - Plans to expand a West Bank settlement by up to 2,500 homes drew Palestinian condemnation yesterday and presented an early test for President Obama, whose Mideast envoy is well known for opposing such construction.
Israel opened the way for possible expansion of the Efrat settlement by taking control of a nearby West Bank hill of 423 acres. The rocky plot was recently designated state land and is part of a master plan that envisions the settlement growing from 9,000 to 30,000 residents, Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi said.
A MASTER PLAN eventually encompassing a GREATER ISRAEL from the Red Sea to the Euphrates!
Israeli officials said any construction would require several years more of planning and stages of approval. The outgoing government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said it reserves the right to keep building in large West Bank settlement blocs that it wants to annex as part of a final peace deal with the Palestinians. Efrat is in one of those blocs....
Translation: ISRAEL RESERVES the "RIGHT" to DISOBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW and SHOVE IT UP THEIR ASSES while doiung so!! Nothing new there!
Speaking to US Jewish leaders yesterday, the two contenders for leading the new Israeli government expressed their differences over the Palestinian issue.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, whose centrist Kadima party won 28 of the 120 seats in parliament, said Israel must withdraw from "parts of the Land of Israel," a reference to the West Bank, in a peace deal.
(Blog author offended by the statement of that piece of nail-biting NaZionist filth)
Netanyahu.... insisted on Israeli control of borders, airspace and electronic communications.
In other words, both are the same: Israeli Election Results: Likudima Wins!
Settlements have grown steadily, including during the past year of US-backed peace talks that ended without results.
Yeah, funny how those EVER-EXPANDING ISRAELI LAND THEFTS and SETTLEMENTS never receive the same scrutiny as those "Palestinian" rockets, 'eh?
The newly designated state land, called "Eitam Hill" by settlers, is more than a mile north of Efrat and just east of a cluster of Palestinian towns and villages.
Abdel Rahman al-Haj, a Palestinian plumber in Bethlehem, said that he owns 5.5 acres between Efrat and Eitam Hill and that intruders with bulldozers had repeatedly tried to clear a dirt road across his land since last month, in an apparent attempt to create access to Eitam Hill.
Al-Haj said he filed a complaint with the Israeli police and obtained a stop-work order from Israel's Civil Administration. Officials had no comment.Of course they didn't.
The Israelis gave that guy a worthless piece of paper in the hopes he would just go away.
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