"Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation"
Do my eyes deceive me?
That can't be in my newspaper!
Then I blinked and it was gone.
I did notice that the Palestinians are always the ones left standing -- and there goes another piece of land.
Related: Usraeli Food Fight
That's why I'm not taking any of the "strained relations" seriously.
Not the way my government talks and acts.
"Tough talk on Jerusalem greets envoy Mitchell; Israel rejects US call to halt settlements" by Josef Federman, Associated Press | April 23, 2010
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister yesterday rejected US calls to halt construction in disputed East Jerusalem, clouding a new peace mission by Washington’s Mideast envoy.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments were broadcast on Israel’s Channel 2 TV shortly after envoy George Mitchell arrived for his first visit in six weeks. Mitchell’s efforts had been on hold due to disagreements over East Jerusalem....
The SAME THING THEY DID to BIDEN and everyone else who visits.
So the "apology" was as insincere like my first impression?
Is it starting to finally sink in, America?
Or is Israel doing this because OUR MILITARY is ON to the MOSSAD OPERATION on 9/11 and is taking this country back?
“I am saying one thing. There will be no freeze in Jerusalem,’’ Netanyahu said. “There should be no preconditions to talks.’’
EXCEPT: Israel Intends to Keep All Settlements
Lying, two-faced weasel.
Although Netanyahu was repeating his longstanding position, the timing of the statement threatened to undermine Mitchell’s latest efforts to restart peace talks. Mark Regev, an Israeli government spokesman, denied earlier reports that Israel had officially rejected an American demand for a settlement freeze in Jerusalem.
Then STOP SENDING the CHECKS!
Related: Israel Answers All Questions
Oh, the superpower with the checkbook is then threatened?
Good thing Zionist Israel controls the world's media.
In Washington, the State Department said the decision to send Mitchell was made late Wednesday after lower-level officials had meetings with Israeli and Palestinian representatives....
In the TV interview, Netanyahu said he hopes to resolve the differences with Washington, Israel’s closest and most important ally: “There are ups and downs. There is a very strong fabric of relations that will allow us to overcome these problems . . . and reach understandings.’’
Translation: We tell them what to do.
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
Israeli officials declined to say what gestures were under consideration. The government has debated proposals to free some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, turn over more West Bank territory to Palestinian control, and possibly curb Jewish construction in the heart of Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.
All fart mist from the mouths of....
The status of East Jerusalem is the most explosive issue dividing Israelis and Palestinians. Israel captured the area — home to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian holy sites — in the 1967 Mideast war and immediately annexed it. The annexation has never been internationally recognized....
And yet it continues and more land is stolen year after year after year.
"Abbas urges US to impose peace deal; Says it is Obama’s duty to take steps toward a solution" by Karin Laub, Associated Press | April 25, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on President Obama yesterday to impose a Mideast peace deal, reflecting growing frustration with what Palestinians see as Washington’s failure to wrangle concessions out of Israel’s hard-line government.
Okay. Let him check with Israel first and he will get back to you.
In an unusually blunt appeal, Abbas said that if Obama believes Palestinian statehood is a vital US interest, then the American leader must take forceful steps to bring it about.
And bring about a bullet in the brain?
“Since you, Mr. President and you, the members of the American administration, believe in this, it is your duty to call for the steps in order to reach the solution and impose the solution — impose it,’’ Abbas said in a speech to leaders of his Fatah movement.
“But don’t tell me it’s a vital national strategic American interest . . . and then not do anything,’’ he added.
Abbas spoke a day after meeting with Obama’s special Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, who has tried in vain for more than a year to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Abbas says there’s no point in holding talks as long as Israel keeps building settlements on Palestinian-claimed land and refuses to discuss the fate of east Jerusalem, the sector of the city Palestinians claim as a future capital.
Mitchell is expected to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, their second meeting in three days. However, there was no sign of a breakthrough in this round....
Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation.
Say again?
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"Hopeful signs on peace talks; US envoy plans return to Mideast" by Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press | April 26, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank — President Obama’s Middle East envoy wrapped up his latest diplomatic mission yesterday without getting the Palestinians to agree to indirect peace talks with Israel, but there were signs the impasse could be broken soon.
George Mitchell said he would return to the region next week, signaling he is making progress.
Palestinian officials said President Mahmoud Abbas plans to consult with Arab countries at the end of the week and could soon be heading to the White House for talks with Obama.
Abbas needs to decide whether to engage with Israel, with Mitchell as a go-between, even though Israel has rejected his demands to freeze new construction in East Jerusalem, the Palestinians’ hoped-for capital.
A senior Palestinian official said Abbas was inclined to agree to the talks, in large part because of personal appeals in recent days from Obama, Mitchell, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing internal Palestinian deliberations.
Oh, they threatened him with a cut-off of support.
The Palestinians have low expectations of the US-brokered talks, but also want to avoid offending Obama and do not want to be cast in the role of naysayers.
Why shouldn't they? Been down this checkpointed road before.
And notice the slight indication of blame?
At the start of Israel’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Israel’s talks with Mitchell as “very positive’’ and voiced hope that the Palestinians would return immediately to the negotiating table.
Translation: Mitchell took his orders without backtalk or buts.
Mitchell has been shuttling between the two sides for more than a year, hoping to relaunch negotiations that collapsed in late 2008....
Yeah, when ISRAEL INVADED GAZA!
Funny how my newspaper would leave that out.
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More garbage I am sick of:
"Construction in E. Jerusalem appears frozen; Palestinians consider return to peace talks" by Amy Teibel, Associated Press | April 27, 2010
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in East Jerusalem, municipal officials said yesterday, reflecting the need to mend a serious rift with the United States and get Mideast peace talks back on track.
The move comes despite Netanyahu’s repeated assertion he would never halt construction in East Jerusalem, and it risks angering hard-liners in his government. One lawmaker from Netanyahu’s Likud Party warned that the governing coalition could collapse over the issue.
Still....
Sigh
Obama offered assurances yesterday of Washington’s unshakable commitment to Israel’s security....
Did he suck Zionist cheek and take a blast in the face, too?
I know he has to say it, but HE DOESN'T HAVE TO SAY IT! WE HAVE YOUR BACK when it COMES to ISRAEL now because WE CAN ALL SEE, Obama!!!
The WORLD'S EYES are WIDE OPEN NOW!
He made the remarks during an impromptu meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the White House, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Oh, THEY CAME ALL the WAY over here to TELL HIM WHAT?
When the ATTACK on IRAN is to begin?
Word of a de facto freeze on East Jerusalem construction came from municipal officials and a construction executive, who said the committee that approves such projects had not met since March 9, the day Israel announced its contentious plan to build 1,600 new housing units in East Jerusalem.
It was not clear if the halt to approvals constituted a genuine moratorium or how long it would last, and Israeli government officials would not confirm any kind of freeze. Construction that has already begun will continue.
Means there really is not one.
However, two city councilmen and an engineer who oversees a major East Jerusalem construction project confirmed the procedures for approving new housing have been put on hold since the Biden incident.
See: Israel Biden Their Time on Iran
“The government ordered the Interior Ministry immediately after the Biden incident to not even talk about new construction for Jewish homes in East Jerusalem,’’ said Meir Margalit, a city councilor who said the information came from top Jerusalem officials intimately involved with construction projects.
Is that what they are calling it?
Ha-ha-ha!
“It’s not just that building has stopped: The committees that deal with this are not even meeting anymore,’’ said Margalit, of the dovish Meretz Party.
Another city councilman, Meir Turujamen, who sits on the Interior Ministry committee that gives final approval to building plans, said his panel has not met since the Biden visit. It used to meet weekly, he said....
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach insisted any delays were nothing more than a bureaucratic matter.
The prime minister’s spokesman, Mark Regev, said only that “following the Biden visit and the mishap, the prime minister asked that a mechanism be put in place to prevent a recurrence of this kind of debacle.’’
And then they DID IT to MITCHELL!!!!
Netanyahu repeatedly has insisted that Israel has a right to build anywhere in the city’s eastern sector, which Palestinians hope to make their future capital. Netanyahu’s coalition is dominated by hard-liners who oppose any division of Jerusalem.
WASHINGTON — Israelis and Palestinians will resume indirect talks next week aided by US special envoy George Mitchell, who will travel to the region, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday....
I told you it was a food fight.
She got her wish, huh?
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And so did Bibi:
"Netanyahu pleased that peace talks will resume; Israeli leader, Mitchell might meet this week" by Aron Heller, Associated Press | May 3, 2010
Good PR.
Despite news of diplomatic progress, violence broke out in the West Bank, where Palestinians evacuated a friend allegedly shot by a rubber bullet during clashes with Israeli forces. (Musa Al-Shaer/ AFP/ Getty Images)
That is not.
JERUSALEM — Despite the signs of progress, violence broke out in the West Bank during a Palestinian protest against the separation barrier Israel is building in the area.
But if you call for a wall on AmeriK'as southern border you are a racist.
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The AmeriKan newspapers really do work for the state of Israel.
Palestinian medics said four protesters were hit by rubber bullets fired by Israeli forces in Beit Jalla, a village just outside Jerusalem.
The Israeli army said it had used “nonlethal’’ methods such as tear gas to disperse what it called a riot by protesters who threw rocks at forces protecting a construction zone. It said no rubber bullets were fired.
Yeah, well, Israel lies.
The violence is not expected to derail the latest US peace initiative....
Of course not; Israel holding that bull by the balls.
In a separate development, more than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and warning that systematic support for the Israeli government is dangerous.
Backers — who compare their goals to those of J Street, a liberal pro-Israel Jewish lobbying group in the United States — plan to present their position at a news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels today.That is nice, but I'm beyond Zionist lite now.
Go back from whence ye came, Khazar converts and usurpers.
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Any follow up on the J-Street plan?
"US envoy renews bid to break deadlock on Mideast peace talks; Mitchell to meet with Palestinian, Israeli leaders" by Josef Federman, Associated Press | May 4, 2010
JERUSALEM — The US envoy returned to the Mideast and Israel’s prime minister met with Egypt’s president yesterday in anticipation of the first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in more than a year.
The indirect, US-mediated talks mark the first significant step forward in the Obama administration’s attempts to break a stubborn deadlock in peace efforts. But....
But....
Sigh.
Well, it is Israeli-state media and no one is better with the buts.
Senior Israeli officials said Netanyahu.... agreed to the talks in part because of international pressure on Israel.
Yeah, sure. Like they ever cared before.
They only do things that benefits themselves. We've all seen it, and they have not changed one bit.
Netanyahu will seek security guarantees not only from the Palestinians, but from the international community as well.
See?
The prime minister is concerned about Iran’s rising influence and the possibility that Hamas militants, who now control Gaza, could also overtake the West Bank....
This is NOT ABOUT PEACE AT ALL!
That is ONCE MORE a COVER for MORE ISRAELI-INSTIGATED WAR!!!
Yeah, the music has stopped, readers.
Grab a seat!
In East Jerusalem, Palestinians were evicted from a rundown building late Sunday after an Israeli Supreme Court order, and Israeli residents later moved in. Palestinian residents said they had lived in the building since 1966, but the court recognized an Israeli deed.
Oh, the Israeli court recognized a... pffffft!
In the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron yesterday, settlers protested as Israeli authorities knocked down six houses near completion, charging that they were being built in violation of the government’s temporary building freeze.
Oh, they were not Palestinian this time!
So they evict and seize one place while temporarily knocking down Jewish Zettler homes for PR show?
The Palestinians want to an establish a state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians say they are eager for a deal and have said they would even accept a US-dictated solution.
I'm sorry, but I'm just not seeing it:
Netanyahu last year reluctantly endorsed the idea of Palestinian independence, but he has tacked on conditions the Palestinians deem unacceptable.
What a HYPOCRITICAL, TWO-FACED ASSHOLE!
Oh, NO PRECONDITIONS unless they are HIS PRECONDITIONS!
That is NOT NEGOTIATING, that is DICTATING -- and it explains why nothing has been accomplished for so long and accurately describes the Zionist mind.
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