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Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« on: March 10, 2008, 09:45:00 AM »
JERUSALEM — The government of Israel said Sunday that it had approved the construction of hundreds of homes in a West Bank settlement north of Jerusalem, a move that could further complicate a peace effort already hobbled by violence.
The announcement slightly eased pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from the right wing in his government, particularly after a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem fatally shot eight students, most of them teenagers, at a prestigious Jewish seminary in western Jerusalem on Thursday.

But the move occurred days before an American envoy, Lt. Gen. William M. Fraser III, was expected to arrive in the region for the first three-party meeting with Israelis and Palestinians on fulfillment of obligations under the 2003 peace plan called the road map.

The plan calls for the Palestinians to halt all violence and for the Israelis to cease all settlement construction, including building meant to accommodate “natural growth.”

The construction project in question, in the Givat Zeev settlement, was approved in 1999, but the developers stopped building for commercial reasons with the outbreak of the intifada in 2000. The developers recently asked to resume the project because of “the relative quiet and the rise in demand for apartments in Jerusalem and its environs,” the Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing said Sunday in a statement.

Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator, condemned the decision, saying it indicated that Israel “wants to demolish the peace process and demolish the international efforts to advance” it.

The Housing Ministry has also announced plans to build hundreds of dwellings in Jewish areas of East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in the 1967 Middle East war. The Palestinians claim all of East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.

In an effort to impose more control over construction in the settlements, Mr. Olmert wrote to government ministers in December saying that his and the defense minister’s authorization would be required for any new building in the West Bank. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Mr. Olmert, said authorization for the Givat Zeev project was granted “because it is consistent with our policy.”

Mr. Regev said Israel never intended to halt construction in East Jerusalem or in West Bank settlements like Givat Zeev that are in settlement blocs Israel intends to keep under any future agreement with the Palestinians.

“This should not come as a surprise to anyone,” Mr. Regev said of the announcement, “not to the Americans and not to the Palestinians either.”

The religious Shas Party, a right-leaning coalition partner that has threatened to quit the Olmert government, had demanded an official go-ahead for the construction in Givat Zeev, seeing it as a crucial test of government intentions.

Givat Zeev was “the most classic example” of a settlement project that had been frozen despite having gained earlier approval, said Ariel Atias, the Shas minister of communications, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “I am happy that wisdom prevailed,” he said.

The government decision also was announced amid reports in the Israeli news media of a deal between the Defense Ministry and settler representatives on the removal of a number of illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank in exchange for more construction in the settlement blocs.

But settler leaders vehemently denied any such deal and accused the Defense Ministry of leaking the report, which they called a “lie” and a political “spin.”

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, suspended peace talks with Israel last week after an Israeli Army air and ground operation against rocket launchers and Hamas militants in Gaza left more than 120 Palestinians dead. Mr. Abbas and Mr. Olmert have since said they intended to resume the talks.

In Jerusalem, though, tensions simmered after the attack Thursday, with Jewish fury focusing on the fact that the family of the gunman, Ala Abu Dhaim, 25, who was killed at the scene, was allowed to receive visitors in a mourning tent.

“It’s a scandal,” said Mr. Atias, the Shas minister. “They are dancing on our blood.”

Half a dozen right-wing extremists, some from the Jewish settlement in Hebron, gathered Sunday morning near Jebel Mukaber, the Palestinian village in East Jerusalem where Mr. Abu Dhaim had lived, and called for revenge.

They threatened to enter the village to disrupt the mourning tent, but as soon as they headed in that direction, police officers detained them.

At the Abu Dhaim home, the flags of Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah that were flying Friday had been removed by Sunday, on police orders. But posters describing Mr. Abu Dhaim as a martyr who had carried out a “heroic act” were still hanging in the courtyard of the family home and elsewhere in the village.

Dozens of men were in the tent at midday as half a dozen heavily armed police officers barged in and handed the gunman’s father, Hisham Abu Dhaim, a summons.

Unshaven and drawn, he told reporters that he had been surprised by his son’s attack. A chief of the family clan, Ibrahim Abu Dhaim, read a brief statement saying that only he was authorized to comment on the family’s behalf. He neither praised nor condemned the attack, but described Ala as a “well-mannered” man who was engaged to be married and who had not previously shown any unusual behavior.

It was still unclear whether any group was behind the attack. A police spokesman said eight men were being held for questioning, but he would not give any details about their identities.

Separately, an Israeli soldier died Sunday from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on Thursday by Palestinian militants along the Gaza border. Another soldier died in that attack, bringing the number of soldiers killed on active duty to four this year, the army said.
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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 10:14:53 AM »
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel plans to build 400 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, officials said Monday, in yet another construction project that could hamper peace efforts.

The plan has been completed and is waiting the final approval of a regional planning committee before construction can begin in the neighborhood of Neve Yaakov, said Ariela Smilinski Deri, a spokeswoman for the Jerusalem municipality. She did not know when construction might begin.

Neve Yaakov is located on the northern end of Jerusalem, whose municipal borders were expanded after Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed the area. The annexation has not been internationally recognized, and the Palestinians hope to make east Jerusalem the capital of a future independent state.

On Sunday, Israeli Housing Minister Zeev Boim said Israel would build 350 apartments in Givat Zeev, a West Bank settlement just outside of Jerusalem, and 750 homes in another east Jerusalem neighborhood. The plans drew heavy Palestinian condemnations.

Israeli settlement construction has in recent months hindered peace talks, which Israel and the moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank hope will bring a final agreement by the end of the year.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered a partial freeze on West Bank settlement construction. But his spokesman, Mark Regev, said the order doesn't apply to east Jerusalem.
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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2008, 10:45:06 AM »
Building homes for people to live and prosper complicates peace?

But murdering and terrorizing citizens doesn't complicate peace?

Damn, we are living in very evil times!
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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2008, 11:00:08 AM »
Not to mention that Israel has a milion and half of A-rabs already who're building new vilages and homes at will, while "peacefull and democratic" fakestinians can't tolerate a few Jews on "their" land. ::)
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11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. Peace, peace, they say, when there is no peace.

12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD.

13 'I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.'

14 Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.

15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror.

16 The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.

17 See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.

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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2008, 11:25:56 AM »
After what happend to israel couple of days ago israeli flags should be flying in gaza right now >:(

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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2008, 01:19:14 PM »
Israel approves home building in West Bank... or as I call it, Israel!!!
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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2008, 01:44:53 PM »
Re:  "...Damn, we are living in very evil times!..."

Yes...what the Talmud describes as "the generation of the dog".

Giving credence to this being the End of Days.

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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2008, 02:57:25 PM »
This is old news but still good. Haaretz called this despicable
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« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2008, 07:08:13 PM »
What is obscene about this decision, is that Muslim Arabs will do all of the construction work.

Fakestinian Terrorists will be paid by Israel for this labor, not only allowing them to remain alive and breed out of control, but also increasing a hundred-fold their hatred and contempt for Jews and Israel.

It is a fact of human nature that someone unable to help themselves due to their backwards culture and/or stupidity, if given assistance from those for whom they harbor only envy, jealousy, and hatred, do not use the assistance to better their lot.

Instead, they resent more than ever the fact that they could only sustain their miserable existence by accepting employment and monetary compensation from others more gifted, more intelligent, and more industrious than themselves.

In a very real sense, allowing Arabs to remain living and or finding employment within Israel's borders, is itself an incentive for ongoing and future acts of Terrorism committed by Arabs against Jews.

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« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2008, 10:06:16 AM »
What is obscene about this decision, is that Muslim Arabs will do all of the construction work.

Fakestinian Terrorists will be paid by Israel for this labor, not only allowing them to remain alive and breed out of control, but also increasing a hundred-fold their hatred and contempt for Jews and Israel.

It is a fact of human nature that someone unable to help themselves due to their backwards culture and/or stupidity, if given assistance from those for whom they harbor only envy, jealousy, and hatred, do not use the assistance to better their lot.

Instead, they resent more than ever the fact that they could only sustain their miserable existence by accepting employment and monetary compensation from others more gifted, more intelligent, and more industrious than themselves.

In a very real sense, allowing Arabs to remain living and or finding employment within Israel's borders, is itself an incentive for ongoing and future acts of Terrorism committed by Arabs against Jews.


Do you know why we pay them rather then Jews to do it? The same reason why we buy fruits and vegetables and what ever else from them. Money. Its cheaper to buy from them because they pay hardly any if any tax's at all.
Now when i say we, i mean the people of israel. Even people from my neck of the woods, the Shomron. I personally would never, i rather spend more giving the money to a Jew then to my enemy but many rather not go broke. Do you have any idea how much israel takes care of them? They have it better then the Israeli jew. And btw for those who believe that BS about us settlers getting any money for making homes in the Ishuvim are insane.
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Re: Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2008, 03:41:43 AM »
Well A-rabs will never be tamed, they're wild donkeys of men so treating them with kindness like normal human beings is waste of time; I'm shocked that even settlers support Arab buisnesess.   
Jeremiah 8:11-17

11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. Peace, peace, they say, when there is no peace.

12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD.

13 'I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.'

14 Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.

15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror.

16 The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there.

17 See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.

Love your Enemy
And Heap Burning Coals on his Head!!!
http://net-burst.net/revenge/love_and_wrath_of_God.htm