UK and France summon Israeli ambassadors to yell at them over West Bank settlements - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20578684[/url] [quote=BBC News][B]The UK has summoned Israel's ambassador in London over the plans to expand settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories.[/B] The Foreign Office warned of a "strong reaction", but dismissed reports that the British ambassador in Tel Aviv could be withdrawn. Israel authorised 3,000 additional housing units a day after the UN voted to upgrade Palestinian status. The UN expressed "disappointment", but Israel has vowed to continue building. The country's ambassador to London, Daniel Taub, has been called to the Foreign Office for a meeting with minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt. [B]'Reconsider'[/B] The government said Mr Burt would "set out the depth of the UK's concern about decisions concerning all settlement building". A Foreign Office spokesman said: "The Foreign Secretary [William Hague] has consistently made it very clear that settlement building, such as the recent Israeli government decision to build 3,000 new housing units, threatens the two-state solution and makes progress through negotiations harder to achieve. "We have called on the Israeli government to reconsider. We have told the Israeli government that if they go ahead with their decision, then there will be a strong reaction." The spokesman added: "Any decision about any other measures the UK might take will depend on the outcome of our discussions with the Israeli government and with international partners including the US and European Union." The Israeli envoy to Paris was also summoned to a meeting on Monday morning, French foreign ministry spokesman, Philippe Lalliot, said in a statement. The BBC's Peter Biles says the UK is coordinating closely with France in sending clear warning signals to Israel, but he says a suggestion in the Israeli press that Britain and France may recall their ambassadors in protest seems unlikely at this stage. The UK abstained in Friday's UN vote on upgrading the Palestinian status, but the organisation's General Assembly backed the move by 138 votes to nine. Israel announced its building plans for the "E1" area between East Jerusalem and the West Bank on Saturday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Palestinians in East Jerusalem could be completely cut off from the rest of the West Bank by the proposed development. But, at a meeting on Sunday of the Israeli cabinet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Palestinian campaign at the UN as a "gross violation" of previous agreements with Israel. He brushed off international criticism of Israel's settlement plans, saying: "We will carry on building in Jerusalem and in all the places that are on the map of Israel's strategic interests." Two decades of on-off negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have failed to produce a permanent settlement, with the latest round of direct negotiations breaking down in 2010. [img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64530000/gif/_64530716_israel_jeruslaem_464_e1.gif[/img][/quote]

They're like a bunch of babies

interesting how Israel has the lebensraum type thing going on

[QUOTE=Aman VII;38688823]interesting how Israel has the lebensraum type thing going on[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1dZ0YddG7w[/media] A cut scene from The Life of Brian.

"Ich mache lebensraum!!"

Sweden has done this also

Israel has some Drang nach Ost, eh?

[QUOTE=demoguy08;38690903]Sweden has done this also[/QUOTE] Do you mean during the crusade?

Spain and Denmark have joined the ambassador yelling contest, but Netanyahu [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20585706]has said[/url] he doesn't give a shit

[QUOTE=kimr120;38691145]Do you mean during the crusade?[/QUOTE] I think me meant that they yelled at the ambassadors too.

[QUOTE=smurfy;38692430]Spain and Denmark have joined the ambassador yelling contest, but Netanyahu [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20585706]has said[/url] he doesn't give a shit[/QUOTE] Aww, itty bitty baby Netanyahu Needs a diaper change. Since he's so frustrated he keeps continuing throwing his toys out of his pram.

[QUOTE=Van-man;38692596]Aww, itty bitty baby Netanyahu Needs a diaper change. Since he's so frustrated he keeps continuing throwing his toys out of his pram.[/QUOTE] It's a Crib, you anti-semite, Nazi loving sonufabitch!!!

Is it sad to say Germany wouldn't be yelling at them, because they are too afraid of being called a Nazi?

[QUOTE=Inspecter;38692738]Is it sad to say Germany wouldn't be yelling at them, because they are too afraid of being called a Nazi?[/QUOTE] Angela Merkel has already called them out on their bullshit recently IF I'm not mistaken.

[QUOTE=smurfy;38692430]Spain and Denmark have joined the ambassador yelling contest, but Netanyahu [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20585706]has said[/url] he doesn't give a shit[/QUOTE] No shit he doesn't He's 50 days away from the election

I wish we had an ambassador to yell at, but we kicked him out of our country for their underhanded passport fiasco.