Israeli-Palestinian peace talks hindered due to Israel expanding settlements...AGAIN
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[URL]http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/biden-condemns-mideast-settlement-move-20100311-pzlu.html[/URL]
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US Vice President Joe Biden met Palestinian leaders, telling them Israel's decision to expand settlement activity in east Jerusalem is undermining the peace efforts he is promoting.
He also stressed the US administration's commitment to the creation of a viable Palestinian state.
"Our administration is fully committed to the Palestinian people and to achieving a Palestinian state which is viable and contiguous," he told journalists after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
Flanked by Abbas, he again strongly condemned Israel's green light to the construction of 1600 settler homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, which was announced while he held talks with Israeli leaders on Tuesday.
"It is incumbent on all parties to grow an atmosphere of support for the negotiations and not to complicate them," he said in Ramallah, the political capital of the occupied West Bank.
"Yesterday, the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in east Jerusalem undermines that very trust, the trust that we need right now in order to begin as well as produce profitable negotiations," said Biden.
Abbas also condemned the Israeli move, and a separate decision to build 112 new homes for settlers in the West Bank.
"The decisions announced by the Israeli government over the past two days ... undermine trust and deal a severe blow to efforts deployed over the past months to start indirect negotiations," he said.
The Palestinians want to make east Jerusalem the capital of their promised state.
Biden had hoped his meetings in Jerusalem and Ramallah would serve to boost the indirect talks Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to hold after a 14-month hiatus in peace negotiations.
"The United States considers the goal to be not only in the interests of the Palestinians and the Israelis but in the United States' interests as well," he said.
"We also believe that the gaps between the Israelis and the Palestinians can only be resolved by negotiations. The indirect talks being launched should lead to direct negotiations."
Israel's decision to expand settlements in east Jerusalem also drew criticism from the UN chief, from the European Union, from the Arab League and even from the office of Israel's defence minister.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon reiterated that "settlements are illegal under international law."
In Qatar, Arab League chief Amr Mussa told reporters: "The insult has reached a point that not a single Arab could accept.
"Israel does not care about anybody, neither the mediator, nor the Palestinians."
The office of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, issued a statement expressing "anger after the unwarranted announcement which affects peace negotiations with the Palestinians - negotiations of the highest interest for Israel."
Israeli media were near-unanimous in condemning the government's move, which the Haaretz newspaper called a "slap heard round the world."
Maariv pointed out that Biden had hoped to restore the chemistry between the White House and Israel. "And what happened? Within 15 minutes we lost him too."
Before the spat over settlement expansion, Biden reassured Netanyahu on Tuesday of Washington's "absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel's security" and of its determination to stop the Jewish state's arch-rival Iran developing a nuclear weapons capability.
Israel had already given the go-ahead on Monday for 112 new homes in a West Bank settlement in an exception to a partial moratorium on settlement construction announced in November.
The moratorium does not include east Jerusalem, which Israel seized in the 1967 war and later annexed in a move not recognised by the international community. Nor does it include public buildings or settler homes already under construction.
Washington has pushed for months for the two sides to resume talks, but direct negotiations have been on hold since Israel launched a devastating 22-day offensive on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in December 2008.[/quote]
Seriously, what the fuck. 1600 more settler homes..
I wonder why peace-talks always fail, and why does Hamas do what they do.
fuck dat shit
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and fuck israel
israel better make peace with its homies yo
Price of Progress.
We did the same thing in America to the Natives, the more advanced nation will always win out. Nothing can be done about it short of direct intervention.. and the entire Middle East has tried that before and failed miserably.
They also happen to be our only allies in the Middle East and the only true industrialized nation aside from Turkey.
No, that's just bad thinking. The whole "Burn the natives" was OK until roughly 200 to 300 years ago, back when we travelled in boats and colonised everything, but these days, not so much.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;20700690]Price of Progress.
We did the same thing in America to the Natives, the more advanced nation will always win out. Nothing can be done about it short of direct intervention.. and the entire Middle East has tried that before and failed miserably.
They also happen to be our only allies in the Middle East and the only true industrialized nation aside from Turkey.[/QUOTE]
It isn't the 15th century.
CodeMonkey says this in every Israel thread, I distinctly remember him saying "Price of Progress" as well. So, bah.
Progress? I don't think so. You're a chauvinist, codemonkey.
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[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;20700690]Price of Progress.[/QUOTE]
no, it's not.
Dammit, Israel, you used to be a cool guy but now you're just turning into a nazi...
[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;20702029]Dammit, Israel, you used to be a cool guy but now you're just turning into a nazi...[/QUOTE]
Israel never was a cool guy
I may be from Israel but I think we should give them what they want and get peace already.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;20700690]Price of Progress.
We did the same thing in America to the Natives, the more advanced nation will always win out. Nothing can be done about it short of direct intervention.. and the entire Middle East has tried that before and failed miserably.
They also happen to be our only allies in the Middle East and the only true industrialized nation aside from Turkey.[/QUOTE]
yeah, having billion tons of useless gold is definitely progress.
Israel's the boner that betrays you when the teacher calls you up to present your project to the class.
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In other words they suck.
They're a bunch of circumcised dicks.
[QUOTE=Sickle;20703331]Israel's the boner that betrays you when the teacher calls you up to present your project to the class.
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In other words they suck.[/QUOTE]
Is that from personal experience?
heil israel
[QUOTE=Thom12255;20703521]Is that from personal experience?[/QUOTE]
Unless you've never got a boner, you'd know.
Israel’s strategic plan is to be completely indifferent to the settlers who are disregarding international law and sanctions and building settlements in the Occupied Territories. They figure that the West bank and Gaza can never gain their independence if there are Jewish settlers on the land. Unfortunately for them if Israel is going to include the Occupied Territories into Israel, then they face a problem.
There are currently more Palestinians than Israelis in Israel and the West Bank/Gaza, and their numbers are increasing much faster than the Israelis. So Israel will have 3 choices.
1. Apartheid, have the minority rule the majority (They are doing a good job of this already)
2. Give them a Diplomatic vote, where Jewish power will be weakened.
3. Ethnic cleansing or mass forced deportation, neither are pretty.
I don't think millions of Jews died in order to justify the acts of the Jewish state and settler terrorists. Israel is a military state that is inflicting Apartheid, it's disgusting.
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I hate you Israel.
[QUOTE=Epidemick;20704361]Unless you've never got a boner, you'd know.[/QUOTE]
Can't say it's ever happened to me randomly in class.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;20700690]Price of Progress.
We did the same thing in America to the Natives, the more advanced nation will always win out. Nothing can be done about it short of direct intervention.. and the entire Middle East has tried that before and failed miserably.
They also happen to be our only allies in the Middle East and the only true industrialized nation aside from Turkey.[/QUOTE]
That was one of the most dumbest statements that I read in a while. Most nations in the middle east are
industrialized derp and if a direct confrontation between the Arab country's the Arabs would probably
win if the retarded republicans in the USA send any "aid".
[QUOTE=The golden;20706412]When the fuck is Iran going to nuke the shit out of Israel?
Hurry up already.[/QUOTE]
If you believe they will nuke Israel then say goodbye to America as well.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;20706505]If you believe they will nuke Israel then say goodbye to America as well.[/QUOTE]
Uh, what?
[QUOTE=The golden;20706412]When the fuck is Iran going to nuke the shit out of Israel?
Hurry up already.[/QUOTE]
...why would you want anyone to be nuked?
I'm really fucking sick of these Zionist Scumbags. I don't even consider them Arabs anymore (The So-called Jewish Arabs mind you), just more filthy fucking Jews.
Fucking disgusting these Israelis.
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[QUOTE=Killy_Mcgee;20707189]I'm really fucking sick of these Zionist Scumbags. I don't even consider them Arabs anymore (The So-called Jewish Arabs mind you), just more filthy fucking Jews.
Fucking disgusting these Israelis.[/QUOTE]
That's a little overboard.
For fucks sake...
[QUOTE=Killy_Mcgee;20707189]I'm really fucking sick of these Zionist Scumbags. I don't even consider them Arabs anymore (The So-called Jewish Arabs mind you), just more filthy fucking Jews.
Fucking disgusting these Israelis.[/QUOTE]
Uh, dude
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