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Israel approves nearly 300 settlements
[Iran Press TV] Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the construction of 294 new illegal Jewish settler units in the occupied Paleostinian land.
The Israeli regime occupied the West Bank alongside the other Paleostinian territory of East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1967 and later annexed both. The international community has refused to recognize neither the capture nor the annexation. The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... and the European Union call the settlements illegal as they are constructed on the occupied territories. The UN also considers the settlement expansion to be illegal under the international law. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to lift a partial freeze on the settlement activities last September, thus occasioning a halt in the United States-based direct talks with the Paleostinian Authority (PA). Anti-settlement NGO Peace Now said Israeli settlers have started building about 2,000 settler units since the moratorium was lifted. Israel has, meanwhile, turned down a call by the US to negotiate with the Paleostinians and withdraw behind the borders of territories it seized in 1967. Netanyahu has told US President Barack B.O.Obama that Tel Aviv would carry out the pullout to help make way for the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state. The premier has also said the PA must choose between a deal with Tel Aviv or unity with the Paleostinian resistance movement of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Hamas and Fatah have recently reached a deal, agreeing to hold elections and form a unity government. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-23 |
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