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| Spain predicts Israeli annexation of entire West Bank | |
| 2010-03-14 | |
[Iran Press TV Latest] Madrid has warned that, if continued at the current rate, the Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands would bring about the annexation of the entire occupied territories.
"Until now, it's not too late, but if we wait for more than two years it will be too late," he said. The comments came after the Israel interior ministry approved the construction of 1,600 housing units for Jewish settlers in Jerusalem (al-Quds). Tel Aviv has been denounced for seeking insidious annexation of the territories under the guise of refurbishing the Jewish residences, resettling the Arab dwellers and promoting tourism among other "self-serving" excuses. Israeli authorities refuse to meet the Palestinian condition for recommencement of the Middle East peace talks by enforcing a permanent and complete freeze on the expansion. The resulting long-standing standoff in the negotiations was compounded by Israel's December 2008-January 2009 offensives against the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians. Also on Saturday, the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged prompt formation of an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. "We need a negotiated peace settlement, it needs to happen quickly and now," she said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Perhaps Israel should contact some Christian Arabs (there are some in san Diego) and arrange a takeover of the West Bank and Finlandized government. Make it profitable for Israeli Arabs to move into the West Bank and promote a policy of sending troublemakers to Gaza. Then work to reframe the conflict as Gaza xs everyone instead of Israel vs Arab. |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2010-03-14 18:12 |
| #10 Arab mentality is not likely to change anytime soon methinks |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-03-14 16:02 |
| #9 As I said, barring a major change in Arab mentality, this is a war to extinction. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-14 15:45 |
| #8 g(r)omgoru, Sorry, this is the link. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-03-14 15:42 |
| #7 g(r)omgoru, The situation in the West Bank is at a strange impasse. What would you make of this article by Tom Gross? "In June, the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl related how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had told him why he had turned down Ehud Olmert's offer last year to create a Palestinian state on 97% of the West Bank (with 3% of pre-1967 Israeli land being added to make up the shortfall). "In the West Bank we have a good reality," Abbas told Diehl. "The people are living a normal life," he added in a rare moment of candor to a Western journalist. Nablus stock exchange head Ahmad Aweidah went further in explaining to me why there is no rush to declare statehood, saying ordinary Palestinians need the IDF to help protect them from Hamas, as their own security forces aren't ready to do so by themselves yet." |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-03-14 15:40 |
| #6 Look tipper, all these plans etc... is a pile of nonsense. Arabs won't rest until the world is Judenfrei. Of course, there is the Golden Rule. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-14 15:23 |
| #5 Probably a better question to ask is, would Israel accept a state-and-a-half solution? |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-03-14 10:26 |
| #4 If the Israelis are going to do that, they had better come up with some way of expelling Arabs from their territory quickly, as they are starting to add up. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-03-14 09:22 |
| #3 I have to agree with Moratinos here but I think we should annex the West Bank as an advance compensation for the future annexation of Spain by the new Moslem Chalifat of Eurabia. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2010-03-14 08:47 |
| #2 ...and since exported to American academia, the home of other fashionable European ideologies like Marxism. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-03-14 08:38 |
| #1 Don't you have any problems closer to home, Miguel? Oooops forgot. Inflaming anti-Semitism is how European rulers been dealing with popular discontent as long as there was Europe. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-14 03:02 |