• Idiots now try to claim "new settler homes sabotages two-state solution

    From a425couple@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 13 11:06:58 2022
    Idiots.
    Since they have refused every offer for the last 74 years,
    what are the chances they will accept one now?
    Accept what is offered and get about building!!!

    74 years ago England and the United Nations offered
    to split the Levant in half and establish separate
    states for both the persecuted Jews and persecuted
    Palestinians.
    The Jews said the area and plan was not good,
    but they could make it work and accepted.
    The Palestinians refused to share and said that
    they with 4 Arab armies would kill all the Jews and
    dump them in the sea.
    Guess what, they lost, in 1948, 1967, 1973.

    US Presidents have regularly tried to help find
    a peaceful solution, but Palestinians always refuse.

    from
    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-706072

    Jerusalem Post Middle East
    Approval of new settler homes sabotages two-state solution - PA
    Israel is advancing a plan to build 3,988 new homes in the West Bank
    despite opposition from the US.
    By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Published: MAY 7, 2022 15:34Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting
    with journalists in the West Bank cityof Ramallah on July 03, 2019.
    (photo credit: FLASH90)
    Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a meeting
    with journalists in the West Bank cityof Ramallah on July 03, 2019.
    (photo credit: FLASH90)

    The Israeli government’s plan to build thousands of housing units in
    West Bank settlements is a “blatant challenge” to the US administration
    and the international community, the Palestinian Authority said over the weekend.

    The plan constitutes “a serious threat to the chances of achieving peace
    and restoring the political horizon for resolving the conflict in
    accordance with principle of the two-state solution,” the PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs cautioned in a statement.

    The ministry called on the US administration “to move quickly to
    pressure the Israeli government to stop this decision and attacks by
    settlers and their terrorist organizations against defenseless
    Palestinian civilians.”

    The PA was responding to a plan to advance the construction of 3,988
    settler homes.

    The Higher Planning Council is scheduled later this week to give its
    final approval for 2,536 new homes and allow for the deposit of plans
    for 1,452 other homes.

    A Palestinian man walks down the stairs of a building as the Israeli settlement of Dolev is seen, near Ramallah in the West Bank January 26,
    2020. Picture taken January 26, 2020. (credit: REUTERS/MOHAMAD TOROKMAN)

    “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns in the strongest terms what
    was reported by the Hebrew media regarding the decision of the Israeli occupation authorities to build thousands of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank with the aim of deepening the existing settlements
    and building more outposts at the expense of the occupied land of the
    State of Palestine,” the statement read.

    The ministry welcomed the position announced by the US State Department regarding the settlement homes.

    On Friday, State Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter said that
    the US administration strongly opposes the expansion of settlements
    “which exacerbates tensions and undermines trust between the parties.”
    She further warned that the move would damage the prospects for a
    two-state solution.”

    But the PA ministry said that the US stance was “insufficient,” adding
    that Israel was continuing to ignore the positions of Washington and the international community on settlements.

    The ministry held the Israeli government “fully and directly responsible
    for these expansionist colonial plans and their impact on the chances of achieving peace.”

    It said that the Palestinians were following up this issue with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations.

    PA presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudaineh also condemned the plan
    to build new settler homes.

    He and other Palestinian officials also condemned the recent decision by
    the High Court of Justice to evict eight Palestinian villages near
    Hebron. The court ruled that the Palestinians living there were not
    permanent residents of the area when the IDF fist declared it a firing
    zone in the 1980s.

    “We call on the international community to assume its responsibilities
    and turn the silent condemnation of settlements into action by putting
    pressure on the Israeli government to stop its unilateral measures of settlements and killing, attempts to change the status quo in the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) and incursions into Palestinian cities and villages,” Abu Rudaineh said.

    He called on the US administration to “assume its responsibilities
    towards stopping this Israeli recklessness that pushes matters towards escalation and tension and more violence.”

    PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh warned of the “serious consequences” that would result from the approval of the plan to build new settlement
    units and the decision to evict the Palestinians from their villages
    near Hebron.

    “These plans constitute a threat to security and peace in the region,
    which is in a state of tension due to the policies and practices of persecution, racism and ethnic cleansing pursued by the occupation
    government against the Palestinian people,” Shtayyeh argued.

    He too called on the US administration “to intervene urgently to stop
    these violations, as they pose a serious threat to the chances of a
    two-state solution, and to work hard to open a political horizon that
    gives hope to the Palestinian people to achieve their legitimate rights.”

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