Strange, Israel wnats peace and same time keep the lnad?? Israel wants The Palestinian to throw their guns and smae time israel wants to resume it's occupation for teh west bank !! is that fair? whos is gonna accept that? Are you guys fooling us or something? What the hell you are doing??

What wonderful news! 300 more homes full of beautiful little Israeli children. So glad to read this news. As for the other Americans who are complaining on this talkback, who cares what they say? This Gentile wishes many blessings upon Israel and loves to see her grow stronger.

i think that you went a little too far with stating that israel is ethnically cleansing the palestinian population. if the israelis were doing this, then my grandmother's arab neighbor in old jaffa (which they are friends, by the way) wouldn't be living there for over 50 years. go and take your false views elsewhere. so many idiots to confront, yet so little time...

BARUCH HASHEM ! Thank YOU for good news .

Not long ago Palestinian police killed a Jewish settler on the West Bank for no reason other than hate. Building of Jewish settlements is the best response to violent Palestinian acts. The Jewish settlements bother the Palestinians more than anything else and are the best response to their violence.

Expand Jerusalems borders to include all of Israel, including the Golan, and we can build anywhere !

Hey Muslims ... Arabs ... is Israel a Jewish State? Say it ... Say it here now that Israel IS a Jewish state. Post it so all of us here on the other side can see you believe this and agree with this. And when you don't you'll kindly understand why all of us think you can go screw off since all that's happening here is a Hudna and your dreams of destroying us continue. Peace comes with compromise and so far you have only demanded and won't even agree to the obvious. that Israel IS THE Jewish State . If you can't do that. none of u believe a word you say and speaking for most here we will fight you for the next century and longer if need be.

ok fine ..you go ahead and build .. the hope of a palestinian state is evaporating with bold moves like that .. eventually palestinians will end up with a non viable state .. if the current palestinian leaders are fool enough to sign a peace with you ...their kids will reject it . Olmert said in the US (we have to have a palestinian state in order for israel to continue ) ... a state without east jerusalem is not viable .. by doing this, olmert is stepping one more step toward l one state for 2 people ,palestinians will be victorious in this one even if you count all the jews in the world .

Over and over we hear this garbage that Palestine cannot be viable with Jews living there. If that is true then Israel should throw out all its Arabs.

I don't know who sold Bush a bill of goods on the possibility of peace in the Middle East, but it was probably someone like Condolisa Rice. Not only are these so-called peace delegates not on the same page, they're on different sections of the book on peace. Without a meeting of the minds, there can never be peace. This is never going to happen while the Arabs continue to live in fantasyland.

your asses. Can you even point out Har Homa on a map? Do you realize there is no new land involved in these housing units? This is an already built Jewish neighborhood in Israel's capital city, Jerusalem. So STFU already and learn before you open your mouths. Israel will compromise and relinquish territory, but that has nothing to do with this housing proposal.

Mr Abbas need toi know that Israel will not live in peace as it continues its policies of racism, humiliation, land confiscation, water stealing, trees uprooting, house demolition....there will never be peace just empty words and promises followed by a new intifada

We all know what the plan is here, basically under Mayor Lupolianski the big rascist himself, are trying to eradicate all arabs from their homelands and East Jerusalem. its about time the world really knows what is going on here and all paid for with American tax money.

1. You use ugly words without relation to reality. 2. Arabs came as usurpers, the first ones after the person whom islamists call prophet, however the bulk of the Arabs came from neighbouring countries after the Jews had started social and economic development thus offering more jobs and higher incomes. Live in peace in Israel with Israelis or move back where you came from. 3. As a Christian knowing my Bible I know the land of Israel belongs to Israelis, not to the Arabs, though you may reside Israelis allowing that. Don't call yours which is not yours. Wanting a state, found that in Arabia.

Let's make the basics clear: the state, it's called Israel and the city is called Rama. To be checked both in historical and contemporary maps, always the same.

wish freely what ever you want. Your wish will eventually turn into whisper Hizbullah dying. Hizbullah, the terrorist league deserves only to become crushed. This will happen. Wait for the second match.

you've gone too far left.... i think you should go and live in ramallah. we don't want you in tel aviv... or maybe ur a goy?

Jerusalem is Jewish land for ever and ever. There is no East Jerusalem, only Jerusalem. When he comes, Arabs (Christian and Muslim) and Jews will both live there and worship there in peace. There will no longer be any fighting over Jerusalem, and all will know that the Eternal City belongs to the Chosen People.

Israel forcibly ethnically cleansed much of Israel proper already by denying the right of return to those civilians who fled the wars Alex. You know, in 1948 when Israel denied their return at gunpoint and then bulldozed their homes, villages and towns so as to wipe any evidence of their existence and rich history off the map. And BTW, Jaffa is within Israel's internationally recognized border and is not in the areas occupied by Israel in 1967 such as Gaza, the Golan, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is where the Nazi style ethnic cleansing and persecution of Palestinians is going on these days. In Israel proper, non-Jews only suffer from bigotry and racism and other Apartheid practices from racists like you.

..from Moscow, Russia: do you believe your own lies? And how can you ethnically cleanse a people that doesn't exist? And how can you ethnically cleanse a people if it has multiplied by 10 times? And how can apartheid, nazism and racism take place in Israel that grants its citizens ,Israelis and Arabs alike, the same rights that Europeans and Americans take for granted? And how can Israel steal a land when Jews have lived on it for 4000 years? And since when are people from Russia eligible to deliver moral lectures? My friend, you have so much to learn...

Give it your best shot. See how successful you will be when the strongest military power on earth is the ally of Israel. And if the US and Israel are to weak to do it, then so what. The Almighty, blessed be He, will take care of you and your wimpy forces. So, go build some descent radar or something and shut up about things which are not your business.

First the Arab children threw stones, then Molotov Cocktails, then pipe bombs. Then sharpshooters (adult) mixed in with the youngsters. Israel was accused of "Excessive force" when it fired rubber bullets. The Arabs are moving ahead with their plans to destroy the Jewish state, piece by peace. Homa was controversial when first proposed, and put on hold. Now, Israel is showing it's cards: to build, and to relinquish Arab neighborhoods in E. Jerusalem to a Pals State (besides Jordan). If Israel backs down (again), it will continue to do so. Until Israel decides it's own future and stops kowtowing to the world, we can expect more of the same. At some point, the Arabs will want Haifa. They will never, never, be satisfied. If I were F.M., I would tell Mubarak, Erekat, Assad and Abbas where to go, in very unpolite language. It doesn't matter really. Livni's politeness has back-fired as we have seen recently.