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Israel to retain 85% of settlement blocs, Kerry reportedly says
Orly Azoulay
Published: 01.08.13, 10:28
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31. #30. Israel will keep ALL of our ancestral heartland..
Chaim ,   Israel   (08.01.13)
#30. For the first time, you have posted something accurate. However inadvertently. Israel will not keep 85 percent of Judea and Samaria. We will keep all of our ancestral heartland forever.
32. Miracle Dog @6, first and second are totally fine with me.
leo ,   usa   (08.01.13)
33. #20 Israeli Arabs don't want to give up their rights
jrebecca ,   modiin   (08.01.13)
Would that be the right to NOT serve the state of Israel, or the right to protest when we retaliate against Gaza, or the right to back the BDS movement while studying at Israeli universities, or the right to fly a palestinian flag on Yom Ha'atzmut? etc etc
34. #1. NOW is time for MASSIVE patriotic uprising!
Chaim ,   Israel   (08.01.13)
NOW is the time to begin mobilizing the vast righteous Israeli majority for a MASSIVE patriotic uprising! We need to send the message loud and clear that we will NOT tolerate: 1) Phony "peace talks" with genocidal "Palestinians". 2) The sacrafice of a single grain of Israeli sand. 3) Israeli support for evil Fictional Palestine. Not a gram of food. Not a shekel. No a watt of electricity. NOTHING for Fictional Palestine! Let us get a million or more proud Israelis to surround the Knesset and make our demands!
35. Harold
Israel   (08.01.13)
To Harold start to read the bible good place to understating what you call settlement that is God giving land to the Jewish people ..........
36. Chaim
I am Israel ,   US/ Israel   (08.01.13)
Chaim count me in ......I be there standing strong with my homeland and with my people .. We need to speak up stand up United . Israel need the dead penalty And need to return ...terrorist murderers in the Body Bags .... Yent il post my comment ....
37. Shame on USA
Stuart ,   South Africa   (08.01.13)
What happened to "we do not negotiate with terrorists" as a policy of the USA. Have they forgotton the definition of terrorist or is this only when it suits them i.e. two approaches "one for us and another for the world". Peace at all costs is not peace. There is no peaceful solution to this unless Arabs accept, the right of the Jewish people to their own homeland, which is Israel. This is not about Palestine because there is no such country or people of this name. The so called Palestinians are Jordanians and before that were just Arabs in Arabia. What about the TRUTH. I am a Gentile and know the truth and I stand for the truth wether it suits me personally or not. The reason for that is simply, my character is not able to pretend otherwise and I am not able to live in denial of what is true.. Israel belongs to God's chosen people. It is they who God chose to bring light to the world. Their history since the days of Abraham has taught so many of us through the ages of what God wants from us and how God has promised us deliverance.These people I am referring to who are the chosen race are the Jews. History proves ownership of the land. Anyone who believes and stands for the Truth will know that Abbas has no intentions of being truthful, Kerry's intentions are not about truth either. Israel belongs to the Jewish people. Finish and Klaar as we say in my country. That simply means - no more debate, it is the truth and that is that.
38. I wonder where the writer got his source from?
Ari ,   Jerusalem   (08.01.13)
As allways Yediot Aharanot being sensationalist. Who was the congress man, from where is the source.These are the things that torpedo problems. Probably a lie to créate expectations
39. #8 Sarah
Bob Cassidy   (08.01.13)
Do you really think that Obama or anyone else actually listens to you?? Do they even know who you are? You are a funny alleged lady-$500k per household? Baw ha ha!!!!
40. #11 Daniel
DavidR ,   USA   (08.01.13)
Agreed, however it should be made clear that the verse in Jeremiah you quoted is referring to all the Tribes of Israel. All 12, not just Judah.
41. #30 Harold
DavidR ,   USA   (08.01.13)
Harold, unfortunately you worship your god the USA. Israel doesn't. It makes no difference what US presidents say. Israel is a sovereign nation. Moreover, I don't believe Israel will keep 85 percent of the settlements either. I believe they will keep all of them. Go worship your pastor.
42. #22 ABC
DavidR ,   USA   (08.01.13)
The day Israel welcomes me I will be there. I am unfortunately in the same condition of many in Babylon in the days of Ezra and cannot prove my Jewishness. But that does not change facts.
43. #37 Stuart
DavidR ,   USA   (08.01.13)
That policy went out of existence when a terrorists moved into our White house.
44. #25 Sam
DavidR ,   USA   (08.01.13)
Can you please explain where you are seeing "very generous" in this matter. Israel is to give up 15% of so called settlements, which are actually Israeli towns and it is the palestinians that are generous? I would not want to smell the air where your head is.
45. To: No. 18
Hakim ,   Palestine   (08.01.13)
Thanks for showing how cheap of a person you are. No dollar value or any currency value for that matter will ever allow us to depart from our homes.
46. settlement blocks
jennifer ,   jerusalem, Israel   (08.01.13)
what about retaining only 85%? Nonsense! Not only that, kick out all the arabs from Rammllah, Beit Jallah,Shchem. Beit Iksa, Beit Chanina and more! We don't need them here NOR want them!
47. "that's one of my goals. A homeland for the Jewish people."
shmulke ,   w coast usa   (08.01.13)
Kerry, you're only about 65 years too late!
48. doesnt matter....
alsky ,   toronto   (08.01.13)
85% is not enough for the Islamic Caliphate !
49. #34 Start with a petition to Uzi Landau, Minister of Energy
A ,   Belgium   (08.01.13)
and Water: Something like..."We the people have decided that we no longer wish to supply the hostile "palestinian" entity with our water, fuel and electricity. Please pull the plug". Landau is on our side.
50. 43, well said
(08.02.13)
51. #45 - well for one, most of you didn't own your homes
William ,   Israel   (08.02.13)
and second, you participated in a war that you lost, and heeding the calls of Arab leaders rather than Jewish leaders which begged for cooperation in State building. Your brothers inside Israel have a rather good life, many opportunities, peace, and many freedoms. The only crime here is your bad choices and the affect it has on your family because of your intransigence and failure to accept your own...failure. If you get $1, it's too much.
52. Don't even need to read the article to know its a hoax
William ,   Israel   (08.02.13)
I know John Kerry. He is a very good diplomat, and when he states "no leaks from either side", he means it. No one in the current admin is dumb enough to upset the very unstable talks with speculation.
53. To: No. 45
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.02.13)
NEWS FLASH! No one plans on consulting with you. When we say you go, you go. Your home is in the western Arabian desert. We'll pay your freight, and then you are on your own. Please do not confuse the Jewish state with your home. Two very different things -- not to mention places. Frankly -- all your belligerence and terrorism has caused you to wear out your welcome. Good bye. Don't let the door hit you in your tizz on your way out of the Jewish State of Israel.
54. Kerry and The Yehudah - Shomron Development
Phillip ,   Johannesburg, SA   (08.02.13)
Israels govt and leadership are spineless, willing to put this area on the table for negotiation; Kerry - for what h's worth must be told to begin digging his own grave. Tehudah _ Shomron Developments, are not negotiable - Israel retains ONLY 100% and the Palestinians and the intrnational community can too go to hell, that is irrespective of whether nor not they like the deal or not. Yehudah - Shomron Developments are NOT NEGOTAIBLE. PERIOD. Yehudah - Shomron Developments are developments and NOT SETTLEMENTS, - neither are the citizens settlers, they are legal citizens. The UN the US and the EU can enjoy the trip to where there is nothingness.....
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