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Netanyahu rejects US calls to halt east J'lem project
Roni Sofer and AP
Published: 19.07.09, 10:54
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1. it's a private land so, not even the gov can
ghostq   (07.19.09)
do anything about it, someland belong to the state but not this one, Edelstain is right where will it end, mitchel is a colossal idiot.
2. so u.s.a return Texas to Mexico
(07.19.09)
Obama we hate you
3. Barak Husein Obama can go to hell!
Wise Saba ,   Netivot   (07.19.09)
We will build anywhere we want in Yerushaliem It Ha Kodesh.
4. worst government ever
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (07.19.09)
Surprisingly, the Obama regime has become the worst US government ever. First, they give unconditional support to Saudi Arabia, a country where a full half of the residents are slaves. Then, they support the enslavement of women as "freedom of choice". Now, they advocate apartheid where a person cannot use his property just because he is a Jew.
5. Oh, nonsense!
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (07.19.09)
Does Israel tell the United States where and where not to build? Of course not! The United States needs to show similar consideration. Israel is not the 51st state. Israel need not comply with any U.S. directive.
6.  U,S.A.IS ENCOURAGING" GHETOISING "
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (07.19.09)
IF PEOPLE BEHAVE THEMSELVES FREEDOM TO CONDUCT THEIR LIVES IS NOT INTERFERED WITH.THEY CAN LIVE NEXT DOOR IF THEY WANT THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE OF A DEMOCRATIC STATE.OBAMA AND CO,HAVE OVER-SHOT THE MARK AND NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THIS.PROBABLY ALL THE STATES IN HIS COUNTRY CAN FIND SOME FAULT WITH CENTRAL GOVERNMENT.THIS DOES NOT GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO CESEDE FROM THEIR UNION.SIMILARLY T LAND WHICH HAS BEEN FORFEITED BY LOST WARS ,DOES NOT PERMIT THE WHOLE OF THE U.S.A. TO BE RETURNED TO THE "RED INDIANS OR ESKIMOS.SO IT IS WITH ISRAEL.IT HAS HAD OVER 40 YEARS FOR ALL SORTS OF CONSIDERATION FOR BUILDING DEVELOPMENT .WHAT MAKES OBAMA THINK THAT TURNING OVER THE LAND TO ARAB KILLER FORCES WILL BE TO ISRAEL"S ADVANTAGE.? BE REMINDED OF WHAT HAPPENED AT "GUSH KATIF AND ARNONA" IF YOU CAME TO ISRAEL NOW YOU WOULD BE SOUNDLY BOOEDAND I WOULD BE ONE OF THE CROWD.CHANGE YOUR TEAM,AND CHANGE YOUR LUCK MR.PRESIDENT!
7. stop building home & hotels in Washington DC first
zionist forever   (07.19.09)
The US has no right to dictate to Israel on what or where it can build in its own capital. Oslo divided Judea & Samaria into areas ABC Some areas under full PA control Some areas under full Israel control Some areas controled by PA but security adminstered by Israel. Jerusalem was always exempt from the rules which goverened Judea & Samaria and there were no building restrictions. Clinton, Bush, Peres & Rabin, Barak, Bibi, Sharon and Olmert all understood this even Arafat understood it. Now Obma comes along and throws out the window any previous agreement the US had made even saying Israel cannot keep the major settlement blocks and starts saying what can or cannot be done in Jerusale. Also the idea of objecting to a PRIVATE INVESTOR building a hotel is just stupid. Hotels stay in the same place no matter who is running the country. Assuming that in future an arab entity was created and Jerusalem was created as its capital all that would happen is that hotel would be paying its taxes to the arab state instead of Israel. Obama doesn't have disagreements which cause rifts the man is looking for fights. He really does remind me of the arabs look for a fight any chance you get and the aim is dismantling Israel piece by piece. How long before Obama says Israel cannot change the names of places road signs and use their hebrew names only because the Arab League have objected to the plan? The Arab League have already called on the US to do something to stop it so lets see how long it will take Obama to pick a fight over the road signs. Bibi needs to stand up to Obama stop caving in Jerusalem must be an issue that is not compromised over just go keep an egotistical muslims loving Israel hating president happy.
8. Is Israel, Obama's new whooo ??? operassive gangsta pimp???
robin ,   miami   (07.19.09)
9. no peace until we investigate quran and hadiths
Stan ,   Peoria   (07.19.09)
I believe that there should be no peace negotiations until we have fully investigated the quran and hadiths. Israel needs to understand the people that they are dealing with. For instance, Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 4, Number 139 says: My uncle asked Allah's Apostle (Mohammad) about a person who imagined to have passed wind during the prayer. Allah' Apostle (Mohammad) replied: "He should not leave his prayers unless he hears sound or smells something."
10. American precedents; and suicide bomber reward freeze
JPS ,   Efrat   (07.19.09)
Funny talk coming from the most famous land of settlers, the United States of America. Founded by importing settlers who moved on to native American land, killed the native Americans, and kept the land. Using the American model, we should simply move the Palestinians on to "reservations" and be done with it, no? Obviously, Israel is doing much more than America by agreeing to establish an independent Palestinian state. It's interesting to note that nobody can recall the United States making any such similar or equivalent insistent demands of the Palestinians, whose official policies still include the killing of Israeli civilians and the paying of cash rewards and lifelong pensions to the families of suicide bombers. Hey, that would be a good starting place for Clinton/Obama - to demand that the Palestinians stop paying the reward money to the families of suicide bombers. I'd agree to a housing freeze if the Palestinians actually did a reward freeze that could be verified by an independent 3rd party.
11. Obama
Ricardo Macher ,   KarneiShomron-Israel   (07.19.09)
Obama is the true face of US left, they don't want Israel to exist and they try hard! There is only one answer to this boy: "Mind your own business!"
12. Building in East Jerusalem and Hypocrisy
Aaron Schwartz ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.19.09)
All there is to say is that the USA doesn't want Israeli things to be built in Jerusalem. They clearly support the arabs in most situations these days. How come the USA has their embassy in 'arab' east Jerusalem? Wait, so it is ok for the USA or other foreign powers including 'peletinians' to build there, but the country that owns the land can't use it? How can the USA tell Israel not to do something it has done itself?
13. I think your readers should know
Lana ,   Ramat gan   (07.19.09)
That Barak Hussein Obamaa is a Moslem who has taken over America in a bloodless coup backed by the Saudi Arabians and the Gulf States who have supplied hime with the money to do his camplaign. This is why his address at Cairo was to the Muslim world and that he has come down hard on Israel. We must stand firm against America and what it stand for now which is pretty evil. Have you wondered why Hussein Obama has not supplied the American public with his birth certificate which would nullify him as President. It is because he was born in Kenya.
14. Jerusalem is Israel's eternal city. FOREVER
Lioness ,   Israel   (07.19.09)
We will not listen to Barak Insane Obama.
15. "at such a sensitive time"
Tahl ,   Ashdod, Israel   (07.19.09)
Can someone please refresh my memory - when was the last time, where it wasn't a "sensitive time" around here? When IS a good time to strengthen our sovreignty over Jerusalem?
16. tiny israel
FAJR V   (07.19.09)
tiny israel wants to be a bully, held above the law and no Justice in Palestine.
17. So why do you keep begging for
Ann   (07.19.09)
So why do you keep begging for and accepting USA aid? oh, I know, it is God's will
18. Holocaust was pretext for Israel's creation
Ian ,   Ireland   (07.19.09)
Israel's bordrs' are just as arbitrary as its "right to exist" ? No people can carve a country out of sovereign state based on delusional premises of divine entitlement.
19. Torque force on Netanyahu's arm is beginning
Nour ,   Palestine   (07.19.09)
It should continue to be applied until Israel finally gives up on its illegal grab of the Arab city of Jerusalem. This will pave way for the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its eternal heart and capital. Those who don't like this can go back to Brooklyn.
20. Tel Aviv is capital of israel. Jerusalem is Palestine's.
wael ,   Ramallah   (07.19.09)
Capicce?
21. #8 DID YOU MEAN 'HO?
Lawrence ,   Safed Israel   (07.19.09)
22. "next year in jerusalem." israel, do not submit to obama.
debra ,   usa   (07.19.09)
israel was given to the jews by Hashem. no muslim american president has the power to diminish our sacred homeland. israel is the jewish nation and not obama's! think of all the jews for centuries who prayed, "next year in jerusalem." now we have returned for good, and we will not be told by some jew obsessed usa president where we can and cannot live and build our homes and communities.
23. When Obama halts construction in settlement of California
Eitan ,   Kokav Ya'akov   (07.19.09)
Obama is turning out to be a bigger anti-Semite than Carter ever could be. The funniest part is Obama has never shown his birth certificate to prove he can even be the president of the USA. He has already proven he was muslim born and schooled. It is time the arab countries who started the 1948 war made reparations and took in the refugees from Israel like they should have done 60+ years ago!
24. Unfortunate for the USA
Mike R ,   Post Falls, USA   (07.19.09)
It is a bad time for our country. The rift between our two governments will continue to deepen until Israel stands alone against the world. Our government has become an abomination, and it's actions have and are causing our downfall. Hopefully next year when the congressional elections take place here, America will have enough sense to take back control of our government from the democrat fools/liars/criminals, and that it will not be too late.
25. United States of America belongs to Indians
Dennis ,   US   (07.19.09)
United States of America belongs to Indians. The president of the United States needs to rename the country to Indian States of America.
26. Time to boycott America until they remove their new emperor.
Nick Sporek ,   Jerusalem Israel   (07.19.09)
27. just wonder what's the policy of a
ghostq   (07.19.09)
privat land owning in the USA, cause it's American millionaire who own that lote in jerusalem, this legal catastrophe can lead to mega chaos in the USA civilian structure people in the USA will fear now from federal take overs, sound like totalitarian regim to me. y the numbskulls in the USA don't think on the implications of their blatant, bunch of infintile egomeniac. r ruining the USA civic structure the legal structur and the financial structure. damn my got help them cause they r going down.
28. It is time for sanctions, the USA will rule in the end
Jeff ,   USA   (07.19.09)
The US must stand firm and demand, and force if necessary Israel's compliance with our demands. We have the power and might to force Israel into compliance if needed, and if that is the road that must be taken, so be it. Israel must choose its own path, but it must also must accept the consequences for its actions, and in the end it will suffer dearly from the results of its poor choices. So go ahead Israel, take on the entire world on your own, but don't come crying when things do not turn out as you hoped.
29. chutzpah
former new yorker   (07.19.09)
how dare you tell a jew where he can and can not build on privately owned land!!!!
30. building in Jerusalem
rachel ,   israel   (07.19.09)
I did not know that the us goverment owned the land that is being built on. Israel is an independent nation can build and devlope where it feels the need . Who is the us goverment to object, under what act does it benifit them. ??
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