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Russia, France join call to freeze east Jerusalem construction
Roni Sofer and AFP
Published: 21.07.09, 18:17
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1. Russia should stop building in Kunashir and Shikotan
Jake   (07.21.09)
islands, which are Japanese sovereign territory according to all international agreements, and have been occupied by USSR and Russia since 1945.
2. Which is more destructive? Iran's atomic bomb or Israel's
appartment buildings ,   NY USA   (07.21.09)
3. TIME TO BOYCOTT ALL FRENCH AND RUSSIAN PRODUCTS AGAIN
..............DACON9   (07.21.09)
THE ARABS ARE MASTERS OF LIES. WHO EVER COMPLAINS/LIES FIRST IS THE HONEST ONE... SO ARABS PUT IN THEIR CLAIM ABOUT ANYTHING, EVEN **BEFORE** THE ARABS CREATE THE PROBLEMS.
4. The US, Russia, Europe and China...
Marco ,   Spain   (07.21.09)
Call for a freeze on Jewish construction in East Jerusalem. Israel is a rogue state that needs to be put in place by the international community.
5. BUT FIRST... STOP THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN ANTISEMITISM!
stude ham   (07.21.09)
for which france and russia are notorious. as for the so called road map... how're things in chechnyiah and other parts of your territories... ??? hypocrites!!!
6. How happy France and Russia must be!
Dan ,   USA   (07.21.09)
They have no other problems to worry about except 20 apartment units in a city not under their jurisdiction, that has no borders with them, makes no threat against them. I would guess this international crisis is based on a land area that is less than 1 city block. Obviously France and Russia are once again paradises to live in since there does not seem to be anything else to worry about there.
7. Germany offers the Jews an existential choice - again...
Steve Klein   (07.21.09)
Ruprecht Polenz, the head of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee in Germany, was quoted as saying, 'If Israel did not stop building settlements it ran the risk "of gradually committing suicide as a democratic state".' Thus we face a choice. Committing suicide as a democratic state or committing suicide as a Jewish state. Which is it? Isn't it time we put an end to all this nonsense? The Cabinet should summarily annul the Bush / Saudi road map "plan" that the Sharon Cabinet ill-advisedly accepted with reservations which were not accepted by the Bush administration. This is a plan, not a treaty. Annul the bad plan. Stop this haggling about where Jews can build and not build; where Jews can live and where we cannot live.
8. Keep Building - this is none of their business
GZLives   (07.21.09)
9. anyone who knows or remembers
Bernie ,   formerly of Seattle   (07.21.09)
The Shepard Hotel sits on the road leading to The Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University Mt. Scopus Campus. To deny Jews to live there will once again place us in the situation we were in prior to 1967 where in order to supply these Institutions armed convoys had to be used and they were constantly attacked. Let Obama give back all lands to the Indians,before he makes his foolish ignorant demands. If there was such a people as Palestinians why didn't they have a country before 1967? Why were they all Jordanian Citizens? Why did they not seek their own country back then? Why did they make war on us? Obama has his plate full proving that he is a born citizen of the USA, his socialist health care program to ram down the throats of Americans, his failed economy etc. let him leave us alone! Leave us out ow his New World Order and One world Government thank you very much!
10. For once, let us step back....
Moshe ,   Israel   (07.21.09)
take a deep breath and think: Could we be wrong? Could the world be right?
11. #3 DACON9
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (07.21.09)
OK, so we boycott France, Russia and may be the US, China, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Venzuela, the U.K, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland..........Hey wait a minute, how about if we list those countries that we should not boycott. We should not boycott Israel and uh... ah.... eh....um..... well lets not boycott Israel and to hell with everyone else, ok?
12. I support this demands for an end of construction
zionist forever   (07.21.09)
I order France, Russia, Germany and the US to end all construction projects in Paris, Moscow, Berlin and Washington. I believe the palestinians are entitled to have their capital in any of these cities if they wish it. Up until the muslim prophet Obama & Saudi puppet president came along the europeans didnt say much about Jerusalem and concentrated on Judea & Samaria now they have him to lead they all follow blindly. Israel declared Jerusalem as its capuital it doesn't matter if they recognise it as that or not fact is that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. The palestinians WANT it but they havn't been GIVEN it. Until the situation on the ground changes then Israel has as much right as they do to build in its capitlal if they see that as a problem then we should say we don't recognise Paris or Berlin as capitals and inist they stop building there.
13. Russia and France and England
Ilana   (07.21.09)
show total hypocrisy! Especially Russia!! It its like a smoking dad telling his kid to immediately stop smoking. Jerusalem is ours forever.
14. How about....
David ,   Tel Aviv   (07.21.09)
The US gives Alaska to Canada, Russia gives up Chechniah, France surrenders Paris to the Arab youth, and Germany keeps it's mouth shut... If all of them fall inline, maybe Israel would consider stopping E.Jerusalem construction.
15. Marco #4
David ,   Tel Aviv   (07.21.09)
Why doesn't Spain give the Basque/ETA there own land? Oh yah, there a bunch of terrorists right, not freedom fights like the palis! Keep up with your BS.....
16. so much for russia
alexi   (07.21.09)
Russia is exactly like old soviet-oil and guns and to hell with everything else. They only soften their language when their moslem citizens unleash terror and putin has to look at the number of moslems and their birth rate. Lieberman thought he had putin's ear;rather he is more like putin's ass. Olmert stupidly gave putin property in jeruslame to buy him off. It didn't work, olmert is a shmuck and the s-300 is on its way to iran,you dumbbells. And israel should not be selling any high technology-drone technology to russia. Slow it down and bury it in administrative mud. Russian cannot replace the US, no way, no how.Israel, in the meantime, stock up on reserves, reduce your dependence on oil and increase your ammo stocks.
17. DACON9
Baron ,   Canada   (07.21.09)
You'll still have Fiji and the Marshal islands !!!!
18. # 5 stop antisemitisim ??
Baron   (07.21.09)
When israelis start to act as normal human beings, antisemitism will be no more. A little humility you little hypocrite buffooon
19. # 14
Baron   (07.21.09)
Dream on baby ... dream on. arrogance made empires collapse.. and your arrogance will destroy you sooner than later. Dummy
20. SARAH, TOUGH WEEK FOR YA?
........DACON9   (07.21.09)
TELL YA DIS LADY I WOULD BOYCOTT YOU..... WITH LOVE, DACON9
21. Nations BETRAY ANTI-COMMUNIST Honduras & Jewish Israel
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.21.09)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS US turns up pressure on Honduras coup government By MARK STEVENSON (AP) – July 20, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called interim President Roberto Micheletti to say there would be serious consequences if his government ignores international mediation for Zelaya's return. Honduran business leaders, meanwhile, say U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens has called them into meetings to warn that Honduras — impoverished and highly dependent on exports to the United States — could face tough sanctions if the interim government continues to refuse Arias' compromise proposal for Zelaya to return as head of a coalition government. The European Union added to the pressure on Monday by announcing it was suspending $93.1 million (65.5 million euros) in aid to Honduras. The United Nations and Organization of American States have called for the return of Zelaya, who was arrested and hustled out of the country by the army on June 28. But Micheletti vowed not to stand down — and implied that the United States is betraying one of its staunchest allies. Honduras allowed its territory to be used as a staging area for U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua during the 1980s, and more recently it sent troops to Iraq. ""One learns in life that people who seem to be friends are not really friends. He vowed to stay in power until the scheduled Nov. 29 elections. The United States has suggested it may not recognize that vote because it will be held under a de facto government. Zelaya has aligned himself with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. On July 8, the U.S. government announced it had suspended $16.5 million in military aid, and had placed a hold on development aid expected to total about $180 million. But it has not yet threatened to cut off trade or remittances, a move which analysts say could quickly bring down Honduras' economy. "The U.S. could make this be over in a second if it imposed strong sanctions," said Mark Jones, a professor of political science at Rice University. "But in doing so it would hurt the poor, it would hurt our allies." Adolfo Facusse, the head of Honduras' National Association of Industries, was defiant: "We prefer sanctions to Zelaya's return," which he said would bring the "loss of liberty, dictatorship, communism." Zelaya angered many here by ignoring the objections of the courts and Congress to try to hold a referendum on changing the constitution, which many saw as an attempt to impose a Chavez-style socialist government. Bulnes said the damage to Honduras' image since Zelaya's ouster had already hurt the country's tourism, hotel and restaurant industries. Seventy percent of Hondurans live in poverty and the per capita gross domestic product is just under $4,000 per year. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAkMGKIUDg_ngUiZboxQbYj5_DPwD99ICUP80
22. PUNISHED for Being ANTI-COMMUNIST. PUNISHED for Being JEWISH
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.21.09)
It is most ominous that the U.S. and the nations, are condemning and punishing the peaceful, freedom-loving people of Honduras for their refusal to accept communism. Honduras, NEVER give up the fight for freedom! Is this hostile act against tiny, courageous Honduras a prelude of what is planned for America and the nations? Is it planned that America and the nations will become communist? The DEATH of FREEDOM: Obama's Civilian National Security Force Obama promised change. The End of America as we know it: Obama: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y GLOBAL JIHAD'S BIGGEST VICTORY - Non Muslim nations, US/EU teamed up with Islamic nations - demand vulnerable little Israel surrender half her Holy Land to Muslims bent on Jewish genocide-70% of PA Muslims support savage suicide bombings of Jewish innocents. The Free World is in a fight for her survival! Israel, stand strong! NEVER give up the fight for freedom! NEVER surrender to the global jihad onslaught! Not one inch of Land to barbaric, implacable enemies! NEVER agree to vicious and evil ethnic Jew cleansing!
23. Israel, build!!!
Steven ,   San Francisco   (07.21.09)
Build your country, Israel!!! Don't let the anti-Semites stand in your way. Build a united Jerusalem!!
24. THERE IS NO "EAST" JERUSALEM, JUST JERUSALEM
usa   (07.21.09)
Just because Arabs live in "East" Jerusalem doesn't make that part of Jerusalem "Palestinian." Jordan gave up its influence in the city when they attacked Israel and subsequently fled during the Six Days War. The city was reunified over 40 YEARS AGO. The notion that Jerusalem is still subject to some sort of UN mandate is ancient history. Muslims need to GET OVER their tribal mentality of land=dignity. France, EU and RUSSIA need to stop appeasing the this mentality and take a good look in the mirror before they invoke the sacred cow of "international law." The prime minister of Israel has declared his country's intentions for the development and sovereignty of Jerusalem quite clearly, and no other foreign body has the authority to intervene.
25. #4 - Illigitimate occupiers
Nour ,   Happy in Arabia   (07.21.09)
of Basque country, Catalunia, Andalusia, Seuta & Mellila - murderers and rapists of Americas must be brought to justice.
26. Russia, France join call to freeze east Jerusalem constructi
alex ,   ashkelon israel   (07.21.09)
why the whole world stop all their important business and watching what are we doing?.
27. Who cares, ignore them
Yerushalmi ,   Jerusalem   (07.21.09)
Just keep building. Let them complain. And if you want to shut them up about this project, just start another one. Their attention will turn to that one. And after few months start another one. They always complain only about the latest building project, but after few years, they forget about all the others.
28. about marco
Timothy   (07.21.09)
someone said to just ignore him. He seems kinda rough and such, gets kicks of getting you guys annoyed at his obvious attempts to annoy. Brush him off like a speck a dirt! Long Live Israel! Christians for Israel!
29. didnt exprect france & germany to be so....
jerusalem   (07.21.09)
un-french/german lately. well anyway lets see what comes out of this. since when does IL listen to any external parties when it comes to its politics; and neither is this new. i wonder why all of a sudden there is commotion. show us your "true" (though isnt new) face IL ;]
30. Russia, France join call to freeze east Jerusalem constructi
Goyim   (07.21.09)
It is a shame that at this same time Russia is increasinf its support for iran while the US is distancing itself from Israel. The Lord will deliver israel according to Ezekiel 38 and 39. Israel be strong. We are praying for you, we are standing with you!
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