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US 'dismayed' at Gilo expansion approval
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 17.11.09, 21:10
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1. Build them already.
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (11.17.09)
What's stopping the advancement of society.....Arabs not being favorable to Jews? Get on with it.
2. A future of unilateralism...the future looks bloody.
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3. We don't ask Obama not to build in North West D.C. nor do we
Shalom Asherov ,   Mevaseret Zion   (11.17.09)
tell him who should or shouldn't live there. We expect that the US will not tell us whether to build or not to build in our capital city of Jerusalem and who should or shouldn't live here. Actually, Jews have lived longer in Jerusalem than whites and blacks in Washington, DC.
4. hey obama!
OZ   (11.17.09)
you ain't our mama! so p***off!
5. Not a single example of any city serving as "shared capitol"
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (11.17.09)
I challenge anyone to name a single city anywhere that served as a "shared capitol" of two countries. Yet fools today think it's an obvious solution when applied to Jerusalem. I earned two degrees in political science, and I can assure you a lot of nonsense comes up in political seminars. Only where Israel is concerned does one find people eager to put those ideas into effect.
6. US 'dismayed'; "The foreign secretary has been very clear th
Elyah ,   Los Angeles USA   (11.17.09)
Can someone from th isreali governmet(netanyahu, barak and lieberman) tell the us president and the british foreign secretary that jerusalem is the eternal undivided capital of the state of isreal! should the palestinian arabs get a state, they can have ramalla as its capital!
7. Ignore the Muslim in the WH, Iran does the same
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (11.17.09)
with no consequences As B. Hussein puts Israel at peril with his approach to Iran, Israel must do what is good for Israel and not bow to the closet Muslim pretending to be American President
8. U.S. dismayed?
Brod ,   USA   (11.17.09)
Judeo-Christian America supports Israel. Only the Obama AntiSemite administration will be dismayed because Obama has cowed to Islam and bowed to the Saudi Wahhabhist Chieftain whose Saudi thugs attacked America and murdered 3000 Americans in cold blood on 9/11. It is time the Media exposes the Obama adminstration and the dark forces.
9. And obama wonders why israelis have low regard
Israeli   (11.17.09)
This administration just doesn't get it. We are used to hearing from the insolent British who once forcefully kept Jews at bay from their own homeland - the epitome of imperial arrogance. Jews escaping from the boilers of Germany died at sea trying to come to Israel. Do you not get it?? This administration will achieve nothing if it does not understand this dynamic, the fundamental right of Jews to settle in their own homeland. No empire and no superpower, nor our arab neighbors, can impose their will. Look at a map, and study a bit of history, all roads point to Jordan for answers, the palestinian state appointed for palestinian arabs, israel for palestinian jews.
10. Stupid Palestinians/Lazy Israelis
(11.17.09)
Maybe if the Palestinians the Israeli contractors hire to build all these settlements stop taking the contracts the settlements will stop, as the Israelis are too lazy to build their own homes. Ironically, that';s probably the only way to stop settlement expansion. Palestinians are allowed to build Jewish homes on their soil, but they can't build their own, lest they be torn down, as they can't get permits in Jewish only segregated Gilo...what a sick and twisted place.
11. #5
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Present day Rome
12. Go Pound Sand Obama
David ,   Montpelier USA   (11.17.09)
Tell Obama to go pound sand. Gilo is a Jewish neighborhood and is part of Israel. What a joke!
13. Let Palestinians eat Cake
usa   (11.17.09)
Obama is a weak leader, no reason why Netanyahu should be like him.
14. NO SUCH THING AS "west bank"! Its called Judea and Samaria!
thanks   (11.17.09)
NO SUCH THING AS "west bank"! Its called Judea and Samaria!
15.  For Goodness sakes this is "SECULAR"
Roland Seener ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (11.17.09)
Israel intends to equate all its citizens in like manner.If this is not so,it risks being called a religious racialistic state.Go to any hospital,or social service office and you will see a fair amount of personnel of either Jewish or Moslem faith.If they can work together in a well behaved manner,there should be no reason why they cannot live together I CANNOT MAKE MYSELF CLEARER THAN THAT AND NEITHER CAN THE ISRAELI GOVT
16. Brave ISRAELI Whistleblower Hunted down in L.A. by SWAT Team
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (11.17.09)
Where is Moshe now? International Medical Veritas Association On August 12 Israeli bioscientist Joseph Moshe called the studio of Dr. A. True Ott after a radio talk program. He claimed that tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines were being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions and said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine. He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death. The next day his standoff with Los Angeles police was televised live. http://imva.info/index.php/2009/11/imva-emergency-alert/#arrive Plague Released on Purpose? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtMznUZIt00 In what was once the land of the free, telling the truth-warning the public makes you an enemy of the New World Order State.
17. #11
israeli   (11.17.09)
i think what you are getting at is the vatican and its status? OK, jordan has fulfilled this role, with responsibilities over the muslim holy sites. Actually now that i think of it - that's it!! build a vatican like compound in east jerusalem for muslim sites in all of palestine, consolidate palestinian arabs to jordan and transfer power away from royalty to the majority palestinians, with security controls and lots of prayer. Relaunch Arab Republic of Palestine east of Jordan. DONE.
18. land promised to Abraham's seed, not seeds
believer   (11.17.09)
LORD appeared unto Abraham, and said, Unto your seed will I give this land. Ishmael will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. That seed is the One logically singled out; Ismael.
19. if the US doesn't like it they can stuff it
Ruri   (11.17.09)
they can find other allies: China, Russia - good luck with that.
20. # 18
MK ,   Stamford, CT   (11.17.09)
Yes, L-RD did promise the land to Abraham by saying unto your seed will I give this land. However the SAME L-RD also declared that Abraham's seed will be reconned from ISAAC and NOT ISMAEL (...ki bi Yitzchak yekore lecho zera!!!)
21. Jerusalem has never been the capital city of any people or
Dalia ,   Tel-Aviv, Israel   (11.17.09)
state but that of the Jewish people, and that for the past 3,000 years. To ask us, Jews, not to live in parts of it only because we are Jewish is an attempt to import racism into our country. We have no interest in allowing such anti-Jewish racism or any other form of racism enter through our ports.
22. IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL CERTAINLY COME.
USA   (11.17.09)
Building homes more effective than droping bombs. The best thing Israel can do is to build, build and conintue to f....g build. The entire foreign policy of Israel should be to build homes for it's people. Build baby build. You want to piss off your enemies and make them boil over and blow themselves up, build homes, you want to counter Hezbollah's smuggling rockets from Iran which nobody give s...t about, build homes. Iran is building nukes, nobody gives a damn about, so BUILD houses.
23. Perfect Timing
Tom ,   USA   (11.18.09)
I'm not really informed on this issue, but as far as I'm concerned, and I supposed the rest of the world, Israel's decisions are based on principle. Are those settlers homeless that they have move and build over these territories? And now, at the worst timing possible? Isn't the US Israel's best ally? Why sever the relationship over something so silly. I can understand why this is an issue with Jerusalem, but the West Bank? Who the hell cares?! It is really worth it? Someone educate me.
24. Retraction
Tom ,   USA   (11.18.09)
I didn't realize this place was even remotely associated with Jerusalem. Ignore.
25. IF ARABS BUILDING JEWS ARE BUILDING
Minutman ,   Los Angeles, USA   (11.18.09)
As long as arabs are keep building in all parts of Old Palestine, Jews should keep building. The Arabs refused to reconcognize the right of the Jews in the land of the Jews for last 100 years, which not connected to constructing any building.
26. US "dismayed" at Gilo expansion approval
Mac in Virginia ,   Woodbridge   (11.18.09)
I am a Christian American and I, like many of us, are absolutely "dismayed" at the attitude our president has taken toward Israel. The idea of sharing a capital is ludicrous and would not even be suggested to any other country except Israel. Israel, there are many, many Americans who fully support you and we will not sit by quietly while our government tries to force you to accept a false peace plan that will lead to your descruction.
27. Screw Obama... It's build, build, build....
Arthur ,   SF, CA   (11.18.09)
28. Keep building those settlements, Bibi
imafreeagent   (11.18.09)
That way, the childen of those settlers can intermarry with their Palestinian friends and it will all be for the good.
29. MR. OBAMA READ THIS MATE !
Joel ,   Montreal, Quebec   (11.18.09)
Give back to the Indians what lands you stole from them, Canada you can give back to the Indians what lands you too have stole from them. Russia too and Turkey and England and ...i need help here who else stole lands from other people? Israel was / is attacked all the time so why give away what is hers?
30. #29 - Stolen land
imafreeagent ,   Florida   (11.18.09)
Give back to the Indians what lands you stole from them, Canada you can give back to the Indians what lands you too have stole from them. Russia too and Turkey and England and ...i need help here who else stole lands from other people? Israel was / is attacked all the time so why give away what is hers? ** If stolen land should be returned, then Israel should give back the land she's stolen.
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