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Netanyahu caves in to US
Roni Sofer
Published: 21.03.10, 06:57
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31. Most Israelis don't agree to ANY compromise in Jerusalem
Abe ,   Hifa, Israel   (03.21.10)
Most Israelis do NOT agree to ANY compromise in Jerusalem. Compromises in the West-Bank - Yes. (at-least some). But in Jerusalem - NO! Building in Jerusalem is pretty much a consensus among the Israelis. Sorry to burst your bubble, Obama. Jerusalem is mostly Jewish for the last 3,000 years! Way before the Palestinians ever existed. The Arabs in Jerusalem have full democratic rights in Israel - so they are NOT under any kind of occupation. - Peace.
32. The booboo was a huge mistake
Max   (03.21.10)
The right was not able to compromise with each other on arcane points of doctrine. The result: another weak incompetent set of clowns - although clown Olmert had a sadder clown act, the booboo comes a close second with his weeping quivering pudding act.
33. caves in
colin   (03.21.10)
And that is all the great story of the anti israel anti semetic islamic president of the USA wanted. Give the arabs conssesions and get air-nothing -blank back This cowering groveling coward BIBI must resign immiadiately Let his go to his brother's grave and ask forgiveness for not being a true Israeli but a puppet of islam and the anti semite owamma
34. Netanyahu caves in to US
Aliza ,   Jeru, Israel   (03.21.10)
Where is Bibis' backbone??? Are we are own country or what?? What happened to doing whats best for us - does the US gov't live here?? Do they vote here?? Why is he letting them make our policies/decisions ??
35. 2009 was a good year for wine ...!
Joe   (03.21.10)
A lousy year in politics. With leaders of Netanyahu caliber, this and any other crisis will always be in the palis's favor. They are persistent, steady, no deviation as to their ultimate goal. Contrary to "Opinion's" column by Sima Kadman, we are not heading into a black hole. We are sliding into one, and are groping the walls in order to climb out of it.. No question, we had a bad year.--- not only in foreign affairs, but nothing to brag regarding our domestic fiascos,i.e. : highway slaughter, underworld and domestic slaughter, haredim uprisings ( burning, stoning, segregation-just like arabs), military service evasion, IDF's weapon warehouses (great candy stores), Govt officials splurging with the people's treasury, unwarranted domestic affairs in our PM's home. .. More ?, I am open to suggestions.
36. caving in
frank ,   israel   (03.21.10)
is it really in our best interests to consistently cave in and give up when the US says something? when will we start behaving like an independent nation with goals, aspirations and right? Bibi you are really starting to be olmert.....
37. In one hand he stopped in one side but Started in other...
Shomo Vs. Zeev   (03.21.10)
He will stop the construction for a while in Ramat Shlomo but, in the other hand he started the construction in Pisgat Zeev a few kilometers from there. In state of building in front of Beit hanina and Shuaf'at he approved the construction - and the bulldozers started the land preparation - for hundreds of units in in the wadi that separates Pizgat Zeev and fence in front of Hizme. So what is the difference? So who is "bluffing", and who is closing eyes?
38. Today Tel Aviv, Tomorrow the USA
Dav Lev ,   Burbank. CAUSA   (03.21.10)
"Still not enough", get it, "Still not enough". No compromie, no recognition, no peace..then and now. The slippery slope has begun. Israel is finished. Jews are finished. The Arab anti-Semitic worlds are tonight laughing and throwing candy. Obama Hussein came through..thanks to Hillary Fatimah Clinton, and George Mitchell Mohammad. What about the right of return? When will 4m Muslims relocate to Tel Aviv, the Galilee, Haifa, Netanya, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Dimona, etc.? When will Iran test it's first atomic bomb? Will the US protect Israel by bombing Iran's nuke sites. Today, Bibi caved in to Abbas, tomorrow to Hamas/Hez and disappear..with a wimpish cry. The March of the Living to Auschwitz will become the march of the dead..I am ashamed to be a Jew today. But there is still time..Israel can simply say, "More than enough". "We have had it". "Today we march" for greater Israel. We Jews can vote Obama out by voting Republicans in..say no to Obamacare..send him back to Ilinois. We must sick together or we and the West are lost.
39. Netanyahu...Please be strong!
Spencer ,   Israel   (03.21.10)
Bibi, please don't let us down. Don't give in to an idiot President of the USA who is still prepared to talk to Iran and who has reinstated American diplomatic relations with Syria, a country still on the USA list of countries sponsering terrorism. Hopefully this President will soon be out of office. He has done more to harm the USA than any other past President. His bowing and scraping to Islamic extremists and their supporters has brought the image of the USA to the lowest level ever.
40. My Position
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (03.21.10)
1. One state. 2. Jews can build freely and reside anywhere in the Land of Israel. That's it.
41. Cave-in
zznhl   (03.21.10)
So, we have left Gilad Shalit to languor in captivity and to disappear into the mists of time like Ron Arad, for the sake of pleasing thee, Ceaser? Shame and double shame. My Zionism is based on the theory that only Jews have the ability to look after the best interests of Jews. It seems that once again, even in our own land, we are beholden on the whims and fancies of the goy.
42. BIBIB IS OUT OF HIS DEPTH
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (03.21.10)
Sorry to have to say it,but I have said it before: Nothingyahu is not leadership material.And Livni would be a million times worse , heaven forbid.It is truly a sorry sight ,and a pitiful one at that, to see lowlife such as Hillary Clinton talk to Netanyahu as if he was something nasty they just scraped off their shoes.But they treat him like dirt for one reason .....BECAUSE THEY CAN .Bibi should resign.
43. Bibi, you wer a useless finance minister, a useless foreign
Vicky ,   Ashkelon Israel   (03.21.10)
minister and now a useless prime minister. Do what the Turks did they withdrew their Ambassador from the US, We should do the same not only from US but UN and EU too. They need our technology and help against Iran more than we do them. You're a wimp.
44. AIPAC speech will be "powerful and significant"!!
Salma ,   Palestine   (03.21.10)
If this speech will be like the one that we heard at Bar-Ilan University so Forget it
45. When
Yochanan   (03.21.10)
Israel will be free in a general sense of the word)? Next week.. Passover..
46. naive
Michael ,   Haifa   (03.21.10)
If the Americans trust Netanyahu on any agreement made by him, then they are more naive than I thought them to be. How many more times must Neyanyahu prove himself untrustworthy, before they begin to understand ?
47. Palestine will be Free, it's a matter of time any way
Palestinian   (03.21.10)
48. Mr. Netanyahu .....
Christy ,   Boston, US   (03.21.10)
Please don't cave in to anything the US administration wants if it's bad for Israel. There are US Citizens .. who do NOT make the news .. who are praying that you do what is right for Israel. Israel's safety has a LOT of supporters in the US, especially among Christians, who want YOU, and the Israeli people, to decide what's best for Israel. If this means you don't agree with the US Administration's policy ... so be it. WE BACK ISRAEL! NEVER think that Israel MUST YIELD to the US. Put your trust in The God of Israel. He will show you His Will. You have a very large number of supporters in the US, who support you when you consider what The God of Israel wants. The US doesn't count. Only the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob counts. The US and all other nations is nothing compared to Him.
49. BIBI STOP WASTING TIME OBAMA PLANS TO LET IRAN GET NUKES
zionist forever   (03.21.10)
Bibi stop allowing Obama to continue blackmailing you over Iran and don't waste money on bunker busters. Time to face facts as a result of the Obama regime policies Iran has won. Within the next couple of years if not sooner Iran will announce it has the bomb. The US will never do anything. When they talked about the last round of sanctions it was not the crippling sanctions that had originally it was watered down because to satisfy Russia. Obamas latest speech to Iran has been that his offer is still on the table. There is also no way Obama is going to let Israel do anything and Bibi won't even try. Thanks to the US operated X Band radar station in the Negev we can't even do anything in secret because the US would know as soon as the jets left Israeli airspace and Obama would be on the phone to Bibi ordering the planes to turn around. In his desire to avoid conflict with Iran Obama has accepted they will get nukes and his new solution will be let them get the things then talk them into giving them up and at the same tome ordering Israel give up its own. This is what happens when you put an Israel hating communist into the White House.
50. iindeed a reality pill at last To no 10
TAHRIR QUDS ALYAUDI   (03.21.10)
No peace whatsoever will happen between Jews and Arabs.Israel will never give Jerusalem.This land belong to us more than 3000 years. forget about you pill
51. telegraph reporting that Bibi didn't cave to any demands
jason ,   haifa israel   (03.21.10)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7482150/Benjamin-Netanyahu-rebuffs-Hillary-Clinton-demands.html He refused to cancel construction of 1,600 settler homes which lie at the heart of the crisis, offering instead to delay their construction - a proposal understood already to have been made and rejected "Netanyahu thinks that Obama has blinked, but he's wrong," the source said. "This is not over yet." Also Washington Post reported that the document Bibi gave to clinton were only suggestions. Please correct the headline.
52. Yeshiva World reporting construction as usual
jason ,   haifa israel   (03.21.10)
They are reporting business as usual as several projects have been tendered since the biden storm.
53. to 6
sara ,   jerusalem   (03.21.10)
relax friend ... you get nervouse i think the event wounded you so it is not hiss ..be controled by your selfe .. we do not need emotions but cure in such situation
54. to 10
sara ,   jerusalem   (03.21.10)
silly to put palastine in arabic as if you want to say that you are the voice of the arab palastinians no no my dear it is only your voice if you are arab palastinianor any other nationality .... evry one can write with any language but still its own openion .. sorry to tell you in arabic becouse i do not know how to tell in english -do not mix (alghath m3 alsameen ) -
55. It is time WE become independant
Lioness ,   Israel   (03.21.10)
We must make our own bunker bombs and all parts for our planes. It is time to stand on our own feet and not rely on the Americans especially Obama who as a Moslem sides with Islamc fundalmentalists. There was no big outcry when a rocket killed a worker here in israel and four more rockets were fired yesterday.
56. Smart Move
Steve ,   Berkeley, CA, USA   (03.21.10)
It costs nothing to agree to discuss core issues especially when an agreement with Palestinians is highly unlikely, a delay in East Jerusalem construction is not the same as stopping construction, and the deal Netanyahu may get for this is more bunker busting bombs from the US to be used in Iran.
57. To # 47
Lioness ,   Israel   (03.21.10)
Most Palestinians are free and they live in the Jordanian State of Palestine which occupies 78% of the Mandate (Eastern Palestine) and 77% of the population are Palestinian. Palestinians should reclaim Jordan as their homeland. End of story!
58. Caved in? Not for long.
Danny M ,   Vancouver, Canada   (03.21.10)
The Qassams will fly again, the blockade will be back in place again, construction of Jewish housing in East Jerusalem will resume again and they'll be back at square one...again. The more things change...
59. BIBI won't bow to CHURL (Isaiah 32)
Len Aaron ,   Destin, FL - USSA?   (03.21.10)
A Radical Islamic Indonesian Citizen & Illegitimate US Prez? The Churl may in-fact crush America, but not BIBI, Israel, or split the proverbial baby: JERUSALEM. BIBI understands the Everlasting Covenant very well... The Almighty doesn't have to check with Barack Obama aka/Barry Soetoro or the UNpeace Crafty Council to Arise and fight for his Holy City & Capital with great jealousy like a man of war. Those who bless Israel are blessed. Those who curse Israel are cursed. Where's America now? On the side of freedom or terrorists? PSALM 83 WAR & ISAIAH 17......
60. Report is wrong telegraph reporting bibi rejected Clinton
jason ,   haifa israel   (03.21.10)
Bibi has said there will be no prisoner releases as gestures. All he agreed to is have direct talks with abbas instead of having u.s there. He wants to talk about security issues with abbas. Bibi gave suggestions to clinton no committments and telegraph said bibi said israel would keep building in jerusalem. He rejected Clinton's demands and made no committments and he only made suggestions which were different than clinton' This is the washington post saying bibi made no committment to clinton's demands on prisoners and it won't happen because bibi has said there will be no prisoner release gestures like olmert who relesased so many prisoners and was even about to release 700 more before shalit kidnapping. Telegraph is reporting that obama is pissed and that is why there is no meeting with obama and that the issue still isn't over with for Obama.
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