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US wants Israel to clarify building plan
Yitzhak Benhorin and AP
Published: 24.03.10, 18:35
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1. Go Bibi Go, don't cave to Hussain, he is...
Eyal ,   USA   (03.24.10)
another Arab appeaser. Stand strong, you have mine and 10 people around me who believe in you. Go Bibi Go.
2. We coiuld have an agreement
Lioness ,   Israel   (03.24.10)
Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel it has been for 3000 years and Washington is the capital of the USA for several hundred years. Perhaps Hussein Obama could freeze building in Washington. If anyone stole land from another race it is the Americans who stole America from the Indians!
3. Obama and the Saudis now in lockstep
Chatich   (03.24.10)
in both policy and rhetoric. Jewish apartments in Yerushalaim are "provocative" and "destructive to the peace process". Palestinian rockets, rioting, throwing stones at passing cars, incitement, honoring of mass murderers - these are not a problem. Bibi, it's time to tell the looters, the worshippers of zero, of the obama administration that we WILL NOT cede one inch of our medina, our am, to the Islamic purveyors of death and terror. It's high time obama and his henchmen learn the truth, once and for all: "palestine" is jordan. Full stop.
4. bibi
alexi   (03.24.10)
Look, meet with beaurocrats running housing. Tell them to shut up or they 'll be fired and sued. Shut them up. There is also a possibility that kadima or haaretz are leaking. Shut the leaks. On the other hand, you do not have to answer to hussein obama on housing. If he persists, ask him to justify settlements in washington. Obama wants peace but he is wrong on this because he is simply advocating for abbas.
5. the sooner israel faces reality the better.EJ is PA
Ezra ,   London   (03.24.10)
you can have WJ as your capital or the whole city goes under UN jurisdiction. you can have your rightful share or bugger all
6. US insults Israel meddling i internal trivial matters
bernard ross ,   st anns bay jamaica   (03.24.10)
US is now going to look at Israels building plans. their money is not worth it. China will buy Israel military equipments.
7. Jerusalem - Israel's eternal Capital
Spencer ,   Israel   (03.24.10)
Who the hell does Barak HUSSEIN Obama and his adminstration think they are? They better get used to the idea that Jerusalem is the UNDIVIDED Capital of Israel and that we will build wherever we want to. They will not dictate where and when we can build in our own Capital.When Obama was desperately trying to woo the Jewish vote it was he who said that Jerusalem was and always would be the undivided Capital....but that, it appears, was just to garner votes. Only since Israel regained control of the whole of Jerusalem has there been freedom to worship for ALL religions, Jewish, Christian and Muslim...and only since then has the regular desecration of graves by Muslims ceased.
8. Jerusalem our 3000 year old capital
Lioness ,   Israel   (03.24.10)
Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE two thousand years before the rise of Islam. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years. For 3300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scripture. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs to Jerusalem. Arab and Jewish refugees. In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left withouut ever seeing an Israeli soldier. brutality, persecution and pogroms. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish reugees from Arab landsis estimated to be the same The PLO Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desegrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Jewish rule, all Muslim and Christians sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. The UN was silent while Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetary on the Mount of Olives The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an aparteid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and Western wall. Jerusalem will remain Israel's undivided capital for eternity!
9. Oh, sure
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.24.10)
I think Israel should get right on this -- just as soon as Obama clarifies to Jerusalem the United States' building plans in Anacostia. Israel is a sovereign state. Like all sovereign states, it does not need international permission to exercise a right of eminent domain. Mr. Netanyahu would be well within his rights to tell the United States government to shove it. And if the Arabs living in East Jerusalem don't like it, they are free to leave at any time.
10. Which part of "we will continue building in Jerusalem"
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & New York   (03.24.10)
Which part of "we will continue building in Jerusalem" are they not getting? We will not let the city be split again. The Berlin wall came down and rejoined the city again why would we allow the opposite to Jerusalem?
11. Unfair Preasure
Richard ,   United States   (03.24.10)
The time has come for the United States to make a choice between a true friend or a Two face one The United States has no right to get involed in Israel policy making. How would you like for Israel to tell the truth about The President of the United States, it would bring down the goverment. But Israel wouldn't do that. That the difference between a good friend and two face one.The United States has lost its way, will it find it only god knows that answer.
12. From Community Organizer to Zoning Commissioner
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (03.24.10)
Quite a career trajectory we're seeing here. From community organizer and lawyer to senator to president to Jerusalem's zoning commissioner. In all my many years I've never seen such wooden-headedness on the part of a US administration. I'm sure Bibi must be fighting the urge to say, "Mr. President, I didn't come here to talk about apartment houses."
13. If Jerusalem is our undivided capitol
Shmulik ,   Arad   (03.24.10)
Why do Jews and Israelis succumb to the lies of the leftist media and refer to one section as East Jerusalem? Why does the world refer to Ramat Shlomo as east Jerusalem when in FACT Ramat Shlomo is a NORTHERN neighborhood We must stop being condescending and stop the use of this leftist lexicon of East Jerusalem, West Bank, and even of the made up term for the conglomerate of Arabs from all the arab countries who came here in the early 1920s and squatted on Jewish land and stop calling them Palestinians. As they say in Arabic Mafeesh Falisteen. There were no Arabs here when the Romans renamed Israel Palestine!
14. Thank you Bibi, stand up for Jerusalem
Joseph ,   Atlanta   (03.24.10)
15. peace now
marcel   (03.24.10)
peac now can drop dead and I mean it. Israel has been trying to make peace for years but the arabs are only quiet after they lose in war. They don't want peace and they don't want a state. They want israel dead, they want new york attacked and then they'll dance with the blood of goats on their hands while hamas decapitates fayad and abbas.
16. Israel needs ONE answer / explanation from US & EU
Harry Wright ,   UK   (03.24.10)
Does Obama and the EU intend to carve up Jerusalem, the capital of Israel? He should give a STRAIGHT answer to the world so we can ALL understand that this is the true reason why he is bludgeoning Israel. This has NOTHING to do with re-starting talks because talks went on in the past without all this confusion. Obama is deliberately using this as an excuse because he intends to extort and give away half of Israel's capital. That is the bottom line. Netanyahu can listen politely to Obama's rantings and lobbying for the Arabs but the core of the issue is: Obama wants to carve up Jerusalem vs Israel wants to hold on to its capital. This is pure intimidation and extortion - nothing more, nothing less.
17. To: No. 5
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.24.10)
What on earth are you babbling about? In June of 1967, Jordan attacked Israel. Israel prevailed. It is a very long and well-documented fact that if a nation fighting a defensive war acquires territory in the course of fighting said defensive engagement, they have an absolute right to retain the territory. That would apply to East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed, in any event. Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital city of the sovereign state of Israel. Don't like it? Too damn bad.
18. #7
(03.24.10)
if this is your solution, then the only way for Muslim is to fight. Hence 99% of believers are willing to give their life for this place. it is just a matter of time
19. China doesnt care about anyUS Cr@p-Develop economy+weapons
Alan ,   SA   (03.24.10)
with Red China ..... Speaking from my African experience,Red China isnt worried about anything except China.They will be delighted to develop any technologies with Israel .Same probably for a few other countries.Maybe India . Africa supplies much of their raw materials and Israel is held in high esteem there . They have PLENTY money and would be ammenable,I feel Opportunities with them to produce any and every type of weaponry
20. "WH demands..."? We need US permission? Arrogance!
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (03.24.10)
Say no. period.
21. why in the 1960s in the U.S. African americans were
michael   (03.24.10)
segregated from living with whites there were separate water fountains etc.. that was properly called discrimination. yet its Ironic that the first African American President has no problem having Jews restricted and forbidden to live with arabs. why? I would have thougt he would be sensitive to that fact. I guess prejudice people come in all shapes and colors and doesn't depend on one's skin.
22. Time has come!
Ricardo Macher ,   Karnei Shomron IL   (03.24.10)
Now is the moment that we have to decide if we will live on our knees asking permission for everything while they slowly destroy us and Israel or we stand up and declare that we are ready to die for our country! The guettho mentality is part of the past, we have only one friend, and he has always been with us. Forget arrogant north americans! They will pass like Egypt and others!
23. Right-wing talkbackers
Michael ,   Haifa   (03.24.10)
You are big on bravado when it comes to talking here on YNET, but now that sanctions are on the horizon, we'll see what the average Israeli has to say when he gets hit in the pocket. Even the idiot Netanyahu is more aware of that than the blah-blah-blah talkbackers
24. is this really about houses?
Ruby ,   Johannesburg RSA   (03.24.10)
What is really going on?? Might this be a tactic of Obama and Netanyahu to seduce Abbas into talking peace again? If the land of EJ really belongs to the PA they will inherit the houses as well. Why the big drama?
25. #5, condescending British wanker..
Jake ,   USA   (03.24.10)
The abominable UN flag never fly over Jerusalem. Arabs are the ones who aren't facing reality. Israel could wipe them out in one day if they wanted to.
26. Jerusaelm is our capital
Salma ,   Palestine   (03.24.10)
27. # 25
Leah ,   Israel   (03.24.10)
Aman is the capital of Palestine!
28. Like #1 Go Bibi.
Ordinary Zionist ,   Israel   (03.24.10)
29. # 25. How aptly put.
Ordinary Zionist ,   Israel   (03.24.10)
30. Clarify? MAYBE after US moves its embassy to Yerushalayim!
Paqid Yirmeyahu ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (03.24.10)
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