The people who lived on the land during the Ottoman Empire and under the British Mandate over Palestine are PALESTINIANS Palestinians UNLIKE Israelis have been in existence long before the formation of the Jewish State c1948. 'Incentives' like ransoms are equally abhorrent and are illegal. No criminal ought to be rewarded for his criminality even if it is the Israeli Mafia.

Geneva Convention Art. of War #55 UNSC 446,452,465 says you talk BS Your "preemptive defense strike" its either defensive one preemptive, one or the other for it can't be both. Hard concept for simple minds to follow, so let use an example. You cant thump your opponent in a ring before the bill rings or you forfeit the match.

Time for President Obama to toss aside the carrot and pick up a big stick in his dealings with Netanyahu. Rather than list what we will give away to Israel, Obama should be listing all the things that we will be taking away should Israel not comply with US wishes.

Naked greed. The Americans are getting their fill of you. Even their politicians are grumbling amongst themselves. And the people's eyes are opening. Read their blogs and websites. They are way ahead of the curve when it comes to knowing what a den of thieves your government has become.

You are bunch of cheap deadbeats. Put your settlers somewhere in Israel (where the moon don't shine) and pickup the damned tab yourselves.

The US is not a territory of Israel, nor are most of us Jewish. Time for us to send a letter with OUR conditions: No more breaches of International Law, no more US support on UN resolutions with which we do not agree, no more arms deliveries while Israel occupies and refuses to recognize Palestine, and no more checks while there are checkpoints that do not treat Palestinians and Israelis equally.

Bush and the State Department made promises to Israel that the USA (Obama) refuses to honor in exchange for Gaza withdrawal that out Hamas on Israel's border.I..Is Israel (Bibi) going to trade settlement freeze AGAIN for Obama's promises. The President doesn't even keep his domestic guarantees.

If US guarantees that it will back that no Palestinian refugee return to Israel as part of peace agreement then it will freeze building for 2 months. This plus billions in weapons and military fuel is a great deal for Israel. This is a crazy deal for any US President to offer but Bush had already done it afew years ago.

Israel has a strong army and US support in UN but US need for Muslim support in ME is starting to cause problems. China and India are slowly becoming world powers and the Muslim counties are needed for the West to keep them in check.

this 'country' is sooo insaciable, one of the first world economics want incentives from most indebted country of the world... till when are we going to accept this behaviour?...

There is a ''collective'' blindness in the USA... you are one of the few who is just opening your eyes!

With the rest of his Jews brethren if he pursues in his way,dan Titusville has not read the article with care,that Bennt Begin and Ayalon have become TURNCOATS agreeing on extending the freeze, Rachel's being suspicous has merit, Sarah B as usual has the finger on the GOOD AND ISRAEL LOVING DEFENDING telling the doofus james to get off his high horse (the fool),Steven in San Fran' saying tis is NOT LIKUD (he is right). As for myself:I am absolutely disgusted,and cannot believe what I just read--especially coming from Ayalon.(have I missed something alomg the way or what)?.I will reoread it again because I cannot come to terms with it. As for myself I AM DISGUSTED,troubled

YOU HAVE BEEN TRYING IT ON WITH YOUR ONE LINERS HERE AND AT HAARETZ (especially at Haaretz)that no one EVER responds to you.Here they are =,but since you have nothing worthy to impart,you are just an irrelevance.Sick of mind and spirit too.Or have you perhaps converted to Islam?if so,the name you bear YOU HAVE is forfeit. We'll call you BEN MUHAMMED. What a miserable fool. By the way,if any Israeli Jews perish,you will be next in line remember that.Living where you are makes you NOT immune. I wish you horrible nightmares,everynight when you squirm in your bed. Sincerely meant.God how I loath you! Sorry people but that piece of shit makes my blood boil.Oh and knowing it he derives a SICK feeling undoubtedly .Hey,whoever asked him to go to Israel please DON'T Israel dies NOT needs his likes EVER.

Hey boyo make up your mind you either accept Sarah B''s admirable comment or you stop being mealy mouthed by ending with hypocriticaly as Israel loving none Jew. Better one thing or another. You cannotbe both.criticising, and sort of curious bloody foolish ?? Words fail me. Hey,This is a Jewish news outlet.You want to visit it fine.But just try and be more honest and NOT HYPOCRITE..

Please desist in yiour hypocrisy Your denigrating @11 is nothing but hate by you and yours and jealousy.Sarah B is a good Jew and patritotic. You? Are nothing but a HYPOCRITE while trolling at Ynet out of curiosity trying to dig into the affairs that DO NOT CONCERN YOU, Methinks your last line belies the insincerity. Now you can go to hell and get out of this Israeli /Jewish news outlet. My suspission is if I mistake me not..you may well be the Mikewho posts at Haaretz. The trolls do tend avidlly to perambulate on all the Israeli sites. Geez why are you so obsessed with only Israel when we have so many problems on the home front that should interest you more? Next time,you can dispense with : Long live Israel .Excuse me but you are laughable and a buffoon .

At the end of the day, always the same pattern.

The buck stops with the Quisling Prime Minister Netanyahu. Those who attempt to redirect the responsibility and blame to the Defeatist Minister,Agent of a Foreign government Ehud BARAK are saying that Netanyahu is a weak,useless,empty suit who does not deserve to rule ISRAEL because a loser like Barak is trampling Netanyahu's office with ease.

Why is it that when Israel ATTACKS its neighbours, you call it defense? In 1967, Israel was facing defeat, as you well remember, until the US came to the rescue with arms, amunition, and expertise-otherwise you would not have a holiday home to go to. I read a reply in another rag where it was stated "I am starting to believe that the only way to peace in the ME, is the total destruction of Israel." I agree, and I hope that you are there, Sarah B, when it happens. BDS

No matter how you try to justify crimes in the West Bank with your lies, you are still guilty. Read this quote: "There are now over 150 settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, housing 475,000 settlers and covering more than 40% of the West Bank. The settlements are deliberately constructed in order to place essential Palestinian agricultural and water resources in Israeli control.2 Israel's colonial settlement enterprise destroys Palestinian lives and livelihoods and results in the expropriation of Palestinian private and public land and the illegal annexation of territory to Israel. All of these are illegal under international law and prevent the achievement of just peace. Under the IV Geneva Convention, Israel's transfer of its own civilians into the Palestinian territory it occupies constitutes a war crime. The United Nations has consistently and repeatedly affirmed that the Convention applies to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.3 Due to the fact that Israel applies its own domestic civil law to the illegal settlements whereas the occupied Palestinian population is subjected to Israel's military orders, these settlements also entrench an apartheid regime which is a crime under international law.4 The International Court of Justice in its 2004 advisory opinion, moreover, has reminded states of their obligation to ensure Israel's compliance with international humanitarian and human rights law and to not render aid or assistance in maintaining the unlawful situation created by Israel." You will never win..........BDS til then!

Israel is NOT getting 4 billion of our tax dollars per year. Go look it up, you will have to search very hard. They are only reporting US Tax dollars given as military aid to Israel that is written down on paper, and even that is a lie. Israel just got 15 billion last year, so the media is lieing even about the actual amount of money that is written down on paper. The fact is that when you consider all the Military, economic, Housing, Infrastructure, and all other aids given to Israel, and adding to it the additional money and resources that are given to Israel "under the table", you will notice that Israel is getting at least more than 90 billion dollars of US tax dollars per year. Now add to it the Holocaust extortion money that they get from Germany and other European countries. Also consider that the US went to war with Iraq and has spent more than one trillion dollars in that war, which was all done for the benefit of Israel. why American taxpayers are supporting indirectly, through the tax-exempt contributions, a process that the government condemns. why the Americans' tax money is used to feed the settlers and shelter them? Every dollar that goes to settlements makes Middle East peace that much harder to reach. The American cake is much much bigger then the settlers' circle in the photo!

Let me tell you something Mr. US Taxpayer. You don't represent sh@#! You act like your so put out by what the US gives to Israel. IOsrael just wants to build on there land, it's Obama that's dangling all the incentives in front of them, they never asked for any of it, but you think your so big and bad telling the lowly jews what they better do! Why don't you stick your unwanted opinions where the sun don't shine bucko!!!!

Sorry Maggot, er I mean Maggie but you don't make the rules.

Show us da money! The money, baby. You'll understand if I take a moment to sneer, eh?

Pardon, man? I've heard much thrown in Sarah's direction the last two years, but that breaks new ground. Some sort of dual-national label?

Palestine is not an ottoman or Arab term, it is a British term, the anglified version of the ancient Roman name for the region - Palestina. During the Ottoman period the area between the mediterranian sea and the Jordan river was relatively sparsely populated, since it was mostly desert, and there were much more fertile places in the empire. The relatively small population that was there was a mixture of Jews, Arabs, Druze, and Saracens who had no other identity besides their respective ethnicities and their status as ottoman subjects. It was the British government that gave the region back its Roman name and, for administrative purposes, identified the people living there as "Palestinians". This term was in the pasports of both Jewish and Arab residents of the region, with their religion/ethnicity identified separately. The same, by the way, held for all the people, both muslim and Hindu, who lived in British-controlled territory between Afghanistan and China; they were all Indians regardless of ethnicity. Don't confuse political and administrative terms with national identities; they are not the same thing