how can russia even have a platform to speak? they are so corrupt, they invented corruption! stop selling weapons to evil dictators then you might have a leg to stand on!!!

for a conflict they did not initiate and which they have not perpetuated. But, if they Jews can be blamed, why seek a sustainable resolution to the Arab Israeli conflict that is based on international law, goes the thinking...?? No where in international law is there a call to set up an additional state between the Jordan River and the Med. Sea, nowhere!! At the most, Israel has proposed to go beyond international law and to set up an Arab autonomous region there called a "state". Read Yitzhaq Rabin speech at the Knesset of October 1995 to appreciate it. But, even that which Israel has proposed, for many decades, has been categorically rejected by the Muslim-Arabs, verbally and through the use of intensified attacks on the Jewish community of the country. Sadly, Ashton seems to be eager to ignore this practical as well as legal reality.

I call upon the European Union to demand that Spain treat the Basque as a separate and distinct people who wish to be free and have a country of their own. I call upon the European Union to demand that France allow the Bretonnais and the Savoyard the freedom that they have sought. They, too, would each like to have a country of their own. I call upon the European Union to allow the subjugated peoples of Wales and Cornwall to each FINALLY have autonomy and independence. I call upon the European Union to allow the Flemands of Belgium to throw away the shackles of French dominance. Is it really necessary for me to run through the complete litany of people in Europe yearning to breathe free? There are lots. Lots and lots. And I can name them all. Just say the word.

Israel has shown severasl times that it can make sacrifices for peace. But that peace has a cost also for the Palestinians. They want to negotiate with impossed and non negotiable positions. Israel withdrew form Sinai and only got back a pece of paper. Now Sinai has become Hell and probably will be the reason for a future war if Egypt doesn't clean it from terrorists and Jihadists. Israel withdrew from Gaza and what did he receive. Rockets since then. Israel has not withdrew from Golan and nothing bad has happen. Even though Syria is an archenemy there has been more quiet than in Sinai. The world wants to press Israel to talks. With whom? Abbas? he wont sign a peace treaty. He wont recognize Israel as the Jewish State. He had the oportunity to sign a good deal for him when Olmert was PM. He never came back to sign it. Now he wants Nataniahu to start from where he left with Olmert. Without Hamas no deal can be implemented so?????Hamas does not recognize not even 48 borders. This is a Palestinian tactic. In every talk Israel gives in to something. The Palestinians dont sign the agreement and then in the the next round of talks they want to start from were they left last time. In hebrew we call this CHUTZPAH

Russia is "concerned" Ashton has "regrets" Well, let me tell you something, fools You both are hedging your bets Gilo is part of Israel whether you like it or not Keep justifying your failed "Quartet" 'cause your chop logic ain't worth snot

When have the Europeans ever helped Israel or, one Jew for that matter? Their only mission is to remove Jews from their historic land. Maybe they should tackle the debt problem they've created instead of piling up on the Jews who own ALL the land? They can all go to hell.

They always reject all the propositions , beginning with the 1947 partition plan . Two states solution ? they refused it in 2000 when Ehud Barak proposed to give them 98 % of all Judea Samaria , and answered with an intifada .

Maybe Lieberman will soon learn a lesson or two when the EU imposes economic sanctions on us and the re-elected Obama will stand aside

MORE!

Or Ashton can petition for all the pals to come and live in England.

No worries after the elections ROMNEY will assure no more US tax payers dollars will be wasted on the terrorist pals, no one dime. It's about time, why feed a rat to breed more rats?

You Moron !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so they can be the first in the ME to have the iphone 5, even if they have to pay double the usual price. Poor oppressed, miserable "palestinians".

There is never any expectations of the PA. Israel should have announced that in response to the lack of negotiations and the threatened UN bid, it is going to approve thousands of buildings unless the PA reverses its position.

Even best of all, first rate, eminent Israeli, Amero-Israeli journalist, (the best among the circa 8 million people of Israel) Caroline Glick said 2 things. 1. The EU only knows how to sound off authoritatively. 2. Their extreme fierce anti-Israel is so hostile that it is even more belligerent than the Palestinians themselves and the EU spurs them to totally reject any compromise whatsoever.

Don't tire us Michael. You radical leftists are talking out of wishful thinking. Just like Meretz supremo Zehava Gal-On suggested out of thin air that big bad wolf "sanctions" are coming! sanctions are coming! No, sweetie! This is just wishful thinking on *your* [plural] part, nothing else. We see right through this as glass. Your side does not want nothing better and more than international sanctions imposed on Israel by your supporters, the EU and other enemies. Just shed the glaring hypocrisy and sanctimonious hand-wringing and whining. Far too transparent I say...

Why bother with what that old crab ashton has to say.Ignore the silly trottle. Why waste words on somebody like her ilk. That silly creature hasn't a clue so why even bother to put her name in front of the public. The only people that surrounds her are her near and dearest friends --------- the arabs!

Thanks Israel. All these "homes" will become Pallestinian when the 2 state solution is decided.

2 state solution : Israel and Jordan : jordanians, palestinian one side and Israelis the other side should discuss the boundaries.... No need Ashton, ban ki moon and other incompetent people.

That is why the EU-leaders err so badly! Kofi Annan stated: in this question the whole world cannot have erred'!

Thank you! I would write more, but I'm too distressed over the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza what with their new IPhones and all; and then their ship of salvation being towed into Ashdod. Oh, BOO HOO!!!!!

and concisely.

Israel should be concerned with this massive EARTHQUAKE coming its way. Do the people of Israel really know what is happening and going to happen in this region. The cycle of tremblers will increase monthly.

I am an EU citizen merely by virtue of being Dutch. It is funny to hear the EU foreign policy chief ''regretting'' in my name and in the name of the rest of my country, while none of us have had a penny's worth of input in establishing her in her position. And not only her, by the way. The amount of my tax money pouring into this unelected body is enough to warrant a civil war, and they demand even more. European enthousiasm for the EU was never very high. For some reason the EU apparatus continued to grow despite objections from the electorate and has by now aquired legal power capable of overriding that of the member states' constitutions. My country's national sovereignty was sold out. We had NOTHING to say in the matter.

Don't build in the EU

only 797 houses , why not more ?

Jews building houses in Gilo is definitely a contravention of the Czar's law that all Jews have to live within the pale of settlement! Does Putin think that he is the Czar?

Why do self-respecting Israelis continue to tolerate a Foreign Minister so entirely beholden to a foreign, hostile leader as Lieberman is beholden to Putin?? Lieberman is Putin's little poodle! I don't know whether Yvette is a KGB agent or simply a freyer -- but Israel should tolerate it no longer.