The settlements and their relentless government-backed expansion have provided the Arabs with a perfect pretext for continued aggression in the guise of 'resistance', allowed Israel to be portrayed internationally as expansionist and resulted in her isolation and delegitimization. We must abandon the Greater Israel fantasy, and the settlers, and get Israel back to sanity. Kerry is a fool but Rice is doing us a favor by speaking the truth.

Guantanamo Bay is a US enclave gouged out of the sovereign state of Cuba. May I suggest that this is an even more blatant abuse of US power than the rightful entitlement for Israel to build in its ancestral home. Where is the right of the US to maintain this artificial toe hold in another nation that does not want it, even the UK gave up its most valuable colony Hong Kong over a decade earlier than it had to and return it to China. The US is still as with the British Empire still attempting to dictate to other nations what they should and should not do when in fact it is now becoming beyond its sell by date as the only super power. It is a long slow slide down the slope of reality as we Brits found out when you lose the authority and respect of other nations and it is not helped when you act as bully in one way and an abject coward in another.

Yes, number 25 is the problem all right. No doubt about it. I'm glad you agree with me.

Wake up ISRAEL,the backstabbing socialist revolutionaries ie. Obama & fellow travelers will sacrifice. Israel to Islam,period !

The real issue is Iran

- Those are not the settlements you are looking for. - If you like those settlements you can keep them ? I can hear the sucking sound as she lies again and all take a deep breath in anticipation of the bad smell that follows.

It is a good feeling to read somebody was has the right historical and legal knowledge. Unfortunately an unusual phenomenon in Israeli society. And the reason for such a situation...???

Ms. Rice and Obama You've already destroyed US credibility in foreign policy. Stop carrying water for the brethren of the 9/11 terrorists and just crawl back into your hole. When Islamic bomb goes off in the US, the blood will be on your hands and on the hands of the bimbos who voted for you twice.