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UN: Israel settlement building hurting peace talks
Associated Press
Published: 19.11.13, 22:59
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1. A signature would be faster than a building
ZEV ,   ISRAEL   (11.20.13)
If they really wanted peace they could sign a treaty tomorrow and then the issue of building would no longer be applicable.
2. Who cares what the UN thinks?!
manicdrummer ,   Haifa, Israel   (11.20.13)
Israel can build settlements wherever they want, the world be damned!
3. Pals interested in money,freeze,prisoner release
Sam ,   Canada   (11.20.13)
The Palestinians look like they are interested only in more and more concessions. Why aren't the UN,US and EU telling the Palestinians over and over to accept a Jewish Israel, something the rest of the world has done? All they do is berate Israel. It's about time they got over their cowardice and Israel should just ignore their barking until they do.
4. Demand evil "peace talks" end NOW!
Chaim ,   Israel   (11.20.13)
Oslo cost more than 1,500 Israelis their lives and maimed more than 14,000. And Oslo is only one of many such "peace talks with Palestinians" which claimed tens of thousands of Israeli casualties. The purpose of "peace talks with Palestinians" is to steal Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria from Israel and turn Israel into a 9 mile wide concentration camp. Let every sane Israeli demand the immediate permanent end of these evil talks. This tiny land is ours. Our mortal "Palestinian" foes need to be totally defeated as the Nazis were.
5. UN
Rau   (11.20.13)
Don't you ever forget that it was the UN who created the state of Israel and till today secure your existent. Only God knows what will happen tomorrow.
6. UN ignores Palestinian refusal to recognize Jewish state.
bob k ,   orlando fl us   (11.20.13)
7. Social Gap
Zechariah   (11.20.13)
The problem is the socioeconomic gap including for the arabs.As for a non Belligerant Arab or Islamic state it's incomprehensible.Arms will be covertly smuggled in and a Big War will happen as the Jews Retaliate massively.But settlements ought be stopped so money can go to the army and the disadvantaged .
8. UN: The body of biaseness.
Johnson ,   London, UK   (11.20.13)
What has UN said about Stone Throwing against Israelis in the West Band that has killed and injured many Israelis? Why is it that Palestinians do not make concessions to Israel? Why must Palestinians get all they want from Israel? Was there any State like Palestine before? What do you mean by international law? Is Iran above international law? Why are you - the Arabs and Muslims in UN so biased against Israel?
9. yes! i agree...
les ,   canada   (11.20.13)
dearest un...it is the Israelis cutting the throats of sleeping babies (and adults), stoning and fire bombing cars with women and children in them, digging tunnels in to gaza and blowing up soldiers etc. how lucky we are to have the great un defending us HA..HA..HA
10. Arabs enjoy living in their own poopy
Heller   (11.20.13)
And blame others for their self-indolenced failures.
11. Feuding Cousins
Bill ,   Skokie USA   (11.20.13)
Jacob and Esua, all over again! The real peace will come between the brothers when they decide to share and honor their Father by loving one another. We have but only two purposes in life. #1. To love God with all that we are and have! #2. To love each other as our selves! Neither party is considering this, let alone doing it. These are the comands that mean the most, do this and all will be okay, all will blessed.
12. "Settlements" are to be dicussed and decided during the...
NLKatz ,   Israel   (11.20.13)
...talks leading to a Final Status Agreement, the sides agreed, in writing. So, why should Israel act contrary to its best interest, and in Israel's view contrary to international law, prior to such talks and their conclusion? Has the PLO seen to it that Gaza, that it claims, is clean of illicit weapons, including rockets? Perhaps those rockets are more of an obstacle to peace than the fact that Jews dwell at the heart of their ancestral homeland...??
13. What "PeaceTalks"? Israel HAS peace
BUILD BABY BUILD ,   United States   (11.20.13)
the pals have war amongst themselves and are a vanquished 'fictitious' people invented by an Egyptian on man. They don't want pace with Israel, they want an end of Israel. pals can buzz off. KEEP BUILDING !!!!
14. Pals interested in money,freeze,prisoner release
Sam ,   Canada   (11.20.13)
The Palestinians look like they are interested only in more and more concessions. Why aren't the UN,US and EU telling the Palestinians over and over to accept a Jewish Israel, something the rest of the world has done? All they do is berate Israel. It's about time they got over their cowardice and Israel should just ignore their barking until they do.
15. "hurting peace talks"?
Jennie ,   Israel/US   (11.20.13)
What peace talks? Why hurting ? And why would you want to prevent Israel to build peaceful homes, schools, hospitals & infrastructure on its legal and lawful land...It is not Israel's fault, that the "conflict" is irreparably damaged"...Shame on you to hold such a high position and not knowing the real history of the land and the so-called "conflict"... You are pressuring Israel only, because it is easy to do and carries no negatve consequances... FYI, what "Israel is engaged in", is the legal bulding of peaceful homes on its ancient sovereign land, including Judea and Samaria...You may call it what you please, but as a diplomat, the least you can do, is be objective and true to hisstorical facts...Just because the Palestinians want East Jerusalem, desn't mean they already own it....They have no legal, religious,nore historical claim to Jerusalem...For Thousands of Years, Jerusalem was the City of the Jewish People, the City of David and it should and better remain such...The Jewish history is somewhat reminiscent of a Trojan horse, pregnant with enemies....
16. UN DID NOT...
Lenya ,   Australia   (11.20.13)
create the state of Israel...The League of Nations created Israel. The UN of today is a very distant shadow of what the League of Nations was. Today most of the middle-eastern countrries have become Sharia governed Muslim enclaves which have become a majority in the UN. They all heve one fixation and that is the demonizing of the state of Israel.
17. "Seizing of Palestinian lands" ?
Lenya ,   Australia   (11.20.13)
What Palestinian lands ? Where in history has there been any Palestinian lands in Isarel.? If this was so when did Israel liberate these lands from the Palestinians ? or as the Arabs and the west keep parroting "steal" these lands from the ownership of the so called "Palestinians?...Please enlighten me with some proof ?
18. Stop printing this injustice!
rinah   (11.20.13)
The enemies of the Jewish people and of Israel don't want peace! They want the Land. The Jewish people are one with the Land. We will do what we are called to do...be a light to the Nations. This light is found in the Tanach: the only true balance of justice and mercy for all mankind. Stop the injustice in the Earth!
19. building freeze
donsaliman ,   nahal oz israel   (11.20.13)
It was a few years ago, Israel frooze building for 10 months and the pals never came to the peace talks. Missles hitting Israel from Gaza, no Jews will be allowed into the Palestinian state, NO JEWS ALLOWED, teach their children in school to hate the Jews and Israel. trow fire bombs at innocent people and children, but it seems only Israel building is the problem. When I hear all this I just want to scream!!!!!!
20. #11 Jacob was chosen and Esua rejected.
You don't know ,   quite what you think   (11.20.13)
21. An announcement!
tiki ,   belgium   (11.20.13)
The announcement that future plans of building is more damaging than previous/actual Arab terror & incitement, is the biggest joke in the talking process. This UN chief should read the old & signed documents again and he will see that there is nothing stolen and there is no Palestinian land, so it can't be illegal. Or, he could listen again to the UN interpreter who for once told the truth about the real obstacle for peace. It's about time the world community with their 'international law claims should stop believing their own mantra's, because that's all they are....mantra's. The chief better restudies International law again to understand that the area they claim as stolen = disputed. And this, as the chief probably knows, is not the only one in the world.
22. What type of future do you want?
spyguy ,   seattle   (11.20.13)
The HARD REALITY is the status quo can not continue and based on basic game theory, Israel has ONLY TWO long term options: (1) DIVIDE the land fairly - this would require Israel to remove (probably by force) over half million settlers, or (2) SHARE the land by making every human west of the Jordan River a FULL CITIZEN of Israel. Why are so many people in Israel so delusional they can not see they have ONLY TWO options? All the other imaginary solutions are fantasies that will never happen.
23. We all know the 'games' they are playing
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (11.20.13)
So Palestinian tactics to promote Boycott So Israeli Announcement of Settlements So Palestinian tactics to get UN Censure So Israeli Announcement of Settlements And so it goes on We have to agree a framework for the CONDUCT of the talks as well as the CONTENT of the talks AND do it in private out of the glare of pressure and publicity As for Rajoub - somebody give him a ball to play with? Poor chap is getting to big for his football boots
24. The un agreess... killing jews is peace
Daniel ,   TA - IL   (11.20.13)
it is clear again that un is an abbreviation for united n!azis... just kick out all un instigators
25. The only way to save Israel and have HaShem's blessing......
Benjamin ,   Israel   (11.20.13)
is to BUILD, BUILD, BUILD. Forget the UN and rest of the world. They have always been against us. They know they can destroy us if we stop building which is why they push it so hard. IGNORE THEM and do what's best for Israel. Eventually the leftists here will also see this truth and benefit from the results. Just DO IT.
26. #22 You ignore the third option
A ,   Belgium   (11.20.13)
Over 80% of "palestinians" are Jordanian citizens, as Judea and Samaria (originally intended to be part of the Jewish State of Israel), were attacked and conquered by Jordan, as was part of Jerusalem, in 1948. When Israel was again attacked by Jordan in 1967, Israel regained Judea, Samaria and ALL of Jerusalem. The solution is simple: arabs holding Jordanian passports have to be repatriated to Jordan. Those who wish to join them are welcome to, Those who wish to remain in Israel will become Israeli citizens under certain, STRICT, conditions. But there never was a "palestine" for them to claim.
27. On this, the UN SG is right
On the Balcony   (11.20.13)
It is truly a tragedy that so many Israelis and Jews have become victims of revisionist myths and believe that Israel has a legal right to settle land which the international community has clearly given to the Palestinians. Israel is not the arbiter of international law, nor does it get to pick and choose which international laws it accepts and which it rejects. The UN GA, SG. and SC, the U.S. and EU, the ICRC, the High Parties to the Geneva Convention and the International Court of Justice can't all be wrong about the laws which they themselves created. It' time for us/Israel to face the truth.
28. #5
(11.20.13)
The UN did not create Israel. Israel was created by Lehi, Machal, Palmach and Haganah when they fought off five genocidal armies suported by the British. However, the UN did create the "Palestinian Problem" as a way to delegitimize and destroy Israel.
29. 27
john Darren ,   cairns-Austraalia   (11.20.13)
Want the truth-use you computer.You need education bady.
30. #22. Israel has infinitely better options.
Chaim ,   Israel   (11.20.13)
#22. It is perfectly feasible for Israel to transfer out genocidal "Palestinian" poseurs in our midst. Israel certainly has both the power and the justification to do so. And don't make me laugh by trying to scare me about how the big bad U.N. would object! LOL. The U.N. has objected to everything about Israel but Israel grows richer and stronger every year.
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