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Netanyahu slams EU settlement critics as hypocrites
Associated Press
Published: 16.01.14, 23:42
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1. Good on you Bibi.
Amos ,   Canada   (01.16.14)
2. Thats a good start Bibi, but...
Jayjay   (01.17.14)
Now tell the whole truth....these Arabs are not even Palestinian!! Enough of this scam! Its well proven that the vast majority of these Arab families illegally immigrated here from surrounding Arab countries since the late 1800s. And how can these Arabs be classified as Palestinian refugees, when they are still living in what they call Palestine?
3. EU/Rome started this
Shmuel. L. Jackson ,   London UK   (01.17.14)
The illegal occupation of Israel by Rome, and the expulsion of the Jews was a war crime. The Jews must seek reparations from Rome/EU.
4. Israel
Hakim ,   Palestine   (01.17.14)
Is spiraling down the toilet.
5. Bibi couldn't have saĆ­d it clearer.
Barry ,   Tokyo   (01.17.14)
He is 100% right. The EU + the Vatican working quietly in the background is secretly plotting Israel's demise. The "old world" is reaching the end of the road while Israel, G_d's people are thriving against all adversity. How can any person with a functioning brain explain this phenomenon?
6. Oiy, a politician telling the truth again!
Larry ,   LA (formerly)   (01.17.14)
Terrible! right after Ya'alon blew it by telling the truth about Kerry and Obama, Bibi has to do the same thing! There is nothing he can do now except apologize and bow down on all fours to everyone!!
7. Jewish state
Anat   (01.17.14)
Good for you Bibi, finally you told them exactly how it is. Nobody in the UN says anything when PA is shooting rockets at civilians, bombing busses, murdering families and babies, and are shouting for destruction of Israel , all that seems to be ok with them. But when Israel builds a few houses, then all of sudden everybody has got something to say! Plain and raw hypocrites.
8. Final settlement
Michael ,   Haifa   (01.17.14)
If, in a final settlement, the Palestinians are obliged to make no further claims on Israel, then who cares whether they recognize it as a Jewish state or not. The precondition of that recognition is just another hypocritical Netanyahu diversion for not negotiating seriously. We don't even demand from our greatest allies,the Micronesians, such recognition.
9. Bibi
Kerry ,   USA   (01.17.14)
Bibi is the real hypocrite. No one else! Is it going to be called Israel after they get recognized as Jewish state? Or is Israel not good enough? It has to be Jewish? They are becoming like Iran when it named itself Islamic state, maybe they will butt heads after they name themselves Jewish state?
10. i agree
daniela ,   panama   (01.17.14)
It is time somebody told the europeans what they really are-hypocrites!
11. Israel being asked to recognize an artificial people & state
Noodles ,   Coney Island   (01.17.14)
The least they could do is recognize a legitimate state and ancient people.
12. "Incitement" or Jews stealing Arab land is cause of violence
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (01.17.14)
The ICC, UNSC, EU, US, NATO, and Obama will decide.
13. Offensive
Curtis ,   USA   (01.17.14)
Israel desperately needs to go all out offensively. Not doing so gains Israel no friends, so what's to lose! At least some out there may gain a better understanding of all the nonsense spoken against the great nation of Israel.
14. about time.
Dov ,   United States   (01.17.14)
15. ALL NATIONS TOOK LAND,
joyce fraser ,   USA   (01.17.14)
and did so in unconscionable fashion, over the "lesser peoples" ... ... who the Euro-Caucasian Christians slaughtered, boiled in oil, tortured, and otherwise abused EN MASSE, from Hundreds to One Thousand Years plus! These haughty, and hypocritical E-CCs along with the nations which they occupy today, have no right to suddenly assume that they are sufficiently clean, innocent, pure, and/or civilized to become Judges!
16. US+EU brainlessly tell Israel to make peace
Sam ,   Canada   (01.17.14)
The EU and US can't get the Arabs to accept a Jewish majority Israel but they insist Israel make peace with the Palestinians. These are the great minds running Western society.
17. Bibi talk is cheap
Nachman   (01.17.14)
The world will respect you when you build thousands of new houses in the liberated territories. It is not the seventy wolves that guard us it is the Shepard of Israel that protects us.
18. Who knows: the day we, Israelis will stand on our two legs,
tom ,   tel aviv   (01.17.14)
we may discover the thingies that are hanging between them as well? Go on, Bibi.
19. wow
Ilana   (01.17.14)
very good on you BIBI. Keep it up.
20. Bibi does more good than harm
David ,   Shiloh Israel   (01.17.14)
While I gravitate towards Bennett to keep Bibi on the right track, I still think that Bibi is the best PM for maintaining a unified Israel in face of very real threats to both our security and economic well being. There is a bigger picture that sadly highly emotional critics from the right & left fail to grasp, due to allowing passions to rule their intellect. I'd love to see genuine peace and know that the moderate settlement movement should be a proactive part of any process rather than given the fate of demonized villains, more reminiscent of European nazi portrayal of this movement. Most settlers are more prepared to coexist with sincere Arabs, than leftists are! It's these false European pariahs and their misguided allies that are urging aprtheid against Jews under the guise of being enlightened liberals. Yes, we do need to keep Bibi on track, and yes he does a good job when he is.
21. EU-Moroccan fisheries treaties
Daniel ,   Netherlands   (01.17.14)
EU is supporting annexation and abuse of the Western Sahara's. Does not seem to bother the butchering of the Saharaui's if it fits the French and Spanish countries. How brave they are and full of principles with tiny Israel!!!
22. Jaffa Refugees Blocked Jewish escape
Zechariah   (01.17.14)
Internationalists there ought be no Return as the Jaffa and Galil Arabs blocked Jewish escape from Nazi Europe as did the Vast Majority of nations .Turkey and tribal Africa also .In A Century when Conscienous at that is highly unlikely Changes to a Internationalistic perspective that Crime cannot escape but Relocation Of the Arabs needs to commence from The sin of their own present beliefs Holocaust Denial and Holocaust Applause .Reality may necessitate interim Remedies.
23. 11 Israel's artificial people are called "Jews"
lydia ,   Brisbane   (01.17.14)
"The Jewish people are dead, and you have simply thought yourselves up, looking for originality and exoticism. You are not for real.'' Words from the last surviving member of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
24. To 9#
Cindy ,   TA Israel   (01.17.14)
YES, it has to be Jewish. Period. Israel was expressly created, and expressly exists, in order to be a homeland to a given ethnic group: is it racism to ensure that that ethnic group does not become a minority within it's own territory?
25. Europe: "Shameless anti-semites"
Benny ,   Iran   (01.17.14)
Let's see, England stole Jewish land (San Remo 1920) & gave it to the Arabs vs. the wishes of 51 countries; Mussolini was no lover of Jews and France, whoah, dont get me started: Vichy regime handed the Jews to the Nazis for slaughter. Do they ever stop their hatred & connivance?
26. Israel's Settlements are Illegal
Joe Bloughberg ,   3rd Planet from Sun   (01.17.14)
Israel has plenty of land within its border to build homes, so its illegal settlements are clearly an attempt by Israel to deny the connection of the native Palestinians to the Land of Palestine. The Palestinians do not occupy, nor are they attempting to occupy, any part of Israel itself, yet Israel continues to attempt to entrench itself deeper and deeper into occupied Palestine. It has to end, and if it take economic sanctions to force Israel to do so, so be it.
27. #17. Bibi talk is cheap; STOP THE TALKS
(01.17.14)
You have to agree with Nachman; The bigger hypocricy is that the talks are sham and we continue to take part in them
28. Israel will stop building when the Muslims stop fighting
CJK   (01.17.14)
israel is surrounded by murderous jihadists north and south, with hundred thousand missiles pointed at all points in israel. obama and the eu want to create a new arab muslim terror state so that missiles will be pointed at israel from the east and so that she will be shrunk leaving her tiny and indefencible.
29. reply to 26
samuel klas ,   MOORABBIN   (01.17.14)
From 1948 to 1967 arabs living in Palestine didn't make a sound about being 'native palestinians' who need a state.They demanded Tel-Aviv,Haifa etc.In 1967 KGB gave them an idea to call themself 'palestinian people',to put a claim on a part of Israel and also fool feeble minded morons in the west.Judging by your comment they have some success.
30. 28 No Muslims invited your horde of squatters on their land
lydia ,   Brisbane   (01.17.14)
More fool you for building an illegal squat surrounded by "murderous jihadists north and south" believing 300mil justifiable Muslims would simply melt away to be replaced by est. Euro squatters.
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