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The Housing Minister's settlement building tenders bluff
Itamar Eichner
Published: 06.06.14, 11:23
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1. Didn't I tell you not to hold your breath?
Chaim ,   Israel   (06.06.14)
The Israeli government consists of a bunch of chickens scared of their own shadows. Is it any wonder that the UN meddles into Israel's affairs?
2. Kind of pathetic, really
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.06.14)
Israel is a sovereign state. The international community can wring its hands, weep and wail, beat its breast and hang itself, for all I care. Israel's actions are not the business of the international community. We should pick one country, isolate every single domestic policy it makes, and have government ministers tear it to shreds in the press. Do it every day, for a week. Then, pick another news item that is none of Israel's business, same country, and tear that one to shreds for a week. Pick it apart. Repeat the process, for three more weeks. When the country gets sufficiently annoyed, there will be an official protest. And the object lesson will have been taught. Key here is to pick a thorny subject each time, one which is very contentious in that country, and embarrassing to that country's leadership.
3. No 2 you have been doing that
(06.06.14)
Your posology is what you have been doing to Palestinians since 67
4. UNLIMITED Judea/Samaria building. No link to "Palestinians".
Chaim ,   Israel   (06.06.14)
When a building project goes up in New York, there is no big announcement. They just build. The same should be true in Judea and Samaria. This is our land. We build on it without limitations. We don't need big announcements. We certainly don't need our building linked to anything "Palestinian" poseurs do. Demand UNLIMITED Judea and Samaria building. No big announcements needed. No linkage to "Palestinians" needed.
5. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.06.14)
Yeah. Too bad they lost the war, huh? If you think back to how Germany, Italy and Japan were treated following the Second World War, Israel's treatment of a hostile "Palestinian" population is really quite benign. They are, after all, a vanquished people, and we know what happens to the vanquished following wars of aggression, don't we? In view of the fact that the Arabs were the aggressors in six wars, losing all six times, and have engaged in brutal violence and terror against Jews for seven decades, perhaps the time has come to ratchet up the dosage. We could, for example, cut their electricity. The "Palestine" Authority owes the State of Israel billions of shekels in unpaid utility bills. They also illegally tap into the national water carrier. We can cut their water -- they steal as much as they can from Israel, and then wring their hands and blame Israel! Most homes didn't HAVE running water, or artesian wells, until Israel provided it in 1967. Most didn't have electricity, either. We could also revoke the 100,000 or so work permits granted to West Bank Arabs. That would certainly be burdensome to the "Palestine" Authority, because in the two decades of its existence, despite billions of dollars and billions of euros which have poured into the "Palestine" Authority's coffers, they are dead broke, with nothing to show for all that money except some extremely wealthy "Palestine" Authority members with multiple homes in Europe and very hefty offshore bank accounts. They've never quite managed to set enough aside to build a productive infrastructure, or attract foreign investment. One hundred thousand out-of-work "Palestinians" on top of an unemployment rate in the "Palestine" Authority that hovers around 40 percent. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Best place to start is cutting electricity. It's shaping up to be a very hot summer. How do you like THAT posology, sluggo?
6. To: Chaim at No. 4
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (06.06.14)
Exactly. Israel is a sovereign state, and its control of Judea and Samaria is both de facto and de jure. Just build.
7. #5 Prove it
Darren Ben John ,   Townsville Australia   (06.06.14)
You keep banging on about how the Palestinian leadership have many homes in Europe and are syphoning the money into off-shore bank accounts. can you prove this or provide links? Oh, and I read a zionist's post the other day who admitted that Israel started the '67 war as a pre-emptive measure based on paranoia about what Israel's neighbours were doing. Care to refute that chica?
8. Crass stupidity as usual
Taxpayer ,   Hod Hasharon   (06.06.14)
The international community calls them "politicals statements" and we argue that is not the case and then the great Hasbera expert - our ever so wise Prime Minister decides to make the political link ever so clear to the whole world by making a direct link betwen a desire to strike at the Palestinians with building in the territories. It is not anti-semitism against us - its a direct result of the shear stupidity and self-defeating policies of the Netanyahu government.
9. Itzhak Herzog
(06.06.14)
Opposition head MK Isaac Herzog, meanwhile, called the government members "diplomatic pyromaniacs". Instead, Herzog should explain his part in the greatest election funding fraud in Israel "Amutot Barak". Last time he was questioned on his part, he refused to cooperate because he did not want to incriminate himself.
10. Anouncements
Iletzter ,   Tel Aviv   (06.06.14)
You are right. In New York people build. In Israel people only TALK.
11. just spite
Arn ,   Yehud, Israel   (06.06.14)
Yediot Aharonot shows itself again to be in the enemy camp. Noni Moses doesn't have to take his resentment of Bibi to where, in spite, he can bond with Ha'aretz. Anyone traveling through the West Bank cannot fail to see the many construction sites and the high cranes.
12. Sarah B your posts betray you
(06.06.14)
You always have to insult and be rude to people who thinks differently than you do. That betrays your huge lack of confidence and self esteem. Poor girl
13. Lazy Condemnations
Hunt S Cross ,   England   (06.06.14)
Stupid of the US government, the EU and Palestinians not to check the difference between tenders and actual building work before they open their mouths, isn't it? But then, if they are unable to detect a Hamas influence in the Palestinian unity government, what do you expect?
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