Israel and the West Bank: Prepare to freeze
THE Israeli government’s approval this week of 455 new housing units in the West Bank settlements was announced with a wink and a nod, and seems to have elicited winks and nods all round. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is expected soon to agree, reluctantly and under American pressure, to a temporary freeze on settlement building, and the new homes are widely seen as an act of face-saving political expediency on his part. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
Much of the impetus for the idiotic Iraq War was to "protect" Israel. Israeli militarists are trying to get the US involved in war with Iran, again for false reasons of "protecting" Israel. Israel needs to get out of the West Bank and the Golan Heights, entirely.