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
The government of Israel should acknowledge that Israel as part of the international community and in its own interest has to seek good relations with its Arab neighbours. So Israel should stop building new West Bank settlements.