Israel will press ahead with housing construction in its West Bank settlements despite a surprisingly blunt demand from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that all such building stop, an Israeli official said Thursday. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Rather superficial story about the Israeli excuses for continued settlement expansion in the West Bank and U.S. responses. Minimal mention of the Palestinian side of the question. Accurate, but not much beyond.
Better than the NYTimes piece (see links), this article draws sharper distinctions between the Israeli position and the US position, and does a better job of explaining Israeli motivations.
This gives the company answer to the standard question, justifying and trying to show how reaasonable their position is.
In any negotiations in which you hope to get most of what you want, you must start out asking for and demanding much more than what you will settle for. These negotiations have been going on since the 1890s, and will probably continue long into the future. There have been breakdowns, wars, stalemates and settlements, we will get closer to a final settlement, but there will probably never be a secure peace for any side.
The new U.S. administration has been noticeably more explicit in its criticism of Israeli settlement policy than its predecessor. The two countries each have ... More »
Good story, making clear Israel's current leadership regard US demands to stop the growth of illegal settlements in the West Bank, to be just so much hot air. Ditto with American demands the siege of Gaza be terminated.
Israel will destroy itself if it fails to get out of the West Bank and the Golan Heights. The question is whether Israel will take down the US too. The insane level of "defense" spending by the US owes a very great deal to Israeli political power in Washington, and at least $1 trillion has been squandered on unnecessary wars intended to help "protect" Israel.
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