Israel approves 500 new homes in West Bank settlements in response to Itamar attack

Lest be crystal clear aboutr that. 1) When the IDF attack Hammas outposts because of their dirty activity of launching rockets against Israel, lots of innocent people are killed. The equation is clear. Israel attacks terrorists who in order to defend themselves in a most cowardly manner hide themsleves in populous areas. In other words, the palestinian chlidren killed by Israel are the result of Hammas tactics not of Israel's intention. 2) In the attack on Itamar, the palestinian criminals went directly to kill innofensive chlidren. The criminal act itself was done in the classical style of islamic ritual murder: Slaughtering. The same style was done againts Theo Van Ghog in Amsterdam. The conlcusions are crystal clear: a) These barabaric islamists sacrifice their chlidren in order to use them as human shields against Israel deffensive war. b) They killed Jewish children in the most fanatic type of slaughtering. That is the Islamic way. How to deal with them? Fight them, never accept their terms and probably even a good way to deterr them is by settling in their neighborhoods. Always challenging them,. never giving up. Even those that are in favor of a two state solution, must reflect again. The only response is challenging them. In Europe the response provided by liberals as Merkel Sarkozy or Cameron is shifting from multiculturalism to nationalism. That is the proper answer against Ilamic challnege. In the Middle East resistance is manifested in supporting Israel. Sooner or later most of Western democracies will shift to the right and understand that at this moment Israel is the only barrier against islamization. Indeed Bernard Lewis was right. Sad to admit it, but that is the true.

So someone in my neighbourhood kills 5 people and instead of a trial, the whole neighbourhood gets punished? This is the strange thing about Israel, they do not understand what democracy is.

Great opportunity to win a few more votes. By the way, has a suspect been charged?

Why is todays Israeli governemant intrested to live together with Arabs. Either you separete or kill them. Killing is out of questions so what are those settelments good for ?

Just make sure that the IDF secures every "settlement" in the the future! So people can sleep without the risk of being ambushed doing so! Why only build 500 new homes? Let the pals know that for every rocket 100 homes will be built. And for every attack on a Jew 1000 homes will be built. Then its up to the pals if they want any land left!

And you can bet his shock and outrage is equally interspersed with satisfaction and elation. His response is proving it!

any time israel makes a unilateral step toward the palestinians, such is followed by acts of terror. netanyahu was forced by obama to agree to the freeze without any reciprocity from abbas. as a result, abbas has refused to negotiate. obama's rhetoric that israel as the "stronger" party should give more is pure far left nonsense. the palestinians are supported by hundreds of millions of arabs.

If this ever happens again - kick these murderers off Har habayit - expand the Jewish presence in the old city and its surroundings - BETTER IDEA DO IT NOW

Israel is announcing that it has calculated that the murder of these five people grants it enough "politicial cover" for 500 new homes. As an act of pure, unadulterated cynicism this really does take Israel to new heights (or, more accurately, to a new low). Good test of the rest of the world's patience with Israel's settlement addiction though.....

the copts are 10% of the population in egypt.they are hounded and persecuted.multiculturanism is a disaster as merkel sarkozy and cameron have recently emphasised. we have to keep the hills of judea and samaria to make sure the other side does not overlook the dan region

The more Jews that Palestinians murder, the less land Palestinians get for "Palestine"... Maybe this newer more easier to understand mathematical equation of "500 new Homes for every 5 Jews murdered" will be a more easily understood mathematical equation for the Palestinians to grasp. 7 decades later...

As smart as US attacking Iraq after 911. Sure, even people of US accuse the government of staging the terror attack, and sure, all the sympathy from 911 is long lost, and hundreds of thousands have died because of it, but US has greatly benefited from the decision. Good move Israel. Now you will be accused of killing your own settlers, just to be able to settle even more, but hey, you get to settle. besides who cares about PR, right? Since you are incapable of simulating your own moves, let me tell you what will happen. you will anger all the politicians in the world that have accused you of not wanting peace, no one else will condemn the attack, just not to encourage you to build even more (why stop at 500? why not 500.000? sure, next time.) , you will provoke the terrorists to the level that they will want to kill many more, just to scare the settlers away, and the sympathy you received from the attack? it's already lost. and you will see a lot of comments everywhere claiming that lieberman himself arranged the attack. but you get to have 500 new homes. yay.

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in libya and tunis as well as massacre of christians in egypt behoves them to stop taking the high moral ground which is rightly israel's prerogative.

message. he called the killing of the children in itamar "violence" on a par with israel's fight against the palestinians. no one told him off.that is who we are dealing with.know your opponent before you make further appeasing steps.the opponents will not thank us for giving way easily.suckers is the word they would use.

Based on his political views and goals. With the recent violence between settlers and Palestinians, culminating in the despicable murders yesterday tension is already high. So, what does Bibi do? No you're wrong! He doesn't do anything to calm the tension, instead he decides to make it even worse. The settlement expansion is sure to cause even more friction. This makes you wonder: who wants a third intifada? I think we all know, the expansionists do. Palestinian violence gives Israel an excuse for using heavy-handed violence against Palestinians and for continued settlement construction. It is fringe groups on both sides that want and cause the bloody altercations between Jews and Palestinians. One on side we have a terrorists like Hamas that get more supporters for their cause and more volunteers. And on the other we have the settlers who want the IDF to drive out the Palestinians and for the settlements to expand. It's tragic that normal people of both the peoples are stuck in between these groups. Every day people bleed because of the extremists on both sides.

that directly overlooks the road leading to tel aviv.we must build furiously and without stopping for an instant.

we have no alternative but to keep building.all settlements overlook east west routes into the jewish heartland our opponents are not rational so build build and build.

A congenitaly deficient mentality of Netanyahu and Barak. And they call themselves leaders. They behave and their actions are like any common criminals on the street.

A terrible incident turned into a more money-making good luck fortune for the corrupt politicians and developers. As if they're blind to what's happenning close by

Bibi's response is to build more settlements so that a two-state solution is impossible. Bravo. Enjoy your one-state solution--because that will be the end result of this continued settlement activity.

It seems no one gets it here....this deed is taught in pali schools as an " HEROIC ACT " and " candy " should be handed out. This is the JEW HATRED state they aspire to. G-d help us all.

Yesterday, you could hardly notice the names on the blog. Today those individuals are getting out and condenming a political move as a resposne to a horrific terrorist act.. I personally would have leveled 500 Palestinian homes as a response and built on those grounds 500 Jewish homes.

which brave european country will send an army against israel and risk 5 thousand casualties....... spain, norway, sweden... let them come. well be very ready.. wev have been fighting anti semites for 5 thousand years and we are doing just fine thank you..theres and alternative... 100 million euros in a swiss bank account for the fatah elite.

Of course--any excuse for Israel to build more illegal settlements it will use. There will never be peace with Israel.

The massacre of the Fogels was an evil act perpetrated by the lowest of human garbage, but to use their deaths in such a blatant political maneuver reduces this tragedy to a mere excuse to further existing ambitions. They should at least focus on catching the monsters who did this first instead of announcing more building plans.

In effect this is a price tag by the Government to follow up on the vicious murder with more institutional violence of the Occupation and settlements.. which, to put it bluntly, is at the core of such viciousness.

This tragedy has many faces and many wild chopping fists but now, the 'State Israel' supported by the majority of -ts citizens use this as an excuse to implement further its hidden agenda's. Luckily, more and more people 'see through' the manipulation. Both Israeli and palestinians are more deeply intertwined in their deadly 'death-embrace'.

A few weeks ago a rocket just missed a wedding in a synogague 15 km from gaza border. If there is a peace process hamas and islamic jihad ups the attacks just like they did in september when abbas and bibi were talking. Abbas wants to leave hamas now in power. First stop the weapons flow from iran, get control of the border and stop the rocket attack and then talk about a state. But to do so before hand is a joke.

You can't build in western jerusalem because many years back enviornmentalists blocked it. Enough of the charade. These places will remain with israel in any peace deal and couples being married are having to build illegally underground with no housing. These blocs were never an issue before obama made them an issue. Even abbas said we never made them an issue but how can we not if obama is making them.

That's the best response to this vile muder. Hoping it does not occur again, but if it does, Next time if it happens again, build a 1000 more homes

Whats the logic in this? We have a problem, that causes friction, and has negative repercussions. But hey, let's make the problem bigger? What's the deal with settling anyways? In the civilized world it is called squatting.

What a lunatic government we have, this is how they are going about it, by collective punishment? Putting themselves at the same level as the terrorists who commited this horrible crime? Did you have your plans dawnn up and were just waiting for the right opportunity to present them? We need different policies, really this kind of excuses to keep building and expanding settlements will not do good to anyone. Everyone knows the sooner we get two states for two peoples the better it will be for both societies, why to obstruct this goal even further. The government seems to forget they need to be for the benefit of the people instead of practising opportunistic power games. It is a disgrace and shame to the poor victims to be used as pawns to serve some shady purposes.

so 5 Jews need to be butchered in order to approve construction of homes that should have been built years ago? this government is truly the most despicable and cowardly in history

Better security in WB settlements would be better option. Building 500 new homes will only inflame the problem and make Israel look poorer in world image.

The headline says it all, it has served the purpose! We've seen it happen before, Likud winning the elections under Shamir, after a fire bomb on an Egged bus in Jericho. God works in mysterious ways, doesn't He?

Guess which it is? Didn't take long, either - did it?

Israel is acting like a real middle eastern country now...do what you are blamed of doing..... There is still in the world memory a Security Council resolution that was killed by an American (The administration could give a good explanation why) with 14 votes in favor of condemning the Israeli settlement activity in the oPt , taking the world attention from the brutal and unjustified killing of the Israeli family (regardless if they are legally or not on the Palestinian land) is what the Palestinians need now. PS: until now there is no good prove that the barbaric act of killing the Israeli family was done by a Palestinian.

Its seems that the Israëli government tries to use any aurgument te acquire more Palestine land, although it must be clear by now, that such behaviour is a granted road down the hill.

Good excuse to break international law again and using a murder as an excuse, the Israeli government is pathetic and must go now

The settlers backed by the Israeli governments robbed palestinaian of land for years without having any excuses. Now they are trying to suger coated. GET REAL!!!

Which he so much loves to blame on the rest of the world!

To me, this is as disgraceful as the crime committed. No one can justify the murder of babies and children, whether it's perpetrated by Palestinians or Israelis. But Israel is a state, not a criminal individual. Let the police and courts handle criminals who murder children...but Israel chooses to respond in this low spineless manner. Such a shame.

The Israeli government is using the tragic deaths of this family in order to further its agenda of land grabbing. Could they please explain how building more houses in the settlements is connected to the murder of a family? Will this bring the family back? Will it help catch and punish the murderers? No. The logic is, at best, faulty. Bibi is milking this for all its worth and using this family as a means to further his own political goals. Disgusting.

Israël is prisoner of the settlement enterprise and will pay in the not so long term a heavy price for this folly.

Killing children is condemned but Bibi is going nuts and Israel should wake up rather than go to a prolonged self denial episode. There's a problem called the settlers and settlements and it should be solved with an agreement with the Palestinians.

because they had to stop building settlements before due to international pressure and now they can build. This poses the question as to whether Netanyahu's government knew of the planned attack and allowed it to happen to make an international issue and tragedy out of it as an excuse to continue building and stall the peace process instead of the appropraite response of apprehending the perpetrators.

Very strange act by the Israeli gov't. The idea must be that Israel has "sympathy" now that it can milk. Patience in the international community for Israeli manipulativeness is running thin. It will be interesting to see how press coverage of this develops.