The Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality are hard at work on the goal of offering for sale 1,500 housing units in the capital's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, the focus of international censure, before the January 22 elections. Plans for the project, which is over the Green Line, were approved last month by the National Planning and Building Council, causing tension between Jerusalem and the West.
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Israel to market disputed East Jerusalem housing project before election
Plans for the project, which involves 1,500 homes over the Green Line, were approved last month by the National Planning and Building Council, causing tension between Jerusalem and the West.
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10 0 0The UN? United for what?
- By Daniel W
- 10 Jan 2013
- 04:51PM
I am all for us leaving the UN which has served as nothing less than a rubberstamp for every anti-Israel resolution its automatic Arab majority could come up with. Check out these facts and perhaps understand the antpathy: "From 2009-2010, the U.N. General Assembly (GA) continued to spend a disproportionate amount of time focusing on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, passing 22 resolutions which are one-sided or blatantly anti-Israel. Indeed, of 10 emergency special sessions called by the GA, six have been about Israel. No emergency sessions have been held on the Rwandan genocide, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, or the two decades of atrocities in Sudan."
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Is Rwanda a democracy, and a 4th Geneva Convention signatory?
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09 0 0IfIsrael wants safety then populate whole land with
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- 10 Jan 2013
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Jewish people. Build housing, schools, theaters, sstores, shopping malls. Do not let arab propaganda dissuade you from building.
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See you at the ICC.
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08 0 0I understand what you're trying to do. Clever.
- By Mike
- 10 Jan 2013
- 04:37PM
The only people who would ever actually choose to live in these places are the loudmouth, religious, pain-in-the-tush zealots. When you finally come to an agreement with the Palestinians where you draw a reasonable border based upon where people actually reside right now without unrealistic reference to what may have taken place hundreds and thousands of years ago, these settlers will find themselves on the Palestinian side of the line and they will become Palestinians. Jewish Palestinians. Why not? Israel has Arabs. Palestine can have Jews. And regular normal Israelis will be rid of yet another headache. Cute. Settlers,,,, enjoy.
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We never accept any jewi in our state. But we continue to demand our right of return.
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Tough luck. Israel has Arabs. You can have Jews. Don't tell me you're racist.
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07 0 0New housing in east jerusalem
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- 10 Jan 2013
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Palestinian authority approve the construction of 1600 units in Kfar Saba. He BiBi ,how would you like this !!!
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06 0 0Its not Easr Jerusalem
- By Daniel W
- 10 Jan 2013
- 02:15PM
I will first say that Jews should be free to build anywhere in their own land. That said, I will laugh at the ignoranamouses who seek to smear Jews and Israel at every faint opprotunity for their silliness. Ramat Shlomo is in NORTH Jerusalem, not EAST! I know y'all care little for facts - but I will also point out that its construction involved no so called land theft from Arabs. Check your facts before you sling your hateful mud!
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UNSC res 476 Jerusalem is Arabic, no differentiation...
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Where are the borders of "their own land?"
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As you say, Jews should be free to build anywhere in their own land...
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- 10 Jan 2013
- 03:43PM
But not in someone else's. The Jews have stolen so much land from the Palestinians by now and that can't be denied.
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UNSC res 476 doesn't say Ramat Shlomo makes part of East Jerusalem
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- 10 Jan 2013
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Talk about respecting UN resolutions :)
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You check facts.
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- 10 Jan 2013
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All parts on "the other side" of the green line that were annexed to Jerusalem in 1967 are called east Jerusalem. So Har Homa and Gilo are part of east Jerusalem as well, while they are geographically south of Jerusalem. A bit confusing if you don't know. But heart of the matter of course is that it is all Arab land, because it is on the Jordan side of the green line and annexed in 1967, which is recognized only by Israel. That is why still no country, not even the USA has their embassy in Jerusalem.
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Where are the borders of "their (Jewish) own land?" It depends on Arab good will.
- By hmm
- 10 Jan 2013
- 04:02PM
Some of them want to keep them out of the land of Islam, some are willing to give them a little piece of the sea,others are ready to let them live in Israel under condition they take back refugees so they are defeated by Palestinian women wombs....Are you in third group,Melissa?
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What facts moron. Your facts are based of what you consider history.
- By Sam
- 10 Jan 2013
- 10:28PM
No one is smearing the Jews and Israel. So please stop playing that card every time someone criticize either of the two. This territory was long considered part of a peace deal. Thanks to the right wing extremist that's not longer the case.
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Israel's own land is the land within the '48 borders. She has YET to legally annex a centmeter of land outside those borders.
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When are we going to see some legal annexation?
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No. It depends on the DECLARED borders that Israel made to the UN in 1947.
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- 13 Jan 2013
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1) Israel has NEVER changed them, never declared any OTHER borders, nor has she legally annexed ANY other land. Why is she dragging her feet? What she "has" now is stolen, according to every definition of the 4th Geneva Convention, which she SIGNED in 1949. 2) A key provision of the 4th GC, as Israel signed it, is the agreement of ALL signatories that ALL refugees have the right to return to their land of birth. Israel also signed THAT into Israeli law and international law in 1949. Did the Arabs FORCE Israel to ratify the 4th GC? Oh, and quit with the 'push us into the sea" bit. It's TO '60s hasbara.
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05 22 0sanctions are needed to stop settlement
- By Andreas
- 10 Jan 2013
- 01:33PM
At least the EU should implement harsh sanction against ultra-right settlement policy due to it´s character of annexation. all movements behind the borders of 1967 are illegal including east jerusalem. Israel´s ultra right government needs to be enforced to stop military backed annexation and to accepts international peace regulations by retreating behind borders of 1967!
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Sanctions for resisting Arab occupation of Jewish ancestral land?
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- 10 Jan 2013
- 04:12PM
You must wait for more Muslim influence in Europe,first.
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This talk of "ancestral" anything is very backdated now in 2013...
- By Silvienne
- 10 Jan 2013
- 05:28PM
My great grandfather was from Stockholm, Sweden. I think I'll claim the ancestral right to live there....
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Not "annexation." Israel has never annexed any land. It's plain theft.
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- 13 Jan 2013
- 02:42PM
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There is no right to free land, or to stealing land from indigenes based on a claim of ancestry in ANY country in the world, or anywhere
- By Melissa
- 13 Jan 2013
- 02:44PM
in international law. That is one of the many spurious "rights" that Israel awarded to HERSELF.
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04 0 0Great! How can I buy?
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- 10 Jan 2013
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Why should you buy if you're 'returning'? The Israeli Govt ripping off Jewish people... chutzpa unlimited
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- 10 Jan 2013
- 02:57PM
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03 0 0Seriously ?
- By Eric
- 10 Jan 2013
- 00:57PM
And most Israelis can't understand why the whole world despises them. THIS is just One argument......
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02 37 0Naturally desperation for illegal homes will be top priority
- By Toto
- 10 Jan 2013
- 10:13AM
part of the Israeli political culture at its worst.
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01 35 0"causing tension between Jerusalem and the West" Mmmm... no tension between Israel and the Palestinians?
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They're not European.
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