Government officials: Har Homa row sparked by 'two bureaucrats'

If you think that being Israeli gives your "mind your business" response an argumentative credit, you might appreciate the fact that you were responding to Israeli architect, currently working PhD on permits problem during the Mandate in Palestine. Now return to my post and see that you forgot to answer the Western Wall analogy, or were simply unable to comprehend. It was based precisely on the assumption of Israeli jurisdiction and political affiliation of bureaucrats, and not with the question of whether Israel has or has not right to build. Besides, the Jerusalem municipal and Israel state territories and jurisdictions do not correspond, which is the whole issue. Jerusalem municipal boundaries overlap with green line which is both object of past annexations and future negotiations whether you like it or not. Speaking on the personal level, you better get used to that to avoid destructive trauma when it happens. So much for your foam-on-the-lips stimulus-response.

According to Sharia law, waging Holy War of Extermination (Jihad) against Infidel nations is every Muslim's command, with Infidels given 3 choices: (a) Embrace Islam; (b) Submit to Islamic rule as oppressed Dhimmi minority (so-called "Binational State"); (c) Death and destruction. As to any Arab ruler who breaks above rules, his verdict is certain death. See Abdullah I of Jordan, Anwar Sadat, what fate loomed for Arafat at Camp David II, and looms for Abu-Mazen today. There are only 3 ways to prevent this: (a) Decisively defeat and expel Arab Jihadists beyond insurmountable boundaries (happened in hisotry only in Iberia, Sicily, Malta); (b) Sign temporary truce (Hudna), which Jihadists are allowed for up to 10 years, until strong enough to return with above 3 threats; (c) Evacuate and emigrate to another land. There you have it: Entire foundation of Arab-Israel conflict - and War on Terror - explained in less than 20 lines. Everything else is empty talk!

More likely, she wants to know if they are also in the grip of certain ideologies or beholden to some particular groups, Our State Department IG in charge of mercenaries oversight had "no idea" his brother was on the Board of Directors of a mercenary company, or so he claimed. Government employees, that are civil servants, are supposed to work for the entire people without political favor.

Har Homa and Western Wall Plaza are both souveren Israeli territory (exactly like Tel Aviv) where we can bilt whatever we want according to the Israeli law. Would you please mind your own business and care about building permits in Vilna, or Paris, or whereever you like outside the souveren Israeli territory? Oh, I understand that it is difficult for somebody grown up in the Lithanian Soviet Socialist Republic to comprehend what is wrong with making somebody appointment conditional on his/her political affiliation.

-ble real-estate,despite being truly brother nations . I barely remember it,so it must have been about 20 years ago Denmark got outraged by our claim to a barren islet somwhere in the sea between us (Lessø,if I recall). There had been some indications waters around the island might contain oil. Responding to our claims,Denmark sent her entire Navy on "exercises",right next to the island. It has come out there was no oil there,but there's no saying what'd have happened had it been. So stop your dumb prop,nobody shares such city like Jerusalem

I find it interesting that the Israel government has NOT rescinded the tender and has not fired the two "bureaucrats" and the housing minister. After my long years in business I can smell a cover-up 10,000 KM away. If an organization isn't willing to severely discipline the leadership in addition to the mid level and low level people, it just means that everything was done exactly as was intended, but the organization just got caught and needed to come up with a way to "paper over" the incident so things could go back to normal as quickly as possible. The reality is the raping of Har Homa was not a mistake but deliberate policy from the highest levels of the Israeli government. The problem for Israel was only the timing, not the action, from the Israel point of view.

It only takes to imagine an inverse scenario to understand how right is Esther #13: Let's say, two marginal bureaucrats sign a tender for 307 Palestinian housing units right in the Western Wall Plaza. Wouldn't you be the first to call for checking the political affiliation or IQ of the civil servants concerned? It is so symptomatic that Israeli govn't's expansionist acts are downplayed as administrative errors of individuals, whereas individual terrorist acts of Palestinians are attributed to Palestinian self-governance.

in the Clinton organized negotiation,offered it to PA.Arafat walked out and told Tanzim Leader Bargouti to lit the match and start the Intifada. There are many international disputes which can be solved if good will exist on both sides. take Canadas dispute,since 1971,over Hans Island on the edge of Arctic region between Canada and Greenland(Danish colony). Neither Canada nor Denmark intends to renounce its claim to sovereignty over the windswept outcrop.Uninhabited Hans Island,the size of several city blocks, sits in the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland,which is controlled by Denmark.The longstanding dispute now moves from the political arena to the realm of bureaucrats,who will develop a set of mutually agreed rules. Defence Minister Bill Graham rankled Danish officials by making an unannounced stop on Hans Island during a trip to the Arctic in July 2005. So why are you criticising Israel.ARE YOU ANTIRACIST Or ANTISEMITIC? EXPLAIN!

I know this is a drag... Proving to the world you want something you dont want... :-)) Come on ! Between kicking the pals out and getting back YOUR land and a senseless peace (antisemitism will never go away and arabs are treacherous), the choice is clear: Grab the land ! Free it of ayrabs ! Long live an arab-free Kingdom of Israel!

In numerous attempts to seizure this or another East Jerusalem tract the government keeps low profile, and the operation looks like some private moskowitz-or ateret-cohanim-like body taking possession of land with the support of the IDF. If the affair starts stinking, the govn't orders retreat and washes its hands. Har Homa affair started stinking internationally years before first stone was laid in 1997, and not one was laid without Bibi govn'ts expedient push and control. It is totally ridiculous that Israel resorted to 2 scapegoats after this tender has been trying US's patience for entire week??!! After the week of housing minister Ze'ev Boim's flat rejection of Rice's warnings??? I mean how more ridiculous can be an invention than that of the two minor bureaucrats? Perhaps, by awful mistake, all stressed, over-workloaded, they simply pressed a wrong button in Excel? Happens even with peacenicks... And now what?

These two IDIOTS should be fired immediately.Perfect example of Israeli behaviour, doing without thinking.

You want a state in which getting a job depends on one's political affiliation??? Or may be a special investigation unit (tribunal) examining all government employers and firing those whose political affiliation is not along the "party line"? Why do not you move to live in Russia? You would feel at home there...

Well, if it was just an act by two insignificant pencil pushers, RESCIND IT. Unless, of course, destroying the process begun at Annapolis is on the cards.

I have been reading some of your postings. For a while I thought you were a staunch supporter of Israel but, alas, no! You don't care for Israel or the Jewish people, you are just full of hatred for the Arabs. That is anti-Semitism, too.

What I'd like to know is who decided it was two 'bureaucrats' fault. You cannot do anything in Jerusalem with out a political say so, Prime Minister. And why is it that the senior government spin doctor talks about miserable timing before anything else. Because... the plan is, as it was and contnues to be to screw the little guy. The mafia lays another brick, in the New American-Roman Empire of Jerusalem. PS But if you happen to be moving into these new 'homes' don't forget, you have to wear your Moses horns now.

The two infamous civil servants should have their IQs and their political affiliations investigated...

One could only imaging snitching by the Judenrat during the WW2 if the "sovereign" Israeli Goverment delivers names of the 2 people .

Clouds of dust are filling the Israeli air as fingers point in every direction: "He did it! No, she did it! Sounds like Adam and Eve in the Garden in answering Hashem as to who did what. This is not the point. For days now we have been reading about how the US, the EU, the Arabs are pissed off by this lie in action on the part of the Israeli government. That question that is still open is what are they going to do about it? Har Homa must stopped nd stopped now and those colonists who have chosen to live there should be made aware that: 1. they are going to have to be relocated back into Israel, 2. No one in the international community recognises this annexation trumped up to look like it is part of Jerusalem. If there is not a work stoppage, then freeze every pennny to a government that claims to be an ally but is lying to its biggest donor. Enough is enough.

Arabs are building on Jewish owned land and the government is looking the other way around. You may not realize it, by even in the 19 century, the majority population in Jerusalem (Old, there was no New Jerusalem then) were the Jews. So called east Jerusalem was ethnically cleansed of Jews in 1948 and their property was stolen by the Arabs.

Look-- There was NO mistake here! Israel-- IS NOT SERIOUS about making peace!! What This Is-- Is just a measure to SAVE FACE! Which Israeli Official-- Came out IMMEDIATELY to condemn it??!! It Was ONLY After Mass Condemnation/A Waiting Period To See If Israel Could Get Away With It-- That someone decided to seek a "face saving" way out...& this is it. If No One Had Said Anything-- Construction would have continued. ...Knowing Israel it's continuing anyway! Israel has NO Respect & NO Credibility!! We've been down this road...of more announcements about settlements/more discoveries of settlement construction...with Israel before. ...Many times. I'll believe Israel is serious...when I SEE action/things change on the ground...which indicate OVERWHELMINGLY...that is Israel is in compliance & wants peace. Until Then-- It's just the pariah, mass abuse nation, speaking with a forked tongue & moving about with its snake's tail...doing the usual.

...access to the Jewish property?

I have heard all kinds of weird definitions of racism, but you are the first one (to my knowledge) to claim that for people to want the land which was taken from them given back is racist. EVERYONE, regardless of race, creed, or any other condition would want the expropriated land given back or paid for.

Why disguise your self and tar the word of anti-racist. You know too well - that the way to get the Jews out of their land is by this myth. It is the arabs that are racist - and their supporters who want 2 states - one palestinian where all Jews must be removed (hence racist)and the other supposedly Jewish but with several million so called Palestinian refugees - meaning no Jewish state a tall. You are the real racist - and your abuse and play on words of words is exactly what racists do.

Of course Zimmerman and Gal had no idea it would spark such a row when this has been a common practice of Israel for quite some time now. The bureaucratic tards keep signing shit undermining any discussions or even winks towards discussions. And even if it weren't for the bureaucratic tards, You'd still have the dickheaded settlers doing their own expansions while the "Brave IDF" somehow find their nuts missing and incapable of stopping new trailers from being delivered or outposts being erected. Yeah, ok. Orders fly through the chain to prevent settlers from squatting in areas for long periods of time. Whoopdee shit. Stop escorting the pricks there in the first place, now. And just salt the area where Homesh was already so there's no reason for settlers to go back there.

Good for the two bureacrats.They should be fired for not passing more building in Israel.Do they want a bigger cutback.The corruption in this government is so deep that only by paying these bureaucrates will more homes be built.Next this cringing corrupt olmert will bow down further for condi to have a say.She suffered so much as a child by her own confessions.The corrupt Olmert really understands that he must go against jews at every oppertunity to please condi.