Lieberman: Israel must fight illegal Arab construction

The pot is calling the kettle black ! As long as "settlers" are building on the West bank, which I understand is against Israel's laws, Israel they have not a leg to stand on. As long as settlers essentially act like insurgent, violating Israel;s laws, fighting their own government and their own Defense Forces. When settlers act aggressively against Palestinians in West Bank territory, they violate the peace, good sense and UN resolutions. They act as if they do not want peace. They bare aggressors and invaders. What is good for the goose is good for the gander: how would Israel react if Palestinians were to build in Israel? - Of course they could barely set foot in the land. Israel needs peace. War and conflict are stupid because everybody loses. You have to talk in the end. Start now. This from a holocaust survivor, albeit a comfortable one who got out in time, and who served in the US army in Europe.

God promised no more uprooting but Israel first has to pay heed to the warnings that Isaiah and Ezekiel gave against divorcing God. God's will is the end of dictatorship in Daniel 2, where majorities, minorities, and remnants of dictatorship blend like chaff on the threshing room floor stirred by a summer wind into democracy and equal treatment under the law. Israeli Arabs and West Bank settlers both should be forgiven, and the Israeli government should accept responsibility and seek God.

"There is clearly an attempt to build enclaves that could be separated from Israel, based on similar international precedents," כל הפוסל במומו פוסל? "Oho!' said the pot to the kettle; "You are dirty and ugly and black! Sure no one would think you were metal, Except when you're given a crack." "Not so! not so! kettle said to the pot; "'Tis your own dirty image you see; For I am so clean -without blemish or blot- That your blackness is mirrored in me".

whether it's by arabs or Jews, regardless of the motivation. There's a right & a wrong way to do things. This isn't the wild west where anything goes. If you want to build you need a permit - period. All illegal structures should be torn down.

good question Noxin!!! and the answer is NO, there was / is no similar plan to tochnit daled" on the arab side. If you think otherwise, I would love to see it too!!!

Have you seen the Gaza Freedom March 2010 on You Tube?It shows their view.We need as a nation to take in to account a unified nation.I am on there as Israeli but in different uniform very sad as I remembered that day.We Israelis be we Gaza,West Bank, or Israel need to unite so we can be a unified front to the world.It will not be about land rights then it will be about a nation with a flag and identity.Are we a nation or not so we can help each other not hate.It takes time to heal hate.WE need to rethink hate.How many people in Gaza are evacuees of Iran and Iraq?How many are refugee status?Rankoo-Karoon

Not to be cynic but why not, firs of all are illegal and this is enough.

Israel will not the strength of hin.. He will show the arabs what he means!!!! which no jewish leader can do no in power

has brought shame and disgrace to Israel. How could the people of Israel elect such a character? Shouldn't we blockade Israel, like we did the people of Gaza, after they elected HAMAS?

Uh, Mark Lincoln,it is often repeated by Arabs and echoed by their naive Western apologists, as if it were a fact, that they can't ever get a building permit from Israel. However, is there any truth to it? Were proper applications made, did they have actual title to the land, were they in compliance with zoning? I would bet that those steps were rarely if ever taken. Title to land is not established by waving a rusty key and telling tall tales. The shuk is full of buckets of rusty old keys and anyone can buy one. The real story here is Arabs disregarding Israeli law with impunity and naive Westerners supporting their illegal efforts out of misguided sympathy and ignorance of reality.

That means Arabs have no way to avoid building illegally.

Not the usual lame hasbara, 'Oh there are others as bad as us, or even worse, so our crimes don't matter.' Israel claims to be a western democracy. It relies on support and trade from western democracies. Therefore it has to be judged by the standards of western democracies. If you want Israel to be judged by the standards of Sudan or North Korea fine, but then it's not going to get support and trade from western democracies. OK? You there safe in your nice multi-cultural United States, you think it's OK that Israeli planning regulations discriminate against Arabs? Would you and Abe Foxman mind if US planning regulations discriminated against Jews?

Didn't the Arabs have their own plan analogous to Plan Dalet? why no mention of this? Why the selective information?

Let's quote from the original Plan Dalet of what Jewish forces were going to do to Arab villages in 1948: "Destruction of villages (setting fire to, blowing up, and planting mines in the debris), especially those population centers which are difficult to control continuously." Maybe he won't go as far as planting mines in the debris, but Lieberman is clearly out to destroy the dwellings of the indigenous population, erected without permission because Zionist authorities discriminate against Arabs by not granting many licences to them. Out of interest, what the f--k is it to do with the Foreign Minister what happens with Arab construction in Israel?