PA: Place supervisors in settlements to ensure freeze

ILLEGAL settler says in order to justify the illegal appropriation of Palestinian territory?

Just remember, "those who laugh last, laugh best."

Whats needed are completely unbiased building inspectors who can drive to sites after the PA has given them a tip off. They should then have the power to arrest the foreman or manager on the building site. Perhaps from a neutral country like NZ or Turkey. I volunteer for job give me an AK47, 5 mags and a RV I will stop construction in a few days.

My perspective is that long ago the Palestinians would have had a state by now if they would have sought strictly diplomacy, whether through the U.N. or through international venues, preventing the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, instead of utilizing violence or terror against the Jewish state. Now the process became more difficult to instill trust between neighbours, but there should always be hope.

Saeb Erekat is the chief negotiator for the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee, not the PA. Indeed, as far as I know he holds no official position **whatsoever** within the PA government of Fayyad. The negotiations on end-of-status is a matter of "national liberation", and that means it is a matter between the "Govt of the State" and the "National Liberation Movement". And that means it is between "The Govt of Israel" vs. "The PLO". It has been thus since 1993, and it has not changed in all the long years post-Oslo.

There's no need. He gets all of the intel that he needs- and more.

Every time Arekat opens his mouth when interviewd by Foreign Press al lie comes out. This one is even more ridiculous then the last one over the Palestinian holy places when he talked about the tombs of our patriachs. I am living in Gush Etzion and can testify that there are no new projects started since the beginning of the stop. By the way lots of Palestinians tell me that Arekat is the owner of a concrete factory which delivers concrete to settlements and the security fence. Let us demand Quartet inspectors to help Fahmi Shabaneh (Former Head of PA GIS) in his investigation into PA corruption.

Then place supervisors in Israeli Arab villages to ensure they freeze too. Oh, and how about some monitors in Darfur where the world really should be focused now instead of 1,600 Jerusalem apartments.

same old. even when the palis used their opportunities since 1948, Arafat sold them down the river, by starting the suicide campaign, blowing up airplanes and walking out on president Clinton, let alone siding with Sadam in the gulf war. BTW the Arab states stopped supporting the Palis after that. so Abba Eben's old saying about missed opportunities is quite accurate. the building in Jerusalem is just another excuse to miss an opportunity.

While it is true UN people have been guilty of some offenses, you neglect to consider that the people who would be bribing them would be Israeli, and their purpose would be to advance Israel's agenda. Is age catching up?

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The PA should take steps to relieve Arab workers from building in settlements. This is really perverse and humiliating, like digging your own grave !The PA gets enough money to help these people with their expenses and create projects in which they can be employed for the good of their own people.

the entire world cannot stand anymore this arrogant israeli attitude. go home, beyond the green line. palestinians love to live in peace and in freedom. so, please leave. leave all palestinian territories free.

planet were deprived of the right to legally live in our historic homeland when the Jewish People's Council declared a separate state on our behalf, then informed the world. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/decad169.asp Based on what the Israeli Provisional Govt told them, the majority of the world recognized Israel, over riding the Arab States legal objections. Since then, Israel has never legally annexed one square inch of territory. Next you're tawkin' t' G-d, you tell him from me, we've all been ripped off.. http://wp.me/pDB7k-pE

".. and the world says nothing" Why should the world say anything? " Gilad Shalit is a prisoner in Gaza, kidnapped in Israel" He's a POW CAPTURED outside of Israel's sovereign territory. " Northern Israel is full of new constructions by Arabs" What part of Israel's North is actually Israel? http://wp.me/PDB7k-Y#northern-border " and Erekat wants supervision on Israeli construction in Jerusalem which is Jewish history long before Palestinians existed" History, but now, it AIN'T under Israeli Sovereignty. Unilateral annexation is illegal. So is NOT bothering to annex at all. Nail this to your head http://wp.me/PDB7k-Y#the-big-lie And this http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1950/apr/27/jordan-and-israel-government-decision And this http://wp.me/PDB7k-Y#annexation And stop spouting the Hasbara...it's twaddle.

The fox has been illegally acquiring Palestinian territories for 62 years. It's time to put it back in the fox house...http://wp.me/PDB7k-Y#the-big-lie

We Jews do not care what you Arabs want to do with your great expanse of territory in the Middle East. We Jews do not lay claim to your land. All we want is what belongs to us as has been proven over and over again in historical factual wrings and findings in the ground. Our claim is the State Of Israel including the capital city of Jerusalem. If the Palestinians of Egyptian and Jordanian ethnic background want to live peacefully alonside we Jews that is all we ask for. But do not come here and claim we Jews are illegally occupying OUR HOME LAND.

and keep it up and dissapear....

Israel has the right to build where they want. That piece of Real estate formerly CANAAN that (looks like an Exacto Knife) was handed down by Jehovah Elohim. In fact, when they traveled from Egypt, they defeated all oncomers and alliances who came up against them, including defeating the then Philistines who occupied the GAZA Strip. That's why to this day, U.N. (=United Nothing) Can't do anything. So tell Crazy Joe Biden to go read the OLD TESTAMENT before banging his mouth..." WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS, 'TIS SURE FOLLY TO MAKE REMARKS." Ironically, 1600 is also the street sddress # at Pennsylvania Avenue..The White House. Go figure Keep on Building "IZZY" my pet name for Israel.

New kitchen cabinets, ceiling fans, birdhouses, clothesline poles? If so, warrant-less break and enter? If it is the kind of construction with overhead cranes, massive earth-moving, is a supervisor necessary? How would this work exactly?

Palestinians are building on their own lands and not Israeli lands. Wise-up

Excellent idea. Watch dogs must be in West Bank and Jesusalem to check and confirm Israel's statements.

They failed miserably in Suez, Lebanon, Darfur & Lebanon When the price was right and liquor and women were available, they became corrupt, blind and too involved with their own personal interests

In the first place I am tired of all these people who post their opinions without giving their right names. What are you afraid of? Your posts are not believable because you are afraid to stand behind them. As for the subject, how about supervisors to prevent our enemy from doing terror? Our enemy is not to be trusted because they have not stopped the terror since the agreements between arafat and Peres and Rabin. Terror has reduced only because our army works hard: no other reason. They are addicted to it. We cannot allow them a state of any kind near our borders before they prove that they can be trusted not to explode in coffee shops and hospitals and things like that. This may take a hundred years or so.

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oh the great conquering jew on US welfare...no one in the world trust the jews, particularly zionist...you are on their land..get off or trouble from the world community...trust me on this

with regards to micro-managing the activities around Jerusalem before negotiations begin, when there's no convincing guarantees that ALL Palestinians deplore terrorism against the Jewish state? Just two weeks ago, the PA commemorated a square in Ramallah to a woman responsible for the Coastal Road Massacre in 1978, Dalal Mughrabi. One of the worst premeditated terrorist attacks upon Israel distinctly killing civilians, in order to derail the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. If such people are glorified as examples to the younger generations, how can the Palestinians expect trust-building measures only by Israel to prove that they are serious about making peace and co-existing. That's not the way to go about building trust.

They continued building when they say a freeze... Supervisors are badly needed.

Palestinians are building a whole city and the world says nothing, Gilad Shalit is a prisoner in Gaza, kidnapped in Israel,and the world does nothing, Northern Israel is full of new constructions by Arabs and Erekat wants supervision on Israeli construction in Jerusalem which is Jewish history long before Palestinians existed.

If Palestinians can't even trust Israel to keep her word about a temporary settlement freeze, how can they expect Israel to honor a peace treaty? And yet they have been negotiating with Israel for decades. Why would they bother, if they didn't trust the Israeli government to keep its commitments? So this must be just another propaganda ploy. Of course Israel keeps her commitments. Israel stops illegal settlements and jails the perpetrators to keep them out of trouble and to discourage others. Israel keeps her commitments! If it wasn't true, and Israeli citizens didn't rise up and *make* it true, that would mean that Israelis would not be ready for self-government.

illegal activities in all "territories occupied" would be far better and should have been implemented 62 years ago.

israelis will continue to defy you as in the past.The good news, is the whole world is now watching Israel's behavior.Unlike the past, the land grab and creating obstacles for peace is finnally getting attention of the international community.

Israelis and Palestinians tend not to keep their commitments unless tightly supervised.

Like asking that a fox be in charge of the hen house. Aint gonna happen.

Supervise arms smuggle to Gaza, Hizzbullah. Supervise corruption in the Palestinian Authority, Supervise the incitement of Dr. SHoa denier Abbas and the list is still long.