Peres says Hamas is trying to create 'artificial conflicts'

Why can't you guys get used to the fact that the Jewish State has survived 61 plus years of continued warfare by Palestinians/Arabs in attepts to destroy it.As a society they haven't gone beyond their first defeat in 1948.The billions that they have received from the UN and their Islamic sponsors have been wasted on arms, corruption and the desire to destroy Israel.If they were more interested in creating a free and democratic society for their people than in destroying their neighbor,peace would have followed very quickly.Some people never learn.

They are an act of provocation and all part of the steady annexation of Palestine. Its all part of the on going Israeli "institutional violence" that has been used to perfection......PEACE EVER?

When you declare the power to maintain and alter a site in perpetuity or even temporarily, you are seizing sovereignty over that site. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is just an example. IIA just started to remodel the place without even a by your leave to the occupants or to the Jordanian WAQF. And it did so in violation of the Israel Jordan peace treaty and over 1000 years of traditional care of and agreements about the site. Maintaining Israeli presence administer or remodel or maintain Heritage sites in Bethlehem, with soldiers to protect them or in Jericho, or in Hebron is an exercise of sovereignty, specifically designed to thwart Palestinian hopes for independence or sovereignty of their own. Netanyahu is transparent. So is Peres.

Can Canada have National Heritage Sites? What About the USA? people are asserting that Israel can't have a national heritage site on spot X because you deem it Palestinian Land. Well if Israel Annexes it, it is no longer Palestnian land, and the people there are no longer Palesitnians, they'd be Israeli's correct? Now more importantly, by Israel saying that there is Heritage on Spot X, are they somehow destroying Palesitnian Heritage on Spot X, or is it not possible that Spot X can be of Heritage to persons I and P? or is Heritage a 0 sum game and if so why do you think so narrowly? As well, what allows Canada to have national Heritage sites, which really look at the heritage of colonialism and fur traders etc... but Israel is not allowed, when israel's heritages sites would be religious in nature, stating that this is Rachel's, the Matriarchs tomb or this is the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Which you must surely agree is different from say Ammunition Hill.

Natanyahu didn't declair sovereignty over those places. He claimed them as heritage sites. Same as Mecca is a heritage site to Moslems in Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Somalia etc. all those people worship Mecca yet non claim sovereignty over it. The same with the Vatican, Frence, Spaign, Poland, etc. for the Catholic faith yet non claim sovereignty. So I would suggest that people put every thing in perspective and start looking for provocations, live in peace.

the record will show that Arabs,Palestinians, (Muslems) have a poor record respecting other religions! how can they be trusted now?

Bibi wants to designate Jewish Holy Sites as National Heritage Sites. Why is this a big deal. This is NOT a politcal move, this is NOT controversial. The Temple Mount, Cave of the Machpela, Rachel Tomb, Joseph's tomb, etc etc etc, were Jewish Holy sites long before modern day zionism, long before the creation of the palestinian people, and long before the creation of Islam. In ANY peace settlment that is truly about peace, Jews would have to have free access to all their religious places, just as muslims and christians would have access to theirs. Let's start the peace process, and give Jews access to holy Jewish places, like muslims have to muslim holy places!

As those places are sacred to moslim as well as jewish people one could and should do any preservation work with the participation of the relevant religious authorities. Is it too much for a state sacred to three major religions? But of course one can not expect such a reflection from BIBI ET ALL. Of course this true unless you want to incite something like in the case of Sharon who went for a promenade on temple mount with 200 people which brought up a nice reaction. do you remember that?

Why cant Zionists use their brains ? Why cant they put blame where it is due ? why does the USA and West keep funding them ? well answer is simple for all these Questions....

Israel can designate all the jewish/national heritage sites it wants in the west bank. In the end, like the Albanians in Kosovo, the Palestinians will declare and be recognized, by most 1st world countries, as a sovereign Palestinian nation... despite all the Israeli rightwingnuts' calls for the Palestinians to be "transported" east across the Jordan river.

You obviously haven't read the treaty with Jordan. None of these sites are "Muslim sites in Jerusalem". Robert Serry ought to apologize, once again, for jumping on the band-wagon of Palestinian rhetoric instead of first clarifying the facts. The same goes for the comments here.

essentially declared the establishment of a palestinian State as dead and buried. Peres is trying to pull the wool over everybody eyes. I'll make it clear Netanyahu effectively ended any hopes of the establishment of a Palestinian State to ensure his name stays on the PMO's office door. Peres has been wheeled out to state Netanyahu has done no such thing in an attempt to delay world condemnation in the hope the Palestinians will kick off another intifada and bury any hopes of a two state solution for the next decade, or at least until Sarah Palin is in the White House giving Israel carte blanche to wage war in the region. Pure madness, and netanyahu's policy since Barack Hussein Obama came to power, Netanyahu is doing everything he can to get the Palestinians to kick off. And the Palestinians are not biting.

Like Israel remodeling part of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Israel is exercising rights it does not have, except as part of the now-banned right of conquest. And in some cases, it exercises rights abandoned specifically by treaty with Jordan. Declaring some sites subject to purely Israeli jurisdiction as Jewish heritage sites, presumes a sovereignty that does not exist. Peres should defend the defensible, not the indefensible. Re-read your treaty with Jordan.

this man can not be trusted.never

Every time Bibi does something stupid and really offends people, he comes out holding Peres in front of him and shouting, 'You wouldn't hurt a defenceless old man would you?' And Peres does his favourite grandfather impersonation and says 'It's all a misunderstanding. Bibi means well and he's a lovely young man really.'