Palestinians to ask U.N. Security Council to stop Israel settlement expansion plans
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Jan. 2, 2012. / Getty
Updated at 7:41 a.m. Eastern
RAMALLAH, West Bank A West Bank official says the Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council to halt two massive Israeli settlement projects that he warns will destroy last hopes for a Mideast peace deal.
For now, Israel is advancing both projects, E-1 and Givat Hamatos, with some 7,500 apartments. The construction would cut off east Jerusalem, the intended Palestinian capital, from the West Bank.
Israel revived plans for E-1 last week, after a majority of U.N. member nations voted to upgrade Palestine's official status to that of "observer state". CBS Radio News correspondent Robert Berger says Israeli leaders insist the construction plans are an appropriate response to last week's UN vote.
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Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said Wednesday the Palestinians are asking the Security Council to block construction because otherwise "the idea of peace ... will disappear."
He says the U.S. must halt construction itself if it wants to avoid casting a veto at the council, as in 2011.
Several European nations with longstanding ties to Israel have blasted the proposed development, and Berger says EU envoy Andrew Standley reiterated those concerns, saying the settlements harm efforts to revive peace talks.
"That's what we're trying to analyze and trying to avoid at the moment," said Standley.
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"Palestine from the river to the sea, from the north to the south, is our land and we will never give up one inch or any part of it."
"Palestine was, still is and will always be Arab and Islamic," Mashaal said. "Palestine belongs to us and to no one else. We can never recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Palestine belongs to us, and not to the Zionists."
-Khaled Mashaal
If you change some of the above words and the statement was...
"Israel was, still is and will always be Israel's and Jewish," Netanyahu said. "Israel belongs to us and to no one else. We can never recognize the legitimacy of the Arab occupation of the Temple Mount. Jerusalem belongs to us, and not to the Islamists." CBS might think it is important enough for a whole front page! It would be all we could hear or read. Everywhere would be condemnation of Israel! I stand with Netanyahu! Where is the horror at what this monster has screamed. SILENCE!
Which is exactly where we find 6 million genocidal Jews in a nation of hypocrites called Israel, pushing a pack of bogus and violating religious ignorance, easily disproved. They ignorantly believe they can force the SECOND COMING by stealing back a piece of real estate, when they've spent centuries butchering the TEN COMMANDMENTS. They ignorantly believe they are "A CHOSEN PEOPLE" when Physics is running the show & it doesn't play favorites. A Consciousness aligned with 100 BILLION galaxies going to Infinity isn't going to violate the Physics running the show. The Consciousness that was Jesus, left the area around Jerusalem and spent 17 years studying under THE MASTERS in Tibet, where he left behind TEACHINGS on Reincarnation that have been stripped from the 100 versions of a very adulterated, highly politicized book, called the Bible. The current texts read nothing like the original documents, which in the case of the New Testament are 300 years old. Until humans are willing to translate the most original documents of any Sacred Text to a function of Energy governed by Physics, they're not going to have a clue what the TEACHER was trying to say. Jesus spent the last 300 years traveling among the Indians of North and South America leaving behind the same TEACHINGS as he did in the Mideast. If... there was going to be such a thing as "A CHOSEN PEOPLE" the title would go to the Indians, then to the people of Tibet, NOT the Jewish People.
Pro-Israeli, Jewish, Judge Goldstone chose 3 dozen war crimes out of 3600 atrocities committed by Israel in Jan 2009, which were released in the Goldstone Report, because he has a long history of investigating war crimes in Rwanda, Cosovo, Africa, etc.(Bill Moyers Journal 10-23-09) We have Separation of Church & State in the US because religions have a long history of destroying, causing most wars, and being incessant about pushing their violating ignorance. Which is all that Israel is--scheming, manipulating, lies, deceit, betrayal, theft and genocide--wasting BILLIONS in US taxpayer money. 17 million people were harmed by "white-supremacist, racists" in Nazi Germany. It was an atrocity for 17 million people, not just 6 million Jews. The Jews were already engaged in their "religious Supremacy ignorance" in 1850, decades before Germany ever happened and Germany knew what England and the Zionists were up to. Israel is backed by 50 million Evangelical Fundamentalists in the US pushing a completely different pack of violating, religious ignorance around the SECOND COMING, The End of Days, their highly violating interpretations of the Book of Revelations, and being taken into heaven in THE RAPTURE. That's why Israel gets away with murder, theft, scheming, manipulation, and incessant lies to push violating ignorance and obnoxious abuse. There could be peace in the Mideast. The US & England are responsible for creating the atrocity and injustice that is Israel. Cut off all aid, force them to the table for one discussion: how to move them out. Give them the ability to immigrate to US and England. (The Israeli Lobby by John Mearsheimer, "The Mideast: A Century of Conflict" by NPR, Morning Edition, Sept 2007 a 7 part series w 13 good references, The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby, The Accidental Empire by Gorshum Goremberg, Pity The Nation: Israeli Atrocities in Lebanon, Against The Tide by Lincoln Chaffee, Bill Moyers Journal 11-30-07 w John Hagee head of Christians United For Israel (CUFI), NPR, Fresh Air, 11-24-09 &12-6-09; 11-29-11; 8-24 & 10-3-2011 on New Apostolic Reformation)
(Yes, there is some limited good built into all three of these Abrahamic religions, otherwise they would never grow and spread in a (viral) cultural way around our world, in preparation for the final programmed "End Time" cataclysm known as the Christian Apocalypse or World War III. I know all of this because I personally lived at Wright Patterson Air Force base from 1951 to 1953, while my grandfather (Colonel Charles Faulkner Carter) was second in command there, and he was personally involved in the background investigation into the Roswell Incident of 1947. These same ETs overflew Washington DC for several weeks in 1952, in order to demand the return of the Roswell crash remains. They chose the middle of the Korean War as the most opportune time to do this, since we had our hands full with the Soviets, Red Chinese and North Koreans. The Roswell Incident happened because these ETs were reconning our post WWII nuclear facilities in the western and southwestern U.S., as part of a baseline study into our emerging WMD capability, since WMDs have a very key role to play in the ultimate success of the PWMD. They were particularly interested in the Roswell area because the 509th bomber group as based at Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF), and they were the only bomber group in the entire world authorized at the time to carry nuclear weapons. My grandfather was a highly decorated pilot who was born in 1898, and first started flying Jenny biplanes for the U.S. Army Air Service in 1918 - 1919, which later became the U.S. Army Air Corps and finally the U.S. Air Force (his cousin was Admiral Richard E. Byrd). He ultimately flew many bomber missions in Europe, Africa and the Pacific, eventually commanding a U.S. airbase in the Philippines near the end of WWII. He faithfully followed his own line of investigation into the Roswell Incident, one which led him into a veritable minefield of religious issues, any one of which could have blown up in his face and potentially ended his distinguished military career. Eventually he could no longer share his findings with his military peers (especially this close to the end of WWII), because they were so fraught with religious overtones, so he was forced to turn to his wife (Dorothy) as his main confidant in the Roswell investigation, and I was personally in my grandmother's care 24/7 at the time because I had been born with a congenital birth defect which needed surgical repair. This in turn gave me a front row seat to the Roswell investigation, unbeknownst to my grandfather's military peers.)
Israel isn't doing anything to help the peace process. They make things worse.