CBS/AP/ December 5, 2012, 6:40 AM

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.

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.

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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BsPoppy says:
Have I accidently walked into the valley of the trolls? I don't think the world has see this much collective insanity since Timothy Leary spiked the punch. I think Mr. Carter might have just drunk the whole thing....oh no Mr BILL! he left a bunch for the other trolls!!!

"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!
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verifabletruthmatters says:
Israel has had more than 60 years to prove itself. It's the same religious war the Rabbis started in 1850 to steal back Palestine ignorantly believing Palestine to be the Promised Land. They willingly reduce a Consciousness aligned with 100 BIL galaxies headed to Infinity, to a moron who cares about real estate in the Mideast, on a speck of dust called Earth. There are 1400 planets in the "habitable zone" of their star like our Sun, and 33 of them are the same size as Earth. In other words, there's nothing special about Earth, except that the human species is doing a great job failing the real Program. "Take basic Understandings, Kindergarten material like the TEN COMMANDMENTS, and raise them to the level of the Universal LAWS that govern God's World", to reach an Awareness Level known as THE PROMISED LAND". The message for centuries has been to stop violating the LAWS, because Physics doesn't tolerate being violated. It's the cause of every accident and virtually every tragedy on the planet. EVERYTHING has to be translated to a function of Energy governed by Physics. Teachers who know what they're doing don't leave behind TEACHINGS that are a violation of the Universal LAWS that govern God's World. Fundamentalists are HUGE VIOLATORS of verifiable TRUTH, therefore HUGE VIOLATORS of the associated Universal LAWS that govern the Universe, therefore HUGE VIOLATORS of God's World.

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)
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Rick_Carter1 says:
(Just FYI, people. It takes two gravitational fields to generate the force of gravity. If you can suppress (or nullify) one of those gravitational fields, then you can potentially suppress (or generate null) gravity. Matter is composed of quantum bound energy AND quantum bound space, and when matter is converted to quantum free energy, matter is also proportionally converted to quantum free space, and this is the basis for the ongoing spatial expansion of our Universe, which initially began with the "Big Bang". The "Big Bang" was a colossal matter / antimatter reaction brought on by the partial or incomplete inversion of the Universal Superparticle. It is these quantum mechanical characteristics of matter which generate the 4th dimensional gravitational field of matter. There are also ways to locally suppress these characteristics of matter in a way which nullifies the force of gravity. - RC
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Rick_Carter1 says:
I guess I will forever be destined to bear full responsibility for "The Highest National and World Security Issue" completely alone. You might all think that this bodes very badly for me, but I can promise everyone that it bodes far worse for you all. Oh, well, no one can ever say that I didn't give it my very best for as long as I possibly could. Now that I have effectively been excommunicated by the entire world, there is really no point in trying to champion this matter any further. I can only hope some responsible power above has fully recorded all of my desperate efforts down through the years. Have fun with your program "End Times", everyone! What else can I possibly say? - Rick Carter
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Rick_Carter1 says:
(For much of my life I knew that at least one of the ETs had survived in the UFO which crashed relatively intact (the other UFO which they were paired with was blown to 'smithereens' by this surviving ET) because it was somehow protected in the center of the ship. I used to try to imagine just what kind of internal structure this ET had hidden itself in, which apparently resided in the center of that UFO ship. It wasn't until I finally watched the video which Jim Ragsdale had made in the late 1990s near the end of his life, that I finally realized this internal structure was actually a 'wrap around' console in the center of that UFO ship. Jim Ragsdale and his girl friend were apparently the first persons to enter that UFO ship before military authorities finally got there. When Jim and his girl friend first crawled into the interior of the UFO ship, they thought this ET which was sitting in the center console was dead, but this ET actually only knocked unconscious.) - RC
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(These ETs inside of this UFO ship which crashed relatively intact were secretly trying to use this recon mission to alert mankind to this ET conspiracy against our world. They had planted a backup contingency explosive device aboard the UFO they were paired with just in case. That other UFO which they were pair with gave chase and opened fire on them, effectively disabling them and severely burning several of these ETs in the process. But before they crashed the ET which was sitting in the center console remotely detonated that backup explosive contingency device aboard the other UFO, thereby blowing it to smithereens. This violent explosion disabled the emergency tracking/crash beacon in that UFO which was blown to smithereens, and the other emergency tracking/crash beacon had already been disabled by the ETs who were trying to alert us to this ET conspiracy against our world. So the other ETs involved in this recon mission did not immediately know what had happened to either of these UFOs, which in turn bought our U.S. military valuable time when it came to securing these Roswell crash remains.) - RC
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Rick_Carter1 says:
"The Core" of this whole issue is this. All three of these program "End Time" religions known as the Abrahamic religions were covertly designed and installed in a serial way into our emerging human world by outside offensive totalitarian ETs who repeatedly masqueraded as Divinity toward mankind, who in turn are trying to thwart mankind's successful emergence as a full fledged member of our greater galactic community so they can one day steal and annex our extremely valuable celestial real estate. All three of these Abrahamic religions are key biocybernetic warfare components of a larger ET designed PWMD, or Program Weapon of Mass Destruction, designed to eventually crash and explode our emerging human world in a final programmed cataclysm of global warfare fueled with WMDs, known as the Christian Apocalypse or World War III. The real "Gospel" or "Good News" is that mankind potentially has countless millions (even billions) of years of growth, development and expansion ahead of them, so long as they don't fall for these ET designed and installed terminal religious "End Time" belief systems known as the Abrahamic religions. - Rick Carter

(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.)
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Rick_Carter1 says:
At some point we just have to go straight to "The Core" of the whole issue, know what I mean, everyone? - RC
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(Please trust me, we are NEVER going to save our planet if we don't! - RC
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Rick_Carter1 says:
(In light of the fact that these OTETs showed up in Earth orbit back in late 1999 for a picture taking session with our geosynchronous weather satellites within days of my going public with "The Highest National and World Security Issue" pretty much tells me you all have already hacked the planet as well. Can we finally stop playing games here ??? People are actually dying down here, and we are on the very brink of eventually losing the entire human race.) - RC
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(I know, I know, an unlimited supply of hot pockets and Zena tapes, right?) - RC
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Rick_Carter1 says:
Is my job finally through here, FGPs (UFPs) ??? PLEASE, is my job finally through ??!!! - RC
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You all know that you all are (above all) making a liar out of me,don't you? How about trying to help out for a change ??? - RC
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GossamerWings says:
Chuck766 see check out the history. Israel has some real issues.The settlements are what cause the retaliation of the Palestinians.
Israel isn't doing anything to help the peace process. They make things worse.
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The U.N. has merely compounded its original mistake when they left the Palestinians out in the cold from the standpoint of an autonomous national homeland in the Middle East. By finally granting the Palestinians official international recognition as a national state without providing them with the necessary land with which to make all of this happen is much like pouring gasoline on this whole situation on a local level and expecting the fires to go out. But at the same time the U.N. has elevated this tragic local conflict to the status of a major international problem, and in doing so the U.N. has effectively lit the fuse on World War III. In light of the fact that they have already had over 60 years to finally figure out the proper solution to this problem which THE U.N. ORIGINALLY CAUSED really amounts to collective insanity on their part, and that truly does not bode well for the future of our world to say the least. - RC
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