Netanyahu's Settlement Two-Step
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The optimist in me says, let's turn the page and hope for the best. The pessimist in me, weary of the same script year after year, wonders whether the U.S. will ever get the upper hand in an increasingly dysfunctional relationship.
Israel says this is all the prelude to a construction freeze - not including the current batch of apartments, naturally. Now, the Israelis say, it will be up to the Arabs to reciprocate with a demonstration of their own good will. Fat chance. As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz notes, "the number of new housing units will not actually decline compared to previous years. The only difference is that now, that instead of construction permits being given gradually throughout the year, the government intends to issue hundreds of permits within a few days, before the official announcement of the "freeze" is made."
(The Jerusalem Post quoted an unnamed senior political official saying that Israel will abide to a six month construction moratorium "with an extension dependent on whether the Palestinian Authority and neighboring Arab countries step up to the plate and deliver what is expected of them.")
Netanyahu's advisors make the argument that this was just a sop to the settlers and not much of one anyway as no new construction is going on deep inside the West Bank. Will that mean much to the Arabs who complain that more Jewish settlement means less land for any future Palestinian state? Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat gave voice to that frustration, telling the Washington Post that "Given the choice between making peace and making settlements, they have chosen to make settlements.
It's also obviously irritating the White House. On Friday, the president's spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Israel's plans were "inconsistent" with commitments the Jewish state has made earlier and "we urge that it stop."
You have to wonder about the timing of the decision. Israel finally has someone it can talk with on the Palestinian side. Unlike the inflammatory Ahmad Shukairy or the double-dealing Yasser Arafat, Netanyahu's would-be interlocutors feature a couple of pragmatic politicians in the person of Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayed. These guys aren't pan-Arab revolutionaries or religious fanatics. Just the opposite, in fact. They're a couple of bourgeois technocrats who appear eager to work out a deal on a two-state solution. But they're already playing with a weak hand and each time Israel builds a new apartment (or settlement) in the West Bank, Fatah loses another vote to Hamas.
In 2003, George Bush made clear to Israel that it couldn't put the settlement question off indefinitely. "Israel must make sure there is a contiguous territory that the Palestinians can call home," he said. When George Mitchell, the U.S. Mideast envoy, arrives in the region for more talks with Israel in the coming week, he'll bring the exact same message.
Mom of 3 Children Begs New York State to Help Her Against Judge Drager's Criminal Agenda
DANGEROUSLY ALARMING:
Immediate Release: Judge Laura Drager Works With Millionaire International Investment Banking Pedophile Litigant to Destroy His Wife and Three Children.
Judge Laura Drager, Has Overseen Five Years of Dangerous Criminal and Brutal Harassment of Mom and Three Kids in Order to Seize Her Mortgage Free Home and Throw Her Out Onto the Street to please paying client.
DANGEROUS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND ACTS OVERSEEN BY DRAGER:
-The Decapitated Head of A Goat Sent to a Female Litigants Child Should Have Alerted Judge Laura Drager, that the situation was a dangerous one.
-The Female Litigant's Daughter being Brutally Mugged and Beaten Should Have Alerted Judge Laura Drager, that the situation was a dangerous one.
-A Strange Fire in the Female Litigant's Home, on the Night the the Husband Fled The Country, Dropping The Homeowners Insurance Should Have Alerted Judge Drager, that the situation was a dangerous one
-The Litigant's Car being tampered with, Should Have Alerted Judge Drager that the situation was a dangerous one.
-Unlawful Stalking and Hacking in regard to the Female Litigant, Should Have Alerted Judge Drager, that the situation was a dangerous. Judge Drager even produced an email that wasn't sent by the Female Litiagant, which Judge Drager used against Female Litigant.
JUDGE LAURA DRAGER HAS WORKED BEHIND THE SCENES TO USE THE COURT SYSTEM, HER DIVORCE COMPANY, AND HER CRIMINAL CLOUT TO TANK CASE:
-Judge Laura Drager, has organized criminal activity with lawyers and Judges to brutally harass and bankrupt a mom of three who just wanted to move her life on, and get Court Ordered Child Support, Tuition and Pendente Lite. Instead Judge Drager has put this woman's life in grave danger, along with her three children.
Judge Drager has worked with Millionaire to Declare Federal Bankruptcy Fraud defraud woman of additional property and other corporate ownership interests
Judge Drager organized a double closing of the woman's apartment where the husband could unlawfully steal $2 million from the Litigant, so Judge Drager could enhance the bottom line of her Divorce Company
Judge Laura Drager has threatened, manipulated or paid off each one of the woman's attorneys, denied the woman of Child Support for 3 years, Held the Woman Accountable for All of the Millionaire Husband's Legal Fees. Drager evicted the mom and 3 children three years ago and is evicting her again. The woman is on public assistance.
HELP THIS WOMAN!
"LOVE AND MONEY"
These words have me thinking and asking myself why is it so hard for people to choose between both words so i decided to give my VIEW in my own words.What's love? Love's passionate affection for another person. A deep connection between two person at times you can't even explain.The truth be told you can't choose who to love..
LOVE can affect u in two ways (1) It can make u look and feel alive it's like you're on top of the world and nothing else around you matters. (2) It can make u feel like u want to die because the pain is so bad..LOVE sometimes make your heart beats faster when you think about the one you LOVE. You'll do, say and act in ways that you didn't know you could. LOVE at times blinds and clouds your judgment. And if anyone try to steer you away from LOVE you'll hate them.Yes! you can be in LOVE with more than one person at the same time but if you've to choose their is one that you LOVE a little more than the other for your own reason..
They say MONEY can't buy LOVE..I still believe that's true but at times people push LOVE a side for financial reason. LOVE and MONEY is the most powerful thing in the world. At times MONEY wins but i think MONEY wins because some people push LOVE away for financial stability. Their heart isn't in it but they stay for the stability it gives them. The big question is do they forget about LOVE? or they still yearn for LOVE?..I think you can't forget about true LOVE..
I think why most people end up cheating is because their heart isn't in it for LOVE don't matter how hard they try..Apart of them is always going be longing for that feeling of true LOVE..When you're with someone that you genuinely LOVE that feeling is priceless..especially when the feeling is mutual. For one of the most powerful word in the world it is for FREE..so why when we've LOVE at times we mess it up? even when we don't mean to?? My question is why it's so hard to hold on to LOVE?
Despite the power MONEY has on people, they still want that feeling of LOVE. Being in LOVE is one of the best feeling that you can experience. I can say i rather have LOVED and lost than never to have experience LOVE at all. When LOVE goes bad which it often do that feeling at times is unbearable..You buried LOVE when you loose it but LOVE is tricky, it comes upon you unexpected. When it comes around it pushes through your heart like a flower pushing through the dirt..
I think there is no cure for loosing LOVE some may say new LOVE make you forget about old LOVE that's true in some cases..but not because you replace old LOVE means that you forget about it..When you can't be with the one that you truly LOVE because of financial reason i think that's a slow killer..Being in LOVE is the best feeling ever..although in life some people never experience that true LOVE they just accept what they have...I don't think that someone can truly be complete without LOVE...Dam!!that five letter word MONEY...
At times we tend to do things that hurt the ones we LOVE the most..I don't know why it's like that but it will be that way even when i am gone. The people we LOVE the most we hurt the most. Life throws us curves balls we catch some and get hit by the others..Why is that? I don't know! I guess it's a part of life..But don't ever give up on LOVE because GOD is LOVE...
Thomas
http://www.travertinetilesuk.com
LIKUD POLICY is for A GREATER ISRAEL extending from Eilat to just south of Bent Jbail on the Lebanese border. And everything in between.
That is the LIKUD objective. It always was, from the time of its progenitors, LEHI and the Irgun, through to now, 2009. It has never changed.
All else is commentary and play-acting. The only way to ensure a Palestinian state is either by economic pressure or by force.
Problem is AIPAC who decides US foreign policy, and the massive nuclear arsenal in the Negev.
The optimum methodology would be to stop all US aid and all bilateral trade with the US and the EU.
But who is listening? No one! It will come to pass, but probably only after the nuclear war, now shortly to come.