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Netanyahu: Building halt proves Israel wants peace

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JERUSALEM -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his Cabinet's decision to freeze West Bank settlement construction proves Israel wants peace.
He also says Sunday that the Palestinians' rejection of his offer shows that they are an obstacle to a peace deal.
West Bank Jewish settlers are fuming over Netanyahu's decision to halt settlement construction for 10 months. Netanyahu says the freeze is part of an attempt to restart peace talks.
The Palestinians say his offer is not genuine since it does not include east Jerusalem, which they want as the capital of a future state, or 3,000 housing units under construction. They refuse to resume talks until Israel halts all construction. Nearly 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
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2009-12-06 06:09:54

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juswld10
4:57AM Dec 6 2009 
Not included ,'3000 housing units already under construction', so how is the building activity 'frozen' ? , and why should anyone accept Netanyahu's claim that he 'froze' it?
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pen319073
11:32AM Dec 5 2009 
The late Israeli Prime Minister Rabin's peace plan, which would have returned much of the captured West Bank to Palestinians, made him evil in the eyes of Jewish militants. They grew increasingly vehement, holding stormy protests with posters of Rabin in a Nazi uniform -- the most despicable image possible to Jews.

Far-right rabbis told their followers it would be religiously proper to murder the prime minister. The 27-year-old student who did so claims that his assault was based on the legal code of the Jewish faith.

"According to the Halacha, you can kill the enemy," he testified at his arraignment before a magistrate. When asked if he had accomplices, he replied: "It was God."

Acta non verba.
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amandarogers1980
5:11PM Dec 4 2009 
A smoke screen. Nothing more than a smoke screen as Israel continues their settlements on Palestinian land.
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odanak1759
2:14PM Dec 4 2009 
Benjamin Netanyahu, backed by his extremist Beltway proxies and gussied-up under the guise of "sovereignty", the Jewish State is asking its American brethren to sacrifice a century of good works for the sake of terrorist-settlers like JacobTeitel, who people who want to weigh in on this should be aware of.. since Obama's summer speech in Cairo calling for an end to settlement construction, American Jews has been called upon to support the Settlement enterprise as if Israel's very survival depends on it. As for the settlers, they've been repackaged as victims -- simple family folk merely searching for adequate housing to accommodate their "natural growth".
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elainelng621
11:58AM Dec 4 2009 
Somebody please wake me when the Israeli government arrests itself for it colonization of the West Bank and its continued illegal occupation.
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louiethesyrian77
4:32PM Dec 3 2009 
Chicken Soup- is what is left once you strip Jewish identity of Judaism, racism, chauvinism, White Phosphorous, supremacy, cluster bombs, secularity, Zionism, Israel, intolerance, Nuclear reactor in Dimona, cosmopolitanism, genocidal tendency, etc. The Jew can always revert to chicken soup, the iconic symbolic identifier of Jewish cultural affiliation. The Jew is always more than welcome to say: ”I am not religious nor am I a Zionist, I am not a banker, nor is my name Madoff. I am not a ”Labor friend of Israel” nor I am a Lord or look like a cash machine. I am just a little innocent Jew because my mama’le used to feed me with chicken soup when I was slightly unwell.” Let’s face it once and for all, chicken soup is not that dangerous (unless you are a chicken). My grandmother taught me that it was very healthy. In fact I tried it once in winter 1978, I had the flu then. It helped, I feel better now. :)
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tonyvng2
3:42PM Dec 3 2009 
http://www.eutimes.net/2009/12/ukraine-academic-israel-imported-25000-kids-for-their-organs/
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boylstonchris10
3:26PM Dec 3 2009 
Hashmonaim Listings:
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If Netanyahu wants Israel to die of cancer let’s tell him he’s not going to do it under our care. We’ve got to tell Israel to go cold turkey. It’s the only way.
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boylstonchris10
3:22PM Dec 3 2009 
Just who is making big shekels from the sale of this contested territory? Why should any businessmen, whether they wear a yarmulka or not, be permitted to engage in this type of cynical and greedy manipulation in the Land of Israel? What of these “motivated” settlers. Is their motivation that the real estate that they squat on today will increase exponentially in value after a while and they can eventually sell at an astronomical profit. If the real estate is returned to the Palestinians as part of a peace agreement, will these “motivated” settlers expect compensation from the government for their “loss“? Where will the government get the money to compensate the settlers and home buyers for the inflated value of the property? Will Israel ask the U.S. for a monetary bailout for peace? That would take chutzpah but is well within the realm of possibility. Inquiring minds want to know! Shalom and zei gezunt for now, Jerk1214 &hiskit initop
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boylstonchris10
3:17PM Dec 3 2009 
Most, if not all, of the rogue settlements on the West Bank, such as Hashmonaim, were originally peopled by orthodox zealots who moved in and took over a site. Who directed them to engage in this activity? Who organized and coordinated these moves. NAMES PLEASE! Is this a means by which orthodox big shots get their hands on land for nothing to be subsequently sold at a premium? Is this the price that the orthodox political parties demand for cooperation in any coalition government? Just who is making big shekels from the sale of this contested territory? Why should any businessmen, whether they wear a yarmulka or not, be permitted to engage in this type of cynical and greedy manipulation in the Land of Israel?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his Cabinet\'s decision to freeze West Bank settlement construction proves Israel wants peace.