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    Israeli leader: No settlement freeze

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister has ruled out a freeze on settlement construction — a stance that is expected to further stall the resumption of peace talks with Palestinians.

    The Palestinians have said they will not negotiate unless Israel halts settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, land which they claim as part of a future independent state. Both areas were captured by Israel in the 1967 war.

    In comments published in Tuesday's Jerusalem Post, Israel's prime minister said last year's 10-month freeze on construction failed to yield results. Benjamin Netanyahu said he saw no need for another moratorium on settlement construction.

    The Palestinians, also fed up with deadlocked negotiations, have asked the United Nations to recognize their independence.

     

    74 comments

    • The truth shall set us fr ...  •  8 mths ago
      Every time I hear that Israel is America’s only friend in the Middle East, I remember that before Israel, America had no enemies in the Middle East
    • John  •  8 mths ago
      There needs to be more than a freeze on settlement construction...the settlers must be forced out by the Israeli government.
      • Ride 8 mths ago
        God said, “I will bless those that bless Israel and I will curse those that curse Israel.
        Which will you wish for your life, (A blessing or a curse)?
      • riyada 8 mths ago
        israel will be thrown into the sea.
    • David Rosenthal  •  8 mths ago
      Jarm I am Jew speak for yourself I don't believe God wanted blood shed for any piece of land that we all go back to when we are dead you ZioNazi's need to become human and than maybe people will treat you like a human being. Try becoming one.
      • JARM 8 mths ago
        you think you are a jew but you are a betrayer of your own people...how dare you compare jews to nazis...you will eventually pay for your betrayal...whether you are a jew or not!
      • David Rosenthal 7 mths ago
        I am pay everyday I go to work Thanks for all the taxes I paid Yes the Zio Are Nazi's You can't face the truth. If your a Zio Your not a Jew.
    • David Rosenthal  •  8 mths ago
      Jeff you got that wrong too. Your typing is really bad I know you ment to say those 5 dancing Israelies and their 200 cows from Zioland that were rounded up by police in the tri state area. To bad your lack of knowledge is one to be desired. People just remember this Jeff is a prime example of why you send your child to private school. Its lack of education is really bad.
    • Keno E  •  8 mths ago
      josephK you wrong !
    • Jeff  •  8 mths ago
      The USS Cole Bombing, or the USS Cole Incident, was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored and refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden.
      Seventeen American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured. This event was the deadliest attack against a United States Naval vessel since 1987.

      Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. A U.S. judge has held Sudan liable for the attack, while another has released over $13 million in Sudanese frozen assets to the relatives of those killed. The American Navy has reconsidered their rules of engagement in response to this attack.
      • David Rosenthal 8 mths ago
        Jeff once again stop trying to rewrite history. You Nazi's are good at that. That is why we Jews are hated for aholes like yourself. Your statement is really stupied even for you Jeff.
      • John 8 mths ago
        This incident has what to do with the Palestinians...
      • Keno E 8 mths ago
        why you dont referre the US Liberty ?? enemies killed 17,our best & only ally
        killed 34 sailors,the double ! & our ally 1967-2011 didnt apologize yet ???!!!
        you better stop your jewis mumbo jumbos !!
    • Honest Dude  •  8 mths ago
      Terrible situation, Read entire post for the solution:
      THE SOLUTION
      Israel moves settlers back to the 1967 border and the UN operates Jerusalem and occupied lands for the whole world free to worship and raise their kids and work and enjoy the area with no violence, corruption, domination bloodshed and rocks/rubber bullets. Then presto--- PEACE, We won't have to send Israel, Egypt or Turkey, or the Palestinians any more money or US blood or treasure, or blow up Iran or hassle with Hamas simple!!! Over time the PLO, Hamas, Iran, the Taliban and Al qaeda will all moderate and eventually lose their causes and America is more secure again. Remember Yugoslavia- the UN and NATO cleared out Slobodan Milosevic and made the region safe and happy in less than a year and a half, how long would it really take the IDF and NATO and the world for that matter to clear out 500,000 settlers? Moving these settlers home would make it possible for millions of Palestinians to come home = PEACE

      This solution of mine is very doable and the only people that it would effect negatively would be the Settlers themselves.

      You have to ask yourself a few honest questions:
      What does the word SETTLER mean?
      What does the word REFUGEE mean?

      Because of this, millions of Palestinians have lost their homes and are refugees in Gaza and also the Palestinians that remain have been on virtual house arrest for over 40 years subject to search of their homes, they can't go far or even to work or even the hospital as there are hundreds of roadblocks, their agriculture is limited as Israel diverts their water, they just let through a humanitarian shipment of shoes and clothes? This actually made the news lately. People in America do not know what that would be like, but a Palestinian knows, if Israel is a bully then the world’s job is not finished, we rescued the Israelis in WWII and we will rescue the Palestinians next.

      Not one other country on the entire planet recognizes these settlements as lawful or legitimate.

      Name one, any one I dare you if you can't then that tells the world the story, any argument you have after that realization is just pointless--pointless.

      I am trying to keep America safe, so check it out

      There was no anger from Arab nations at America before 1967. Name any Arab nations that were angry at America, now what's happened?

      After Israel's illegal occupation of the territories and America's military and monetary support for Israel - Arab nations began to hate us. Thanks alot Israel, our support for your settlements has cost America dearly. Send those Settlers home, send them home so America can be more secure without having to fight any more wars for Israel. We do not need to bomb Iran, we need to police the occupied lands for at least 20 years. With the world, IDF and NATO policing those areas there will be peace. The Settlements must go, even Israel's defense minister Barak said they must go. Send those settlers home to Israel proper and there will be peace, there is no other option.

      Hateful responses to my thoughts have only shown the limitations of the writer against the truthful solution of mine that will work for everyone except the settlers themselves.
      • JosephK 8 mths ago
        Yea, Israel is the reason Muslims blow each other up in the other Muslim countries, right? If these animals have no problem blowing each other up, why would they spare Jews they hate even more than each other. Get it through your foolish head, as long as any Jew is alive these holy #$%$ will continue to kill. Land has nothing to do with it. The muslims have tons of lands, yet they have to be on this tiny sliver of an area where the Jews are. In addition, Jews are not welcome anywhere else in the world, so you would think, great at least they are over in this land area where the rest of the world does not have to interact with them. But,noooooooooooooo! We need this little piece too! Imagine if Israel had oil, or gold, you would hear how the Jews were stealing it from the poor Arabs. Yet this pretend need for this little piece is just a front to kill an entire race of people.
      • John 8 mths ago
        Joseph, you are wrong. Before the zionists started showing up in Palestine in the late 1800's, there were Jewish people living there in Palestine peacefully alongside their Muslim neighbors. Those Jewish people wanted the zionists to leave...the zionists did not and do not belong there.
      • John 8 mths ago
        Honest Dude, the solution you post would bring about more bloodshed and innocent loss of life. The settlers do need to leave and Israel must push them out themselves. They did it briefly to a few settlements. The world must use peaceful means to make Israel to choose to get rid of the settlements. There should be no support for Israel and they should be boycotted the world over until they do.
    • Jeff  •  8 mths ago
      JUSTICE FOR JEWS FROM ARAB LAND!
      The number of displaced Jews from Arab and Muslim countries far exceeded that of Palestinian refugees. 950,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands were expelled from their ancestral Arab homelands from 48 onwards.
      Their property was confiscated and their assets frozen,
      Where are their 'natural, legal and historic' rights?
      Where are their 'international representatives'?.
      Jewish refuges from Arab lands have never received aid, compensation,
      or even attention from the UN Relief and Works.
      • Keno E 8 mths ago
        when & from where they were expelled ??
    • Randy  •  8 mths ago
      When are Arab countries expected to return all the Israeli owned land it stole before killing or evicting the owners? Sounds like a fair question to me.
    • RafaelM  •  8 mths ago
      Israel doesn't want peace, they just keep proving that.
    • Gregg D  •  8 mths ago
      Israel has real no intention of making peace happen. They proved that last October. Palestine should be recognized as their own state and we should support them 100%. I still believe that we should support Israel too, but they need to make an effort in the peace program. Good luck to the both of them
    • levy808  •  8 mths ago
      Israel isthe last racist state in the middle east that allows the goverment to continue its racist policy against the innocent people of palestine.
    • Keno E  •  8 mths ago
      USA Mainstream Media JEWS...sorry NEWS allways criticize Russia...Putin...
      Putin is a Tsar ! He is Communist ! He is a Tyran from KGB...No Democracy...No Freedom in Russia...
      Since September 17, people protested the Wall Street, but USA Media didnt pay attention for them...americans dont know what's happening in their country but rather news of arab springs ...funny but russians know better USA then americans : watch the videos in a
      an unbiased russian channel !! : '' RT ''
    • levy808  •  8 mths ago
      As i read the zionist jewish israel posters It all comes down to raicsim on their part the zionist follwoing allows them to be raicst pigs and haters of palestine and its people.
    • levy808  •  8 mths ago
      The racist state of israel continues to thumb its nose at the civil world and continues its racist policy of land stealing and keeping the people of palestine out of there own land. Its shameful israel has sunk so low as to let racist policies rule its state.
    • D  •  8 mths ago
      Netanyahu is hell bent on building settlements through out the West Bank. His feigning of wanting negotiation to bring peace is a ruse. So the Palestinians suffer and the lives of innocent Israeli children who end up living in these settlements is put in danger.

      Impeach Netanyahu.
    • Jeff  •  8 mths ago
      Tell a lie long enough and people will start believing it. That is the Muslim belief. The Muslim murderers of this world are asking for a Boycott of the only democracy in the Middle East.

      The people who daily murder hundreds of people, mutilate and stone women, hide behind children, behead people in sectarian killings, fly airplanes into buildings and then celebrate these murderous events by dancing in the streets are claiming oppression and tyranny.
      Only lunatics can have such a mentality.
    • David Rosenthal  •  8 mths ago
      Ride you need to get and education and stop going to the same Public school like your boy Jeff. Your lack of education shows with every statement you type.
    • John  •  8 mths ago
      We are all just gabbing here. These posts are not read by our representatives or our administrators....we need to talk to them directly and make our wishes known at the voting booth.
    • David Rosenthal  •  8 mths ago
      How do we say IDIOT? This is Me
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