Israel to US: "Stop Favoring Palestinians"

[Ayah/Crystal]

Can you believe this????? Israel is so full of s**t! Let them be "disappointed"... All this because Obama told them to freeze the illegal settlements. Israel has no shame, no honor and no soul.

Ayah



By Barak Ravid





Tensions between Washington and Jerusalem are growing after the U.S. administration's demand that Israel completely freeze construction in all West Bank settlements. Israeli political officials expressed disappointment after Tuesday's round of meetings in London with George Mitchell, U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy to the Middle East.

"We're disappointed," said one senior official. "All of the understandings reached during the [George W.] Bush administration are worth nothing." Another official said the U.S. administration is refusing every Israeli attempt to reach new agreements on settlement construction. "The United States is taking a line of granting concessions to the Palestinians that is not fair toward Israel," he said.


The Israeli officials attributed the unyielding U.S. stance to the speech Obama will make in Cairo this Thursday, in which he is expected to deliver a message of reconciliation to the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Mitchell was joined at the London talks by his deputy David Hale, Daniel B. Shapiro (the head of the National Security Council's Middle East desk), and State Department deputy legal adviser Jonathan Schwartz.

The Israeli delegation consisted of National Security Adviser Uzi Arad, Netanyahu diplomatic envoy Yitzhak Molcho, Defense Ministry chief of staff Mike Herzog and deputy prime minister Dan Meridor.

Herzog spoke to Mitchell and his staff about understandings reached by former prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon with the Bush administration on allowing continued building in the large West Bank settlement blocs. He asked that a similar agreement be reached with the Obama government.

Meridor spoke of the complexities characterizing the coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said Washington's demands of a complete construction freeze would lead to the dissolution of the Netanyahu government.

The Israeli delegates were stunned by the uncompromising U.S. stance, and by statements from Mitchell and his staff that agreements reached with the Bush administration were unacceptable. An Israeli official privy to the talks said that "the Americans took something that had been agreed on for many years and just stopped everything."

"What about the Tenet Report, which demanded that the Palestinians dismantle the terror infrastructure?" said the official, referring to former CIA director George Tenet. "It's unfair, and there is no reciprocity shown toward the Palestinians."

The Israeli envoys said the demand for a total settlement freeze was not only unworkable, but would not receive High Court sanction. Tensions reportedly reached a peak when, speaking of the Gaza disengagement, the Israelis told their interlocutors, "We evacuated 8,000 settlers on our own initiative," to which Mitchell responded simply, "We've noted that here."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak will travel to Washington today in an attempt to put further pressure on the Obama administration.

"We want to reach an agreement with the United States on ways to advance the peace process," said a senior Jerusalem official. The U.S. stance, he said, "will stall the process and bring about tension and stagnation, which will hurt both Israel and the United States."

[Ayah/Crystal]

I can't believe this guys... They are truly psychopaths and therefore, have no conscience at all. Their arrogance is beyond belief! There will never be any peace while Palestine remains under occupation. Look how they keep expanding... The maps show how little land is "left" to the Palestinians!

Israel is a fake state, a terrorist entity with a long term plan to take over the world via economical means... I boycott absolutely anything coming from Israel or their few allies... I am amazed all the companies they owned, some of which, I used regularly, before I started to boycott Israel & Co.

I believe that this is the only way to stop them: dry their cash flow. It is not easy because Israel, I hate to say this, owns some companies with excellent products. It was quite an adaptation but I believe this is the best alternative to armed conflict. Natural therapies often work by "starving" the cancer and they have a high rate of success.

Now... how do we get the sheeple to participate in this BDS movement? Iman does a lot of work in Toronto with BDS.. There are BDS movements popping here and there... Maybe, just maybe we will succeed.... We need enough of us to participate somehow... enough to ruin them economically, just like they did to Germany when they called for a universal boycott of this country, where at the time, Jews were prosperous... They wander why the Germans got pissed off....

I don't know if Obama will stick to his guns, and if he does, I hope his presidency does not end up like the JF Kennedy presidency's ... I wish him all the luck if he is sincere because he is dealing with very dangerous people.

Imagine how crazy are these people? Squatting on occupied land, expanding settlements... Don't they get that they are building on stolen land??? Of course, there won't be any "terrorism" when they get off Palestinian land. Israel is a terrorist entity posing as a victim and fooling most people in believing this garbage.

I think the last massacre has changed the way people look at Israel forever... I hope enough people of good faith get what is really happening right under their noses, and quit feeding the monster.

[Lili]

Oh Really ?????
Stop SQUATTING on land that is occupied....and DO NOT BUILD MORE!!!!!!
As for"terrorism" from Palestinians, if you get off Palestinian land, there will not be "terrorism".
What of the terrorism by the squatter settlers towards the Palestinians who want to grow food on their own land??? Is this not terrorism???