Israel’s government has approved the stealing of 139 square kilometers of palestinian land to expand Israeli settlements. This just after President Obama had publicly called on Israel to halt all settlement expansion and just hours before Israel’s defence minister, Ehud Barak, visits the US in a bid to defuse tensions over Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said he will not allow the building of new settlements but will allow construction in existing communities, under what Israel calls “natural growth”.
“This would be the largest area of land ever confiscated by Israel in one go since 1967,” said Hatem Abdel-Qader, the Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs.
At this point, Netanyahu’s word is worthless. At this point, Israel’s intentions are clear: Israel will not stop stealing Palestinian land until there is not enough land for a Palestinian state or until the United States finally has the backbone to tell Israel to stop thieving someone else’s land. The rest of the world has long since declared Israel’s settlements illegal. Only the United States stands in the way.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/20096300295121896.html
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