Clinton, Goldstone and true cost of the occupation »
Posted By jovial 1 month, 1 week ago in News
After US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Jerusalem this weekend, the US-mediated peace talks threaten to collapse. Meanwhile Israel ramps up its occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported last Friday that at least 11 locations within settlement colonies in the West Bank are escalating construction in order to alter "facts on the ground." In October, the joint Israeli-Palestinian organization, Alternative Information Center, organized a conference on the economy of the Israeli occupation in Bethlehem. The Real News' Lia Tarachansky attended and spoke to the AIC's Shir Hever about the real costs of maintaining Israel's occupation.
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> After US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Jerusalem this weekend, the US-mediated peace talks threaten to collapse.
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One would wander about the reasons Palestinians are willing the occupation to continue...
Is it possible that they're hoping that Israel will go bankrupt due to the high cost of maintaining the occupation?
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Here's an interesting link. Watch this video and tell me what you think.
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"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected any discussion of Palestinian demands for at least a share of the city as their future capital. Israel calls Jerusalem its eternal and undivided capital, a position not endorsed internationally.
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Since Netanyahu's right-wing coalition took power in March, Palestinians have complained of increasing actions to push Arabs out of East Jerusalem and to allow in Jewish settlers."
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http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=3387...
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TEL AVIV - Israel's hardline premier called on Monday for guarantees for illegal Jewish settlers as he headed to Europe amid pressure over his settlement policy seen as blocking efforts to revive Middle East peace talks.
All Jewish settlements are illegal under international law because they are built on Arab land (mainly Palestinian), illegally occupied by Israel.
Around illegal 200,000 Jewish settlers are estimated to have moved into the dozen or so Israeli settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem.
There are about 300,000 more illegal Jewish settlers currently living in settlements the Palestinian West Bank.
Washington has called for a settlement freeze in both West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian territories which Israel occupied in its war against its neighbours in 1967.
"The prime minister will make it clear that during the process Israel will not allow any limitation or restriction of its sovereignty over Jerusalem and that that there must be guarantees settlers can lead a normal life," a senior official said as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to London.
US President Barack Obama's administration has been pressing for a freeze of settlement construction as a key step towards reviving peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. -
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http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/dt/V129/N27/02-...
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Charging ahead more like an invading army than a team of archaeologists, Israelis broke through the last few stones of a long-controversial tunnel under the cover of the night and heavy security. The tunnel ran alongside the foundation of the third holiest site of Islam, one of the most hotly contested areas of land perhaps in human history.
This area, known to Muslims as Haram Al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount, contains the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque and is claimed and held sacred by both Muslims and Jews. Yet the Netanyahu government went ahead with the completion of this tunnel without consultation with any of the concerned parties, an action halted by all the previous Israeli governments even before any peace agreements were written.
In doing so, the government disregarded the position of the Palestinians and the more than one billion Muslims, along with flagrantly violating the Oslo Agreements, which mandate the freezing of the status quo in Jerusalem.
Undoubtedly, the heavy security and the late hours under which the action was taken shows that the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing, despite their claims that the tunnel is of value to tourists only. Benjamin Netanyahu's government, having comprehended the magnitude of its actions, must have predicted the outbreak of protests, demonstrations and violence even without the alleged "incitement" by the Palestinian Authority.
But what is of most significance here is the larger picture, which brings out into light the hidden agenda of Netanyahu and his extremist allies--to create enough havoc and anarchy to destabilize the Palestinian Authority and undermine the Oslo Agreements, while at the same time establishing a new status quo on the ground that will prejudice any new negotiations in its favor. -
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And to top the whole thing off...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/yitzh...
Yitzhak Rabin's killers target Obama.
In October 1995, Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before thousands of right-wing demonstrators in Jerusalem's Zion Square to deliver a stinging denunciation of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Oslo Accords he had signed two years earlier. "Death to Rabin! Nazis! Judenrat!" the demonstrators chanted. Many waved signs depicting Rabin dressed in Nazi regalia.
Concerned that Netanyahu would inflame an already dangerous climate, Israeli Housing Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned the hyper-ambitious politician, "You'd better restrain your people. Otherwise it will end in murder. They tried to kill me just now... Your people are mad. If someone is murdered, the blood will be on your hands... The settlers have gone crazy, and someone will be murdered here, if not today, then in another week or another month!"
Netanyahu ignored Ben-Eliezer, striding to the podium to chants of "Bibi! Bibi! Bibi!" and an eerily prescient introduction as Israel's "next prime minister."
One month later, Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing radical and student at Bar-Ilan University, the ideological training ground of Israel's religious-nationalist front. Rabin's wife, Leah, refused to forgive Netanyahu, insisting he was at least as responsible for her husband's murder as the extremist who pulled the trigger.
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