JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Friday approved the construction of 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements on Israeli-occupied lands, a government official said, drawing swift condemnation from the Palestinians a day after their successful U.N. recognition bid.
The Palestinians reiterated their refusal to resume negotiations with Israel while building continues. With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently poised for re-election to another four-year term and insisting that any negotiations begin without preconditions, prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian partition deal appear to be going into deep freeze.
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Nice job Israel rub their noses in it.
This is absolutely disgusting. Nothing like giving Hamas more power to make certain there will never be peace. Netanyahu unfortunately will probably win re-election and things will just get worse. Wake up Israel.
The Israeli Government's capacity for self-delusion and magical thinking is beyone belief. Or is is that of the Israeli citizens, at least those who don't consider their God to have anything better to do but arrange real-estate deals for their benefit? In any case Israel need not worry about anyone's threats to drive it into the sea; if it keeps on behaving this way - and if the US coninues to pay for such behavior - Israel will destroy itself.