JERUSALEM — Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark summoned the Israeli ambassadors to their countries Monday to protest Israel’s plans for increased settlement construction, an unusually sharp diplomatic step that reflected the growing frustration abroad with Israel’s policies on the Palestinian issue.
After the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week to upgrade the status of the Palestinians at the United Nations, Israel announced plans for 3,000 more housing units in contested areas east of Jerusalem and around the West Bank.
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This land, disputed though it may be, is currently vacant and no Arabs would be displaced. The Europeans are upset because Jews will live there. If the Israelis granted permits for Muslims to build housing, no one would say a word. After a thousand years or so of being mean to the Jews of Europe, the christians don't get to criticize. Find something else to complain about, folks, like Muslim women's rights for example.
You are so right. The Arabs of Palestine could have had their own state in 1948 with much more land than they currently occupy. They chose instead to attack the Jews of Palestine and several wars and with unrelenting terrorist attacks. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled from Iran and Arab countries and their property seized. Without a peace treaty it is unclear where the permanent border between Israel and Palestine would be. In the meantime, Jewish Israelis need a place to live. Building housing for Jews is not a crime against humanity as the Muslim world and some Europeans seem to think.
So Israel's latest attempt to bully the UN has failed & all the world sees that the project in Israel is not peace but territory. I wonder when the US gov't will wake up?