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[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Israel approves new building in east Jerusalem, risking another ...: Saudi: Israel's arrogance challenges the worldRIYADH, Saudi Arabia ”” Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned Israel's "arrogant" policies of building settlements in east Jerusalem, saying they violated the rights of Arabs and Muslims and cast doubt on its seriousness in peace negotiations. In a strongly worded statement carried by the official news agency, a government official asked the Quartet sponsoring peace talks, consisting the U.S., EU, Russia and the U.N., to take Israel to task for its recent announcements to expand Jewish housing in east Jerusalem.

[Opinion] Examiner Editorial: No impartiality between Israel, Palestinians ...: So when Clinton pressures Netanyahu to stop building in areas of the Jewish national capital because “new construction in East Jerusalem or the West Bank undermines mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks that are the first step .UCLA study: Green jobs won't do much for Calif.

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Bibi Over Barack: Israel acts the spoiled child in the Middle East, in continual violation of International laws, in continual acts of declaring war on neighboring lands, our biggest welfare recipient overseas, sold advanced US technology to China in violation of their agreements with us (we had to beg them for years to stop). We were attacked on 9/11 because of Israel's crimes in the region, and yet any just and accurate criticism of Israel is called "anti-semite?" Childish, inaccurate, and the perpetuation of a lie that Israel our "ally." Allies listen and work together.

[JC articles] Tony Blair: His speech to Aipac in full | The Jewish Chronicle: If one day, Israel can be secure, recognised, understood and respected by the nations which surround it; if one day the Palestinian people can have their own state and can prosper in peace within it and beyond it, we will bring more than peace to people who have lived too long with conflict.

[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Israeli settlements buried two-state solution: expert: Benvenisti was famously criticized in the early 1980s for predicting Israel's massive construction of settlements then in land Palestinians sought for a state seemed irreversible, and would secure Israeli dominance there for a long time to come.

[Untitled] Israel Approves New Building In East Jerusalem - New Orleans News ...: The U.S. views Israeli building in east Jerusalem, the part of the city claimed by Palestinians as their future capital, as disruptive to Mideast peacemaking. Israel, which captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, insists the city cannot be divided and says it has the right to build anywhere.

[Argue With Everyone Political Forums] Ralph Nader's take on Israel and Aid...: -- On July 10, 1996, at a Joint Session of the United States Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a standing ovation for these words: “With America’s help, Israel has grown to be a powerful, modern state. …But I believe there can be no greater tribute to America’s long-standing economic aid to Israel than for us to be able to say: we are going to achieve economic independence.

[Zawya.com - Palestinian Territories News] 17.4 billion dollars spent on West Bank settlements: report: "The attractiveness of most of the settlements for Israelis is economic," he said. "The government created comfortable economic and political conditions for settlement in the West Bank." The international community is pressing Israel .

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » Waiting for “Isratine”: Three times in the past 10 years, the Palestinians were presented with comprehensive peace proposals that would establish a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank and Gaza, would put its internationally recognized capital in Arab Jerusalem, would offer a solidly funded, reasonable and dignified solution to the refugee issue, and would put an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict once and for all. First, it was Ehud Barak’s Camp David proposal.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Analysis: Blundering toward disaster: So is the problem here that Israel, for all Netanyahu’s declared support for a two-state solution, his easing of West Bank freedom of access and his facilitation of major projects to improve the West Bank economy, is nonetheless dashing a willing Palestinian leadership’s desire for viable peace terms through the expansion of settlements and Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem and other provocative actions?

[nvs' Blog] Netanyahu holds talks with Obama amid settlement row « nvs' Blog: Mr Obama has largely refrained from commenting publicly on the announcement of new construction in East Jerusalem, which came while Vice-President Joe Biden was visiting Israel two weeks ago. Instead, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with Mr Biden and several top aides, has repeatedly criticised the Israeli government for jeopardising the indirect "proximity talks"

[LA Marzulli's Blog] Israel: Change we can believe in”¦. « L.A. Marzulli's Blog: Given this ultimatum, it is not enough to say, as Glick does, that the Palestinians will have no incentive to engage in negotiations with Netanyahu.  Connect this ultimatum with Obama’s virtual military embargo on Israel, for example, his decision to divert Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM), already on its way to Israel, to the US Air Force base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.

[Jay Bookman] Obama, Netanyahu doing a complicated little dance | Jay Bookman: As The Washington Post reported, when the Israeli government agreed last November to a 10-month moratorium on settlement construction, that commitment “did not include the East Jerusalem area where the construction was announced to take place.” Ramat Shlomo has been an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood going back to the 19th century. Even President Bill Clinton kept these neighborhoods under Israeli jurisdiction as part of his 2000 Camp David proposals ”” with then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak remarkably accepting Palestinian jurisdiction over Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.

[Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Israeli premier to meet President Barack Obama in Washington: US welcomes Israeli settlement moratoriumWASHINGTON ”” The Obama administration on Wednesday welcomed Israel's decision to temporarily freeze new construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank as a step toward restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued an approving statement moments after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in Jerusalem the launching of a 10-month moratorium.

[nvs' Blog] Israeli official: Construction in East Jerusalem years away « nvs ...: Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said Tuesday his government would take two years to implement plans to expand the East Jerusalem settlements in Ramat Shlomo, a plan that set off a diplomatic imbroglio with the United States when it was announced two weeks ago. "By the nature of the planning process, there won’t be any building in that Jewish neighborhood called Ramat Shlomo at least within the coming two years,"

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Tony Karon, Truth and Consequences in the Middle East ...: Grounded in a realist reading of American national interests across the Middle East -- at a moment when a military campaign to eject Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces from Kuwait had put hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops on the ground there -- the first Bush administration recognized the need to balance Israel's reasonable interests with those of its Arab neighbors. That's why, in 1991, it dragged Israel's hawkish Likud government under Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to the Madrid conference, and so broke Israel’s "security" taboo on direct engagement with Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

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