Netanyahu explains how he stood up to the U.S., kept building settlements

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://972mag.com/netanyahu-explains-how-he-stood-up-to-the-u-s-kept-building-settlements/91344/

‘Peace talks? What peace talks,’ the Israeli prime minister jokes with supporters from his party.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted of his settlement building achievements in a recent meeting with young Likud supporters. Responding to a question from the audience, Netanyahu said: “I was threatened in Washington: ‘not one brick’ [of settlement construction] … after five years, we built a little more than one brick…”

Asked “about peace talks with the Palestinians,” Netanyahu reportedly replied, “about the – what?” to which the audience responded by breaking out into laughter.

Last year was a record year in settlement construction in the West Bank. According to figures released by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), there were construction starts on 2,534 housing units last year, not including East Jerusalem – an increase of 123 percent from 2012, and more than any other year since the CBS began compiling data.

[Scootaloo]

1. Well, of course the Likud charter outright refuses the existence of a Palestinian state

But remember - such things are only bad from Hamas. They're cherished and respectable from Likud.

[shaayecanaan]

2. jay Leno even chimed in with a zinger or two

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/jay-leno-barack-obama-john-kerry-israel-107025.html


President Obama has declared the month of May Jewish American Heritage Month. He is calling it an opportunity to renew our ‘unbreakable bond with the nation of Israel.’ And he knows it’s unbreakable because he’s been trying to break it for the last five years.”

[Jefferson23]

3. Aka, fuck you Palestinians..ha ha ha, sooo funny that record year in settlement construction.

Why are the Palestinians so unreasonable? Why don't they just move and go away?

[bemildred]

4. Everybody outside DC knows anyway. nt