Israel Approves 380 New East Jerusalem Settler Homes

[eridani]

More imperial theft.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/27683-israel-approves-380-new-east-jerusalem-settler-homes

"The municipal commission has given construction permits for 307 homes in Ramot and 73 in Har Homa," Yosef Pepe Alalu, a Jerusalem city councillor with the opposition Meretz party, told AFP.

He said local officials were taking advantage of attention focusing on Israeli elections due in March to expand settlements.

"This kind of decision distances us from any chance of reaching an agreement with the Palestinians," he said.

Despite repeated warnings from Washington that it is fuelling tensions, Israel has approved a series of plans for new settler homes in east Jerusalem in recent months.

[BillZBubb]

1. Israel is a rogue nation. It just don't care what the rest of the world thinks.

Nor does Israel care about international law. The Israelis just want to steal as much land as they can. And scuttling any chance of peace is to them just an added bonus.

[King_David]

2. Israel is a "rogue nation"?

6 million of Am Yisrael or the "rogue nation" live among you in the USA .

Quite the revealing statement BillZBubb....

We indeed are a reviled nation ...

Always have been... Always will be.

[BillZBubb]

5. Wow, way to twist words there David.

I was talking about the state of Israel and you know it. The state of Israel is a rogue nation state ignoring international law on a permanent basis.

[King_David]

8. You said nothing about the "state"

You said the Nation was Rogue

But it's good to see that's not what you meant when clearly most of the BDS movement and extremist right wing are motivated by that.

[oberliner]

3. "The Israelis just want to steal as much land as they can"

Except in Sinai or Gaza? Each of which used to be occupied but was ceded to Egypt and the Palestinian Authority respectively.

[geek tragedy]

4. good point. The immediate goal is to render impossible

anything resembling a Palestinian state. Greater Israel and all its messianic nuttiness is Israel's de facto policy.

If you can't beat the region's revanchist theocracies, might as well join them.

[BillZBubb]

6. Sinai and Gaza weren't the land Israel covets and you know it.

[oberliner]

7. Then they are not "stealing as much land as they can"

They want to build up neighborhoods in E Jerusalem so that they will become part of Israel in a final agreement would be a more accurate way to put it.