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Tuesday Mar 03, 2009
Green-Lined: Settlement expansion story an act of sabotage?
Posted by Yisrael Medad
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According to The Jerusalem Post, Army Radio is reporting that:
Now that, in my humble opinion, is doubtful. Not that some people (okay, like myself) don't think this is possible and doable. But 19,000 units across the Green Line, in Yesha [Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza]? Rather, I think this is an attempt by someone in the Ministry, or more probably someone with vested political interests, to generate a "media storm" with the connivance of the media. The reporter gets great credit and exposure for the "scoop," and those opposed to the expansion of a revenant Jewish population in Yesha now have set the stage so that someone in Israel's present/future government must address the issue, or in other words possibly adversely impact Israel-US relations on the eve of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit. Timing is everything. It appears to be a planned, prejudicial media leak with the intention, quite simply and maliciously, to stir things up. Clinton will be now forced to deal with the issue since some American, or probably Israeli, reporter, will question her on this matter at a press conference. In other words, an act of undemocratic sabotage based on wishful thinking by someone who is anti-settlement. And what do you know. AFP reports:
The Peace Now report came ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first visit to Israel and the West Bank since taking office.
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Yisrael Medad,
Tuesday Mar 03, 2009
Sorry but I misread the numbers. The figure 19,000 refers to housing units east of the security barrier. They really meant a total of 73,000 in Yesha. Worse than I thought. Of course, I wouldn't mind the realization of these "plans" but Peace Now is just tooting their horn, off-key.
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Jen USA,
Wednesday Mar 04, 2009
Here we go again. Building in Samaria or Judea or Gaza would be an absolutely stupid thing to do. Especially right now. Which is exactly why it is easy to believe that Israel would allow it to happen. If it is a leak... so what? Without leaks, the public never knows what is going on until it is too late. Perhaps, bringing attention to the possiblility will prevent it from happening. Is that a bad thing? The existing settlers are on stolen land and are in violation of international law. They are not helping Israel's security. If the leak raises the issue... good!
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Arnold Harris, Mount Horeb WI USA,
Wednesday Mar 04, 2009
As a trained urban and regional planner who lived and studied 18 months in Israel in 1973-1974, I am not as certain as you that 19,000 housing units could not be built in Judea and Samaria within a couple of years. And as a man who played chess with the late Israel Eldad in his Rechavia apartment in the pre-shabat hours on many a Friday afternoon, my sympathies are totally on the side of settling and annexing all Eretz-Yisrael.
It is high time the leaders of the great Jewish nation stopped cringing in the presence of the goyim, in pursuit of a peace that will never be achieved.
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Shlomo T , Israel,
Wednesday Mar 04, 2009
Of course it is all a "false" scoop. Maale Adumim, Givat Zeev and Betar Illit all have master plans that greatly increase the number of apartment unit in them. The master plans exist already 15 years and the only question is the rate of implementation. Geva Binyamin and Tel Tzion have room have expansion (the plans are about 10 years old).
All previous governments have built "outside" of the "green line" since Rabin's government (so did Rabin's for that matter). Peace Now's report only serves as additional fuel for those who wish to hamper the coming Netanyahu governmen, to demonize Israel.
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Yisrael Medad,
Friday Mar 06, 2009
"What's the difference between the Sudetenland and Israel forcing Arabs out of their own land?". Well, a) the Arabs who were here in 1967 are still here. The emigration trend of 1948-1967 under Jordan's Hussein stopped; b) Israel didn't invade Judea and Samaria in an initiated move but after 19 years of terror attacks and Hussein joining Nasser's attempt to eradicate Israel and firing on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, etc.; c) but why use Nazi imagery and terminology (unless you're antisemitic)? Doesn't the area around Seattle have Indians who were forcibly moved by the US govt?
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