Times Online (UK): "West Bank settlers carry on building as new freeze is proposed"
YNET: "Yesha Council: West Bank construction freeze illegitimate"
IPS News: "MIDEAST: Settlements "Moratorium" Still Short of Freeze"
Yedioth Ahronoth: "Freeze on a Low Flame"
Yedioth Ahronoth:"Settlers Lay Mock Foundations"
Jerusalem Post: "Peace Now: Settlement freeze 'a historic decision in the right direction"
JPost.com Staff
Peace Now on Thursday voiced support for the settlement construction freeze which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday, calling the move "a historic decision in the right direction."
Richard Goldstone is an antisemitic Jew, Turkey has long since become an Islamic state, the Russians are a disappointment, the Chinese are confused, the Indians are wrong, the Swedes and Norwegians are always against us, and the Americans -- we can do without them.
Like a car going against the traffic on a motorway, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sees all drivers coming at him as going the wrong way.
by Ofer Petersburg -- Officials in the Housing Ministry heard the
voices from Washington against the construction in Gilo, and
understood: This is not the time to be confrontational. The issuing of
tenders for 1,500 housing units in Pisgat Zeev and Har Homa is being
reexamined until the storm blows over. "We can't be provocative and
defiant," explained a senior Housing Ministry official.
APN's Lara Friedman: "it will require the investment of serious political capital to stop."
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The White House, which is trying to foster peace talks, says it is 'dismayed' by an Israeli housing panel's approval of a plan to build 844 new homes in a part of Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians.
By Richard Boudreaux, Reporting from Jerusalem
by Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor
As a retired administrative assistant, Joyce Hawtof doesn't have a lot of money to invest.
But this week, she was considering paying into a fund with other pro-Israel activists to buy a $28,000 mobile home for a West Bank outpost.
Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Oppenheimer slammed soldiers from the
Right who of recent are disobeying more and more orders for political
reasons, which is not the wont of the Left, according to Oppenheimer.
by Yaakov Katz and jpost.com staff
By DAVID LAZARUS, Staff Reporter
MONTREAL -- "Every brick" added to existing or new settlements in the "occupied territories" is a "message to Palestinians that Israel is not serious about peace," says the head of Peace Now's Settlement Watch.
By DAVID LAZARUS, Staff Reporter
MONTREAL -- "Every brick" added to existing or new settlements in the "occupied territories" is a "message to Palestinians that Israel is not serious about peace," says the head of Peace Now's Settlement Watch.
(translated from Hebrew by Noam Shelef)
Turning the IDF into an "Orange" or "Blue" army that is only willing to implement orders that meet its worldview is a sure recipe for the crumbling of the army and the society.
