Here is yet more proof of why there will never be lasting peace between the
Jews and the Palestinians.

As the following article states, by making this housing announcement, the
Israelis are knowingly and purposely condemning the upcoming peace talks to
failure even before they get started. These hard-nosed Jews -- lead by
Benjamin Netanyahu -- don't want to make peace with the Palestinians, unless
the Palestinians are willing to agree to their unfair terms. Every time a
small step is made towards peace, the Israelis intentionally do something to
jeopardize it. It is their regular pattern. They torpedo anything which
offers a glimmer of hope for peace with the Palestinians.

Personally, I don't believe for a minute that P.M. Netanyahu was unaware
that this announcement regarding new housing construction in East Jerusalem
was going to be made. My gosh; it was made from Netanyahu's own office! If
you ask me, this was a purposely crafted scheme to embarrass the USA, and to
show Obama who is really pulling the strings; and that is Netanyahu and the
Jews.

There is no way that anyone is going to convince me that this was just a
coincidence. Netanyahu gave Biden ample time and opportunity to praise
Israel, and to tell the world that the USA is Israel's friend and supports
Israel; and after Biden had done that, Netanyahu allowed his Interior
Minister to drop the housing bomb, which must have utterly embarrassed
Biden, after all of the glowing things he had said.

Netanyahu has shown again that he is one shrewd dude who knows how to play
his cards right.


As Biden Visits, Israel Unveils Plan for New Settlements

By ETHAN BRONNER - NYT

March 9, 2010


JERUSALEM -- Hours after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. vowed unyielding
American support for Israel's security here on Tuesday, Israel's Interior
Ministry announced 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem. Mr.
Biden condemned the move as "precisely the kind of step that undermines the
trust we need right now."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was clearly embarrassed at the move by his
interior minister, Eli Yishai, leader of the right-wing Shas Party, who has
made Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem one of his central causes.

A statement issued in the name of the Interior Ministry but distributed by
the prime minister's office said that the housing plan was three years in
the making and that its announcement was procedural and unrelated to Mr.
Biden's visit. It added that Mr. Netanyahu had just been informed of it
himself.

Mr. Netanyahu supports Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, yet wants to get
new talks with the Palestinians going and to maintain strong relations with
Washington. But when he formed his coalition a year ago he joined forces
with several right-wing parties, and has since found it hard to keep them in
line.

Mr. Biden came to Jerusalem largely to assure the Israelis of Washington's
commitment to its security and to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.

He began the day on a note of support, asserting the Obama administration's
"absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel's security."

But by the end of the day, Mr. Biden's tone had a very different quality. He
issued a statement condemning "the substance and timing of the
announcement"
of the housing, and added, "Unilateral action taken by either party cannot
prejudge the outcome of negotiations on permanent status issues."

He said the announcement "runs counter to the constructive discussions that
I've had here in Israel."

On Monday, George J. Mitchell, the administration's Middle East envoy,
announced that Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to four months of
indirect peace talks, the first such negotiations in more than a year.

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for the Palestinian government, called the
new housing announcement "a dangerous decision that will torpedo the
negotiations and sentence the American efforts to complete failure."

Mr. Abu Rudeineh added that "it is now clear that the Israeli government is
not interested in negotiating, nor is it interested in peace."

"The American administration must respond to this provocation with actual
measures, as it is no longer possible to just turn the other cheek," he
continued, "and massive American pressure is required in order to compel
Israel to abandon its peace-destroying behavior."

Last spring, the Obama administration tried to get Israel to stop all
settlement building in order to restart peace talks and hoped Arab states
would promise confidence-building measures in exchange. No such measures
were forthcoming, and the Israelis rejected the freeze.

After much haggling, in November the Israelis announced a 10-month partial
freeze on new settlement building in the West Bank. But they exempted
Jerusalem from the moratorium because Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and
considers it part of its united capital, a position the rest of the world
rejects.

The new housing announced on Tuesday is for an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood,
Ramat Shlomo. The Interior Ministry's statement said the step on Tuesday was
part of a long process that would continue for quite some time before the
units were actually built.

The announcement followed a day in which Mr. Biden, who will stay in the
region through Friday, had made a concerted and highly public show of
American support for Israel.

"Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no
space between the United States and Israel," he said, standing next to Mr.
Netanyahu at the prime minister's residence. "There is no space between the
United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security."

Mr. Biden also said that, like Israel, the Obama administration was
determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and from
supporting groups that threatened Israel. The United States is trying to
build a consensus for international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear
program. Israel has threatened to use military force, but is going along
with the American approach for now. Part of the purpose of this trip is to
cement that cooperation.

Mr. Biden expressed satisfaction at the agreement for the new talks with the
Palestinians. They are being called "proximity talks" because Mr. Mitchell
is expected to shuttle between the Israeli government in Jerusalem and the
Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, in the West Bank, to bring the two sides
toward direct negotiations.

In his public comments with Mr. Biden, Mr. Netanyahu focused on the need "to
be persistent and purposeful in making sure we get to those direct
negotiations that will enable us to resolve this conflict."

The announcement on the housing expansion was not the first time that Mr.
Netanyahu had been blindsided by one of his more nationalist or conservative
ministers or their aides. Earlier this year, for example, Daniel Ayalon, the
deputy to the nationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, increased
tensions with Turkey when he humiliated its ambassador to Israel in front of
television cameras.

Mr. Biden is scheduled to spend Wednesday in the West Bank meeting with the
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, then
to give a speech in Tel Aviv on Thursday before heading to Jordan.

After his meetings on Tuesday morning with the Israeli president, Shimon
Peres, and Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill, visited
the grave site of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who was
assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist opposed to reconciliation with
the Palestinians.

Mr. Biden then toured Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum and center. After
signing its guest book, he said: "The phrase 'never again' is used so often
it almost has lost its meaning. But then again all you have to do is walk
through Yad Vashem to understand how incredible the journey has been for
world Jewry and why Israel is such a central part of its existence."



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