No exception on Israeli settlement: Clinton

[KanadaHye]

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Netanyahu urges Arab states to normalize ties with Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he's willing to take "concrete steps" to make peace with the Palestinians, and urged Arab countries to normalize ties with Israel.

"We are prepared to take, and we will take, concrete steps toward peace with the Palestinians. We also expect the Palestinians to take concrete steps," Netanyahu said during debate in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.

"And it would be good if Arab countries joined the peace effort and made concrete and symbolic steps toward normalization with Israel, not later, but now."

The Israeli prime minister's comments come on the eve of a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House.

Abbas, who met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday, is expected to urge Obama to press Israel to clamp down on construction in xxxish settlements, Reuters news agency reported.

Obama has made clear that his administration supports the creation of a Palestinian state, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for a complete halt to construction in West Bank settlements.


Needed for 'natural growth'
Netanyahu appears to be at odds with the U.S. president by not directly endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state and saying settlement construction is necessary to support the population's "natural growth."

During a May 18 meeting with Obama, Netanyahu said he was willing to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

The Israeli prime minister has called on the Palestinians to honour the commitments of the 2003 roadmap to peace, including cracking down on militants who shoot rockets and suicide bombers into Israel.

However, that demand has been complicated by the fact that Hamas, the rival to Abbas's Fatah faction, took over control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.

"We want an end to the conflict and we want reciprocity in the demands made of both sides, and in carrying them out," Netanyahu said Wednesday.

He mentioned possible co-operation with the Palestinians on economic and agricultural projects.

Netanyahu also said Obama agrees with Israel that the Iranian nuclear threat could create an opportunity to bring together moderate Arab nations.

Israel considers Iran a serious danger because of its nuclear program, development of long-range missiles and frequent references by its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to Israel's destruction.

Israel dismisses Iran's insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful, charging that the Iranians are building nuclear weapons.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/0...inians027.html

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"Abbas, who met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday, is expected to urge Obama to press Israel to clamp down on construction in xxxish settlements, Reuters news agency reported"

Isn't it great how the "free press" knows what "leaders" are going to say or do before they say or do them Since when did the Canadian Prime Minister urge the American President to do anything, lol.

[Eddo211]

Re: No exception on Israeli settlement: Clinton

The only way Israel can stop the expansion and construction of j-ewish settlements is through extreme military force.............never mind vacating the land.

That has been tried before with bad results.
Most Israelis don’t know how to stop these religious j.ews who don't even serve in the military and curse them.

[hipeter924]

Re: No exception on Israeli settlement: Clinton

The Palestinians are in a concentration camp... I wouldn't exactly call the Gaza strip a vast and fertile piece of land. Their only way out of a lifetime of prison is to destroy their oppressors. The Israeli government does not value human life aside from their own. 80% of all Israeli land belongs to the government and any Arabs living in Israel are second class citizens. Israel is far from a "democracy" and their human rights record is a joke. Palestinians have NO other choice... for them it's kill or be killed.

They have a choice really. The Palestinians can fight Israel and ensure their total removal from Israel and the destruction of all their hopes and dreams, or the can put down their weapons and negotiate with Israeli leftists. If the Palestinans want to commit suicide its up to them, but Israeli's won't be paying much in blood for it (the stats prove that), nor do they give a damn about Palestinians killing themselves, they are 'just terrorists' after all, and that is how Israeli's see it.

Regardless if the Palestinians attack Israel they are screwed, the only way is to lay down their weapons, act peaceful and try to negotiate a solution.

But I doubt Palestinians have a choice, except that of becoming Israeli citizens, because if you look at a map a Palestinian state is impossible, Palestinians are dispersed and broken up by Israeli settlements that it just can't be done.

[Gavur]

Re: No exception on Israeli settlement: Clinton

Palastinians are in "the accursed valley Ge-hinnom"

http://www.xxxishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=116&letter=G

[hipeter924]

Re: No exception on Israeli settlement: Clinton

Palastinians are in "the accursed valley Ge-hinnom"
http://www.xxxishencyclopedia.com/vi...d=116&letter=G