Akiva Eldar in Haaretz says that the US signed off on the East Jerusalem Judaization.
To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain. Therefore, he lauded Netanyahu’s assertion that actual construction in Ramat Shlomo would begin only in another several years.
Thus Israel essentially received an American green light for approving even more building plans in East Jerusalem.
Biden might not know it, but the Palestinians certainly remember that this is exactly how East Jerusalem’s Har Homa neighborhood began: Then, too, Netanyahu persuaded the White House that construction would begin only in another several years.
Oh, and note to readers: Har Homa is a Palestinian village way outside the city of Jerusalem, to the southeast, closer to Bethlehem. Of course Jeffrey Goldberg would say, that’s Jerusalem.
i read this around 2 am last night and wanted to barf. what a lie.
i meant the green light. the last paragraph is a gem
Finally. I’ve been waiting for the EU to do something meaningful.
RE: “I’ve been waiting for the EU to do something meaningful.” – KAOS
CONTROL’S COMMENT: Don’t celebrate yet. “After all… tomorrow is another day.” (as Scarlett once said)
you will wait for too long then Chaos because most of the main countries in the EU are under Zionist empire control!
The EU just voted to support the Goldstone resolution – there is hope in that quarter.
Everyone in the EU has been waiting for it to something – anything – meaningful ever since it was created.
Well, RoHa, now’s your chance. The world really needs the EU to step up and fill the void of diplomacy and advocate for genuine world peace and social justice that the US has created.
My chance? I’ve been back in Australia for six years.
But I will do what I can. Just send the funds to cover my expenses.
Heh. Sorry. I knew you were from elsewhere than the US but I couldn’t remember where you said you were from.
Yes, Eldar is quite right. Biden and the rest of the US government needs to learn how to say the word NO in Hebrew.
I thought Biden was giving the Israelis what for, telling them their intransigence, the settlers, was endangering American troops in the ME?
Thought that was the read this morning when I skimmed the news.
What? Who cares about endangering American troops in the ME? That’s what they are there for, yes? Biden quickly corrected his bad dream, said it’s good Israel’s ok with its settlement plans (even though they defy official US policy) so long as they are implemented sometime after the fake peace negotiations begin, once again. Charade.
What? Who cares about endangering American troops in the ME? That’s what they are there for, yes? Biden quickly corrected his bad dream, said it’s good Israel’s ok with its settlement plans (even though they defy official US policy) so long as they are implemented sometime after the fake peace negotiations begin, once again. Charade.
What? Who cares about endangering American troops in the ME? That’s what they are there for, yes? Biden quickly corrected his bad dream, said it’s good Israel’s ok with its settlement plans (even though they defy official US policy) so long as they are implemented sometime after the fake peace negotiations begin, once again. Charade.
I hear an echo!
Biden really looks like the uber-idiot here. This can go two ways: Biden falls in line, or he does something about being humiliated from our dear ally. Not sure what he’ll do. Congress should take note that even a thiry-year friendship is not worth much.
>Oh, and note to readers: Har Homa is a Palestinian village
>way outside the city of Jerusalem…
Actually, not to be pedantic, Har Homa isn’t and never was a Palestinian village. The site was an unpopulated hill known in Arabic as Jabal Abu Ghnaim. Sometime between 1949 and 1967, when the area was controlled by Jordan, they made it a nature preserve and planted pine trees all over it. It was quite a lovely island of green right up until 1997, when Netanyahu and friends began to turn it it into the concrete monstrosity it is today. Don’t miss the striking sequence of photos posted by the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem at
link to arij.org
But they make up for it by bulldozing Palestinian villages and planting trees over the ruins.
You are being pedantic. And so you should.