Netanyahu: “Israel Will Always Maintain Sovereignty On Settlements, New ‘Jewish Neighborhoods”

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated during his recent meeting with UN General-Secretary, Ban Ki-moon, that Israel will continue to build and expand settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, and that settlements, and what he labeled as “new neighborhoods”, and settlement blocs will always remain under Israeli sovereignty.

During his meeting with Ki-moon two days ago, Netanyahu said that there is nothing to discuss or negotiate on regarding Israel’s settlements.

“Everybody knows new Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, all settlement blocs, will always remain under Israeli control”, he said, “There is nothing to talk about, there will be no discussion on the issue”.

The Israeli Prime Minister also claimed that “it is clear everybody known that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not the core source of tension in the Middle East”, and alleged that “the fundamental issue, the core problem in the region, is not recognizing Israel is a state for the Jewish people”.

He further claimed that the Education System in the Gaza Strip “is based on incitement against Israel”, and demanded the United Nations to examine “how summer camps run by the UNRWA, are used to foster hatred and violence in the minds of Palestinian children”, according to Netanyahu.

Israel’s illegal settlement activities, built in direct violation of International Law, are amongst the core issue that obstruct direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel refuses to recognize most of the core issues on the conflict, and the Palestinian legitimate rights, including the Right of Return of all refugees, the right to a fully independent and continuous state with East Jerusalem as its capital, borders and natural resources.

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Sham Peace Talks Resume

by Stephen Lendman

Why bother. Talks are doomed to fail. So did multiple previous rounds. Israel wants things its way. Demands masquerade as give and take.

According to one PLO official, "Israel will dodge, evade and propose unachievable demands to promote a conclusion that negotiations are futile, and so Israel will continue to steal lands as they are doing now."

It's hard imagining Palestinian officials agreeing to talks rigged to fail. Longtime Israeli collaborators do it willingly. It's for generous benefits they derive. Crime pays well. So does betrayal.

On August 14, US/Israeli orchestrators met with PA's Saeb Erekat and Fatah official Mohammed Shtayyeh. 

He's a technocrat. He's managing director of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR). 

He's founding member of the Palestinian Development Fund. He's a former Palestinian public works and housing minister.

He's a founding Palestinian Institute for Regional Studies member. He's collaborating with Israel for personal self-interest.

Talks discussed guidelines and agenda issues. They did so despite Israel bombing Gaza. Warplanes fired missiles at multiple targets. Similar attacks happen often. Israel invents pretexts to do so. Innocent civilians die.

Talks continued despite Palestinian fishermen attacked at sea. They're at the same time as outrage over accelerated settlement construction.

Stealing Palestinian land's no olive branch. Nor is releasing 26 long held political prisoners. Their freedom's subject to restrictions. 

Some weren't allowed to go home. They're vulnerable to rearrest. In 2004, Yasser Arafat said "(t)here will be no peace until all Palestinian prisoners are released." Palestinian supporters today feel the same way.

Thousands of Bedouins await dispossession. Israeli courts spurned them. Israel wants land they own. It wants it for exclusive Jewish development.

In July, a Beersheba court rejected Bedouins' appeal. They urged delaying another court-ordered property demolition and dispossession ruling. 

It's their land. It doesn't matter. On August 15, efforts to displace them began. They're losing everything. Rogue states operate that way. Israel's one of the worst. 

One Sawah village resident spoke for others, saying:

"We requested that Israeli authorities give us a delay until we arrange to move into a neighborhood in the nearby village of Hurah which is being expanded, but they refused."

Jewish rights alone matter. Palestinians ones don't. Sham peace talks won't change things. Decades of occupation harshness continue.

Expecting this time's different reflects Einstein's definition of insanity. Expecting success after decades of failure explains it. Israel's worst government in history assures it.

Hardliners are all take and no give. US orchestrator John Kerry's two-faced. He's Israel's man at State. 

Publicly he's concerned about settlement expansions. At the same time, he doesn't think proceeding hampers talks.

Privately he's comfortable with build, build, built. He's been that way all along. In the Senate, he supported them for years. 

He said we knew "there was going to be a continuation of some building in certain places, and I think the Palestinians understand that."

Israel announced accelerated construction. Doing so reflects land grabbing writ large. It spurns equitable conflict resolution. 

It reveals longstanding Israeli business as usual. It shows contempt for rule of law principles. It makes justice a four-letter word.

It exposes Washington's true face. It's in lockstep with whatever Israel does. Palestinian rights don't matter. Talks won't change things.

It bears repeating. Kerry is Israel's man at State. He's in lockstep with its worst policies. His pro-Israel voting record is second to none. He's committed to maintaining a longstanding special relationship. Whatever Israel wants he's for.

He's always been that way. For sure he is now. He favors moving America's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Doing so is illegal. In 1947, the UN declared it an international city. It remains so today.

Kerry calls Jerusalem "Israel's indisputable capital." In 1999, he signed a letter criticizing Clinton for not moving America's embassy there. 

He ignored international law doing so. He's throwing Palestinians under the bus. He pretends otherwise. He supports continued occupation harshness.

On August 13, Robert Fisk headlined "Any other 'statesman' who negotiated peace like John Kerry would be treated as a thief."

"Has (he) no shame," he asked? "First he cuddles up to both Palestinians and Israelis and announces the renewal of a 'peace process which the Palestinians don't trust and the Israelis don't want."

"Then Israel announces that it will build 1,200 new homes for Jews - and Jews only - on occupied Palestinian land." 

"And now Kerry tells the Palestinians - the weak and occupied Palestinians - that they are running out of time if they want a state of their own."

"Then came the ultimate lie: that the 'question of settlements' is 'best resolved by solving the problem of security and borders.' "

Doing so justifies lawless land grabbing. Millions worldwide condemn it. So do many Israelis.

Kerry "go(es) all out for 'peace.' " He does so on Israeli terms. "Cabined, cribbed (and) confined" Palestinians have to "shut up'' and accept them.

Kerry insists "hurry, hurry, hurry. Book your seats now, or it will be a full house," said Fisk. 'What price 'Palestine?' "

Over decades, Washington vetoed 39 Security Council resolutions criticizing Israel. In 2011, it blocked one condemning continued settlement construction. All other SC members supported it. So do over 90% of world community members.

At the time, US officials claimed resolution backing harmed peace prospects. How wasn't explained. Arab street reaction expressed outrage. It did so justifiably. America's position is untenable.

Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti calls Washington's one-sided Israeli support a crime against humanity. Bouthaina Shaaban condemned America's veto, saying:

"The importance of what is happening today in the Arab world is the fall of the colonial dimension of the official regime, which has ignored the crimes against humanity in Palestine…"

America's veto reflects "eternal shame for western 'democracies…' (L)ike tens of other(s), (it) contributed to the perpetuation of Israeli suppression of the Palestinian people, colonizing their land, expelling and condemning them to life in refugee camps."

MJ Rosenberg said:

"It is not hard to explain the Obama administration's decision to veto a resolution embodying positions that we support." 

"It is the power of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which (lobbied) furiously for a US veto."

One-sided Israeli support is "why US standing in the Middle East will continue to deteriorate."

Akiva Eldar thanked Obama. He did so for showing "his true colors." He's "two-faced."

"The lame excuse that denunciation of construction in the settlements would harm 'the peace process' constitutes a victory of opportunism over morality," he said.

Yaron London said Israel's "relying on a sinking superpower that is abandoning its pretenses to lead the world…"

Haaretz editors said "Palestinians lost the vote, (but) achieved their goal: They exposed for all to see the international isolation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's administration and embarrassed the US."

"The world's patience over continued construction in the settlements is wearing thin." Other observers agree. In time, it'll be entirely gone.

Peace prospects remain distant. One day Palestinians will be free. Occupation harshness can't last forever. What can't go on forever, won't. 

Hopefully time will resolve injustice. Some things are worth waiting for. Peace, equity and justice matter most. Patience brings its own reward. 

Edmond Burke said it "achieve(s) more than force." Rousseau called it "bitter, but its fruit is sweet." 

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. 

His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. 

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Top American General Cites Israel as Unsustainable and Apartheid

By Gordon Duff and Press TV

The story “hangs there,” a week now, no one will touch it other than the Times of Israel, their answer to Veterans Today, a publication run by former spies.

American reporting of the talk carefully edited out General Mattis’ references to Israeli settlements and his use of the word “apartheid state.”

This wasn’t just any general, not one of the kooks and malcontents who have sold a colorless military career for a payoff from the Israel lobby, “hot running girls or boys” and a condominium on a top rated PGA golf course.

This is James Mattis, former commander of CentCom, a Marine general with 41 years’ experience, the most respected combat leader of the last two American generations.

So, when “Mad Dog Mattis” addressed the Aspen Security Forum and called Israel “unsustainable,” even Israel listened.

Many people “talk the talk” and Mattis talks that “talk” better than anyone.  He also “walks the walk” as well.  Below are selected quotes from Mattis, some of the few that can be published as most contain language only Marines use, a bit “too specific” for civilians:

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”

“The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears.”

“You are part of the world’s most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”

“There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning,

obedience and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.”

“No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.”

“You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.”

It was this last quote that may well have pushed the Times of Israel to note, finally, that Israel’s “dream world” may be coming to an end.

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THE “APARTHEID BOMB”

Censored from news around the world, edited from broadcasts, the July 25, 2013, Times of Israel drops the “Apartheid Bomb,” the first time this term has been used with authority.  On the dais with Mattis was CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, coined “the voice of the Mossad” by author Jeff Gates.  From the Times of Israel:

“Mattis then described a hypothetical in which 500 Jewish settlers live among 10,000 Arabs, and the implications of where Israel draws the border. He called it a choice between giving up the idea of a Jewish state or becoming an apartheid state.”

The message of the destructive role of Israel’s illegal settlements, not just in territories occupied after the 1967 war but in violation of the 1949 Armistice Demarcation Lines as well, territory guaranteed as “Arab only,” making up nearly one third of Israel’s legally accepted borders.

Over 95% of that territory has been seized and its Palestinian population “ethnically cleansed.”

Thus, Mattis’s statement on “apartheid” when place in the context of his strong support of Secretary of State John Kerry’s current initiatives, places additional pressure on Israel, pressure not seen since the Carter presidency.

When taken with European Union moves in July, a vote authorizing broad trade sanctions against Israeli entities located on Arab land, not just those termed “occupied territories,” Mattis use of “unsustainable” to describe Israel’s future is meant to be a “wake up call” for a nation Mattis clearly believes has been living in a “dream world.”

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ISRAEL’S “LONE WOLF” POLICY AGAINST SYRIA

It has become increasingly obvious that the US and European Union see the fall of the Assad government in Syria as unlikely.

Moreover, forces dedicated to the war on Syria are finding “greener pastures” in Iraq with over 600 killed last month alone by terrorists under Israeli backed Al Qaeda groups moving back and forth between Iraq, Jordan and Syria.

Increasingly, despite broad financial and military aid from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Assad’s forces are consolidating gains across Syria and inflicting devastating casualties.

Israel’s response, one that has frightened some military leaders there, has been to commit to direct military intervention.  Israel has already lost one Dolphin submarine and at least one combat aircraft and crew.

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CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA

Military analysts failed to note something very important about Russian weapons deliveries to Syria.  One key point was the S300 system, 250 missiles delivered by April 1, 2013, confirmed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

More missiles with mobile launchers and command modules have been delivered since, estimated at nearly 400 by mid-July.

Israel has fewer than 400 first line combat aircraft in its entire air force. The number of air defense interceptor missiles allocated to Syria, missiles that represent an addition to their current embedded inventory, is highly asymmetrical.

There is no remote hope of Israel every gaining air supremacy over Syria should the conflict widen yet it is obvious that these are Israel’s plans.

With a Russian naval force off Syria’s coast, continued missile attacks, cited by Jane’s as using Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from Israel’s remaining German donated Dolphin nuclear-armed submarines, put Israel at risk of military confrontation with Russia.

We may well have not only supported General Mattis’s use of the word “unsustainable” but have shown it to be an understatement.

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History of the Theft of Palestine and the Jewish Invention of Modern Terrorism

By Mohamed Khodr

They, the Jews, were the first to use terrorism in recorded history and are responsible for inventing terrorism in modern history in Palestine, the Middle East.

According to terrorismresearch.com :
“The earliest known organization that exhibited aspects of a modern terrorist organization was the Zealots of Judea. Known to the Romans as SICARII,, or dagger-men , they carried on an underground campaign of assassination of Roman occupation forces, as well as any Jews they felt had collaborated with the Romans”.

In the 20^th Century it was the Jewish terrorist groups the Irgun, led by future Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Menachem Begin, and the Stern Gang led by Yitzhak Shamir, another future Israeli Prime Minister that introduced terrorism in Palestine, the Middle East, and Europe.

“The IZL [Irgun] and Stern groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster methods, beatings, window smashing, and widespread robberies, the terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute”.
(also lists several Jewish terrorist acts)

–Guardian, “Early Zionist Terrorist Gangs”

Photos of the Wanted Terrorists Menachem Begin on the left and Yitzhak Shamir on the right by British police.

Menachem Begin, Wanted photo as leader of terrorist group, the Irgun. 

Future Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rewarding

the terrorists, only if they are Jews.

Among the terrorist acts first introduced in the Middle East by Jewish Terrorist Groups and Israel are:

First use of car and truck bombs to kill civilians in open areas.

First to use a car bomb to blow up a building:  King David Hotel in Jerusalem

First to assassinate a U.N. Official:  Count Folke Bernadotte serving as a Peace Mediator between Jews and Arabs.  Killed in 1948 by the Stern (Yitzhak Shamir) terrorist group in Jerusalem.

First to assassinate a foreign government official, Lord Moyne, British Minister to the Middle East in 1944 in Cairo.  Killed by the Stern Gang.

First to use letter bombs sent to British officials in London after failed terrorist bombs and assassination plans. In 1947, 20 letter bombs were sent to leading figures in Britain including Lord Ernest Bevin, UK Foreign Minister, and Anthony Eden, his Tory predecessor

First to Hijack a civilian airliner in December 1954 forcing it to land in Tel Aviv.  Israel kept the passengers and crew hostage for several days.

First deliberate shooting down of a civilian airliner, Libyan, by Israeli jet fighters in February 1973 under direct orders of P.M. Golda Meir killing all 107 passengers and the entire French crew.

In 1968, Israeli commanders blew up 13 civilian airliners in Beirut airport Lebanon.


In Noam Chomsky’s must read article; “International Terrorism: Image and Reality” he quotes Yitzhak Shamir on his view on what we call “terrorism”.He writes:

“In 1943, current Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir wrote an article entitled “Terror” for the journal of the terrorist organization he headed (Lehi) in which he
proposed to:

“Dismiss all the ‘phobia’ and babble against terror with simple,
obvious arguments.” “Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be
used to disallow terror as a means of war,” he wrote, and “We are very far
from any moral hesitations when concerned with the national struggle.”
“First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war
appropriate for the circumstances of today, and its task is a major one: it
demonstrates in the clearest language, heard throughout the world including
by our unfortunate brethren outside the gates of this country, our war
against the occupier.”

These Zionist terrorists including David Ben Gurion, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizman, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and including Benjamin Netanyahu, learned and adopted the terror tactics of the French Revolution of the 1790’s imposed by the blood thirsty leader Maximilien Robespierre who initiated a “Reign of Terror” (that’s the origin of the word “terrorism”) upon the French people for the slightest of infractions perceived as a threat to the revolution, even for calling a man and woman, Monsieur and Madame respectively.  He would round up men, owmen, and children and have them beheaded.

Robespierre spoke of a revolution based on VIRTUE and he proclaimed that in order to establish such in the French Republic he famously said:

“Virtue without Terror is Powerless”.

Such is the case in the rogue state of Israel that proclaims democracy, equality, respect for human rights, the “most moral army in the world”, and of high virtue.

But like Robespierre, in Israel, these valued virtues are imposed by the gun, by TERROR upon the imprisoned, occupied, tortured, besieged, and routinely imprisoned and murdered Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories.

To the early Zionists, Israeli leaders, and the powerful Jewish Zionists that dominate western governments DEATH AND TERROR are the OPIUM of their rule.

Hypocrisy and justification of terrorism prompted Albert Einstein and several prominent Jewish Americans to write a Letter to New York Times on December 4, 1948 opposing Menachem Begin’s visit to the U.S. and accusing him and his party of “Fascism”

Einstein called the Begin’s Irgun “a terrorist right wing, chauvinistic organization” that stood for,” ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority”.  He added that his movement, the Irgun, amounted to “a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and the British) and misrepresentation are means and a “leader state” is the goal”.

TheBritish Videobelow shows how the Zionist terrorist groups, the Irgun and Stern, invented modern terroristic methods into the Middle East.   The most important terrorist act the Irgun committed was the car bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem that served as the British headquarters killing 91 people and injuring 46.  Many terrorist groups from then on adopted the method of car bombs to attack people and facilities they deemed as enemies.

Jewish terrorists introduced to the world a new tactic and means of terrorism.

Billions of people around the world demand the immediate end to Israel’s brutal terroristic and murderous occupation of the Palestinian Territories, currently comprising only 12% of their original homeland.  The Palestinians in 1988 recognized Israel and agreed to surrender the 78% of Palestine Israel forcibly stole from them in 1948 – 1949, , prior to the 1967 war and total occupation of Palestine.  Israel as expected refused this recognition as it refused the 2002 Arab Peace Plan agreed to by all Arab States that they will establish peace and normal relations with Israel in exchange for Israel’s total withdrawal from occupied Palestinian Land, East Jerusalem, the Syrian Golan Heights, and Lebanese land.

Israel has been demanding such a peace proposal for decades and when it was offered it rejected it out of hand and demanded the U.S. do the same which of course it complied.

Former U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan said:

“The whole world is demanding that Israel withdraw from occupied Palestinian territories. I don’t think the whole world… can be wrong.”

Rather than more words on the creation of Israel and the resulting ethnic cleansing, multiple massacres, destruction of 500 Palestinian villages and much more, it is more effective to provide images, videos, and films to convey the message.

I urge and ask you to please watch the following three Videos for their vital message and enormous educational value.

The First Video is entitled:  “Occupation 101″, an excellent overview of the history and issue of the Theft of Palestine.   If you only can watch just one video on the issue please watch this one although the third video on peace and propaganda is vitally important to understand how the U.S. Media covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or as is usually the case it does not at all, after all the Jewish owned and run media can’t afford to shoot itself in its Zionist kosher funded foot.

This second video was made by the famed Australian journalist John Pilger entitled “Palestine Is Still the Issue”  Extremely worthy of your time.

This third Video showcases and highlights the extreme bias of the U.S. media while covering the Palestinian issue.   One only needs to search the internet to discover that the founders, owners, CEO’s, Presidents, Executive Producers in the media are primarily Jewish and thus nothing else can be expected of this Zionist driven media.

To highlight the racist inhumanity of Israel and its over 500,000 illegal Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories please watch this brief VIDEO on the routine practice of Jewish settlements, always being built on top of hills overlooking Palestinian villages. dumping their sewage onto the villages and polluting their water.   This sewage has led to high rates or diarrheal diseases that many times leads to death in vulnerable infants and young children.  It’s not enough for these animals to cut off the food, fresh water, medicines, fuel, school supplies and other necessary items for a normal life they add their sewage and waste insult to the injury of living under Israel’s military boots, boots that the American taxpayer funded without his/her knowledge.

Would any nation get away with such malignant inhumanity and treatment of others?  No, but this is Israel, with America’s blind backing it can poop on anyone and get away with it.

Drop off Sewage from illegal Settlements filling the town, villages, homes, and streets of the brutally occupied Palestinians.

Do America still want to ask: “Why do they Hate Us”

America is hated around the world due to its militaristic foreign policy but most of all for its blind check blanket unquestioned support of Israel, a rogue Apartheid nation born out of terrorism and lives by terrorism usingAmerican tax funded weapons and imposing its political will on the uninformed hapless nation of America.

Americans must cry out loud and often to Congress and Israel:

“You will not kill, torture, and occupy Palestine in Our Name”.

There is no life without water and the Jewish settlements deliberately steal and divert 90% of the West Bank water to them, their swimming pools, and using sprinklers to water their lawns while Palestinians are limited by Israel to a small amount of water per family available once a week.

A form of life threatening terrorism.

To control and ration water to

subjugate and dehumanize an entire

civilian populations is a war crime.

Dying of thirst met with a silent world.

Below on the Right Jewish Settlers turning off Water to Palestinians to water sprinkle their lawns.  The Israeli Government approves of this practice, after all “let the Palestinians die of thirst they’re subhuman gentiles much like the Americans the rest of the world.







From Israel’s own press:

Settlers cut Palestinian water supply to  fill swimming pool

Elon Moreh reroutes pipe carrying drinking water to neighboring Palestinian village to small pool; water drains back to village’s pipe system.

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