Jerusalem – Next crisis with US underway? The Interior Ministry’s district committee for construction and planning approved Thursday evening two major plans for some 1,550 housing units in contentious Jerusalem neighborhoods.
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The construction plans for Har Homa and Pisgat Ze’ev, both located beyond the Green Line, were given the go-ahead as President Barack Obama was delivering his major Mideast policy speech.
Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure to Washington Thursday evening, the government secretary ordered the committee to proceed with the touchy session.
“The timing for the discussion of the Har Home plan is not coincidental,” one committee member, Yair Gabai, told Ynet. “The district committee never convenes at such late hours. This is a declaration of a diplomatic nature meant to clear the fog around the Jerusalem question, so that nobody in the world would think that the Israeli government intends to discuss Jerusalem’s division.”
“Israel’s government decided to say today openly and clearly to the whole world that Jerusalem is not up for negotiations and will remain united,” he said. “This is the best gift we could have received for the upcoming Jerusalem Day.
Kol Hakavod to Netanyahu
Wow, that’s amazing. Big step. Yasher koach!
Since Obama has announced that Israel must pull back to pre-1967 borders ( apparently he knows what’s best for us, right?), I like that Israel is doing what it needs to do.
In the long term Israel will become more vigilant and realize that it has few strong friends whom we can trust. All the more reason to do whatever it wants to do.
Obama will learn that actions have consequences.
Finally the Jews are reacting like normal proud people.
Way to go.
Stop being such wimps
After Obama’s last comment? (And I do mean “last” 🙂 ). Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
why start fighting against the arabs again? They will start killing us, leave them alone, shame on you bibi,
Time for the state to stand strong and on its own. The US is the land of Bart Simpson. China and India are where it’s at. EY has a strong economy and does not need US aid. India especially needs EY arms badly because of its crummy neighbors; let EY beat out US companies on quality and price and then the US will learn its lesson when defense firms end up bankrupt. The whole aid scam is to keep the US defense industry going after the Cold War.
bibi in office forever.
Build Baby Build!!!
TO: All the anti-Semites & muslim countries and other Jew haters…..
AM Yisroel Chai!!!
The more you try to destroy us ..the more with Hashem’s help we will build and survive.
B’Chol dor vodor omdiem olaine ….v’hakodosh boruch matzelainu meyudom!
KEEP IT UP BIBI – WE”RE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DON”T BE AFRAID TO CONFRONT THE PRESIDENT – he’s only with us until Nov 2012. Then he’s on pension paid for by the US taxpayers who voted him in/
YES BUILD and build some more. Please do not let big bad president scare you
interesting many comments seems to say do whatever and we will fight if we have too.
I would not be surprised that most would not loin the Israeli army and defend the country
Netanyahu is right…its better to expand in Yerushalayim and give back land and settlements large sections of the in the West Bank which are not deemed strategically critical for the defense of EY. It will be easier to return some of these remote settlements than to give up even an inch of yerushalayim.
Really Yoelyg? They will “Start” killing us? Because of Israel proclaiming that our holiest city is not up for grabs?
I have news for you, since you obviously don’t believe in reading the news. They haven’t stopped trying to kill us! There have been rockets flying daily. Your attempt to blame everything on Israel simply because you don’t support the state is disgusting. You would sell your own people down the river. What a disgrace