Friday 16 April 2010

KHALIDI: Bad faith in the Holy City

Via A4P

 - April 16, 2010

How Israel’s Jerusalem Policy Imperils the Peace Process
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by Rashid Khalidi  -  Foreign Affairs -  15 April 2010

The Israeli government’s announcement in March that it would further expand East Jerusalem settlements was just the latest in a decades-old series of calculated slights to the United States.

Since 1967, virtually every time a U.S. envoy has arrived to discuss the fate of the West Bank or Gaza, the Israeli government of the day has bluntly shown who is really boss, usually with a carefully timed unilateral expansion of Israel’s presence in the occupied territories. Since the 1970s, Israel has illegally settled close to half a million of its citizens in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, not to mention building a barrier mainly inside the West Bank on Arab-owned land that is longer and taller than the Berlin Wall. Read More…

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