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Encouraged by Weak US Stance on Illegal Israeli Settlement Activities, Settlers Start a New Settlement, Occupation Army Does Not Object Abdul-Qader: U.S. stances weak, unable to stop illegal Israeli settlement expansion Tuesday September 08, 2009 01:22 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Hatem Abdul-Qader, who is in charge of the Jerusalem file at the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, reported Monday that the week stances of the United States are not enough to oblige Israel to stop its illegal settlement activities. Abdul-Qader added that the Arab states must transfer the file of settlement to the Security Council due to the ongoing Israeli violations. He also demanded the Palestinian Authority to stop the security coordination with Israel, and to refrain from holding any talks, on any level, with the country. His statements came after Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, approved the construction of 450 housing units in West Bank settlements. Also on Monday, Israel’s National Infrastructure Minister, Uzi Landau, slammed Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for what he described as “partial plan to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank. Landau said that the “Palestinians are occupiers”, and added that any limits on settlement activities are violations of human rights. His statement came as fundamental Israeli lawmaker and hundreds of fundamental settlers were ‘celebrating’ the establishment of a new illegal settlement, and a settler-only road linking the occupied East Jerusalem with illegal settlements in its suburbs. Israeli Supreme Court Judge, Eliyakim Rubenstein, and Information Minister, Yuli Edelstein, attended the illegal ceremony. Mansi deplores illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Jerusalem and W. Bank [ 08/09/2009 - 11:28 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian minister of public works and housing Dr. Yousuf Al-Mansi strongly denounced on Tuesday the Israeli persistence in expanding illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank and its refusal to freeze settlement activities. Dr. Mansi said that Israel flouted all agreements and treaties it signed with Palestinians and intensified its settlement activities in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He warned that the resumption of settlement activities threatens the Palestinian housing sector and turns thousands of Palestinian dunums into Zionist housing units and settlements. The minister underlined that the settlement activities in Jerusalem and the West Bank reflect Israeli deep-seated hatred against Palestinians and confirm Israel’s racist policies. In the same context, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum stated in a press statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the shy American attitudes demonstrated by US president Barack Obama emboldened Israel to persist in its dangerous settlement projects. Barhoum urged the Arab countries to use more forceful language against the Zionist entity to force it to stop its dangerous practices in Palestine. The spokesman noted that the Zionist entity is working on isolating the holy city of Jerusalem through obliterating its Arab and Islamic landmarks and streets and making a demographic change in favor of the Jews. He stressed that the policy of double standards pursued by the international community conferred legitimacy on the criminal Zionist entity and denied it to the rightful owners of the occupied Palestinian land, adding that this unjust policy is the cause of all problems in the world and the main reason for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.
Illegal Israeli settlers hold 'groundbreaking ceremony' for major new settlement in East Jerusalem Tuesday September 08, 2009 02:04 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News A few Israeli protesters from the group 'Peace Now' were the only visible opposition to a gathering of hundreds of extreme rightwing illegal Israeli settlers, government ministers and Knesset (Parliament) members who carried out a groundbreaking ceremony Monday, under the protection and with the full support of the Israeli police, of a planned new settlement called Mevaseret Adumim. The group included many prominent politicians and members of the current Israeli government administration, who said that they would continue construction and expansion of settlements on Palestinian land despite any negotiated agreement, international law, or US pressure. Some of those who attended the ceremony were Ministers Daniel Hershkowitz (Habayit Hayehudi) and Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beitenu), as well as Knesset Members Danny Danon (Likud), Zeev Elkin (Likud) and Uri Orbach (Habayit Hayehudi). Those who led the ceremony promised that the groundbreaking was just a beginning, and that the settlement they plan to construct on the land will "soon become a reality". In fact, the Israeli government has invested some 200 million NIS ($50 million USD) into infrastructure and planning of the settlement in question as part of the so-called 'E1 corridor', beginning in 1999. This corridor would encircle East Jerusalem with Israeli settlements, thereby displacing the nearly 500,000 Palestinian residents and excluding them from the city of their birth. Monday's ceremony came at the same time as an announcement by the Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, that 500 new units would be allowed to be constructed before the implementation of a six-month 'hold' on settlement construction meant to please the US government. The planning, design, and infrastructure development for new settlements would continue throughout the six-month long hold. Israeli occupation government defense minister to allow settlement expansion settlers say it's not enough Monday September 07, 2009 11:23 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News The Israeli
occupation government defense minister, Ehud Barak, is scheduled
to announce that he will allow the expansion of Israeli settlements in
the West Bank (all of them are illegal) by
several hundred units before implementing a temporary six-month hold on
further expansion. But Israeli settlers, who live on Palestinian
territory in contravention of international law, have called the plan a
'mockery', arguing that they should have a right to expand without
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