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Israel to build more West Bank homes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the construction of 300 new homes at the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank.
Netanyahu's decision infuriated Palestinians who say the Israeli government is expanding the settlements at the expense of a peace deal with the Palestinians
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has announced plans to build hundreds more settler homes on Palestinian land, even after the Israeli parliament rejected a bill to retroactively legalise existing homes.
The announcement came hours after Israel's parliament rejected a bill to legalise settlement outposts.
Mr Netanyahu, who opposed the bill, said he would honour a Supreme Court order to demolish homes on private Palestinian land at the Ulpana outpost.
The issue has been a source of tension between settlers and the government.
All settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
The settler outposts are also illegal under Israeli law and the government agreed to remove them under the 2003 Road Map peace plan.
Netanyahu's announcement was condemned by a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas who said the decision to Beit El would hinder peace efforts.
"We strongly condemn Netanyahu's announcement of the settlement decision on Palestinian land, which is an obstacle to efforts to push the peace process forward," the spokesperson said.
Reacting to Netanyahu's announcement, a US spokesman said that "continued Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank undermines peace efforts and contradicts Israeli commitments and obligations".
"Our position on settlements remains unchanged. We do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians broke down three years ago, and the Palestinians refuse to restart negotiations until Israel freezes settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Palestinians claim both areas, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, for a future state.
Netanyahu says talks should resume without any preconditions and has refused calls for a full settlement freeze.
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A call in the wild. What is the meaning of Justice? Does it mean that the strongest suppress the weakest? Are the rich suppressing the poor? Are governments suppressing their people? Why are the world Bullies letting these cruleties to happen? United Nations and NATO are just preaching and letting all these cruelties and mass murders to happen in coutries like Syria. What are the world Bullies waiting for? Is it because Russia and China doesn’t want Military intervention in Syria. They inervened in Libya,Iraq and other places was it because of oil or some other expensive mineral? How come they are letting the Syrians and other peoles being massacered? How come they are letting other strong countries bullying weaker countires? Why should any country like Israel take something that isn’t theres? All the world condemed what happened to the Jews during the last world war, so why are the Isralelites being let to do the same to other people? After all the land they are occuopying isn’t theres. The Isralelites have the right to live in peace but then don’t the Palestines have the same rights? All humans should have the same basic rights to live, eat, study and progess in peace with one another. Those who need help should get whoever they are and wherever they are. World bodies like United Nation, NATO, European Union should see that this is done without the loss of human lives. Malta although just a piece of rock and without any resources always did its best to help, like in the case of the Libyan conflict when we accepted all those peoples to use Malta as an escape route. The thousand of illegal imigrants that came and are still coming and the brotherhood that is preached within the European Union and then it is something that it only means just words. When its come for action there is none.
Lets start acting for a better world. I thin its high time that all the people in the whole world should start to live in PEACE.
