Report: US to 'allow' hotel in exchange for 'setting borders'
A report in the Jerusalem-based 'Palestinian' daily al-Quds on Monday claims that the United States will 'allow' Israel to build 20 apartment units Jerusalem's Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah (pictured) and several hundred housing units elsewhere in exchange for the United States being allowed to 'set the borders' between Israel and the 'Palestinian' reichlet. The U.S. also will include a provision that 300,000 foreign Arabs ['Palestinian refugees'? CiJ] can immigrate into areas that Israel would cede to the PA in return for retaining Jewish towns and cities in Maaleh Adumim, Gush Etzion and possibly Ariel and nearby communities. The PA previously has rejected the idea.This doesn't sound like much of a deal for Israel and I'm disturbed that the government has not denied it. Why do we need the United States to 'allow' us to build in our capital city? And why would we ever agree to allow the United States to fix our borders?
Neither Israel nor the Obama administration has commented on the report.
The issue of the proposed hotel in Jerusalem has left all three sides – the Obama and Netanyahu government and the PA –entrenching themselves into positions that have left virtually no room for compromise.
All sides agree on one critical point with different conclusions: They see no difference between the status of a hotel in eastern Jerusalem and the building of homes in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods populated by more than 250,000 Jews in the capital. The PA, with Obama’s backing, has demanded sovereignty over all of the areas – including Ramot, French Hill and Gilo – that were restored to the Jewish State in the Six-Day War in 1967.
The Netanyahu government, with wide support from virtually every party except Meretz and Arab factions, considers all of the areas part of a united Israeli city that will continue to serve as its capital, without a PA presence.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:25 AM
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I'm not happy about it. But the Palestinians feel betrayed by what amounts to an American sell-out on settlements and borders. Here they were expecting the US to give them everything they wanted on a silver platter and here the the US is saying OK Israel can build in Jerusalem. I don't imagine Netanyahu liking it but I can imagine Abbas liking it even less since this runs counter to the entire Palestinian strategy of the US forcing Israel's hand. Does the PA have a backup strategy?
What could go wrong indeed
this is obama's goal: once the appearance of state for the pali's is there, of which a border is real important, he will recognize it, and so will the europeans, and he will land american trooops there, who will ignore pali terrorism and stop israel from retaliating, this is obama's goal.
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