Just shut up and build baby, build
Israel plans to announce new construction in West Bank settlements in the near future, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas toured Europe to urge its leaders to pressure Jerusalem to halt such activity.
“I expect that in the coming period we will be announcing further construction in the [West Bank] settlements,” the official told the Post on Monday.
In Europe, Abbas repeated his assertions that Israel was undermining the peace process with its continued building.
The Israeli official, however, charged that such statements, made by Abbas and other Palestinians, were disingenuous.
He said that it was the Palestinians who violated their agreements.
During the nine-month peace process that began in July and ends in March, the Palestinians committed to abstaining from acts that promote unilateral statehood in international forums, the official said.
The official added, “But we have seen the Palestinians continue with some of that activity.”
The PA has continued its incitement against Israel, the official said.
“What is going on in the Palestinian territories is unacceptable [with] the continued calls for the delegitimization of Israel,” the official said.
He explained that the Palestinians were well aware that Israel had not committed itself to a settlement freeze during the negotiations.
“We reserve the right to continue building,” the official asserted.
He added that the majority of the building was in areas of the West Bank that Israel believed it would retain during any final status agreement with the Palestinians.That's all well and good, but I wish we'd just shut up and build baby, build.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Judea and Samaria construction, Middle East peace process, settlement freeze
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