Settlements Snarl: 'Israel gambles on US protection from intl law'

Israel says it will go ahead with plans to build 1500 new settler homes in East Jerusalem - the part of the city that's considered Palestinian land. The project was given an intermediate green light by Israeli officials on Monday. This comes less then a month after the UN granted Palestine non-member observer status. Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future Palestinian state, and are promising to raise the issue at a Security Council meeting. Author and historian Gerald Horne says that with Palestine's recent upgrade, Israel's playing a risky game.

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[Rick Hansen]

That's funny cause I'm a liberal fool. I expect your equally wrong about everything else too.

[stinghawk99]

you can carry on this pr war within US within . but more and more people are now awakening up (esp liberals) to what Israel really is .a lunatic country of war mongers with no intention for peace or respect for international laws .your sole friend in this murderous war is usa .

israel a civilized society . dont make ma laugh .

i am not an arab . just a rational human

[Rick Hansen]

Whats barbaric is Hamas killing it's own people and dragging the corpses through the streets like the barbaric baboons that Arabs have proven themselves to be. The western world "condemned" nothing in reality, they gave you the typical token support, without meaning ANY of it. At this point it's just a knee jerk political reaction, but soon the west will show you all we don;t give a rats ass about you Arab murderous animals. Long live Israel, Israel is the only hope for a civilized middle east

[stinghawk99]

is that how you defend precision phosphorous attacks , in which 3 jews died and 1000 Palestinians died .

totally barbaric of you . barbaric states that supports this shit are USA and some shit tiny islands .

majority of western developed nations including new rising powers condemned it .

[Rick Hansen]

LoL Barbarism is sending little kids and mental patients to target civilian populated bus's and blow themselves up. Barbarism is hiding and fighting from behind woman and children. Barbarism is running out in the streets and killing each-other of something as simple as a cartoon or a movie. Yet you refer to measured precision attacks as Barbaric, if Israel was anywhere near as Barbaric as Hamas, the conflict would already be over. Barbarism is dragging corpses down the streets on motorbikes.

[Rick Hansen]

Well then you and your alien friends can keep dreaming up more Pali-wood lies for the world.

[citizenOfNowhere777]

So your bachelor degrees and your self-study with with Bachelor degrees level skills are supposed to qualify you knowledgeable enough that your blah blah is supposed to be facts? What a moron you are!

[citizenOfNowhere777]

And that somehow is suppose to justify Israel's barbarism?

[citizenOfNowhere777]

Like I said to someone else before (may be it was you), with mentality like yours, this species is a laughing stalks to the aliens. As for Israel is Israel, just wait till the American empire is no more. I just wish you'd still be around then to hear the Arabs saying The Arabs are the Arabs" no one messes with us. My utmost respect for the Palestinians for the resistance.