by Peter A. Belmont / 2011-09-30
© 2011 Peter Belmont

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The nations of the world are near unanimous in condemning Israel’s recent announcement of its plans to build 1,100 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem. See Condemnation grows against Israel’s settlement plans .

The USA said new settlement building is unhelpful for the [so-called] “peace process”, or some other mealy-mouthed go-ahead-disguised-as-criticism. The USA sends Israel nothing but green lights to continue its illegal encroachments on Palestinian territory.

”We are particularly concerned that decisions on such a sensitive matter should be taken at an extremely important time for the future of the peace process,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement. Another green light.

Europeans nations Britain, France and Italy also condemned the move, with China, Japan and Egypt also issuing statements.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr called the move “provocative” while Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters in Beijing that it “regrets” Israeli settlement plans.

Turkey said, “This is a flagrant violation of international law and is not acceptable”. Well, at least it calls the settlement project “illegal”, but this—standing alone—is still a green light.

For the nations all know (what their people do not), that the UNSC by UNSC-465 demanded that Israel remove all settlers and dismantle all settlements in 1980 (that’s 30 years ago for the numerically challenged), but the resolution HAD NO TEETH and Israel ignored it entirely.

Indeed, Israel’s settlement project and other lawlessness in service of its occupation have been condemned so many times that mere words have no more effect on Israel than the water that runs off a duck’s back has on the duck. None. Nada. Zilch. (As Ben-Gurion said, it doesn’t matter what the non-Jews say, it only matters what the Jews do.”)[1]

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