Quote from a_person:
BTW you probably missed this: 11/25/2009: Netanyahu declares 10-month settlement freeze 'to restart peace talks' After cabinet approves freeze, PM calls move 'painful,' urges Palestinians to renew peace talks.
Predictably Israel did stick to their 10 month commitment, predictably the arabs refused to negotiate, predictably when the freeze expired Obama requested to have it extended. Israel said no, what would you do? You are right about one thing though, Israel does not take orders from Washington. It does listen and it does often go to pains to accommodate american requests and american interests...but it has its own problems and interests and it does not take orders from Washington. Do you think it should?
The freeze should've not been the issue to start with. Your zionist entity is illegally stealing land in an occupied territory (According to international laws) and building illegal settlements on them. Your zionist entity is trying to impose a matter of fact on the ground on us by doing so.
It is a fact that Jerusalem that was illegally annexed in 1967 (You cannot annex land in occupied territories according to the fourth Geneva convention, which the whole world, including your zionist entity signed to) is one fourth of what you consider as Jerusalem now, i.e. your zionist entity annexed and ethnically cleansed the people of towns and villages around Jerusalem and expanded its size afterward.
It is a fact that you refuse to include Jerusalem (the enlarged one, which encompasses 15% of the West Bank alone) and the Right of Return in any future negotiations.
It is a fact that you refuse to negotiate the illegal settlements in the West Bank, which resulted in dividing the West Bank into 12 isolated enclaves.
It is a fact that you refuse to negotiate before we submit to your condition of recognising the zionist entity as a Jewish state, which will go in stark contradiction of our right of return (How can you be allowed to return to a land that we ourselves recognised as a Jewish state?)
It is a fact that as we are speaking right now, the Arab East Jerusalem is surrounded by 6 huge settlements. The end result was to turn the Arab East Jerusalem into a neighbourhood within the greater Jerusalem to end any potential of us asking for it as our future capital.
The zionist entity did not stop there! After annexing the Arab East Jerusalem, it gave its people a resident status, which is very identical to the American Green Card. What that means is that, the Arab Jerusalemite who lived in their homes for thousands of years are now foreigners in their own land.
And like the Green Card residency status in the US, you would lose your residency status if you left Jerusalem for more than 3 years.
To make sure that the people of Jerusalem leave to seek better living conditions, the zionist entity made sure that the residents of East Jerusalem are out of the work force so that they would seek employment elsewhere.
The Palestinians have been put in endless negotiations, road maps, one proposal after the other, from Madrid to Oslo to Taba to Camp David and others and others while the zionists expanded their illegal settlements 3 folds and annexed an additional 13% of the most strategic and resource rich land. Not only that, the land that was stolen is strategically distributed in a way that will not allow a Palestinian sovereign state to be created over the West Bank.
To give an idea to people who are willing to listen, when the Americans introduced UN resolution 194 (Right of Return) in 1948 as a condition to accept Israel as a member of that International body, Ben Gurion adopted the same tactics carried by the present and previous zionist leaders throughout the so called "Peace negotiations". He kept on sending one delegation after the other in endless meetings with the UN to discuss the resolution. during which time, and before he used to send any delegation, he used to order the destruction of 5 to 6 villages at the time so that just in case the UN decided to enforce such resolution, there wouldn't be any towns villages to go back to.