Posted on 12/06/2012 5:52:42 AM PST by Former Fetus
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday denounced Israel's plans to build homes in the area known as E1.
AFP reported that Abbas said the plan was "a red line that cannot be tolerated" and warned he would take all the legal means available to prevent such a "dangerous" decision.
"We went to all international parties to prevent this settlement decision, and if it goes ahead we will resort to all legitimate and legal methods," he warned, according to the report.
E1 refers to an area that connects Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim. It was designated nearly 20 years ago for residential building, but U.S. presidents have objected to Israel building there.
The Israeli government announced last Friday it would promote the building in E1 and would also build 3,000 new units in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
The Israeli move came in response to Abbas's unilateral move in the UN a day earlier, when the General Assembly approved with an overwhelming majority his request to upgrade the PA's status to that of a non-member observer state.
Former chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat, a senior aide to Abbas, declared Wednesday that Israel's decision to build in the area between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim meant the "end of the peace process."
"If Israel decides to start building in E1 and approves all the settlements in it, we consider it to be an Israeli decision to end the peace process and the two-state solution, which ends any chance of talking about peace in the future," Erekat told the AFP news agency.
A PA statement on Tuesday said that Abbas plans to turn to the United Nations Security Council and ask that it call on Israel, in the name of "Palestine", to refrain from any construction in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
The end of the WHAT??? The PA is no more interested in making peace with Israel than my dog is to make peace with the squirrels in the backyard.
ALL legal means equates to intifada, rockets, bus bombings, pizzerias blown up...
Launching hundreds and hundreds of rockets into Israel is ho hum, but building houses! Now that’s the last straw!!!
Don’t stop at 3,000...
If Israel can connect all the new communities together by filling in these gaps, there could be a Jewish/Christian majority there relatively soon.
Gaza, of course, is a very different story.
I hope they do it! Am Israel Chai!
"If Israel decides to start building in E1 and approves all the settlements in it, we consider it to be an Israeli decision to end the peace process and the two-state solution, which ends any chance of talking about peace in the future," Erekat told the AFP news agency.
What are they going to do, bomb Israeli busses, pizzerias, etc., or have children blow themselves up amidst a crowd of "infidel sons of pigs and monkeys?" Such a threat is no threat at all, since the Paleoswinians have been conducting a non-stop war since before 1948. The irony is that Paleos were offered a state before 1948 and many times since, and they refused, thinking that they could defeat the IDF and "drive the Jews into the sea."
My response would be to increase the housing permits to 6,000, and to tell them that the next time they issued threats instead of actually trying to negotiate a genuine peace (which includes a COMPLETE halt of all terrorism and rocket launches), the permits would be expanded to 12,000. IOW, "FU Paleos!"
There is something incredibly pathetic and bizarre about this fighting about a pile of sand and rocks. When I saw it on the BBC there wasn’t even a tree.
When will the U.S. prosecute Abbas for his role in the 1973 murder of the U.S. Ambassador to Sudan and his deputy in Khartoum, which was ordered by Yasser Arafat and executed by Black September? Abbas was at the time responsible for “finance” (paying off the terrorists).
Give the Jews a few years and you won’t recognize that “pile of sand and rocks”. Instead you will have farms, houses, gardens...
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