By Ted Belman
Deputy PM Meridor calls for building freeze beyond security barrier and settlement blocs.
What the hell is he doing in the Government and a senior minister at that. Oh, I remember, Bibi invited him to join Likud and offered him a plum job.
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“Don’t freeze it in Jerusalem or Ma’aleh Adumim or other places like this,” he said in the interview, conducted at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. “But don’t build all over the place, because this is the most damaging of all the things that we are doing to ourselves in the world. Because people say: ‘You offer the Palestinians a state. But if you build there in every place, you don’t really mean it.’”
Rather than untrammeled construction, Meridor said, government policy should be focused on widening international support for the expansion of Israeli sovereignty to encompass the major settlement blocs. “We need to use all our efforts, our energies, our resources, to try to add the blocs to Israel,” he said.
I do not believe that he would openly come out with this without Bibi’s approval. Meridor even talked about the import of Obama’s ’67 lines with swaps as acceptable. He said we are only interested in the blocks and should cede the rest. This is also what Mofaz proposes.
This will not go down well with the Right.
The Jews were given the right to settle the west bank by san remo,League of nations and binding in UN charter. This has never been repealed. Only the Israeli govt is preventing this right. Why aren’t legal teams suing for this right in Israel and international courts. If the Israeli govt, similar to the British mandate govt, is violating its trust as the agency of the Jewish people then why cant that violation be challenged or the agency removed. I know of no entity, other than the Israeli govt, who has gone on record to abrogate that right. Even if it is not successful it would bring into light the legal issue. As of now the Israeli govt prevents the light from shining on the rights of Jews to pray or to settle on the west bank. What prevents private Jews from legally pursuing this matter in international courts, in Israel and possibly 3rd countries?
@ David Chase:
Your right David.
Listen if you believe all of Israel belongs to the Jews and Jerusalem is the capital of this sovereign Jewish Nation why worry about what the world thinks, then build, build and build, it’s your land.
I don’t see the world condemning Hamas for sending rockets into Israel or the world condemning the MB for threatening to destroy Israel.
@ yamit82:
Meridor’s remarks were very disturbing and moved me closer to your thinking.
Meridor talks about getting the World to go along. Even if they ceded Ariel and Maaleh Adumin to us, it is doubtful that they would cede Jerusalem to us.
Would Bibi agree to stop building east of the fence without something in return such as the US and the EU agreeing to unlimited building in Jerusalem and west of the fence. Possibly but I don’t see them agreeing to it. Besides they keep saying no unilateral moves and a negotiated solution so there will be no side deals
Ted do you still not believe that BB will try to implement the Fayyad Plan and withdraw to the fence?
He might not succeed in the endeavor but he might try for it if he thinks he can get away with it.
He cares what people say- that’s the whole problem. It’s almost not even political but psychological. Why can’t these idiots do the right thing and forget what the world says. What did Kahane say: I’d rather have an Israel (greater Israel actually) that the world hates than an Auchwitz that the world loves.