PM appeases right with territories construction

“Ma’ariv”: The prime minister let Housing Minister Uri Ariel build in Judea and Samaria in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

31 July 13 09:43, Globes’ correspondent

Although the government’s decision to release 104 security prisoners ahead of the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians was resentfully accepted by Habayit Hayehudi, behind the party’s decision to stay in the coalition, despite bitter objections by its members, is an agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel. Hebrew daily “Ma’ariv” reports that, under the agreement, Israel will unfreeze building plans for thousands of housing units in Judea and Samaria in exchange for keeping Habayit Hayehudi in the coalition.

According to “Ma’ariv”, top sources in Habayit Hayehudi said that Netanyahu and Ariel had a secret dialogue through sealed envelopes. In this dialogue, they agreed to unfreeze building plans for projects, mainly in settlement blocs and in Jerusalem, in exchange for the decision to release the Palestinian terrorists getting through the coalition and the government.

“Ma’ariv” reports that plans for the construction of 1,000 housing units will be approved soon, and plans for an additional 3,500-4,500 housing units will be approved in the coming months. Sources in Habayit Hayehudi said that party chairman Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett was involved in the contacts, and calmed party members, saying that he doubted that the new talks with the Palestinians would lead to a diplomatic agreement, so there was no point in threatening to quit the government.

Ariel’s bureau told “Ma’ariv” in response, “Minister Ariel constantly holds meetings, discussions, and correspondence with the Prime Minister’s Bureau to find solutions for the housing market in all parts of the Land of Israel, including Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. The minister has always demanded, since taking up his post, that construction in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria should be allowed, and is working to this end.”

A hint at this agreement can be seen in the speech by MK Ayalet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi) from the Knesset podium on Monday, when she turned to the Palestinians and said, “I see your celebrations in Ramallah. Take them (the prisoners who will be released). That is what you look like. This is our partner.

“You should know that for each murderer who will be released we will build scores of homes in Judea and Samaria,” Shaked said. “That is how it has worked since the dawn of Zionism: we build and they kill. Each of us does what he knows how to do.”

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  2. yamit82 Said:

    Communist Quiz

    I loved it, it reminds of the type of humour that is now missing. I noticed that trotsky was not invited to this quiz.

  7. @ yamit82:

    Forgive me Sugar I waa rude to you. I watched a program on the Military channel called “Black Ops” and they said Spetnatz Special Units were the best trained and armed in the world. And their personal were the most dedicated fighters. Since you are my “go to guy” on military matter,I asked you
    As for the above song: Men go to battle***** Women go to war!!!!!!!!!!

  10. Yeah, I’d hunt your sorry ass. I’ve lived in the bush most of my life. I’d follow the smell of your bullshit till I found your sorry Sinn Fein ass. The fact that you label everyone who dismisses your foolish gulag ideology a “fascist” only exposes you as the rote-learned, inculcated fool that you are. You’re a well-disguised anti-Semite, that’s all you are. You can kiss my Canadian ass. Or as we say up here, “See you on the ice.”

  14. honeybee Said:

    Does that work for husbands?????????????/

    I think divorce lawyers might think so. Divorce Lawyers are to Law what Plastic surgeons are to women.

  15. yamit82 Said:

    There are stupid and insensitive rabbis just like anyone else. If we don’t like or agree with our rabbis we can leave him and find another more compatible.

    Does that work for husbands?????????????/

  16. yamit82 Said:

    whole Jewish people of Israel — not just the rulers or capitalists of the country — are oppressors and must be considered enemies:”

    What new abot this doctrine!

  19. yamit82 Said:

    “the new Trotskyist thinking concerning Israel and Zionism. It solemnly and, for the movement authoritatively, establishes the new doctrine that the whole Jewish people of Israel — not just the rulers or capitalists of the country — are oppressors and must be considered enemies:”

    thanks. I wonder what felix could be thinking 🙂

  20. yamit82 Said:

    Point was to show the financial cost of removing only the outlying settlements not including the major settlement blocks or Jerusalem Israel doesn’t have spare $80 billion or more. Can’t see Europe or the States coming up with that kind of money on short notice

    Is this an indication that it can’t or won’t happen?

  21. @ M Devolin:
    bernard ross Said:

    Trotskyism good for the Jews”.
    Lots of responses but no answer.

    This should help you get a handle on Felix and his religious/political beliefs:

    From Victim to Shylock and Oppressor: The New Image of the Jew in the Trotskyist Movement By Werner Cohn
    Journal of Communist Studies (London), vol. 7, no. 1, March 1991, pp. 46-68.

    Abstract: After the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, a change took place in Trotskyist positions concerning Jews. The earlier positions saw Jews as one of the oppressed peoples of the world. While the movement has always opposed Zionism, earlier pronouncements routinely coupled this opposition with denunciations of what where seen as anti-Semitic aspects of the Arab nationalist movement. After 1967, most sections of the Trotskyist movement began to characterize the Jews of Israel as an ‘oppressor nation’ and called for the destruction of Israel. The movement also began to distribute an earlier publication that characterized the Jewish tradition as one of usury. In the whole period after the Russian revolution of 1917, Trotsky was a faithful disciple of Lenin’s, and, until he was displaced by rivals after Lenin’s death, Trotsky was generally regarded as the second man, after Lenin, in the Bolshevist leadership. On the question of Jews, Lenin the non-Jew and Trotsky the Jew expressed themselves in almost identical terms. The emphasis was always on the evils of anti-Semitism, with opposition to any form of Jewish ‘particularism,’ either in the form of Bundism or Zionism, playing a distinctly secondary role. Though both Lenin and Trotsky prided themselves on their unquestioning discipleship to Marx, neither ever voiced Marx’s negative sentiments concerning Jews; in fact, as far as can be determined, neither ever mentioned Marx’s writings on the Jews. By the same token, of course, it is also true that they never criticized Marx on this account.(5) Read More


    The Jews of Israel: An Oppressor Nation
    “the new Trotskyist thinking concerning Israel and Zionism. It solemnly and, for the movement authoritatively, establishes the new doctrine that the whole Jewish people of Israel — not just the rulers or capitalists of the country — are oppressors and must be considered enemies:”
    Read More