By building settlements on private Palestinian property, the Israeli government are creating conditions against their long-term interests.
Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. That’s precisely what President Obama is doing – showing Israel some tough love. Netanyahu knows better, and yet the drunken folly continues.
What are they thinking? What is Israel waiting for? Sanctions?
Netanyahu does know better. he knows, as do all israelis, that they have got away with annexation (creeping and otherwise) of land in the middle east for more than a 100 years. why would they stop now ? because they want peace ? they want the land, period. and they know they have enough control in the u.s. that america is not going to stop them. read the original zionist writings from dreyfus onwards..