Monday, 17 December 2012

Fattening new settlements and the Palestinians to the Security Council


JERUSALEM (home) agencies: the Israeli occupation began in fattening new settlement push the Palestinians to go to the Security Council.
The Interior Ministry gave the green light to the occupation building 1,500 housing units in Ramat Shlomo in occupied East Jerusalem, a project condemned by Washington in 2010, according to ministry spokeswoman said.


Efrat said Ooberakh "plan was reduced from 1600 to 1500 units and now must re-submit the plan to suit the conditions for final approval," noting that it "may take months or years."
Auerbach noted that the Committee heard at the meeting to public objections and ordered modifications.
The plan caused a diplomatic crisis with Washington when announcing for the first time in 2010 to coincide with the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Jerusalem where he met senior Israeli officials at the time to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Palestinian officials announced that the state of Palestine is considering taking big steps soon to stop Israeli settlement in the UN Security Council.
Said presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina "We strongly condemn the Israeli decision will be the Palestinian Authority is taking big steps necessary very soon against Israeli settlement, including in the UN Security Council and other steps necessary to prevent the implementation of these decisions settlement in the territory of the State of Palestine occupied by Israel."
He considered Abu Rudeina, who is in Rome with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on an official visit, this decision "settlement disregard of the international community, who voted for the State of Palestine and against the settlement is an unacceptable provocation."
He added "Israel should bear responsibility for this dangerous escalation because they do not only destroy the two-state solution, but destroy prospects for security and stability in the region."
For his part, demanded the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the U.S. administration "to vote in favor of the resolutions to be submitted to the Palestinian Security Council against Israeli settlement."
Erekat said "can not remain Israel is above the law and must abide by the law and we are studying our options where we must put an end to the absurdity of Israeli security and stability of the region and its defiance of the world and the Palestinian people, which occupies the territory of their own."
"Although we strongly condemn this decision settlement and ask the world to stop it but it has been required to take further steps to stop the settlement of this cancer, which ascend the Government of Israel


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