Israel Has to Keep Building

Via Israpundit:
Mideast expert: US letter on freeze deal has been completed


By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND HERB KEINON

Netanyahu made verbal commitment to Clinton to make progress on territory during renewed settlement freeze as part of agreement.

Barak said a way had to be found to end the disagreement with the US over the construction issues, “because this is our greatest vulnerability in the world; there is not a government in the world that recognizes our right to build in Judea and Samaria.”

Who cares what the world recognizes? It’s not for them to say. This is Israel’s land.

“What is very important is to let the negotiators sit around the table and get an agreement including on the borders, not to decide from Brussels or elsewhere what should the Palestinian state be,” Frattini said. “We do want a Palestinian state as soon as possible, but there is no consensus and there are no proposals in Europe to have a decision on behalf of the two negotiators.”

Why do they want a “palestinian” state as soon as possible or at all? What good will come of creating another islamic terror state?

Following the meeting, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton issued a statement saying that the ministers exchanged views and “voiced their concern at the current lack of progress and the ongoing settlement activities, particularly in east Jerusalem. The High Representative [Ashton] pointed to the Council’s December 2009 conclusions and recalled that settlements are illegal under international law, are an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible.”

Will someone shut this witch the hell up already and tell her to stop interfering in Israel’s sovereign affairs? Jerusalem is Israel’s sovereign capital not a “settlement”. Building Jewish communities there or in fact anywhere in the Jewish state of Israel including Judea and Samaria are perfectly LEGAL.

Again, I couldn’t care less if the world recognizes the legitimacy of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. I’m not interested in convincing the international community to confer legitimacy on these Jewish communities. I realize that will never happen. My point is that this is Israel’s land and they should act like it and do as they please, ignoring international opinion which has no business interfering in Israel’s internal affairs. Furthermore world opinion is not based on truth, justice or international law but on appeasing the violent and oil rich muslim world at the expense of Israel. So why should Israel consider any proclamations against it by the international community as legitimate since nations base their claims against Israel on self-interest alone?

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