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US calls Israel settlement plans unfortunate - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

The United States has described as "unfortunate" plans by the Israeli government to build 500 new illegal settler homes in East Jerusalem.

The US response came after a panel of the Israeli interior ministry gave approval on Monday for the new homes in Ramat Shlomo, a neighbourhood built on West Bank territory captured in the 1967 war and annexed to Jerusalem.

The announcement by Jerusalem's Planning and Building Committee to approve construction of 500 housing units in Ramat Shlomo is the first step in a long series of approvals needed before actual construction can begin and the process should take years.

The US criticised the decision, reiterating its view that settlements are "illegitimate".

"It is unfortunate that after the unequivocal and unanimous position last week of the international community, opposing construction in East Jerusalem, at this sensitive time the Israeli authorities chose to move forward," said Edgar Vasquez, a spokesman for the US State Department in Washington.

"We continue to engage at the highest level with the Israeli government to make our position absolutely clear - that we view settlement activity as illegitimate and that we unequivocally oppose unilateral steps that prejudge the future of Jerusalem."

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we will oppose any illegal settlements but on the other hand we will keep providing Arms to your Army to destroy homes of Palestine Peoples ...Awesome
 
I agree. They are extremely unfortunate.

I read your thread earlier about Jordan calling to the international world. I anticipate the same thing to happen, right now I'm busy but I'll respond later. No doubt they will place onus on Jordan/Egypt to deal with displaced Palestinians in West Bank. Even though Jordan is Jordan and we won't settle there.
 
I read your thread earlier about Jordan calling to the international world. I anticipate the same thing to happen, right now I'm busy but I'll respond later. No doubt they will place onus on Jordan/Egypt to deal with displaced Palestinians in West Bank. Even though Jordan is Jordan and we won't settle there.
Rightly so. I think the goal for them is to make the residents of the West Bank and Gaza refugees so we will have to accept them but welcoming refugees and being complacent in the destruction of a whole nation of people aren't the same thing.
 
Rightly so. I think the goal for them is to make the residents of the West Bank and Gaza refugees so we will have to accept them but welcoming refugees and being complacent in the destruction of a whole nation of people aren't the same thing.

They're not only banking on that but also hoping if that situation emerges there will be ethnic/national conflict within Jordan. The US has a big role to play here, they brought up this beast. And they need to contain this rabid dog.
 
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