Israel ends Gaza incursion

The latest trouble comes amid growing protest over new plans for Israeli settlement building.
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Israel won't start talking to Hamas because they need a bogeyman in the never ending conflict to help defuse their land theft. Any chance of progress must be refused, every possible gesture of reconciliation must be avoided at all costs, any hint of cooperation laughed at.Netanyahu has made that clear to both Clinton & Obama
with his recent announcement
of settlement building.

There will be no peace negotiation. Israel is in full control of the situation.

Furthermore,Likud's own charter rules out an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel has managed successfully to divide the Palestinian leadership so that no effective opposition exists to its expansionist plans.

Settelments in Jerusalem ?

Jerusalem was designated an international city under the 1947 UN Partition Plan. It was not part of either the proposed Jewish or Arab states.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the western part of Jerusalem was captured by Israel, while East Jerusalem (including the Old City) was captured by Jordan. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War came to an end with the signing of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

Upon its capture, the Jordanians immediately expelled all the Jewish residents of the Jewish Quarter. All the main synagogues were destroyed, and the Jewish Quarter was bulldozed. The ancient Jewish cemetery on Mount of Olives was desecrated, and the tombstones there were used for construction and paving roads. Jordan also destroyed the Jewish villages of Atarot and Neve Yaakov just north of Jerusalem (their sites became Jerusalem neighborhoods after 1967).

The latest trouble comes amid growing protest over new plans for Israeli settlement building.
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Israel won't start talking to Hamas because they need a bogeyman in the never ending conflict to help defuse their land theft. Any chance of progress must be refused, every possible gesture of reconciliation must be avoided at all costs, any hint of cooperation laughed at.Netanyahu has made that clear to both Clinton & Obama
with his recent announcement
of settlement building.

There will be no peace negotiation. Israel is in full control of the situation.

Furthermore,Likud's own charter rules out an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel has managed successfully to divide the Palestinian leadership so that no effective opposition exists to its expansionist plans.

Settelments in Jerusalem ?

Jerusalem was designated an international city under the 1947 UN Partition Plan. It was not part of either the proposed Jewish or Arab states.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the western part of Jerusalem was captured by Israel, while East Jerusalem (including the Old City) was captured by Jordan. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War came to an end with the signing of the 1949 Armistice Agreements.

Upon its capture, the Jordanians immediately expelled all the Jewish residents of the Jewish Quarter. All the main synagogues were destroyed, and the Jewish Quarter was bulldozed. The ancient Jewish cemetery on Mount of Olives was desecrated, and the tombstones there were used for construction and paving roads. Jordan also destroyed the Jewish villages of Atarot and Neve Yaakov just north of Jerusalem (their sites became Jerusalem neighborhoods after 1967).