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Last weekends Israeli government announcement that it plans to seize almost 1,000 acres near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank for the purpose of building yet another massive Jewish settlement should be the straw that breaks the camels back in Washington. For decades, the United States has greeted each new settlement building announcement from Jerusalem with a pious statement of disapproval. Generally, these statements, issued by the White House or State Department, contain adjectives like unhelpful, counterproductive or even illegitimate. Successive Israeli governments have blithely ignored these protestations, and the settler population living over the 1967 Green Line has grown from around 10,000 in 1972 to around 515,000 today. Its time for the United States to make its words mean something. How can the world expect effective U.S. leadership and action in dealing with hostile actors across the Middle East when even its closest friend in the region flagrantly ignores its policies? Read more here: mercedsunstar/2014/09/12/3844023_us-should-not-be-a-silent-partner.html?&rh=1#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 17:26:12 +0000

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