Israel seemed to have led Palestinian peace talks to the brink of collapse on Monday after it unveiled plans to build 1,300 new homes for Jewish settlers in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.
The surprise announcement earned the immediate condemnation of the Palestinian leadership and dealt a serious blow to hopes for reviving peace talks, frozen for the past six weeks because of a row over settlements.
It also represented a spectacularly poor piece of timing since Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was on a visit to the United States.
The Israelis have never had any intention of letting the peace talks succeed. It's time the West and in particular, the US, enforced the outstanding UN mandates and told Israel it either makes peace with the Palestinians or they will be forced to invade looking for WMDs, in particular Nuclear Weapons and that their leader Netanyahu, will be filmed coming out of a hole in the ground after being drugged and not knowing where he is. Oh, and the plants, common to Israel, will be flowering at the wrong time of year. LMFAO!
The situation is not helped because the American administration is packed with Jews and Zionists, who always have dual loyalty to both the US and Israel. So it won't happen. Instead Arabs will be herded into makeshift 'ghettos' and prison camps. Talk about history repeating itself!
