Jerusalem Pushes Forth With Settlement Plans

[Gus Lammas]

Source: ABC News

JERUSALEM August 25, 2013

Jerusalem pushed forward Sunday with plans to construct 1,500 apartments in east Jerusalem in a move that could undermine recently renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

City spokeswoman Brachie Sprung said city officials had approved plans to lay down infrastructure for the project. She called the move a "standard and bureaucratic process" and said final government approval was still required. Actual construction is still years away, she said.

Still, the move comes just after Israelis and Palestinians resumed talks after a five-year stalemate. Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem is one of the thornier issues separating the two sides.

The city is pushing development in the neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, a project that has also raised tensions with the U.S. Israel first announced the plans in 2010 during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Israel, sparking a diplomatic rift with Washington that took months to mend.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-probes-palestinian-minors-abuse-claims-20060769

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Good old-fashioned lebensraum. (Yeah, like that's way outta line!)

[oberliner]

1. What's with the Nazi-era German terminology?

Building apartments in East Jerusalem is comparable to what exactly?

[dipsydoodle]

2. East Jerusalem in not part of Israel.

They have no right whatsoever to build there.

[oberliner]

4. Lebensraum is a Nazi term

Do you think its use is appropriate in this context?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Probably more appropriate to use the word habitat

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which is the current English translation for what remains a word in current usage albeit without the initial capital letter which the OP didn't use anyway.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. How about apartheid, ober?

No? Won't use that term either? Hits too close to home?

How about land theft?

[oberliner]

7. That's not a Nazi-era term

That's an Afrikaans term.

My objection is to the use of a Nazi-era term in this context.

Do you think it's appropriate to use or do you share my opinion?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. And my point is that when you are finished objecting to one term and context

you will move right along and reject the next and next and so on and so forth.

What don't you object to when it comes to criticism of Israel?

[DallasNE]

3. American Aide To Israel, Both Public And Private

Enable these settlements so I have no clue as to why we continue to give tacit support to this deranged policy.