August 4, 2014
By Bill Cohen
...A few options (click here) for further military activity are being considered,and the IDF is currently building protective areas inside the Strip, a few hundred meters from the border with Israel, in preparation for the possibility that troops might be ordered to stay.
The officer added that Hamas suffered significant damage during the IDF operation and is interested in ending the war, “but not with zero achievements from its standpoint.” The coming days will determine how the fighting will end, he said....
There has to be some international understanding about this RENEWED occupation of Gaza. We all know what is coming next, settlements.
July 19, 2014
By Sam Sussman
Speaking bluntly (click here) in the past three weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has unequivocally ruled out a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a speech at Tel Aviv University on June 29, Netanyahu announced that any peace agreement would include Israeli military control of the West Bank “for a very long time.” Netanyahu repeated himself on July 11, saying at a Hebrew language press conference, “There cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”...
Abbas has been working to end deaths, but, Israeli and Palestinian. But, he gets absolutely nothing in return. The Palestinian Authority (Fatah) is mashed in an Israeli blender with "terrorists" and is given no control over the outcome of their own people.
...While the Second Intifada of 2000-04 cost the lives of 764 Israeli civilians, the avowedly non-violent Mahmoud Abbas has worked closely with Israeli security forces to combat Palestinian terrorism since he became President of the Palestinian Authority in 2004. Marginalized militant factions have succeeded in killing only 35 Israeli civilians in the West Bank in the past eight years. [Suffering should never be subject to comparative study, but 1,099 Palestinian civilians died during the Second Intifada, and 179 Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank since 2009]....
That is a remarkable change in outcomes, yet he has very few concessions from Israel and the Palestinians are still without borders or their own security forces. President Abbas leadership has worked and Israel is treating it as if nothing he has done matters.
...Campaigning in a suit–instead of the military uniform of Yasser Arafat– Abbas promised to implement George W. Bush’s Roadmap to Peace, which called for the Palestinian Authority to police militants in exchange for an Israeli end to settlement construction....
Netanyahu and his politics of attack, kill, destroy and 'settle' is the problem. He has completely turned his back on the process to peace of any previous administration. Supposed the Olmert administration was so very corrupt even the negotiations for peace with Palestine became tainted. That is the same 'black and white' strategy Netanyahu uses when he targets Hamas. According to Netanyahu Hamas is Palestine and Palestine is Hamas.
While Olmert was in office and negotiating in good faith with Palestine there was nothing but an unending barrage of legal charges. He was found not guilty of all until something finally suck in 2012 when he received a suspended sentence and a fine.
...In September 2012, (click here) Olmert was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a 75,300-shekel fine (£11,800; $19,170) for breaching the public's trust in connection with his conduct as minister of trade and industry....
There are political divisions in Israel. There are those that want a peace accord and an independent Palestine nation. Then there are those that resent any peace settlement and seek only to eliminate Palestine from within what they see as Israel's sovereign borders which includes all the land of Gaza and the West Bank.
The recent violence was not caused by rockets coming from Gaza, it was spawned to create a greater hatred of Palestine. Remember Palestine is Hamas and Hamas is Palestine. Palestine is littered with all kinds of undesirables that need to be killed. In recent pleadings Netanyahu lied openly about Hamas/other terror organizations firing on schools and hospitals while UN representatives within those communities state upon investigation the bombs originated in Israel.
Israel under Netanyahu is systematically eliminating Palestine from the lands always promised in peace negotiations. Israel is progressively moving to genocide of these people and it needs to move to the world courts to end this atrocity and blatant disregard of international law.
Why this persistence to end any hopes of a Palestinian nation? Ask the Republican Diaspora what they prefer when they spend their monies in the USA and manipulate the 'politics of violence and invasion.' If the money and power brokers in the USA wanted an independent Palestinian nation, it would have already have happened. When indicting Netanyahu there will be no peace until his diaspora is indicted as well.
By Bill Cohen
...A few options (click here) for further military activity are being considered,and the IDF is currently building protective areas inside the Strip, a few hundred meters from the border with Israel, in preparation for the possibility that troops might be ordered to stay.
The officer added that Hamas suffered significant damage during the IDF operation and is interested in ending the war, “but not with zero achievements from its standpoint.” The coming days will determine how the fighting will end, he said....
There has to be some international understanding about this RENEWED occupation of Gaza. We all know what is coming next, settlements.
By Sam Sussman
Speaking bluntly (click here) in the past three weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has unequivocally ruled out a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a speech at Tel Aviv University on June 29, Netanyahu announced that any peace agreement would include Israeli military control of the West Bank “for a very long time.” Netanyahu repeated himself on July 11, saying at a Hebrew language press conference, “There cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.”...
Abbas has been working to end deaths, but, Israeli and Palestinian. But, he gets absolutely nothing in return. The Palestinian Authority (Fatah) is mashed in an Israeli blender with "terrorists" and is given no control over the outcome of their own people.
...While the Second Intifada of 2000-04 cost the lives of 764 Israeli civilians, the avowedly non-violent Mahmoud Abbas has worked closely with Israeli security forces to combat Palestinian terrorism since he became President of the Palestinian Authority in 2004. Marginalized militant factions have succeeded in killing only 35 Israeli civilians in the West Bank in the past eight years. [Suffering should never be subject to comparative study, but 1,099 Palestinian civilians died during the Second Intifada, and 179 Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank since 2009]....
That is a remarkable change in outcomes, yet he has very few concessions from Israel and the Palestinians are still without borders or their own security forces. President Abbas leadership has worked and Israel is treating it as if nothing he has done matters.
...Campaigning in a suit–instead of the military uniform of Yasser Arafat– Abbas promised to implement George W. Bush’s Roadmap to Peace, which called for the Palestinian Authority to police militants in exchange for an Israeli end to settlement construction....
Netanyahu and his politics of attack, kill, destroy and 'settle' is the problem. He has completely turned his back on the process to peace of any previous administration. Supposed the Olmert administration was so very corrupt even the negotiations for peace with Palestine became tainted. That is the same 'black and white' strategy Netanyahu uses when he targets Hamas. According to Netanyahu Hamas is Palestine and Palestine is Hamas.
While Olmert was in office and negotiating in good faith with Palestine there was nothing but an unending barrage of legal charges. He was found not guilty of all until something finally suck in 2012 when he received a suspended sentence and a fine.
...In September 2012, (click here) Olmert was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and a 75,300-shekel fine (£11,800; $19,170) for breaching the public's trust in connection with his conduct as minister of trade and industry....
...Israel's attorney general decided in August 2009 to close a criminal investigation by police into Olmert's purchase of a Jerusalem property in 2004, in which he paid $325,000 (£162,500) below market value.
The investigation was closed due to lack of evidence....
There are political divisions in Israel. There are those that want a peace accord and an independent Palestine nation. Then there are those that resent any peace settlement and seek only to eliminate Palestine from within what they see as Israel's sovereign borders which includes all the land of Gaza and the West Bank.
Currently, Netanyahu is elected and he subscribes to occupation of all lands within the borders currently stated to be Palestine and Israel. He allows settlements within the West Bank and sees no reason to end them. He wants to eliminate the Gaza Strip from Palestinian lands and only sees Hamas as a terrorist organization that understands only the death of Israelis.
Israel under Netanyahu is systematically eliminating Palestine from the lands always promised in peace negotiations. Israel is progressively moving to genocide of these people and it needs to move to the world courts to end this atrocity and blatant disregard of international law.
Why this persistence to end any hopes of a Palestinian nation? Ask the Republican Diaspora what they prefer when they spend their monies in the USA and manipulate the 'politics of violence and invasion.' If the money and power brokers in the USA wanted an independent Palestinian nation, it would have already have happened. When indicting Netanyahu there will be no peace until his diaspora is indicted as well. 
