Mark The Truth

Highly mischeavous Israeli premier Netanyahu never said he would freeze settlement building. The opposite is true: he insisted on expanding the illegal settlements come what may. The temporary halting as he suggests only to fool the world  t enlist maximum support for the fascist attacks on Palestine. Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and in Arab East Jerusalem, captured in a 1967 war, alongside three million Palestinians. Netanyahu himself, facing strong opposition from within his own fascist coalition to any concessions on settlements, has avoided making such a public commitment to halting construction. The World Court calls the settlements illegal and Palestinians say the enclaves could deny them a viable state. He asserts he is not among those who see halting building or ceding national territory or harming the settlements in Judea and Samaria as an asset, something that can help Israel. He sees Palestinians his enemy who should recognize terrorist Israel and the settlements in Judea and Samaria as a Zionist enterprise and the settlers in Judea and Samaria as his -- our -- brothers." Netanyahu last week offered Obama's envoy George Mitchell a 9-month freeze in building in the West Bank but that Washington was seeking a one-year freeze in order to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace negotiations that were suspended in December.