Israel/Palestine

cali

(114,904 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:05 AM Oct 2013

Israel to announce new construction in West Bank in the near future

Israel plans to announce new construction in West Bank settlements in the near future, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas toured Europe to urge its leaders to pressure Jerusalem to halt such activity.

“I expect that in the coming period we will be announcing further construction in the [West Bank] settlements,” the official told the Post on Monday.

In Europe, Abbas repeated his assertions that Israel was undermining the peace process with its continued building.

The Israeli official, however, charged that such statements, made by Abbas and other Palestinians, were disingenuous.

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http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Israel-to-announce-new-construction-in-West-Bank-in-the-near-future-329386

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Israel to announce new construction in West Bank in the near future (Original Post) cali Oct 2013 OP

So now we have announcements of future announcements of future settlements? nt bemildred Oct 2013 #1

Unnamed Israeli Officials cited by the Jerusalem Post oberliner Oct 2013 #2

I was wondering why do it in the first place? bemildred Oct 2013 #3

bemildred

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1. So now we have announcements of future announcements of future settlements? nt

Reply to cali (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:39 AM

Oct 2013

oberliner

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2. Unnamed Israeli Officials cited by the Jerusalem Post

Reply to bemildred (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 09:23 AM

Oct 2013

Not the most reliable combination.

bemildred

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3. I was wondering why do it in the first place?

Reply to oberliner (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 09:36 AM

Oct 2013

Why announce a future announcement? In this case announcing the content of future announcements. It all seems so indirect.

I try not to get into arguments about sources, but yeah JPost has certain obvious tendencies.

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