These 'build build build' comments go to the heart of Israel's problems

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Naftali Bennett is the latest Israeli official to write off a two-state solution. Settlement expansion is the biggest obstacle to talks

Just for a moment, let's feign astonishment at this new revelation: Naftali Bennett has just become the latest Israeli official to declare the two-state solution a dead end. Speaking at a conference for Jewish settlers, he said the idea of negotiating for an independent Palestinian state alongside an Israeli one was "futile" and "hopeless" and that the only Israeli approach to this conflict should be to "build, build, build" in the Palestinian West Bank (sorry, in the land that has been Israel "for 3,000 years&quot .

That last line should make clear that this is not a sudden Bennett endorsement of a one-state solution, with equal rights for all.

But it should, of course, be no great surprise that coalition partner Bennett, the Israeli trade minister and leader of ultranationalist party Jewish Home, should come up with this kind of comment. He is not the first to do so, either. The past few years have been studded with similar pronouncements from high-profile officials.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/18/israel-build-build-build-naftali-bennett

[azurnoir]

1. No it's no surprise at all

and that this country keeps playing the facade has become embarrassing

[Purveyor]

2. The build, build, build also ignores how much they destroy in the process of build, build, build.

Carried over from duplicate post I self-deleted...

PDJane (8,918 posts)

That land has not been Israel's for more than 2,000 years, and wasn't Israel until they conquered the land.

Everybody's so different, I haven't changed...........