Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has said the withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza will allow Israel to extend its borders into the West Bank. He also said the pullout would enable Israel to maintain Jerusalem as the unified capital of a Jewish state... Mr Mofaz said the pullout would allow Israel to keep hold of its large West Bank settlements - which are viewed as illegal under international law - extending its future borders deep into Palestinian territory."In fact, the settlers of [the West Bank] and Gaza will be able to say in years to come that they helped establish the eastern frontiers of the state of Israel," he told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
The Western countries are praising Israel for the so-called withdrawal from Gaza and either not taking any account of claims like these coming from the Israeli leadership or else claiming, like the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, that he is "concerned", but that the UK and the EU are both uncapable of doing anything at all. Israel being the military and economic powerhouse that is compared to the EU and the feeble UK. It is curious, though, that the same Mr Straw, whose own country with is actions in Iraq and its inaction in Palestine - especially compared to it´s rhetoric - has scored so many goals for FC Osama then cries about islamist terrorism. It´s like he wouldn´t have been sowing the seeds himself.
I have high hopes that Saul Mofaz and men like him will be the doom of Israel, if it continues it´s current polict. They make the mistake so often made when people think themselves victorious: There´s always some new peace of land to annex, and then another, and then another. But the fact is this:Jerusalem could be the shared capital of Israel and Palestine. It can´t be the sole capital of Israel for long. And no Christian Zionist theocracy in the US can change that. Everyone who disagrees should only take a long and a hard look at the map of Middle East.
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