JERUSALEM: The number of Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank could grow by as much as 50 percent by 2019, Israel’s ultra-nationalist construction minister said on Friday.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of their future state and blamed settlement expansions for the breakdown last month of US-mediated peace talks with Israel — a position supported in part by Washington, but rejected by the Israelis.
Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel, a member of the hard-line Jewish Home party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative coalition government, said the negotiations on Palestinian statehood were in their “dying throes” and predicted the settler population would spiral.
“I think that in five years there will be 550,000 or 600,000 Jews in Judea and Samaria, rather than 400,000 (now),” he told Tel Aviv radio station 102 FM, using a biblical term for the West Bank, which many Israelis see as a religious birthright and security bulwark.
Ariel put the number of Israelis in East Jerusalem at between 300,000 and 350,000. Some 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas that, along with the Gaza Strip, Israel usurped in a 1967 war.
During the nine months of failed peacemaking, Ariel published tenders for settlement construction that were cited by the US as having contributed to the impasse.
SOURCE: ARABNEWS.COM
of course it is cheaper to live on stolen land…
@ Rafiq A. Tschannen…
Can we say to extremist Arab like what Allah and prophet said in Al Quran;.
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you say: “From where does this lose come to us?” Say (to them), “It is from yourselves (because of your evil deeds).” And Allâh has power over all things. QS 3;(165).
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1965. All Arab people did evil deeds. They want to destroy Israel..but Allah favor the oppressed people (Israel).
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What do think? Rafiq A. Tschannen.
All love
Regarding Israel: wait and see. Favoring the oppressed people (oppressed by the Germans mainly) by let them steal lands from the Palestinians seems a bit unfair to me.
@ Rafiq A. Tschannen..
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TMT’s moderators still do not treat me fairly, He still hate some of my respond. May Allah guide him to treat all people fairly and kindly next time.
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Rafiq A. Tschannen…look at this verse from Allah, where Allah protected Israel in Egypt from the King of Egypt–Firun who oppressed the people of Israel severely…
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Second, Allah also protected Israel from extremist Islam States who wanted to destroyed Israel. Israel is minority nations among Arab people are surrounding Israel.
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Arab people have been hating Israel people since the beginning because they do not follow Prophet Muhammad(saw)
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ALLAH’S WARNING..
Speak up for people who can not speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless.speak for them and be a righteous judge.protect the right of the poor and needy. Proverb 31:8.
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ALQURAN.
“And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? Men, women, and children, whose cry is: “Our Lord! rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from thee one who will protect; and raise for us from thee one who will help.QS. 4:75.
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God judges favor of the oppressed and gives them their rights.He revealed His plans to Moses and let the people of Israel see His mighty deeds. God is merciful and loving.Psalm 103 ;6.
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It is very clear that Allah will always protect the state of Israel, as long as Arab people hate toward Israel people..
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Except, if Arab people repent to Allah and obey Allah laws as following;
SECOND COMMANDMENT FROM ALLAH;
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Love your neighbor as you love you self.
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What do you think? , Rafiq A. Tschannen.
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May Allah guide all my brothers to the right path.Amen
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For You from My Heart.
All those who read shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; O Allah, be my witness, that I have conveyed your message to your people.
With all my love
Compared to Christian nations who thought that Jews killed their god Muslims even loved the Jews, after all we can even marry them. The situation only changed when they started stealing Arab lands. But that is nnot against Jews but against Israeli settlers.
@ Rafiq A. Tschannen…quote–But that is nnot .against Jews but against Israeli settlers.–unquote
I got your point, I agree….not all Jews are good people as well as Muslim.
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Please implore TMT moderators to be fair and treat me as well as others..
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TMT moderators do not need to censor my articles…..almost of my articles based on Allah’s laws…let people read it.
All love