'Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.The last five of this report are familiar:
Officials said the decision was agreed by a ministerial committee on Saturday.
The announcement comes a day after the murder of five members of a family in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. '
'The latest development comes as peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians have ground to a halt.The original story, oh that's not featured on the Middle East News page any more; a very, very quick disappearance - I wonder why!
US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians stalled last year over the issue of Israeli settlement building.
Palestinians have refused all direct contact with Israel until construction is frozen.
Nearly half a million Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
They are held to be illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.'
Meanwhile, YNet report that:
'Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Itamar where five family members were murdered in their sleep, including three children.Not reporting of this on the BBC of course, as Israel's 'partners in peace' must not be represented other than positively.
Residents handed out candy and sweets, one resident saying the joy "is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank."'
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The Israeli government, while explicitly linking this murder to retributive government policy, shows itself going in exactly the opposite direction. Ask yourself, who benefits by this tightening of "the iron fist" as Ehud Barak threatened, or who benefits from the individual crime/state response conflation by the seriously flawed Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, "After such horrific event, with whom do we have to sit and talk peace?"
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