The German Foreign Ministry has demanded an end to settlement construction in Israel, despite that construction has been de facto frozen for the last five months. This is reminiscent of Israel’s incessant demands on Arafat to renounce terrorism, again and again.
The demand is both sensible and not. Palestinians and their Western friends are rightly concerned about the strategic projects, such as connecting Maale Adumim to Jerusalem with a line of Jewish neighborhoods while at the same time disconnecting Jerusalem from Ramallah. But freezing construction in the settlement blocs generally sends Palestinians a signal that Israel is ready to evacuate them.
Since Netanyahu had already implemented the construction freeze, Obama has little incentive to agree to the Israeli condition of a written American pledge to allow resumption of construction once the peace talks fail.
Israeli Lebensraum is the business of Israelis only. But not of the rest of the world. Israeli Lebensraum has raised so much concerns that even Iran hasn’t raised so far.
Any Jewish woman saved from Arabs after unsuccessful marriage, would support the idea of Palestinians’ evacuation.
Lebensraum Israel needs so desperately is Israel’s business only. Lebensraum Israel wants can’t be considered or discussed by Germans or someone else. They simply don’t live in Israel and that’s why can’t understand all the details.
Europe doesn’t believe that Jews need some new houses. But they do believe in nuclear Iran peace existence. Strange, isn’t it?