The Palestinians, predictably, have rejected Netanyahu’s partial freeze on settlement construction. The issue was insignificant for them in the first place, but continued construction in East Jerusalem made it all the more irrelevant.
Netanyahu insisted on East Jerusalem construction in order to torpedo the peace talks. Everyone in the government understands that Israel will abandon Greater Jerusalem’s Arab villages and deep Jewish enclaves under any peace treaty with the Palestinians. The ongoing construction is insignificant, and it is not worth any political trouble.
The world will continue to blame Israel for settlement construction, even if it is only in Jerusalem.
Obama so far has won: the Israeli government submitted to his demand for a settlement freeze. In the best-case scenario, the freeze is a payoff for Obama’s approval of an Israeli attack on Iran.
Destroy all the ILLEGAL arab building. Where are the bulldozers? Jerusalem the city of DAVID. It is time for Israel to say FUCK the world. Show me how you got here. Hear all the claims. Openly. Where is their liniage. Prove it. No warped sense of history. Get a loud speaker and scream into it. Stay in the shadows, tape your mouth. Then the lieing screamers will rule. We will get SHIT. The screaming queer will prevail. They will push us into the sea.