<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">It would take the withdrawal - or diminution - of the support of the Obama administration.<div><br></div><div>None of Israel's crimes would be possible without that.</div><div><br></div><div>We should be addressing our objections to Washington, not Tel Aviv. </div><div><br></div><div>--CGE</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Nov 4, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <<a href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">jencart13@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span>Almost all countries are against this and have marginalized Israel as a result. So seriously, no flip answers pls, what would it take for Israel to be reined in? And how much further would Israel have to go for that to happen? Thanks. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr">----- Forwarded Message -----<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Informed Comment <<a href="mailto:jricole@gmail.com">jricole@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">jencart13@yahoo.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, November 4, 2013 3:18 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Informed Comment<br></font></div><div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5127124008"><div id="yiv5127124008emailbody" style="margin: 0px 2em; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><table style="border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 929px;"><tbody><tr><td width="99%" style="vertical-align: top;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.juancole.com/" title="(http://www.juancole.com)" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: 22px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Informed Comment</a></h1></td><td width="1%"></td></tr></tbody></table><hr style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><table id="yiv5127124008itemcontentlist"><tbody><tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><div style="margin: 1em 0px 3px;"><a rel="nofollow" name="1" target="_blank" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/juancole/ymbn/~3/Tfd9uQvp3hw/israelis-colonies-palestinian.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Israelis plan new Colonies, Oil Drilling, on Palestinian Land during “Peace Talks”</a></div><div style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 9px 0px 3px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><span>Posted:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>03 Nov 2013 09:37 PM PST</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px;"><div>The current round of so-called peace talks between Israel and Palestine is marked by so much bad faith on the part of the Israelis that only the corruption and perfidy of the Mahmoud Abbas government in the West Bank can explain why the Palestinians should subject themselves to such exploitation and humiliation.</div><div>Israel just issued<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://rt.com/news/israel-issues-building-tenders-171/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tenders for over 1,700 new homes for Israelis</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on the Palestinian West Bank. The plan will involve demolishing Palestinian residences. This, at a time when Israel and the Palestinians are supposedly engaged in good faith negotiations that might end in a Palestinian state. At this rate, where would you even put one? (Another 3,000 such Israeli squatter homes are planned).</div><div><img src="http://www.imemc.org/attachments/jul2011/palestineoslo1.gif" height="700" width="570" style="border: none;"></div><div>Israel is planning to dig for oil<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/israel-drill-oil-west-bank-201311114571416794.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the Occupied West Bank,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>in violation of the Oslo Accords and of the laws governing military occupations. Israel is likewise preventing Palestinians in Gaza from developing their offshore natural gas resources.</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.albawaba.com/news/jordan-israel-syria-netanyahu-wall-security-palestine-530951" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is planning to build a ‘security wall’</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>along the border of Palestine with Jordan. This infrastructure is designed to secure Israel’s security presence along the Jordanian border, where it has no business being, far into the future, yet again detracting from Palestinian sovereignty.</div><div>Israel this week<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mondoweiss.net/2013/11/stop-demolitions-jerusalem.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">destroyed two “residential buildings in Beit Hanina village and 2 rooms in Jabal al-Mukaber neighbourhood” in East Jerusalem, leaving 33 Palestinian civilians homeless”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>, adding more displaced to the some 400 who have lost their homes in Palestinian Jerusalem in 2013 alone.</div><div>Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank in Migdalim<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=643860" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">just sent bulldozers to the Palestinian village of Qusra</a>, in order to annex more land to the Israeli squatter settlement.</div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9880:weekly-report-on-israeli-human-rights-violations-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-24-30-october-2013-&catid=84:weekly-2009&Itemid=183" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Militant Israeli squatters uprooted and burned 121 olive and almond trees<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>in Nablus and Bethlehem.</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table id="yiv5127124008footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-top: 4px; margin-top: 1.5em; width: 929px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 6px 1.2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">You are subscribed to email updates from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.juancole.com/">Informed Comment</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br></td><td style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 6px 1.2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: right; vertical-align: top;">Email delivery powered by Google</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: left; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px 6px 1.2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br><br></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>