The US/UN have NEVER recognized the annexation of Gaza, East Jerusalem, West Bank or the Golan as anything but illegal.

Meantime, why were words of the Turkish VP censored in American media? Aljezeera apparently carried what he said and Arabia. That Shimon Perez was a liar and a child killer? He was right to say that, so why was it censored?

Meantime the most often town mentioned with regard to the insignificant Hamas missiles is Sderot. Sderot is a West Bank town that is build on top of what was Najd, a Palestinian town that was ethnically cleansed in 1048 by armed Jews.

The occupied peoples according to the UN are allowed to defend themselves by any means. But granted it's best Hamas keeps quiet - Israel is the one that has broken all the cease fires and it is documented.

The US is the culprit as Israel would not do what it does without the billions of US dollars. 30 billion more were approved recently. With Americans suffering, infrastruture crumbling, schools cut back and are already behind most foreign schools and our corrupt politicians approved 30 billions dollars to that rotten country?

The US has to stop sending money to the rich nuclear armed Israel. And the international community has to speak up loud and clear as the courageous woman of integrity who spoke at the US parliament last week. Fantastic lady. She did it, so where are the others? The US cannot afford to continue to fund Israel, so now is the time to speak up.

The "settlements" going up are nothing but subsidized vacation condos for many Jews in the US and other areas - a big handout. Israel was built on a communist system of Kibbutzs or communal farms owned by the government.

The incoming Israeli Prime Minister, lady, said she is going to evict the settlers. Of course she can. And the US will stop funding Israel because Americans have caught on and the lied-to-us wars and Israel are breaking the backs of Americans with costs in the trillians of dollars caused by the armchair warriors who don't give a whit who dies as long as it is not them! President Obama was elected for change by Americans.

The international community needs to start calling the White House comment line at 202 456 1111 to protest what is going on. Israel is a threat to world peace and security, not just its neighbors. And call the State Department at 202-647-6575 to push for an end to the illegal, brutal occupation.

Umm, No. The report does not show that "the number of structures in West Bank settlements ... increased 69%". Quite the contrary, it shows that the rate of growth increased 69%. It is absurd to claim that the number of structures nearly doubled in one year. Be very careful about blindly repeating claims of special interest groups, even if they do have the word "Peace" in their name.

To be fair, even the original Jpost makes this mistake in the story's lead, not making clear the actual nature of the numbers until the 7th paragraph.

-Shack

I am old Egyptian man. I still remember the days when there were Jews living in my country. They were Egyptian of Jewish faith, just like other Egyptians of Christian or Muslim faith. We had Jewish neighbors who were good friends of my parents. There were no problems and no hatred. Many of them were in high positions. They were living comfortably in Egypt at the same time when the Jews of Europe were being massacred by the Nazis.

Then in the middle of the 50's the Israeli Mosad planted Bombs in Egyptian Coffee shops and Cinemas (now called terrorist acts) to drag the Egyptian Government to tie the grip on the Jewish community in order they feel uncomfortable and leave to the relatively newly formed Isreal. Their trick worked and unfortunately Egypt lost most of its good Jewish citizens to the Zionist state.

Unfortunately, the Zionist Jews of Europe instead of learning a lesson from what has happened to them on the hands of the Nazis, they learned their methods. I think if not for the current international awareness, they would have killed much more Palestinians.

If anyone reads history, he could easily know that Jews started to trickle into Palestine by the end of the 19's century. Before that few Jews lived there since the time of the Romans. On the other hand, the Palestinian people were there mostly at the seashore since about 1900 BC. Their presence continued all this time while the Jews were expelled by the Romans in 65 AD. Then Zionists started to go to Palestine in masses since about 1937 (in effect with the rise of Nazi Germany). All those Israelis are coming from somewhere. If you check the internet, you will know that Shimon Perese is from Belarus, Mark Regev is from Australia, Tzipi Livni from Polish parents who were terrorist, etc. Please read the book by an Israeli professor who is now not allowed to enter Israel for saying the truth:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappe

With all this, I believe that most of the Arab people want to solve the problem and live in peace with Israel under reasonable terms for the Palestinians, but I believe the Zionists do not want that and the proof is their continued non-stop annexation of lands and building of settlements. It is clear that their target is to swallow the whole historic land of Palestine. Thus, they will create all types of excuses till they achieve their target whatever time it takes. They will also not accept one state solution in a similar manner to South Africa. I think they will continue strangling the Palestinians and I do not know how this problem can be solved.