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Clearly the Israeli government should resign or fall and call for new elections...Israel is losing friends world wide...The UN will vote full statehood with an American Abstention before Obama leaves office...
Israeli finance minister calls settlements a waste
JERUSALEM (AP) Israel's finance minister on Sunday criticized settlement construction in isolated parts of the West Bank as a waste of money and vowed to bring down the country's governing coalition if it heeds hard-line calls to annex settlements.
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The tough speech by Finance Minister Yair Lapid highlights divisions in the Israeli government following the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians just over a month ago. The government has been unable to come up with a coherent response while failing to rally international opposition to a new Palestinian unity government.
Addressing a security conference in the coastal town of Herzliya, Lapid urged the government to seize the diplomatic initiative and present its own peace plan. He said Israel should withdraw from empty areas of the West Bank and afterwards dismantle settlements located in isolated areas. He said the government should present a map clearly identifying these areas
Israeli finance minister calls settlements a waste
JERUSALEM (AP) Israel's finance minister on Sunday criticized settlement construction in isolated parts of the West Bank as a waste of money and vowed to bring down the country's governing coalition if it heeds hard-line calls to annex settlements.
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The tough speech by Finance Minister Yair Lapid highlights divisions in the Israeli government following the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians just over a month ago. The government has been unable to come up with a coherent response while failing to rally international opposition to a new Palestinian unity government.
Addressing a security conference in the coastal town of Herzliya, Lapid urged the government to seize the diplomatic initiative and present its own peace plan. He said Israel should withdraw from empty areas of the West Bank and afterwards dismantle settlements located in isolated areas. He said the government should present a map clearly identifying these areas