There will be no peace between Israel and Palestine now. Mark my words. They have legitimized the "grievances" of the Palestinians, and have alienated Israel with this abstention. There will be no two state solution either.
Thank you Secretary Kerry and President Obama. You have set back US-Israel relations back decades.
So Israel should be allowed to build on land that isn't theirs? We should just co sign on Israel's illegal actions?
Its a little hard to have a two state solution when you infringe upon other people's land.
It is my understanding that Israel is building settlements on land they got by defeating the invaders in the 1967 war. That makes it their land.
And there it is again. Israel does not "own" that land, they occupy it. But "occupation" brings with it certain legal responsibilities and Israel refuses those. Like I said, they want the land, just not the people that are currently on the land.
See, for some reason, Israel seems to believe that it must now, and always be, a Jewish majority state. Before those lands can become part of Israel they need to be "sanitized", you know, like Hitler wanted to "sanitize" Germany. Once Israel eliminates all the undesirable inferior life forms within the occupied territories they can move forward with annexation. Expanding the settlements was part and parcel of that strategy.