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Likud MK: Settlement construction is good for peace with Palestinians
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Ofir Akunis took Netanyahu’s position that settlement construction is not an impediment to a negotiated solution with the Palestinians to a whole new level. According to a report in Haaretz Tuesday:
Akunis, the same Likud lawmaker who in the last Knesset proposed a bill to limit all foreign funding for “political organizations” and who said on TV in 2011 that Senator Joe McCarthy was right, essentially stated – as I can only deduce from his backwards statement – that the more Israel builds settlements the better it is for reaching a negotiated agreement with the Palestinians. After all, stopping settlement construction would only push them away.
As, Noam Sheizaf reported Monday, construction of new housing in the West Bank – as opposed to East Jerusalem – is at a seven-year high.
http://972mag.com/likud-mk-settlement-construction-is-good-for-peace-with-palestinians/73456/
