Israeli Expansion condemned

[Harry Smith]

The UK and US governments have criticised, in unusually strong language, Israel's decision to approve one of the largest appropriations of Palestinian land for settlement in recent decades.

The UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said he deplored the move as "particularly ill-judged".

However, Israel's economics minister, Naftali Bennett, who visited the Gush Etzion settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, applauded Sunday's decision as an "appropriate Zionist response to murder". Bennett said: "What we did yesterday was a display of Zionism. Building is our answer to murder."

The settlement affects nearly 400 hectares (1,000 acres) at Gvaot near Bethlehem, which have been designated as state land, as opposed to land privately owned by Palestinians, clearing the way for the potential Israeli building.

Israel's announcement comes after an apparently concerted effort by some of its officials and politicians to use the kidnap and murder of three religious students earlier this summer to justify the expropriation.

The direct link between the murder of the three students, which shocked Israeli society, and the announcement suggests the move was designed in part as a punitive measure.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/01/israeli-settlement-west-bank-gvaot-condemned

[Gamma Male]

So they're punishing the killers by stealing hundreds of acres of land from people who had nothing to do with the killings? That's some sound logic right there. Those Israelis must be like ethical philosophy professors or something.

[Stronk Serb]

They're self-punishing themselves by stealing Palestinian lands. 100% just punishment, we need laws like that in our goyim-full Serbia, even though we are under the Jews since they are the chosen people by God, we can at least enjoy their breakthroughs and inventions in any field, in this instance legalism. I hate zionism and zionist governments like the current Israeli government. Also everyone should remember that anti-zionism=/=anti-semitism.

[Perfectly Flawed]

We needed a Zionist country after the end of WWII because nobody would accept the massive influx of Jews. Now days they could safely live in most of the world, and their Government is causing a lot of problems in the Middle East. If we could get a treaty between the Jews and Muslims as well as the Governments in the West that dissolved Israel and allowed safe living environments for Jewish communities then we would have a lot less problems on our hands in the Middle East.