The peace process.

also says the article, which then quotes some pissed off Likudnik.

So, there are new Jewish housing units and new Arab housing units in East Jerusalem. Everyone gets more housing.

Hooray! It's a win-win situation.

Unless one doesn't care about improving Palestinian lives, only about harming Israel. Then the Arab housing is no gain but the Jewish housing is a loss, so the net is a negative.

There are some people who still believe that there can be two states, and building more settlements is contrary to that vision. It seems as if Israel has chosen to build (literally) a bi-national state.

Ref : http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134130670

Source: Jerusalem Post

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/UN-to-Israel-stand-for-peace-and-rescind-new-building-plans-over-pre-67-lines-459501

Right-wing politicians call on Netanyahu to annex the West Bank Jewish city.

Prime Minister Netanyahu advanced plans for 560 new setter home in Ma’aleh Adumim just hours after right-wing politicians called on him to annex that West Bank Jewish city.

Ma’aleh Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel said he heard that the plans would be deposited from both the offices of the prime minister and the defense minister.

But while they thanked Netanyahu, right-wing ministers and politicians said the small gesture was not enough.
“The Majority of the Israeli public won’t be satisfied with this,” the Land of Israel caucus said on Sunday night.

“We’re working [to authorize] massive building in Ma’aleh Adumim and to impose sovereignty there and in all of Judea and Samaria,” the caucus said.
It held a meeting in Ma’aleh Adumim earlier in the evening, in which its lawmakers said they plan to introduce legislation in the Knesset within two weeks to annex the settlement.

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Plans-for-560-settler-homes-in-Maaleh-Adumim-advanced-after-politicians-call-to-annex-it-459442

Source: Reuters

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-idUSKCN0ZL27B

State Department calls plans to build hundreds of housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem 'a systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions and legalizations of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution.'

State Department spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday US officials had seen reports that Israel intends to advance plans for hundreds of housing units in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

"If true, this report would be the latest step in what seems to be a systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions and legalizations of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution," Kirby told a news briefing.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon also questioned Israel's commitment to reaching peace with the Palestinians.

"This raises legitimate questions about Israel's long-term intentions, which are compounded by continuing statements of some Israeli ministers calling for the annexation of the West Bank," Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

Continued @ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4824840,00.html

no land seizure involved. and in terms of Israel's long-term intentions, i don't think it is new to question Israel's intention to abandon ma'ale adumim.

i.e., concern trolling.

In Jerusalem, construction of Jewish neighborhoods continues unabated, while Palestinians are still struggling for basic infrastructure.

By Aviv Tatarsky

http://972mag.com/dispelling-the-myths-about-building-in-jerusalem/120498/

While terror attacks that happen in Tel Aviv are just considered a part of life in Israel, terror attacks in settlements beyond the Green Line confer special privileges upon those who live in the area. Why is this the case?

Aviad Kleinberg|Published: 08.07.16

The state of Israel has two contingency plans in case of terror attacks. If the attack happens in Tel Aviv, you go on as usual. Tel Avivians are praised for all the traits they are usually scorned for having: their tendencies to have fun, buy, sell and generally keep their cool. Two days later, the attack is erased from everyone’s memories, and Tel Aviv goes back, in everyone’s minds, to being a non-stop city that never experiences terrorism and whose spoiled residents live in a bubble.
Nava Ney recently posted on social media that as compensation for the murders at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should increase the number of planned construction projects aimed at young couples inside the Green Line area, raise the welfare budget, lower school class sizes to a maximum of 20 pupils, give all children in Israel free education up until they finish their PhDs, take out fascist content from school curricula and increase the number of medicines that receive government subsidization.

Any sensible person knows this is a fantasy. Ney herself knows that none of her demands will be met. Even the act of connecting the terror attack to some demand by the families or the city's residents is absurd.
Terrorist attacks are a part of our lives. Attacks in Tel Aviv don’t grant the city’s residents any privileges. The housing and education policy (or, in our case, the lack thereof) is a matter for policy makers. But when the attack happens beyond the faded Green Line, things are completely different. The attack is then seen as an expression of unending hatred of the People and Land of Israel (of course, the true Land of Israel is only beyond the Green Line, and only those who reside there are fit to be called the People of Israel).

Therefore, a cosmic-scale response is needed – regardless of state concerns about what will be gained or lost. The bereaved families and the Yesha Council get to run Israel’s foreign and defense policy for a few days. Life cannot simply go on. You need to build new roads, demolish homes, remove the terrorists’ families, whether they had anything to do with the attack or not, and above all you must add to the Jewish presence in the West Bank by expropriating lands, disinheriting the locals and removing Palestinians, all in the name of the blood that has been spilled.

Because while the Tel Avivian blood stays silent, the settlement blood screams. And it always shouts the same message: Fulfil the settler agenda, regardless of the price everyone else is to pay. We must strengthen the settlement project – now! That project is, in the name of the spilled blood, placed above any other consideration. Security, state, economic, proper administration, and common sense considerations are all left by the wayside. The question of why there’s even a need for a Jewish presence in Hebron, and whether there’s any sense in increasing its population numbers now, is seen as sacrilege. It doesn’t take much to get the asker accused of having “blood on their hands,” as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can well attest.

Continued @ :
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4825898,00.html

ref quote :

"" Because while the Tel Avivian blood stays silent, the settlement blood screams. And it always shouts the same message: Fulfil the settler agenda, regardless of the price everyone else is to pay. We must strengthen the settlement project – now! That project is, in the name of the spilled blood, placed above any other consideration. Security, state, economic, proper administration, and common sense considerations are all left by the wayside. The question of why there’s even a need for a Jewish presence in Hebron, and whether there’s any sense in increasing its population numbers now, is seen as sacrilege. It doesn’t take much to get the asker accused of having “blood on their hands,” as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can well attest. ""

Then you can always try this ........

Bereaved mother asks PM to be allowed to visit Temple Mount

Rina Ariel, whose daughter Hallel was murdered in her bed by a terrorist in June, asked to be allowed to give a short ceremony with 250 supporters on site; ‘Recently,’ said Rina. ‘200 thousand Muslims performed a mass prayer at the site. Would a Jewish group comprised of a tenth of that number not be allowed to convene there for a single hour?’

Yifat Erlich and Elisha Kimon|Published: 08.07.16

Source : http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4825946,00.html

Source : http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/

Source : http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/14-West-Bank-settler-outposts-to-be-legalized-20-already-approved-460071