Netanyahu is very much like Putin, is he not?
"Netanyahu's horizon only extends as far as the skyline of the Etzion settlement bloc. If this is a responsible and sober move, it's hard to imagine what Netanyahu considers an irresponsible and reckless one. The unilateral move of declaring a West Bank area as state land reveals that the sole real commitment that the prime minister has given to the Palestinians to date was a fraud; in his famous peace speech, known as the Bar-Ilan speech, he pledged that "the territorial question will be discussed as part of the final peace agreement. In the meantime, we have no intention of building new settlements or of expropriating additional land for existing settlements." That was the only operational part of the vision he presented in June 2009.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/expropriation-lands-west-bank-netanyahu-diplomatic-process.html
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/09/expropriation-lands-west-bank-netanyahu-diplomatic-process.html