New settlement bids may cause diplomatic damage

The decision to issue these bids shortly before the elections reeks of opportunism, Peace Now Chairman said Jan 30, 2015, 12:00AM | Omri Ariel

The Construction Ministry issued new bids for 450 housing units in the West Bank Friday morning, after several months of an unofficial settlement building freeze. Peace Now (*) Chairman Yariv Oppenheimer attacked the ministry's decision to issue these bids at this timing, less than two months before the elections, and called it an act of opportunism. "The Construction Minister and the Prime Minister are trying to seize every second to thwart diplomatic achievements", he said. "This new set of bids will cause severe diplomatic damage and will bring our relations with the US and the world to a further decline."

Officials in the Construction Ministry confirmed the report, but claimed these are merely reissues of unsuccessful bids from last year. "Failed bids are automatically reissued by the Israel Land Authority."

(*) Peace Now is a non-governmental organization,"liberal advocacy"and activist group in Israel with the aim of promoting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They would like to split Jerusalem in two capitals...Jewish and you-know-what...peace with Syria, peace with Lebanon, peace in Gaza...give back sacred Jewish soil bought with the blood of our soldiers...IN OTHER WORDS...THEY ARE A BUNCH OF BAD JEWS WHO WOULD NOT MIND GIVING IN TO THE HADJIS TO TAKE OVER ISRAEL...ARE THEY UNDER THE INFLUENCE AND-OR PAYROLL OF HUSSEIN OBAMA? I WONDER WHAT THEY ARE GETTING OUT OF THESE POLICIES OF SURRENDERING OUR LAND IN EXCHANGE FOR WHAT A PEACE THAT WOULD NEVER COME AND USELESS DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION...