.
(Haaretz) May 12, 2010 – “We will never divide Jerusalem,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech commemorating Jerusalem Day on Ammunition Hill.
“Jerusalem Day marks the day the city began positively developing for all its citizens, Jews and Arabs alike. We will never again make Jerusalem a divided, disunited, and isolated city.”
Jerusalem Day marks 43 years since the establishment of Israeli control over East Jerusalem in 1967.
“We will continue to build and be built in Jerusalem. We will continue to develop, plan, and create in Jerusalem,” said Netanyahu in his speech. “We cannot develop in a divided city.”
“We are the generation that had the privilege of seeing Jerusalem united, and we need to impart this privilege onto our children and grandchildren,” said the prime minister.
“The connection Israel has to Jerusalem is extremely deep and it surpasses any connection any other country has to a city. The connection stayed strong for thousands of years and now it’s stronger than ever.”
(FMEP) – Oops … that was the news headline during the reign of Netanyahu I in 1996.
When assessing the colonization policies of Israel’s two main parties–Labor and Likud–it is instructive to recall a bit of Israeli folk wisdom. “A Likud government,” the saying goes, “announces ten settlements but builds only one, while a Labor government announces one but builds ten.”
The governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres operated in just such a spirit during the last four years, when the Israeli settler population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip grew by 49 percent–to 150,500–and the population in annexed East Jerusalem grew by 33 percent–to almost 200,000. More than 100 settlements increased their populations during Labor’s rule.
“Iranian people are the flagbearer of everything good in the world: justice, pureness, peace and friendship. Resistance towards this [Israeli] regime is a national and global duty. The people of Iran will never put this flag down. The only route for salvation is resisting the corrupt Zionist channel in the world. You should know that, due to God’s will, the final victory of the revolutionary people of the world front against Zionism is in our hands.”
[I don’t think the raving of a tyrant will help the poor people of Iran in the long run – Oui]
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
