(IsraelNN.com) David Hadari, who chairs the NU/NRP faction in the Jerusalem municipal council, warned Saturday night that the de facto division of the capital has begun.
Hadari said that Ministers Tzipi Livni and Avi Dichtertold police to implement their decision to prevent Jews from entering parts of Jerusalem.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Is that confirmed anywhere? That seems like a story that no major network would want to be scooped on. David Hadari says that Tzipi Livni (acting prime minister) and Avi Dicther (Minister of Public Security) are behind this. So far this seems to just be coming from David Hadari who is chair of a right wing political party that opposes those he says are dividing the city. Being a politician means that everything that comes out of his mouth must be viewed as a lie until proven otherwise.
This time, they're not even claiming that giving away the land will bring peace, simply that they have no right to Judea and Samaria -- the old names for the West Bank.
Monday, September 15, 2008 Israel Today Staff Olmert offers Palestinians 98% of 'West Bank'
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will offer Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas 98 percent of Judea and Samaria when the two meet later this week, Israel's Channel 2 News reported on Sunday. The report came just hours after Olmert told his cabinet that "the vision of Greater Israel no longer exists," and blasted anyone who clings to Israel's biblical and historical right to the area known as the "West Bank" as "delusional." Olmert wants to pay Jewish settlers living in the territories he plans to surrender one million shekels each to voluntarily relocate. Those who refuse his offer would be forcibly uprooted after the signing of a peace deal. Olmert is scheduled to resign as prime minister in two days, but insists that despite his "lame duck" status, fervent land-for-peace efforts must continue. The prime minister on Monday explained his mad rush to conclude a peace deal in the coming days by telling the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: "Every day that passes without coming to an agreement with the Palestinians is one more day that, in the future, we'll be sorry for."