Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's declaration that settlement construction will continue in East Jerusalem, with government buildings in the West Bank and on thousands of West Bank housing units already under development makes a mockery of the term "freeze".
But he confessed to feeling "a stabbing in the chest," and asked, "Does the hope that they will return home imply some sort of declaration that the settlements can be considered legitimate?" The next day, Ynet, the most widely read news site in Israel, ran a story about Kashua's speech.
"The Lower East Side was a place of settlement.
Iterative optimisation of settlement site and settlement design.
Some European and Islamic nations have encouraged Mr. Arafat to delay his declaration of a state and concentrate on a peace settlement with Israel.
Ever since its Venice Declaration of 1980, the Union has supported a two-state settlement.
it cannot be excluded that the [Triple] Entente powers [Russia, France, and Great Britain] might make another move to bring about a peaceful settlement of the conflict unless a declaration of war establishes a fait accompli [eine klare Situation geschaffen].
"The Obama administration needs to have the same public moxie on the declaration of a pre-emptive state as it has had on Israeli settlements.
In 1835, following an announcement of impending French settlement by Charles de Thierry, the nebulous United Tribes of New Zealand sent a Declaration of the Independence to King William IV of the United Kingdom asking for protection.
Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told New Zealand's foreign minister that support for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement-building in the occupied territories would be viewed as a "declaration of war".
Guatemalan Governor Matías de Gálvez had moved quickly when the declaration of war arrived, seizing St. George's Caye, one of the principal British island settlements off the Yucatan coast.
