Halt settlements, French leader tells Israel

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://news.yahoo.com/france-urges-f...111203077.html

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Halt settlements, French leader tells Israel
By Herve Asquin and Selim Saheb Ettaba | AFP – 2 hrs 20 mins ago. Jerusalem (AFP) - French President Francois Hollande on Monday demanded an end to Jewish settlement activity and told the Israeli parliament Jerusalem must one day be the capital of two states.

He also vowed that France would not allow sanctions on Iran to be lifted without assurances Tehran has "definitively renounced" alleged plans to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

Affirming his own commitment to the two-state solution, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to address Israel's parliament.

After a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah in which Hollande made an unequivocal demand for Israel to stop building on land seized in the 1967 Six-Day War, the French leader returned to Jerusalem to drive home his message from the podium of the Knesset.

"Settlement activity must stop because it compromises the two-state solution," he told his audience, which included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and the 120-member parliament.

"France's position is known: a negotiated settlement, with the state of Israel and (the future state) of Palestine both having Jerusalem as capital, coexisting in peace and security."

Israel seized mostly Arab east Jerusalem during the 1967 war and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community. It views the entire city as its "eternal and indivisible capital."

The Palestinians want east Jerusalem as capital of their future state, making the city's fate one of the thorniest issues of the decades-long conflict.

Netanyahu insisted he accepted "the solution of two states for two peoples in the framework of real peace," while acknowledging: "Not all the MPs in this house agree with me."

"I call on (Abbas) from here today: let's break the deadlock: Come to the Israeli Knesset and I'll come to Ramallah. Get up on this platform and recognise the historical truth: the Jews have a nearly 4,000-year-old link to the land of Israel."

^^^^^^ We get this idiocy from the French government as it steps up its deportation of muslims in an attempt to thwarts its on downfall to Islam!! What stupidity and arrogance!! Then turns around and tries to tell Israel to co-exist and give the terrorist Palestinians half control over Jerusalem !!!!! The arrogant buffoon should have his dumbass kicked daily for the rest of his unworthy freaking life IMHO. HERE IS WHAT THE JACKASS IS ACTUALLY DOING . AS FRANCE SHOOTS ITS TIGERS TO SURVIVE HE TELLS ISRAEL - JUST MAKE PEACE, GIVE THE TIGERS HALF OF JERULSALEM AND PRETEND IT SOLVES THE PROBLEM. As if the tigers will suddenly turn to drinking milk! Not only are the French world famous for the cowardice apparently they are also for their stupidity judging from this display IMHO! No wonder their tanks had only 4 gears, Park and three reverse gears with the THIRD set at MAX speed.. ... --Tyr

[jafar00]

Hollande is right. The settlements are illegally built. End of story.