Israel does not want peace.

The demolition has nothing to do with "talks.
And, as usual the un-elected Catherine Ashton knows nothing about the situation and is being badly advised. East Jerusalem was annexed in 1967 and is Israeli territory, period.

The old Shepherd Hotel was the former home of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem who engineered murderous riots against Jews in 1929 and 1936. During World War II, Husseini met with Hitler and mobilized Muslim support for the Nazis among Muslims.
So, demolition, long,long overdue.

Gaza was evacuated. Propmax: "Israel does not want peace"
'Palestinians' reject direct talks. Propmax: "Israel does not want peace"
Israel uses restraint during eight years letting Sderot under 'Palestinian' terror attacks. Propmax: "Israel does not want peace".

All Israelis commit suicide. Propmax: "Israel did not want peace".

Ooh good are they finally demolishing the Shepherd Hotel?

Good news!

Oh and by the way who is Catherine Ashton? And why does the EU have a foreign policy?

All the more reason I'll be voting UKIP in the European elections and am encouraging others to do the same.

Me too, Matt. Have just phoned my MP and told him that I won't be voting for a party that has scum like Hague and Burt in it.

Cameron wants a symbiosis with Turkey who are EU bound; all primed to opine and whine - no wonder people tune them out.

With Turkey in the EU, the end of Western civilisation will be hastened even more. Sadly, that end is inevitable given the traitors and morons and greedy megalomaniacs governing us. It's the end of Roman civilisation again, and for similar reasons: the parallels are frightening. Within 100 years at most, the world will be in a new Dark Age, mainly due to stupidity, treason, smugness, greed and selfishness in the face of the Islamist cancer, which instead of being fought is being introduced wilfully into more and more parts of the Western world, like someone with lung cancer smoking ever stronger cigarettes.

tell everybody Yoni

who voted down my comment to tell everybody and why?

Who knows? But I've fixed it.

And I fixed yours, Matt!

Thanks.
Who knows? Probably some antisemite.

Ashton stated that the EU does not recognise the "annexation" of Jerusalem.
Ashton should learn a little bit about history. Jerusalem was liberated from Jordan dictatorship and ethnic cleansing in June 1967.
At this time and during the 19 preceding years, no one said anything about an occupied or annexed Jerusalem. No one said indeed anything about a future capital of a 'Palestinian' state or for that matter of a state at all.

So, only now that Jerusalem is liberated, that all confessions can freely be exerted, including the Jews at the Western Wall, Ashton reminds a people that existed thousands of years before those of England, France and others, that Jerusalem should be the capital of another country. Maybe we should recognise North Paris as the capital of Parisistan, one more Muslim country, and ask Bertrand Delanoë not to build there for non-Muslims. Or accuse him of ethnic cleansing if he does?

Not sure which idiot marked down the above by Jose.

The EU - and the British FO - don't care about Jewish history or plain facts. They are only interested in kissing the backsides of Islamists.

And that is a sure sign of you-know-what.

Hmmm, Milligramsam at work, I guess.

"And that is a sure sign of you-know-what."

It's a sure sign that the UK and the EU are on the road to hell if our elected leaders don't start growing some collective backbones.

Arab terrorism causes spineless politicians to betray Israel - history repeating itself?

Terrorists will never thank you for appeasing them, they'll just hit you harder next time they want something. I really thought we'd learned this lesson by now.

The EU has 'elected leaders'???????

Yes to the rest of it, sure.

Well said, Jon and Matt!

Some brainless idiot has now marked Yvetta down ...

And other posts. Moron.

Yoni1
In one post above you seem to suggest that the fall of the Roman Empire was a loss to civilisation, but you seem to forget that the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, the Temple and exiled the Jews. Fair comment?

Fair comment. But what followed was centuries of something far worse for humanity: the murderous Arab rampage, the loss of ancient libraries full of wisdom and scientific knowledge, even more illiteracy and disease that had been the case before, and so on.
It took 400 desperate years for European civilisation to drag itself up again from the mud, and it never ever happened for the previously civilised Middle East and North Africa.

(largely due to the spread of Islam, of course, in the centuries following the fall of the Western Roman empire.)

Wishing ill to the Roman empire 350 years AFTER the fall of Jerusalem would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Who IS the utter moron marking down my factual accounts of ancient history?

Herr-dman does not stand facts.

I don't think the above hysterics need any comment the wider audience will make up its own mind

ok who marked me down ? I want names

I marked all sensible people up (i.e. evveryone except armchair!)