Wanita Israel berjalan
di sebuah penempatan Yahudi yg dikenali sebagai "Gevaot", di Etzion
penyelesaian blok, berhampiran Bethlehem (Israeli women walk in a
Jewish settlement known as "Gevaot", in the Etzion settlement bloc,
near Bethlehem (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
WANmahani - Washington keras mengkritik keputusan Israel untuk
bergerak ke hadapan dgn penempatan baru di timur Baitulmaqdis pd Rabu,
sambil menambah bahwa rancangan itu blh merenggangkan Tel Aviv "walaupun daripada sekutunya yang paling rapat."
Jurucakap Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat Jen Psaki
berkata pembangunan - yang memberi lebih daripada 2,600 rumah baru di kawasan
sangat dipertan-dingkan di timur Jerusalem - akan menjadikan negara-negara DUNIA
"Komitmen muktamad soalan Israel utk penyelesaian secara aman rundingkan"
dengan rakyat Palestin.
"Perkembangan ini hanya akan menarik kecaman
daripada masyarakat antara-bangsa, jarak dari Israel walaupun sekutunya yang
paling rapat, racun atmosfera bukan sahaja dengan rakyat Palestin tetapi juga sangat
dengan kerajaan-kerajaan Arab dengan yang Perdana Menteri [Benjamin] Netanyahu
berkata beliau mahu membina hubungan, "Psaki berkata, seperti yang dipetik
oleh Reuters.
Komen Psaki ini telah diulangi oleh Setiausaha
Akhbar White House Josh Earnest, yang bercakap kepada pemberita pada waktu
selepas mesyuarat Presiden Barack Obama dgn Netanyahu. Mesyuarat itu
menandakan kali pertama kedua-dua pe-mimpin duduk untuk perbincangan sejak perang
di Gaza tercetus pada bulan Julai.
Walaupun Amerika Syarikat tlh berulang kali
mengecam pembinaan penempatan Israel di timur Baitulmaqdis selama ini, projek
semasa amat kontroversi kerana ia melibatkan sebahagian daripada bandar yg
rakyat Palestin mahu utk dimasukkan ke dalam negeri masa depan mereka.
Menurut AP, projek ini akan juga "meleng-kapkan band
kawasan Yahudi yg memisahkan Jerusalem dari berdekatan Beth-lehem," yang
merupakan rumah terutamanya untuk rakyat Palestin.
Obama melahirkan kebimbangan terhadap projek itu
dalam pertemuannya dengan Netanyahu, AP melaporkan, tetapi isu itu tidak
dibangkitkan dalam kenyataan umum pemimpin.
US warns Israel against building new
settlements
in E. Jerusalem . . .
Washington harshly criticized Israel’s decision to
move forward with new settlements in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, adding that
the plan could alienate Tel Aviv from “even its closest allies.”
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the
development – which calls for more than 2,600 new homes in a highly contested
area of east Jerusalem – would make world nations “question Israel’s ultimate
commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement” with Palestinians.
“This development will only draw condemnation from
the international community, distance Israel from even its closest allies,
poison the atmosphere not only with the Palestinians but also with the very
Arab governments with which Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu said he wanted
to build relations,” Psaki said, as quoted by Reuters.
Psaki’s comments were repeated by White House Press
Secretary Josh Earnest, who spoke to reporters in the hours after President
Barack Obama’s meeting with Netanyahu. The meeting marked the first time the
two leaders sat down for talks since the war in Gaza broke out in July.
Although the US has repeatedly condemned Israeli
settlement construction in east Jerusalem over the years, the current project
is particularly controversial since it involves the part of the city that
Palestinians want to be included in their future state. According to the AP, this project would also “complete a band of Jewish
areas that separate Jerusalem from nearby Bethlehem,” which is home primarily
to Palestinians.
Obama expressed concern over the project during his
meeting with Netanyahu, the AP reported, but the issue was not brought up
during the leaders’ public statements.
Presiden Amerika
Syarikat, Barack Obama (dariKanan) bertemu dengan Perdana Menteri Israel Benjamin
Netanyahu di white House di Washington 1 Oktober 2014 (U.S. President Barack
Obama (R) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White
House in Washington October 1, 2014 (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
Menurut AP, Obama memberitahu Netanyahu bahawa pada
ini "masa mencabar" mereka mesti "mencari jalan untuk menukar
status quo supaya kedua-dua warga Israel adalah selamat di rumah mereka
sendiri, dan kanak-kanak sekolah di seko-lah-sekolah mereka, daripada kemungkinan
tembakan roket tetapi juga bahawa kita tidak mempunyai tragedi kanak-kanak
Palestin dibunuh juga.
"operasi ketenteraan terbaru Israel di Gaza
membunuh lebih 2,100 rakyat Palestin, kebanyakannya orang awam, menurut
pegawai-pegawai Gaza. Lebih daripada 70 Israel terbunuh.
Pegawai Jerusalem Perbandaran diterbitkan pengumuman
penempatan sebelum Obama bertemu dengan Netanyahu, menyatakan projek itu
diluluskan kembali pada 2012 dan penerbitan hari ini adalah
"teknikal" bergerak.
Jurucakap itu memberitahu perbandaran yang Jerusalem Post bahawa pembinaan adalah "penting
untuk pembangunan di bandar ini untuk semua sektor."
Walau bagaimanapun, organisasi Peace Now, yang
menyokong untuk penyelesaian 2 negara kepada konflik Israel-Palestin, berkata
pelan penyelesaian "membaha-gikan negara Palestin potensi dan blok
kemungkinan untuk menyambung kawasan-kawasan perumahan Palestin di selatan
Yerusalem dengan negara Palestin masa depan."
Bagi sebahagian,
Israel mendakwa ia mempunyai hak untuk membangunkan di timur Baitulmaqdis
kerana ia dilampirkan bahagian bandar selepas Perang 6 Hari pada tahun 1967 -
satu langkah yg tidak diiktiraf oleh masyarakat antarabangsa.
Semasa rundingan Rabu, Obama dan Netanyahu juga
memberi tumpuan kepada rundingan berterusan ke atas program nuklear Iran. Kuasa
antarabangsa mem-punyai sehingga 24 November utk menyerang perjanjian dgn
negara ini, walaupun semua pihak mengakui bahawa perbezaan besar masih belum
diselesaikan.
According to the AP, Obama told Netanyahu that at
this “challenging time” they must “find ways to change the status quo so that
both Israel citizens are safe in their own homes, and schoolchildren in their
schools, from the possibility of rocket fire but also that we don’t have the
tragedy of Palestinian children being killed as well.”
Israel’s latest military operation in Gaza killed
more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to Gaza
officials. More than 70 Israelis were killed.
Jerusalem Municipality officials published the
announcement on settlements just before Obama met with Netanyahu, noting the
project was approved back in 2012 and that Wednesday’s publication was a
“technical” move. The municipality’s spokesman told the Jerusalem Post that construction is “essential for the
city’s development for all the sectors.”
However, the Peace Now organization, which advocates
for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said the
settlement plan “divides the potential Palestinian state and blocks the
possibility to connect the Palestinian neighborhoods in south Jerusalem with
the future Palestinian state.”
For its part, Israel claims it has the right to
develop in east Jerusalem since it annexed that portion of the city following
the Six-Day War in 1967 – a move that was not recognized by the international
community.
During the Wednesday talks, Obama and Netanyahu also
focused on the ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. International
powers have until November 24 to strike a deal with the country, though all
sides acknowledged that large differences have yet to be ironed out.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/qf3iun
