Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to renew a partial freeze on settlement building, if the Palestinians recognise Israel as "a Jewish state".

A Palestinian spokesman has rejected the condition.

Israel has been under international pressure to renew its partial freeze on settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians had been under threat of collapse over the issue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11517990

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Palestinian officials have rejected an offer by the Israeli government to halt settlement construction if they recognise Israel as a "Jewish state".

The Palestinians said they already recognised the state of Israel, and that the real issue threatening peace talks was illegal settlement activity.

Israel has been under international pressure to renew its partial freeze on construction in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks over the issue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11519969

The Israeli military has been urged to investigate the recent shootings of at least 12 impoverished Palestinian teenagers and young men collecting gravel in an effort to eke out an income within 800 metres of Gaza’s heavily guarded northern border.

The youngsters - including at least two under 15 - were shot and injured as they gathered the gravel to sell cement manufacturers struggling to meet a fraction of the demand for building materials still banned from entering Gaza through Israel.

The shootings - highlighted in reports this week by two human rights agencies - are the latest development to come to light in a more general military enforcement of a "buffer zone" inside Gaza’s border.

The UN says this has resulted in 22 civilian deaths and 146 injuries since the end of Israel's 2008-9 military onslaught on the Hamas-controlled territory. A 91-year-old man and two other civilians were killed last month as they grazed sheep close to the border.

Mohammed Mogah, 16, was shot in his side at what he claims was a range of 700 metres - well beyond the 300-metre border exclusion zone declared in 2008 by the Israeli military.

Showing the scars from the entry and exit wound, he told The Independent he had been sifting sand from a pile of gravel in a cooking sieve, with his back to the border, before loading it onto a donkey cart, when he was hit.

He said he had been in an area of the long demolished Erez Industrial Zone, when he was shot on June 23. Other Palestinians, including a team with a bulldozer, were also busy working in the rubble. He said there were several shots but he did not see anyone else hit.

“Some people ran away and others lay on the ground. I’m new to this job. It was only the third time I had gone. I will never go again.”

Asked why he had gone to work in an area known to be dangerous, he said he thought he had "no option." He added: "If someone gives me other work I will do it." Mohammed lives with 14 members of his extended family in three rooms in a run down part of Jabalya.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-shot-at-children-collecting-gravel-by-gaza-border-2103992.html

The inconsistencies in this crazy world of the word power like "democracy" and "freedom" and of course the American alliance for those who misinterpret "terrorism" as a word meaning disobedience and for those who misuse the common practice of "dual citizenship".

No rules – no regulation – no civilization.

We have seen the horrendous results of the Zionist Mossad using faked passports of various nations NOT directly involved in the Middle East impasse, to commit murder which, by definition seems to me to give legitimacy to the criminals rather than the genuine owners of the names used.  The civilized behaviour of Dubai was diametrically opposed to the arrogant and internationally condemned attitude of the Lawless Zionists in occupied Palestine. And the citizens of Dubai are “ragheads”?

Of course we have this relatively new phenomenon re passports in Australia, otherwise the master of lies Murdoch could not have taken over our media.

However the issue of multi-national identification, that are in force at the same time, is so damn ridiculous as to beggar belief.

This particular blog shows a renowned fascist Netanyahu requiring a swearing of allegiance to the mythical “state” of Israel.  Fair dinkum.

Several times before I have written in YD that all multi-national passports should be restricted to diplomats authorized by the nation using the duplication for purely security reasons.  Fair?

Why do we ask, does an ordinary person require the authorized citizenship of a foreign country to which he has no obligation for that citizenship? Is the Australian passport insufficient to travel to say, Indonesia?

So the Netanyahu demand is merely a diversion from the real issue that without the agreement of the Palestinians, Israel does not exist, even under the tenuous agreement with England during WW I.

May I add that if, the letter of the law was to be applied, any person with a passport and the declaration of loyalty to that nation, could be giving themselves an “out” should the politics of the nation/s concerned become untidy. 

How would you pick your choice of say four nations? If you had that offer could you honestly then betray the other three?  And if so, why would any nation give you the opportunity to betray your oath of loyalty?

If required, I would swear my loyalty to Australia even if the Mad Monk became Murdoch’s Prime Minister.  I would still be able to vote in my country and – the “Government of a Country is what they deserve”. Only the source of information would have to be authenticated.  NE OUBLIE.