<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/36d7bb29-2057-4192-8b62-908ac26edba7/74FC017D-BD2E-4EFF-9644-9662DB69A326/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Untimely_Thoughts/The_geopolitics_of_housing_starts.html" href="http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Untimely_Thoughts/The_geopolitics_of_housing_starts.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.russiatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Untimely_Thoughts/The_geopolitics_of_housing_starts.html"><P>The housing market in the US is taking a bath, but not so in Israel’s “legally defined occupation” of the West Bank. There has been an officially sanctioned housing boom there since 1967 – all of it illegal under international law.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Untimely_Thoughts/The_geopolitics_of_housing_starts.html"><P>According to an AFP story, citing the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as the source:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Untimely_Thoughts/The_geopolitics_of_housing_starts.html"><P>* Since 1967 Israel’s occupation and later annexation of all of Jerusalem resulted in the expropriation of 6,000 acres (2,430 hectares) of occupied territory.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Untimely_Thoughts/The_geopolitics_of_housing_starts.html"><P><DIV>* By the end of 2007, a total of 50,197 homes had been built for the Jewish settlers on the expropriated land. And this applies to greater-Jerusalem, not the rest of the West Bank. In the meantime, not a single dwelling for the Palestinians has been built. Indeed, as I write this blog, Palestinian dwellings are being torn down – again illegally.</DIV> * In this year alone, 23 homes and other dwellings in east Jerusalem were leveled and 1,052 demolition orders have been issued.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74FC017D-BD2E-4EFF-9644-9662DB69A326/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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