Some consequences of the Israeli settlements programme consequences, for Palestine, for Israel and for the world, as outlined in the Irish Times this morning
The article is accompanied by a cartoon showing Palestinian and Israeli negotiators sitting around a conference table around which two building workers are constructing a new houe. John Kerry is standing by saying "take no notice of them".
Don't suppose Boo Boo will respond to this nay more than he has responded to anything else – maybe 'The Stonegate Institute' has the answer!
Jim Carroll

Senior Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo warned that Israel's determination to press ahead with settlement construction could torpedo the talks.
"Settlement expansion goes against the US administration's pledges and threatens to cause the negotiations' collapse. This settlement expansion is unprec¬edented. It threatens to make talks fail even before they've started," he said.

DELEGITIMISATION CAMPAIGN
Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey Goldberg quoted Mr Kerry warning Mr Netanyahu in recent weeks that if the current peace talks bear no fruit, Israel may soon be facing an interna¬tional delegitimisation cam¬ paign - in his words - "on ster¬oids". The recent decision by the European Union to cut all funds to any Israeli enterprise over the 1967 green line caused shock waves in Israel and was described by minister Tzipi Livni, who will head the Israeli ne¬gotiating team at the peace talks, as a wake-up call.
Mr Netanyahu's biggest fear is that a campaign to isolate and delegitimise Israel would erode Israel's ability to defend itself, particularly if it is forced to act unilaterally to stop Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb.