Its not a 'few homes' its basically separating the Arab areas from Jerusalem
I'm all for Israel doing this, but it really is a change to the status quo. Arabs shooting missiles is not, sadly. Also, there is no point condemning Hamas. The foreign governments already do everything they could to try to aid the Palestinians without the money getting into terrorist hands. The spend A LOT of money trying to oversee where the money is.
There is also no point embargoing Plaestinian produce (is there such a thing outside Israel?). Economic prosperity is the solution, not the problem. In fact they'd be doing Israel a favor by forcing people to buy and support the economy
M2C
First off, I beleive the homes they are going to build were part of the "bush Letter agreement". And those homes will actually be connecting Ma'ale Adumim To jerusalem.
2. There would't be such an issue with building these homes had obama not forced a settlement freeze.
3. Everyone knows that under any peace agreement the area in question would deffinitely be in Israeli territory.
4. Sadly foreign governments including the US do not do enough in isolating hamas.
5. The whole jihad thing is not rational, there is a religious war going on, how many people have you heard of besides for muslims that were suicide bombers, hence economic prosperity would do little and not solve the problem. The palestinian economy was much better before the intifada. There are plenty of prosperous palestinians who are still bent on throwing all the jews into the sea.
Remember the christmas day bomber, well he was a millonaire, lived in a $4 million mansion Bin laden was also a multi millionare.
A big reason there is still no peace, is because of israels weakness. They were the ones that brought arafat from tunisia to ramallah etc;