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	<title>Comments on: &#8216;The Archipelago of Eastern Palestine&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: samuelburke</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/the-archipelago-of-eastern-palestine.html/comment-page-1#comment-21583</link>
		<dc:creator>samuelburke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=385x291028&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;phil giraldi has a write up on antiwar on your favorite humanists; the jewish people....and its defenders. i wanted to make sure i covered the entirety of judeozionists.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;after all whatelse can a jew do other than to stand up for that shitty little country in the middle east...the israeli national socialists who have elections made up of only the people they want to represent the jews.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/03/30/stop-arming-israel/&lt;br /&gt;
Israel has long enjoyed a special status, committing war crimes as a matter of policy and, uniquely, still being able to buy weapons on the international market. Stopping the sale of weapons to Israel is a proportionate response, because Israel is not militarily threatened by any or even all of its neighbors acting together. A ban on weapons sales would send a strong message while not detracting from Israel’s ability to defend itself&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be sure, many countries have engaged in war crimes in the past 50 years, but Israel has done so repeatedly as a policy of intimidation, using American weapons and political cover to carry out the crimes. Israel’s war crimes have damaged America’s reputation all around the world. When Israel acts badly, the rest of the world sees Washington behind it, sometimes obscenely so, as when then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice described the &quot;birth pangs of a new Middle East&quot; after Israel devastated Lebanon in July 2006. It is the Muslim world’s perception that Israel can do anything to Arabs and never be rebuked by the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Israel has been engaging in war crimes since the country’s founding, when it deliberately terrorized Palestinian civilians to make them flee their homes. In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 American sailors and Marines, apparently because it believed that the Liberty had intercepted orders by the Israeli government to execute thousands of Egyptian prisoners captured in Sinai. In 1982, Israel used cluster weapons on Lebanese and Palestinian civilians and its army officers stood by while its Phalangist allies killed thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most recently, in January’s fighting in Gaza, the tally of Israeli war crimes seems almost too incredible to believe. The violations have been carefully documented by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations, Israel’s Physicians for Human Rights, and the International Red Cross. The UN rapporteur for Gaza, Richard Falk, called the Israeli offensive, in which nearly 300 children and 121 women died, &quot;a war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law.&quot; The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) used phosphorus artillery shells against a United Nations compound where more than 700 people were sheltering, killing 42. The UN had called the Israelis repeatedly to tell them there were hundreds of civilians seeking shelter in the building. A UN school sheltering 1,600 civilians was hit two days later. The spent phosphorus shell casings left in Gaza revealed that they had been made by Thiokol Aerospace and the Pine Bluff Arsenal in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt; All such actions are violations of the Geneva Conventions. Israel also used drones to target and kill civilians and shot down women and children advancing under cover of a white flag. A tank fired into an apartment building, killing the three daughters of a Palestinian physician, with an IDF board of inquiry subsequently finding the deaths &quot;reasonable.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Col. Pat Lang, who served as the U.S. Army liaison to the IDF while in uniform and later in a similar capacity with the Defense Intelligence Agency as a civilian, observed Israeli soldiers using a tank’s machine gun to shoot at Palestinian Christian women who were hanging up their laundry, &quot;just for the fun of it.&quot; He once was caught up in an Arab street demonstration and was told by an Israeli officer afterward that he would have been shot dead but for the fact that he did not look Palestinian and to kill a foreigner would have caused trouble. Israeli snipers finishing their training courses order T-shirts with distinctive artwork. One recent shirt featured a pregnant Arab woman with a bull’s-eye centered on her and the English slogan &quot;1 shot, 2 kills&quot; underneath.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>phil giraldi has a write up on antiwar on your favorite humanists; the jewish people&#8230;.and its defenders. i wanted to make sure i covered the entirety of judeozionists.</p>
<p>after all whatelse can a jew do other than to stand up for that shitty little country in the middle east&#8230;the israeli national socialists who have elections made up of only the people they want to represent the jews.</p>
<p>http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/03/30/stop-arming-israel/<br />
Israel has long enjoyed a special status, committing war crimes as a matter of policy and, uniquely, still being able to buy weapons on the international market. Stopping the sale of weapons to Israel is a proportionate response, because Israel is not militarily threatened by any or even all of its neighbors acting together. A ban on weapons sales would send a strong message while not detracting from Israel’s ability to defend itself</p>
<p>To be sure, many countries have engaged in war crimes in the past 50 years, but Israel has done so repeatedly as a policy of intimidation, using American weapons and political cover to carry out the crimes. Israel’s war crimes have damaged America’s reputation all around the world. When Israel acts badly, the rest of the world sees Washington behind it, sometimes obscenely so, as when then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice described the &quot;birth pangs of a new Middle East&quot; after Israel devastated Lebanon in July 2006. It is the Muslim world’s perception that Israel can do anything to Arabs and never be rebuked by the U.S.</p>
<p>Israel has been engaging in war crimes since the country’s founding, when it deliberately terrorized Palestinian civilians to make them flee their homes. In 1967, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters, killing 34 American sailors and Marines, apparently because it believed that the Liberty had intercepted orders by the Israeli government to execute thousands of Egyptian prisoners captured in Sinai. In 1982, Israel used cluster weapons on Lebanese and Palestinian civilians and its army officers stood by while its Phalangist allies killed thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.</p>
<p>Most recently, in January’s fighting in Gaza, the tally of Israeli war crimes seems almost too incredible to believe. The violations have been carefully documented by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations, Israel’s Physicians for Human Rights, and the International Red Cross. The UN rapporteur for Gaza, Richard Falk, called the Israeli offensive, in which nearly 300 children and 121 women died, &quot;a war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law.&quot; The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) used phosphorus artillery shells against a United Nations compound where more than 700 people were sheltering, killing 42. The UN had called the Israelis repeatedly to tell them there were hundreds of civilians seeking shelter in the building. A UN school sheltering 1,600 civilians was hit two days later. The spent phosphorus shell casings left in Gaza revealed that they had been made by Thiokol Aerospace and the Pine Bluff Arsenal in the United States.</p>
<p> All such actions are violations of the Geneva Conventions. Israel also used drones to target and kill civilians and shot down women and children advancing under cover of a white flag. A tank fired into an apartment building, killing the three daughters of a Palestinian physician, with an IDF board of inquiry subsequently finding the deaths &quot;reasonable.&quot;</p>
<p>Col. Pat Lang, who served as the U.S. Army liaison to the IDF while in uniform and later in a similar capacity with the Defense Intelligence Agency as a civilian, observed Israeli soldiers using a tank’s machine gun to shoot at Palestinian Christian women who were hanging up their laundry, &quot;just for the fun of it.&quot; He once was caught up in an Arab street demonstration and was told by an Israeli officer afterward that he would have been shot dead but for the fact that he did not look Palestinian and to kill a foreigner would have caused trouble. Israeli snipers finishing their training courses order T-shirts with distinctive artwork. One recent shirt featured a pregnant Arab woman with a bull’s-eye centered on her and the English slogan &quot;1 shot, 2 kills&quot; underneath.</p>
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		<title>By: bar_kochba132</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/the-archipelago-of-eastern-palestine.html/comment-page-1#comment-21584</link>
		<dc:creator>bar_kochba132</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Actually, Eastern Palestine is what is now called &quot;The Kingdom of Jordan&quot;. If they are going to call &quot;Eastern Palestine&quot; the area of Judea/Samaria which is shown on the map, then &quot;Western Palestine&quot; is pre-67 Israel, which they obviously consider to be under occupation as well.   So much for their &quot;2-state&quot; solution.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, Eastern Palestine is what is now called &quot;The Kingdom of Jordan&quot;. If they are going to call &quot;Eastern Palestine&quot; the area of Judea/Samaria which is shown on the map, then &quot;Western Palestine&quot; is pre-67 Israel, which they obviously consider to be under occupation as well.   So much for their &quot;2-state&quot; solution.</p>
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		<title>By: Shafiq</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shafiq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Err, Eastern Palestine is the West Bank and Western Palestine is the Gaza Strip.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Err, Eastern Palestine is the West Bank and Western Palestine is the Gaza Strip.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Witty</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/the-archipelago-of-eastern-palestine.html/comment-page-1#comment-21586</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Witty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;It is a very effective map.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<title>By: Joshua</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/the-archipelago-of-eastern-palestine.html/comment-page-1#comment-21587</link>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;bar_kocha132 still insists on Jordan as being part of Eretz Israel and yet those who support that idea want Arabs to accept pragmatism vis-a-vis Israel&#039;s existence without accepting the idea that Jordan is not part of the territory being split regarding a Palestinian state. Hypocrisy or just selective thinking here?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I remember what Jeff Halper said and it stuck with me:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&quot;Israel will be the only country with TWO Eastern borders.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That boggles my mind.&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bar_kocha132 still insists on Jordan as being part of Eretz Israel and yet those who support that idea want Arabs to accept pragmatism vis-a-vis Israel&#39;s existence without accepting the idea that Jordan is not part of the territory being split regarding a Palestinian state. Hypocrisy or just selective thinking here?</p>
<p>I remember what Jeff Halper said and it stuck with me:</p>
<p>&quot;Israel will be the only country with TWO Eastern borders.&quot;</p>
<p>That boggles my mind.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Witty</title>
		<link>http://mondoweiss.net/2009/03/the-archipelago-of-eastern-palestine.html/comment-page-1#comment-21588</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Witty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The reality is worse than the map though, as there is transit within an archipelago (boats).&lt;/p&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reality is worse than the map though, as there is transit within an archipelago (boats).</p>
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