Transparency in journalism. Tony Judt in the New York Times yesterday:
Israel needs “settlements.” They are intrinsic to the image it has long sought to convey to overseas admirers and fund-raisers: a struggling little country securing its rightful place in a hostile environment…
The settler population has grown consistently at a rate of 5 percent annually over the past two decades, three times the rate of increase of the Israeli population as a whole. Together with the Jewish population of East Jerusalem (itself illegally annexed to Israel), the settlers today number more than half a million people: just over 10 percent of the Jewish population of so-called Greater Israel.
Note that Ron Kampeas, who is the Washington bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, offered a confession a month or so back:
[T]he Israeli government has unnaturally impeded the natural growth of [Jerusalem's] Arab population and has unnaturally spurred its Jewish growth.
"The mantra of all Israeli policies in Jerusalem is to maintain the natural balance," Seidemann said. "Which means that the birth of an Israeli child is a simcha and the birth of a Palestinian child is a demographic threat."
(Full disclosure: I own an apartment in East Talpiot, one of Jerusalem's post-1967 "new" neighborhoods, one I purchased with a loan that had favorable terms for olim, or new immigrants. The loan would have applied wherever I settled in Israel. There were additional incentives at the time to settle in Ma'aleh Adumim and other West Bank settlements…)
Good for Kampeas for the confession. And does this affect his coverage? It has to. It's where you sit, isn't it? By the way, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says Obama's demand that Israel freeze settlements applies to East Jerusalem too.
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Well, Laura Rozen who seems to have a direct line into the AIPAC US gov. den has this to say about Ross: Rozen: Ross’s expanded portfolio riles Iraq, Middle East teams http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/2... If this is true then the final nail is in the coffin.
RE: "Ross’s expanded portfolio riles Iraq, Middle East teams" MY COMMENT: Why not bring back Elliott Abrams! (sarcasm intended)
Why isn't this a surprise? Senator JW Fulbright forced the Jewish Agency to admit that it *owned* the Jewish Telegraphic Agency back in the 1960s, the same time the DOJ went after AIPAC's predecessor and founder for being a foreign agent of Israel. So the propaganda outlet that is the JTA has a bureau chief that bought property in an illegal settlement. And the Jewish Agency's other half-decade employee, Dennis Ross, is now on the National Security Council. Maybe he owns property in the colonies too. Maybe that makes it legal.
East Talpiot is in "no-man's land" of the '49 Armistice. It is considered a settlement because it is over the Green Line, although no "Palestinian" or Arab land–not even Jordanian state land–was taken for its construction. The rebuilt Jewish Quarter, which was in ruins when found in '67, is a "settlement" for the same reason, although Jews or Jewish community organizations had definitive legal title to those ruins and that land. The "international community" is simply allergic to Jews in Jerusalem. "And war, war never changes."
The "international community" against its better judgment has been made to cover the 'Jews in Jerusalem' butt for decades at vast cost in money, relationships in the ME, and even with the blood of American kids. Israel has been playing the victim for years, hiding behind the US and European countries who have been held ransom by the Israel Lobby while Israel has been intentionally, systemically ethically cleansing the Palestinians. Six years ago I didn't have a clue what was going on in Israel, and the role the US and Europe played in this repugnant operation. Now I do. There comes a time when enough is enough….
The settlements Eurosabra talks about are illegal under international law. Title should go to the Palestinians. Otherwise, Israel is just carrying out Goering's vision of the world, with one chosen people substituted for another, and borrowing as many of the Nazi tactics as they can without risking loss of US funds and special privileges afforded no other nation by the only current superpower. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8020825.st... At least Nazi Germany supported itself. So Euro, you live in Europe? Nice. And telling.
Exactly. Zionists should at least carry out their Nazi policies on their own. Stop asking for a handout. Get those generous liberal progressive humanist wealthy Jews to donate to the war crime.
I'm an indigenous Palestinian Jew who once tried to assimilate into anti-Semitic Gentile European culture, and eventually returned to the homeland, where other Palestinians hunted me, essentially for not being Muslim. Why should TITLE to new building on no-man's land go to Palestinians? Because you don't want Jews to have ANYTHING. Let it be cleared up by the title investigations during the Great Reconciliation. Oh, wait, that's not what you want, is it?
They out-nazi the nazis. The nazis never dreamed of calling themselves "humanitarians". They never pretended to weep for their victims. Hitler's rolling in his grave: Dang, says Adolf, should have used that happy face in place of the swastika!
They out-nazi the nazis. The nazis never dreamed of calling themselves "humanitarians". They never pretended to weep for their victims. Hitler's rolling in his grave: Dang, says Adolf, should have used that happy face in place of the swastika!
And today, you remain clueless. Somethings never change.
The settlement Eurosabra mentions are quite legal. Your interpretation of International law is quite irrational. In fact, you sound like a Nazi interpreting International law.
[The Arab American News] Anger, arrogance cause quandary in Iran : Note the discussion of Jewish and Iranian Jewish pundits in Huffpo after the excerpt from Imam Elahi's article.
oops you're right… Held Ransom isn't really the right word — Blackmail would probably be more fitting.
No, you are the zionazi interpreting international law. Anyone can see this by going to the url referenced by Pure USA above in this thread. We note you don't offer any support reference at all. Typical chintzy hasbara comment by Ali Baba. More like Izzy Babble.
Technically speaking, Jerusalem is, legally, of indeterminate status, since the 1949 border is unrecognized by any Arab state, except Jordan and Egypt's recognition of the sections of those lines by treaty. Neither of them maintains a legation in Jerusalem, or carries out official business there. Jordan, the previous unrecognized sovereign, abrogated its claims to the West Bank in 1988. And there is no mechanism of enforcement by the UNTSO. 242 is a pious wish. You can't undermine law so thoroughly, and then complain when one party builds in the city on wasteland once part of a DMZ before a war where one unrecognized sovereign displaced another. East Talpiot is a judicial black hole, except for the civil law of the State of Israel which the Israeli government has chosen to apply.
LOL…..I am willing to bet the reason the 'anti semitic gentile Europeans" didn't like you is because you are you…not because you are Jew. If your comments are any indication people like you never "assimilate" into any society…..your type always has a grudge going against everyone and of course everywhere you go you let people know it is everyone's fault but your own.
How often do we have to post this.Can't you people read. UN Security Council resolutions have the force of international law. Here is UN Security 465 of 1980 ..it hasn't been changed as of today. The Security Council "Determines that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and that Israel's policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East" Er…note is says "including Jerusalem.
I don't know that I would take Rosen's article as gospel. I like most of her reporting but she does push the Israel line ever so slightly or not so slightly in some cases. I read her occasionally but don't take her ' interpretations" of what is passed onto her as written in stone. Several years ago she was pushing 'the Islamization of Europe" hot and heavy, promoting the works of writers that really were racist at bottom. One book in particular whose title was Euro-something or other…that was red flag to me.
Actually, I have been rather successful in a very mixed Israeli/Palestinian city, with clients of all sorts of communities, and in the health insurance system, which functions in a fairly non-discriminatory way, even though "I am Jew." (Gosh, your handle should be "Cossack", with that lack of indeterminate articles…"YOU ARE JEW!!! JEW!!!" ROTFLMAO.) If there has been assimilation, it has been from definite "biladunna"–Arab-inflected local identity–to an Israeli-Hebrew identity–and back into working with Russians, Americans, and Israeli-Palestinians. Sorry if you can't handle Levantine ambiguity. Some of us actually LIVE with it.
First he says taking over Jerusalem is perfectly legal, because of its "indeterminate status." Then he says they're keeping it because there is no "mechanism for enforcement" for UN Resolution 242. It's like saying, "I'm taking that car that's parked outside my house, and I'm not giving it back because noone can make me." Makes perfect sense to a thief.
Hi Phil I can't find anything on your site about the YouTube/Vimeo killing of Max Bulmenthal's video. It's an utter outrage this has happened and I hope you fight it hard.
"International law" is whatever the Arabs want this week, so frankly the question will be resolved by treaty, or, given the intractable nature of the Palestinian claim, by force. The last undisputed legal sovereign is Britain, and there is as yet no Palestine. 242 is supposed to be implemented by agreement, and no agreement yet exists. So the extension of Israeli civil law to Jerusalem in 1980 finally filled the "legal black hole" created by the inapplicability of international law and the end of the Mandate's exercise of sovereignty. I'm sorry Palestinians were unable to sign a 242-based agreement in either 1993, 1997, or 2000 that would have created two states and resolved the issue, but they chose not to.
I agree, the Arab thieves who took Jewish property in Jerusalem in '49 thought it was perfectly legal to despoil the infidels. Nor did 194 lead to the repatriation of any Palestinian Jews or the restoration of their property in East Jerusalem. "I'm taking back my stolen Wall" is more the Israeli response. That you regard the holiest site in Judaism as analogous to a stolen car shows what dismissive hatred you have for Jews and Judaism, another reason to keep you and those like you far, far away from any position of power over any Jew, alive or dead (because the Jordanians abused the dead, too) by any means necessary.
I doubt people dislike you IRL because you're a Jew, Euro. It might be because you're a scumbag.
Now a second video has been taken off YouTube–the one shot by the IDF soldiers of themselves humiliating an arab man. In contrast, videos showing ugly conduct by Iranians against protesters are going up like crazy. http://thinkingoutoftheblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/...
The management of google should be arrested for aiding and abetting Zionist terrorism, and Stuart Levey should be in jail for obstruction of justice.
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