Comments on: At least one settler is an influential Washington journalist

By: JoachimMartillo

JoachimMartillo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:01:16 +0000

The management of google should be arrested for aiding and abetting Zionist terrorism, and Stuart Levey should be in jail for obstruction of justice.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:42:12 +0000

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. " target="_blank">http://thinkingoutoftheblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/...

By: Strahl

Strahl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:21:32 +0000

I doubt people dislike you IRL because you're a Jew, Euro. It might be because you're a scumbag.

By: Eurosabra

Eurosabra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:13:32 +0000

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.

By: Eurosabra

Eurosabra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:09:16 +0000

"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.

By: Syd Walker

Syd Walker — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:47:34 +0000

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.

By: AnaSanchez

AnaSanchez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:58:32 +0000

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.

By: Eurosabra

Eurosabra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:48:20 +0000

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.

By: American

American — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:28:56 +0000

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.

By: American

American — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:17:29 +0000

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.