Comments on: Update from Jerusalem: Palestinians continue to resist concerted Israeli effort to erase them from the city

By: Gnu

Gnu — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:06:51 +0000

That's is why Israel is moving to the apartheid state plan. Israel is screwed in the end. They will have to kill the Palestinians to keep their 'cosa nostra'. They'll probably nuke Iran and then poison the Palestinians. Either way, they are not going to stop. Arrogance is what will destroy Israel as their public image, including the diaspora, is tearing at the seams. They can't see it. They only see there selfish desires.

By: eitanbenshlomo

eitanbenshlomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:03:49 +0000

The entire Jerusalem is Jewish capital. Shafiq go split mecca in half. East Mecca and West mecca.

By: seafoid

seafoid — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:41:03 +0000

The Palestinians already live in the Israeli one state solution. It's called Erez Israel and it has 3.5 million Palestinians with no rights to speak of. Israeli Jews don't want to give them rights because it would mean the end of Jewish democracy. Where you have democracy but only for Jews. Phil and co need to come to the realisation that Zionism isn't Jewish any more. It's so far from the values of Judaism after 60 years that Zionists have lost the right to call themselves the global representatives of the Jewish people. Zionism is Yank imperialism in the near east. Bas.

By: tree_

tree_ — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:32:27 +0000

So, in order to be like the South African situation, the Palestinian solidarity movement has to have a goal of TWO states, even though the stated goal of the ANC was ONE state with full equality. That makes absolutely no sense, Witty. Its simply your distaste for the ONE state solution which is coloring your, shall we call it, "reasoning". You want the Jews in Israel to have something that you would rightly condemn and deny to the white South Africans.

By: Donald

Donald — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:25:38 +0000

That's pretty much it. WItty is desperately afraid that Israel will receive criticism that is as harsh as it deserves–he shows no such reluctance to condemn the atrocities committed by Palestinians. In fact, it's extremely important to him that everyone know the effects of Hamas suicide bombing on the Israeli psyche, but not at all important for people to understand the effects of Israel's apartheid-like regime on Palestinians.

By: Shafiq

Shafiq — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:46:41 +0000

If you knew anything about Arabs or the Arabic language, you'd know that Palestinians have their own dialect.

By: Shafiq

Shafiq — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:45:53 +0000

I suppose all of Latin America (minus Brazil) is one nation? And that the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the majority of sub-Saharan African countries are also one nation?

By: Jake in Jerusalem

Jake in Jerusalem — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:30:09 +0000

There are MOSQUES in Tel Aviv. There are ARAB COMMUNITIES in Tel Aviv. ARAB NEIGHBORHOODS. You are so ignorant… As always.

By: edwin2

edwin2 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:22:26 +0000

Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law A study coordinated by the Middle East Project of the Democracy and Governance Programme, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa

The Human Sciences Research Council was established in 1968 by an Act of the South African Parliament to conduct applied social science research in the public interest. It serves as the national social science council for South Africa. Website:

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The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa commissioned this study to test the hypothesis posed by Professor John Dugard in the report he presented to the UN Human Rights Council in January 2007, in his capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel (namely, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, hereafter OPT). Professor Dugard posed the question: Israel is clearly in military occupation of the OPT. At the same time, elements of the occupation constitute forms of colonialism and of apartheid, which are contrary to international law. What are the legal consequences of a regime of prolonged occupation with features of colonialism and apartheid for the occupied people, the Occupying Power and third States? In order to consider these consequences, this study set out to examine legally the premises of Professor Dugard’s question: is Israel the occupant of the OPT, and, if so, do elements of its occupation of these territories amount to colonialism or apartheid? South Africa has an obvious interest in these questions given its bitter history of apartheid, which entailed the denial of selfdetermination to its majority population and, during its occupation of Namibia, the extension of apartheid to that territory which South Africa effectively sought to colonise. These unlawful practices must not be replicated elsewhere: other peoples must not suffer in the way the populations of South Africa and Namibia have suffered. To explore these issues, an international team of scholars was assembled. The aim of this project was to scrutinise the situation from the nonpartisan perspective of international law, rather than engage in political discourse and rhetoric. This study is the outcome of a fifteen-month collaborative process of intensive research, consultation, writing and review. It concludes and, it is to be hoped, persuasively argues and clearly demonstrates that Israel, since 1967, has been the belligerent Occupying Power in the OPT, and that its occupation of these territories has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid.

" target="_blank">" target="_blank">http://www.hsrc.ac.za/Document-3227.phtml (very long document - be patient)

By: edwin2

edwin2 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:18:11 +0000

So unless things are exactly exactly the same – down to the n'th degree then they aren't the same – unless we are taking about anti-semitism – when suddenly even the vaguest resemblance makes one an anti-semite.