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Evidently the response to “Virgule82” was deemed not fit to print by the censors, so maybe it requires a little explanation and if my explanation is not worthy kindly explain to me why?
Virgule82 is being a smartA--, by stating that international law does not allow for hereditary status of refugees. Never mind the fact even if it is not enshrined in international the law; the right of return for the descendants of refugees is implied. SO My response was how many 3000 year old Jews were in Israel, because all those European and then Arab Jews who ended up in Israel after 1948, surely were not the ones who were supposedly expelled 2000-3000 years ago.
He should enlist just all Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. I view this like when Jerusalem Palestinians boycott the municipal elections.
That way when he sees War Crimes being committed by the Jewish Supremacists that he makes them aware of their war crimes and that he will be a witness at their War crime trials in the future.
Not enlisting means they have won. YOU HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY IN THESE EVIL PEOPLE’S FACE. Either the Jewish supremacist turn on the Druze and force them, into the apartheid environment or they will become more humane.
Oh cry me a river Spielberg. Peanut butter, is for rich kids, you want to making bulling children stop, do what I did to make WASPy, Canadians stop with their snide Camel Jockey remarks (although they don’t make glass coke bottles anymore, although cut a tin can in halve will work) brake said bottle and shove it in their faces and see how a bully wither away.
I’m not advocating violence but you can take only so much.
Just read my commnet above eh!
What about us Palestinians not allowed back home, into Palestine whether 48 or 67, because we are not Jews, thats a another several million, lets count that too!!!
As a member of the Hamyel clan of Al Bireh Palestine, I can say UNEQUIVOCALLY Mansfield is right on the money. As a palestinian I can say UNEQUIVOCALLY, People like Sami, are the HOUSE NEGROS of Palestine.
Living in South Florida, I see the second billboard all the time, and I cannot but help that is what ignorant White America believes, never mind most of the foreign oil comes from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. And as for that oil they want pumped out of the Gulf of Mexico, by British Petroleum, that goes on the open market to the highest bidder not necessarily to the USA.
Oh well sooner than later White America will lose its political power, now that they lost their population edge that is why they are afraid of OBAMA, not that they care about a Jewish State.
And yes COLIN WRIGHT I will vote for OBAMA also.
A tatoo of HANDALA!
HE SHOULD FIGHT FOR THR RIGHT OF COPTIC WOMEN TO DIVORCE, somthing that Muslim women could do centuries before any Christian or Jewish women could ever dream!
We Palestinians have leftover pesky DNA from the Crusades, that are right beside those ancient Hebrews genes.
Please the law is clear, join a foreign military or taking a job with a foreign power or taking a foreign power's citizenship, you need to take an oath to a foreign power:
"taking an oath, affirmation or other formal declaration to a foreign state or its political subdivisions (Sec. 349 (a) (2) INA); "
The QUESTION to be asked is who is doing the interpertation, do you think maybe just maybe it's a....?!
Although I long suspected, even though the MSM says it is becoming recent, that the average European American is now a minority like everyone else, I am always amazed how they always vote against their self interest and give credence to people like Romneyhood and Paul"the boy wonder".
Anything but to admit other than white European Americans are humans !!!!
Read your words Olga, you have the memory of a nat!
"With the slight difference that Jews didn’t kill Christ and
that Christianity has a history of intolerance and slaughter though much diminished now then a few hundreds years ago"
then you have the chutzpah to say
"How is it relevant to the events of let’s say the last 20 years in the world?"
History always seems to nick your delusionary bubble doesn't it!
How many Christians were slaughtered by Yemini Jews (you know before OSMA'S ANCESTORS converted to Islam), in the 5th century or is 6th.
Better yet how many Jews were saved by the Muslims over the centurys from Christian slaughter circa 7th century upto the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians .
"In my view, American Jewish achievement is a cultural phenomenon: our educational and urban traditions suited us for 20th century industrial conditions, and we excelled"
Educational and urban traditions that was FORCED on to thee, by Europe's Christian Discrimination (Land cannot be owned or farmed by Jews) and when a country called USA was formed, it came in handy !!!!!!
Luck or Devine Intervention ??????
IT'S CALLED AL QUDS.
Slacking on the job Mooser!
No need for divorce, NOTHING in Judaism prevents polygamy. Didn't Solomon have a thousand wives? All the big names in the Old Testament were fond of polygamy, which begs the question what did the average jew do, if the kings/judges kept all the females for themselves.
"I still have the politically incorrect gumption to say that there was something different about the Holocaust"
Just like everyone else Marc, you are Prejudice! just a matter of degrees.
From my govt. experience, if they are Jewish, they are in name only. It was obvious, they used the "Jewish" part as a "sympathy" card to emigrate to the US. Later as I was to discover, and as a RCMP inspector told me, "these people are geniuses at creating criminal schemes to defraud the government." Comes from growing up under the Soviets.
One has nothing to do with the other. No one is fooled by your and the rest of your apartheid excuse makers diversionary tactics.
FOR THE RECORD.
My uncle, Master Sergeant Abdelsalaam Sarsour, United States Army. Born in Palestine, took part in the Normandy invasion, served with distinction in the battle of the Bulge, and his unit was one of the first to enter the Dachau Concentration camp.
In 1979, when he passed away in Hayward California, my aunt tried to return his body to be buried in our home town of Al-Bireh Palestine and the Israeli's refused, forcing her to return the body to the United States (and in typically fashion the American Consulate in East Jerusalem refused to help). They refused the last request of an American Hero, simply because he was born a Palestinian.
What Universe do you live in Hopi.
Without the Holocaust, the UN would have never voted for Apartheid Israel in 47.
Without the Holocaust, the majority of jews would never defend an Apartheid Israel.
Without the Holocaust, the MSM would never look the other way when it comes to Apartheid Israel's war crimes.
Without the Holocaust, you would not have a purpose to exist to be on this blog, to defend Apartheid Israel.
You beat me to it Mr. Crowther ! !
As a former US Government employee, I met my own share of House Negros, from every stripe of the rainbow.
You don't like intermarriage and assimilation? Be careful Krauss your bigotry is showing !!!!
Everyone QUICK!
Write your congressman/women and Senator and tell them they need to support Israel' Levy Report on the settlements;
and all with Israeli citizenship write your MKs to make it the LAW of the LAND.
Nothing but good will come out of this!!!!!!!!!!
I have always felt my fellow Palestinians in Jerusalem forgoing the right to vote is BLAME DUMB and STUPID! Not Petitioning the Israeli Supreme court for Israeli citizenship, as residents of Jerusalem, is not just DUMB, it is beyond DUMB and STUPID!
They need to call “the only democratic state in the Middle East" out and vote and take up Israeli citizenship. This nonsense of boycotting elections in Israel plays into the Apartheid regime hands. By voting they get representation and are constantly in the regime’s face. By having no representation, the regime can claim it is democratic and do what it wants. Representation means either the regime becomes more beholden to the elected representatives OR it will have to eliminate the façade of Democracy. Either way it brings the end of Apartheid that much closer.
In 2007, my mother passed away, I decided as an American to fly to Tel Aviv. My American passport by the way states my place of Birth as PALESTINE (even my official passport when I travelled on behalf the US government states PALESTINE as my place of birth), so whether the US State Department knows it or not they recognize PALESTINE. As you would expect I got the 6th degree from an Israeli agent about why was I visiting, when did I last leave Israel etc. etc.;
My favorite where was I born in Israel ?
My response to, I was born in Israel?! Then I want Israeli citizenship!
Her Response you cannot have Israeli citizenship unless you do military service!
My Response Well where is the paperwork, sign me up right NOW! I want my Israeli citizenship!
The look on this Israeli’s face was of horror you should have heard her try to stammer a response!
The problem as I see it is that we make it easy for the Apartheid regime, to get away with “the only democratic state in the Middle East” mantra. If the residents of East Jerusalem can get together with the ‘48 Palestinians in Israel, they can easily capture 25 or more seats in the Knesset, imagine them voting as a bloc.
1. There was no need to apologize for telling the truth !!!!!
AND
2. What exactly was offensive, in that you called out the ZIOBOTS on their bigotry!!!!
Who cares about some white european politicos,
My family only remembers Deir Yassin!
seafoid,
"Jebel al jaish al majnoon" and fruity blond wife.
LOL, I fell out of my chair!!
Freediebogs, you usually ask for a citation, and when I give it to you before you ask for it you travel at warp speed to deep space 10 or was it 9.
Like I said check out Flavius Josephus “Jewish Antiquities” or are you disputing the leading ancient Jewish Historian? Are you disputing the well-known fact that the Edomites who were ARABS, were forcible converted to Judaism by the Hasmoneans?
History getting in the way of your illusions Freedieblogs, again!
Check out Flavius Josephus "Jewish Antiquities"!
Yes MASADA built by that ARAB (whose ancestors the Edomites, were forcible converted to Judaism by the Hasmoneans), Herod the Great. West Bank or not still today he would have been Palestinian!
Shechem, Yes, but I think the Samaritans whose decendents are mostly Muslim Palestinians today would object!
Phil, I must correct your better half.
We were NOT given half of the land, we were given (if you call it that) one third, even though we owned 93%.
What makes them think that we want our boys (In my case 2) mixing with their girls?
Oh please don't tell me this blog has a double standard where bigot like Western Sky can insult and an Arab American can't reply.
At least I know my limitations and admit them, Western Sky wants to have his cake and eat it too, and in typical zionist twisted logic misconstrues the point that I am making, but then that would be beyond his mental capacity!
Fine let me put it this way everyone has their bias/bigotry and its a matter of degrees, Unlike Western Sky mines does not extend to ethnic cleansing.
Krauss what is exactly so well said by Western Sky or do you also have his mental capacity also.
Its LUST not love, don't confuse the two Annie, Love comes much later or never - even if the two get married!
My opinion on interfaith/interethnic marriages like homesexuality is evolving, but for now, my enlightment has its limits!
My Muslim Arab American daughter, is going to have the Islamic version of immaculate conception, before I will allow her to marry outside her kind. YES IT IS BIGOTED OF ME but hey!
Lyn117
Giving you the particulars would require me asking Phil to allow me to write an entire article on the matter. Additionally the matter is still in litigation so I cannot comment further about it.
Grow up girl; you haven’t experienced real hostility yet! Get a job as a Federal Agent with one of the 100plus law enforcement agencies that the United States Government has.
Mines was the Internal Revenue Service –Criminal Investigation in the Miami Field Office (anyone familiar with South East Florida would call it Tel Aviv USA). They expect you to swallow their pro-Israel crap, and not respond to their propaganda. I lasted for a little less than 12 years before they fired me, because I stood up for my Palestinian heritage.
What’s worse were the “Born Again” (what-ever that means) Christians, who seem to dominate the Federal Agent positions in the USA government, nationwide. It was like dealing with the KKK. I have never understood this alliance of neo-KKK with the Zionist, they hated each other guts, but when it came to us Muslims, they became inseparable lovers.
I must say I was not surprised with my treatment, what disappointed me were my fellow Arab Special Agents (whether Muslim or Christian) who accepted these indignities, Malcolm X might call them the Government House SandN-----s!. It’s always your own kind that fails you!
For me, being in their face made it worth-while, because they know it is their comfortable bigoted lifestyle that is coming to an end.
In order to vote for a particular congressman, you have to be registered and live in that particular congressional district.
In order to vote for a particular senator from a particular state, you have to be registered and live in that particular state.
In order to vote for a particular slate of electors in that particular state or District of Columbia (see the 23rd amendment to the US Constitution) who then vote for the President, you have to be registered and live in that particular state or the District of Columbia.
The only exemption to where you are living is if you are in the Military and you get to state where you chose to have your residence in United States.
AND ALL REGISTERATION CARDS THAT I HAVE HAD SINCE I CAN REMEMBER NEED TO HAVE AN AMERICAN ADDRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are maybe a handful of American personnel attached to various United Nations “peacekeeping?” ventures in Israel/Palestine, HOW MANY VOTES DO THEY THINK THEY CAN GATHER?
HMMM!!! SOME ONE CALL THE FBI (FEDERAL BUREAU OF INEPTIUDE),
me thinks VOTER FRAUD is occurring here!!
“The truth is that like all other parents, they lied to us.”
You mean your Jewish parents lied to you just like my Muslim parents did to me! I am shocked, just utterly shocked!
YOU THINK THE QURAN and the BIBLE, and the other “holy books” are full of lies too!!!!
Welcome to the club!
What’s worse is when you call them on their lies and they get indigent about it.