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  • Video: Israeli mob demands all African refugees be deported from the country (and anyone who disagrees deserves to be raped)
  • The Messiah's Donkey: Settlers fire on Palestinian villagers as the Israeli military watches
    • mig May 21, 2012 at 4:01 pm

      In 1964 it was Jordanian who ruled west bank, Egypt in Gaza strip. But i guess this goes beyond your imagination wildly. And that article 24 says as it is correct in time. Also i guess that we will see lots of butbutbut's later on....

  • On the sidewalk in Hamburg-- 'Hier wohnte'
    • mig May 16, 2012 at 10:59 am

      OlegR:

      Can you unbecome being a German ?

      Yes.

      Do you not find such a proposal to be extremely offensive?

      No.

      Stop being Germans forget the language the tradition the history in fact dismantle Germany, call it something else Utopia maybe.

      So we are all africans really. Start dismantling your states, Africa Unite.

      That would certainly cut all the ties with your country’s dark past.

      Now i see. Blame someone forever what forefathers did time ago.

      You dont have all nuts & bolts in order Oleg.

    • mig May 16, 2012 at 10:51 am

      OlgaR:

      As for their victims my empathy is first and foremost for the
      victims of Nazi Germany, millions of them.

      How about Uncle Joe alias Stalin victims ? Millions of them ? None left ?

      By the time that i reach German civilians my empathy is spent ,
      i have non left to give.

      Riiiight. Thats the spirit.

    • mig May 15, 2012 at 11:17 am with 1 replies

      OlegR:

      What were your grandfather’s doing during the war?

      Fighting in front agains your grandfathers. Who made pact with nazi germany and attacked to my country. Thanks for asking.

  • Israeli official tours Europe in attempt to influence Iran talks
  • Obama working to postpone UN investigation into settlements until after 2012 elections
    • mig May 3, 2012 at 3:06 pm

      Funny when what ever international body is investigating anything where Israel even close by, that body looses its reputation by some miracle.

    • mig May 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm

      Truth is very simple. Explanations are complicated.

    • mig May 3, 2012 at 2:46 pm

      OlegR :

      Never said they were morons.
      I guess you know something i don’t.

      Thats what you mean. And yes, i read a lot.

      Human Rights don’t go with any of the countries that i listed before.

      But they manage to pass many inportant resolutions in HRC, but my God when they mention Israel, that reveals what they are.

      The mere fact that these countries are allowed a seat on this council
      is a travesty that puts to mockery the whole idea of Human Rights
      and the UN itself.

      No. You'll find any excuse when Israel is target. Latest resolution in Syria case is also no go ? Because it was passed human rights violators also.

      Wanna try another excuse ?

      Is this simple enough or should i simplify it even more?

      Same human rights council passed Syria resolution. Same human rights council has passed Israel mocking resolutions. Both are wrong ? Yes, no ?

    • mig May 3, 2012 at 10:46 am

      So Oleg, whats wrong issues in this list ? :

      link to ohchr.org

      Syrian situation is just fine , because members in HRC are morons, right ?

      Sri Lanka reconciliation and accountability is full of air, HRC members are nuts.

      Composition of staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. All is just fine, as it should be ?

      Adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living in the context of disaster settings. Do i have to say something....HRC members are idiots to think something like this...

      Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights. NOOOO, its not right. And anyway HRC members are morons.

      Etc etc.

    • mig May 3, 2012 at 10:37 am

      Really ? So who blackmailed here ?

  • Israel closes investigation of those responsible for al Samouni family massacre, no legal action taken
    • mig May 2, 2012 at 11:04 am

      Now i got flashback from 2004. When Israel refused also take part ICJ "security" wall question and didn't give, when asked, information why wall is necessary & evidence. Yup, instead of evidence Israel managed to pass 135 page essay why this case should't be in ICJ at all.

    • mig May 2, 2012 at 10:57 am

      Situation with Israel and palestinians can't be called as war.

    • mig May 2, 2012 at 10:03 am with 3 replies

      Because someone refused to cooperate in case solving. Wonder who it was....

  • Investment in Palestine no substitute for divestment from oppression
    • mig April 29, 2012 at 6:02 am with 2 replies

      Powerpoint presentations :

      link to ochaopt.org

      link to ochaopt.org

      Questions gilad ?

    • mig April 29, 2012 at 5:27 am with 3 replies

      Map :

      link to ochaopt.org

      In the comprehensive closure survey
      completed at the end of June 2011, OCHA
      field teams documented and mapped
      522 obstacles blocking Palestinian
      movement within the West Bank.
      These include 62 permanently staffed
      checkpoints (excluding checkpoints on
      the Green Line), 25 partial checkpoints
      (staffed on an ad-hoc basis) and 436
      unstaffed physical obstacles, including
      roadblocks, earthmounds, earth
      walls, road gates, road barriers, and
      trenches.
      4
      More than half of the permanently
      staffed checkpoints (34 out of 62) are
      located on main roads along the Barrier
      and are used by the Israeli authorities to control
      access to East Jerusalem, to Palestinian enclaves,
      and to Israel. Of the remaining 28 checkpoints, 11
      are located within the Israeli-controlled area of
      Hebron City (H2 area), and the rest on key routes
      elsewhere in the West Bank (see table below).
      For methodological reasons, the total number of
      obstacles mentioned above (522) does not include
      some categories of physical obstacles deployed
      by the Israeli authorities within the West Bank
      territory:
      � Some 350 kilometers of the Barrier constructed
      within the West Bank (or 80 percent of the
      completed sections), which block dozens of roads
      and paths to Palestinian land and localities.
      � The 66 agricultural gates leading into areas
      isolated by the Barrier.
      5
      � Over 100 physical obstacles deployed through
      the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron City (H2),
      which were not counted in the initial years of
      this survey (the figure above does include the 11
      main staffed checkpoints in this area).
      6
      � Approximately 490 ad-hoc (‘flying’) checkpoints deployed on average every month. This type
      of checkpoint operates for several hours each
      time without permanent infrastructure on the
      ground.
      The total of 522 obstacles represents a net increase
      of 19 obstacles, or nearly four percent, compared to
      the equivalent figure recorded in July 2010 (503).
      This increase was the result of the removal of 79
      obstacles, alongside the installation of 98 new ones
      at other locations. The largest increase was recorded
      in the southern West Bank, where a net increase of
      12 obstacles was recorded during this period
      This overall increase in the total number of obstacles
      follows two consecutive years of decline and brings
      the current total back to the figure recorded in
      September 2006 (see chart).
      While these quantitative changes provide some
      indication about the level of control exercised
      by the Israeli military on the ground, in order to
      understand the evolution of the system of access
      restrictions, one must account also for significant
      qualitative changes that occurred. Some of the most
      salient qualitative changes recorded during the
      past three reporting periods (July 2008 – June 2011)
      include: � the turning of permanently staffed checkpoints
      into partial checkpoints;
      � the replacement of roadblocks and earthmounds
      by road gates which are normally open;
      � the lifting of some permit requirements;
      � the paving and upgrading of alternative routes
      for Palestinians.
      These qualitative changes have contributed to
      improving the access of Palestinians to and from the main urban centers (excluding East Jerusalem). This
      has occurred despite the only limited reduction in
      the number of obstacles during the previous two
      reporting periods, and the small increase during the
      present period. At the same time, these qualitative
      and quantitative changes have had almost no
      effect on the access of people to areas separated
      by the Barrier, including East Jerusalem, to the
      H2 area of Hebron City, to the Jordan Valley, and
      to agricultural land in the vicinity of settlements,
      which has remained severely restricted.

      link to ochaopt.org

      link to ochaopt.org

  • Anna Quindlen's religious disaffection is good copy (what about anti-Zionists?)
    • mig April 28, 2012 at 11:55 am

      I am human, also called homo sapiens individual. Group where we all belong. Rest is a man made inventions. State, tribal group etc.

  • 'Washington Post' cartoon mocking future Palestinian state signals crumbling of two-state paradigm
    • mig April 28, 2012 at 2:43 pm

      Fredb :

      Stole is not accurate. Won it in a war is accurate.

      Stole IS accurate. Israel wasn't in war with palestine when she took it. War is wrong term in use when other side is non-state actor. Between state and non-state so for can't be "war". I pointed this out so even you can understand. Which i doubt.

    • mig April 28, 2012 at 1:40 am

      Fredb:

      You may not like the fact that Israel is blockading Gaza, but that doesn’t turn a blockade into an occupation.

      Yes it turns that way, but dont worry. We really dont expect that you will get it.

  • Imagine there are no Hutus or Tutsis
  • Shmully and guilt
    • mig May 2, 2012 at 4:32 pm

      If someone wanna, here are few options what might try in Firefox :

      link to speedguide.net

    • mig April 28, 2012 at 8:27 am

      playforpalestine :

      Is it just the word itself that bugs you, or are you actually rejecting the existence of anti-semitism itself?

      Wrong terminology. I dont put jewish people any higher level importance than rest of the human population. And no, there is no "anti-semitism". Label it racism, and we are in closer terms.

      Of course not. No one hates *anyone* just because they are black, chinese, Catholic, Jewish or whatever. People generally dislike the “other” because of some set of characteristics they assume they possess.

      Education does marvels, and getting to know those "others". Ignorance in this case would suite much better. So are those others called anti-black anti-chinese anti-catholics etc ? No. Its labelled as racism.

      Bearing that in mind, your comments bear hallmarks of traditional anti-semitic standards.

      My comments ? Just because i dont see a term "anti-semitism" as valid. How do i see ? Jewish population has faced racism many times. Yes. Many places. Yes. Today. Yes. Tomorrow. Yes. Blacks has faced racism. Yes. Chinese . Yes. Mexicans. Yes. All of those are equally unacceptable.

      If you doubt this then I would ask why you have such a strong reaction to the term. What is “not to buy” about it? Homophobia is a form of sexism… does that make it in any way invalid? Obviously not.

      We are talking different thing in this.

      It seems that the thing bugging you is that the Jews demand a special word, to describe the seemingly unique form of discrimination that they alone face.

      I dont see that jews get any different discrimination than many others groups has.

      But Jews didn’t even invent the word themselves.

      Irrelevant.

      It’s just an accurate term for a specific form of bigotry that obviously exists.

      What specific form of bigotry ? You mean similar harassment as many other groups has been target. We call it also racism.

      Do words like “anti-Catholic” or “Hibernophobia”(anti-Irish) or “Anti-Italianism” equally offend you?

      Yes they do.

    • mig April 27, 2012 at 3:07 pm with 3 replies

      What ???. People just hate jewish people because they are jewish. ? Whats wrong with a good old term as racism ? Or is it that when jewish person/population face racism, it has some so unique form that it needs needs a new definition ? While it is partly or wholly similar than many other minorities face from time to time, unfortunately of course.

      I just dont buy that anti-semitism term so easily.

    • mig April 26, 2012 at 4:01 pm with 5 replies

      Dont really know how to put this up with in a decent way, so i just shot it out. There is no such a thing as a anti-semitism. There. Done it.

  • Bradley Manning could become the Ellsberg of our age (if the media would just stop marginalizing him)
    • mig April 26, 2012 at 3:35 pm

      Fred :

      As for Iraq, I’m against the Iraq war, but as 9/11 proved, America does have enemies.

      America has only enemies which she has created by itself. In fact, miracle is that they are so few after all.

  • A letter to the Methodists in support of divestment
    • mig April 25, 2012 at 1:25 pm

      Fred :

      Sorry, but after the Gaza withdrawal and the subsequent rain of missiles from Gaza, the idea that Israel can just withdraw to the 1967 borders and live in peace with the Palestinians outside those borders is not credible.

      After so called "withdrawal", Israel could have acted better. Not to closing whole gaza from the world. Which was evidence that Israel doesnt seek a peaceful solution.

      Particularly since the Right of Return is one of the demands of the BDS movement.

      Right, so says the international law. Never heard such a thing ? Naah...get back to sleep.

      As for your last sentence, if the Palestinians would accept it and move on, instead of demanding the right of return, there would have been peace already.

      Not according to the Israeli leaders. They say that after palestinians give Israel definition as jewish state, all is just fine and beautiful. Birds & flowers + stuff all over the place. And after that they find new demand which must be fulfilled. They always do.

      There will always be a few Israel haters who will boycott, there will always be far more people who either like Israel or don’t care.

      Your ziobot mind cant figure any other idea that hate of something. Boring life with only two colors ?

      Which is why you BDSers try to get stores to boycott Israel rather than being satisfied with getting the public to do so.

      Bravo Professor, bravo. Thats one side of the BDS movement.

      You know that when offered a choice of goods, most people will not boycott.

      Surprise, when explained what they are buying => that they support apartheid. They skip those items pronto.

      So you try to take their choice away from them.

      Cry me a river. Even two.

  • Mads Gilbert, eyewitness to 'Cast Lead', says Gaza remains besieged and 'shattered'
  • 1200 rabbis threaten an end to interfaith harmony if Methodists support divestment
    • mig May 2, 2012 at 10:53 am

      Fredb :

      Most of them would probably say they aren’t happy about the occupation, but they understand the necessity.

      Necessity ? Oh yeah, without occupation there wouldn't be settlers & settlements. Was this necessity in your mind Fred ?

      Most of them would probably also disagree with the use of the term “apartheid”.

      But of course my dear.

    • mig April 21, 2012 at 2:40 pm

      giladg :

      The so called moderates in Arab society are both powerless and totally useless. Name one achievement made by this sector?

      Oh, im sorry. I thought that you were talkin' about those liberal zionists. Who and what ever those are.

      This then leaves the religious fanatics, like the Muslim Brotherhood

      And settlers in west bank.

      This leave the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood to take control and rally the “uma” against Israel.

      Sky is falling & holocaust part 2 alert.

      Barghouti and his friends are being propped up mainly by their European puppet masters.

      European puppet masters ? I really dont know what you are smoking or inhaling or sniffing, but seriously gilad. Nation level schizophrenia or something ?

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    • mig April 21, 2012 at 3:22 am with 3 replies

      giladg :

      I don’t remember rocks and stones being lobed at Israel during all the wars that have been waged against it.

      We will forgive you that. After all, we are all humans. Mostly.

      The Palestinians are part of the Arab family. There are times when it suits them to act together and there are times when it suits them to act alone and to be seen as isolated. They are not. Anyone who understands anything about the Arab world knows that the “uma”, the concept of Arab and Muslim brotherhood and one nation, is never far away, especially in the conflict with Jews.

      And then there are times, when ziobots start to talking again, about this arabs are all the same one arab nation is never far away concept while no single move that direction is made in any arab meeting. Funny how they just love to be so separated one arab nation.

      The Palestinians have the Arab world behind them with all their oil money and military power, and all are looking forward to the day they can unleash this, once again as we know they will, on Israel.

      Yes, we all are so afraid of paper tiger. And holocaust all over again. That sky is falling theme 24/7 doesnt do good to your mental health you know ?

      And instead of opting for negotiating and compromise with Israel

      Hilarious.

      the Palestinians are letting others do the dirty work for them. They should know that if Israel goes down, they will go down as well.

      Where you get these visions ?

    • mig April 21, 2012 at 3:07 am

      Well, rocks, suicide bombs, white phosphorus missiles, etc, etc, etc.

      Fred, you forgot to add bicycles to that list....

    • mig April 20, 2012 at 7:04 pm

      You got it right this time Fred, it's that "something". But don't bother your soul thinking of it. It will cause headache.

    • mig April 20, 2012 at 6:42 pm

      hoph :

      Yes, Phil, most Jews are Zionists, and most of those are liberal Zionists who want a two-state solution.

      And then came Santa Claus. With elves & reindeer choir.

      If MOST are liberal, where is influence, and mostly action to that direction. Say it as it is hoph, doesnt exists. Put it where your BS is, nowhere. Have a Good one hoph. And i mean it really. Honest.

    • mig April 20, 2012 at 6:26 pm with 2 replies

      Fred :

      Well, rocks, suicide bombs, white phosphorus missiles, etc, etc, etc.

      PSST, Fred....those "white phosphorus missiles" are IDF shot...

  • Woman removed from Air France flight for not being Jewish
    • mig April 20, 2012 at 6:53 pm

      So biggest fear now for ziobots is unarmed civilians. Give em' treatment from M-16.

      ( hold on, they just did )

  • Israeli celebrity says she enjoyed video of IDF attacking Danish activist because he looked like a Nazi
  • 'We have cancelled your booking' -- the criminalization of travel to the West Bank is laid bare to the world
    • mig April 15, 2012 at 5:58 am with 7 replies

      @Fredblogs :

      You booked a flight to a country whose officials told you last time you weren’t welcome, and you are surprised that you weren’t welcomed?

      You just dont get it do ya Freddo ?

  • The occupation reaches Europe: airlines cancel 'flytilla' passenger tickets
    • mig April 14, 2012 at 10:08 am

      @smndoerksen :

      because there is a war, an unresolved conflict going on.

      Dont say war. War is a wrong terminology in this case.

      why start with israel?

      Why not ?

      the occupation is still there because after all of the insanity we witness in the arab / muslim world

      And occupation somehow solves all the problems.....LOL

      and the suicide bombings and rockets from hamas and the religious craziness no one in israel believes leaving will bring peace

      Ending that is usually in the world considered good reason to make peace with others. But thanks anyway to pointing out why in Israel this matter is upside down. And your rest message confirms this insanity.

      Thanks to visiting, leave keys to table when you go. Bye.

  • The Grass just keeps on growing
  • Hasbara in 1988: 'despite difficulties, South Africa is a vital, progressive state with much to admire '
    • mig April 10, 2012 at 3:49 pm

      giladg :

      The medical school in Haifa has a majority of Arab students. Fifty five percent to be precise.

      And someones say that there is something smelling in that medical school :

      link to technionteams.com

      By the way, from which country those arabs are... ?

    • mig April 10, 2012 at 2:52 pm

      giladg :

      You also might be interested to know that Arabs own a majority of privately owned land in Israel.

      And rest of the land own by who ?

    • mig April 10, 2012 at 2:49 pm

      giladg :

      Those who pose a threat to the existence of Israel and those who are willing to live with Israel.

      Existential threat my bum. Go and tell this someone else...

      The Arabs in the “West Bank” and Gaza voted over 70% for Hamas in the elections they held.

      And you poor thing dont even know why they voted Hamas to power after all....my my...

      If someone wants to wipe you off the map, are you going to help them?

      You just cant quit that nonsense, dont ya' ?

    • mig April 10, 2012 at 10:34 am with 14 replies

      giladg :

      * In SA only whites could vote. In Israel Arabs can vote and have full rights by law.

      vs.

      If Israel affords full rights to Israeli Arabs, there is no reason, other than real security concerns

      So which one is it ? Two contradicting arguments. First there is full rights, and then you take it little back.

  • Iran has 'promised' 'another Holocaust' -- CBS commentator
    • mig April 10, 2012 at 4:05 pm

      And how would they have saved ? Extermination started in 1942, when war was in its 3rd year going.

  • 'Israel's policy endangers world peace' -- Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass's back
    • mig April 8, 2012 at 2:46 pm

      I voted also : Richtig ;)

    • mig April 8, 2012 at 2:41 pm

      CloakAndDagger :

      Surely, by now, everyone knows that translation of “wiped off map” was deliberately wrong and deceitful?

      We have known that long time, but our ziobot avtomat machines repeat this again and again.

  • Another campus walkout, this one at Wayne State speech on Palestinian child suicide bombers
  • Finkelstein 'not going to be an Israel-basher anymore' but remains 'appalled and disgusted'
    • mig April 8, 2012 at 2:14 am

      wondering jew :

      Israel has internationally recognized borders on at least two fronts and possibly three: Jordan, Egypt, with Lebanon a third possibility.

      Jordan yes. Egypt yes. Lebanon no. With Jordan this issue is in peace treaty between I/J. Same with Egypt. Between Israel / Lebanon, no peace treaty yet where sides verify their borders. Mainly it follows "international border", Blue Line as called, but not in Shebaa farms area.

      link to mfa.gov.il

      link to kinghussein.gov.jo

      link to en.wikipedia.org

  • International Criminal Court refuses to investigate 'Cast Lead' because the UN does not officially recognize Palestine as a state
    • mig April 4, 2012 at 11:30 pm

      Fredblogs :

      Not just the ICC, the ICJ has no jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories either.

      ICJ does have jurisdiction over palestinian territories also. Clearly you Fred have no idea what you are talkin' about.

  • UPDATE: Mustafa Barghouti stable after being struck in head at Qalandiya; Palestinian protester reports Barghouti attacked by fellow protesters
    • mig March 30, 2012 at 5:50 pm with 2 replies

      giladg :

      Now what percentage of the Palestinian population supports non-violence?

      Doesn't matter. International law says that it's according to the International law to resist alien occupation, even with armed strugle.

  • 'We must expel Arabs and take their place': Institute for Palestine Studies publishes 1937 Ben-Gurion letter advocating the expulsion of Palestinians
    • mig April 22, 2012 at 2:29 pm

      60. The total population of Palestine at the end of 1936 was approximately 1,300,000, the Jews being estimated at 384,000. The Arabs had also increased rapidly, mainly as a result of the cessation of the military conscription imposed on the country by the Ottoman Empire, the campaign against malaria and the improvement in health services generally. In absolute figures their increase more than equalled that of the Jewish population, but relatively the latter had risen from 13 per cent at the census of 1922 to nearly 30 per cent at the end of 1936.

      61. The immigration of Jews into Palestine was accompanied by an impressive important of Jewish capital, estimated at nearly P.80,000,000 by the end of 1936. This inflow of capital increased with the rising figures of immigration, and made its contribution to a striking expansion of Jewish activity in both agriculture and industry. The number of Jewish agricultural settlements rose from 96 in 1927 to 172 in 1936 and their total population from 28,000 to 87,000. The capital invested in Jewish industry rose from P.2,095,000 in 1930 to P.11,064,000 in 1937. The population of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv was nearing 150,000.

      62. Despite the growing extent and diversity of industry, the importance of citrus fruits in Palestine’s export trade continued to increase. The volume of citrus exports rose steadily from 2,600,000 cases in 1929-30 to 7,300,000 in 1934-35, falling in the next year to 5,900,000 but immediately resuming its rise to the peck figure of 15,300,000 in 1938-39. In the calendar year 1935, oranges, grapefruit and lemons constituted 84 per cent of Palestine’s total exports.

      63. The economic prosperity of the country during these years was reflected in the public revenue, which, as compared with an average of less than two and a half million pounds in the year 1928-31, reached a total of P.5,770,000 in the financial year 1935-36. The statistics of foreign trade were equally significant. The value of imports increased from P.7,167,000 in 1929 to P.17,853,000 in 1935 and that of exports from P.1,554,000 to P.4,215,000 in the same years.

      64. The impetus given to the country’s economic development by Jewish immigration and by the influx of Jewish capital conferred certain benefits on the Arab community. The Government was able to expand its services, in the interest of the whole population, by means of revenue drawn in an increasing proportion from the Jewish taxpayer. And the Arab cultivator benefited from the expansion of the urban market for his produce. Nor could it be shown that the purchase of land by Jews had driven any appreciable number of Arab cultivators out of agriculture.

      65. The Arabs were, nevertheless, apprehensive for their economic future. Their numbers were increasing rapidly, already there were signs of rural congestion in the hill villages, and the more fertile land in the plains, which might have been developed to absorb their excess population, was steadily passing into Jewish ownership.

      66. The two communities remained economically distinct. the lack of fusion between the indigenous Arab and oriental Jewish population on the one hand, and the Jewish immigrants from Europe on the other, was strikingly illustrated by tables of comparative daily wages officially computed in 1935, from which the following is an extract

      link to unispal.un.org

    • mig April 21, 2012 at 2:50 pm

      48. Dealing next with the social economic problems surveyed by Sir John Hope-Simpson, the statement endorsed the latter’s conclusion that
      “at the present time and with the present methods of Arab cultivation there remains no margin of land available for agricultural settlement by new immigrants, with the exception of such undeveloped land as the various Jewish agencies hold in reserve.”

      It also cited Sir John Hope-Simpson’s calculation that, if the whole cultivable area of the country were divided among the existing Arab cultivators, it would not provide them with an average holding sufficient to maintain a decent standard of life. In these circumstances, the duty of ensuring that the “rights and position” of the Arabs were not prejudiced could be reconciled with the duty of encouraging Jewish settlement only by means of methodical agricultural development.”
      “Only by a the adoption of such a policy will additional Jewish agricultural settlement be possible consistently with the conditions laid down in Article 6 of the Mandate. The result desired will not be obtained except by years of work. It is for this reason fortunate that the Jewish organisations are in possession of a large reserve of land not yet settled or developed. Their operations can continue without break, while more general steps of development, in the benefits of which Jews and Arabs can both share, are being worked out. During this period, however, the control of all disposition of land must of necessity rest with the authority in charge of the development. Transfers of land will be permitted only in so far as they do not interfere with the plans of that authority.”

      link to unispal.un.org

    • mig April 21, 2012 at 1:54 pm

      proudzio :

      Sure they did. But why? Because H.M.G. believed, for better or worse, that Zionism served the economic well being of the Arab Community.

      Excuse moi ? Arab community was getting some positive benefits from NON-zionist parts from jewish community. Thing was different from zionist part. Example zionists managed to get pass rejection to use arab workers.

      And BTW. Was HMG wrong in that believing that Zionism helped the local Arabs?

      Because they didnt.

  • One crazed murderer sparks Zionist calls for European migration to Israel
  • Responses to Toulouse murders from Palestinian orgs and Jerusalem mourners
    • mig March 22, 2012 at 5:37 pm

      Afghan Officials Deny French Suspect Escaped Their Prison

      KABUL, Afghanistan — Countering reports that the suspect in seven killings in France was one of hundreds of men who escaped from an Afghan prison in 2008, Afghan officials said Wednesday that a man by the same name had indeed escaped then, but was a citizen of Afghanistan, not France.

      The suspect has been identified in French media reports as Mohammad Merah. The Afghan authorities said that a Mohammad Merah was arrested on Dec. 19, 2007, and convicted of planting bombs in and around the southern city of Kandahar, which is the area where the Taliban movement began.

      “All I can say is that we have this guy Mohammed Merah in our records, but he’s an Afghan citizen,” said Brig. Gen. Abdul Raziq, the police chief of Kandahar Province. “He’s certainly not French.”

      He was sent to serve his three-year sentence at the city’s Saraposa prison, said Ghulam Faruq, the chief of the detention facility, citing prison records. That is a high-security prison on Kandahar’s southern outskirts.

      “We have this name in our book,” Mr. Faruq said. “He was registered in 2007 and he was brought to the prison and he was convicted for planting bombs and I.E.D.’s inside and outside Kandahar city.”

      A spokesman for the government of Kandahar Province, Zalmai Ayoubi, said that the man was from Kandahar and that officials even knew his father’s name — Ahmad Shah, also a citizen of Afghanistan.

      The Afghan Mr. Merah escaped on June 13, 2008, when a Taliban fighter drove a fuel tanker to the gates of Saraposa, jumped out, dodged a few bullets fired by the prison guards, and then from a distance launched a rocket-propelled grenade into his vehicle. The enormous explosion killed the guards and blew a huge hole in the prison’s walls, allowing about 900 prisoners to escape.

      Officials said at the time that about 350 of the escapees were Taliban or allied insurgents, and Mr. Faruq said on Wednesday that Mr. Merah was among them.

      The prison break was one of the worst breaches of security in Afghanistan since 2001, when American forces helped oust the Taliban.

      link to nytimes.com

    • mig March 22, 2012 at 12:35 pm

      Mayhem :

      When this heinous crime occurred the first suspicions were that it had been committed by right wing elements. There was no finger pointing or hounding of Muslims.

      Right, because few days earlier, evidently same shooter killed north-african origin French army soldiers. They were muslims.

      Every day you turn on your TV or radio your will hear news items about Muslims killing both Muslims and non-Muslims. What should the casual observer make of all this?

      That casual observer takes notion only news where muslims kill. I guess that you haven't heard places like Iraq, Afganistan and Libya. Where non-muslims kill muslims day by day.

      And if casual observer kindly look these videos :

      link to youtube.com

      link to youtube.com

      link to youtube.com

      link to youtube.com

      But i guess you get same information from TV & Radio....

    • mig March 21, 2012 at 1:08 pm

      Annie, about Ashton "remarks" :

      Ashton: Toulouse remarks distorted

      Europe's foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton has tried to defuse a growing row with Israel over remarks interpreted as linking the killings of school children in France with deaths in Gaza.

      Baroness Ashton highlighted various tragedies taking the lives of children when she addressed a Palestinian refugee youth conference in Brussels.

      After being urged to resign as EU High Representative by Israel's defence minister, she told MEPs her words had been distorted.

      She prefaced a scheduled address on foreign policy to a European Parliament committee by declaring: "I want to begin by saying something that is very, very important to me because I am really saddened by the distortion of my remarks yesterday at the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) event."

      She went on: "I condemn unreservedly the terrible murders at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse yesterday and extend my sympathy to the families and friends of the victims, to the people of France and to the Jewish community.

      "At yesterday's event I drew no parallel whatsoever between this tragedy and events elsewhere in the Middle East."

      Earlier Israel's defence minister Ehud Barak insisted: "The comparison made by Ashton between what is happening in Gaza to what happened in Toulouse, and what is going on in Syria every day, is outrageous and has absolutely no grounding in reality."

      In her remarks on Monday Baroness Ashton mentioned a range of tragic events involving children, from last week's Swiss coach crash in which 22 Belgian schoolchildren died, to the Norwegian massacre by a lone gunmen last year.

      She said: "We remember young people who have been killed in all sorts of terrible circumstances - the Belgian children having lost their lives in a terrible tragedy and when we think of what happened in Toulouse today, when we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, when we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world, we remember young people and children who lose their lives."

      The issue raised immediate Israeli sensitivities because of the recent death of at least one Palestinian child in renewed conflict between Israeli forces and Gaza Strip militant groups, bringing to 13 the estimated tally of under-18s in Gaza said to have been killed by Israel forces.

      Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said Baroness Ashton's words should be publicly retracted, while interior minister Eli Yishai said she should resign as a compromised "honest broker" in the Middle East conflict.

      Before Baroness Ashton spoke out, her spokesman insisted: "In her remarks, the High Representative referred to tragedies taking the lives of children around the world and drew no parallel whatsoever between the circumstances of the Toulouse attack and the situation in Gaza."

      She was backed by Tory MEP Charles Tannock who told Baroness Ashton: "I have seen the comments in the Israeli press and read your speech and entirely agree with your statement that you were either misunderstood or unfairly misrepresented."

      Belgian MEP Annemie Neyts told her: "I was present at yesterday's UNRWA youth conference and can confirm that Israeli foreign minister Lieberman has completely misrepresented you and was very ill-inspired in his comments."

      link to web.orange.co.uk

  • Video: IDF caught in a lie about Tristan Anderson
    • mig March 17, 2012 at 5:55 am

      giladg :

      As the stakes get higher, the naive romantic activists who pretend they care about the Palestinians, but who do it more out of hate than concern

      I don't hate palestinians, if that's your concern. I don't hate anyone.

      need to know that in the real world stuff hapens and people can get badly injured

      No shit.

      Anyone who has fired a tear gas canister will tell you that you cannot aim these things.

      Like palestinian militants who shoot those crude rockets from gaza.....who knows where those land. But surely you are with us in this.

      Was he 100 yards away or 150? In the real world mistakes happen, in judgement and in how the canister may bounce.

      With IDF, those mistakes happen just too often to be just mistake. Was it bounce or landed straight to head gilad ?

  • Israeli police use attack dogs on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank
  • Israel as strategic liability -- US will trample human rights in Egypt for one reason
  • Gilad Shalit's father says, 'If I were Palestinian I'd kidnap soldiers'
    • mig March 16, 2012 at 10:20 am

      Shingo :

      Truman in fact put a line through phrase Jewish state and replaced it with Israel when he signed the letter of support for Israel’s membership at the UN.

      Indeed that is the case. That first "recognition" was more like of a preliminary recognition, later it was de jure recognition, final. And while it was that preliminary, it was called as jewish state, and changed to Israel when de jure recognition was made. Same way was coming Israel state called as jewish state in UN, until State of Israel was formed. And palestinian side, was called arab state. Just were given to sides as a "workname".

      What I wasn’t sure about, was whether the US Congress had passed any resolution recognizing Israel as a Jewish State.
      Given the utter obsequiousness with which Congress rolls over for Israel, I am amazed no such resolution has been passed, but Ther must be a very good reason why it hasn’t.

      While i'm not expert in US policy making, i would make a guess that foreign relations belong to the President and Senate, not so much to the congress.

      Also one thing, while this definition of a state (which doesn't exist in international law ), or recognition of states is a voluntary act. Try then take this case example to ICJ, and i have a strong believe that ICJ would dismiss that case because there is no regulation in these matters in international law. And there ain't no law, you can't really make demand any direction cos' law is missing.

    • mig March 16, 2012 at 5:42 am

      Shingo :

      In fact, I am pretty sure that no one recognizes Israel as a Jewish state – not even the US.

      At least not yet. From US department of state :

      Recognition

      U.S. Recognition of Israel, 1948.
      The United States recognized Israel as an independent state on May 14, 1948, when President Harry Truman issued a statement of recognition following Israel’s proclamation of independence on the same date.

      So there it is. The Best mate for Israel in the world, USA, doesn't mention as "jewish state" anywhere. Politicians can say, and often say, what ever they want. But no official change in status has been made.

      link to history.state.gov

      link to trumanlibrary.org

    • mig March 16, 2012 at 12:52 am

      5 Years gives a nice time to think.

    • mig March 15, 2012 at 10:14 pm

      Shingo :

      Then why should Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewis state? Why should anyone for that matter?

      In international law, which rounds recognition of states, diplomatic relations etc. Doesn't say anything about need to give definition of other states, or need to do so. In fact, no state is given in international law a requirement to give recognition of any other state in the world.

    • mig March 15, 2012 at 10:01 pm

      dimadok :

      Him requiring the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state as a precondition of talking to Hamas. Sounds very similar to me as Israel official position. Here, I’ve defused one bombshell for you.

      And now, you give us that real bombshell, and point to that international law which says that any state should give recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. I have asked this from many, and i'm still waiting that answer.

  • Israel will attack Iran-- and Obama gave tacit approval (Haaretz)
    • mig March 16, 2012 at 12:33 am with 1 replies

      stevieb :

      Well, under international law, Iran now has the legal right to attack Israel and the U.S as a means of defending itself from impending attack.

      Sorry to say but no. In international law, there ain't no preemptive attack or war.

  • Marvin Kalb and Maryland senator join to combat 'venomous' delegitimization of Israel
    • mig March 16, 2012 at 12:41 am

      Fredblogs :

      It demanded that the Israelis hand over East Jerusalem, which includes the holiest site in the Jewish religion, where Jews were prevented from going until 1967.

      And in same time, Israel arabs were also prevented to enter Muslim Holy sites in Jerusalami by Jordanian officials. Did't know that Fred ?

      You think that Israel’s possession of E. Jerusalem is illegal, Israel disagrees with you.

      We don't have to think this at all. International law does that thinking for us all.

    • mig March 15, 2012 at 10:28 pm with 1 replies

      What is this ‘venomous’ delegitimization of Israel ?

  • The myth of Israel's favorable treatment of Palestinian Christians
    • mig March 16, 2012 at 4:51 pm

      Walid :

      only half of its footsoldiers were Christian with the remainder comprised of Shia Muslims (30%), Druze Muslims (13%) and Sunni Muslims (7%). According to HR Watch, the SLA also filled its ranks through the involuntary conscription of residents of the occupied zone, including children.

      Yup, i personally witnessed these "voluntary" conscriptions few occasion, SLA ( or DFF as we called them in UNIFIL ), entered into house and dragged young male out and told that you just joined to SLA. To youngster they told that we know where your family lives, if you think to desert our ranks. And to family, that if you wanna see your young son again, shut up. I think that i got few photo's still in my collection from these....

  • Exclusive Excerpt: Miko Peled's 'The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine'
    • mig March 11, 2012 at 1:11 pm

      giladg :

      It is well known that the Arab population of Jerusalem fears living under Arab rule. They also fear loosing their Israeli citizenship. What do they know that you don’t?

      They pretty well know living conditions in refugee camps ?

      They want to control the holiest site for Jews.

      They HAVE that control. Has been so merely about 1400 years. Just a little reminder from that control :

      link to unispal.un.org

      A nation of barely 150 years wants sovereignty over the holiest site for Jews, the same site that goes back to the story of when Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Issac.

      Nation about 150 years of who ?

      This is also the site of First and Second Jewish Temples that stood for nearly 1,000 years.

      Once there was dinosaurs also. So where are those Temples ? Gone. Move on.

      Not only do the Palestinians want ownership of this site

      Because they HAVE an ownership over it. Get used to it finally. Get also used to the idea that things that were real 2000 years ago are gone.

      They want to humiliate Jews.
      You might want to divert some of your energy away from the propaganda that is spoon fed to you which you seem to digest so easily. ( NOW LOOK WHOSE TALKING ) You might want to start calling on the Palestinians to recognize something Jewish about Jerusalem (Temple Mount) and you can do a lot by calling on them to share.

      You want palestinians recognize something, that you dont do, recognize palestinian ownership. You wanna share, well make some sort of gesture to palestinians about Temple Mount.

  • Blasting Obama as 'blurred,' McConnell assures Israel lobby that bipartisan Congress will authorize 'overwhelming force' against Iran
  • Forward: 'Israel and most US Jewish orgs are beating drums of war'
    • mig February 27, 2012 at 11:50 am

      No nnpt signed country, has given IAEA unlimited access to any place they want to inspect. This is not even written in nnpt articles, that every country should give unrestricted access to any site they want to look for. Maybe there are in this case in wider public mind some misconception, that IAEA is "above" of limitations, what they can and will go to check. Not so.

      link to iaea.org

  • Surprise-- courageous Elizabeth Warren is craven on Israel lobby
    • mig February 27, 2012 at 11:54 am

      dms :

      this blog is full of anger about Israel to the exclusion of virtually any other injustice

      Remember Darfur ! Tibet ! And what else but dont for a God sake talk about Israel. Right ?

  • Video: Protesters are attacked at an 'Israel Alliance' event at U of New Mexico
  • The headline you aren't seeing: Iran wants talks, Israel pushing for war
    • mig January 13, 2012 at 5:15 pm

      If someone has more complete, non-biased, information on their nuclear enrichment capability, I would appreciate that comment.

      Glad that you asked RW, and i can give you straight answer : link to iaea.org

  • Israel's nightmare: Jew against Jew
    • mig January 16, 2012 at 11:43 am

      RW :

      Its a recognition that the path to peace is blocked solidly by the assertion “we will never accept you”.

      Wrong. Excuses.

      Its a request that Hamas accept the people and the nation Israel, and that dissent accept the people and the nation Israel

      Hamas doesnt need to recognize anything. People and nation Israel goes trashcan as well. Nobody havent teach you this basic element about recognition who/where/why/how ?

  • Israel is trying to hook us into a war with Iran-- Matthews and Baer speculate
  • Dore Gold loses NY debate (but his cheering section wants you to read 'Muslim mafia' before they restore the caliphate!)
    • mig January 13, 2012 at 4:47 pm

      Also what took in my ear, how Aaron David Miller tried to point out why UN involvement haven't take Palestine state issue an inch further. Now or in the past.

      Simple answer. US veto.

  • "Didn't we learn anything from 1938?' Wasserman Schultz's opposition says Palestinians belong in Jordan
    • mig January 14, 2012 at 10:25 am

      jonah :

      The main question remains: was there ever a true will on (Palestinian) Arab side to share the power with the Palestinian Jews and co-exist peacefully with them?

      Yes there was. 2000 years they lived in harmony, until enter zionists. That was The End.

      Did I maybe miss something?

      Yes you did.

  • Gingrich got $5 million for saying Palestinians are invented people (lord, why am I so cynical?)
    • mig January 9, 2012 at 12:47 pm

      ‘Money in politics is constitutionally protected free speech.’

      And outside of politics, its called corruption, in my eyes bribery.

  • Spouse of 'NYT' correspondent calls on Israeli gov't to wage 'war' on int'l threat to its image
    • mig January 9, 2012 at 12:53 pm

      Spouse of ‘NYT’ correspondent calls on Israeli gov’t to wage ‘war’ on int’l threat to its image

      Doesnt matter how much you spray perfume to horse stuff, its still horse stuff.

  • Former Israeli general: Provoke a settler attack, then shoot the 'Jewish terrorist'
  • Another 550 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails
  • Important tantrum: Netanyahu adds 'NYT' and Thomas Friedman to growing list of enemies
    • mig December 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm

      This is so revealing, as usual :

      This paragraph effectively turns on its head an event within living memory in which the Palestinians rejected the UN partition plan accepted by the Jews

      Accepted by Jews ? If that what jews ( zionists ), did to the palestinians starting few weeks after resolution 181 came out, as a acceptance of that resolution. I really dont know then what would be rejection. They try to keep on living in the world of imagination.

  • Israel is incapable of taking on the settlers
    • mig December 20, 2011 at 9:27 am

      RW:

      In the proposal to remove, rather than find a way to incorporate.

      In the international law ? And its not proposal, its demand. Try instead to incorporate to your "proposal" some international law, doesnt fit in really, ?

    • mig December 19, 2011 at 9:29 am

      I think mass forced removal is a bad action, and unless you regard Israel as an inevitably racist state that cannot tolerate a Palestinian minority, that they should be able to find a means to accommodate that legally and peaceably.

      Sounds familiar ? But illegal settler movement to palestine...ppffff.....what, they dont tolerate jews. Racists. BTW. Have you asked lately from the settlers, how much they desire of Palestine state citizenship ? If reply is yes, do they still keep their Israeli passports, or do they give up that. And would same time Israel give palestinian refugees green light, to move back ? There went jewish state to sewers, if answer was yes. If no, settlers can live in palestine, but no return of refugees. So where is racism ?

  • David Remnick erases Norman Finkelstein
  • Who's creating instability in Southern Lebanon, and why?
    • mig December 15, 2011 at 12:38 am

      Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said Israel has nearly tripled the number of troops in Lebanon and expects to fight for another week despite the cease-fire deal

      Now where i have read that before.....oh yes. In -67 war, when Israel took Golan AFTER ceasefire was agreed.

    • mig December 13, 2011 at 5:43 pm

      Sounds like a 1956 again dima ? So has the Israel done a secret attack plan with Brits and French again -56 style ?

    • mig December 13, 2011 at 5:33 pm

      eee :

      Yes, Hezbollah has a history of being against UNIFIL and limiting UNIFIL actions in South Lebanon.

      Wrong.

      Only after the 2006 war did Hezbollah agree to let the Lebanese army in the south and allow a bigger and more mobile UNIFIL.

      Wrong again. Lebarmy didnt want to operate in S-Lebanon. And they didnt ask hezbollah permission to more troops and more mobile. Unifil has operated around S-Lebanon since the beginning of Unifil.

      They see UNIFIL as Israeli agents.

      Wrong.

      As for denying their involvement, they also denied killing Harriri and the multitude of others they murdered in Lebanon.

      In fact, i trust more what hezbollah says.

      That is just how they operate.

      Not even close how they operate.

      You of course believe them, but there is nothing to be done about delusions.

      I spent a year in Lebanon watching how they operate. So you can quit you BS right here.

  • 'WaPo' says Block could be casualty of 'anti-Semites' accusation
  • Israeli army excuses on death of Mustafa Tamimi don't hold up
    • mig December 12, 2011 at 3:51 pm

      "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Samuel Johnson 1775

    • mig December 12, 2011 at 3:02 pm

      They also stipulate that the shooter must use the rifle sight and verify that no one is in the line of fire.

      Here it is, as it should be. Trained soldiers are using this method. IDF is another case i see.

  • Gingrich has opened an important door
    • mig December 12, 2011 at 4:13 pm

      "Early history.For the purposes of this report it is unnecessary to discuss the early history of immigration into Palestine. The original Immigration Ordinance came into force in 1920, under which the Zionist Organization were authorized to introduce into the country 16,500 immigrants per annum, on condition that they accepted responsibility for their maintenance for one year. This system was not found to be a success, and in May, 1921, immigration was suspended until revised conditions could be imposed."

      link to unispal.un.org

    • mig December 12, 2011 at 3:45 pm

      Sometimes someones calculated palestinian muslims & christians and other groups together, and sometimes separated.

    • mig December 12, 2011 at 3:21 pm

      Dont know. Never heard before....

    • mig December 12, 2011 at 2:15 pm with 5 replies

      In 1922, Palestine population according to the 1922 British Census (Census conducted by the British Mandate Government.)

      Numbers are wrong. Here are correct numbers :

      Moslems 590,890
      Jews 83,794
      Christians 73,024
      Druzes 7,028
      Samaritans 163
      Bahais 265
      Metawallis 156
      Hindoos 1,454
      Sikhs 408

      Total 757,182

      Not much difference, but these are correct ones ;)

      link to unispal.un.org

  • Mer-Khamis's widow speaks to 'Haaretz'
  • Gingrich comment that Palestinians are an 'invented people' enters primary debate
    • mig December 12, 2011 at 2:47 pm with 5 replies

      And American Indians were named by Christopher Columbus. Because he made mistake, and thought that he entered India, place he was looking for or new route to there. Dan, are you trying to invent a wheel again ?

      Another thing,

      APPENDIX II.
      Palestinian Citizenship (Amendment) Order, 1931.
      AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
      The 23rd day of July, 1931.
      Present,
      THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

      Lord President. Mr. Secretary Wedgwood Benn.
      Earl of Athlone. Sir Maurice de Bunsen.

      WHEREAS by the Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925 (hereinafter referred
      to as the Principal Order), provision was made for the regulation of the grant
      and acquisition of Palestinian citizenship:

      AND WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Principal Order as hereinafter
      set forth:

      NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers
      in this behalf by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise in His
      Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council,
      to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:--

      1.--(1) Turkish subjects who were habitually resident in the territory of
      Palestine upon the sixth day of August, 1924, but ceased to be so habitually
      resident before the first day of August, 1925, shall be deemed to have become
      Palestinian citizens, unless before the date of this Order they shall have
      voluntarily acquired another nationality.

      (2) Nevertheless, the High Commissioner shall have power in the case of
      any person who becomes a Palestinian citizen by virtue of the preceding
      paragraph and shall make an application to this effect within four years
      of the date of this Order, to apply to any such person the provisions of
      paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 1 of the Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925,
      and to extend the period of option provided for therein.

      2.--(1) Article 10 (1) of the Principal Order is hereby repealed and the
      following is substituted therefor:

      "Where it appears to the High Commissioner that a certificate of
      naturalization granted by him has been obtained by false representation
      or fraud or by concealment of material circumstances, or that the person
      to whom the certificate is granted has, since the grant, been for a
      period of not less than three years ordinarily resident out of Palestine
      and has not maintained substantial connection with Palestine, or has shown
      himself by act or speech to be disaffected, or disloyal to the Government
      of Palestine, the High Commissioner may, subject to the approval of one of
      His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by order revoke the
      certificate, and the order of revocation shall have effect from such
      date as the High Commissioner may direct."

      (2) Article 10 (2) of the Principal Order is hereby repealed, and the
      following is substituted therefor:--"The High Commissioner may, for the
      like reasons, and subject to the like approval, annul a Certificate of
      Citizenship granted under the provisions of Articles 4 and 5 hereof,
      or a declaration of the acquisition or resumption of citizenship made under
      the provisions of Articles 12 (1) and 14 (2) of this Order."

      3. Article 11 (1) (b) of the Principal Order is hereby repealed, and the
      following is substituted therefor:--"The High Commissioner shall not make any
      such Order as aforesaid in the case of a wife who was at birth, or who became,
      in virtue of Articles 1 and 6 of this Order, a Palestinian citizen, unless he is
      satisfied that if she had held a certificate of naturalization in her own right,
      the certificate could properly have been revoked under this Order."

      4. His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in Council, may at any time
      revoke, alter, or amend this Order.

      5. This Order shall be published and proclaimed in Palestine, and the
      date of such publication shall be deemed to be the date of the commencement
      of this Order.

      6. This Order shall be known as the Palestinian Citizenship (Amendment)
      Order, 1931, and shall be read and construed as one with the Principal
      Order.

      COLIN SMITH.

      link to unispal.un.org

    • mig December 12, 2011 at 8:32 am

      Palestinian schoolbooks.

      EU report :

      link to consilium.europa.eu

      link to europa.eu

      Professor Nathan J. Brown :

      link to pcdc.edu.ps

      link to home.gwu.edu

      Haaretz :

      link to pcdc.edu.ps

      Message to Newt, back to school.

  • IDF kills Palestinian protester and tweets '#Fail'
    • mig December 11, 2011 at 2:06 pm

      hoph:

      Let me know how just and peaceful your life is after you get hit in the head with a slingshotted rock. it’s all easy when it isn’t you.

      You mean, when you serve in IDF, you might get rock in the head ? Yes, serving in the occupier army is a bloody business. You finally realized this oxymoron dilemma huh ?

    • mig December 11, 2011 at 2:01 pm with 2 replies

      Difference is, after Israeli warmonger, someone has to collect dead bodies. You havent noticed dima ?

  • Iran: If it had been a fighter jet not a drone, 'U.S. bases would have been pounded'
  • Gingrich says Palestinians are an 'invented people'
    • mig December 10, 2011 at 3:08 am

      Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places.

      Before of 1948, there was no state of Israel either. And dont count in 2000 years back ago existed situation. Because states that exist today, are development process 1700's -1800's nation states founding. HA, that would be interesting dilemma if you can have a state, only IF you previously had a state. I saw somewhere, brains for sale, take it Newt. You'll need em'.

    • mig December 9, 2011 at 6:25 pm

      When arabs ( muslims ), took the palestine some time ago, that didnt change the ethnic background of indigenous population. Otherwise all christians are palestinians/Israelis too. All buddhists are Indians etc etc.

      Why are these idiotic ideas/excuses only accepted in I/P conflict ? Why we cant read similar things in other conflicts ?

    • mig December 9, 2011 at 6:16 pm with 1 replies

      Damn, and Israel has allready recognized Palestinian people. And all the fuzz about talking about peace with invented people. Well well....

      You Americans really badly need educated leaders. Maybe next round ?

  • Israeli soldier shoots protester in face at close range with teargas canister
    • mig December 9, 2011 at 6:04 pm

      Gellian :

      It certainly isn’t a peaceful act, irrespective of what Israel does.

      Irrespective of what Israel does ? Stealing land, dropping bombs, shooting civilians, but you cant throw a rock back ?

      As I said above, shooting teargas canisters at people’s faces is horrific and criminal. And of course it’s an act of violence.

      Before you said that irrespective what Israel does.

      But what the hell is the point of throwing stones at soldiers? Do you think they aren’t going to react?

      International law calls it "legal resistance of alien occupation". Wanna join the club ?. And that reaction part we know allready.

      Should they just stand there and allow themselves to be stoned?

      Are they standing in the armored vehicle ? Does that vehicle stand even bullets but not stones ? Or is this something else....

      Been in quite similar situation myself. And we didnt shoot anyone. Stones cant pierce armour. Just a little hint. If you didnt know. No you do.

      But i guess that explanation number 2 enters arena pretty soon.

  • Gutman is right: Anti-Semitic incidents in England spiked after attacks on Gaza and flotilla
    • mig December 7, 2011 at 1:10 am

      hoph :

      At least someone here admits that there is actually serious antisemitism in Europe. Now I’ll wait for Phil to actually say something about it.

      I'm in Europe, and cant see it anywhere. Could someone plz point that place.

  • Welcome Annie Robbins as Writer at Large
    • mig December 6, 2011 at 9:18 am

      cannot stand the presence of intelligent liberal Zionist commentary

      I have waited that a long time. And still waiting. Like a rest of us in here.

  • Settlers and supporters descend on Hebron to assert Jewish sovereignty
    • mig November 21, 2011 at 11:02 am

      Take a look yourstruly, how things start to be similar :

      Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses that employ Arabs

      Meir Ettinger, 19, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and grandson of late Rabbi Kahane, says goal of Hebrew Labor project is 'to warn the public' against buying from businesses that employ Arabs.

      Rest of article :

      link to haaretz.com

  • NPR story on Dead Sea Scrolls makes listener feel like a goose being force-fed Israel propaganda
    • mig November 20, 2011 at 4:09 am with 7 replies

      Archaeologists criticize new bill for 'politicizing' Israel Antiquities Authority

      Sole vote against bill comes from MK Dov Khenin (Hadash), who charged that the bill's 'true purpose' was to make it easier to add a political appointee to the post.

      The Knesset passed a bill in first reading on wednesday that would abolish a rule requiring the chairman of the Israel Antiquities Authority to be a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

      The bill, which will now go to committee for further discussion, passed by a vote of 30-1. The sole vote against the bill came from MK Dov Khenin (Hadash ), who charged that the bill's "true purpose" was to make it easier to add a political appointee to the post.

      "The cat has been let out of the bag, to the degree that it was ever in the bag," he said. "The field of archaeology in Israel is a sensitive field, and it is exposed to a powerful onslaught of partisanship and politicization. Instead of doing proper professional work, archaeologists are forced to prove political theses that prove that we were here, or that we were here first, or all kinds of political theses that can obviously be debated in the political arena, but to which archaeological science shouldn't be subordinated."

      Culture Minister Limor Livnat, however, denied that the law was intended to enable political appointments.

      The bill says that the authority chairman need not be a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; he must merely be "a senior scientist in the field of history or archaeology." However, the appointment must be made "after consulting with the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities."

      The explanatory notes to the bill say that the current law forces the minister to choose the chairman from among a very limited group of candidates, while in practice, there are many suitable candidates who are not members of the Israel Academy.

      But senior archaeologists claim the bill's real purpose is to prevent the appointment of archaeologists identified with the left.

      In July, the heads of four university archaeology departments sent a letter urging Livnat to withdraw the bill. One of the signatories, Prof. Zeev Weiss of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Haaretz that the new law "could undermine archaeology's academic freedom and its ability to operate free of political influence." While he assumed a worthy candidate would be appointed this time, he said, "It could degenerate into people with a political agenda being chosen because of their agenda."

      Another archaeologist from a different university termed the bill "inappropriate," saying, "We're getting close to being a Third World country. This really depresses me. I have no doubt the issue is political."

      In addition to Weiss, the July letter was signed by Prof. Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University, Dr. Haim Goldfus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Prof. Arthur Segal of Haifa University.

      link to haaretz.com

    • mig November 20, 2011 at 2:45 am

      OT, but beautiful video from ISS by NASA.

      link to vimeo.com

  • Barak orders strike on Gaza during 'Charlie Rose'-- and checks what looks like a Rolex
    • mig November 20, 2011 at 2:31 am

      In the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis didn’t warn the Jews with cell phone calls, leaflets and warning munitions to leave a targeted area,

      Memory fails big time someone else here. IDF give warnings yes, told areas that would be "safe", and then started to bombard those "safe" areas. Just like a Lebanon conflict 2006, IDF told "safe passage routes" away from south-lebanon, and then started to shoot vehicles that were using those routes. Nothing new to me, i have seen same pattern before with my own eyes.

  • Kissinger: 'Is there a more self-serving group of people than the Jewish community?'
    • mig November 18, 2011 at 4:33 pm

      Lovely eee, just lovely. So how many Israel arabs have you helped to have high paying jobs in Israel ? Or is it again ethnic case in here....

  • Condi Rice was 'shocked' by 'ethnic purity' claims for Jewish state
  • Letter to the FM of Sweden from Gaza youth
  • Israel's policy of divide and survive
  • '48 is beginning to replace '67 in discourse -- even at UVa
  • Breaking: Gaza flotilla stopped by Israeli warships
    • mig November 4, 2011 at 6:23 pm

      Sometimes effect from a good act takes time. Money is irrelevant in here. This has much more higher aims than just how much money was spent. Apartheid in SA didnt collapse over one night etc.

      Looks that money is more important to you that human rights over all. So no surprise from that to us.

  • Turkish harbormaster let 11 of us sail (and 25 are left behind)
  • 'Freedom Waves to Gaza' flotilla leaves Turkey headed to Gaza; Organizers: 'It is time to lift the siege of Gaza which deprives 1.6 million civilians of their rights to travel, work, study, develop their economy and be free.'
    • mig November 2, 2011 at 4:17 pm

      Ooops : Palmer Report Did Not Find Gaza Blockade Legal, Despite Media Headlines

      The media has gone crazy these past couple of days announcing that the UN-appointed panel of inquiry into the flotilla raid last summer, known as the Palmer Commission, found that the Israeli imposed blockade on Gaza is legal and that Israel used excessive force during the raid.

      From the Jerusalem Post to the BBC, headlines scream that Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal. This is not only completely false, it distracts from the main point of the inquiry which was to determine if excessive use of force was used by Israeli forces during the raid on the flotilla in international waters and how to avoid a similar incident like this from happening again.

      The contents of the Palmer Report were made public Thursday by the New York Times. The report itself, which was completed last February, was being delayed at the UN while Turkey and Israel negotiated over language and played behind-the-scenes politics.

      Sadly, the report does not spend a lot of time on the victims or accountability for the wrong-doing, although it states,

      “Forensic evidence showing that most of the deceased were shot multiple times, including in the back, or at close range has not been adequately accounted for in the material presented by Israel.”

      And critically notes that Israel’s treatment of the passengers, “included physical mistreatment, harassment and intimidation, unjustified confiscation of belongings and the denial of timely consular assistance,” while acknowledging that once the commandos were on board, they faced violent resistance and felt forced to defend themselves.

      The report also found the naval blockade of Gaza by Israel legal.

      As the occupying power over the Gaza Strip, Israel has the right to determine where and how goods and people should enter the territory it occupies so the maritime blockade as a tactic is legal. The report did not make a ruling on the entire closure regime or blockade on the Gaza strip.

      The Palmer report’s finding that the naval blockade is lawful should NOT be interpreted to mean that the entire closure regime imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip is legal. An excellent analysis of this can be found on the ‘Gisha - Legal Center for Freedom of Movement’ website.

      Gisha even goes one step farther to argue that the maritime blockade should actually be found to be illegal. In a Q&A they put together, they argue that when taken into context with the full blockade on Gaza and Israel’s failure to adhere to international law and legal obligations as an occupying power – then the maritime closure is actually illegal:

      “By preventing the passage of civilians and goods of a civilian nature to and from the Gaza Strip, Israel has paralyzed the economy of the area and caused substantial damage to key aspects of civilian life. In so doing, it has violated its obligations under international law, rendering its policy of closure – including the maritime closure – unlawful.”

      Amnesty also believes the entire closure regime (blockade) on Gaza is illegal. It is a form of collective punishment which breaches international law. Amnesty pointed out in a public statement released Friday, that the best way to avoid similar incidents like this one in the future is for Israel to fully and immediately lift the blockade imposed on Gaza since June 2007, and allow Gazans to rebuild the homes, schools, clinics and infrastructure destroyed by the Israeli military.

      Update: Gisha, the Legal Center on Freedom of Movement, a highly respected Israeli organization that concentrates much of its work on the Gaza Strip, just issued a short, concise statement called ‘Myths and Facts on the Palmer Report‘. This document clarifies many of the misconceptions about the Palmer Report created by confusing media reports and misconceptions about the Israeli imposed closure regime on the Gaza Strip.

      link to blog.amnestyusa.org

      link to gazagateway.org

  • Sadly, Americans need permission from Israeli heroes to stick a fork in Zionism
    • mig November 2, 2011 at 4:42 pm

      Zionist program has been in use over an hundred year now. And it fits nicely to what Charon said. We are waiting anxiously that Israel starts to act other way. So far no signs of progress in that field.

      You can at any time dimadok proof that human side of zionism....

  • 'You lost' -- reporters at State say UNESCO vote isolates U.S. from world opinion (and possibly from intellectual property enforcement)
    • mig November 2, 2011 at 2:26 am with 3 replies

      Citizen :

      Ha, nothing changes on the ground–except increased illegal Jewish settlements

      Yup ---> Israel to speed up settler homes after Unesco vote

      Israel says it will speed up Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - and temporarily freeze the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority.

      link to bbc.co.uk
      link to guardian.co.uk

      And aftermath from Unesco vote was also --->

      Palestinians hit by cyber-attack following success at Unesco

      Computer experts are trying to identify who was responsible, as authority considers applications to other global bodies

      Internet services in the West Bank and Gaza have come under "sustained attack" by unknown hackers in multiple locations, according to officials.

      "There has been a sustained attack since the morning from many sources in many countries," said Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib. "It is deliberate and continuous."

      link to guardian.co.uk

  • Goldstone sugarcoats persecution to try to save Israel

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