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  • Gideon Levy: It's time for a 'one person, one vote' movement to end Israeli oppression
    • mig April 27, 2013 at 12:14 pm

      Mondonut@

      Then do everyone a favor and instead of referencing 194, point out where the RoR became International Law prior to 1948, and while you are at it, include where any of it applies to descendants. If you cannot do both then of what you say applies to the Palestinians.

      UN charter. And little friendly hint. Stop talking about thing you have no idea. Before someone makes you look total *peep*.

  • Dialogue doesn't mean inviting someone to spew 'racist hatred' -- Jews Against Islamophobia coalition
  • 'Do you know any Arabs in London?' Israeli airport authorities grill British photojournalist before kicking him out
    • mig April 1, 2013 at 11:03 am

      @mondonut :

      Tourist? You actually believe that?

      "Just Because You're Paranoid, Doesn't Mean They Aren't Out To Get You"

  • Obama's speech was racist -- a Palestinian student explains to 'USA Today'
    • mig March 28, 2013 at 4:41 pm

      @Mayhem. Did someone claim that it contained word "racism"? Ah, never mind, you didn't get the message anyway.

  • Church denominations stand strong in the face of Jewish establishment uproar over letter to Congress
  • Most Israelis say, it's apartheid. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
    • mig October 24, 2012 at 4:19 am

      @giladg

      Go into any hospital in Israel Allison and you will see the real Israel. Arab doctor treating Jew, Jewish doctor treating Arab and Arab patient lying next to Jewish patient.

      What a striking revelation gilad. Real Israel can be found in hospital. Forget those tourist traps, avoid historical sites and go to hospital to see the true Israel. I wonder if those hospitals can take a amount of visitors who come to see The Real Israel.

      Next slide please...

    • mig October 24, 2012 at 4:10 am with 1 replies

      @Mayhem

      Reference to a Muslim country like Malaysia which practises truly blatant apartheid is useful.

      There are no complaining voices to be heard from the supposedly socially concerned, who focus so heavily on accusations of apartheid against Israel, overlooking countries like Malaysia where apartheid is openly enshrined and practised with impunity.

      Good job Mayhem! And when has Malaysia claimed to be western democratic society ?

  • On '60,' Stahl says Spielberg experienced 'serious anti-Semitic attacks'
  • Estelle and the freedom of association
    • mig October 18, 2012 at 1:44 am

      Just a few words about Estelle. Built 1922 in Emden Germany. Main engine B&W Alpha two stroke diesel, assisting engines 25kW + 7kW + 25kW main shaft generator. Owner of ship in Sweden, sailing under Finnish flag. Previous names for ship, Vesta and Monica.

  • Free Gaza's Col. Ann Wright disinvited from Swedish Boat to Gaza
    • mig October 16, 2012 at 5:52 am

      I don't understand this fuzz around Greta Berlin at all. Call someone antisemite and everyone goes ballistic + what some published video does.

  • In 'Dear Dad' letter in 1939, JFK called for 'independent' Jerusalem
    • mig October 10, 2012 at 7:50 pm

      @jon s :

      Mig,
      There was a difference: mainstream Jewish leadership acceped partition in principle , but rejected the specific map drawn up by the Peel commission.
      In effect they were saying:
      1. We agree to the establishment of a Jewish State in part of Mandate Palestine.
      2. We don’t accept the boundaries proposed by the Commission.
      3. Let’s negotiate.
      The Palestinian leadership, on the other hand, rejected partition in principle, as they did in 1947, and as the extremists on both sides still do today.

      There is no difference. Rejected. By both. That "in principle" is nice and cute & lovely indeed, while both sides rejected plan.

      link to unispal.un.org

    • mig October 10, 2012 at 12:51 am with 3 replies

      @ColinWright

      My impression was that the Peel Commission had already recommended just that.

      Yup, and both, palestinians and jews rejected that partition plan..

  • Free Gaza Movement Twitter controversy leads Jewish Voice for Peace to distance itself from group
  • Sold-out Russell Tribunal on Palestine wraps up in New York
    • mig October 7, 2012 at 4:14 am

      @hoph :

      ADL/AIPAC could not care less about yet another leftist together where the same lineup preaches to the choir.

      Now show us where ADL/AIPAC says so. Also, Israel declaration of independence should be renounced null and void, because in time there was so many leftists signing that. We can play this game around hoph.

  • Prisoners' rights protest in Ramallah calls to end the Oslo accords
    • mig October 5, 2012 at 1:59 am

      @mondonut :

      I do not know of an international court with jurisdiction to decide this, including the ICJ.

      This really crystallize in overall this whole jargon what we are doing in here. The moment when Israel become member state of UN, it agreed UN charter.

      Article 93

      "All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice."

      link to un.org

      ICJ :

      "The Court can only deal with a dispute when the States concerned have recognized its jurisdiction. No State can therefore be a party to proceedings before the Court unless it has in some manner or other consented thereto."

      link to icj-cij.org

      "States Entitled to Appear before the Court"

      Article 35, paragraph 1, of the Statute provides that the Court shall be open to the States parties to the Statute, and Article 93, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the United Nations provides that all Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Statute.
      The following 193 States are currently Members of the United Nations (the dates on which some have made declarations recognizing as compulsory the jurisdiction of the Court are also listed):

      Israel 11 May 1949

      link to icj-cij.org

    • mig October 4, 2012 at 10:22 am

      @mondonut :

      An armistice line is not a border, borders between states are determined by the states that share the border. Are you saying that the UNGA has the power to delimit the border between two states?

      “His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom request the Secretary-General of the United Nations to place the question of Palestine on the Agenda of the General Assembly at its next regular Annual Session. They will submit to the Assembly an account of their administration of the League of Nations Mandate and will ask the Assembly to make recommendations, under Article 10 of the Charter, concerning the future government of Palestine.

      In making this request, His Majesty's Government draw the attention of the Secretary-General to the desirability of an early settlement in Palestine and to the risk that the General Assembly might not be able to decide upon its recommendations at its next regular Annual Session unless some preliminary study of the question had previously been made under the auspices of the United Nations. They therefore request the Secretary-General to summon, as soon as possible, a special Session of the General Assembly for the purpose of constituting and instructing a Special Committee to prepare for the consideration, at the regular Session of the Assembly, of the question referred to in the preceding paragraph.”
      I have the honour to be, Sir,
      Your obedient Servant,

      (Signed) Alexander Cadogan

      Devil is the details...

      link to unispal.un.org

  • In front of global audience, Netanyahu draws his red line (on his ridiculous bomb cartoon)
  • Pam Geller's view of civilizational clash with Islam finds a home in the GOP
  • Anti-Iran street theater group denies it has Israel agenda. Wait a second--
    • mig September 27, 2012 at 9:34 am

      @quercus

      I would have asked her why Saudi Arabia is not included. Women can’t drive in Saudi Arabia, must go out in public with a male escort, I’ve heard, and in general I suspect life there for women and gays, is far more oppressive, and yet, not a peep do we hear about the Saudis. Me wonders why the silly twit shown above, ignores them?

      One of so called "allies" or "friendly states" of US in area, ( mostly goes to any country under previous definitions ). Dogs don't bark friendlies. Frankly, goes with any state in the world. Where are friendly states with economical relations, trade, area union etc.

  • Walt, Munayyer, and Mearsheimer offer one state scenarios, and my response
    • mig September 27, 2012 at 10:07 am

      @giladg

      The wheel turns and history seems to repeat itself.

      And unfortunately, as it is, same mistakes are done over and over again.

      The non ethnic nationalist, as you describe yourself, eventually understand that they need to belong to something.

      Human race ? I guess we all have done that already.

      And when times are tough with inflation and poverty, a dynamic politician will come along and promise you things and tell you that only he can makes things better.

      We try not to leap that hole here. "The wheel turns and history seems to repeat itself".

      Just sign up and pledge your allegiance to the leader (Hitler).

      It's 2012. Not 1933 as you think it is. So, i think that its just little late to join that boy scout.

      Socialism destroys families seanmcrible, never succeeds and usually ends badly with a lot of violence.

      Same goes with right wing stuff.

      Jews, who you call ethnic nationalist, place their believe G-d, do not follow the socialist line and place emphasis on family and community, with no desires on other people neither to rule or to blame for their own problems.

      And pretty good number of early zionists were commies. But its all different now ?

      Socialist however, look to blame everyone but themselves.

      But, thanks to God, not with zionists. Oh no.

      I will support any ethnic nationalist movement that does not try to dominate others and looks to want to improve their own community, which is usually hard enough without the unachievable lies the left tells you about being able to fix the world. The thing you have not understood is that the Zionist movements has no desire to rule over the Palestinians.

      Thats true gilad, they wish to kick them out, not to rule em'. You have learned something after all.

      The desire to remain alive and safe as Jews is still the pressing issue.

      Yup, classic case of PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder. I would argue that you have created the whole new disorder : Pre-traumatic stress disorder.

    • mig September 25, 2012 at 9:12 am

      giladg :

      mig, go read the Torah. Go read the Dead Sea Scrolls written over 2,000 years ago. You will find all the law you need, and much more.

      So you have nothing to show.

    • mig September 25, 2012 at 3:19 am

      giladg :

      And who represents the Palestinians? Is it Hamas? Is it Fatah?

      PLO.

      link to mfa.gov.il

      And its is also the historic homeland of the Jewish people

      Can't find any meaningful international law backing this up.

  • State Department set to take violent Iranian group off terror list
    • mig September 21, 2012 at 1:44 pm with 1 replies

      "Secretary of State Clinton is set to announce that the Iranian group Mujahideen al-Khalq (MEK) will no longer be on the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organization list."

      Surprise anyone ?

  • Media coverage of anti-American protests turns a political clash into a cultural conflict
  • In new leaked tapes, Romney rejects two-state solution - 'The idea of pushing on the Israelis to give something up to get the Palestinians to act is the worst idea in the world'
  • 'After Zionism' at the Brecht Forum next Tuesday night
    • mig September 21, 2012 at 1:58 pm

      hoph :

      You’re playing a Holocaust denial game. Moderator should be banning these comments as against the guidelines.

      How about innocence of muslim. Freedom of speech ? One thing you can talk about but not the other. And no, i'm not the holocaust denier. If we claim freedom of speech, lets go all the way then.

  • The enemy
    • mig September 10, 2012 at 3:24 am with 1 replies

      Mayhem :

      1. Life in Gaza is pretty good : We rock

      2. Kids need time out from hating Israelis : They suck

      3. Palestinian kids are all innocent angels : You suck

      4. Mondoweiss is soft selling a propaganda message : Everything sucks

    • mig September 10, 2012 at 3:19 am

      mthunlan:

      Why doesn’t she criticise Palestinian schoolbooks as well than? There she would have work for a decade!

      Because that has studied a time ago, and there is no longer nothing to criticize for ?

  • The road to Damascus runs through Palestine: Linkage and a comprehensive peace
    • mig August 7, 2012 at 2:29 am

      @Rusty Pipes

      Security Council should and must be changed. Remove permanent members and all members change in turns. This is a classic example this Syria case. Other is Palestine case. In Syria case, Russia and China are key players. In Palestine case US of A is a key player. Its long time since WW2, when UN was created and winners of war was given king of a hill status. Its totally pointless when Russia and US governments shoot accusations to both directions, while they are equally guilty this monster of good fella system.

      Uniting for peace resolution is too rarely used, and its only partial option in this game. More radical action is needed.

  • Exile and the Prophetic: I’m leaving on a (Nazi/German) jet plane, don’t know….
  • Exile and the Prophetic: Exporting the Holocaust
    • mig August 5, 2012 at 3:00 am

      @hophmi

      But we don’t “export the Holocaust.” We teach others about it.

      And what have you learn from it ?

    • mig August 5, 2012 at 2:53 am

      And after Bible was written, they created international laws. Which one we are gonna follow. I choose international law.

  • To understand the history of Palestinian dispossession look to the words of Zionist and Israeli leaders
  • Michael Sfard: Addicted to the process
  • On Romney plane, white and blue is as good as red, white, and blue
  • Romney visits Western Wall, ignores question, Does Israel have a right to annex West Bank
  • The blatancy of apartheid
    • mig July 29, 2012 at 11:02 am

      I see something in Jewishness issues in crisis if jewish identity topic. 1031 replys so far so that ain't so clear i think.

    • mig July 29, 2012 at 10:41 am

      proudsomething:

      No. I plan on working hard in order to pay for it.

      What, you must pay from stolen land. wow...

  • Neocon pressure group's latest salvo: attacking Obama for not visiting Israel
    • mig July 27, 2012 at 5:09 pm

      Annie, to me it looks like a that US is a other state for Israel. Or, as former PLO representative Afif Safieh said, US i a only super power of the world today. It faces other states like a super power, but when Israel is question, it looks like a Liechtenstein or Luxenbourg.

    • mig July 27, 2012 at 4:43 pm with 1 replies

      Damn, Obama hasn't get his brains updated to ziobot 2.3 version. Must go to Israel if want's new update. Necessary visits to Knesset, just to show a face and that you are obedient server. Without it, no chance to next round, sorry. Next slave to foreign country plz to arena.

  • Stand With Us to run counter-ads to maps showing loss of Palestinian land
  • Election theatrics: Obama to sign bill that gives Israel $70 million while Romney hints Jerusalem is capital
    • mig July 27, 2012 at 5:24 pm

      @biorabbi

      True anti-semites

      Is this some club you can join in ? Some vows you have to make that you truly are anti-semite ? So who are those who do the judgement, give testimony and be the prosecutor in this case. They are all the same and one ? Thats curious, in just of in a legal terms how someone can be all of those.

  • Russia's foreign minister claims US justifies terrorism in Syria
    • mig July 27, 2012 at 6:47 am with 1 replies

      @anan

      For example the CIA reported in late 2006 that Al Qaeda had decisively won the war in Al Anbar and now controlled the entire province. The CIA also believed that this victory would be very difficult to reverse, and to over generalize the CIA was presenting options such as throwing Maliki and the Iraqi Army over the bus to negotiate with Salafi nutjobs.

      This is old classic story. If and when you invade a foreign country, chances to succeed is very limited without population consent. They will start to resist occupation in time or immediately.

  • One apartheid state, with liberty and justice for Jews only
    • mig July 27, 2012 at 6:20 am with 3 replies

      @ColinWright

      It’s an endless parade: ‘a land without a people for a people without a land,’ ‘National Home,’ ‘five invading Arab armies,’ ‘the Israeli David,’ ‘Islamofascism,’ ‘only democracy in the Middle East,’ ‘America’s only ally in the Middle East,’ ‘existential threat.’

      Now ‘defensive war.’ I know I’ve missed a bunch.

      Don't you worry a bit Colin, if situation changes even a little, ziobot army is making all new arguments just to suite their agenda.

      "Please don’t let the facts get in the way of the Zionist narrative, and make a new ones if necessary"

    • mig July 27, 2012 at 1:55 am

      Merk :

      I don’t follow this dark skinned thing? you know there are many dark skinned Jews right? I don’t see how trying to turn this into a racial argument is constructive.

      Yup, "but they are OUR dark skinned", which changes whole thing.

  • Adelson-backed ad campaign features Jewish Dem claiming Netanyahu represents 'all' Jews
    • mig July 27, 2012 at 6:40 am

      @anan

      Are all Israelis “Palestinians” too since they moved to Palestine?

      They were palestinian jews.

      Another question that I have relates to Palestinian Egyptians, Palestinian Syrians and Palestinian Lebanese. Why aren’t they full equal citizens of their own countries (albeit who happen to have Palestinian heritage and ancestry)?

      Home is palestine. Why they don't wanna give equal rights, well take a case of Jordan. Majority of palestinian refugees are in Jordan, surprise surprise, zionist draw conclusion that they are in reality Jordanians.

      Why is Jordan the only country that treats Palestinians like one of their own people?

      They wan't to avoid palestinian uprising, so large numbers that they are in Jordan ?

      Why doesn’t Israel proudly call itself an “Arab” country? Israel can authentically be many countries all at once. Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, democratic, high tech, free, rich etc. Why doesn’t Israel proudly embrace its blessed and unique multiple heritages? And honor Palestinian Israeli citizens as the national asset that they are?

      Ask this from zionists. And before you ask, take a step back, to avoid coming vomit.

      Why doesn’t Israel insist on its birthright as an “Arab” country and demand admission to the Arab League?

      U R kidding, right ? ;)

    • mig July 25, 2012 at 1:59 pm with 2 replies

      “The Obama administration is backing the security of Israel for which I'm responsible in our government in a way that could hardly be compared to any previous administration.”

      Silly question i know, but should security of Israel be mostly responsibility state of Israel ? Why they have army in Israel anyway if that can't secure state of Israel.

  • Susan Abulhawa demolishes Itamar Marcus
  • EU upgrades Israel because 'nobody wants fuss' with Jewish community or Washington
    • mig July 25, 2012 at 2:14 pm

      UN is a good organization. Security council, general assembly etc are just front window and are easily destroyed. Mean while behind of those happens and a lot. What difference would that do if Israel would be in UNHRC ? Israel gives a hoot to whole UN anyway / resolutions.

  • Sacha Baron Cohen settles with Palestinian he slandered as 'terrorist'
    • mig July 25, 2012 at 5:40 am with 2 replies

      Does anyone else see anything weird is these statistics. Compare :

      From FBI :

      link to fbi.gov

      Department of Justice :

      link to justice.gov

      Smells something in here....

    • mig July 25, 2012 at 5:27 am with 3 replies

      anan :

      67% of all hate crimes against religion in the US in 2010 were against Jewish people.

      Ahha, so lets now just for a argument sake look this FBI data, and from where they collect this data.

      Resources
      - Shepard/Byrd Act Brochure
      - Justice Department Civil Rights Division
      - Justice Department Community Relations Service
      - Southern Poverty Law Center
      - Anti-Defamation League
      - Federal Civil Rights Statutes

      link to fbi.gov

  • We need another name for the occupation
  • What if an American politician came out for preserving a Christian majority?
    • mig July 19, 2012 at 1:28 am

      Fredblogs:

      They have equal legal rights, they have equal voting rights. They aren’t drafted into the IDF, but they can volunteer if they choose to. To the extent that they don’t have equality, that is the same for Muslim minorities in many European countries where they are poorer and have less spent on them by the government than non-Muslim citizens.

      Same ol' hasbara. But you won't dare to read this site :

      link to acri.org.il

    • mig July 18, 2012 at 3:39 pm

      Fredblogs:

      Israel, the West Bank and Gaza altogether make up about 20% of the former mandate Palestine. The rest is Jordan. Get your facts right.

      Former. And Jordan (trans) was separated from mandate before it came legally in force. So thats about it. Ancient history.

      There is no possibility of equal rights with the Palestinians.

      Of course not.

      The only question is will Israel be Jewish with equal rights for its Arab citizens (no right of return), or will it be an Islamic majority state with no rights for Jews (if there is right of return).

      40 years and waiting those equal rights for palestinians in Israel. And when you decided that Israel doesn't follow international law. Just rhetoric question.

    • mig July 18, 2012 at 10:58 am

      hoph:

      Quickly looked at a map. What world are you living in?

      Year 2012 Finland. And ?

      People who are intellectually lazy and ignorant tend not to understand the hypocrisy of their position.

      I try to keep my feet in the ground. If im intellectual or not, i'll let that to other decide. IMHO not so much.

      Fortunately, there is an Israel, and we don’t have to necessarily care about how European hypocrisy affects us.

      Today or years ago ?

      I’m not sure what other factors there are in the game to justify historical persecution of Jews and others by European Christians.

      Then back to school boy. And i didn't say nothing any justification.

      We Zionists have learned well from history.

      Which is nothing at all.

      We have learned that minorities in Europe and Arabia get persecuted, and we have endeavored to protect ourselves from that persecution by ensuring some political sovereignty for ourselves.

      And thats why palestinians get same treatment. So if thats it, could you kindly stop "learning".

      So far it’s worked very well. Europeans don’t persecute us. They just annoy us, and that’s better than having them kill us.

      So you are living in history after all. That wake up call back for today might be hard landing. And you were talking european hypocrisy. Oh dear....

    • mig July 18, 2012 at 2:02 am

      Fredblocks:

      Because others have majority Christian and majority Muslim and majority Hindu countries, the Jews have the right to a majority Jewish country.

      I could swear that is written in some international law. No. I couldn't find it. Help buddy here freddo. What was it.

      Funny coincidence how the only people you want to inflict pain on and loss of majority status in their only majority country are the Jews.

      Can't help you out. Take a time machine back to year 1947. Plans of palestinian dispossession are in the full swing. Try to fix the wrong decision made by Israel. Good luck.

    • mig July 18, 2012 at 1:54 am

      hophmi:

      No, because Christians and Muslims have many states in which they are the majority and in the case of Muslims, states where Islam is the official religion, and in the case of Christians in particular, have historically used their majorities to persecute Jews, Jews deserve a state of their own.

      Quickly checked calendar, yup, it's still year 2012 here. What year you are livin at ?

      No, people are not sociopaths. They’re just intellectually lazy and a little ignorant.

      And results of being "just intellectually lazy and a little ignorant" used to be......? Like persecution of others, lunatic nationalism, religious intolerance......loooong list of things which have followed. And will follow tomorrow.

      Being a white European Christian has historically carried an enormous privilege. That privilege has been used to persecute others and that has major implications today.

      Thats a historical fact. Partly. Not all european christians have done that. There has been other factors in that game.

      That is why it is at best unfair, at worst cynical, for people living in states that are more homogeneous than Israel is to harshly criticize its policies.

      Saying "learn from the history" doesn't ring any bell ?. Living a life and being stuck in a specific events of history keeps you stuck in history. If you see mistakes that OTHERS have done, you wanna repeat those. Yeah, choose your path by all means. The day you have to pay the bill from your mistakes will come.

      Let’s see how their populaces would react if they were 20 percent Muslim and had to face a daily threat of rockets or suicide bombs. Really, I’m interest to know how they would handle things differently.

      Does that willingness to shoot rockets correlate some events THEY have experienced a´la by Israel somehow ? So who is here today " just intellectually lazy and a little ignorant". You don't need to answer. I know answer to that already. European christians while they persecuted others didn't see anything wrong in their actions either. Who would you.

  • The (what about) China syndrome
  • Light sentence in brutal murder shows double standard for Jews, Palestinians
  • NY assembly member urges censorship of maps ad, citing offense to 'a multitude' of Jewish orgs
  • Congressman with ties to Netanyahu calls J Street 'anti-Semitic'
  • Backer of NY ads exposing Palestinian land-loss says response has been 'astounding' and news 'coverage is pouring in'
    • mig July 13, 2012 at 6:52 pm

      schlemiel:

      Hardcore rejectionism of Israel didn’t begin when Phil Weiss started this site, or when the first American campuses started hosting courses about Zionism being colonialism.

      The hardcore rejectionism goes back to 1948 and before. The same confrontational, all-or-nothing rhetoric about Zionists being evil incarnate and soon to pay a terrible price for their misdeeds was bandied about back then as it is now.

      Yup. Told by King-Crane commission report 1919 :

      link to unispal.un.org

      They could have taken their chances with partition, but they rejected it. They could have taken their chances with the 1949 Armistice lines, but they rejected that, too.

      I know that people here are fond of explaining why the Palestinians and the Arab world were right to reject the imposition of a new state in the region, but the point is they made their choices and that map is the result.

      Hey ! Arabs didn't force Israel to invade those areas. Peel commission partition plan was rejected by both sides. Resolution 181 rejected both sides. Arabs by desing, and Israel by action. Same thing 1949. And 1967. And today. So who is actually rejecting and what ?

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 3:30 pm

      Citizen, this is correct.

  • Arthur Koestler's Zionist recruiters used anti-Semitic ideas
    • mig July 13, 2012 at 10:39 am

      Shmuel:

      I wrote “beliefs”, not facts. The relation of these beliefs to actual reality (current or historical) is irrelevant.

      Was my original thought also.

      "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

      Rene Descartes

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 5:54 am

      Shmuel:

      Assuming you’re not being facetious, “negation of the diaspora” (shelilat hagolah) is one.

      I assume that you familiar with Shlomo Sand work ?

      link to youtube.com

      Besides of that, i don't know what those core things are. First i must apologize, im non-jewish. Second, time after time, many other "core" myths has been more or less busted. Exodus from Egypt maybe never happened. Romans didn't kick jews out from palestine, so that diaspora myth is just a myth, nothing else. And one curious note from that wikipage you brought up, all men who has given their theory, lived in 19th century. Was something created then that time, studied something and drawn some conclusions ? History is a living creature which changes form all the time. Many "beliefs" which we learned to be actual fact, has been more or less find out to be myth. But i wan't to say also this, i'm not in the position to make final word from anything. I'm just curious from many things, and i see things how i see them or interpret how i do. No offence to anyone. Peace !

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 2:46 am

      Shmuel:

      Atzmon may have rejected Zionism, but has failed to shed some of its core beliefs.

      I don't know, are there any "core beliefs" at all.

  • NY ads depicting Palestinian dispossession are termed anti-Semitic by 'Jewish community'
    • mig July 14, 2012 at 5:00 pm

      jonah :

      So, to close this preamble, the non-recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is nothing but a misleading anti-Zionist construct without factual basis.

      jonah, do us a little favour and try to find ANY state which is recognized political/religious/whatever bases. States recognize states, plain simple state, not what or how they have developed by religion/political/whatever definition.

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 10:24 am with 1 replies

      Criticism is not valid. Territory was still palestinian land. Occupation by whom, doesn't and hasn't changed that fact.

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 9:56 am with 9 replies

      proudzio:

      The ICJ was asked to write an opinion, not to make a legally binding decision.

      All needed facts are there. Israel was given choice to take part and deliver facts. And as usually, Israel gives a hoot about international law and decisions.

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 2:05 am

      jonah :

      the legitimacy and self-determination of the Jewish State (as embodied by the Israel), that means the right of the Jewish people on a own secure national home.

      This is a common misconception. That universal right for a self-determination ( which of course means we all humans, including jewish people just to make clear this ), doesn't automatically mean any "national home". Or state. Or autonomy. Et cetera.

      Self-determination is the principle in international law that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference. The principle does not state how the decision is to be made, or what the outcome should be, whether it be independence, federation, protection, some form of autonomy or even full assimilation.[1] Neither does it state what the delimitation between nations should be — or even what constitutes a nation. In fact, there are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim the right to self-determination.[2] Moreover, self-determination is just one of many principles applied to determining international borders.[3]
      By extension the term self-determination has come to mean the free choice of one's own acts without external compulsion.

    • mig July 13, 2012 at 1:24 am

      proudzio:

      But you can provide more accurate maps then ? Thank you.

  • Romney to hold fundraiser in Jerusalem...
  • Finkelstein on 'cults and flunkies'
  • Queer activists disrupt SF Film Festival over Israeli sponsorship
  • Deep political differences became the elephant in my therapist's office
    • mig July 10, 2012 at 3:31 am with 1 replies

      I have a fine therapist, we never argue anything. We always get along. His name is Jack Daniels. Sometimes i visit Mr. Johnnie Walker instead. Visit is short but very satisfactory. ;)

  • Norman Finkelstein's disinformation about BDS
    • mig July 13, 2012 at 2:21 am

      the BDS Movement has never recognized Israel’s right to exist

      And they are doing quite right on this. Few things. Recognition of s state is made between of states, not between of non-state group / state. That kind of declaration has no legal bases in international law. Then comes another onion, which again can be heard all the time, because someone doesn't know what they are talking about at all. Is that NO STATE HAS ANY right to exist in international law. No international law declare that states has a right to exist. And don't confuse here that right of a self-determination.

  • Dust-sized speck of polonium is lethal
    • mig July 5, 2012 at 6:23 pm

      giladg:

      If a speck of Polonium dust is enough to be lethal, why is Suha Arafat still alive?

      Because Suha is a sister to superman = Superwoman.

      If the Palestinians are playing a game here to try and catch Israel out and muster anger against it, they are playing a dangerous game.

      Its very dangerous to be near of Israel in any case.

      The half life of the radioactive material and its current potency offer plenty of information that will blow them out the water.

      Messages from other universe ?

  • State Dep't says it is 'not consistent' on human rights violations involving Israel and neighbors
    • mig July 6, 2012 at 3:39 pm

      Yup, because they can't enter palestinian areas without Israel permission. Rest stay in Israel because they buy Israeli hasbara.

  • Former DNC member got in hot water by forwarding Code Pink email blasting AIPAC
  • Will Israel's high court respect Palestinian family's human rights?
  • Yasser Arafat 'poisoned with Polonium' -- Al Jazeera
    • mig July 4, 2012 at 2:44 pm

      Why point to Russia ? Any other hints ? :

      According to the book The Bomb in the Basement, several death cases in Israel during 1957–1969 were caused by 210Po.[70] A leak was discovered at a Weizmann Institute laboratory in 1957. Traces of 210Po were found on the hands of professor Dror Sadeh, a physicist who researched radioactive materials. Medical tests indicated no harm, but the tests did not include bone marrow. Sadeh died from cancer. One of his students died of leukemia, and two colleagues died after a few years, both from cancer. The issue was investigated secretly, and there was never any formal admission that a connection between the leak and the deaths had existed.[71]

      link to en.wikipedia.org

  • Author Deepa Kumar on the imperial roots of anti-Muslim sentiment
  • Shamir ordered Bernadotte assassination to save Jerusalem for Jews. But will his obits tell you that?
    • mig July 5, 2012 at 6:34 pm

      proudwhatever777:

      Is it possible that HMG’s promise of a Jewish State in Palestine was a lie?

      Yes, because HMG didn't promise such a thing.

      Is it possible that HMG lied to the French, to Hussein, to the League of Nations about their Britain’s imperial designs in the region?

      To them all. Welcome to the world of politics. Have a seat and buckle up. Its gonna be a rough ride.

  • Syria: No to intervention, no to illusions
    • mig July 12, 2012 at 7:58 am

      Mayhem :

      Furthermore with a belligerent Syria on Israel’s doorstep Israel is virtually indefensible without holding positions in the Golan Heights.

      Great China Wall syndrome. Its not that how high is that or high long is that wall or strong or where is that wall. What is most important is THOSE MEN IN THE WALL.

      Israel naturally having little trust for the Syrian regime is in no mood now or ever to commit suicide.

      I see. So this much there in Israel a confidence to the IDF that it can keep Israel in safe. None i suppose. You really have swallowed that BS completely. Hint for a Israel. Next time move those borders to Atlantic ocean, China sea, in north to Arctic sea and south Indian ocean if there is by some miracle "defensible borders". But then Israel should consider that Martians would attack so the next "defensible border" would be space. Defense and security starts in between of ears. Looks like that Soviet vs. US of A cold war nuclear missile race didn't teach anything to anyone ? Missiles can fly around of the world and hit the target in few minutes. Now you can draw the borders where you wish and still be targeted. Keep shitting to your pants as much as you please, or start talking to someone from this enemy at the gates fear.

    • mig July 12, 2012 at 5:31 am

      Not only occupation and land-theft , but ethnic cleansing is a war crime.

  • 24 Hours in Israeli Custody: The arrest of an American activist in Palestine
    • mig July 3, 2012 at 9:18 am

      OlegR :

      The fact that no law says it’s forbidden does not mean it’s allowed
      in the same terms as it is allowed to the citizens.

      So can we draw conclusion, that no such a law exist ? And you haven't seen protests example G8 summits where part of participants has been foreign people ? C'mon Oleg, get real now.

      How fast would a bunch of lets’a say Russian nationalists (not citizens ) staging
      a demonstration in Helsinki demanding the return of all of Finland
      back into the warm embrace of mother Russia (just like during the Tzar reign)
      would have found themselves kicked out of the country?

      They can do it freely. Its in our constitution as a freedom of speech. Also in international human rights law btw.

    • mig July 2, 2012 at 4:33 pm

      OlegR:

      Just for general education
      Unfortunately Israel has no constitution
      it has a number of what is called Basic Laws

      We knew that already thx.

    • mig July 2, 2012 at 4:27 pm

      OlegR:

      Dooler is not a resident of the occupied territory she is not a Palestinian
      she is an American citizen.
      And the right to protest in a sovereign country is reserved first and foremost to it’s citizens not foreign activists.

      And you can surely link that law, which says so to here, thank you ! I just checked our constitution and it doesn't say a word that it's limited to finnish nationals only.

    • mig July 2, 2012 at 10:55 am with 8 replies

      OlegR:

      Why the hell aren’t we deporting these activists right away upon the first arrest ?
      She will obviously return to demonstration get arrested again and again …
      Just a pointless waste of time and money.

      Because Israel is wonderful westernlike-ish democrazy, where right to protest is written into the constitution.

      "Deportation of residents of occupied territory contravenes international law. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention stipulates that, "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive."

    • mig July 2, 2012 at 10:41 am

      Israelis and palestinians in west bank are treated with dual legal system.

      link to btselem.org

  • Quick-- somebody lock the doors and call the ICC!
  • Help Mondoweiss continue to push Israel/Palestine into the mainstream
    • mig July 4, 2012 at 2:28 pm

      giladg:

      I challenge you “mig” to find official versions that state that the clauses denying Israel’s right to exist have been removed and/or rejected.

      So that Israel government site still wasn't good enough ? If even that doesn't convince you, lets leave this matter right here then. I could of course provide here multiple pages, but i know for sure that all of those would not be enough in any case. Believe what you believe, fine by me.

      link to mfa.gov.il

      Islam teaches that it is okay to lie in order to defeat the enemy.

      Blablablaa. Here is news for you, over 2000 years old : " All warfare is based on deception, Sun Tzu.

      The person/s who wrote the web page you linked to is expressing their beliefs in conjunction with their agenda. This is what happens in democracies and in this case, it is unfortunate.

      In your own government pages ? Wow. Now you don't believe even your own government sites. And you ask me to provide something ? Sorry, i have better things to do than provide info for you which would be in ANY case useless. All The Best, honest.

    • mig June 26, 2012 at 11:13 am

      giladg :

      Jews have no confidence, and for good reason, that after concessions are made to the Palestinians that reciprocal, equal weighted concessions can be expected in return.

      What those "concessions" might be this time ?

      Take leaving Gaza as a clear example. The PLO, with Arafat, did not even change their charter.

      It has changed. "Affirms that those articles of the PLO Covenant which deny Israel's right to exist are now inoperative and no longer valid;"

      link to mfa.gov.il

      The desire to wipe Israel off the map is near the top of the agenda and has always been there for the Palestinians and the Muslim Brotherhood.

      Enemy at the gates, yes. Horrible. How can you even live under such a threat.

      Liberal Jews in NY may not believe this. Some Israeli’s don’t believe this either.

      Believe is usually matter of religion.

      Until such a time when Jews feel that the Arabs and Muslims are ready to live with a Jewish Israel, it is absolute stupidity to negotiate with the Arabs about what type of execution is to be carried out against Jews. Yes dramatic, but true.

      Jewish Israel LOL.

      In the Columbia circles its not fashionable to even consider my words as being remotely connected to reality.

      Wonderful people in Columbia, can still live in reality, while you dont.

      The privileges you enjoy in NY and San Fransisco give you the sick platform to look down at others whilst you search out the meaning of life and attacking Israel is so “in”.

      Well, we know that "sickness" you are livin.

      The pseudo liberal would do much better pushing the Palestinians to accept a Jewish Israel.

      Israel has been accepted long time ago. Definitions we leave to state of Israel. Its not the job of "pseudo liberals" or palestinians.

  • The Case for Israel (Studies): It’s not hasbara. Honest.
    • mig June 21, 2012 at 3:30 pm

      Fredb:

      The Arabs tried to destroy Israel

      No they didn't.

      Israel expelled the civilian population because they had no way of telling those who were helping the attacking Arab armies from those who were not.

      Nope. They had to be expelled because without it, there wouldn't be jewish state.

      Current policy in Gaza is to let food and humanitarian supplies in while keeping weapons out.

      Provide link where are supplies mentioned which pass to Gaza.

      Torture is banned in Israel.

      Official statement, in reality not really.

      The security state is necessary to protect against terrorists.

      Terrorism grows from occupation. And they just keep on coming......until....

  • Tourism in Israeli settlements: Practice shooting Palestinians
    • mig June 20, 2012 at 10:13 am

      Fredblogs :

      After they attacked the soldiers, I’m not surprised they were called that.

      I am. Attack against soldiers ain't terrorism. Attacks against civilians is.

    • mig June 20, 2012 at 10:08 am

      Mayhem :

      Those who frequent shooting galleries for extreme fun are completely different from those who aim (sic) to get rid of the Jews.

      Who aims to get rid of jews ?

  • All eyes on Moscow
    • mig June 20, 2012 at 4:09 pm

      Sassan :

      This one very recent and on the Islamic Republic news source Fars News!

      “Top Commander Reiterates Iran’s Commitment to Full Annihilation of Israel”

      Zionist regime. Not this crap again. Find dictionary and look what that means.

  • Israeli army OK's attack dogs as 'non-lethal weapons'
    • mig June 18, 2012 at 12:08 am

      LOL.

      In my mind, the side that is not afraid to delve into the other sides narrative, is the side where the truth shines brighter.

      Read some international law, and tell us again in which side truth sides brighter. Have you heard such a thing as a international law ?

    • mig June 18, 2012 at 12:03 am

      giladg:

      When you think of Palestinians, do you think of the plus 70% of Jordanians who are Palestinians? If you don’t then go back and think about my comment for a little longer. You may start to see the point I am trying to make, re borders.

      Have you even tried to think how they become "70% of Jordanians who are Palestinians?". No you haven't. Its really simple. Because something happened in 1947-1948. What that might be gilad ? Try to think that for a bit longer.

      I even give you a little hint, which is pointless but i do it anyway.

      link to unrwa.org

  • On Syria, Clinton spins a fast one
  • American living in Jerusalem squeezes Obama on 'Audacity of Hope' (the boat, that is)
    • mig June 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm

      Fredb :

      You’ve cited a very specific part of UNCLOS which is an entirely irrelevant treaty since Israel is not a signatory and for that matter neither is Turkey.

      Wrong. UNCLOS is part of customary international law. 162 country's has ratified that. End of story.

    • mig June 19, 2012 at 10:18 am

      Fredb:

      Happy to oblige. San Remo Manual.

      THE MYSTERIOUS SAN REMO TREATY, HASBARISTS’ DELIGHT

      Whenever Israel gets itself into serious hot water and kills a lot of people and looks really bad in the process, if it can, the MFA and the rest of the hasbara brigade goes into overdrive, dusts off all the possible avenues of defense they can find. Lately, with the Gaza flotilla shortly to embark on its attempt to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza, and with memories fresh in the world’s mind of the nine dead bodies shot at point blank range by Israeli naval commandos, hasbarists are turning to an obscure international treaty to defend the indefensible: the collective punishment of 1.5 million Gazans by Israel’s armed forces.
      I’m so tired to hearing these chirping hasbarists crickets all singing the same song (I must’ve had six different commenters in the past year who each separately raised San Remo as justification for the blockade) that I wanted to thank a commenter who pointed me to a rebuttal of the San Remo argument. It was written by a former British ambassador, Craig Murray. And before you question his credentials, let’s present them:
      …Former Head of the Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He negotiated the UK’s current maritime boundaries with Ireland, Denmark (Faeroes), Belgium and France, and boundaries of the Channel Islands, Turks and Caicos and British Virgin Islands. He was alternate Head of the UK Delegation to the UN Preparatory Commission on the Law of the Sea. He was Head of the FCO Section of the Embargo Surveillance Centre, enforcing sanctions on Iraq, and directly responsible for clearance of Royal Navy boarding operations in the Persian Gulf.
      I quote Ambassador Murray in full (italics are mine):
      Why San Remo Does Not Apply
      Every comments thread on every internet site on the world which has discussed the Israeli naval murders, has been inundated by organised ZIonist commenters stating that the Israeli action was legal under the San Remo Manual of International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.
      They ignore those parts of San Remo that specifically state that it is illegal to enforce a general blockade on an entire population. But even apart from that, San Remo simply does not apply.
      The manual relates specifically to legal practice in time of war. With whom is Israel at war?
      There is no war.
      Israeli apologists have gone on to say they are in a state of armed conflict with Gaza.
      Really? In that case, why do we continually hear Israeli complaints about rockets fired from Gaza into Israel? If it is the formal Israeli position that it is in a state of armed conflict with Gaza, then Gaza has every right to attack Israel with rockets.
      But in fact, plainly to the whole world, the nature and frequency of Israeli complaints about rocket attacks gives evidence that Israel does not in fact believe that a situation of armed conflict exists.
      Secondly, if Israel wishes to claim it is in a state of armed conflict with Gaza, then it must treat all of its Gazan prisoners as prisoners of war entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention. If you are in a formal state of armed conflict, you cannot categorise your opponents as terrorists.
      But again, it is plain for the world to see from its treatment and description of Gazan prisoners that it does not consider itself to be in a formal position of armed conflict.
      Israel is seeking to pick and choose which bits of law applicable to armed conflict it applies, by accepting or not accepting it is in armed conflcit depending on the expediency of the moment.
      I have consistently denounced Hamas rocket attacks into Israel. I have categorised them as terrorism. If Israel wishes now to declare it is in armed conflcit with Gaza, I withdraw my opposition and indeed would urge Hamas to step up such attacks to the maximum.
      Does Israel really wish to justify its latest action by declaring it is at war with Gaza? That is what the invocation of San Remo amounts to.
      So please no more references to San Remo. It’s a red herring argument.

      link to richardsilverstein.com

  • One state, two states and the art of the possible
  • Footballers rally to Sarsak's cause as he vows to continue hunger strike till death
    • mig June 16, 2012 at 11:43 am

      Human rights are universal. I just dont get it why should this be limited only to "left wing" side of people. Now dont get me wrong, as i also wholeheartedly support boycott against any wrong doers, any place who ever did it/do it.

      I dropped long time ago my political stand to any direction, be it right, left or center or what ever we like to call them. Same goes with religion. I dont like hear from someone else how should i believe. Its between me and my God. If there is a such. And again same goes with politics. I dont wanna hear how my opinions should be in this and that matter. Or is that now or isnt politically correct.

      This wasn't aimed at anyone, just came to my mind reply in this topic. No need to reply, my wife does that to me all the time ;).

    • mig June 16, 2012 at 4:59 am

      Sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era

      link to en.wikipedia.org

  • Michael Oren: Al Qaida is in Egypt
    • mig June 10, 2012 at 2:20 pm

      Enemy at the gates, part xxxxxxxxxx.

      "Almost all wars are based on lies. Lies are considered legitimate instruments of war. Lebanon War I (as it was later called) was a glorious example.

      From beginning to end (if it has ended yet) it was a war of deceit and deception, falsehoods and fabrications."

      Uri Avnery

      link to counterpunch.org

    • mig June 10, 2012 at 2:08 pm

      "If you are a terrorist, Sinai is heaven for you," Oren said Wednesday during a visit to Seattle. "It is extremely rugged terrain. You can hide a lot."...

      Read again Mr. Oren that Egypt/Israel peaceagreement, especially that part which contains Sinai area.

  • Future Egyptian president is sure to review Camp David accord
  • 'Of course' -- Abbas will return to UN to try to become non-member state
    • mig June 10, 2012 at 11:51 pm

      Is there any forum left which ain't "anti-semitic" these days. That "anti-semitic" rubber stamper has become a laughing stock time ago. But you keep on repeating that phrase cos' you don't know any better.

  • 'NYT''s Sanger says Iran nuclear program is 'direct threat to the U.S.'
    • mig June 10, 2012 at 2:15 pm

      Fred:

      Between the U.S. and Iran.

      Nuclear war between someone who has those weapons and other who doesnt have those/that. And you call that as a nuclear war ?

    • mig June 9, 2012 at 4:29 am

      Fred :

      But would we if it meant risking a nuclear war?

      Nuclear war between of who ?

    • mig June 9, 2012 at 4:26 am

      Freddie :

      Israel has never threatened to “nuke the West”.

      I haven't heard anybody to threat any other to be nuked. Nuclear weapons are used as a "threat" as they lie in storage unused but available if needed. Originally they were made just for that purpose as a warning, that we have those big bang's, if you attack us. Like you later text shows :

      The Sampson option is that if the Middle Eastern enemies of Israel manage to destroy Israel, they (the Middle East enemies of Israel) are all going down with it.

  • Israelis arrest Palestinian theater's artistic director at 3 a.m.
  • The 'honest broker' comes clean: Obama admits the US is 'more attentive' to Israel than Palestinians
    • mig June 6, 2012 at 10:09 am

      his administration is decidedly more attentive to Israel than it is to the Palestinians.

      Translation : Elections are coming, and i need AIPAC votes & funding too. Anyway, story which we know already. Race for AIPAC support is on.

      Obama also said that he understands the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants no restraints, like the leader of any country.

      Of course, because its you who is on the leash. Your clever enough to admit that it ain't nice place to be.

      He assured his guests that he and Netanyahu get along well on a personal level – but that Netanyahu does not want to appear weak.

      Except when someone leaves mic open, you tell something else. Bummer.

  • If '5 Broken Cameras' wins an Oscar-- then will you end the occupation?
    • mig June 6, 2012 at 12:10 am

      They usually call that, in case you have never heard about it, freedom of speech. But this is area which you Oleg should know better from soviet system. Critics locked to mental institutions, jail or work camps. Siberia calling ! Yes, ill bet you miss those days.

  • 'Hath not a Palestinian eyes?': Protesters disrupt Habima performance at Globe
    • mig May 29, 2012 at 3:33 pm

      Fredb:

      It was British Military Intelligence HQ. As such, it was not a civilian target.

      Jewish National Council denounced the bombing of the King David. The Jewish Agency expressed "their feelings of horror at the base and unparalleled act perpetrated today by a gang of criminals", despite the fact that the Irgun was acting in response to the Jewish Resistance Movement, an organisation governed by the Jewish Agency. According to The Jerusalem Post, "[a]lthough the Hagana had sanctioned the King David bombing, world-wide condemnation caused the organization to distance itself from the attack." David Ben-Gurion deemed Irgun "the enemy of the Jewish people" after the attack. Hatsofeh, a Jewish newspaper in Palestine, went as far as to label the Irgun perpetrators "fascists".

      O tempora, O mores !

  • 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.

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    • mig May 2, 2012 at 4:32 pm

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    • 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.

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    • 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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