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No it isn't, actually. It can annex the territory if the occupants agree.
The legal occupants. What's illegal is moving the occupier's citizens into occupied territory.
The PA, by recognizing Israel, has traded away the Palestinian claim to half the Palestinian territory.
The problems of today were created by a Zionist invasion of Palestine, and that's where the blame properly lies.
You're sitting on stolen land, eee, and no amount of weaseling on your part will change the fact.
Michael W - all Israeli Jews are profiting from the crime of the Nakba. And like Bernie Madoff's grandchildren, the time comes for clawback.
Michael W, if you have a foolproof plan to get Israel to withdraw the occupation forces, please let the world know.
No Boers in their right minds were going to take a chance on an African-ruled Africa. But that was their problem for choosing to move to a place inhabited by Africans.
If Jews didn't want to live with Arabs, they shouldn't have moved to an Arab land. Since they did, what happens to them is their own fault.
Let's not forget that among the enemies of Israeli Palestinians (an absurd term) are the heads of the PA, who are quite eager to trade away their rights in any "peace agreement" that benefits themselves.
Typical racist drivel from eee.
The distinction is not between Arabs and Jews, it's between a people who were living in peace in their homes and a people who forcibly displaced them. It's between people who only want to keep living in their homes and people living in the homes of people they have displaced.
So Israeli Jews are afraid. So criminals are afraid when they sense justice impending, when they will have to pay for their crimes.
The digusting thing is when people defend the criminals.
She's standing next to her paymaster, of course she's going to say what he wants to hear.
The Boers said they would rather die than be ruled by blacks, but what they meant is that they would rather kill.
In the end, they either adapted or left.
Oh, and Israel was the aggressor in the 1967 war.
Israel has a clear alternative to settlement activity - not conducting any settlement activity.
A quid pro quo is not required in order for an honest person to do the right thing, or not to do the wrong one.
Nowhere does it say there that Israel allowed in mine disposal equipment or that largescale disposal has actually been carried out. The only thing they claim to have done is assessment.
"which Israel claims not to be occupying"
Palin isn't Jewish, she's just a political opportunist. And that is probably what's more disgusting.
This isn't a hypothetical matter. It's exactly what Israel and the US have been doing in Iran for years.
Only a few steps down the road, and you have the wholesale attacks on scientists and academics that devastated Iraq during the insurgency, and and you go further down, you get Pol Pot exterminating the entire educated population.
Terrorism isn't terrorism when "we" do it.
They're also shooting their own troops. The latest IDF casualty was the victim of trigger happy fire from his own side.
Actually, eee, there is a growing outcry to bring sanctions against Israel. Maybe that will have a greater effect.
Seriously?
If antiZionists do this, it's called antisemitic.
I suppose that 9 million is tax-deductible. So much for the deficit.
The voting function is no longer available for them, either.
"Comments are no longer being accepted."
Too bad for the belated hasbarabots.
I'll be really looking forward to seeing what Foxman has to say about this!
Israel was selling arms to Iran during its war with Iraq, while the mullahs were firmly in charge. You don't sell arms to your "serious enemy."
But Israel can't exist without enemies, so Iran was selected for persecution.
The IDF commanders who authoritzed the use of those gas grenades, after the courts had forbidden it, ought to be indicted.
Bring back the Savak!
Yoffie has a lot to attone for in his treatment of Goldstone.
In which case, Jews in the USA need a better education that teaches them to spot a phoney.
eee never seems to object to "Jews coercing other Jews" to shut up about Israel's crimes.
If it weren't for US support in the UN, Israel would never have been recognized as a state - nor should it have been, since it immediately flouted the conditions placed on its recognition.
eee isn't being obtuse, he's being mendacious. His purpose is to prevent any pressure on Israel to change its evil ways, and any means is legitimate if it serves this end. This includes the aspersions cast on the motives of anyone apply pressure, which is nothing more than the shopworn charge of antisemitism.
eee isn't warning, he's threatening.
I dunno, clencher. When you find a "true hater of Israel" you can ask.
I can't believe that any Iranians could be pro-US, after the crimes committed against their nation.
Kirk is a genuine Zionist tool. This is the guy now sitting in the seat that was Obama's, where Obama should have kept his ass planted.
The folks pulling up to the gas pump sure do!
Gates is now apparently reading the wikileaks, because he's talking about how much the Gulf states approve sanctions on Iran.
I have to wonder if the Millers apologized to Shalala
Update: full poll results
link to brookings.edu
When he says "no domestic constituency" he obviously means the sellouts in Congress.
But among the actual constituency, the voters, there is strong support for attempting to solve the problem, as this new poll demonstrates:
link to politico.com
Not even the Republicans have a majority that want them to favor Israel.
When Obama realizes he'll never be re-elected, then we'll see what's really at his core. Probably, a hollow space, but we'll have to wait and see.
They really just don't want Arabs dating Jewish girls.
If they aren't indicted, then the world will see Israel's racism even more clearly.
Maybe even the Congressional Black Caucus will be able to see it.
Two of the rabbis have rescinded their signatures now, and the authorities are talking indicting them for incitement.
And Ehud Barak says he can't see what all the fuss is about building a few settlements. They built a lot more when he was in charge, and "the Palestinians didn't mind."
link to haaretz.com
There's a word for this: vulnerable.
Yes, the quotes from Ben Gurion.
This quotation, and many others, are available in Benny Morris's 2007 MAKING ISRAEL. He's quoting Avi Schlaim.
To catch the Jewish vote in the U.S
This says it all. The Jewish vote, and more important, the Jewish campaign contributions to Truman's party. So it has always been and so it is now. Corruption dictates policy.
To give the ADL credit, for once, they are so far the only major US Jewish organization that has denounced the racist rabbis.
Juan Cole is talking about UN sanctions, too.
This may be a rolling snowball.
Germany. Guilt.
It's interesting to conside how US Jewish organizations might react to this - which is of course what US politicians respond to, not the Israeli government itself.
I would like to see the story about AIPAC denying asylum to Jewish refugees.
Little by little, so it is imperceptible. It's what they have been doing all along. Israeli sadism is a deliberate scheme to make life so miserable for the Palestinians that they give up and leave.
This is one reason the number of Palestinian Christians has so drastically declined. It's easier for them to emmigrate.
It ends with the expulsion of all the Palestinians from Greater Israel. That's been the gameplan all along.
Not even Israelis are going to fall for that line, hophmi!
All Obama needs to do is inform Israel that the US will vote for any UN resolution establishing a Palestinian state.
That he hasn't is certainly a failure.
Egypt is taking at least one step in that direction:
link to haaretz.com
This is an effective campaign, well worth supporting.
In fact, I suspect it may be more effective than BDS.
The point is that when influential people are making money from a situation, that situation will be perpetuated. This is why the situation was set up the way it was, so it could not be terminated.
Perfectly true.
Go out and say the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust isn't a fact, and the Nazi narrative is just as legitimate.
No, jon s, half the population would have become refugees as they were expelled from the "Jewish" state. Even if the Zionist leaders didn't carry out their plan of encroaching on the rest of the territory.
The education ministry retorts that if you only count the "Hebrew-speaking" sector (ie, Jews), the rank rises.
Of course the "Yiddish-speaking" sector doesn't even take the test.
Sure it tells us how to move forward - by moving backwards and restoring things to the way they were.
Expel the interlopers and return the houses to the rightful owners. Clear out the booze desecrating the mosque.
If you did a story about how a synagogue was turned into a pork sausage shop, you'd go deaf from the screams of Jewish outrage, yet these Israelis can't see anything wrong with turning a mosque into a bar.
Israelis are insane and can't be convinced into sanity. They must be forced.
The religious authority isn't the point. It's the legal authority.
The rabbis need to be arrested for incitement. Laws have to be passsed against discrimination, and enforced. Landlords discriminating need to be arrested and heavily fined.
And the riot police need to act forcefully against the mobs that will protest all this. Those large concentration camps will come in handy.
No, there is not going to be any "negotiation." That path has been closed off by Israel and Palestine will unilaterally declare its independence, just as Israel did in 1947.
Terrorist attacks by Israel against Palestine are certainly not hypothetical! Israel should be disarmed, then they can talk about disarming Palesting.
Wait until the rabbis are arrested for incitement. Keep waiting. And waiting. And waiting ...
Would someone post the full text of this appeal?
Of course this is why many Israeli supporters in the US and in Europe can continue to cling to this position - out of guilt from their complicity in Hitler's genocide.
link to haaretz.com
Of course they fail to realize that they are now doing to Palestinians as they did to Jews, then, actively contributing to their destruction.
Those "serious threat" neighbors were sending aid to help Israel fight its forest fire. Will this have an impact on the governing paranoia? Probably not.
Pines and eucalyptus are like planting turpentine trees.
If I'm allowed to comment this time -
At the same time this is going on, the PA was sending forces to aid in the firefighting. I'm surprised the IDF didn't shoot them all dead at the border as infiltrators.
VR's usual offensive manner does nothing to disprove the well-established facts about the near-obliteration of the Native American population by disease. A typical example of blind ideology attempting to obliterate any aspects of reality that don't conform to his mindview.
The situation in Israel/Palestine is the responsibility of Zionist colonialists, and eee's warped notion of justice is the sick joke, sicker because it is shared by the Zionist majority.
I'll make another point, if allowed: assimilation.
Many Americans have Indian ancestry. Many enrolled members of the tribes have significant amounts of white blood. To turn over my house to some descendants of the Indians would be to evict the descendants already living here now.
"No Jewish property will be returned to its owners until the last Palestinians are fully restored to their former homes."
Next year, I'd like to see this image on all the busses. I pledge another donation to the Be On Our Side campaign to help make this happen.
If this comment is not deleted:
Israel is absolutely the misfortune of Lebanon, as Helen Thomas knows very well.
And as Israel requires everyone to acknowledge, it is the Jewish state.
QED
Which is why it can be quite disaffecting when it does happen.
And yet, Phil, when one of us here says essentially the same in response to the usual reflexive antisemitism charge from the house Zionists, the comment is censored.
Obama offered to trade a total UN veto power for a 90 day partial settlement freeze, but Israel slapped him down again. You'd think that the logical response would be to drop the automatic veto, but NOOOOO, Obama just goes back with a "Please, Sir, another?"
A lot of Muslim/Arab sources are saying the leaks were orchestrated by Israel.
I see we have our own Comical AlEEE here today.
They've already arrested some Druze.
Tell it to Bibi, who's screaming for help and admitting that Israel can't even cope with a dinky forest fire. I'd say that proves Israel drills and exercises aren't worth squat.
Hear! Hear!
Saying it is the first step to making it untrue.
A lot of things are being said these days, and they can't shut up everyone.
Comic-al-eee accuses Avi, and by extension most of the rest of us:
1) You won’t accept any source that provides information that does not support your view
We don't accept lies that contradict historical fact
2) You interpret historical facts in the least generous way possible for one side only. According to you everything Israeli did or does is malicious, pre-planned and done with bad faith. No Israeli reaction is ever justified according to you.
Yep. For the most part, this is indeed historical fact. The century-long Zionist plot to expropriate the territory of Palestine is well-documented, and it's been carried out in a remarkably consistent way.
3) You view Israel as a monolithic entity which makes decisions based on some secret agenda while in fact Israel is a democracy and its decision making is not monolithic and also do not follow any specific agenda. You support this distorted view of yours by claiming Israelis are “indoctrinated”, thus we are helpless puppets controlled by some mind control device.
No, Israel is a fractured, broken entity collapsing under its own contradictions, may the day arrive soon. But despite this, a majority of its Jewish citizens manage to share a spirit of racism, hate and paranoia. In the meantime, the Zionist juggernaut rolls on, fueled by a massive corruption.
4) You are not willing to accept that Palestinians have some responsibility for their situation and that both Palestinians and Jews created the modern problems.
We are not willing to let the flaws within Palestinian society be used to exculpate Israel, as Zionist apologists are always trying to do.
Look, Comical AlEEE, Ismail Haniyeh is not just any Hamas official, but of course you refuse to credit his statement.
Pabelmont: That Was Then.
And released them. Authorities now claim the main fire was not arson.
It was in Ha'aretz last night, but the news is moving fast and evolving, so I don't know if I could find it now.
Actually, most of the prison guards were Druze.
They've already made arrests.
One think I'm wondering - is this Mount Carmel forest a natural one or one of those Ashkenazi JNF forests? I've seen references to a forest there from pre-Israeli days, but the news reports say it's pines burning. Are these native pines?
Do any of the Israelis here know?
This fire could be the miracle. The wakeup call. Benn is absolutely right.
Unfortunately there is already the atmosphere of a witchhunt, with people planning to blame Arabs for starting the fire.
The only real question is the heat. A US swimmer died recently during an open water event at the FINA World Cup held in Dubai.
Otherwise, Obama should STFU