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• Under his breath, Richard Cohen whispers, 'Israel, beware'
  • zed May 19, 2010 at 6:33 am

    Truman said in his farewell address:

    "I can't help but dream out loud just a little here.

    The Tigris and Euphrates Valley can be made to bloom as it did in the times of Babylon and Nineveh. Israel can be made the country of milk and honey as it was in the time of Joshua."

• Inside the Beltway, at Cato no less, Iranian honoree says 'gushing wound of Palestine' is source of the radical fundamentalism
  • zed May 15, 2010 at 4:40 am with 1 replies

    Shamir,
    Firstly, if there is no Palestine, there is no Jordan or Lebanon or Syria either. Lebanon was formerly known as Mt Lebanon - Syria. Palestine was formerly Palestine - Syria and Jordan also was part of Syria. SYRIA was carved into statelets in 1920....Palestine, Lebanon, trans Jordan. So, when places become states, their people are given national identity. ie.. Lebanese, Jordanian, Syrian and PALESTINIAN. Today, those people formerly known as Palestinian have been stripped of national identity, and now are known as... Refugees.

    Thank heavens for pre mandate documentation, which make a mockery of your "christianactionforisrael Jordan is Palestine"

    Now, read some real facts instead of christians-with-a-prophecy-agenda.
    Who could have predicted?:
    The King-Crane Commission Report, August 28, 1919
    link to wwi.lib.byu.edu

• Jeffrey Goldberg vs Nelson Mandela
  • zed May 14, 2010 at 7:15 am

    David,
    The only thing I can think of that was happening between January and April re South Africa, was Judge Goldstone's nephew's barmitzfah and the threats to stop him attending. He was eventually "allowed" to attend on the condition that he front the South African Zionist Federation, to explain his report on Gaza.
    link to newstime.co.za
    I imagine there's a whole comittee designated to dig up dirt on Richard Goldstone, and the huge smear campaign was likely in full swing in SA before it became prominent in the media abroad, which would explain defenders in January.

    Shmuel, correct.
    Attorney (disbarred!) seeks to bar Goldstone from US
    link to jpost.com

    (Hell, a Google of Neal Sher is another story in itself!
    Top Holocaust Industry Officer Fired for Embezzling
    link to ukemonde.com
    )

    How dare Judge Richard Goldstone subject people to a trial and uphold the law of the land in a civil court. Doesn't he know that extrajudical assassination and collective punishment is the way to deal with the indigenous?

  • zed May 13, 2010 at 6:27 am with 5 replies

    Judge Goldstone responds to death penalty story
    link to thejc.com

• Crackdown: 'JPost' fires Naomi Chazan
  • zed February 5, 2010 at 6:07 am with 2 replies

    on the Im Turzu movement's attack on Naomi Chazen, NIF...and any remnants of democracy and human rights in Israel.

• A Palestinian corrects the New York Review of Books
  • zed January 4, 2010 at 6:09 am

    Sorry, something has happened with one of the formatting tags (shows in the source file but not here) and has formatted the whole thing. Possible to fix or delete?

  • zed January 4, 2010 at 5:51 am

    Well, before 1967, the West Bank was part of Jordan, the Golan Heights were part of Syria, and Gaza was part of Egypt, right? So in the sense of lines on a map, what we now think of as Palestinians were citizens of three different Arab countries.
    Which year or decade are you referring to when you say "Well, before 1967"?
    Before 1967:

    before 1920, the whole region was Syria, under Ottoman rule.
    1920: Britain and France divide Syria into statelets: Syria and the mandates of Palestine and Lebanon.

    again...

    1948: Israel takes Palestine and drives Palestinian refugees to Gaza, the West Bank (which is annexed by Jordan in 1949, though the annexation isn't internationally recognised) and Lebanon.

    So..." what we now think of as Palestinians were citizens of three different Arab countries " ?

    Gaza came under Egyptian military rule after the 1948 Israel/Arab war and Egypt proclaimed Gaza held in trust for the Palestinians. Gaza may have been under Egyptian military rule and later, Egyptian administrative rule, but wasn't annexed by Egypt. Palestinian refugees in Gaza were never given Egyptian citizenship.

    Palestinian refugees have never been allowed to become citizens of Lebanon.

    Palestinian refugees were given Jordanian citizenship, when Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1949, but Jordan disengaged from the West Bank in 1988...
    
    Amman
    July 31, 1988

    again...

    So, Craig.... what are you trying to say? There is no Palestine and there are no Palestinians?

• The 'war' for legitimacy is a war Israel may never win
  • zed December 30, 2009 at 8:31 am

    Who Could Have Predicted?

    "The Peace Conference should not shut its eyes to the fact that the anti-Zionist feeling in Palestine and Syria is intense and not lightly to be flouted. No British officer, consulted by the Commissioners, believed that the Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms. The officers generally thought that a force of not less than 50,000 soldiers would be required even to initiate the program. That of itself is evidence of a strong sense of the injustice of the Zionist program, on the part of the non-Jewish populations of Palestine and Syria. Decisions, requiring armies to carry out, are sometimes necessary, but they are surely not gratuitously to be taken in the interests of a serious injustice. For the initial claim, often submitted by Zionist representatives, that they have a "right" to Palestine, based on an occupation of 2,000 years ago, can hardly be seriously considered"

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