In the Israel/Palestine conflict, is Israel guilty of genocide against the Palestinians?
Yes– absolutely.
The other day I wrote a short piece on why the Bible does not command us to blindly stand with the modern state of Israel, and one of the points I made is that Israel is guilty of genocide. There were no shortage of internet commenters who objected to my use of this word and felt it was over the top. However, I stand by my assertion that Israel is guilty of genocide, so allow me to expand upon that.
I believe the main reason many push back on the idea that Israel is guilty of genocide is because of a lack of understanding of the full nuance of the word, and what genocide can look like in a modern context. While rounding up people for mass executions would be obvious evidence of genocide, the reality is that genocide can take place in ways that are more subtle– making it palatable for the masses, and even seem justified at times.
Some scholars have referred to the Israel/Palestine conflict as “incremental genocide” and I would agree with that term. Instead of an overt, blatant attempt to eradicate a people group, incremental genocide involves actions and policies that are designed to slowly erode, break up, and destroy a specific population. Think for example of early American history and the genocide of Native Americans. While it wasn’t always mass killings, genocide occurred by military conflict, expanding land holdings, resettlements, and creating conditions that were destructive for the indigenous population. While it took many years to complete, and while it took many forms, what early Americans did to the indigenous people of North America was nothing short of genocide.
The same holds true for Israel.
The legal definition of genocide includes the following:
“Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group such as:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
While A and B are both elements we find present in Israel’s approach to Palestinians, the key aspect of genocide being waged by Israel is found in C: the deliberate infliction of conditions that in part or as a whole will destroy a people group. Arab Christians and Muslims known as Palestinians have been undoubtedly the target of Israel and a desire to eradicate them from the land.
When Israel was created it resulted in an instant crisis for the Christians and Muslims who had lived together quite peacefully for hundreds and hundreds of years. Even today there are somewhere around 3.5 to 4 million Palestinian refugees who wish to have the right to return to their homes and land– a request that will never be granted by Israel.
For those who remain in Palestinian territory, they might as well be living in a massive open-air prison, because they live under the occupation of a foreign army. Children are routinely tear gassed on the way to school. Imports are severely restricted, with even basics like water being tightly controlled. Their rights of passage are severely curtailed– families have been broken up and people have died at military checkpoints because they were delayed or denied passage to access critical medical care.
To top it all off, what little land Palestinians have left is under systematic erosion by Israeli policy. Illegal Israeli settlements continue to crop up in Palestinian territory, in violation of international law. These illegal settlements, in addition to literally confiscating land from indigenous people, often bring violence to the Palestinians who live there. Even just a brief youtube search will bring up countless examples of women and children being assaulted by illegal settlers, or examples like Palestinian farms being attacked and destroyed at harvest time.
Let’s not be dishonest in the ultimate goal here: it is to rid the land of Palestinians.
Capture their land. Develop policies to evict them from their houses. Send in settlers and soldiers to colonize what land they still have. Refuse to let refugees back. Make them miserable under military rule. Limit their access to basic, life-sustaining resources.
The goal? Be not deceived: this is ethnic cleansing.
Do the Palestinians ever fight back and use violence? Yes, of course. This is equally wrong. It is also highly ineffective because it plays right into the hands of Israel, who uses this as an excuse to respond with utterly overwhelming military violence, such as arresting and incarcerating children accused of throwing rocks, or wiping out entire communities in the name of self-defense, such has been seen in Gaza.
So here’s where we’re at: Many of the indigenous people were displaced upon the creation of the modern state of Israel, and the number of displaced people has continued to grow. They are refugees who live in poverty and painful conditions at refugee camps. Israel has systematically expanded its borders to functionally capture more and more land that belonged to Palestinians. Of what’s left, Palestinians have to suffer under a brutal military occupation where so many aspects of life are restricted or deprived. To top it all off, Israel continues to expand illegal settlements into Palestinian territory, further creating conditions designed to break up and destroy the will of Palestinians to even exist.
That folks, is genocide. It is incremental, slow-motion genocide. If the international community continues to turn a blind eye, it will do nothing short of ensure the complete destruction and or displacement of the Palestinian people.
Is calling this genocide over the top? No, it’s not. It’s genocide. Legally. Morally. It’s genocide.
It’s just happening in slow motion, so the world doesn’t see it.
(And it’s being done by the people we’re told are God’s favorite, so we don’t even want to see it.)
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Wriggle as you like with definitions, your grand assertions do not square with Palestinian population under Israeli rule, demonstrating consistent growth since 1948.
https://worldpopulation.theglobalgraph.com/p/palestine-population.html
Has it occurred to you that you can’t have your cake and eat it too? either Israel is this mega-powerful, omnipotent empire that is extremely efficient at pursuing its will, or it is an incompetent, powerless nation. An omnipotent nation wishing to commit genocide, would simply do it, and this graph above would not look the way it does. So either Israel wants to commit genocide but is too incompetent (sorry to derail the “all powerful Zionists planned everything right from the Big Bang” theory) or, the Palestinian hardship is real, but it could have other explanations than a systematic Israeli genocide policy. Perhaps Israel is doing what it thinks is best to curtail terror from a terror-supportive population (rightly or wrongly). That is not complimentary to Israel, but it is still a far cry from genocide. Your enthusiasm in pasting together the best clickworthy words to get traction for your doubtless good intentions, will eventually prove counterproductive, in the age of being able to google anything in half a minute. Your genocide tag mainly convinces the convinced. Most other neutrals it puts off. Essentially, a waste of time for you.
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So anyone defending their country is ‘guilty’ of ‘incremental genocide’.
How about ‘No’?
More NWO BS.
The pals’ demographic has increased.
You have an odd definition of “defending their country.” Next thing you’ll be posting is that Jews from Brooklyn by way of Europe are indigenous to the land.
Jews, or rather Judeans and their Canaanite ancestors ARE the people indigenous to the land. For at least 3,000 years there have ALWAYS been Jews living in the area.
Really, Jews who lived on the land were placeholders for the descendants of Jews who left the land 2000 years ago?
How about Ivanka Trump and her kids, are they indigenous to the land?
Didn’t non-Jews always live on the land.
Are ancient Hebrews from the Galilee called Gews?
I think you are illiterate..
In a aad and tragic way..
Try punching yourself in the balls..see if it wakes you up..
“Palestinian” demographics:
1997 – population 2,783,084
2019 – population 5,182,410
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Israeli arabs demographics:
2009 – population 1,536,000
2019 population 1,890,000
I think you understood the word “genocide” very wrong..
Israel is a fascist Nazi – like apartheid state. Having lived there for years it is a hell hole. Jews there are delusional and in denial. If you want to understand why a supposedly good person can rationalize evil just talk to an Israeli.
Lies.
wow – powerful argument
Clearly you don’t know the definitions for fascism, Nazi, apartheid, or hell-hole. Israel is none of those things. Where did you live? Were you a citizen? Were the Israeli Arabs discriminated against by the government? Put into concentration and death camps? Is everyone there starving, oppressed, living in squalor?
Please don’t generalise with a whole nation of people. There are many Jewish people and communities who oppose the crimes and atrocities that are being committed in their name – not all Jews are Zionists, not all Jewish people are supporters of this schoah. You should not ignore the many good Jewish people who have stood up and denounced this evil government and their crimes against humanity. It may be true that their voices are stifled and trampled upon by the oppressors, but that should not be taken as silence
What crimes and atrocities – speaking of generalizations?
All Israelis are evil??? That’s ludicrous, as well as outright racist, which a lot of these Palestinian sympathisers are guilty of.
Nice, answer a generalisation with a generalisation – adult conversation anyone?
So true!! I have a dear friend who is a self-described Zionist who lives in the settlements. He really believes that what Israelis are doing to the Palestinians is not actually happening, and if you point out a situation (there are many) that is irrefutable, he believes they must have deserved it. We don’t speak much about this, because I can’t get past his delusions. If you didn’t know this about him and just met him on the streets of London (where we met), you’d think he’s a brilliant, kind, compassionate and wonderful human (all qualities he does posses…except…). I’m still trying to get my head around that. I imagine this inconsistency is something the average person in Germany felt when confronted by Jew-hating fellow citizens. It’s a weird, bizarre, and uncomfortable thing. It’s like they’re all drinking the same kool-aid. Very similar to how entire generations of Chinese believed the Great Leap Forward. I’m sure there is a name for this.
It is very sad that we cannot have important current event discussions with our friends. The “alternate reality” I’m afraid is here to stay. If we cannot debate with some kind of common facts–then I have found there can be no discussion. Your dear friend has a different set of facts than you have. He does not believe your set of facts are true.
I have dear friends who think that Donald Trump walks on water and there can be no discussing otherwise– as my facts are “wrong.”
God help us, may truth prevail is my prayer!
What is it you think Israel is doing to the Arabs in the territories? And, there are no settlements. There are new Israeli towns on Israeli land. The Arabs in the territories are stateless, and have no legal claim of sovereignty to any of this land.
West Bank – Israelis demolish Palestinian homeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DV8KvQG-Xw
Middle East: Israel destroys family homes of Palestinian knife attackers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Ulbol7wjw
Israeli troops uproot 300 Palestinians’ olive trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kst5RbXScHM
Israeli Navy Opens Fire on Palestinian Fishing Boats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibWswXKolM
Israeli Occupation Forces Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZgI65fkiCc
Israeli military evicts Palestinian family in Hebron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsFJ6FBY2Eo
Palestinian families evicted and made homeless so new Israeli settlers can move in.Two Palestinian families, totaling 46 persons, were evacuated from
their homes in Sheikh Jarrakh, East Jerusalem, on 2 August 2009, and
settlers immediately moved in to the houses. The Israeli High Court has
accepted the claim to Jewish ownership of this property.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asz4MDwssQc
More than 100 settlers stormed a residential building in occupied Hebron
on 25 July 2017 and evicted its Palestinian residents under the
protection of occupation forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xdQiEpEH0
Grabbed by the throat: Israeli police detains 2 protesting against eviction of Palestinian family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32qQzub37A0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asz4MDwssQc
Israeli occupation soldiers humiliate and beat up Palestinian at the checkpoints!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzInGYlLUAM
Israeli policeman caught on video beating Palestinian truck driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUE_RmGrBBs
IDF troops film themselves humiliating bound Palestinian (Haaretz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otmDV3sk9aE
IDF Soldiers Forced Passengers to Undress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkZ5c6PpIGA
Testimony – Palestinians humiliated in raid in Jericho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhkbbuVoFoY
“Sharmuta Video” – Settler harassment of Palestinians in Hebron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXSFsJV084
Video of IDF soldier dancing by bound Palestinian woman sparks scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92oNgH_BO5Y
CHECKPOINTS IN PALESTINE 4-6
Just another average day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF30AjvvusI
Not helpful.
Israelis themselves use the term settlements (yishuvim).
Yes, many of the Palestinian Arabs living in the West Bank stateless are stateless (except for those born before the Six Day War who have Jordanian citizenship). That reflects the fact that Israel has not extended full sovereignty over the area and has not extended the opportunity of citizenship to everyone who lives there.
Now, most of the settlements are within certain blocks and the expectation is that these blocks would be included in land swaps in any eventual peace agreement, but that agreement does not yet exist.
oh, the horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDqZujEFAk
A bowling alley, restaurants, shops, decent buildings, no checkpoints for most journeys, Dominos Pizzas…hmmmm. Life doesn’t look too bad for Palestinians. As a world traveller I can assure you that there are many places in the world a lot worse than here. It just goes to show you, you can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time.
Right, there you go again Ben, using facts to highlight the cancerous spirit of exceptionalism destroying the infighting descendants of Abraham without exception to any.
Do you do this because it brings more interest in your blog, just because it is more constructive in spirit than any self-indulgent tribalism, or both? How dare you!?!?
You are a studied man of the world, who has not been sheltered and is truly not naive. You insistently keep on adding one more nail to your cross and I thank you for the sacrifice! Love you!
>Instead of an overt, blatant attempt to eradicate a people group, incremental genocide involves actions and policies that are designed to slowly erode, break up, and destroy a specific population.
Habakkuk 1.2
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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I am smitten with fleas… / the plagues of Egypt.
I’ve been meditating on this, part II of a 2-part posting, as, while I don’t expect agreement, I do hope I can make myself understood.
My beloved late Pop, may he be at peace, was a quite liberal Jewish man… My late grandfather, whom I never had the honor to meet was Orthodox; while not a Chassid, was from a shtetl in Galicia/Poland/Ukraine. Those family members that chose not to follow him here in the ’10’s and forward have been nourishing the Polish topsoil for generations. (Grandfather David passed in ’51 from arterial sclerosis at the age of 59… was a businessman, but off the clock a gourmet Kosher chef… chicken fat did him in)
My late Pop’s eyes would flash in indignation were anyone to have accused him of being a Zionist… My late Grandfather subscribed to the conviction that only ha-Mashiach (the Messiah) could establish the political state of Yisro’el (Israel)
Those that insist that the current political entity of Israel, especially amongst the so-described Christian Zionists, do not explore the logical progression.
Those American-style Evangelical Protestant Christians who base their “theology” on not much better than Hal Lindsey, Frank Peretti, and the “Left Behind” series (which folks must admit, there seem to be a disturbingly huge number amongst our fellow world-citizens), don’t really follow up that it seems to be imperative that every professing Jew must go to occupy that particular piece of real estate, and those that don’t identify as the modern Evangelical type of “Messianic” will be fried on the spot.
Not all Jews are Zionists. I happen to be one who is not. The political state of Israel is an established fact. And such nation has every right to exist that applies to every other nation in the world community…
But… too many here in this country of the USA who don’t read anything more than their pet affirming, confirmation-biased blogs, “news” sites and not much of anything else assume that Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party doctrine is ‘Eretz Yisroel and that the converse is also true are what was attributed to Mr. V. Lenin… “useful idiots.”
Zionist just means one who believes the Jewish people have a right to self determination. Belief it or not the majority of Jewish Zionists are not right wing.
Actually just Google Zionism definition. You sound like a Zionist that doesn’t know what the word means.
A lot of Jewish Zionists live in the United States. Zionism doesn’t mean a Jew has to live in Israel.
if only that were true
LOL, look up the the definition of the word. What I said is indeed true. Of course Zionism exists as a spectrum ranging from left to right. Demonizing Zionism helps no one.
The oversight of Zionism is not seeing a value in living in a land, but rather in ownership of that land, without recognition of the rights of the humans who already lived there. I struggle to trust in any politics that does not allow for co-existence. History shows us that sooner or later, they will come to us with that same attitude. I value all human life equally, whatever bloodlines they are from or whatever spiritual beliefs that they choose to follow.
Self-determination for a people is a bold cause. But it should embrace ALL of those people, without special cases. It should be representative.
I disagree with Islamic fundamentalists who wish to impose their beliefs and laws onto me for the exact same reason, and I would be a hypocrite to reject one without the other
I would only disagree only on one point: Nations don’t have rights, people have rights
Obviously Israel needs Lebensraum for her ubermensch people. Their attitude seems to be why should the untermensch palestians occupy land that their betters could have.
Obviously you hate Jews.
… latent Stockholm Syndrome?
It takes a great deal of courage to speak out like this. Sadly, people only want to see what they want to see, not what is actually there. Keep telling the emperor he has no clothes on, Benjamin.
i would probably be asked to leave my church if i share this on facebook. ?
i have christian friends that went to Israel almost 40 years ago and they were warned about proselytizing. i believe it may still be against the law and enforced.? do christians believe that Palestine was empty before 1948 ? that nobody lived there ? i guess eminent domain is alive and well. Isn’t that what we were taught in grade school about the indian genicide in the USA ?
Yes, proselytizing is illegal in Israel and the penalty is stoning. That’s why the fastest growing religion in Israel is Messianic Judiasm and why it is the only country in the middle East that has a growing Christian population. Currently 20% population are Arab Israelis and 50% of the population of Israel are descendants of Arab Jews who were kicked out of the Islamic nations that surround the country. Please try to inform yourself better.
This guy literally uses every cliche of pro-Palestinaian rhetoric. Why is there no mention that the Palestinians were offered a state 5 times or the hundreds of suicide bombings from 1993-2004 before the security fence was built. Having sympathy for the Palestinians is one thing but distorting the reality of the conflict is unhelpful and certainly not in keeping with the teaching of the Jewish carpenter from this area that the author purports to follow.
Israel is a complex society in the middle of the most volatile area on earth.. It is far from perfect, but what I consonantly see are those denominations that are dominated by replacement theologies are most likely to unfairly criticize Israel. The underlying message is that Jews killed Christ and are now behaving like Nazis perpetrating ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. What a perfect marriage of old fashioned antisemitism and the academic left: Martin Luther and IIan Pappe. How virtuous the author must feel.
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It should be trivial for you then to provide the maps, the finalized offers, and the legal basis for any such deals that have been offered. Obviously, for any of these offers you so flippantly make assertions about will be in full compliance with Article 22, paragraphs 1 and 4 of the League of Nations Covenant which provides of course the legal basis for historic Palestine when Palestine consisted of a majority of Muslim Palestinians, nearly eight to one, and full compliance with Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, and Article 49, paragraph 6 of the 4th Geneva Convention.
Or, provide evidence that all of the above mentioned bedrock international legal principles have been rescinded. Oh, and don’t forget the part about where Israel changes both the Israeli declaration of independence which currently and has since May 14th, 1948 asserted that Israel’s legal borders as set forth under UNGAR 181 are “irrevocable” as well as the testimony six days later by the provisional government of Israel that UNGAR 181 borders are the internationally accepted borders of the nascent state of Israel see S/766 and that they fully intended to comply with international law.
What would you do if someone came to your house and threw you and your family out and moved in. Would you not fight back? Palestinians have a right under international law to resist by any means. How you can excuse it by saying “they were offered a state 5 times” is disgusting. You offer people a state on their own land? The world is waking up and this genocidal apartheid state will end, just as apartheid ended in South Africa. One state with equal rights for all, right of return and recompense. Whomever doesn’t want that, can leave and go back to Europe (where they originated from) and leave the land to the real Semitic peoples.
What does Martin Luther have to do with Israel stealing Palestinian land.
Maybe i’ll go kick your arse out and take your house and give it to some Muslims because God said.
the so called “Palestinians” can get land from Jordan. They are not native to Judea.
If Israel wanted to genocide the palestinians, they would have done it by now.. They just want to live in peace. When Palestinians decide they want to fire on Israel,, they have every right to defend themselves.. I would do it myself.
A population increasing 5 times in 70 years is not Genocide. Corey is nothing more than a genteel antisemite
The perfunctory, boring, and banal charge of anti-Semitism. You need some new material.
As if Palestine was just sitting there sipping tea peacefully when the evil Jews came and took their land and subjugated them. What a joke. Look at the history. When Britain released control of the area, which had been repeatedly conquered (or as the author should say, forcibly occupied and inflicted acts of GENOCIDE, the UN tries to divide the areas between Jews and Arabs. Jews say ok. Arabs say no, in large part because they want to keep strict QUOTAS on the “Zionist infiltrators”. On 1 December 1947, the Arab Higher Committee proclaimed a three-day strike, and Arab gangs began attacking Jewish targets (GENOCIDE???). Jews fight back, end up WINNING, and the sore losers have been stabbing people and throwing bombs ever since. That’s the short factual version. This is a case of a war being started, and the losers that started the war put forth a campaign to convince as many as possible they’re the victim and not an aggressor, all while actively killing people. Oh, the author says this is “equally wrong”, so I guess GENOCIDE is their goal too. FAIL.
Ignorance is bliss.
you’re living proof. Also “a pithy saying proves nothing”
And you just proved it.
No, Jews did NOT just say okay. As a matter of fact they’ve been refusing to just say okay and have been moving the goalposts ever since.
You’re a moron. The British tried to rescind Balfour because Israel reneged. They were not to displace the indigenous population nor were they to destroy its culture. They did both. Which is why the 1939 White Paper was drafted. When it was, your whiny sore loser heroes led by the Irgun and Lehi and their terrorist leaders and future Israeli Prime ministers Begin and Shamir attacked British garrisons and offered twice in writing to support the Nazis militarily against Britain.
Documents are freely downloadable. Update your notes.
Never Again…to US. It’s ok if WE do it to others, because…hey, it isn’t like _they_ are God’s chosen people.
Also: Ethnic Cleaning and not “genocide”.
dear lords. please open this person eyes.
it is Genocide when you are wiping out whole families. just like Hitler did in WW2 if you had Jewish blood he sent you to prison camps to die. if you have a drop of Palestinian blood in you they kill you. IT IS GENOCIDE because it’s more then just killing people over a faith, they are aiming to kill them for the crime of not being Jewish which is much more then just a religion. If you are not Jewish you should be a slave, and if you are not fit to be a slave they just kill you. THAT is what is going on over there.
Hi Annabella.
I’d rather go with “Ethnic Cleansing”.
After all, there’s no gene for Judaism. Just as there’s no gene for Sikhism or Islam either.
Of course, historically speaking, completely wiping out one’s enemies was simply the way war was conducted. It was a strategy that lead to this weird “victory” thing…
No slavery in the Arab world then?
You ignorant triggered extremist. How many Jews are in Islamic states and in Fakeastinians controlled areas? That’s where you will find genocide. Ignorant Brown Shirt concubine.
wow, you’re alright by me…even if you are religious.
every christian should follow this example. my people are being genocided and that has to stop.
There’s zero wrong with fighting back against systematic destruction. And when you do you fight with everything you have and use every trick in the book. Or you die. I can’t argue with their choice.
I agree with everything else wholeheartedly
Bullshit.
Why did you guys kill Rabin?
Why did your mother raise a ???
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See, this is why you’re being called an antisemitic piece of shit.
Because I asked why you killed Rabin?
Seems the only bigoted piece of shit here is you.
I really do find it Vile and Evil. we save them from genocide and they in turn go on to commit genocide I am not labelling all Jewish people like these folks i know plenty who are against what they are doing. but those that have taken over Palestine should know better, they are the children and grand children of the victims of WW2 and they have gone on to commit the same acts that their ancestors were survivors of. But to say that is apparently Antisemitism it’s disgusting >:( I don’t think all Jewish folk are remotely like the jew’s committing this vileness but i do think the jews that are committing these acts of evil are the most vile scum of the universe along with other vile evil scumbags of the universe of other creeds, colours and races.
Excuse me? You saved us from genocide? Six million Jews died – over half our total world population. And we still haven’t completely recovered that population.
No Jews “took over” Palestine, which, by the way, was a region of the Ottoman Empire, not a country. When they first began returning to their homeland, where they are the indigenous people, they purchased every inch of land that they lived on and farmed. Later, under the Mandate, they were given sovereignty over all the land from the River to the Sea. In the Declaration for the Establishment of the State of Israel, the following clauses were included:
WE APPEAL – in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months – to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
The Arab response – a war of extermination against the new nation. Despite this, many Arabs remained, and Israel brought back 100,000 Arabs who had fled. They were willing to bring back another 100,000 but the Arab League wouldn’t allow it, having already realized what great pawns the refugees made. In addition, Israel paid out tens of thousands of shekels to all legal claimants who had lost property.
After the 67 war, when Israel retook territory that had been illegally occupied by Jordan and Egypt, she greatly improved the quality of life of the Arabs living there. There has been no genocide and no ethnic cleansing on the part of Israel. The Arabs, on the other hand, have stated in both the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter that their goals are the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews.You should read these before making such foolish comments.
Palestine was a Mandate….and for all extents and purposes was a country.
Once again this was forced on the Palestinian Muslims and Christians who rejected it.
And you might want to check out the Likud charter…..
“The 1999 Likud Party platform emphasizes the right of settlement.
“The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting.”[35]
Similarly, they claim the Jordan River as the permanent eastern border to Israel and it also claims Jerusalem as belonging to Israel.
The ‘Peace & Security’ chapter of the 1999 Likud Party platform rejects a Palestinian state.
“The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river. The Palestinians can run their lives freely in the framework of self-rule, but not as an independent and sovereign state. Thus, for example, in matters of foreign affairs, security, immigration, and ecology, their activity shall be limited in accordance with imperatives of Israel’s existence, security and national needs.”[35]
With Likud back in power, starting in 2009, Israeli foreign policy is still under review. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, in his “National Security” platform, neither endorsed nor ruled out the idea of a Palestinian state.[36] “Netanyahu has hinted that he does not oppose the creation of a Palestinian state, but aides say he must move cautiously because his religious-nationalist coalition partners refuse to give away land.”[37]
On 14 June 2009, Netanyahu delivered a speech[38] at Bar-Ilan University (also known as “Bar-Ilan Speech”), at Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, that was broadcast live in Israel and across parts of the Arab world, on the topic of the Middle East peace process. He endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, with several conditions.
However, on 16 March 2015, Netanyahu stated in the affirmative, that if he were elected, a Palestinian state would not be created.[39] Netanyahu argued, “anyone who goes to create today a Palestinian state and turns over land, is turning over land that will be used as a launching ground for attacks by Islamist extremists against the State of Israel.”[39] Some take these statements to mean that Netanyahu and Likud oppose a Palestinian state. After having been criticised by U.S. White House Spokesperson Josh Earnest for the “divisive rhetoric” of his election campaign, on 19 March 2015, Netanyahu retreated to “I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a peaceful, sustainable two-state solution. I have not changed my policy.”[40]”
Hmmmmm…. anyone see the hypocrisy there…
Hamas=evil because they do not recognise Israel.
Likud=good because they do not recognise Palestinian State and actively support the taking of Palestinian land.
Holocaust survivors have condemned Israel and agree that it is genocide. They are not Jews but Zionists.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/holocaust-survivors-and-their-descendants-accuse-israel-of-genocide-9687994.html
That is simply not true.
http://www.thereligionofprace.com
Annabella you saved no one you trifling racheting bigoted dishonorable racist.
These were children and grandchildren of survivors who clearly didn’t know what they were talking about as the facts belie them.
It is not genocide, nor is it apartheid. The Palestinians are not a single ethnic, religious, national group because firstly, Palestine never existed as a legislative state. There is little difference between the Palestinians and the Jordanian Arabs. The Ottoman Empire ruled this area for almost 500 years and when it collapsed the British and the French, rightly or wrongly, carved out the region and created new states like Iraq and Jordan.
Much of the hysterical abuse against the Israelis has been criticised by many as being anti-Semitic. Many people have often asked – why are they so selective in their outrage when there is far worse going on in Yemen. in Libya and certainly, in Syria? Why indeed?
For starters that’s bs. Palestine was a recognised Mandate in the same way as Syria and Iraq was.
Secondly, how long do you thin the Israelis are going to occupy the west Bank….forever?
Or until they’ve taken over all of it.
Thirdly, what happened to the principles of democracy- of a people governing for themselves which people like you throw under a bus in support of ethno-religious division.
Your pathetic propaganda won’t wash.
As for Yemen, the US supports Saudi Arabia in Yemen. And Israel has a cosy relationship with Saudi Arabia whose fighting a proxy war with Iran.
And no one’s ignoring those proxy wars, you goose, especially Israel.
1. And the Mandate was for the creation of the Jewish state. Period. The Arabs got all the rest.
2. According to UNSC 242, the territories are in dispute, not occupied. According to the Geneva Conventions, the territories are not occupied – it would behoove you to read them.
3. Over 98% of the Arabs do govern themselves. Those remaining in Area C are free to move to A and B whenever they want.
4. Israel’s semi-positive relationship is both very new and very conditional. When the Iranian threat goes away, so will the relationship.
So the Israeli bots have gone form there was no Palestine to it was Palestine only for Jews.
Guess what the Arabs (Muslim and Christian) didn’t like it.
Oh and Area C is on Palestinian land.
Not occupied hey…..
The IDF are only sightseeing……
So Israel is only taking Palestinian and increasing settlements because of Iran.
When Iran stops being a threat the settlements will disappear.
And you expect everyone to believe your horseshit?
Initially, the San Remo Accord of 1920 gave All of what is todays Jordan for an Israeli Homeland (as well as Gaza). That is the agreement which must be surmounted by an International Court.
So the people of the West Bank have no say in their own sovereignty?
I’m interested to know where else in the world that applies?
Once again you types are quick to throw out the principles of democracy for your own ideology.
Exactly what is their right to sovereignty over any land based on? They are a disparate group of Arabs who used to be Jordanians living on Israeli territory that they have no legal claim to. Their cry for sovereignty is just another propaganda lie in the Arab/Muslim unending quest for the destruction of Israel and the Jews. But, you’re okay with that, right, Bones?
The Palestinians I know in Ramallah have been there for centuries.
Once again thanks for showing your total disregard for the principles of democracy.
Oh and that you do nothing but lie.
Do you understand what sovereignty is? Something the Arabs in Judea and Samaria never had! The land belongs to the Jews in accordance with international law whether you, or the Arabs, like it or not. If the Arabs would accept that and behave accordingly, their troubles would soon be over. People like you enable their delusion and keep them living in misery.
It seems you don’t understand what sovereignty is.
Thats why Bibi has neen denying it to Palestinians while increasing settlements.
Now if only they would behave while we steal their land….
Not very convincing Bibi.
They live in Democratic Israel.
No, they don’t.
And Israel doesn’t want them.
Tell that to the 20% non-Jewish population that has made it clear many times that they have no desire to leave Israel and be governed by the PA or any other Arab org.
Try telling that to the Palestinian population that Israel refuses to accept a one OR two state solution.
Why did you shoot Rabin?
Israel didn’t. One deranged man shot him, and the entire nation condemned him.
Israel doesn’t have to accept any solution that will result in her destruction. She is not legally required to give even an inch of land to the Arabs.
A deranged man?
Yep, like you.
Thats why you support keeping populations under perpetual occupation.
‘Appropriate; Einstein being an Idiot.
Lol…right wing moron yells at the sky.
The only thing Israelis have ever wanted is, if not get along, then to be left alone by the Palestinians. If you like, I can offer you photos of what this peaceful little bunch of people have done to Israelis over 70 years. Your facts are beyond laughable: Palestine is not a “recognized mandate”. It never was. This people drifted into Israel and have brought their cruel proclivities with them, taking Israeli lives and this week, actually, dressed a donkey in an Israeli flag, beat it to death, and burned it. That was in Gaza. They are in Gaza because they cannot behave like normal human beings and therefore have to be separated out. Arabs in Israel are quite happy. They enjoy full citizenship and everything that entails. And when you come back at me, and you know you will, please show me the courtesy of speaking truths, not the lies the Palestinians want you to believe.
Yeah let’s start with the King David bombing……
And the perpetrators became Israeli leaders and heroes.
Netanyahu still supports it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hs4Z5b-ddE
Do you actually know what the King David bombing was about? Probably not. Read up and then come back.
Yep, sure do.
And those terrorists were Jewish heroes and PMs.
Who was in the King David? Why wasn’t it evacuated? Why was it bombed in the first place?
Lol…..but…but…this was good terrorism……
So, you can’t answer those questions. Put down your haters’ playbook and learn some actual history.
Oh…but it was good terrorism….
They had good reasons to blow up the Britsh hq.
No doubt Bin Laden thought the same
The only one hating anyone here is you and your pals who show a complete and utter hatred to palestinians.
But then you try to justify terrorists so not much more is expected from you.
Wrong!!!
Settlements are all over the West Bank and the Likud charter was to claim the whole of the West Bank.
Palestine was the same Mandate as Syria and Iraq….
I see the Israeli propaganda bots are out after your shenanigans in the past week.
Why do you lie all the time….and why are you a racist?
It was not the same Mandate! There were several mandates, each overseen by a different country. The Mandate for Palestine was for the creation of the Jewish state – period. Your ignorance truly is appalling!
No, they were the same.
Class A Mandates were Palestine, Syria and Iraq.
Your lies have well and truly been exposed.
But that’s what you get when you have someone who defends settlements.
Those are three different Mandates – two held by the British and the other by the French. You forgot Lebanon, which was under the French along with Syria. Now, were you lying, or just ignorant of the facts?
I never even mentioned Lebanon, derpy….
Oh and…..
The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine said the Jewish National Home, which derived from the formulation of Zionist aspirations in the 1897 Basle program has provoked many discussions concerning its meaning, scope and legal character, especially since it had no known legal connotation and there are no precedents in international law for its interpretation. It was used in the Balfour Declaration and in the Mandate, both of which promised the establishment of a “Jewish National Home” without, however, defining its meaning. A statement on “British Policy in Palestine,” issued on 3 June 1922 by the Colonial Office, placed a restrictive construction upon the Balfour Declaration. The statement included “the disappearance or subordination of the Arabic population, language or customs in Palestine” or “the imposition of Jewish nationality upon the inhabitants of Palestine as a whole”, and made it clear that in the eyes of the mandatory Power, the Jewish National Home was to be founded in Palestine and not that Palestine as a whole was to be converted into a Jewish National Home. The Committee noted that the construction, which restricted considerably the scope of the National Home, was made prior to the confirmation of the Mandate by the Council of the League of Nations and was formally accepted at the time by the Executive of the Zionist Organization.[106]
In March 1930, Lord Passfield, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, had written a Cabinet Paper[107] which said:
“In the Balfour Declaration there is no suggestion that the Jews should be accorded a special or favoured position in Palestine as compared with the Arab inhabitants of the country, or that the claims of Palestinians to enjoy self-government (subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory as foreshadowed in Article XXII of the Covenant) should be curtailed in order to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish people.” … Zionist leaders have not concealed and do not conceal their opposition to the grant of any measure of self-government to the people of Palestine either now or for many years to come. Some of them even go so far as to claim that that provision of Article 2 of the Mandate constitutes a bar to compliance with the demand of the Arabs for any measure of self-government. In view of the provisions of Article XXII of the Covenant and of the promises made to the Arabs on several occasions that claim is inadmissible.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
Seems nothing’s changed.
The White Papers were eventually understood for the shameful documens that they are. They had no legal standing and changed nothing as far as the Treaty of Sevres (later subsumed into the Treaty of Lausanne) or the British Mandate for Palestine was concerned.
The White papers were produced after the Arab Uprising because….surprise….surprise….they didn’t want to be part of a Jewish State…..and who were the majority…..
Once again thanks for showing you have no care for democracy at all.
The Mandate for Palestine was a Class A Mandate for the express purpose of creating a Jewish state on all the land from the River to the Sea. The Arabs aren’t even mentioned in it except as non-Jewish residents. So please do keep bringing it up!
Yep I sure will.
Its common knowledge that the British were Zionists eg Balfour and the mandate was made in consultation with Jewish zionists.
Actually the Brits also wanted to give them part of Trans-Jordan.
I wonder why the arabs weren’t happy about that?
Good to see that principles such as democracy dont apply.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com
Palestinian Christians say hi…..
No such thing stunad. Get hit on the head numerous times as a spawn of ??
Lol…..you really can’t help lying can you?
Thanks for showing everyone how stupid you are.
IDF snipers shoot kid in the head…….
https://twitter.com/vic2pal/status/987398532557688835
I’m sure the Israeli bots will tell us why this was such a good thing….
Why was he in the midst of rioters who were throwing molotov cocktails and throwing rocks? He wasn’t deliberately targeting, unless he was engaging in the same behavior. He should have listened to his mother.
Aaaaaaannnnndddd there we have it.
The defender of child killers.
this is what religion does to people.
It causes them to excuse evil.
The IDF are not child-killers. Hamas, however, which puts children on the front lines, is.
They ARE child killers. You can no hide what Israel IS. They are a terrorist state.
We just saw an IDF sniper shoot a kid in the head with live ammunition..
Take your lies somewhere else.
Actually, you saw a kid in the midst of rioters, who may or may not have been throwing molotov cocktails or rocks, or rushing the fence, get shot. As always, Arab film is heavily edited and only shows a part of what was actually taking place. Supposedly, his mother told him to stay home. He should have listened. And, yes, Israel told the Gazans that live ammo would be used. Why the surprise?
The Israelis are investigating it themselves derpy.
And yes we know you like dead Arabs….
I don’t want anyone to die. But the Arabs make that impossible.
LIAR. It is ISRAEL that has NEVER wanted peace. It is ISRAEL that has wanted all the land and every Palestinian dead. The world is awake and we ARE watching. We no longer believe Israeli propaganda. Every day, more and more people are SEEING what Israel IS. A terrorist state. A state that was illegally created by THEFT, TERROR and LIES.
Thats why you support Jewish extremists.
What a pathetic load of offal!
If Israel were trying to commit genocide, or even ethnic cleansing, then they suck at it, because the Arab “Palestinian” population (a group that invented its “ethnic identity” in the 1960’s, to fool western countries into thinking they were native) has been growing faster than most populations on earth, their lifespans have been steadily increasing, child mortality is down, and quality of life has increased since the rebirth of Israel, and particularly since Israel regained sovereignty over Judaea, Samaria, and Gaza. And those improvements have outpaced those in the rest of the region, so you can’t just claim it is general progress.
There is one side in the conflict trying to commit genocide, and proudly boasting of it, but thank the Lord, the “Palestinians” don’t have the military means to carry out their declared intention of wiping out the Jewish people.
Tsk-tsk, Gym Mom, for how wrong ya are…Palestinians are the very ones in the Bible mentioned as Philistines. They did not invent their ethnic identity and are much closer genetically to Hebrew Canaanite Jews than they are to Arabs…
GymMom you seem all too comfortable with dehumanizing an entire group of people – and backing up your evidence with half-truths. I am guessing you don’t know one Palestinian human being in real life. It would behoove you to educate yourself and wake up to what is really happening. Btw dehumanization of your brothers and sisters on this planet is what sets the stage for crimes against humanity. That is what happened in Germany and Rwanda.
Do you know any actual Arabs living in Judea and Samaria? How about IsraelI Arabs who said they would never live in a Palestinian state because they have it too good in Israel. I do have Arab friends, and I hear their stories. Most of the dehumanizing in this conflict comes from the Arabs, not the Jews. In the Arab/Muslim mind, all non-Muslims are slightly less than human. This is one of the main reasons for this conflict – the idea that a subhuman, dhimmi, people would dare to establish its own state on what Muslims consider to be their land by virtue of the fact that they once walked on it! Before forming an opinion, spend some time learning the facts.
Yep…have Christian friends in Ramallah.
They don’t like you either.
You are the one who needs to learn the facts. Re-read your hypocritical comment. As if you know that “In the Arab/Muslim mind, all non-Muslims are slightly less than human.” Maybe you are a racist bigot? You are definitely the the one who is doing the dehumanizing. And you are the problem. You are blind and brainwashed into protecting a societal cancer. I personally know Israelis who have left because they cannot stomach the racism and and hate against Muslims.
Do you know anything about Islam? Have you read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter? I know dozens of Israelis who have stayed and who just want to live in peace. I also know Israeli Arabs who are terrified at the thought of having to live under an Arab/Muslim government such as the PA. The people who are preventing peace, including peace for themselves and their descendants, are the Arabs/Muslims.
Please show where in my comment I dehumanized the Arabs.
Have you read Likud’s charter?
Likud refuses to recognise a Palestinian State.
Lol…you dehumanise Arabs all the time.
Yes I do know about Islam and I have lived in a Muslim neighborhood for 10 years. You are the one who needs to learn the facts. Do you know the civil rights activists in Palestine who are fighting peacefully for the right to be recognized as human beings? No you don’t because they are jailed and you believe propaganda. You can only use Hamas and the PA and your so-called Arab friends as an excuse to justify more hate and violence. The reality is that this problem is not outside yourself. Your humanity has been hijacked. You have to do the work to become conscious and evolve. And if you cannot re-read your previous comment see your own unconscious projection of ‘less than human’ onto an entire race then you are truly blind.
You still haven’t shown what I said that was a “projection of ‘less than human'”. I don’t hate the Arabs, except for what they are doing to my people, and I don’t promote violence. However, since the Arabs use violence against Israel, only violence will stop them.
Since you live in a Muslim neighborhood, and know about Islam, I suggest you read about Hebron in 1929. Those Jews thought the same as you do.
That’s why you support the Occupation of a people who don’t want you there.
Wow, you’re a real hero.
If I turn your statement about the ‘Arab/Muslim mind’ around, does it not sound anti-Semitic and/or racist? “In the [Jewish] mind, all non-[Jews] are slightly less than human. This is one of the main reasons for this conflict…” It certainly casts a negative stereotype on an entire race. I would never say that because it is inaccurate and it represents neither Jews and Muslims – both are diverse groups of human beings with many different perspectives. It is also destructive because sweeping assumptions like this allow us to feel justified in our hate. It dehumanizes the ‘other’ and [erroneously] makes us feel like we know everything. As long as we see the problem outside of ourselves, then we are the problem. It honestly sounds like your humanity has been hijacked or you don’t think you have anything to learn about yourself – as if it is not possible and the only solution now is violence. I highly suggest considering that we all have an enormous amount of evolving to do….
Luvs2dance sit down! Hyperbole queen!
Hyperbole to you only because you have had your humanity stolen. Wake up and evolve. – this problem is not outside of yourself.
You have had your mind and soul stolen by Satan’s Mooozzzzzz Solemns. Put the crack pipe down. The problem is not outside yourself. Projecting again!
The Israeli propaganda bots are out…..
One need not be a bot to disagree with your viewpoint. But that’s always the refuge of the fact-poor – call people names. It’s schoolyard, Trumpie stuff. Surely you can do better.
Lol….it was really quiet here until Israel started shooting Palestinian protestors….
The SS Brown Shirts are crying again…STFU
No wonder you guys killed Rabin?
STFU!
You need to turn in your hater’s manual and get an updated version – everyone knows the truth about the Rabin assassination and how it was condemned by the entire nation. It was one man, not the Israeli people.
Funny, because the only one defending an occupation of a people and systemic taking of their land is you.
GFYS ?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/85880b8b88f03871f12711595c6d165e8085e414e8a2c94f99de27a600ea37a5.jpg
If you’re going to spread lies, do a little more homework.
The photo you claim was shot in Gaza is in fact Aleppo. It looks like a screenshot from this video at about 1:23:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lzGB0HbbmM
The hills in the distance are a giveaway–the land around Gaza is flat.
That’s just the beginning of what I’ll generously call “factual inaccuracies” in this post.
Yeah, Gaza was worse.
The Israeli bots are out today……
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Syria is much worse, Bones, and you know it. Casualties (deaths) are upward of half million. In Gaza they are a few thousand. Get your facts right before spouting off a load of drivel.
Lol…..our genocide isn’t worse than theirs.
Wake up, moron.
Everyone can see through your pro-Israeli bs.
What’s happening in Gaza isn’t genocide. It’s a predictable response to acts of war against a sovereign nation.
You’re part right…shooting kids is a predictable response from Israel.
Can Palestinians defend themselves from Jews?
The Arabs don’t need to defend themselves – Israel doesn’t attack them. What they do need to do is stop putting children and women at risk in order to score PR points.
Yeah those settlers on the West Bank are just wonderful tourists.
Lying comes natural to you doesn’t it?
You really can’t help yourself.
I beg to differ. I lived there for 18 months and witnessed first hand what happens there.
Must be why you forced my friend out of his house at gunpoint and bulldozed it for a settlement.
Israel doesn’t target children – unlike the Arabs who tunnel under kindergartens to kill children, and blow up birthday parties. Oh, and they break into their houses and slit their throats. But do keep defending them – it shows your true character.
The evidence is there for all to see.
But do keep defending child murderers.
Is this what your religion teaches?
Israel – the light to the nations, has become the symbol of racism, bigotry and religious and ideological zealotry.
Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl
· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says ‘confirming the kill’ standard practice.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
Israelis celebrate the burning alive of Palestinian children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0aJQ3996vY
Which one’s you?
Increase the ECT and Haldol.
Nazi propaganda! Your Brown shirt ancestors will be proud. Fakeastinians engage in daily terrorism. Learn the definition genocide? Sit down and STFU
wasnt it the IRGUN who made terrorism
No. Arab terrorism existed centuries before the Irgun, who were fighting for their survival.
Wrong……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gaMNApYKtU
They’re pretty proud of it.
Troll’s not interested in conversation…
He just hurls shit around.
Yeah thanks for showing your lack of intelligence on this issue.
And no, you can’t bully as like you do Palestinians.
So you can STFU.
The idea that Israel is inflicting on Palestinian Arabs “conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”
is complete and utter nonsense. The fact is that both within Israel proper and in Judea and Samaria the Arab population has consistently grown since 1948. Furthermore, by virtually every measure (infant mortality, longevity, nutrition, medical care, educational attainment,
literacy, etc.), their quality of life has improved under Israeli administration and generally exceeds that of Arabs elsewhere. This is
borne out by UN statistics, an organization that is hardly pro-Israeli. The UN likes to complain, but when it comes down to it, it concedes that there is no humanitarian crisis even in Gaza, much less in Judea and Samaria. Arab Israeli citizens when polled say that the prefer life in Israel to life anywhere else. Arab residents of East Jerusalem do not favor transfer to “Palestine”.
More Israeli propaganda bots……
The occupation of the West Bank is a good thing……
I note that you don’t dispute the facts. Yes, objectively Arabs in Judea and Samaria are better off than they were under Jordanian rule and better off in most respects than Arabs in other Arab countries. Nobody particularly likes living under occupation, but then 96% of them live in Area A or Area B, which are basically under PA control, so they aren’t subject to most aspects of a typical occupation. If you bother to look at the history, you will find that Jordan invested next to nothing in Judea and Samaria and that improvements in infrastructure, education, health care, etc. came about under Israeli rule. In some respects things have gone backward since the PA took over due to its incompetence, corruption, and priority of destroying Israel over over improving its own society.
Now we have the “but but Jordan” defence……
Israel demolishes infrastructure, leaving Palestinian farmers without water for domestic and agricultural needs
In January and February 2017, Israeli authorities demolished water supply infrastructure in two areas in the West Bank. In the southern West Bank, authorities demolished seven water cisterns used by farmers and shepherds near the Palestinian village of Tuqu’, Bethlehem District, and another cistern in the South Hebron Hills community of Khashm a-Daraj. In the Jordan Valley, authorities demolished a pipe that provided water to Palestinian farming and shepherding communities in the northern Jordan Valley. On 20 February 2017, the Civil Administration once again demolished a section of the pipe, after local residents had restored its hook-up. Israel, which has controlled most water sources in the West Bank since it occupied it nearly fifty years ago, disregards the severe water shortage suffered by Palestinians and promotes projects that can alleviate it only when they involve improvements to settlement infrastructure. At the same time, Israel demolishes every water supply system that Palestinians try to erect themselves in Area C, subjecting them to intolerable living conditions in order to force them out of the area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jOM0O4rHU
On 23 Feb. 2017 the Civil Administration demolished a cistern dug several years ago by residents of Khashm a-Daraj-Khashm al-Karem in the South Hebron Hills. While the community is on the water grid, Israel does not permit it to hookup its farmland and the limited supply is insufficient for livestock. As Mustafa al-Faqir told B’Tselem: The sheep now drink the rainwater left in the stream, but it’ll soon dry up and we’ll have to buy water, which is a big expense. Shepherding is our only livelihood. The effort and money we put into the cistern are all lost. Filmed by ‘Eid Hadhalin.
https://www.btselem.org/video/150702#full
The Israeli propaganda bots are VERY active after the poor PR this week.
Nice attempt at diverting the argument from the central point. Again, you do not even attempt to dispute the fact that the Arab population has grown continuously since 1948, that by most objective measures they are better off, and that the Arabs both in Israel proper and in East Jerusalem do not want to live under Palestinian Arab rule.
Instead, you claim that Israel has been mean to some Arabs in Judea and Samaria with regard to water supply. Even if this were true, it would have no impact on the overall picture, which you do not dispute. In any case, if you were to investigate more thoroughly, you would discover that Israel has to prevent illegal and unsystematic well-digging because the acquifer is stressed and must be used carefully. Israel has in fact gone to considerable effort to improve the water supply in Judea and Samaria and to help the Arabs establish proper waste water treatment, largely to no avail since they will not cooperate. (There is plenty of funding – the international aid agencies love to fund this kind of thing.) For an objective, third party treatment of this topic,I suggest that you read the 2012 MA thesis by Lauro Burkart from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, which attributes most of the blame to the PA leadership. For a presentation of the Israeli view, see Haim Gvirtzman’s “The Israeli-Palestinian Water Conflict: An Israeli Perspective (Bar Ilan University, 2012), which refutes the criticisms of Israeli water policy.
Is that you Bibi?
The central point being ‘but but Jordan…” and look how wonderful Israel is.
Now the only infrastructure Israel provides to the West Bank is to the Jewish Settlers.
Israel actually controls the amount of water Palestinians receive.
And hospitals are built by foreign NGOs.
” In any case, if you were to investigate more thoroughly, you would discover that Israel has to prevent illegal and unsystematic well-digging because the acquifer is stressed and must be used carefully. ”
Lol…….
Israeli Plan Proposes Supplying Palestinians Less Water Than Allocated to Settlers
Minister Yuval Steinitz rejects ‘unacceptable’ water plan that proposes giving West Bank Palestinians 65 cubic meters per person by 2050, about 40% less than allocated per capita to residents of settlements.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-plan-proposes-supplying-palestinians-less-water-than-allocated-to-settlers-1.5461133
Oh and
Israel passes law to seize private Palestinian land for Jewish settlements
By William BoothUpdated8 February 2017 — 11:18amfirst published 7 February 2017 — 12:21pm
Jerusalem: The Israeli Parliament passed a contentious law late on Monday that allows the state to seize land privately owned by Palestinians in the West Bank and grant the properties to Jewish settlements for their exclusive use.
The measure is designed to protect homes in Jewish settlements, built on private Palestinian property “in good faith or at the state’s instruction” from possible court-ordered evacuation and demolition.
It comes in the wake of a court-ordered forced eviction last week of 40 families living in the Amona settlement. Lawyers with the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din (“There is Law”) successfully argued that the land was owned by Palestinians in the nearby village of Silwad.
The Amona settlers said God had promised the land to the Jews and denied the Arab claims. The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the settlement demolished. It took 3000 police to clear the isolated hilltop of radical youth, who threw excrement, bleach and rocks at the officers.
Thousands of homes in dozens of settlements and outposts may now be protected, at least temporarily. The bill is likely headed for a high court challenge.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the legislation and has told his constituents that no government had done more for the settlers.
Israeli legislators in the opposition condemned the bill as reckless and warned that it would turn the world against Israel while goading prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague to take action against the Jewish state.
The bill passed on a vote of 60 to 52.
The settlement legalisation measure was pushed forward by Naftali Bennett, the education minister and leader of the Jewish Home party, who opposes granting the Palestinians a state and instead wants to annex to Israel the 60 per cent of the occupied West Bank where the Jewish settlements are located.
Bennett, a religious nationalist, said the bill seeks to “normalise” life for the settlers and allow them to remain in homes that the state has encouraged them to build, while providing roads, water, power and protection by the army.
After the bill passed, Bennett tweeted just one word: “Revolution.”
There are about 400,000 Jews in the West Bank and an additional 200,000 in East Jerusalem living in settlements that most of the world considers illegal. Israel disputes this.
Shuli Moalem-Refaeli, one of the bill’s sponsors, called it “a historic achievement and a strategic event for the settlement movement. It’s another step in normalising the lives of thousands of citizens. The fate of thousands of homes will no longer be dependent on the whims of left-wing organisations.”
The Israeli anti-occupation group Peace Now estimated that more than 3800 homes on 53 illegal outposts could eventually be legalised by the bill, which they claimed “would turn Israeli citizens into thieves”.
A pro-settler advocacy organisation, Regavim, said the number of protected homes was half that.
Reporters in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, said the most recent revised version of the bill would safeguard homes in 16 settlements but that the justice minister could add to this list.
The law will almost certainly be challenged in the courts by pro-Palestinian groups and human rights activists in Israel who say it upends Israel’s own protections of private property.
Before its passage, Israeli Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit said the bill violates international law and that he would not defend it before the high court.
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is essentially the military governor of the West Bank and also lives in a settlement, said in the days before the vote: “You don’t have to be a genius to understand that when the attorney-general is opposed to the bill, this means that he is not willing to defend it in the High Court of Justice and that it is an unconstitutional bill, and its chances of being disqualified are 100 per cent.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-passes-law-to-seize-private-palestinian-land-for-jewish-settlements-20170207-gu75n3.html
But….but…Jordan….
When Israel won the West Bank in 1967, there were 708 Palestinian villages in the region, 4 of which had running water. Four. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14304
http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/growth.asp
Actually those in Area C (the Israeli Zone) don’t…..eg Susiya village….where the IDF keeps destroying their rainwater cisterns.
Even members of the Israeli government objected to recent changes to give even less water to Palestinians.
That must be embarrassing for you.
Of course they do. Please give a link to a source that proves they don’t! And as to Susiya:
http://jewsdownunder.com/2015/07/23/facts-ignored-the-invention-of-the-village-of-susiya/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/198541#.VbHqF_mqpBc
http://jewsdownunder.com/2013/12/02/the-israeli-left-and-the-myth-of-palestinian-susiya-an-update/
http://www.israelandstuff.com/susya-palestinian-squatters-in-land-grab-from-israel-financed-by-the-europeans
Is that the best Israeli propaganda you can muster?
Hundreds Of Rabbis Urge Netanyahu Not To Demolish Palestinian Village
Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/391861/hundreds-of-rabbis-urge-netanyahu-not-to-demolish-palestinian-village/
It’s illegal for the Arabs to build or dig wells, etc in Area C without a permit. They keep doing it, Israel keeps destroying it. Pretty simple, don’t you think? Do you think Israelis can go into Area A and build? Not only can’t they, but they would be murdered before they had a chance to start digging!
Thanks for pointing out that it is illegal for Palestinians to dig ells on their own land.
Not just wells mind you, but rainwater cisterns…..
Not their land. It’s really not a hard concept to grasp.
Yes it is……
The “March of Return” symbolizes Hamas refusal to acknowledge defeat and until such time that the Arabs accept Israel’s existence as fact, true peace and resolution to the conflict will be impossible. While both sides have committed atrocities you are only furthering the problem by putting all blame on Israel.
What atrocities has Israel committed?
Last I heard it was over half a million Jewish settlers encouraged by the government which had taken up residence in the West bank……
Bones, ya might want to add that the Israeli governments water department also pumps wells dry from Palestinian land then resells some of it back where Palestinians fill their 5 gal tote jugs and haul it back home where they can at least cook and bathe in. The rest goes to the Israelis where they can grow bananas and water their desert yards. Now mind ya, this is a region where water is scarce…
That’s known as the water libel. When Israel took over in 1967, there were 708 Palestinian villages in the region, four of which had running water. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-truth-behind-palestinian-water.html#.Vd2qU6gViko
If this is genocide,they sure suck at it. 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs in 1948… over 5 million today. Don’t see how you can call that “genocide.” And I’d say the blame for their situation is multi-pronged. Some blame rightly belongs to Israel, which has been ham-fisted and short-sighted in permitting settlements in provocative locations. But much blame also goes to the Palestinians for refusing to coexist with more than 6 million Jews, for choosing terrible leaders, and for preferring to invest in tunnels rather than build up the institutions of a peaceful functioning state. If the Pals had ever sincerely and seriously adopted Gandhi’s nonviolent techniques, they’d have had their state long ago; Israel couldn’t have withstood international outcry in such a case. But nonviolent protest remains the exception.
“But nonviolent protest remains the exception.”
You mean the way they bulldozed over Rachel Corrie……
Rachel Corrie: REAL Footage of death
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rb9ey
Israel just waves it’s magic wand and says its ok…..
Bones we get it, you limey stunad! Aldolph is your grandfather and MoreHammad is your pleasure toy.
Rachel Corrie stood in front of a bulldozer where the driver couldn’t see her.
And of course you swallowed that……
No way you WON’T see a person standing in front of a bulldozer.
I just watched the video – there is no way you can draw any kind of conclusion from it – and some of it is highly edited and some looks just plain fake.
erog “I don’t like it – so it’s fake”.
That’s a lie. The bulldozer chased her for 300 yards. Get a moral compass.
He didn’t chase her – he couldn’t see her!
BS……You can see whats in front of you. They’re not blind.
She deserved what befell her.
Thanks for showing the type of despicable human being you are.
Sit down vile limey!
Stfu.
Dear fellow GCTS alumnus,
I have said for decades that what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews.
I hoep people listen to you.
If it was, there would be no Palestinians today.
If you want to discuss whether actual actions were justified and what could be done better, go ahead. Please leave out inflammatory comparisons that don’t advance the conversation.
One thing is left out in your conversation. When organizations like Hezbollah fire rockets into Israelian villages and neighborhood, some reaction is justified. Having said that, as a Republican, I have argued till I was blue in the face to take out the platform plank that binds us to the Israeli defense. The arguments that are used to defend it’s presence? “The Bible says… bless Israel, and I will bless you…”
When I answer with the fact that Israel is no longer God’s favored nation since the ultimate purpose was the Christ-event, I get booed… And when I refer to the fact that, indeed, many of the actions by Israel are reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s actions, well… I might as well get ready for the tar and feather treatment.
Israel (modern) exists because of an international sense of guilt after WWII. The idea that “We have to get the land back, because it USED to belong to Israel,” is as valid as the idea that in the U.S. the land has to be given back to the Indian tribes who are the original owners of the land (Or, for that matter, 2/3 of the world population has to move from where they currently live).
1. G-d is far from finished with the Jewish people. He brought them back to the Land which He gave them in a totally legal way, and has protected them from every assault that has been perpetrated against them since them.
2. None of Israel’s actions in any way resemble Nazi Germany. Where are the work camps? The death camps? The decline of the Arab population by half? When did Germany supply water, electricity, food, building materials, etc to its Jewish population while they were conducting genocide against them.
The Arab population in the territories has continually and significantly increased since 1948 – that is a very poor sort of genocide.
The majority of the original Arab refugees fled in 1948 as a result of their leadership’s promise that all the Jews would be quickly killed and the Arabs could come back and take their homes and property. Only a handful of villages were required to leave during the war – and that was because they were actively attacking Jewish convoys on the road to Jerusalem.
The only people who experienced ethnic cleansing after the ’48 war were the Jews. Jordan murdered and forcibly removed them from Judea and Samaria, including Jerusalem, and the Arab nations expelled over 850,000 after first confiscating their homes and property.
The Arabs in the territories enjoy the highest quality of life of any other Arabs in the region.
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
2. The Jews began returning to their homeland, where they are the indigenous people, in the late 1800’s! The Mandate for Palestine, a Class A Mandate for the creation of the Jewish state, was instituted in 1923 – the Holocaust had nothing to do with it! And the Jews bought every inch of every piece of land that they lived on and worked. The Arabs began pouring into the region because the Jews were creating employment opportunities. Most of the Arabs currently living in the territories have been there at most for three hundred years – Jews have continuously inhabited the land for over 3,500, and have been the majority population in Jerusalem for the past several centuries.
3. If you actually care about the truth, and want to know who you should be accusing of behaving like Nazi Germany, read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem not only supported Hitler and supplied him with Arab troops, but it was he who suggested “The Final Solution”, and asked Hitler to do the same to the Jews of the Middle East.
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp
http://israelbehindthenews.com/20th-century-cleric-behind-21st-century-hate/16907/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ibn-today
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b9f0723d06e186adf3fde387c9530bfd1ca966b2dc798690c9e06f656565f7b.jpg
Nice try, but this seems to be tertiary source documentation at best.
They all went to Palestine…….where there are over 800 000 settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Btw why were Jews forced out of Muslim countries – hint it happened after 1948……
That is a perfect example of the lie and the moral depravity that is Zionism. Legal? Are you learning impaired, or just lacking a moral compass? Can we take your home, destroy your business and crops, and kill your children with impunity?
To whom are you referring? Since none of that happened to the Arabs.
Lol……I know Palestinians that has happened to.
Actually, Jews (Zionists) moved to PALESTINE, a land that had been lived on, worked and owned by PALESTINIANS, who had lived there for centuries.
Simon bar Kochba (And those before him) caused the Romans to totally wipe out whatever was left of a Jewish inhabited land in approx. 125 AD. Between the uprising in 67 AD and bar Kochba’s revolution, all damage possible was don.
Between 125 AD and the late 1800’s there was nothing that was anything like a “homeland” for Jews as a nation. They were assimilated throughout what would become Europe and Russia.They were ‘hunted’ from time to time through the centuries in some of the lands where they lived. Zionism started as a movement to start a religious community in Palestine, and later became more of a political movement.
It was not until after WWII that the rest of the world (UN) that there should be a shared nation. Now, imagine how YOU would feel if your family had owned a section of land for countless generations, and here the British (And the rest of the world) tells you to pack up and go?
God had nothing to do with these events. There was no reason for the rebuilding of a Jewish homeland from God’s perspective. The Law was fulfilled, completed in the death and resurrection of Jesus as the promised blessing for all nations…
Now, as far as the current Israel and their actions against the Palestinians is like the German Nazis against the Jews. Slowly all their possessions were taken. Their land, their stores, their jobs… Are you honestly saying that is NOT happening with Palestinians? If so, you must be blind to the realities of the day! Last week a large number of Palestinians were killed during a non-violent protest. Why?? Why are does Israel keep building villages in occupied territory – encroaching on Palestinians?
Slowly but surely Palestinians are pushed into smaller and smaller areas – wait, does that sound familiar? The word ghettos comes to mind here! Having grown up in Western Europe, I’m quite aware the historical developments. And I see Israelis treating Palestinians more and more the same way as Jews were treated, one step at a time…
1. Until 1964, when Arafat started calling the Arabs in Gaza and Judea and Samaria Palestinians, the only people know by that appellation were the Jews. In 135CE, Roman Emperor Hadrian, in a fit of pique because the Jews had humiliated his army, changed the name of Judea, homeland of the Jews, to Palestine – the Latin transliteration of Philistia, the land of the Philistines, Israel’s ancient enemy. Under the Ottomans and the Mandate, all the inhabitants were called Palestinian as in Palestinian Jew, Palestinian Arab, etc. Palestine was the name of the region. It was never a country under that name.The Arabs hated the term and called themselves Southern Syrians, and the land Southern Syria.
2. The movement of the Jews back to their homeland where they are the indigenous people began in the late 1800’s. And the creation of the state under the Mandate began in 1923. The Holocaust had nothing to do with the creation of the state.
3. The land was so underpopulated under the Ottomans that they brought in Muslims from all over their empire, including Bosnia! When Jordan was created, the British were afraid that there weren’t enough Arabs – no Jews allowed – to maintain the state. Most of the Arabs didn’t even arrive in the region until after the Jews had begun to create jobs for them. Because so many of the Arabs had been in the land for such a short time, the UN had to create a new definition for refugees – those who had lived there for at least two years!
4. None of those things happened to the Arabs. In fact, in Israel’s declaration of independence, all non-Jewish inhabitants are invited to remain and become citizens of the new state. Thousands did, and Israel brought back 100,000 refugees as well. She would have brought in another 100,000 but the Arab League refused to let them come, having figured out the political value of refugees as pawns in the ongoing war to destroy Israel. Today, 20% of Israel’s population is Arab.
5. Prior to the first intifada, the Arabs in the territories enjoyed freedom of movement and trade. Israel helped them build schools, hospitals, universities, and other infrastructure. When Israel won the West Bank in 1967, there were 708 Palestinian villages in the region, four of which had running water. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home.
6. Throwing molotov cocktails, hurling rocks, and shooting guns across the border into Israel is hardly non-violent. Hamas doesn’t care how many of their people die – they just want the publicity and to demonize Israel. Perhaps you didn’t notice the babies and children they brought to their “non-violent” event.
7. The Arabs are not being pushed anywhere. There has not been a new Israeli town built since the 1990’s. Plus, the land doesn’t belong to the Arabs. They have absolutely no legal claim to it.
8. G-d brought the Jews back into the Land He gave them – keeping His promise to restore them. To deny this is to call G-d a liar.
1. BS
Arabs had Palestinian passports…
Not even worth reading the rest.
Mandate passports. Everyone living there had one.
Thanks for proving my point, derpy.
No, it doesn’t. There was no nation called Palestine. It was the Mandate – which was for the creation of the Jewish state. Everyone living there had Palestinian passports – which also said “Eretz Yisrael” – the land of Israel.
Aaaand stamped ‘Palestinian Citizen’.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f83e8e582bcd44eea854f86cdeaefdf5fc0d6c2fb1d3bdc4374ef7a67f8bedee.jpg
It was a Mandate which was to lead to a nation.
Of course the Brits realised their mistake and ended up offering a 2 state solution.
Ffs do you rely think we’re going to fall for your bs.
The British didn’t offer a two-state solution – that was the UN. The Brits created a two-state solution – Israel for the Jews and Jordan for the Arabs. Of course, they gave the Arabs 78% of the land that was supposed to go to the Jews.
The White Paper of 39 was administered by the Brits, derpy.
And what you don’t get, which shows you have no understanding at all of the principles of democracy, is that outside governments cannot enforce their policies on local populations.
We saw what the Jewish extremists did once the Brits started to change their mind.
Actually the 20th Zionist Congress rejected the first proposal…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a1a23b2b9efb8a27bc6af2355e4c6cbf7aa42065edc3dc6a696a698aaf865fd.gif
And the UN proposal gave more like 60% of the land to the minority Jewish population. Surprisingly this was accepted by the Zionist congress…….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c9f710b479b1cea9de074bb9135c295c4af74090485c3b63ca6414b10d89adf8.gif
Land ownership shows who actually owned the land in 1945
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8544faba845bad7e0e2d677cacafbacee7b21fb7c1273356f162c3a54978e052.jpg
Wow…I wonder why Arabs didn’t want to be part of a Jewish State.
Btw how can a country be a Jewish home when the majority of its population aren’t Jews?
It is a mistaken belief that God gave the land BACK to Israel. Again, HIS purpose was fulfilled in the life and death of Jesus.
IF your argument is correct, (:Plus, the land doesn’t belong to the Arabs. They have absolutely no legal claim to it. “), then I suggest that you apply this to all th elands where now conquerors live, they should all leave, and give the land back to the original inhabitants… So, if YOU live in the US, give your property back to the native tribes, whose land you stole. You have no legal right to it.
It’s not mistaken – G-d promised, and He delivered. He is not in any way finished with the Jews. However, the land belongs to the Jews in accordance with international law.
Nope…….
None of that is true.
Israel is a Canaanite tribe.
That’s verified by Jewish Israeli archaeologists.
International law robbed people of their generations-long owned property, and handed it over because of an international sense of guilt. But you don’t assuage that guilt by committing another horrific act such as robbing people of their land.
And BTW – there should have been an international sense of guilt! It was known how Jews were treated in Germany even before Hitler set out to conquer the rest of Europe.
What international law? The Mandate for Palestine had been engaged in creating the Jewish state long before the Holocaust. And the land had never belonged to the Arabs. They had never had a sovereign state there, nor were they indigenous. Even most of the private individuals did not own the land on which they lived. The only international law that was applied here was the Treaty of Lausanne, which replaced the Treaty of Sevres, which divided up the land of the Ottoman Empire.
Everything about Israel is illegal, repulsive, and evil. It is a copy of Nazi Germany. To believe that “G-d gave us this land” is EXACTLY what the Nazis said.
I could not agree more; I have said for years that Israel has lost the moral high ground, and can longer plead “holocaust” when defending their illegal assaults on the Palestinians.
First, Israel never pleads Holocaust. Those words are always put in her mouth by her enemies. Israel responds to Arab violence – she doesn’t initiate it. The Arabs/Muslims have been attacking the Jews since their 7th century invasion. Please read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter to see who it is that espouse violence and plans genocide. Then read the Declaration of the Establishment of State of Israel, and note the clause that invites all non-Jews living in the region to remain and become citizens of the new state. Those Arabs that did, became citizens, and their descendants make up 20% of the Israeli population – all citizens with full rights under the Law.
Have you not heard of the Diaspora? Besides Palestinians are related to Jews.
Have a read of the Likud Charter too…..
Likud calls on Israeli government to annexe Jewish settlements in West Bank
http://www.euronews.com/2018/01/01/likud-calls-on-israeli-government-to-annexe-jewish-settlements-in-west-bank
Palestinians are Arabs, and are related to Jews by one ancient common ancestor. The Likud Charter is not a governing document. The land already belongs to Israel – if she chooses to annex it, that is her prerogative.
Likud is Bibi’s party derpy.
The land clearly doesn’t belong to Israel because you says it does.
There seems to be some inconvenient Palestinians who disagree with you.
Mind you they could annexe the land…… but then Israel wont be a Jewish state.
What really bothers me is that the Christian church thinks because Israel are “God’s chosen people” it basically makes them exempt from any accountability. I’m actually a Jew because my mom was Jewish. But I will not support these violent actions. Christians really need to stop and think before they support Israel. It’s also based in some twisted idea that Jesus will return once Israel is re-established. Once again, religion justifying violence.
Please show one time that Israel acted with violence toward the Arabs when there was no Arab provocation. I think you will be hard put to find one. Israel responds to Arab violence, period. The Arabs/Muslims have been persecuting and murdering the Jews since they first invaded in the 7th century. It has never stopped. And the Jews didn’t even start fighting back until around the turn of the 20th century! The true church must support Israel because G-d supports Israel.
Good grief. Israel came into being via ethnic cleansing of the Arab population.
Cf. Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
And Jeremy R. Hammond’s conclusion:
“Indeed, what happened in Palestine in 1948 was not an ‘alleged’ ethnic cleansing, as Benny Morris would have us believe. It is regrettable that he seems to have decided that trying to justify Israel’s legitimacy as a ‘Jewish state’ is more important than presenting the public with an honest historical representation of how Israel came into existence. But far from being ‘alleged’, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine must today be recognized as an uncontroversial historical fact. That this ethnic cleansing occurred is indeed today very well documented—including in Benny Morris’s own important contributions to the literature on the subject.
“It is also regrettable that the US mainstream media treat the matter as taboo. This silence must be broken. The means by which the ‘Jewish state’ of Israel came into existence—via the ethnic cleansing of the Arab population of Palestine—must be brought out of the darkness and into the light. Only by doing so will the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians have any chance of coming to fruition.”
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/11/14/benny-morriss-untenable-denial-of-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine/
If there was ethnic cleansing then why are there still tens of thousands of Palestinians living there?
Where?
Hundreds of thousands were driven out during the Nakba and are still refused right of return.
Perhaps you can tell me why there are 800,000 Jewish settlers in Palestinian territory.
What ethnic cleansing? Even the Arab leaders agree that they urged the Arabs to leave, telling them they could return in a week or two after the Jews were all dead. And, Pappe? He admits that he lies and ignores facts to feed his bias. In reality, the Jews, in the Declaration of Establish of State of Israel, state the following:
“WE APPEAL – in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months – to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.”
The Arabs who remained, and the 100,000 that were allowed to return (another 100,000 were prevented by the Arab League which had figured out the propaganda value of eternal refugees) are the ancestors of today’s Israeli Arabs, who are represented in every level of Israeli society.
The only people who were ethnically cleansed were the Jews living in Judea and Samaria, including Jerusalem. They were expelled or murdered by the Jordanians who brought their own citizens in to take over Jewish homes and properties. Not to mention the over 800,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries, all their property and assets confiscated.
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/11-03-17the-liar-as-a-hero-about-pappe-by-benny-morris.pdf
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/guide/pages/declaration%20of%20establishment%20of%20state%20of%20israel.aspx
https://www.quora.com/What-was-life-for-a-Jew-living-in-West-Bank-under-Jordanian-occupation-during-1948-1967
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1881&context=ilj
More lies hey.
Well we know not to expect more.
Why did you people kill Yitzhak Rabin?
1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle
Photograph
Refugees leaving Ramle
Date July 1948
Location Lydda, Ramle, and surrounding villages, then part of Mandatory Palestine, now part of Israel
Also known as Lydda death march
Participants Israel Defense Forces, Arab Legion, Arab residents of Lydda and Ramle
Outcome 50,000–70,000 residents fled from, or were expelled by, the IDF
The 1948 Palestinian exodus from Lydda and Ramle, also known as the Lydda Death March,[1][2] was the expulsion of 50,000-70,000[3] Palestinian Arabs when Israeli troops captured the towns in July that year. The military action occurred within the context of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The two Arab towns, lying outside the area designated for a Jewish state in the UN Partition Plan of 1947, and inside the area set aside for an Arab state in Palestine,[4][5] subsequently were transformed into predominantly Jewish areas in the new State of Israel, known as Lod and Ramla.[6]
The exodus, constituting ‘the biggest expulsion of the war’,[7] took place at the end of a truce period, when fighting resumed, prompting Israel to try to improve its control over the Jerusalem road and its coastal route which were under pressure from the Jordanian Arab Legion, Egyptian and Palestinian forces. From the Israeli perspective, the conquest of the towns, designed, according to Benny Morris, ‘to induce civilian panic and flight,'[8] averted an Arab threat to Tel Aviv, thwarted an Arab Legion advance by clogging the roads with refugees, forcing the Arab Legion to assume a logistical burden that would undermine its military capacities, and helped demoralize nearby Arab cities.[9][10] On 10 July, Glubb Pasha ordered the defending Arab Legion troops to “make arrangements…for a phony war”.[11] The next day, Ramle surrendered immediately, but the conquest of Lydda took longer and led to an unknown number of deaths; the Palestinian historian Aref al-Aref, the only scholar who tried to draw up a balance sheet for the Palestinian losses, estimated 426 Palestinians died in Lydda on the 12 of July, of which 176 in the mosque and 800 overall in the fighting.[12] Israeli historian Benny Morris suggests up to 450 Palestinians and 9–10 Israeli soldiers died.[13]
Once the Israelis were in control of the towns, an expulsion order signed by Yitzhak Rabin was issued to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stating, “1. The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age.…”,[14] Ramle’s residents were bussed out, while the people of Lydda were forced to walk miles during a summer heat wave to the Arab front lines, where the Arab Legion, Transjordan’s British-led army, tried to provide shelter and supplies.[15] A number of the refugees died during the exodus from exhaustion and dehydration, with estimates ranging from a handful to a figure of 500.[16]
The events in Lydda and Ramle accounted for one-tenth of the overall Arab exodus from Palestine, known in the Arab world as al-Nakba (“the catastrophe”). Some scholars, including Ilan Pappé, have characterised what occurred at Lydda and Ramle as ethnic cleansing.[17] Many Jews who came to Israel between 1948 and 1951 settled in the refugees’ empty homes, both because of a housing shortage and as a matter of policy to prevent former residents from reclaiming them.[18].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus_from_Lydda_and_Ramle
Why are you referring to the tragic death of Yitzhak Rabin as being done by ‘you people’.? It was done by ONE person. That is bad English. How can a whole lot of people be held responsible for the actions of a madman? It is like saying that all white Americans were responsible for killing President Kennedy.
Because Rabin was killed by people like you.
Zionist extremists who saw peace with Palestinians as betrayal.
The people of Lydda and Ramle were not ethnically cleansed. They were combatants attacking convoys on the road to Jerusalem. Several other villages were also evacuated. The perimeters of the Partition plan were moot when the Arabs refused it and fired the first shot. Besides. Res 181 was non-binding, and in violation of the UN Charter.
http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2014/07/what-happened-at-lydda/
http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2014/07/distortion-and-defamation/?print
Are you as outraged by, or even aware of, the ethnic cleansing of the Jews from Judea and Samaria, including part of Jerusalem, by the Jordanians? Jordan imported their own people to live in the vacated homes and to take over the assets of the expelled Jews. These are the same Arabs who claim to have been living there for centuries!
Actually Ramle surrendered straight away.
But do keep posting your fiction.
Once the Israelis were in control of the towns, an expulsion order signed by Yitzhak Rabin was issued to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stating, “1. The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age.…”,[14] Ramle’s residents were bussed out, while the people of Lydda were forced to walk miles during a summer heat wave to the Arab front lines, where the Arab Legion, Transjordan’s British-led army, tried to provide shelter and supplies.[15] A number of the refugees died during the exodus from exhaustion and dehydration, with estimates ranging from a handful to a figure of 500.[16]
The events in Lydda and Ramle accounted for one-tenth of the overall Arab exodus from Palestine, known in the Arab world as al-Nakba (“the catastrophe”). Some scholars, including Ilan Pappé, have characterised what occurred at Lydda and Ramle as ethnic cleansing.[17] Many Jews who came to Israel between 1948 and 1951 settled in the refugees’ empty homes, both because of a housing shortage and as a matter of policy to prevent former residents from reclaiming them.[18]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus_from_Lydda_and_Ramle
Already responded to. No one denies the people in these villages were forced to leave, but the reason was military, not ethnic cleansing.
Why do you always respond to something that was never said?
Yep.
That’s why they weren’t allowed back.
Can you not tell the truth at all Bibi?
100,000 Arabs were allowed back. The Arab League prevented another 100,000 from returning.
Bad luck Bibi, but you guys passed the Prevention of Infiltration Law which designated returning Palestinians as ‘infiltrators’…
Apparently all those refugees in Jordan and Lebanon can’t return because the arabs won’t let them.
Gee you write bs.
Nakba Day returns, but not the Palestinians
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In 1995, a journalist interviewed a number of left-wing Israelis living in West Jerusalem homes whose Palestinian owners were expelled in 1948. One (unnamed) “prominent left-winger” was particularly, and directly, unapologetic. “I don’t have any problem with the fact that we threw them out, and we don’t want them back, because we want a Jewish state.”
This Nakba Day, when so many urge the Palestinians to “move on” and stop “living in the past,” we benefit from such frankness. At a time when efforts to dehumanise Palestinians and delegitimise solidarity with them are escalating, we need a reminder of what lies at the heart of the so-called “Israeli-Palestinian” conflict: settler-colonial displacement, and resistance.
During the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), around 80 percent of Palestinian towns and villages in what became Israel were emptied and destroyed; 200 of these villages had been occupied and their inhabitants expelled prior to 15 May (when the State of Israel was formally established). Refugees who attempted to return home across the armistice lines were shot dead by Israeli forces.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine was achieved by direct expulsion, atrocities and fear of atrocities, a “whispering” campaign of intimidation, and, by the Israeli cabinet’s decision to prevent the refugees from returning home at the end of hostilities. By 1952, Israel’s parliament had passed legislation that stripped expelled Palestinians of their land and citizenship. A Jewish majority had been achieved.
What did the Nakba look like? Here are three examples.
Al-Khisas was a village in the very north of Palestine. In December 1947, elite forces of the Haganah “randomly started blowing up houses at the dead of night while occupants were still fast asleep,” killing 10-15 villagers. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, subsequently included the assault in “a list of successful operations”.
The majority of Al-Khisas’ inhabitants left in May 1948, little did they know never to return; the few who remained were forced onto trucks and expelled by Israeli authorities the following year. The village’s land was given to a new kibbutz; the old emir’s manor house is now a hotel.
Sa’sa’ was a thriving village with a market-place, schools, and a mosque. In February 1948, Haganah forces entered the village at night, meeting no opposition. They blew up homes at random, killing 11 Palestinians, including five small children. Months later, the last villagers were expelled; an Israeli investigation suggested more civilians were killed in the process.
In 1949, kibbutz Sasa was founded on the village’s land (as the kibbutz website acknowledges), whose first “pioneers” were from the USA. One kibbutz resident later reflected how “you could almost feel their [the refugees’] presence, where part of their possessions were left behind, with their storerooms filled with last seasons’ crop.” The mosque was turned into a museum.
A final example, that of al-Majdal. Most of its residents had fled in fear by the time the town was occupied. Remaining Palestinians were “concentrated and sealed off with barbed wire and IDF guards in a small, built-up area commonly known as the ‘ghetto’”. They were finally expelled in October 1950. Al-Majdal is now the Israeli port city of Ashkelon.
The Nakba shapes the present. There are more than two million Palestinian refugees within Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip, including UN-registered refugees displaced in the Nakba, and Palestinian citizens prevented from returning to their lands and properties. The vast majority of refugees, including those in neighbouring countries, live a few dozen miles from their destroyed villages.
Sixty-eight years on, and the level of ignorance and denial concerning the Nakba remains high, especially among Western politicians and opinion-formers. Some dispute the Zionist leadership’s intent, while others describe the ethnic cleansing of 700-800,000 Palestinians as a “tragic consequence of war”. A dwindling few hold on to long-debunked myths about Palestinians leaving on “Arab orders”.
More disturbingly, some acknowledge the record of violent displacement and exclusion, and justify it nonetheless. This position is maintained by “left-wingers” (like the one quoted earlier), as well as by the likes of Israeli premier Menachem Begin’s adviser on Arab affairs: “If we needed this land,” he said, “we confiscated it from the Arabs. We had to create a Jewish state in this country, and we did.”
The Palestinians are not the only indigenous people to have faced the horror of settler colonialism, but for the Palestinians the process of colonisation and conquest has not ended. Land expropriations and displacement continue, whether in Galilee and Naqab/Negev, or in the Jordan Valley and southern Hebron hills. Refugees are in sight of their lands, behind fences and walls.
The return of Palestinian refugees is seen as a “threat” by the Israeli state and its advocates because “it would disrupt the demographics that allow the survival of an ethnocratic regime via democratic means”. Nakba Day is a reminder of how such a regime was established – and the refugees’ return will indeed be at the heart of its transformation into a decolonised democracy of its citizens.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/nakba-day-returns-not-palestinians-1548915333
1. The Arab League prevented Arabs from returning between 1948 and 1950. Nothing to do with today. Today, there are an estimated 80.000 actual refugees.
2. Most of the Arabs left because their leadership told them to. They were told they would be coming back after a week or two when all the Jews were dead. There were a few villages that were forced to evacuate because they were being used to attack Jewish convoys on the road to Jerusalem. There was no actual ethnic cleansing, nor were there any atrocities of any proportion (there are always individual acts in a war on both sides). The Arabs did, however, lie about battles such as Deir Yassin, to frighten the Arab population into leaving. They admitted this after the war.
3. Israel is a Jewish state, but 20% of her citizens are non-Jews.
4. What lies at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been going on since the Arab invasion in the 7th century, is the hatred of Jews taught to Arab Muslims with their mother’s milk. Nothing more. The Arabs will not be satisfied until Israel is obliterated and all the Jews are dead. They say so in their governing documents. The Israelis would be satisfied if the Arabs would just stop trying to kill them, and would help them to build a state.
5. The fighting was going on long before the May 15th declaration of independence. Many wealthy Arab families had already left, planning to return when the Jews were dead.
6. Al-Khisas had been selected for a Haganah operation that was cancelled.[9] Leaflets distributed in the village urged the population not to engage in combat:
“If the war will be taken to your place, it will cause massive expulsion of the villagers, with their wives and their children. Those of you who do not wish to come to such a fate, I will tell them: in this war there will be merciless killing, no compassion. If you are not participating in this war, you will not have to leave your houses and villages.”
On the night of 18–19 December 1947, the Palmach conducted a raid on al-Khisas with orders calling for “hitting adult [or the adult] males” and “killing adult [or the adult] males in the palace of the Emir Faur”, which was thought to hide a man responsible for shooting a resident of Kibbutz Ma’ayan Baruch in revenge for the shooting of a Palestinian a few days earlier.[10] They blew up Faur’s house and a neighbouring house, killing many occupants including women and children.[10] According to Ben-Gurion, the raid was unauthorised.[10] Local Jewish leaders and Arab affairs experts had tried to prevent the raid, but had been overridden by Yigal Allon.[10] Afterwards the Political Department of the Jewish Agency criticized the attack and Yosef Sapir of the Defence Committee called for the punishment of those responsible, but no action was taken.[10] Following the raid a large part of the residents left their homes.[10]
The number of dead has been recorded as 10 (5 men, 1 woman and 4 children); however, the report from the Palmach commander recorded 12 dead (7 men, 1 woman and 4 children).[11] David Ben-Gurion issued a denial that the raid had been authorised and issued a public apology, but it was later included by him in a list of successful operations.[12] The Yishuv held a meeting on the 1–2 January to discuss the policy of reprisal operations, the outcome of which was a formulation of guidelines by the Jewish High Command for the conduct and execution of retaliatory raids[13]
The first wave of villagers left the al-Khisas on 11 May 1948. Others left on 25 May 1948. Another 55 villagers remained in their homes and maintained good relations with the Jewish settlements in the area, but were eventually evicted.[14] During the night of 5–6 June 1949, the villagers were forced into trucks and transported to the village of ‘Akbara, south of Safad.[15] Those expelled remained at ‘Akbara for 18 years until agreeing to resettlement in Wadi Hamam. On September 26, 1948, Kibbutz HaGoshrim was established on the village lands of al-Khisas. The kibbutz opened a hotel in the manor house of Emir Faou
7. Sa’sa – what happened there depends completely on who you talk to.
8. Al Majdal – it was always Ashkelon
9. In all other conflicts, the refugees are resettled quickly. In this conflict, the Arab nations have refused to take in the refugees from 1948, and, overall, treat them incredibly badly. They are restricted as to where they can live, what jobs – if any – they are allowed to have, etc. In addition, the descendants of the original refugees are counted as refugees even though they have never lived in the land. In contrast, those Arabs who remained in Israel are full Israeli citizens, and are employed at every level of Israeli society.
10. When the Jews first returned to their land in the late 1800’s, they bought every inch that they lived and worked on. Under the Mandate, all the land from the River to the Sea was given to the Jews, not as private property, but as sovereign territory. However, there was very little private property among the Arabs for several reasons. Most of the land, under the Ottomans, was state land – nobody owned it. Much of the rest of the land was owned by absentee landlords who eventually sold it to the Jews. Most Arabs living in the region were either renters or squatters. After the ’48 war, Israel compensated every valid property claim made by the Arabs. It also set up the Absentee Owners Laws, which gave the former owners time to make a claim. After the deadline, the land reverted to Israel.
11. The Arabs are not the indigenous people – they are indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula. The Jews are the last remaining indigenous people. Genetic studies prove both of these to be true.
12. The Arabs never had, and still do not have, a legal claim to this land. They are motivated by a hatred of the Jews, and have no real interest in a state. Their goal, as stated in the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter is to destroy Israel and murder all the Jews.
11. Russian Jews are not indigenous to the Middle East any more than white Americans are indigenous to England.
That’s part of your f***ed up racism.
12. The Arabs owned the vast majority of the land. It was the british who decided to give THEIR land to someone else….who gladly stole it.
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The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State
Since virtually every comment on Hamas in American media includes the assertion that the group’s Charter rejects Israel’s right to exist, it’s worth noting the following from the Likud Platform of 1999:
a. “The Jordan river will be the permanent eastern border of the State of Israel.”
b. “Jerusalem is the eternal, united capital of the State of Israel and only of Israel.
The government will flatly reject Palestinian proposals to divide Jerusalem”
c. “The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.”
d. “The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting.
https://www.juancole.com/2014/08/charter-destruction-palestinian.html
Skin color has nothing to do with ethnicity. Jews come in all colors. What matters is their DNA which links them all to each other, and to the Southern Levant. It doesn’t matter where they were in the diaspora – they are still Jews. Just like the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are still Arabs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3032072/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274378/
Lol….I said nothing about skin colour derpy.
You’re the only one playing the race card here.
And as I said….a white American is not indigenous to Great Britain…..in which case maybe I’ll just go back and claim a part of Ireland as my own. Because DNA.
“Russian Jews are not indigenous to the Middle East any more than white Americans are indigenous to England.”
SETTLEMENT OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES:
THEORY AND PRACTICE
The outcome of the political debate concerning the territories that had been occupied after the 1967 hostilities was two concrete proposals formulated by the ministers Allon and Dayan. In rough outline, the Allon plan provided for an Arab enclave on the West Bank of the Jordan which would be linked with Jordan by corridor extending from the district of Ramallah to the town of Jericho and the Allenby Bridge. The enclave reserved for Palestinians in the Allon plan would be bounded on the east by the Jewish settlements in a part of the West Bank over which Israel would exercise national sovereignty.35/ The special feature of this plan, according to its author, is that it makes the Jordan a political boundary, thus giving the State of Israel a certain advantage from the security point of view.
The plan put forward by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the other hand, provided for the gradual integration 36/ of the Palestinian populations of the West Bank and Gaza in the life of Israel through the daily contacts they would have with its inhabitants. In order to facilitate such contacts, the author of this plan envisaged the construction of a road and railway network to be shared by the Israeli and Palestinian populations. That would mean that such a network, which would have its nerve centre in Israeli territory, would form a link between Israel and the occupied territories and would, at the same time, encourage the establishment of industrial enterprises and social and economic facilities that would be managed by Israelis.37/ The plan, known also as the integrationist plan, did not rule out the establishment of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, as the Allon plan did. The policy on the establishment of Jewish settlements will therefore emerge from the debate between the advocates of the Judenstaat and Eretz Israel, on the one hand, and the integrationists and annexationists, on the other. Whatever their ideas about the future of the occupied territories, most of the Israeli political groups of this period agreed that there should be a Jewish presence in part or all of the territories under military occupation. And, in addition to the Israeli defence forces, this presence would involve the establishment of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories; this is what was envisaged by the State bodies, and it had the support of the Israeli public.
established either on Palestinian lands from which the owners had fled as a result of the 1967 War or on common lands. In Jerusalem and Hebron, land was requisitioned for the construction of the Jewish quarters. In the Jordan Valley and around Kfar-Etzion, some of the local farmers’ land was also requisitioned. Another method was also employed which gave rise to protests in Israel. In January 1972, the army expelled 6,000 Bedouin from where they had been living for decades,44/ in the north-east of Sinai, in the Rafah salient. It demolished their houses, stopped up their wells and enclosed the area (about 4,000 hectares) with barbed wire, all with a view to establishing a Jewish settlement there.
The October War did not prevent the expulsion of a thousand other Bedouin from their land (3,600 hectares) in the same area or the destruction of their dwelling.45/ The operation was carried out on 8 October 1973.
In March 1972, the authorities employed other means when the inhabitants of the village of Akraba refused to leave their land, which had been requisitioned by a decree of the military government of the West Bank: Piper Cub aircraft were used to spray the land with a chemical that destroyed the entire crop. The land was placed at the disposal of the new settlement of Nahal Gitt later in the year.
It is estimated that the Labour government decided on and facilitated the establishment of more than ninety Jewish settlements, twenty-two in the Gaza District and Sinai, thirty-six on the West Bank of the Jordan and about a
dozen residential quarters in the eastern sector of Jerusalem (see Annex II).46/
The present government of Israel is credited with officially recognizing the three settlements that already existed in the West Bank, Kaddum, Offra and Ma’ale Adumin. 47/ It is to be noted that religious groups like Gush Emunim sometimes establish settlements without any prior authorization from the State authorities who, for their part, continue to apply the policy of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories regardless of the objections of the international community.
Although Mr. Begin’s government has done no more than continue the policy of establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied territories laid down by the Mapai authorities, it is nevertheless true that this policy has the approval of the present government, which has even broadened it.
A committee has been set up whose main task is to apply the Israeli Government’s Jewish settlement policy; it will henceforward be concerned with the management of the existing settlements.48/ Mr. Ariel Sharon, the chairman of this committee, who is the Minister of Agriculture, is reported to have announced a plan for the Jewish settlement of the occupied territories covering a period of about twenty years under which two million Israeli Jews could be absorbed. 49/
CONCLUSIONS
The acquisition of land and other property in Palestine by Jews has been discussed in the preceding chapters. Prior to the military operations of 1948 and 1967, the land had been acquired by the traditional market methods, but these were subsequently replaced by less orthodox methods and the Palestinians’ abandoned land and other property was simply seized by the Jews. For instance, after the military operations of 1948, the military occupation authorities took emergency and other measures to seize the Palestinians’ lands and property. These measures, which have been described in detail in the foregoing chapters, all have the same characteristic: they are always taken for “security reasons”. Subsequently, and particularly after these measures came into force, the State felt it had to justify the acts resulting from the application of these measures.
In order to do so, it enacted a series of laws, the most important of which – the Land Acquisition Law – enabled it to give a legal character to all the abuses arising out of the emergency and other measures taken by the military authorities. The Land Acquisition Law also authorized the State of Israel to take over abandoned land and property, which had not been the practice before this law was enacted.
This law, of which the State is the main beneficiary since it owns most of the land and other real property in Palestine, was subsequently to facilitate the direct intervention of the State in the administration and management of the land and other real property owned by the Palestinians.
Once the land and property had been acquired thanks to the Land Acquisition Law, this intervention of the State was to continue under the guise of the establishment of Jewish settlements.
Obviously, the State had to develop the land it had taken over and prevent bankruptcies; and so it introduced the policy of establishing settlements that would be State-run.
Like the steps taken or envisaged by the Israeli authorities to change the status, the geographical nature and the demographic composition of the occupied territories, this policy has been a matter of constant concern to the international community, which, in a resolution adopted on 28 October 1977, called upon the Government of Israel to “desist forthwith from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status, geographical nature or demographic composition of the Arab territories … including Jerusalem”.51/
This United Nations injunction had no effect, and the policy of establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied territories broadened in scope daily. A recent extension is the authorization to establish a new settlement near Nablus, in the West Bank given to a group of militants by Mr. Begin’s government.52/ This authorization also permits them to confiscate land belonging to Palestinians. This act on the part of the Government of Israel is only one link in a chain of measures going back to the cessation of hostilities in 1948 which has clearly led to the establishment of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories and to the Palestinians being dispossessed of their land and property.
In the view of the international community, such measures are invalid since they are contrary to the letter and the spirit of Aritcies 49 and 53 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
It is estimated that about eighty Jewish settlements, with a population of between 5,000 and 6,000 inhabitants, have been established in the West Bank since the end of the military operations of 1967.53/
These settlements, and their raison d’être, which varies according to the analyst, have not been such as to promote good relations between Jews and Palestinians. In some cases they have even contributed to a deterioration of these relations in which, owing to the occupation, there are anomalies which the Palestinian Arabs refuse to accept. The Palestinian Arab populations have always refused to allow the future to be dictated or controlled by elements outside the organic whole they constitute. And there has never been a case recorded in history of passive resistance to colonization. Such resistance is justified in the case of the Palestinian populations, particularly as the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people were recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 2535 S (ES-VII) of 10 December 1969. These rights, including the right of self-determination, give the Palestinian people the psychological and physical strength to take their future into their own hands. In doing so and in opposing or resisting settlement, the Palestinians have to face the extremely harsh measures taken against them by the occupying power, which is anxious to reduce if not destroy all such resistance.
It is a well-known fact that the methods and practices of the occupying power are harsh and excessive and that they sometimes go as far as systematic repression.54/ And the Israeli authorities who continue to be the occupying power in the Arab and Palestinian territories are also guilty of this practice, which is that of all colonial and occupying powers. By its very nature, occupation involves repression.
https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/181c4bf00c44e5fd85256cef0073c426/7d094ff80ff004f085256dc200680a27?OpenDocument
https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/e0b719e95e3b494885256f9a005ab90a?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,absentee
Fun fact:
Arab ownership disappeared overnight.
In its Village Statistics, 4/ the Mandatory Power estimates the total area of land owned by Jews in 1945 to be 1,491,699 dunams, compared with about 13 million dunams owned by Arabs in Palestine.
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So who took the land????
“It is estimated that between 15 May 1948 and the end of 1951 more than 684,000 Jewish immigrants settled in Israel on a substantial part of the land abandoned by the Palestinians.”
Oh yeah…………………………………………they simply took over the 700 000 who were expelled or fled…..
Aaanannnnddddd
“Of the 370 Jewish settlements established between 1948 and the beginning of 1953, 350 were established on land abandoned by the Palestinians.19/ In 1954 more than one-third of Israel’s Jewish population, plus 250,000 new Jewish immigrants, settled in whole cities that had been completely deserted by the Palestinians as a result of the military operations of 1948. Jaffa, Acre, Lydda, Ramleh and Beisan were some of them. As to the Palestinian Arabs who had remained in Israel, restrictive measures amounting to dispossession were taken by the Custodian of Absentee Property, who was inclined to interpret the Absentee Property Law of 1950 rather too broadly. The custodian, who was responsible for applying the March 1950 Law governing the management and administration of land and property that was supposed to have been abandoned by the Palestinians, subsequently transferred responsibility for the management of this property to another institution, the Development Authority, which had been established under a new law, the Development Authority Law. Under this law, the Development Authority was empowered to acquire land and property from the Custodian and make them available to the State. The State, which thus became the owner of the so-called “abandoned” land and property, was entitled to dispose of them as it saw fit. In the majority of cases, the State put this so-called “abandoned” property up for sale or leased it. This had the advantage of indirectly giving the authorities of the Provisional Government of Israel the right to inspect the management and administration of the “abandoned” land and property. Until then, what was done with this property had been a matter of indifference to the State of Israel, an indifference which enabled the Jewish agricultural communities, the Kibbutzim, to seize land owned by Palestinians during the months immediately after the military operations of 1948.”
Everyone was a Palestinian. The Palestinian Jews owned their land. The Palestinian Arabs, for the most part, rented or squatted on their land. The majority of the land was state land – no private ownership.
10. Lol….
ACQUISITION OF LAND
IN PALESTINE
In its Village Statistics, 4/ the Mandatory Power estimates the total area of land owned by Jews in 1945 to be 1,491,699 dunams, compared with about 13 million dunams owned by Arabs in Palestine.
This disparity between the Arab and Jewish populations with respect to land ownership disappeared after the military operations of 1948, when land and whole villages belonging to Palestinian Arabs fell into the hands of the State of Israel and its inhabitants.
THE MILITARY OPERATIONS
OF 1948 AND THE DYNAMICS
OF LAND ACQUISITION
One of the features of the State of Israel is that its boundaries have never been fixed……..
After the military operations of 1948 and before the signing of the Armistice Agreements, the State of Israel had taken over the sub-districts of Jaffa, Ramleh, Haifa, Nazareth, Beisan and Tiberias and a substantial part of those of Acre and Safad. The Jewish forces were also occupying the coastal area of the sub-district of Tulkarm and the western sector of Jerusalem. Thus, about 20 million dunams of land in all, 7/ including some of the land reserved for the Arabs in the 1947 partition plan, that is to say, just over three-quarters of all the land in Palestine, came under the control of the military forces of the State of Israel.
The military occupation of Arab-owned lands started in the first few months of 1948 and was stepped up in April of that year, when whole towns like Beisan, Jaffa, Acre, Lydda and Ramleh and the Arab sections of the towns of Haifa, Safad and Jerusalem were taken over by the Haganah forces.8/ In May of the same year – 1948 – in view of the enormous number of Palestinians that had been driven from their land and property by the military operations, the United Nations appointed a Mediator, one of whose main tasks was to promote the well-being of the inhabitants of Palestine with the aid of the United Nations specialized agencies. In December of the same year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 194 (III), the operative part of which called upon the Provisional Government of Israel to permit and facilitate the return of the Palestinians to their homes, their land and their property.
By the same resolution, the United Nations General Assembly established a Conciliation Commission, one of whose main tasks was to assist in securing the implementation of resolution 194 (III). Another of the Commission’s tasks was to achieve conciliation between the different parties to the conflict and to facilitate the return of the Palestinian Arabs to their homes, their land and their property. The Conciliation Commission made efforts to mediate over a period of years, the last of these efforts being made in 1951 (Paris Conference), but it was not successful in achieving a solution that would be acceptable to all the parties to the conflict. And so about 700,000 9/ Palestinian Arabs were forced to live away from their homeland, the only exceptions being a few thousand Arabs who were authorized by the Israeli authorities to rejoin their families in Israel.
Although there is disagreement about the actual area of the land abandoned by the Palestinians, all the analysts agree that it is between 16 and 20 million dunams in area. 10/ In the Negev, for instance, somewhat more than 12 million dunams,11/ fell into the hands of the Israeli authorities. And despite the controversy about it, the analysts all agree also that more than 4 million dunams of the land abandoned by the Palestinians is fertile and very favourable to agriculture and that it is the private property of Palestinian Arabs.
THE DYNAMICS OF THE
ACQUISITION OF LAND AND PROPERTY
Following the military operations of 1948, the 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed by the different parties to the conflict. Those Agreements were submitted to the Security Council for appraisal in August 1949, and in its resolution 73 (1949) the Council noted that the Armistice Agreements constituted “an important step toward the establishment of permanent peace in Palestine”.
Although at that time the intentions of the Provisional Government of Israel could not be stated with any certainty or clearly defined, during the negotiations under the auspices of the Conciliation Commission it had always adduced security reasons 14/ for opposing the return of the Palestine “refugees” to their homes and property. There is one incontrovertible fact, however: after the signing of the Armistice Agreements, the territory reserved for Palestinians under resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 was under the control and administration of Israel, Jordan and Egypt.
Under the Armistice Agreements, 15/ the sub-districts of Jaffa, Ramleh, Haifa, Nazareth, Beisan and Tiberias and quite a large part of the sub-districts of Acre and Safad were under the military occupation of the Israeli authorities. The western sector of Jerusalem and the coastal areas of the province of Tulkarm were also occupied by Israel. This means that a total area of 20 million dunams 16/ of land belonging to the Palestinian Arabs was under the Israeli military occupation.
The de facto acquisition of land in the above-mentioned districts under Israeli military occupation was all the easier because there was no precise legislation governing the management of land abandoned by the Arabs. It was not until 1950 that the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) adopted laws which were supposed to legalize the de facto acquisition of land 17/ that had been the practice up to then. The institutions responsible for the management of land abandoned by the Palestinians, such as the Custodian of Absentee Property and the Jewish National Foundation, which had been improvising measures of expediency for acquiring the Palestinians’ abandoned land, found a justification for the measures they had taken with respect to the use of this land in the Absentee Property Law of March 1950.
It is estimated that between 15 May 1948 and the end of 1951 more than 684,000 Jewish immigrants settled in Israel on a substantial part of the land abandoned by the Palestinians.18/
Of the 370 Jewish settlements established between 1948 and the beginning of 1953, 350 were established on land abandoned by the Palestinians.19/ In 1954 more than one-third of Israel’s Jewish population, plus 250,000 new Jewish immigrants, settled in whole cities that had been completely deserted by the Palestinians as a result of the military operations of 1948. Jaffa, Acre, Lydda, Ramleh and Beisan were some of them. As to the Palestinian Arabs who had remained in Israel, restrictive measures amounting to dispossession were taken by the Custodian of Absentee Property, who was inclined to interpret the Absentee Property Law of 1950 rather too broadly. The custodian, who was responsible for applying the March 1950 Law governing the management and administration of land and property that was supposed to have been abandoned by the Palestinians, subsequently transferred responsibility for the management of this property to another institution, the Development Authority, which had been established under a new law, the Development Authority Law. Under this law, the Development Authority was empowered to acquire land and property from the Custodian and make them available to the State. The State, which thus became the owner of the so-called “abandoned” land and property, was entitled to dispose of them as it saw fit. In the majority of cases, the State put this so-called “abandoned” property up for sale or leased it. This had the advantage of indirectly giving the authorities of the Provisional Government of Israel the right to inspect the management and administration of the “abandoned” land and property. Until then, what was done with this property had been a matter of indifference to the State of Israel, an indifference which enabled the Jewish agricultural communities, the Kibbutzim, to seize land owned by Palestinians during the months immediately after the military operations of 1948.
It would appear that the Provisional Government of Israel felt its attitude was justified by the fact that the mediation efforts of the Conciliation Commission were continuing and were centred on paragraph 11 of resolution 194 (III), dealing with the repatriation of the Palestinians and the return of their property. By the beginning of 1952, it was practically certain that the land and property of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on whom the United Nations had conferred the status of refugees would never be returned to them. This is confirmed by the report of the Conciliation Commission, on which the General Assembly adopted its resolution 512 (VI), which clearly showed that the efforts of the Conciliation Commission were not leading to any solution that would restore their land and property to the Palestinians. The State and the Parliament of Israel had now taken over responsibility for the land and property formerly managed and administered by the military authorities. Under an agreement between the Custodian and the Development Authority signed on 29 September 1953, the Development Authority took over most of the “abandoned” land and property. The Development Authority, which then took over the functions of the Custodian, was entitled to issue title deeds for the “abandoned” land and property and, in certain cases, could decide they should be sold. In most cases, the State of Israel was given preference by the Development Authority where purchases were concerned.
In 1953, the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) enacted a new law, the Land Acquisition Law (Validation of Acts and Compensation), the purpose of which was to permit the final disposal of the “abandoned” Palestinian land and property. Under this law, the entire question of the land, property and goods abandoned by the Palestinians after the military operations of 1948 could be finally liquidated. And after the Israeli memorandum to the Conciliation Commission of 9 October 1953 informing it that the disposal of property had been authorized by the Government of Israel and effected in accordance with the provisions of the Absentee Property Law of 1950, it was not difficult to see what the Israeli authorities intended to do with the abandoned property. The new law gave legal sanction to the acts and measures that had already been taken to dispossess the Palestinians of their so-called “abandoned” property. By virtue of the powers it conferred on the Minister of Finance, the title deeds for the “abandoned” land and property could be transferred to the State of Israel through the Development Authority. The State thus became the legal owner of most of the property the Palestinians were supposed to have abandoned. The outstanding feature of this law compared with the two earlier ones – the Absentee Property Law and the Development Authority Law – was that it gave the State priority over any other institution as far as the management and administration of the land and property abandoned by the Palestinians was concerned. From that time forward, the State was the legal owner of most of the abandoned land and property, and it could avail itself of the new laws to justify any expropriation of Palestinian-owned real estate. In a debate in the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), the Minister of Finance explained the implications of the new law as follows:
“To legalize certain actions taken during and after the war. … And when the authorities started to take possession of absentees’ property that had been earmarked for essential security or development requirements, other areas were expropriated for the same purpose. Basically, in agricultural areas the ownership rights were not sufficiently clear and there are reasons connected with the security of the State and the execution of essential development projects which make it impossible to return these lands to their owners.”
Because of the broad legal powers it gives the State authorities, particularly the Minister of Finance, the Land Acquisition Law is one of the most important legal acts of the Israeli Knesset. 23/ Henceforth, the Israeli authorities – particularly the State through the Land Acquisition Law – alone are responsible for the real estate abandoned by the Palestinians after the military operations of 1948.
Thus, it took three years, during which plans and measures were worked out, for the State of Israel to take permanent possession of the land and property belonging to the Palestinians, and they, in the meantime, had become the responsibility of the international community. The continuing good offices of the United Nations Conciliation Commission, which strove without success to mediate, are apparently the explanation for the reluctance of the State of Israel to do anything whatever about the dispossession of the Palestinians who had fled from their land as a result of the military operations of 1948. Some transitional measures had, however, been taken by the military authorities that were responsible for the administration of the land that had fallen into the hands of Haganah after the military operations of 1948. For instance, the military administrators had adopted measures and issued ordinances to take over land and property abandoned by the Palestinians, mainly on the ground of “reasons connected with security and defence”. The first of these ordinances – the Abandoned Areas Ordinance – was intended mainly to authorize the various actions to despoil the Palestinians of their property, including their land, and to co-ordinate these actions.
Another series of measures taken by the military authorities in 1948 – the Defence Regulations – empower the military government to declare specific parts of the occupied territories closed areas. These areas,which the public was forbidden to enter for “security reasons”, are vast and mainly in the public domain. This ordinance, which is modelled on the special legislation in force under the Mandate, could sometimes be interpreted too broadly and used to prevent Palestinians who wished to do so from returning to their villages after the military operations of 1948. Article 25 of this ordinance, which makes the military government the only authority, was invoked in February 1950 to expel 24/ the inhabitants of Al-Ghabisya, in Galilee, whose village had been declared a. closed area. Several other villages, mostly in Galilee, which include Amqa, Faradiya, Karf-Inan, Suffuriya, Al Manusra and Al-Majdal, were declared prohibited areas 25/ under Defence Regulations (Security). Another measure of no less importance taken by the Israeli authorities in the occupied territories after the military operations of 1948 is the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones), adopted in 1949. This ordinance gives the Minister of Defence, with the approval of the foreign affairs and security committees of the Knesset, the power to declare any area a protected area. The areas covered by this measure lay mostly in frontier areas near the borders with Syria and Lebanon. 26/ The whole area of the Triangle in the central portion of Israel, which is populated mainly by Palestinian Arabs, was declared a security zone, which meant that the inhabitants could not return to it without a permit. And the permits, which are issued by the Minister of Defence, are practically unobtainable. Several areas of the Gaza Strip and in the region between Jaffa and Jerusalem have been declared security zones in this way.27/
Of course, areas that are declared security zones eventually become state property. In this connexion, let us mention the example of the inhabitants of the district of Igrit, in Galilee, near the Lebanese frontier, who were expelled from their village in 1948 never to return despite the ruling of the Supreme Court in their favour in 1951.
A fourth ordinance adopted by the military authorities in 1949 following the 1948 military operations was the Emergency Regulations (Cultivation of Waste Lands).
The immediate purpose of this ordinance was to prevent land suitable for agriculture that had been deserted by its owners after the hositlities of 1948 from falling into disuse, and it authorized the Minister of Agriculture to take over the hand and make it pay. Article 24 of this ordinance empowered the Minister of Agriculture to legalize the de facto acts of expropriation which occured during and immediately after the 1948 war, for which the Jewish agricultural organizations and the youth organizations of the Kibbutzim and the Nahal were mainly responsible. The Emergency Regulations also authorized the Minister of Finance – i.e., the State -“to take over lands that had been declared closed areas by the military authorities under the defence and security ordinances provided for in the Defence Regulations.
And so, when lands belonging to Palestinians (living either in or away from their villages) which had been declared closed areas or security zones under the military government’s defence and security ordinances remained uncultivated for a certain period of time, they were handed over to the Ministers of Finance and Agriculture for development purposes.
Another ordinance adopted by the Israeli military authorities after the 1948 war was the Emergency Land Requisition Law. Under this ordinance on the requisitioning of land, adopted in 1949, the Israeli authorities could order buildings belonging to Palestinians to be assigned to Jewish immigrants, who numbered, as stated above, some 700,000 immediately after the military operations of 1948 – 1949. This ordinance, which was originally intended to remain in force for only three years and applied mainly to urban areas, was extended from 1949 to 1958, when the military authorities decided, for “security reasons”, to confiscate some of the buildings that had been requisitioned under the ordinance.
ORIGIN AND AIM OF THE
POLICY OF JEWISH SETTLEMENTS
The first Jewish settlements were established in the years preceding or immediately following the First World War, when Jews were immigrating into Palestine. It must be noted, however, that this immigration was linked to the concept of a “Jewish homeland in Palestine” contained in the declaration made by Lord Balfour in 1917 and to the social and political events that were taking place in the countries of Europe prior to the Soviet Revolution of October 1917. However, although the Arab people of Palestine naturally objected to and strongly opposed this immigration, it was not tied up with dispossessing the Palestinians of their land and other property, as was the case after the military operations of 1948 and 1967. The picture of the acquisition by Jews of land and property in Palestine after the hostilities of 1948 outlined in this study reveals that there were three main stages in the process of dispossession. During the first of these stages, which followed immediately on the 1948 hostilities, the Jewish population illegally seized land and property belonging to the Palestinians. The dominant feature of the second stage is the military ordinances sanctioning the de facto acquisitions of land and property by the Kibbutzim and other Jewish organizations and authorizing the requisitioning of land and other property on grounds of security and defence.
The third stage is characterized by the increasing intervention of the State in the acquisition of the so-called “abandoned” Palestinian property through such legal formalities as those provided by the Land Acquisition Law of 1953.
It is estimated that more than 684,000 Jewish immigrants 33/ settled in Palestine in the years immediately following the military operations of 1948 and that most of them took advantage of the practical measures and of the existing legislation to take over the land and other property belonging to the Palestinians.
The main feature of this period is the complete absence of any direct action by the State that would indicate practical and rational use of the Palestinians’ abandoned land and other property, which enabled agricultural youth organizations and religious groups to take it over. However, Israel was more concerned at this time with finding ways of taking over the Palestinians’ property which would preserve its credibility. Credibility might become essential because of the negotiations between the parties to the conflict which were proceeding under United Nations auspices.
It is not until 1967 that it is possible to detect several different currents of ideas about the Jewish settlements and the use that should be made of the property seized by the Israeli authorities after the 1967 hostilities. Two of these currents are significant and they continue to underlie Israel’s political life. One is Eretz Israel, which is concerned with the territorial imperatives of the Jewish State, and the other is the Judenstaat, which is concerned with its demographic composition. The partisans of the former see no objection to the occupied territories being incorporated in the State of Israel and forming an integral part of it. These people, who are also known as annexationists, mainly belong to the Gahal, a political group which includes the Herut party of the present Prime Minister. The others, who are concerned with the demographic composition of the Jewish state, favour a policy that would lead to a state with a mainly Jewish population. For the advocates of this idea, the incorporation or annexation of the territories occupied by Israel would pose the problem of integrating the 1,600,000 Palestinians, most of whom live in the West Bank and Gaza to say nothing of the few hundred thousand who live in Israel. The advocates of the Judenstaat argue that, since population growth is greater among the Palestinians, the Jewish State would eventually have an Arab majority; they are therefore opposed to annexation, but they do not absolutely reject any idea of incorporating some pieces of territory in the State of Israel.
The advocates of this school of thought are drawn from the ranks of the Israeli Labour Party – Mapai – and particularly from Mapam, a political group belonging to the Mapai coalition.
It is from the debate between the two that any political formula for the future of the occupied territories must emerge. The political debate between the supporters of Erets Israel and, the Judenstaat has not been entirely productive since it has led to proposals regarding the occupied territories. These are the plans proposed by the ministers Allon and Dayan who were members of Mr. Eschkol’s Labour Government. 34/
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1. Israel passed the Prevention of Infiltration Law in 1954 which enabled them to shoot returning Palestinians on sight.
2. This makes it plain that the source of the expulsion was Israeli massacres
Nakba: Why did Israeli historians whitewash an artillery attack?
https://972mag.com/why-did-israeli-historians-whitewash-a-short-artillery-attack/15232/
Yossef Nahmani, a JNF official who came to plunder – err, sorry, “redeem” – the lands of the village of Tsaftsaf in the north. Nahmani described the massacre that took place there as follows: “The atrocities of our soldiers in Tsaftsaf after they entered it, the village and the men raised a white flag, they gathered the men apart and the women apart… tied the hands of fifty to sixty falaheen and shot them and killed them and buried them in one pit, and also raped some of the women… In ‘Ilabun and Pharadiya, the soldiers were welcomed with white flags and great feasts, and after that they ordered the villagers to leave, with their women and children. When they started saying this was against the promises and the pamphlets, they opened fire and after 30 people were killed, they began leading the others on the road to Miron.” When Nahmani asked himself where the Jewish warriors had learned to be so cruel, like the Nazis – Jews like to think of themselves as “merciful sons of the merciful” – he gives himself a harsh answer: “They learned from them.” The RH Tadmor and Segal would probably classify Nahmani as a dangerous anti-Zionist.
3. Palestine is an Arab state…..The vast majority of it are Arabs. Also the vast majority in 1948 were Arabs.
4. Lol, now we’re going back in time and flat out picking bs propaganda.. Actually Muslims protected Jews from Christians. In fact in the First Crusade Muslims and Jews fought Christians side by side. They were both slaughtered. Actually some Jews thrived under the Ottomans until the onset of Jewish and Arab Nationalism eg Istanbul hadd 44 synagogues with 30 000 Jews and many of the Jews expelled from Christian Spain found homes in the Ottoman Empire which included their own schools and courts.
5. Of course it had already started…. …This outlines an Israeli bombardment on a market place in Haifa which led to mass panic.
April 22, 1948
An excellent Haaretz article (Hebrew) makes it clear the flight began after the Hagana shelled, on April 22, 1948, Haifa’s market square, after the Palestinians asked for a ceasefire. The shelling killed at least 10 Palestinians – the exact number is unknown. The dead were, according to reports, refugees seeking shelter, not fighters, and the shelling was considered to be the response of the Hagana to the cease-fire request, and led to massive flight.
Hagana historian, Sadoq Eshel, who described the incident as follows “When we received the information, the commander of the support weapons company, Ehud Almog, was ordered to use the three-inch mortars, positioned near the Rothschild Hospital, and shell the market square. And indeed, a large crowd squeezed into the market square. When the shelling began, and shells fell into it, a great scare happened. The crowd broke into the harbour, and pushing aside the policemen who guarded the gate, charged into the boat and began fleeing the city. During all that day, the mortars kept shelling the city alternately, and the panic among the enemy turned into collapse.”
6. Yep…killed and evicted…never to return…well done….
“The first wave of villagers left the al-Khisas on 11 May 1948. Others left on 25 May 1948. Another 55 villagers remained in their homes and maintained good relations with the Jewish settlements in the area, but were eventually evicted.[14] During the night of 5–6 June 1949, the villagers were forced into trucks and transported to the village of ‘Akbara, south of Safad.[15] Those expelled remained at ‘Akbara for 18 years until agreeing to resettlement in Wadi Hamam. On September 26, 1948, Kibbutz HaGoshrim was established on the village lands of al-Khisas. The kibbutz opened a hotel in the manor house of Emir Faou”.
7..Well even the Israelis acknowledged something happened. Obviously you can’t though, because you’re an Israeli shill……
“Northern Command OC Moshe Carmel later reported that he had seen evidence of killings, and an official investigation by Major Emanuel Yalan suggested that some villagers, including cripples, may have been killed after the village was occupied. However, the relevant files remain closed to historians.”
Funny that….
8.Lol Al-Majdal is derived form the ancient city of Magdala (Mary Magdalene)….Do learn some facts…..
9. And they wanted to go back to their villages….guess what….they can’t.
Maybe that’s why GOD put the Jewish people back in their land of Israel…
Maybe it didn’t…..
Party’s over man. Just sayin. Sorry it had to end this way.
Yeah that 50 year occupation is going well…..if you’re a Jewish settler….
50 year? Obviously you can’t count either.
Lol….not only do you know sfa about history, you know sfa about maths.
Didnt the Scots love being ruled by the English?
NO! It is not religion justifying violence!! It is humans abusing religion to justify violence. A world of difference…
You hit it on the head.
If Israel is presently attempting genocide against the Palestinian people, then by the exact same criteria, Palestinians and other Arabs have been attempting genocide against Israel for three-quarters of a century.
If Israel were attempting genocide, there would be no Palestinians. Instead, their population continues to grow year by year, Israel supplies them with water and electricity, treats their sick in Israeli hospitals for free, and, up until recently, ignored the tens of thousands of rockets shot at Israeli civilians over the past 14 years. Pretty poor way to conduct a genocide.
Aaand the Palestinians are supposed to ignore settlements and occupation of their land……
Actually Israel takes water from the West Bank….
Not their land. That’s the crux of the matter – the big Arab lie. It is not their land, it was never their land. They are not indigenous, and most of them have only lived there a few centuries, not thousands of years. None of them have lived there thousands of years! Many of them were imported by Jordan in 1948 to live in the homes of the Jews who had been ethnically cleansed or murdered.
Legally, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, there is no occupation. Israel voluntarily treats the situation as if it were, which actually protects the Arabs.
The water belongs to Israel, and the Arabs get more than their fair share. The Arabs also dump raw sewage into the water supply.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14524#.Uv7zds5vuOG
“Not their land.”
They were living there in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jerusalem, Ramallah……for centuries.
I mean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem has only been around since the 4th -5th century CE.
Your propaganda is just that. Complete and utter BS.
Oh and Settlements contravene the Geneva Convention as does the military occupation of the West Bank.
As for water…..
“6. The water regime of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank
Following the 1967 Six-Day War Israel initiated its occupation of the Palestinian territory and
swiftly imposed military orders to achieve ultimate control over land and water resources. These
orders dissolved the legal system that existed before 1967 which consisted of Ottoman, British,
Jordanian (in the West Bank) and Egyptian (in Gaza) laws. Military Order 92, issued on 15 August
1967, granted complete authority over all water related issues in the oPt to the Israeli army.
19 December 1968 annulled all land and water-related arrangements which existed prior to Israel’s
occupation of the West Bank (Amnesty International, 2009). Today, the administration of
water resources in the West Bank is under Israeli control with almost 2000 military orders and
proclamations forming the foundations of the occupation (Glavany, 2011). Military orders only
apply to Palestinians and they do not affect Israeli settlers who are subject to Israeli civilian
law.
6.1. Water restrictions and demolitions in Area C
Following the 1995 Oslo Accords, the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) was divided into
of the PA; Area B was placed under PA civil administration but Israeli security control; and Area
C which covers the Jordan Valley region, settlements and their surrounding areas, remained
under full Israeli control relating to issues of security, planning and zoning. This division was only
of negotiations in 2000, approximately 36 percent of the West Bank had been categorized
as Areas A and B, with an additional 3 percent of land reserved as national parks. This left 61
percent of the West Bank as Area C where 150,000 people live; approximately 18,500 live in
small, sedentary villages, and 27,500 reside in Bedouin and other herding communities (UN
OCHA, 2011). Figure 6 illustrates the division of the West Bank and the geopolitical landscape
over planning and zoning in Area C remains with Israel. As explained in section 4.2, Israel has
complete control over all water resource planning, development and access in 61 percent of the
West Bank.
This is a long, bureaucratic procedure and often results in
permission being denied, even if the project is approved by the JWC (see section 4.2). Projects
executed without prior approval are demolished by the Israeli military. Recently there has been
173 water sanitation and hygiene structures including 57 rainwater collection cisterns, 40
community wells, irrigation equipment vital for food production and at least 20 toilets and sinks
(EWASH, 2012a). This has affected an estimated 14,937 people (UN OCHA, 2012a). Palestinian
water structures that have been destroyed include storage and rainwater cisterns, wells, springs,
water tanks and agricultural ponds. Some of these structures were demolished under the
pretext that they were constructed without obtaining the relevant Israeli permit, but many were
demolished without reason. This aggressive policy is intentionally restricting, displacing and
particular strategic interest to Israel, usually for the expansion of Israeli settlements and related
infrastructure.
This has been the case for Susiya village in the South Hebron Hills. Susiya, like other villages
in the South Hebron Hills, is not connected to the piped water network and the villagers rely
on cisterns to harvest rainwater and store the water they purchase from tankers. In February
2011 two vital rainwater harvesting cisterns were demolished by the Israeli army. In May 2011
the Israeli army demolished them again following there repair by villagers (ARIJ, 2011). Susiya
village is reliant on these type of cisterns due to a dire water shortage in the area, a result of
army on the movement of Palestinians in the area, requiring long detours for water tankers and
increasing costs; and frequent attacks by Israeli settlers on the villagers and their property,
damaging and restricting access to water cisterns around the village.
6.2. Israeli settlements
Israel carries out a policy of territorial expansion that aims to appropriate land and water
activity in the West Bank. Settlements are Jewish communities that Israel has established
beyond the Green Line on land occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War. The Government of Israel
has invested, and continues to invest heavily in settlement construction, expansion and defense.
Settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank is considered illegal under international
in the West Bank with a combined population of 300,000. The annual population growth of the
West Bank settler population has been approximately 5 percent in recent years, as opposed to
that support a population of 6,000 settlers (B’Tselem, 2010a)
permission but receive support and assistance from Israeli Government ministries. In 2011 the
illegal outposts (Peace Now, 2011). In April 2012 the Government of Israel legalized the status
of 3 settlement outposts in the West Bank, a decision that was widely condemned by the PA and
the international community (Haaretz, 2012).
In order to supply water to the settlements Israel has developed wells in the West Bank (largely
in the Jordan Valley), and a water network that is linked into the Israeli national network. The
settlements are consuming an estimated 44 MCM of water (World Bank, 2009) and Glavany
(2011) argues that Israeli settlers in the West Bank use more water than the 2.4 million
Palestinians.
In recent years water springs in the vicinity of Israeli settlements throughout the West Bank have
become the target of settler activities that eliminated, or put at risk, the access to these springs
56 such springs, the large majority of which are located in Area C on land parcels recorded by the
Israeli Civil Administration as privately owned by Palestinians. Thirty of these springs were found
to be under full settler control, with no Palestinian access to the area. In almost three quarters
(22) of these Palestinians have been deterred from accessing the spring by acts of intimidation,
threats and violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers. In the remaining eight springs under full
settler control, Palestinian access has been prevented by physical obstacles, including the fencing
of the spring area, its de facto annexation to the settlement (four cases), the isolation of the
area from the rest of the West Bank by the Separation Wall (see section 6.3) and its subsequent
designation as a closed military zone (four cases). The other 26 springs are at risk of a settler
takeover. This category includes springs that have became the target of regular tour –
ism activities of settlers, and/or patrolling by the security coordinators of settlements (OCHA,
2012b)
security of Palestinians living in affected communities. Many farmers have been forced to either
cease cultivating the land or face a reduction in productivity. This also has increased the expenditure
for herders and households who are forced to purchase piped or tankered water.
Many springs, and related water infrastructure, that are utilized by Palestinians are also subject
to malicious attacks and vandalism from settlers. For example, settlers from the Yitzhar
settlement have repeatedly damaged the Al Sh’ara spring and the water pipe which carries
water to the Palestinian village of Madama. Settlers have also dumped raw sewage, diapers and
chicken carcasses into the spring in order to contaminate it. In February 2010, the spring was
storage tank ran dry in the spring of 2010. In April 2011, water pipes were ag”
http://www.arij.org/files/admin/latestnews/water.pdf
It has been much longer than that.
One side has been far more effective.
possibly more effective to make the case for the enslavement of Palestinians by the modern-western nation of Israel? For genocide, they would need yet cut them all off rather than continue feeding them via employment. The continued existence of Palestinians (such as they are) remains in the interest of Israel. Without them, Israel would no longer be under petty siege or serving a maternal roll outside its borders (such as the US has become so fond in doing). Western loyalty to westernized Israel has moved beyond religion and well into the territory of shared national ideals & objectives.
I do agree that genocide has been practiced against the Jews for centuries by many nations. And I do agree that the Jewish people are vengeful. I know that you are highly educated on these topics and I am less so, but it seems to me that as long as the Jews think that Israel, and any land that they think is part of Israel, was given to them by God, we will not see a change.
You obviously rode the short bus.
Please know that I do not agree with genocide regardless of a person’s belief.
Remember, that the vast majority of the world’s Jews are NOT, NOT Zionists. Zionism is genocidal, violent, racist and evil. Israel is exactly the same as what Nazi Germany was. Israel will perish just the same as Nazi Germany perished, for the same reasons and the same evils.
The term ‘Zionist’ is just a term of abuse. It is constantly used to cover the clear racism and anti-Semitism that exists in the jihadi-apologists’ minds. Silly Lilly is so dense that she has interchanged the word with the prediction ‘Israel will perish’. It is time to confront these racist clowns once and for all.
Derpy, zionism is a Jewish term eg prior to the creation of the State of Israel, Jews had a Zionist Congress.
How stupid are you?
But thanks for exposing your hatred of Palestinians.
Notice Lily how it simply throws insults around. I guess there’s a quota system?
Munster STFU ?
Which saint is that?
All the Jews living in Israel are Zionists – even the ones who protest the State – they just think the timing was wrong! That’s about half the Jews in the world. Virtually all the rest, with some exceptions on the Left, are also Zionists. But you don’t know what Zionism is – you just find it convenient so that you don’t have to say that what you really object to is the Jews themselves!
Zionism is the belief that the Jew have a right to self-determination in their own homeland where they are the indigenous people. That’s it. Nothing genocidal, violent, racist, or evil. Now, if you’re looking for those things, please read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter with their plans for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews. You should find yourself right at home there.
Hamas = racist. Their covenant says that the Jews are descendants of pigs and apes and should b driven into the sea. (They are right on the latter claim, mind you – all humanity is).
Extremist Jews celebrate a Palestinian baby being burned alive ….
https://youtu.be/dfkd0r1yY10
These are the people you support.
“All the Jews living in Israel are Zionists”
Except the ones who aren’t….
Anti-Zionists Thrive in Israel, Why Not in the U.S.?
“And yet in Israel, despite an undeniable shift to the right in mainstream political attitudes over the last decade or so, there are secular, native-born Israeli Jews who do not believe in Zionism as a political ideology, or in the idea of a state that is defined as a home for the Jews rather than as a place that treats all citizens equally. Some of those non-Zionist Jews sit in the Knesset — like Dov Khenin, who is a member of the Arab-Jewish socialist Hadash party.”
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/04/04/is-anti-zionism-anti-semitism/anti-zionists-thrive-in-israel-why-not-in-the-us
Zionism is the belief in a first and foremost Jewish homeland…..
Tell me why Israel doesn’t just subsume the whole of the Palestinian Territories???
Because it would no longer be a Jewish State.
That’s why Bibi rejects a Two State AND a One State Solution.
So Palestinians are essentially stateless because of the whims of a foreign country which doesn’t want them.
Which foreign country? You clearly are confused. People who claim to be Palestinians are living in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and all over the Middle East. They speak Arabic and are no different from the other Arabs.
Ramallah isnt in Syria, dopey.
Are you a complete moron?
The Arabs in the territories are stateless because Jordan took away their Jordanian citizenship! And they are living on Israeli land. The Arabs have never had sovereignty over this land.
If those people were truly not Zionists, they wouldn’t be living in Israel!
Might be why Muslims and Christians had Palestinian passports…..
How can they have a passport of a state that doesn’t exist?
They did.
So the problem is with your version of fiction.
Everybody who lived under the Mandate had Palestinian passports! That was the name of the Mandate! Once the Jews declared independence, the name changed to Israel, and then everyone became Israelis – not Palestinians. The Arabs living in the land illegally occupied by Jordan and Egypt didn’t start calling themselves Palestinians until 1964 at Arafat’s insistence. Prior to that, they hated the term because they knew it had always referred only to the Jews!
You people can’t help but lie can you?
After getting roasted about every Jew in israel being a Zionist you want another arse kicking.
Muslims and Christians in Mandatory Palestine were Palestinian citizens……
Palestine never existed. It is a fantasy invented by the millionaire, Arafat, in 1964.
Lol.
One shrill says Paledtine doesnt exist yhen another shrill says it did but only for the Jews.
You’re a moron.
Bt hows that Scottish vote for independence going?
You know the one you deny for Palestinians, hypocritical merkin..
Of the Mandate.
Stamped Palestinian Citizen……
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From the Mandate. Jews had the same passport. Everybody in the Mandate had the same passport! Note the Hebrew.
Aaaaannnndddd all were stamped Palestinian citizens.
Once again. The Palestinian people are there. That is a fact.
Are you going to just force them out to make this fake biblical land?
Citizens of the Mandate – you know, the one to create the Jewish state!
Israel belongs to the Jews according to international law – doesn’t matter what you believe about the bible.
Nobody is forcing them out. Let them make peace, and then they can live in peace.
They were Citizens of Palestine.
In fact the passports clearly belong to Arabs.
Yeah , Israel doesn’t have 800 000 settlers on Palestinian land.
Your mind tricks won’t work.
Look carefully. See the Hebrew? Passports were for all those living in the Mandate, not just Arabs. And, as soon as the Mandate ended, so did the passports.
Look carefully….they were Arab citizens of Palestine.
You are seriously mentally unstable
Which would make me eminently more intelligent than you.
Edwin is right. You need treatment for that obsession and blind hatred you have.
Its weird because the only people hating anyone here are you Israeli bots.
Maybe they should partition Scotland and give it to Israel.
Warning.
Paid, Israeli Internet Trolls have taken over this discussion. Notice how they think exactly like Nazis? Notice the lies? Notice the complete lack of a moral compass?
Where is the Islamists of Hamas’s moral compass?
Hmmmmm…
And yet Jewish extremists assassinated their own PM.
Do you really want to go down the ‘my extremists are better than yours’ road?
A..Jewish..extremist…shot the Israeli PM. It was one nutter. And nobody is my extremist> I am from Scotland which is in northern Europe. I have absolutely no connection to Israel or Judaism or Zionism, I just think the Israelis have achieved an incredible amount in their 70 year existence. It is a first world country, it has a standard of living far superior to any of the mostly chaotic states that surround it and still manages to perform economically much better, considering their lack of resources.
The nearly million settlers living in East Jerusalem and the West Bank aren’t tourists, derpy.
They are nearly all to a man, extremists of the same ilk as your mate who assassinated Rabin.
Like you actually.
Which is weird considering how much Scotland fought against English rule.
You would think you would have empathy for a people being ruled by a government they do not want.
Now if Israel is a first world democracy, it should bloody well act like one.
First world countries do NOT go around stealing land which belongs to other people and transplanting their own populations. That’s called colonialism.
In fact, that’s what Nazi Germany did.
So you just hate Palestinians because they exist.
Your anti-Israel stance is well noted and you are entitle to that opinion.
Comparing Israel and the American Indian is a false premise. History has recorder that the modern State of Israel was created by law not occupation. The American Indian comparison’s are just liberal anti-USA gibberish. The two have nothing in common.
Your anti-Palestinian stance is well noted…..
Israel’s Defense Ministry reports that in one week in March of 2018,
2,728 trucks entered the Gaza Strip from Israel, carrying 74,202 tons
of supplies, including 87 tons of medical supplies, 15 tons of
agricultural products, 1,506 tons of food supplies, and 51,044 tons of
building supplies.
Another week
this year, the Defense Ministry reported 1,712 trucks entering Gaza,
carrying 49,166 tons of supplies, including 43 tons of medical supplies,
92 tons of agricultural products, 5,426 tons of food supplies, and
31,356 tons of building supplies.
In one single day in February,
11,485 tons of goods, in 379 trucks, entered Gaza through Israel,
according to the Israeli Defense Ministry. On another February day,
12,295 tons of goods in 431 trucks entered Gaza through Israel,
according to the Israeli Defense Ministry.
In addition, Israel supplies electricity to Gaza via ten power lines. And Israel supplies water to Gaza via two pipelines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq0YuTzjN9U
Israeli army vows disciplinary action over Gaza sniper vid
“Remarking on the video on Tuesday, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman told reporters: “The Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit.””
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-army-disciplinary-action-gaza-sniper-palestinian-1.4612678
‘Appears to’ ? That means there is an element of doubt. You really are demented.
You’re right.
The sniper shot him for standing there.
Good point.
Thanks for showing how much Israel cares about Palestinians.
He should have gotten you Nazi
Israeli policy is so nazi so stop calling those who see things differently nazi, but you are excuse as yr moral intelligence is none existent
If Israel were like Nazi Germany, there would be no Arabs left. In reality, their population continues to grow and they have the highest quality of life of any Arabs in the ME. Just like the Nazis treated the Jews – not.
Sounds familiar….
40 Holocaust survivors condemn ‘massacre’ of Palestinians, call for BDS against Israel
“It’s a shame Hitler didn’t finish the job,” one Israeli named Asher Solomon said, while another, Katy Morali, added that “Holocaust survivors who think like this are invited to go die in the gas chambers.”
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/holocaust-survivors-palestinians/
Thanks again for showing everyone the type of people we’re dealing with.
Limey your mental illness is most obvious! Bazi try posting something factual and do buy a dictionary! Pathetic people like you don’t deserve to be heard. Go suck on a big bone.
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Israel is the occupying force are you saying the Palestinians should be grateful
I just watched a german film and all the jews was talking abut was fleeing to PALESTINA
The homeland of the Jews! Learn some history before commenting.
How many of these people great grand parents were born in yr fake homeland ?
It doesn’t matter where they were in the diaspora, they are still genetically linked to all other Jews and to the Southern Levant, the home of ancient and modern Israel. The Arabs are genetically linked to the Arabian Peninsula. They didn’t arrive in the region until the 7th century and they came as invaders.
Hmmmm people using race to define who lives in a country……
I wonder who tried that?
I just watched a film that said you are an imbecile.
Is that not better than being an apologist for genocide
Prove that a genocide has taken place. Simple math – are there fewer Arabs today than in 1948?
There are more settlers in the Occupied Territories and that is growing…..
I see the Israeli propaganda bots are out in force.
Let’s hear from people who are actually there…..
Donald Trump is not our saviour: A Palestinian priest’s perspective on Trump and Middle Eastern Christianity
As the Trump Administration has announced its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman decided to use the Holy Sepulcher to make a political point in support of Israel’s control over the city.
He wished Christians a Happy Easter while tweeting that it was ‘encouraging to see religions coming together, flourishing, in Jerusalem’. Only a few days later he was silent when defenseless Palestinians were being killed for peacefully demonstrating in Gaza. This only confirms that his Easter tweet aimed at misleading the reality of the Israeli occupation.
The ‘March of Return’ that took place in Gaza is linked to the marking of 70 years of the Nakba. It is impossible to talk about the situation of Christians in the Holy Land without mentioning what happened in 1948 to dozens of Palestinian parishes, whose communities were expelled and never allowed to return. In 1948 Jerusalem had a population of about 31,000 Christians. Many of them became refugees during the Nakba and today the number has been decreased to less than 10,000.
After the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, the city began to be separated from the rest of the country. The surrounding Christian communities, such as Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho and Al Izzariya (Bethany), have been cut off from the city by a network of settlements, checkpoints, walls and other movement restrictions. This, in addition to several policies such as ID Revocations and denial of family reunifications, has pushed thousands of Palestinians out of the city, including many Christians, severely affecting our social fabric.
In order to enter Jerusalem, Palestinians need special military-issued permits. It has been noted how Palestinian Christians from Gaza under the age of 55 were banned from celebrating Easter in Jerusalem, only about 80 kilometers from their homes. As a Palestinian priest, the only way that I have to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulcher is through one of those permits. By obtaining one, it does not mean that one could necessarily do things like driving or sleeping over. In the case of Easter, obtaining a permit doesn’t necessarily mean joy: crossing the Qalandia or the Bethlehem 300 checkpoints is a humiliating experience. Once inside, we are treated just like any other Palestinian.
Just a few days ago, young members of my community, alongside their families, were celebrating with joy the Palm Sunday procession when they were harassed, insulted and physically assaulted by Israeli Forces, detaining three young Palestinian Christians. They were not involved in any act of violence. Rather, they had raised a Palestinian flag, just like dozens of pilgrim groups were raising their national flags. The Israeli Police managed to turn the joy of Palm Sunday into a trauma for our children. This, unfortunately, was not an isolated case. We have seen how year after year there are more acts of discrimination against Palestinian Christians celebrating Easter in Jerusalem, including during Palm Sunday, Good Friday procession and the Holy Fire Saturday, known in Arabic as Sabt il Nour.
The US Administration, represented by Mr Friedman, has encouraged the Israeli Government to advance their policies against the rights of the Palestinian people, and particularly against the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem. Both Christians and Muslims suffer the consequences of this.
Instead of endorsing policies of coexistence and inclusivity that reaffirm the need to exercise equal rights in the city for Muslims, Christians and Jews, President Trump and his team have decided to encourage policies of discrimination and exclusivity by those who refer to Jerusalem as the ‘eternal and indivisible capital of Israel’.
By ‘taking Jerusalem off the table’, as President Trump said, the US is not making any favour for the cause of a just and lasting peace. Let us be clear: President Trump didn’t change anything on the ground. What he did though, was to tell the peoples of the region, and particularly to the Christian communities, that the US Administration cares very little about their fate. All parties have to respect the special inclusive identity of Jerusalem; it cannot and should not be under the sovereignty of one part or one religion. Equal rights to all should be respected.
As Mr Friedman talked about ‘flourishing religions’ in Jerusalem, I doubt that he can tell the difference between local Christians and foreign pilgrims, as he considers all Christians to be outsiders in the ‘eternal capital of Israel’. Christianity is not foreign to this land, certainly not to Jerusalem.
We have been living here for centuries and we refuse all policies aimed at making us foreign aliens in our land. Our percentage may have decreased since 1948, but we are the ‘salt of this earth’. Whoever cares about the situation of Christians in the Middle East, and particularly in Palestine, rather than encouraging unjust policies, should take concrete measures for freedom, justice, equality and dignity to be restored to all the inhabitants of the Holy Land. This is the only way for peace.
Fr. Jamal Khader is the parish priest of the Holy Family Roman Catholic (Latin) Church in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the West Bank. He is the former rector of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Seminary as well as Dean of Arts of Bethlehem University.
https://www.christiantoday.com/amp/donald-trump-is-not-our-saviour-a-palestinian-priests-perspective-on-trump-and-middle-eastern-christianity/128077.htm?__twitter_impression=tru
Press photographer Ahmad Abu Hussein shot by IDF for…….
Who turns out to be on the Hamas payroll and who is a drone operator! Do a little digging before blindly accepting whatever Hamas claims.
And you expect anyone to believe anything you say…….Like Palestinian drones are dangerous. Really? You expect anyone to believe that? Is that the best you could muster?
I suppose the camera guy was really operatingan rpg
“On April 6, Yasser Murtaga, a 30-year-old cameraman from Gaza city, was shot dead by Israeli troops east of the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis while he was filming for a local news and TV production company.”
I find it interesting that you think that is a justified reason for shooting someone even if remotely true.
It shows you really are an extremist.
That’s why people like you killed Rabin. And justify terrorism.
Have any Palestinians done more than burn tires and throw rocks near the fence?
Fired rifles, thrown molotov cocktails, attempted multiples crossings of a sovereign border.
Which sovereign border are you speaking of? The border between Palestine and Israel that Israel respects so dutifully? That border?
Israel totally respects the border. It is Hamas who fires over it and tunnels under it.
That’s why the IDF patrols the west Bank….
Credible proof please …
http://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-terrorist-organization-israel-gaza-protests-2018-4
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/171951-180410-palestinian-journalist-killed-in-gaza-was-a-hamas-activist-report
Thanks
Matt, that flag was pretty threatening to the State of Israel.
https://twitter.com/GreatReturnMa/status/984104962048319488
I certainly agree that Israel´s response is out of order, but I also think that not every Palestinian on or near the fence had non-violent intentions.
Well if it’s a Jewish settler doing that in Palestine that’s ok…..
Not in my book …
Palestinians throwing rocks=security concern. ..Arrest children…shoot to kill….
Jewish settlers throwing rocks= meh……it’s only at Arabs…..
Soldiers stand by as settlers pelt Palestinians with rocks
Footage shows IDF soldiers standing idly by as masked settlers hurl stones at Palestinian farmers, human rights activists following fire started by one farmer near West Bank village of Burin; 1 activist injured, fire subdued by Israeli forces; multiple clashes between settlers, Arabs over last 2 weeks as olive harvest winds down.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5044292,00.html
If you could drown your hate for a moment would you let your child/children go out and put themselves in danger by firing stones and things at a professional army? Most decent people would want to protect their child.
If you could drown your hate for a moment would you shoot a child for throwing stones?
Oh and why do you think Palestinians hate Israel?
And that includes Palestinian Christians which you openly despise as well.
Well done for deflecting from the issue.
Palestinians kids throwing rocks = security concern.
Jewish settlers throwing rocks = meh.
And you wonder why people see you as such a hateful hypocritical troll.
I’m sure the Scots just bent over and just let the English f*** them in the arse.
Please go stand still somewhere and let people throw rocks at you and your family. Then answer your own question.
Please just let people steal YOUR land and force you and your family out.
Oh you only like doing that to others.
Merkin!
And that’s why Israel supported Hamas….
BLOWBACK: HOW ISRAEL WENT FROM HELPING CREATE HAMAS TO BOMBING IT
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
Oh and Israel defending its borders from Palestinians standing around…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Kq0YuTzjN9U
And you wonder why Palestinians hate Israel……
Israel supporting Hamas when it was posing as a community organizing group. As such, it did seem like a better choice than Fatah. Obviously, that changed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/?utm_term=.d7df866b670d
Lol…..yep.
The principal of divide and conquer.
We’ll raise up the monster to attack us and then we’ll blame the Palestinians for it.
F***ing idiots!
Standing around? Get out and work and you won’t get in trouble.
Lol….poor Jimmy’s totally unhinged now….
Once again shows he knows f*** all about the Palestinian side.
Just go out and get a job……..and Israel will take their settlers away…..
Is that all Arabs can do, riot and cause chaos? Can they not just build their country to make it better instead of destroying everything?
Is that all Israelis can do?
Dispossess people of their land to create an ethno-religious state?
And it wasn’t Arabs which destroyed Gaza derpy.
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hahahaha worst genocide ever, the only genocide even in which the victims population grew exponentially lmao
The Palestinian people’s elected representative, Arafat, refused a 2-state solution because it didn’t include all of Jerusalem for them. They were offered EVERYTHING else they demanded. Unheard of in geopolitical negotiations. He threw it all away over a city that he knew Israel would never let go of.
Now they continue to elect Hamas to lead them. Hamas takes the building materials sent by Israel for hospitals and schools and instead builds terror tunnels. They hide their weapons in schools and residential buildings. They are cowards and thieves, and not true partners for peace.
Derpaderp
The Palestinians have refused any state offer that:
Divides them between West Bank and Gaza. Or whenever West Bank was included only without Gaza.
Does not solve the refugee issue.
Does not solve the Jerusalem issue.
As one Palestinians said about offers of statehood….
“” Well first of all it seems the word “state” needs to be qualified. If we mean a representative governmental institution with sovereignty over its land (obviously based on 67 borders) and the freedom to engage in independent local and foreign policy, fully enfranchised to protect its citizens and enforce its laws (which is practically what all states with no exception have in common), then the answer is never. All “offers” have focused around creating a Vichy-style state but no Palestinian leader offered himself as a Pétain which is Israel’s definition of a Palestinian “Partner in peace.” If you consider Vichy France as a state, then I don’t think there is room for conversation here.”
They have no right to any of the land, If they’re unhappy, they can always move back to Jordan.
Yeah, except they do.
As this map of landownership shows in 1945…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8544faba845bad7e0e2d677cacafbacee7b21fb7c1273356f162c3a54978e052.jpg
And they don’t give a sh#t what you think.
Once again reliigion shows how it causes misery and suffering.
Hey if you don’t like the Palestinians being there, you can just f*** off….
There was never, ever a state called Palestine, so what are they complaining about.? The state of Jordan
which was created after the First World War, can and will take these fellow Arabs. In Syria, meanwhile, another example of what the Arabs can ‘achieve’ 4000 so-called Palestinians have been killed in the war there though we never hear about that in the biased media.
How ironic that a Scotsman wishes to deny people their right to self determination and democracy.
All because they support an ethno-religious state based on apartheid.
What absolute drivel you speak. If you walk along the promenade in Tel Aviv you will see people from all ethnicities and nationalities. There is no apartheid because the Israeli state and Israeli businesses employ hundreds of thousands of Arabs and provide them with a living for their families. Waken up, Bones. The truth is out there.
Is Tel Aviv in Hebron?
Once again, you know jack shit about the Occupied Territories.
Desmond Tutu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYWc5iuXTo
Btw the West Bank is ruled by Fatah.
Israel supported Hamas in it’s civil war with Fatah.
You are a fantasist. How absurd to claim that Israel supported their sworn enemy.
Lol.
Those are the facts dude.
Israel wanted to destabilise the PLO, so they supported Islamic extremists.
Don’t be so shocked. That’s been western policy in the Middle East.
Finance Islamic extremists to destabilise secular Arab nationalism.
It’s worked a treat.
“BLOWBACK: HOW ISRAEL WENT FROM HELPING CREATE HAMAS TO BOMBING IT
WHAT DO YOU know about Hamas?
That it’s sworn to destroy Israel? That it’s a terrorist group, proscribed both by the United States and the European Union? That it rules Gaza with an iron fist? That it’s killed hundreds of innocent Israelis with rocket, mortar, and suicide attacks?
But did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the result. To be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.
In the past decade alone, Israel has gone to war with Hamas three times — in 2009, 2012, and 2014 — killing around 2,500 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the process. Meanwhile, Hamas has killed far more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian militant group. This is the human cost of blowback.
“When I look back at the chain of events, I think we made a mistake,” David Hacham, a former Arab affairs expert in the Israeli military who was based in Gaza in the 1980s, later remarked. “But at the time, nobody thought about the possible results.”
They never do, do they?
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/“
As Bethlehem’s Mayor, I Ask: Why Are U.S. Christians Celebrating Israeli Policies Strangling Jesus’ Birthplace?
The language of Netanyahu and his cabinet increasingly references a Bible-citing and religious, rather than political, war against the Palestinians. And American evangelicals are his enthusiastic foot-soldiers
The world refers to the land of Jesus and the cradle of Christianity as “the land of peace.” The political reality today is quite the opposite.
There are no words to describe the incarceration of Jesus’ birthplace, Bethlehem. It is enclosed by 18 illegal Israeli settlements, segregated road networks and infrastructures. Bethlehem’s 2,000-year-old contiguity with Jerusalem has been cut by a network of Israeli settlements and annexation, which also prevents the town from ever expanding further.
We, the people of Bethlehem, have been separated from our hinterland, denied our right to control our natural resources and forced to cross Israeli checkpoints even to move within Palestine. Left with limited control over just 13 percent of its governorate, Bethlehem is an example of what 50 years of Israeli occupation have meant for Palestine and Palestinians in general, and to the Christians of the Holy Land in particular.
Ironically, in a few days, significant numbers of Christian evangelicals, mainly from the U.S., will come to celebrate those same Israeli policies strangling the birthplace of Jesus Christ.
The Prime Minister’s Office has joined efforts with various agencies normalizing Israeli violations of international law, including the Israeli Ministry of Tourism and the so-called Jerusalem municipality, to bring in “Christian media” representatives. The conference, to be held in an Israeli hotel built on Palestinian, illegally confiscated land in occupied East Jerusalem, includes a tour in support of the illegal wall which surrounds Bethlehem. They will also be taken to the lands of Beit Jala, to visit the illegal settlement of Gilo, thus supporting Israel’s destruction of the Cremisan Valley and the dispossession of dozens of Palestinian Christian families.
As a descendant of one of Bethlehem’s oldest Christian families, I was taught that Christianity’s message of is one of love, peace and justice. That’s the message we celebrate here every Christmas. The message of this conference, however, will be one of succor to oppression and apartheid. Participants will bestow their “divine blessing” on the illegal policies of the Israeli government – violations under international law.
This conference is not only an attempt to normalize the Israeli occupation of Palestine, but also part of the systematic Israeli strategy to exploit religion and holy texts as a political tool.
A few weeks ago Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the Bible to justify the Israeli occupation at the United Nations, just as several members of the Israeli cabinet continue to incite against the Palestinian people, referencing a “divine right” to take over our homeland. This is a dangerous trend that aims at turning a political question into a religious war.
When Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress in 2011 he said, referring to the occupied West Bank, that “this is the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel … No distortion of history can deny the 4,000-year-old bond between the Jewish people and the Jewish land.” Sadly, we didn’t hear American religious leaders challenging Netanyahu to stop using his Biblical interpretations to justify a land grab. It reminds me of the dark period when South Africa’s apartheid regime would use “theological” arguments to justify its racist policies.
History has shown that there is nothing divine in the violation of another people’s rights. Certainly, participation in a crime shouldn’t be called a “blessing.”
As the newly elected mayor of Bethlehem I witness on a daily basis the effects of the blind support of Israel given by my Christian co-religionists. How fundamentalist theological positions are used to justify injustice. But no church worthy of its name should offer a theological smoke screen for the denial of our most basic rights as Palestinians.
To those who choose to stand on the oppressor’s side, I ask them to remember our origins as Christians, and to resurrect the universal message of hope born in a grotto in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago. Only when human dignity is respected and equal rights are granted, only when the Israeli occupation is over and Palestinians are able to achieve their full potential on their own land, will we be able to say that peace has returned to the land of peace.
Anton Salman, a lawyer, was elected this year as the mayor of Bethlehem. Twitter: @Bethlehem_PS
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-why-are-christians-celebrating-israeli-policies-strangling-jesus-birthplace-1.5457800
Pls help me understand this. (I am not stupid; just was never taught any of this.) Israel was given this land by the United Nations, yes? If so, then WHY didn’t people yell at them for giving Israel the land? Why are there so many Muslims in Bethlehem/Israel? I am not trying to be snotty. I just can’t find anyone to explain this to me. Was Israel given the land? By whom? Why? When? Pls don’t tell me to educate myself – there are thousands of articles online and they all say something different. Thank you in advance.
The UN did not have the power to take land from one people and give it to another. Israel STOLE the land. Starting in December of 1947, Palestinian’s land and property was seized and destroyed to make way for the “state of Israel”. Over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 10,000 were killed by the British and US armed Zionist militias, and later Israeli forces. Israel was created by theft, terror and lies.
Israel wasn’t given any land by the UN. The whole region belonged to the Ottoman Empire which was defeated by the Allies in WWI. The League of Nations divided up the land into Mandates for the creation of states. The Jews were apportioned the land from the Mediterranean to the eastern border of where Jordan is today. The Brits, who executed the Mandate for Palestine – a Class A Mandate for the creation of the Jewish State – stole the portion that is Jordan today, and gave it to the Arabs for a new state. Thje Arabs also got Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria. All of this is set in stone in international law via the Treaty of Lausanne, which incorporates the Treaty of Sevres, which contains the San Remo Resolution that gives this land to the Jews.
The UN, which is not allowed to create states, and in violation of its own charter, attempted to divide up the little land that was left to the Jews. As always, the Jews acquiesced – because they really wanted a state and were willing to make sacrifices – and, as always, the Arabs refused. In addition, the proposal was never binding. Instead, as soon as the Mandate ended, and the Jews declared independence, they were attacked by five Arab armies which ultimately lost the war. Israel ended up with everything she was given except Gaza and Judea and Samaria which the Jordanians called the West Bank.
In 1967, after Egypt committed an act of war against Israel by closing the Straits of Tiran, and being attacked by Jordan, Israel recaptured Gaza and Judea and Samaria – including the rest of Jerusalem.
I hope that answers your question.
The Jewish Homeland was promised by the British (eg Balfour) with no consultation AT ALL with the majority Arab population.
Of course the Zionist Congress rejected the Peel recommendations.
Why was that?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5a1a23b2b9efb8a27bc6af2355e4c6cbf7aa42065edc3dc6a696a698aaf865fd.gif
Do you understand the difference between sovereignty and population? The latter doesn’t dictate the former. You also conveniently forget that the Arabs got 78% of the land promised to the Jews for the Arab state of Jordan. Not to mention the other Arab states that were created at the same time – Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Finally, all the non-Jews were asked to stay by the Jews and to become citizens of the new state. So, what you think is fair, is that the Jews shouldn’t have had any of their hereditary land given to them, and, yet, you also think that because some Arabs lived there for several hundred years, they have a right to it. That’s called antisemitism – plain and simple.
BS..
A Jewish homeland was created which went against the wishes of the majority Arab population AND the promises that had been made during WWI.
And as we can see Donald Trump’s grandchildren have more of a right to the land as opposed to those who have been there for over a thousand years.
Its classic apartheid.
I will just clarify one point:
Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan which was accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs, no Arab would have lost their home. In place of the British Mandate for Palestine, there would have been a sovereign Arab state that was almost entire Arab, and a sovereign Jewish state with a substantial Arab minority.
As a result of the Arab rejection of the Partition Plan, there was first a civil war, and after May 15, 1948, an invasion by 5 Arab states as well. In the course of that war, many Palestinians fled, and in some cases such as Ramle and Lydda, there were expulsions. After the war, Israel did not permit the return of the Palestinian Arabs who had fled. Those Palestinian Arabs who remained in Israel at the end of the war became today’s Israeli Arabs, who are citizens.
WHY would the Palestinians agree to having their land/homes, which they LEGALLY owned, be taken away? The five Arab states did NOT invade until AFTER Zionist/Israeli forces had committed 16 massacres, including the grisly massacre of over 100 men, women, and children at Deir Yassin. Not only that, Zionist/Israeli forces outnumbered ALL Arab and Palestinian combatants combined, often by a factor of two to three. The Arab armies DID NOT invade Israel, virtually all battles were fought on land that was to have been the Palestinian state.
Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan, no Palestinian would have lost their homes.
Last point is not correct, see for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_the_Kinarot_Valleyp
Must be why Yeir Dassin was massacred in April 48 BEFORE the Arab- Israeli War.
The Palestinians rejected partition because it violated the UNs own charter on self determination.
It also gave 33% of the population 55% of the land which included nearly 250 Arab villages. In fact the population of the Jewish Home was nearly 500 000 Jewish and Arab.
Its amazing how you people piss on democracy when its expedient.
1. Deir Yassin was a battle, not a massacre. The Arab leaders admitted that they exaggerated it to get the Arabs to leave and get out of the way of the fighting.
2. Do you actually thing the fighting didn’t start until independence was declared? It had been going on for decades! And the Jews had only recently begun to fight back.
3. The UN did violate its Charter by trying to give away the land that had been given to the Jews! The Arabs living there had plenty of Arab countries to go to – they had no right to self-determination on land that didn’t belong to them.
4. What democracy? It was still the Mandate.
Dude, do you think you can convince anyone with your lies
1. Testimonies From the Censored Deir Yassin Massacre: ‘They Piled Bodies and Burned Them’
A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. A woman and an old man shot in back. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. The testimonies collected by filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the massacre in Deir Yassin are difficult to process even 70 years after the fact
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-testimonies-from-the-censored-massacre-at-deir-yassin-1.5494094
2. Derpy, I made it clear that fighting started waaaayyyy before independence and the Haganah were bombing market places.
3. The Arabs living in Palestine were the population of the land whether you like it or not.
They owned the vast majority of the land…..
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8544faba845bad7e0e2d677cacafbacee7b21fb7c1273356f162c3a54978e052.jpg
Like they were supposed to just piss off…..
Once again you show you have no understanding nor respect for democracy.
4. Exactly…This had nothing to do with the will of the majority population.
Well done for agreeing with me.
It was the whims of Zionist Christians in Britain.
Nobody is defending Deir Yassin, but it took place during the civil war phase of the war. The UN Partition Plan wasn’t implemented because the Palestinian Arab leadership completely rejected it. It has nothing to do with what would have happened if it had been accepted. Those villages would have still been there, individual land ownership wouldn’t have been affected. Israel would have been a country with two large founding populations (as a Canadian, I’m familiar with this) and all Palestinians, Arab and Jewish, would have seen an end to colonial British rule.
Here is the text of the 1947 UN Partition Plan. It describes how citizenship would have been granted and protection of minority rights. http://www.mideastweb.org/181.htm
I take it you’d be happy for your country to suddenly become Islamic because the UN said so.
Palestinian leaders rejected partitioning as a violation of the UNs charter on the right to self-determination.
Also
“”Arab rejection was…based on the fact that, while the population of the Jewish state was to be [only half] Jewish with the Jews owning less than 10% of the Jewish state land area, the Jews were to be established as the ruling body—a settlement which no self-respecting people would accept without protest, to say the least…The action of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of all peoples to self-determination. By denying the Palestine Arabs, who formed the two-thirds majority of the country, the right to decide for themselves, the United Nations had violated its own charter.” Sami Hadawi, “Bitter Harvest.””
Once again, democracy and self-determininism suddenly means nothing.
It’s also clear that Zionists saw the partitioning as the beginning of expansion.
No one knows what would have happened under partition, other than that many would not be happy with it – on either side especially as the UN can’t protect minority rights even now.
Thank you!!!
So you aren’t interested in facts at all.
You just wanted to justify your own support for the oppression of others.
Don’t believe Bones. he is biased and full of hatred for the Israelis.
Nonsense.
This spoken from the shill who hates palestinians and wants them all gooonnnneeee.
Btw for all the propaganda out there, for me the question is – Do populations have the right to self determination or not?
If not – then you can not say you are in favour of democracy.
Eg why does the Israeli government refuse to recognise a Palestinian State whe the vast majority of Palestinians want one? hint – Israel continues to expand Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory. You cannot do that on a sovereign state.
So what Israel wants in Palestine is the equivalence of Vichy France.
They have no rights on someone else’s land. The Arabian Peninsula is their homeland – they can create a state there if they choose.
LIE. Israel had not right to the land that was LEGALLY owned by Palestinians.
No, they have lived in Palestine for generations.
It seems you’ll have to kill them because they aren’t leaving.
The Arabs have resisted ever since the British decided to make Palestine a Jewish Home.
No one gave a rats about what the Arabs thought.
Once again, these are decisions made by colonialists and imperialists about what other countries should do.
The simple fact is the majority of the land was owned by Arabs and they were the majority population.
They had NO say on how their land was divided up.
The UN favoured a 2 state solution and even the Brits realised their mistake of making promises to one group over the wishes of the majority.
Why do the principles of democracy not count for people just because they are Arab?
Also the idea of basing a state on ethnicity and religion is a guarantee of an apartheid state.
Do you think Arabs wanted to be part of a Jewish Home?
Where would they fit in that?
Stop being lazy and actually talk to Palestinian Christians.
What were the Arabs resisting when they were murdering Jews and Christians over the past 1400 years since they invaded? Here’s a little list of their depredations and massacres – please justify them for me:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-a-levy/muslim-pogroms-against-jews-prior-to-zionism/10152225862404115
http://jewishcurrents.org/october-30-shiraz-blood-libel-22319
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/coexistence.html
Derpy, those arabs you hate are christian as well.
I don’t hate any of them. But the vast majority are Muslim. And those who claim to be Christians – you don’t inherit being a Christian – are equally violent towards the Jews.
Yes you hate them and you support Jewish extremists.
In fact you equate Christian Palestinians as terrorists shows how much you hate them.
‘Claim to be Christian’
They do a far better job of following the messiah than the hateful disgrace you’re presenting.
Do you know the requirements to become a Christian? I can tell what one isn’t – being born into a family that calls itself ‘Christian’. Every Christian has to enter into a personal relationship with Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, and accept Him as their Lord and their Savior. Having done this, they would come into a relationship with G-d through the blood of Yeshua and be led into all righteousness by the Holy Spirit. They would believe and follow the teachings of the New Covenant, much of which teaches Gentile followers of Yeshua how to revere and treat the Jewish people. Not one true Arab Christian would lay a hand against a Jew, and they most certainly wouldn’t ally themselves with the Muslims.
Given all that, even those Arabs who erroneously identify as Christians are in a very difficult position in Arab/Muslim countries. They are always under threat of persecution, and worse, and as many as can have left. Israel is the only country in the ME where the Arab Christian population is growing.
Now, let’s talk about your definition of Jewish extremists. I’m assuming you mean any Jewish Israeli who dares to defend his country against actual terrorists.
Nah that’s complete racist bs.
We respect people because of their character and how they treat others, NOT because of some mythical stories which excluded everyone else.
Now if you knew anything about the context of Yeshua’s life, it was in the context of rampant and violent Jewish nationalism.
In fact, the gospels make it clear that the destruction of Jerusalem and the subsequent diaspora were judgements by God.
Now true Arab Christians may not lay a hand on a Jew but there are plenty of Jews like yourself who would gladly not only lay their hands on Arab Christians but take their home and land as well.
And you continue to lie about Arab Christians. Palestinian Christians have been vocal about the true cause of division in the Middle East.
It’s people like you.
Jewish extremist = Jews who believe that their religion trumps the rights of others. In fact, according to them others don’t have rights.
See also Islamic extremists and Christian extremists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0aJQ3996vY
Btw I studied in seminary with Palestinian Christians who are now ministering in the West Bank.
They sure as hell knew more about following Yeshua than you do.
By the way let us know when you actually decide to follow Yeshua instead of being a lying shill.
I won’t hold my breath though.
I hope you don’t think you’re an example of a good disciple. You know, he who hates his brother… Not to mention Romans 11 and the proper way to treat the Jews. And then there’s the whole Tanach which is G-d’s love song to Israel. And, finally, Revelation, when everyone will be judged for how they treated the Jews.
You have not shown one thing I’ve said to be a lie. That’s just your standard response when you can’t prove me wrong. Nobody is fooled by you.
I have been following Yeshua for over 40 years. I have studied the word, and know how much He loves me. He also loves you, in spite of yourself. Put away your anger and hatred, and become a true imitator of the Jewish Messiah.
Oh, and the British didn’t decide, the League of Nations did. It helps to get the basic facts right. The Arabs had a choice – they could move to the new Arab state of Jordan or stay and become citizens of the new Jewish state. Sadly, they chose a third nonviable option and attacked Israel. It did not work out well for them.
LIE.
Excuse me? Please try to prove me wrong!
I already have.
The Balfour plan was British derpy.
Yes, but it was far from the determining factor.
I know you have cheerfully cited the White Papers, which are certainly the opposite of Balfour. Both British.
Oh, bull! First of all, the non-Jewish population was guaranteed their civil and religious rights in every document pertaining to the creation of Israel. Second, the British stole 78% of the Jew’s land and gave it to the Arabs for a state – Jordan. Third, there are dozens of states based on ethnicity and religion – for example, all the Arab and Muslim states. Four, the majority of land was owned by the Ottoman Empire. Arabs owned very little of it because they failed to register it with the Ottomans. Most of the Arabs living in the region were renters or squatters. The Jews, on the other hand, bought, at exorbitant prices, every inch of the land they lived on and worked – primarily from Muslim absentee landlords. Five, the Arabs in the territories voted for Abbas – he is the one preventing democracy, not Israel. Six, the UN was in violation of its Charter by even suggesting that the Jews give up any of their land to another people. Seven, the Arabs are not complaining about the states they got out of the deal!
BS…first of all the non-Jewish population (the vast majority) didn’t want to live in a Jewish Homeland. That included Arab Christians and Muslims. Gee funny that. Amazing how people like forcing their beliefs on majority populations when it suits them.
Second….the majority of land was owned by Arabs.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8544faba845bad7e0e2d677cacafbacee7b21fb7c1273356f162c3a54978e052.jpg
3rd – Those states are NOT western democracies. God to see you no longer support that. In fact you’re looking to Islamic caliphates for your model.
4th – the majority of land was owned by Arabs…see map of ownership distribution in 1945.
5th – Bibi’s made it clear he doesn’t want a Palestinian state and is following the Likud charter of expanding settlements in the Occupied Territories. He wants the land WITHOUT the Palestinians.
6th – Lol….The Jews expelled 700 000 Palestinians and gave THEIR land (whole villages ) to settlers. And of course those expelled should have the right to return under international law. Hence the March of Return. Israel won’t let them. In fact they’re shooting them if they do.
7th – The Arabs in Palestine ARE complaining………
Educate yourself: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-423126/O-Muslim-town-Bethlehem-.html
lol…….a Muslim town with a Christian mayor.
But hey, we ain’t falling for your lies.
From my friend Bashir
To all those who claim that the Palestinian Authority persecutes Christians, watch how we celebrate our feasts with utmost liberty.
I just took these photos from in front of my house in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, Palestine.
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/bethlehems-declining-christian-population-casts-shadow-over-christmas
Bibi, you are aware that article refutes your claim eg
“Walid al-Shatleh, a gym teacher at Talitha Kumi school in Beit Jala, a traditionally Christian village next to Bethlehem, is one of the Palestinian Christians considering emigration. He and his extended family are debating between moving to Canada or Australia.
Al-Shatleh said the Israeli army seized 24 dunams (six acres) of his farmland to construct the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories, cutting down his family’s old growth olive trees and ruining his livelihood.
“We feel like there is no future for us in this land,” he said. “I can travel to Europe and move freely between countries, even leaving my passport [at the hotel]. But here, I have to show my ID everywhere I go, I have to cross a checkpoint every day,” he said. “I can’t visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, I used to go once a month but now I need special permission.”
“We live like we’re an animal in a cage in a zoo, there’s only one exit and entrance which is a piece of paper from Israeli authorities saying when I can go to Jerusalem and at what time,” al-Shatleh added.
Bethlehem mayor Vera Baboun, a Catholic who has led the city since 2012, when she was the first woman elected mayor, said the city is trying to increase tourism. One major initiative is a sorely-needed $17 million renovation of the Church of the Nativity, including work which would reveal the original floor mosaics, among other needed restoration.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism, 1.16 million foreigners visited the Church of the Nativity in 2013, the most recent year statistics were available.
That same year, about 3.54 million tourists visited Israel. All tourists to Bethlehem arrive from Israel via one of 29 checkpoints that lead to the city and surrounding villages. One of the main complaints among residents is that many tourists come to Bethlehem just for a few hours to visit the church and then immediately get back on the bus to return to Jerusalem, spending very little money in the city. Baboun said the city is considering a tourism tax to ensure some of the tourism dollars are directed back to the city.
Nabil Giacaman, a Catholic shop owner of the “Christmas House” store on Manger Square, said media emphasis on the shrinking Christian population was part of an effort to create an internal divide in Palestinian society. “It’s not about Christians and Muslims, it’s not that I’m facing these issues only because I’m a Christian,” said Giacaman. “As Muslims suffer, Christians also suffer. At the end, we are all Palestinian, we get the same permits and the same treatment at the checkpoints.”
Others say the situation is more nuanced.
“Officially, the laws are the same for Christians and Muslims but there is still some racism,” said Qumsieh, who noted that most of the prejudice is connected to land ownership, and that people generally try to sell land to others from the same religion.
“I can’t see how we have a future with this problem of ongoing emigration,” said Qumsieh. “I hope it won’t come to be that the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher will become museums, but the fact on the ground is dark and gloomy.”
Qumsieh said his own family is a perfect example of this. As one of six highly-educated brothers, four of whom are engineers, Qumsieh is the only one still living in Palestine. His two sons, studying in the United States, laughed in his face when he asked if they were coming back to Bethlehem after graduating from college, Qmsieh recalled.
Qumsieh faulted the Israeli occupation for Bethlehem’s struggles, but added that the city also needs to address internal strife, including the stagnant economy. “We need housing projects, we need investors who will employ our youth,” he said. “People will stay if they can get a flat and a job.”
According to Baboun, the unemployment rate in Bethlehem is 27 percent, the highest in the Palestinian territories after Gaza. Average unemployment in the West Bank is 22 percent.
Part of the obstacle towards economic development is that many of the large infrastructure projects must be coordinated with the Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli Army, the Palestinian Authority, and the Bethlehem City Council, she said. Much of the city does not have running water, and residents must get water delivered privately. Additionally, there are no wastewater treatment areas in the region, a major environmental issue.
And if he said otherwise, they would kill him.
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/11/003-christians-in-the-land-called-holy
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/christians_are_disappearing_in_the_middle_east.html
Lol…..You really are a totally dishonest merkin.
We aren’t falling for your bs Bibi bot.
Hey, how come you post at the exact same time, every day.
Oh and your links go either nowhere and are evidence of nothing.
Because I’m online at that same time every day – get it?
Yeah right, Israeli bot.
Israeli hypocrisy.
I look forward to the Israeli bots telling me why their terrorism was good…..
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has often said, “[Palestinians] consider murderers to be heroes, they name public squares after them, we don’t”.
A look at Israel’s history, however, proves that sometimes they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIVuSc-pGHk
Christopher Hitchens on Israel and Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejadhwDB-OY&t=17s
Palestinian shot for taking selfie on his phone…
Because that is a threat to Israel..
https://twitter.com/vic2pal/status/981095851010469888
I suppose they will testify in court that he was posing serious threat to their lives – if they ever saw inside a courtroom – and their names will be chanted at zionist hate rallies too
Ethnic cleansing.
They’re being eliminated because they are not Jewish. There’s no gene for Judaism…no matter what they want you to believe.
Just like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were not genocide either, since their is no gene for Sikhism. Killing someone because they wear a turban is not the same as killing someone because they are left handed and have green eyes.
1. If the Arabs living on Israeli territory were being eliminated, they’d be long gone. Instead, their population has grown astronomically since 1948, and they have the highest quality of life of any other Arabs in the region! Israel sucks at genocide!
2. There is indeed a Jewish genome, just as there is an Arab one. Check out these studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3032072/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274378/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
mc/articles/PMC379148
Well they are being eliminated….for wanting to return to their homes…..
They’re still alive – unless they’re being killed by other Muslims. Israel isn’t killing them. Of course, people who attack the borders of a sovereign nation with the intent to murder that nation’s citizens have effectively declared war.
Blatant lie. Israel has been murdering Palestinians with impunity for almost seventy years. The world IS watching now and we NO LONGER believe Israeli propaganda. Israel has never been the victim, they have always been the perpetrators.
Not the ones who are dead…….
They are simply wanting to return to their homes…..
There are roughly between 20,000 and 40,000 actual refugees remaining. They have always had the opportunity to return if they were willing to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors. They aren’t.
These are the refugees not allowed to return.
Yeah we get that…moron.
“If the Arabs living on Israeli territory”- did you get that sleight of hand? 😉
You have a problem with the truth? In accordance with international law, all the territory between the River and the Sea is under Israeli sovereignty. You don’t have to like it, but you can’t deny the facts.
You obviously have a problem with the truth….The Occupies Zone is NOT under Jewish sovereignty.
So that’s why you support Jewish extremists?
This is another blatant lie. Palestinians have no right of return. Their land and homes continue to be stolen by Israel to this day.
We are once again living at a time of revelation. Many will argue against this, many will vehemently argue against this. Those most likely to argue against this are those who are invested in their beliefs and assumptions and those whose very standing depends upon their beliefs. This is understandable to a point. Those who seek, who wish to know, and have open minds and hearts will know. We are living in a time of revelation from the creator of all life and there is a blessing, a warning, and a preparation. Can you see? [Ref] Excerpt from Volume 1 God has Spoken Again Chapter 1 – “There is a New Message from God in the World. It has come from the Creator of all life. It has been translated into human language and understanding through the Angelic Presence that oversees this world. It continues the great series of transmissions from the Creator that have occurred over centuries and millennia. It is a New Message for this time and the times to come. It fulfills the former Messages that have been given to humanity, and yet it reveals things that have never been shown to humanity before. For humanity is now facing a grave and perilous set of challenges, both within the world and from beyond the world. The New Message from God is here to alert, to empower and to prepare the human family—people from all nations and religious traditions, from all tribes, groups and orientations.”
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None of this land belonged to the Palestinians – they didn’t exist! Everyone living in the region was called Palestinian as in Palestinian Jew, Palestinian Arab, etc. The vast majority of the land was state land – no one privately owned it. All of this land, plus TransJordan was to be given to the Jews under the Mandate. After the Brits stole 78% of it to give to the Arabs, the rest – all the land west of the Jordan – belonged to the Jews and became Israel. Judea and Samaria were illegally occupied by Jordan, as was Gaza by the Egyptians. Under treaties with both countries, those areas reverted back to Israel. In other words, the above maps are totally false as proven by international law. Oh, and the partition plan, which was never accepted by the Arabs, was non-binding and is now moot.
LIE. Land ownership statistics from 1945 showed that Palestinian Arabs LEGALLY owned more land than Jews in every single district of Palestine, including Jaffa, where Palestinian Arabs owned 47 percent of the land while Jews owned 39 percent – and Jaffa boasted the highest percentage of Jewish-owned land of any district. In other districts, Palestinian Arabs owned an even larger portion of the land. At the extreme other end, for instance, in Ramallah, Palestinian Arabs owned 99 percent of the land. In the whole of Palestine, Palestinian Arabs owned 85 percent of the land, while Jews owned less than 7 percent, which remained the case up until the time of Israel’s ILLEGAL creation.
Why do you lie all the time?
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I don’t lie at all. Where does this map come from? How old is it? Is it from the Ottomans or the Mandate? Where is the key? Where are the hard numbers to back it up?
It’s a UN map,derpy. The key is there.
Here are some more numbers…..
In Jaffa in 1945, there were 20 000 Jews compared to 70 000 Arabs. After bombardment by Jewish extremists in 1938, 3000 Arabs were left. Today there are 30 000 Jews and 16 000 Arabs. Funny that those Arabs weren’t allowed back.
In Haifa, it was roughly 50:50 Jewish: Arab. 70 000 each in 1945. By October 1948, there were only 5-6000 Arabs left. Today 82% of Haifa is Jewish.
In Bisan in 45, three quarters of the population were Arab. Today it is 99.5% Jewish
In Ramle there were a total of 5 Jews in 1945 out of a population of 15 000. Today out of 63 000, 80% are Jewish. (the government gave Arab houses to Jewish settlers)
There simply isn’t one single sub-district of Palestine where Jews owned the majority of land.
Of course you don’t like it because it confirms your rubbish as complete and utter lies.
Your figures are about population, not land ownership. Again, population is not sovereignty. In addition, the Jews actually bought and paid for the homes and land they lived on – most of the Arabs did not. Registering land under the Ottomans was very difficult, and most of the Arabs who did own land didn’t bother to do it. Therefore, there is no proof of their ownership. As a result, any Arab can claim they owned land, when the reality is that almost all of them were renters and squatters. The vast majority of Arab landowners didn’t even live in the region.
Land ownership statistics from 1945 showed that Palestinian Arabs LEGALLY owned more land than Jews in every single district of Palestine, including Jaffa, where Palestinian Arabs owned 47 percent of the land while Jews owned 39 percent – and Jaffa boasted the highest percentage of Jewish-owned land of any district. In other districts, Palestinian Arabs owned an even larger portion of the land. At the extreme other end, for instance, in Ramallah, Palestinian Arabs owned 99 percent of the land. In the whole of Palestine, Palestinian Arabs owned 85 percent of the land, while Jews owned less than 7 percent, which remained the case up until the time of Israel’s ILLEGAL creation.
It is not illegal. The mandate was an international one and if it was illegal then so was, as has previously pointed out and which you have failed to address, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria etc etc.
Derp, the mandate actually changed under the British when they realised a Jewish Home (which was the dream of Christian ZIonists like Balfour and British PM Lloyd George) would piss off the 90% Arab population.
The Palestinians also rejected partitioning was illegal because it violated the UN’s own charter of the right to self-determination.
So what we have are your Brit mates controlling the affairs of other countries (like they did with Scotland).
Btw all Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories are illegal under international law and violates the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits countries from moving populations into territories occupied in a war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVbg-6fDTA
Rev Garth Hewitt on gaza
https://vimeo.com/265555813
and syria
https://vimeo.com/265610806
Palestinian Christians protest Israeli settlements (unlike Western Christians)
How ridiculous…..
Palestine is now the birthright of Trump’s grandchildren rather than mine
Israel’s law of return grants citizenship to Jews from anywhere in the world, while denying it to Palestinians with a history of residency in the country
Palestine is now the birthright of US President Donald Trump’s grandchildren, according to Israeli law.
His daughter, Ivanka Trump, converted to Judaism to marry her Jewish husband, Jared Kushner. Under Israel’s Law of Return, the state provides citizenship to Jews – both those born to Jewish mothers or those who have converted – from anywhere in the world, while denying citizenship to Palestinians with a documented history of residency in the country.
This makes me very angry, as it is so grossly unfair. Like Donald Trump, I too have children and grandchildren whose birthright should be sacrosanct. What’s more, I am a Palestinian Arab whose father comes from the depopulated village of Lifta, now lying in ruins west of Jerusalem, and whose mother comes from the destroyed village of Ijzim, south of Haifa.
If my daughter-in-law had happened to be Jewish, only then would my grandchildren be able to see their birthright actualised. But she isn’t.
Palestinian homes occupied by Israeli Jews
The claim Israel makes for Ivanka Trump, her husband and their children is “trumped up”. On Quora, “a question and answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organised by its community of users”, I said exactly that in answer to a question from my brother on whether, given Israel’s Law of Return, Palestine was now the birthright of Trump’s grandchildren.
However, the question was deemed to be insincere by Quora moderators and stopped in its tracks with the following memo: “This question’s wording makes it seem like a joke, or intended rhetorically to make a statement, rather than looking for helpful answers. It should be rewritten to be a neutral, non-leading question.”
But for Palestinians, there couldn’t be a more serious and sincere question. In fact, it is so sincere, I tweeted it in anguish to Donald Trump.
The last part of my Tweet references rumours I heard on social media about Ivanka Trump and her husband looking for a house in Jerusalem. My paternal great-grandfather’s house in Lifta is still standing and occupied by Israeli Jewish residents. On my mother’s side, the al-Madi family guest house in Ijzim, one of the few homes that was not destroyed, is now a hotel in Israeli hands, its history falsified in an advertisement.
At the same time, Kushner reportedly has suspicious real estate connections in Israel; during his short time in the US government, his family’s real estate company received an investment nearing $30m from Menora Mivtachim, one of Israel’s largest insurers.
Legally sanctioned land seizure
There is a long history of legally sanctioned Zionist land and housing seizure in Palestine, from land laws and colonisation policies, to annexation and confiscation of Palestinian Arab land and property in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
I hope the day will come soon when Israel’s racist agenda, so apparent in its Law of Return and other laws and doctrines related to Palestinian Arab land and property, will be eliminated through the revision of its Basic Law.
Israel’s Law of Return of 1950, which was amended in 1970, enshrines descent as centrally important to Jewish identity and spearheads Israel’s mission to “in-gather” Jews from around the world and grant them immediate citizenship.
Under Israeli law, Palestinians not only fail to obtain such collective rights, but their very dispossession is officially unrecognised and unmourned. In 2011, the Knesset passed a law “declaring that any institution that receives public funds can be financially penalized if it mourns the Nakba on the same day as [Israel’s so-called] Independence Day”.
The concern of Israel’s apartheid regime is that Palestinian citizens of Israel, who participate in its government, could eliminate its apartheid policies by revising the Basic Law and other key legislation, such as the Law of Return. As long as they are kept in the minority, this will not be possible.
The courage of Palestinians in Gaza
Justice for Palestine matters. Palestinians in Gaza, courageous and steadfast beyond belief, have recently peacefully demonstrated for their legitimate right of return, in accordance with UN Resolution 194. The initiative is called the Great March of Return. More than 70 percent of Gaza’s population comprises Palestinian refugees, meaning that they or their grandparents were expelled from their Palestinian towns, villages and cities, now across the border in Israel.
As we prepare to mark the 70th year of the forcible partitioning of Palestine, the question of maps, borders, sovereignty and, indeed, legitimacy regarding Israel are more urgent and louder than ever
Once Israel established itself as a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948, it confiscated Palestinian land and property and simply handed it over to immigrant Jews.
The indomitable courage, defiance and dignity of Palestinians in Gaza is legendary, whether they choose armed struggle or peaceful protest. They have steadfastly refused to resign themselves to their dispossession generation after generation, and they are still standing firm – as the Great March of Return demonstrates – even on amputated legs.
The hope is that all Palestinian refugees and exiles will soon be allowed to return to their homeland, and that the searing pain of the rape of Palestine will begin to heal.
Cracks in the Zionist logic
Israel goes to a lot of trouble to keep its Jewish demographic majority, but there are cracks in its Zionist logic of taking over historic Palestine.
On the one hand, it blithely ignores (in its textbook maps as well as settlement policies) the Green Line, the 1949 Armistice border setting out the partitioning of historic Palestine.
On the other hand, what that means in practice – short of a genocidal campaign against Palestinians – is a steady march towards one state with an inevitable Palestinian majority. Once the “one person, one vote” doctrine is implemented in the land “from the river to the sea” that is now under Israel’s control, its Jewish supremacist agenda will quickly be eliminated.
This video shows displaced Palestinians from Lifta who live in the vicinity of the destroyed village, dancing the dabka and picnicking among the ruins in anticipation of return.
These people, not Ivanka Trump and her family, have a birthright to Palestine. As we prepare to mark the 70th year of the forcible partitioning of Palestine, the question of maps, borders, sovereignty and, indeed, legitimacy regarding Israel are more urgent and louder than ever.
– Rima Najjar is a Palestinian whose father’s side of the family comes from the forcibly depopulated village of Lifta on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. She is an activist, researcher and retired professor of English literature, Al-Quds University, occupied West Bank.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/palestine-now-birthright-trump-s-grandchildren-rather-mine-1210544093
A Palestinian Arab who hates Israel and thinks the land belongs to the Arabs is certainly not going to be given citizenship there.
Lol…a Palestinian who has lived for thousands of years is denied his birthright while Trump’s heirs can claim theirs because of religion.
You really are a bigoted prick.
You finish with an infantile insult. Typical. I once went to a Palestinian solidarity meeting and it was full of hatred, complete nondescripts who couldn’t tell their Amman from a man yet had adopted this extreme zealotry. And they hated questions. I asked what I thought was a perfectly relevant question and got immediately shouted down and insulted.
And as for the Palestinian who has lived for a thousand years, is he a superhero or something? Your comments are beyond dumb, Bones.
Yeah I remember when I told my Palestinian Christian friend I was studying with in seminary that I had gone to a Jews for Jesus conference he was mortified because he had been forced out of his home at gunpoint by the IDF.
Fun fact….Palestinians don’t like Israel. Hmmmm wonder why?
Another fun fact: Zionists (including pretend ones) like yourself, hate Palestinians.
Once again this idiot will support Trump’s grandchildren as the heirs of Palestine over people who have lived there for a thousand years.
Here’s another fun fact., Israel is not interested in the Palestinians but want their land. (Hence why Israel does not support a one state or 2 state solution).
And that is who you love.
It shows the sort of human being you are that you support injustice and apartheid.
The Palestinian is more a superhero than Trump’s grandchildren, you moron.
You are the definition of a moron, Bones. Your bigotry is beyond relief. The Arabs have lots of land. Look at the map of the Middle East. Israel is tiny, about the size of Wales. Your friend was lucky. If he lived in Assad’s Syria he would have been tortured and shot.
You have no room to complain about bigotry when you already stated you view Arabs as an inferior race.
Definition
Moron: James Cormack
The supporter of persecution and injustice because he hates Arabs.
Lol Israel is better than Syria.
What a f*ckwit.
As usual, you don’t know what you are talking about. Israel’s Law of Return streamlines the citizenship process for Jew. It does not prevent anyone else from becoming a citizen. That’s way at least 20% of Israel’s citizens are non-Jews.
Yep we get it.
Trump’s familyvwho hasnt had a thingvto with Palestine can claim their birthright whereas Arabs who have lived there for centuries cant.
Well done for showing how poisonous your religion is.
Palestinians haven’t lived there for centuries. Most immigrated there after the founding of Israel. There is no such thing as a Palestinian. It’s a fabricated lie.
This is a blatant lie. Land ownership statistics from 1945 showed that Palestinian Arabs owned more land than Jews in every single district of Palestine, including Jaffa, where Palestinian Arabs owned 47 percent of the land while Jews owned 39 percent – and Jaffa boasted the highest percentage of Jewish-owned land of any district. In other districts, Palestinian Arabs owned an even larger portion of the land. At the extreme other end, for instance, in Ramallah, Palestinian Arabs owned 99 percent of the land. In the whole of Palestine, Palestinian Arabs owned 85 percent of the land, while Jews owned less than 7 percent, which remained the case up until the time of Israel’s ILLEGAL creation.
If you look at world maps that pre-date 1948 you WILL find Palestine, you know what you won’t find? Israel.
Arabs may have owned more – but that doesn’t confer sovereignty. Plus, the Arabs who owned the land were not necessarily the ones living on the land.
Palestine is the name given to the land of the Jews – Judea and Samaria – by Emperor Hadrian in 135 CE. The term is the Latin transliteration of Philistia, the land of Israel’s ancient enemies, the Philistines. It was meant as an insult.All historians, archaeologists, cartographers, and the Arabs knew that it meant the land of the Jews. There has never been an independent nation called Palestine. It was a region under the Ottomans, and the name of the Mandate. All the people who lived there were called Palestinians, as in Palestinian Jews, Palestinian Arabs, Palestinian Circassians, etc. The Arabs hated the name because they knew it referred to the Jews, and called the region Southern Syria and themselves Southern Syrians. When the Jews declared independence, they dropped the hated name and called their new nation after their ancient one – Israel.
If Israel’s creation was illegal, then so was Syria’s, Jordan’s, Iraq’s, and Lebanon’s. They were all created under international law by the Mandate system in accordance with the Treaty of Sevres.
Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission (1936): “ There is no such country! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of SYRIA.”
http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2013/08/palestine-no-southern-syria-yes.html
Yeah you’re out by 600 years……
“A derivitave of the name Palestine first appears in Greek literature in the 5th Century BCE when the historian Herodotus called the area Palaistin?(Greek – Παλαιστ?νη).”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/origin-of-quot-palestine-quot
“The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece, when Herodotus wrote of a “district of Syria, called Palaistinê” in The Histories, which included the Judean mountains and the Jordan Rift Valley.”
It’s no surprise that you lie to justify your treatment of others including Christians.
But that’s what religion does to people like you.
Why has he lied? Where is the proof that he has lied? Your point is infantile in the extreme.
Lol….look who’s come to defend his Zionist mate.
Another liar and hater of Palestinians.
All because it gets in the way of his fantasy.
The term Palestine was used in the fifth century BCE as I pointed out to your lying mate.
Clearly you are out of your league here, Bones. Your education of the history of the region is clearly very limited. You should call it a day to save further embarrassment.
Lol….now you’re having a sook because I once again exposed your mate (and yourself ) as lying propagandists.
Unfortunately for you, none of your bs will wash because I know Palestinians.
It’s people like you which allow Israel to treat Palestinians the way they do.
What a hero you are.
Your whole narrative is childish and uninformed. So you know Palestinians?
Wow! And who is my mate? i don’t know anybody on here. You have a complete inability
to debate and always resort to infantile comments. That is obvious to a lot of people on here.
Lol the narrative of persecution of Palestinians is there for all to see.
You however are far too busy sucking on the teet of Zionist nationalists to even give a shit.
But its because of people like you there will be no peace, nor justice.
What a hero you are.
Herodotus, who may or may not have visited the region, stayed along the coast, and encountered those who were living in Philistia, the land of the Philistines. Palestina is just the Greek transliteration of Philistia, as Palestinian is the transliteration of Philistines. Had he ventured inland, He would have encountered the Jews in Jerusalem, and would have called the land Judea. In any event, the one-time use of the transliterated word means nothing in the history of the region. Do try again.
Lol….palestine was only used in the first century….except for where it wasn’t.
Just ignore those earlier ones because they dont fit my ideology.
Your tissue of lies has been revealed.
Now you’re even telling Herodotus he was wrong.
Moron!
I didn’t say Herodotus was wrong. I explained why he used the term. He is also not well regarded by his fellow historians – he had a reputation for not actually visiting the places he described! Again, instead of wasting your time hating, try learning some facts.
Palestine and the area now called Israel were under British mandate for 35 years and in the 500 years before they were occupied by the Ottoman Turks. There is little difference between the Palestinians and the Jordanians, a state created by the colonial powers.
And Israel was a state created by colonial powers.
The Palestinians have no state.
And Israel doesn’t want them to have one.
If they behaved themselves they may stand a better chance of getting an independent state. Suicide bombs, rockets, stone-throwing rioters will achieve absolutely nothing, as we shall see this coming week.
Actually, the Palestinians do have a state – it’s called Jordan. It was created on 78% of the land designated by the League of Nations for the Jews.
If Israel was created by colonial powers, so were Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Gotta problem with them?
78% of the land for 30% of the population.
Palestinians don’t want to be part of Jordan. Those Palestinians in Jordan were forced there.
And Jordan has renounced any claims on the West Bank.
And the whole principle of evicting a population, erasing their villages, and bringing in settlers so as to change an area’s demographics is simply immoral and illegal under international law.
When are you going to get that?
Obviously never such is your hatred of Arabs.
Those countries are all colonial constructs thats why you have the divisions and conflicts betwern shiites, sunnis, kurds and tribes today.
What an ignorant idiot you are, Bones. There has been a deadly rivalry between the Sunnis and the Shias for centuries, long before the state of Israel was even thought about.
I don’t think so.
“No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever”
http://religiondispatches.org/no-sunni-and-shia-muslims-have-not-been-fighting-forever/
“Most immigrated there after the founding of Israel.”
Oh, wow. You really believe that stuff? That’s about as good as Holocaust or Apartheid denial. Bizarre.
So many Arabs had lived in the region for such a short time, and then only as immigrants, that the UN had to change its definition of a refugee to one who lived there at least two years. While there were more total Arabs living there, they were not sovereign and never had been. They were also give Jordan, carved out of 78% of the land given to the Jews by the League of Nations – they all could, and thousands did, move there. However, there were so few of them, that the British feared they would not be able to hold the state. Read the actual history, instead of Arab propaganda.
FYI, if you are relying on Joan Peters’ work, there were some flaws with her research. She was not a historian and didn’t use Arabic sources.
The point that immediate prior to 1948, Palestine had been under British Mandate, and that it had been simply part of the Ottoman Empire for around 400 years prior to that is valid. The creation of Israel took place within a larger context of nation states being created out of former empires. The messy task of drawing borders and dealing with the fact that religious or ethnic groups didn’t always correspond to new borders was something that many countries dealt with.
Thank You, Cynthia, for your mature and informed contribution. I think Bones could learn from you, there is still hope.
Speaking of immigration, there were 70 000 Jews in Palestine in 1900 and they were heavily outnumbered by Muslims and Christians and only made up 10% of the population.
Btw you still think that other countries should cut and parcel up who lives where which would include entire population swaps and those living in the villages just had to go along with it..
No surprise that you follow such colonial thinking.
Lol…you talking about propaganda.
You’re the biggest liar here.
Why do you use the word ‘lie’ and ‘lies’ to support your argument. That actually weakens it, can you not see that?
Now an English lesson for the ignorant
lie: to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive.
That is exactly what we have here from you and titlover.
and all because you hate Palestinians
It is you who clearly hates Israel and Israelis. You are a direct political descendent of the Nazis.
You don’t seem to understand what lying is – you keep misusing the word. And, yes, the Ottomans lost, the Allies won. They got to divide things up any way they wanted. Those people you talk about didn’t have sovereignty over any of this land, and, so, they got no vote. None of them complained about the Arab states that were created, only about the tiny Jewish state that had already been ripped off of 78% of its territory. Know why? Because they were and are antisemites like you. You could care less about the Arabs – if you did, you’d be off complaining about what Assad just did to them in Syria.
Lying – deliberately telling falsehoods to deceive.
Yep thats you.
Heck even one of your own ‘sources’ showed you up to be a bald faced liar.
Exactly, but why try to debate with a guy who is clearly an imbecile, Litlover.
Some of the oldest churches in Palestine were founded by……Arabs…..eg the Marionites and Copts….
So your lies are seen for what they are.
Why would anybody else have founded churches there? The oldest, and all the synagogues were founded by Jews – centuries before the Arab Christians! What a surprise!
ARAB jews. Not white european jews.
The funny thing abiout zionists, is that they are white. Pale skinned europeans, with no heritage in Palestine. And while they like to slaughter the native arab muslims and christians for sport, they have a special hatred for the arab jews.
The 1947 Lydia massacre was aimed at Palestinian jews.
Yes, The Stern Gang was killing arab jews in the name of racial superiority, BEFORE the UN handed the land to them.
Lol…Christianity started in Palestine, you moron…..
Derp, you’re the one claiming Arabs are ‘recent’ invaders.
According to your mythology, the descendents of the Jebusites and Canaanites actually predate Israel in the land.
Israel was actually a nomadic people before that ( according to the Old Testament – but in reality probably just a Canaanite tribe) so they arent even the original indigenous inhabitants. And they lasted a millenium if that.
In fact they were one of many invaders in the Middle East. They just werent very big or powerful and got steamrolled by Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans…
You know like every other tribe around the world.
Therefore the land belongs to the descendents of the Jebusites and Canaanites.
You guys would still kill the Gallilean.
The Arabs are not the descendants of the Jebusites or the Canaanites. Those folks are long gone. The last remaining indigenous people are the Jews, who have had a continuous presence there for over 3500 years. So, yes, the Arabs are the invaders, and relatively new ones. And your “they lasted a millenium if that” argument is bogus. There is ample genetic proof tying today’s Jews to their Israelite ancestors and to the Southern Levant, the homeland of ancient and modern Israel.
No, the Jews are one of many invaders of the Middle East. To claim they are indigenous is utterly dishonest even according to the fables in the Old Testament.
It was a land they conquered from others by genocide (supposedly – though we know it, like the exodus, didn’t happen)
Actually the ancestors of the Canaanites are……Lebanese.
You better pack up then…..
Living Descendants of Biblical Canaanites Identified Via DNA
Genome sequenced from 3,700-year-old remains is found in today’s residents of Lebanon.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/canaanite-bible-ancient-dna-lebanon-genetics-archaeology/
Btw I live in a conquered land whose people lived here for over 60 000 years when your tribe was nothing.
No one is advocating a country for them nor the Native Americans.
Wow. Keep drinking that kool-aid. And Earth is flat, right?
Cherokees haven’t lived there for centuries. Most immigrated there after the founding of America. There’s no such thing as a Cherokee. Its a fabricated lie.
Seriously. Napoleon marched into Palestine in 1799, and found towns and cities full of people.
Ottoman Turkish tax records show the region providing tax revenue from the 1450’s untill 1918.
Yes there were some arabs as well as Jews living in what is called Palestine but the vast majority immigrated there from places like Egypt, Syria and Jordan AFTER 1948 when the State of Israel was established. This massive migration was because arabs were attracted to Israel because it offered employment, a high standard of living and a lot more freedom and opportunity than the countries they came from. This has been admitted to some of the arab leadership. Palestine never was a country. The last time that area was a legal State was when it was Israel up to the diaspora in 70 AD. After that it was always an occupied or conquered territory. Prior to the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 it was occupied and controlled by the Ottoman Empire but it was never a legal State.
Wrong derpy….At the turn of the century only 10% of the population were Jews.
You lie….
AGAIN.
Oh and land ownership in 1945
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8544faba845bad7e0e2d677cacafbacee7b21fb7c1273356f162c3a54978e052.jpg
It’s fascinating to me how many of the people defending Israel’s genocide wholly and unquestioningly support colonialism…
I know one who who has…..
Your bs meter just went off the scale.
Poisonous? Religion? This is clear anti-Semitism.
I think almost any religion can be toxic. Doesn’t have to be a Semite religion. It just happens that in this case some people who follow a Semitic religion are responsible for the apartheid in I/P.
Lol…any religion which justifies oppression of others is poison.
So take your label and shove it up your arse.
Reall y the core of the Zionist shills writing on this site is racism.
That’s no surprise.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b6d6a35f81415bd5571bc98c9c3bd9aaa13b757df54d80daf52036eedff198fc.jpg
Winne also wanted the British to use poison gas against the Bolshevik armies during the Russian Civil War–and he didn’t think much about Dutch farmers either!
Very true, though.
Wow.
Have you seen a ghost?
Nah….she’s not used to extreme idiocy like yours.
Why are you surprised?
Hating Arabs is a virtue for these people.
It’s just shocking to see such bald and raw racism. There was a time when people at least tried to hide their repugnant traits because they understood that it wasn’t considered acceptable. I guess rump changed all that- people don’t care now. I guess in a way that’s a good thing. At least now people know what they’re dealing with. It’s just so ugly.
Th truth has to be told. It is not racist because the colour/pigmentation of one’s skin is irrelevant. Some peoples advance quicker than others, however. Look at the world!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/01536d813faad6c0af25c2e9c0ac520fd5d25305f70ea53d2ad012faa666e504.png
To what wold you attribute that?
Excuse for your inbreeding?
It’s not surprising.
These people hate Arabs.
Yes, I thought you’d agree.
Because its racism which underlines your ideology.
Your ideology is clearly racist and anti-Semitic.
Wow- so you say that Winston Churchill’s clearly racist statement is true, and slate an entire gene pool as inferior, but now you’re accusing Bones of being racist? Out of curiosity, what is your definition of racism? Because here is the definition understood by most people on the planet:
rac·ism
ˈrāˌsizəm/
noun
prejudice,
discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different
race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.”a program to combat racism”
synonyms:racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, casteism
“Aborigines are the main victims of racism in Australia”
the
belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or
abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as
inferior or superior to another race or races.
noun: racism”theories of racism”
When did I say I agreed with Winston Churchill? Stop inventing things.
Upthread, 4 days ago, where you replied “Very true though” to the Winston Churchill quote. We can all see it, dude. You’re trying to gaslight people as they literally stare at your post.
I agreed with many of Winston Churchill’s words which coincide with the facts: the Jews, like the Scots, have been great inventors and innovators much more that other peoples who are much more numerous.
Umm… right here?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b81db14921f5877a3ca10fad14155d103f8035c11244e397899ff2787585427a.png
Seem like your one brain cell isn’t functioning very well, also called LYING!!
james cormack Souris 14 hours ago
I agreed with many of Winston Churchill’s words which coincide with the facts: the Jews, like the Scots, have been great inventors and innovators much more that other peoples who are much more numerous.
Lol, you even lie about your own posts…..
Good work dude.
You’ve already admitted your a racist dude.
It’s here for ALL to see.
Congrats.
Israel Orders Deportation of Human Rights Watch Director Omar Shakir
“The Israeli government has ordered the deportation of Human Rights
Watch’s Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir. Israel has accused
Shakir, who is a U.S. citizen, of promoting the nonviolent Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement, which targets Israel over its
treatment of Palestinians. He now has 14 days to leave Israel. This
comes less than two weeks after two U.S. human rights lawyers—Columbia
University’s Katherine Franke and Center for Constitutional Rights
executive director Vincent Warren—were detained for 14 hours at Tel
Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport before being deported back to
the United States.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/9/headlines/israel_orders_deportation_of_human_rights_watch_director_omar_shakir
I would have given your friend Omar Shakir 5 minutes to leave. So he’s an American citizen? So is Omar Kadhr, the Canadian citizen whose father was a terrorist and who himself helped to attack a base in Afghanistan where American and Canadian troops were based. He killed an American medic but our moron Prime Minister Justin Trudeau awarded him 10 million dollars because his jailers at Guantanamo weren’t nice enough to him. Personally, I would have killed him. Miniscule groups like Center for Constitutional Rights or a “nonviolent Boycott and Divestment movement are a dime a dozen. Any band of morons try to give themselves legitimacy by giving themselves warm and fuzzy loving names. I’ve just decided to form a Canadave is One Hell of a Nice Loving Caring Giving Sharing World Peace movement. Please contribute to my cause at Fundme.com. If your buddy Omar was so concerned about human rights he’d be cheering Israel where all arab citizens have the same rights as the Jews not to mention any other religious group. Arabs/Palestinian Israeli citizens are members of Parliament, judges, Palestinian activists etc. etc. etc. which you can’t say about Jews in “Palestine”. Oh I forgot, there aren’t any Jews in “Palestine”. They all fled for their lives. By definition, any civil rights lawyer from an American university is a radical leftist Palestinian supporter and Israeli hater. If you knew your history you’d know that American universities first supported the mass murderer Hitler until he invaded the U.S.S.R. at which point they supported the even bigger mass murderer Stalin. Your support of a divest from Israel movement proves that you’re an ignorant moron. Did you by any chance flunk out of grade two?
Yet you support the terrorists who murdered Americans British and Jews at King George Hotel Bombing. The murderers of the crew of the USS Liberty and Jews when blowing up ships.
You sound like a triggered five year old!
A LOT of people seem to be struggling with a very simple concept here: The condemnation of The state of Israel is not support of Islamic terrorists. We make no attempt to justify their existence and recognise the threat that extremists pose to modern civilisation. In fact, the first victims of the extremist groups so often prove to be the very same people who we are standing for today – ordinary citizens
Wow, listen to this psychotic.
“any civil rights lawyer from an American university is a radical leftist Palestinian supporter and Israeli hater. If you knew your history you’d know that American universities first supported the mass murderer Hitler until he invaded the U.S.S.R. at which…”
So are All Universities in the United States (which are somehow connected now — *shhhhhh* don’t think, just accept it*) currently “commies” or “nazis” because of stuff some people several generations ago said? Can’t have it both ways, bucko.
Honestly what a moronic rant.
No Jews in Palestine….lol…there’s nearly a million living in Arab homes derpaderp.
And Palestinians are NOT citizens of Israel.
When are you going to get that in your thick skull?
Oh and Jewish extremists supported Hitler too…..
You sound familiar ,,,like the Serbs who hated UN humans rights observers.
I don’t blame them. The US, as most countries, also tends to deport people who lie and scheme against us.
Palestinians tried to do that but the Israeli military stops them.
That’s why you support Jewish extremists taking over their land.
What the Palestinians and Arab States are trying to do to Israel IS genocide. Most Palestinians are living in other countries, as citizens, like in the US or as refugees in the Arab states.
Gaza is its own worst enemy. Hamas is attacking Israel as the government in Gaza and Israeli is defending itself.
I justLove how people blame the victim.
Okay. The first thing I want to do, is point out that there are large Jewish populations globally, and that they serve most often to enrich our society and culture globally. Secondly, you are correct in asserting that many Palestinians are refugees in neighbouring countries and in the US, and they are denied the right to return to their homes.
Secondly, attacking mosques, hospitals, medical facilities, food production facilities… murdering thousands of innocent people according to the UN, in response to less than a dozen people being killed (operation Cast Lead – 13 Israeli deaths including 4 IDF killed in friendly fire:- About 1,400 Palestinians were killed, and 80 percent of those were civilians, according to UN figures. About 300 were children.) Using Helicopter gunships, tanks, missile cruisers and sophisticated war planes in response to home-made rockets from a brutally oppressed population is not ‘defending itself’
Victim blaming – get over yourself!
Nothing that comes from the UNRWA is worth considering, they are so biased they only tell half the truth when the do tell the truth at all.
Any Palestinians who meets immigration requirements is welcome in Israel, to join the 2.5 million already there. Nobody is denying them the right to return.
The IDF does not attack mosques, hospitals, medical facilities, food production facilities, quite the opposite they provide medical care, offer hospitalization and provide food to those who need it. They have NOT killed more than 1,100 civilians. Most of those they have killed were terrorists, known terrorists, the UN is lying about the casualties.
Seriously, find some decent news sources.
You do know that Hamas in Gaza fires off missiles at Israeli citizens almost weekly.
So when the United Nations finds issues with the way the State of Israel treats citizens in the occupied territories unfavourably, their findings aren’t worth considering, but when the same body forms the Nation state of Israel, it is worth dying for?
Typical double standard…
You are talking about two very different bodies. The UN that existed in 1947 no longer exists, most of the people are now dead and none of them are at the UN anymore.
Total lie, when has Hamas in Gaza fired rockets almost weekly, how about something to back that up? No sources citied typical ZIO commentator big of gob, short on facts!
You are incorrect. I have faith in these International Authorities over your opinion. We may know better what was happening if the IDF were not constantly forcing free press to move away from conflict. Members of the press were murdered by snipers on Monday, that is how much Israel and the IDF want the real truth to be known
Then you are a fool. The UNRWA is filled all with Arab states and anti-Israel countries.
The number of times they have indicated that countries like Syria, Iran, etc. violate human rights, almost 0. But Israel, hundreds of times even though the violations of most of the countries in the world exceed Israel’s.
The UN is no longer an authority that is honest or unbiased. The stuff that comes from them is just sewage.
A member of the Press, in Gaza was collateral damage, not murder. The news coming through Israel is unbiased and quite complete.
get over yourself, this global conspiracy against Israel, no, just doing as it is mandated – calling out crimes against humanity. If a member of the press, a medical first responder , is shot by a sniper, with sights provided by UK arms sales, so I am interested also from the standpoint that my elected officials may be supplying arms to a murderous regime, similar to the way that they have been supplying weapons to the House of Saud and their Yemeni genocide – then that is a definite casualty – not collateral damage. Collateral damage may be the 8 month old baby that died from smoke asphyxiation from the gas fired into the crowd or from burning tires – I don’t know – it’s still a tragic death that should have been avoided – and BOTH sides are to blame. I don’t accept that people deserve to die, not for any reason – and anyone on this page attempting to justify these deaths is inhuman. Get your asses around a table and find solutions!
Well i DON’T like sarcasm and the Palestinian people are the MOST maligned people of the post WW II era. And I include YOU in the maligning.
Maligned? Because they murder Jewish children at birthday parties, in their beds, at pizza parlors? Because they state in their foundational documents that their goals are the destruction of the sovereign state of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people? What exactly are they being maligned for?
Oh, and Jewish Zionists didn’t murder women and children at Der Yassin and Quibya??? Nearly 20 years before any Palestinain hijacking or bus bombings. How does that fit into your ‘holier than thou” narrative??? You know as well as I, (or maybe not), that the Palestinians had many off-shoots and splinter groups in the late 60’s into the early 80’s. some were more extremist than others, while at the same time there were many freelancers. Furthermore, murdered children during wartime or political turmoil, is not a new phenomenon–globally or otherwise. Yet somehow the violent act of an Arab (and Palestinians in particular) is somehow more brutal, cruel, inhumane than that of the Israeli, or the American, or the European. That is in fact the Western perception. Why, pray tell, are Palestinians hijackings remembered more, EVEN TODAY, than say, our downing of a civilian Iranian airliner, Flight 655, on the Fourth of July, 1988???
Murdering civilians, especially children, is never acceptable, and, in fact, is a war crime. The Arabs/Muslims have been the initiators of violence since their invasion in the 7th century. Their persecution and massacres of Jews started long before modern Zionism or Israel, and has continued virtually unabated to this day. The Jews didn’t even begin fighting back until the early 20th century. The violent acts of the Arabs/Muslims are worse because they are part of a systematic plan for forcing the world to accept Islam. Non-Muslims are called to be sub-human in the Koran, and are treated so by its adherents.
The downing of Iranian flight 655, while a terrible tragedy, was not a deliberate act of terrorism, and occurred in the heat of battle. Very different from the kind of attacks perpetrated by the Arabs against Israeli civilians.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/coexistence.html
No, they didn’t.
Quibya In retaliation for an infiltration from Jordan that resulted in the deaths of three civilians on October 14-15, 1953 in the village of Yehud in Israel, a raid was conducted by Unit 101, an antiterrorist unit operated by Ariel Sharon. The raid was the first major Israeli military operation against Jordan and resulted in the deaths of 12 soldiers and 60 civilians. Opposed by Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, condemned by the United Nations Security Council, the raid did accomplish a reduction of attacks from Jordan. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/glossary-q
Deir Yassin was a battle, not a massacre – a fact that has been admitted by the leaders of the Arab League.
Deir Yassin http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/deir_yassin.html
I find it sad the number of people who have fallen for the lies of the PA, PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Arab States. The Palestinian people are not being maligned by Israel or me, they are being horribly treated by the Arab States (who refuse to allow Palestinians to become citizens of their countries), Hamas (who starve and force their citizens to become human shields), and the Palestinian Authority who pays Palestinians to be terrorists and their families if they die as terrorists.
You’re right sarcasm might not always be best, so I will say that I HATE how so many people try to make Israel seem the evil one when they are just a victim of the Arab desire to eliminate them as a state.
Have you redefined “maligning”??? Back in the 70’s the Palestinian people WERE maligned in Hollywood movies (!!!) and the media. I distinctly remember, during the Iranian hostage crisis, a local TV commercial in San Diego, advertising gas-saving cars, had a guy in the stereotypes Arab garb (even though Iranians are not Arabs) and a cream pie (no not that kind, you pervert) flew in his face!!! Oh, and the novels of course! Thomas Harris’s “Black Sunday” and I remember one called “Jihad” with your stereotypes Arab villain on the front cover, a knife between his teeth and an evil glint in his eye. this was in the mid 70’s to early 80’s. So you really think certain ideas and points of view are NOT transmitted through popular culture??? Try the same stereotype for Jews and everyone would have screamed in outrage–and they would be correct, ah but to portray the Arabs in this way, that’s okay.
The Zionist line that Palestinians are citizens of Jordan is simply b.s. There is NO other way to put it. The Palestinians are Palestinians, not Jordanians or Lebanese. I can tell by your reply that you swallow the Zionist b.s. without giving it a second thought. I am going to even go further here and bet that you’ve never even read a history book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or even the ME in general.
An independent Palestinian state would likely be run by Jihadis and that is something that their neighbours
will be very concerned about.
Lol….Fatah are not jihadists, moron.
Hamas is Israel’s creation.
Like Gaza, an independent Palestinian state run by Hamas.
Hamas was supported by Israel.
Nice try.
Exactly. Hamas are terrorists who believe in the absurdity of martyrdom instead of having peaceful dialogue.
Who were supported by Israel, derpaderp.
Isreal funds and supports Al Nusra in the occupied Golan, and Israeli were in Mosul too.
Yes, and they fund Hamas and every other terrorist group in the world. Your posts are beyond embarrassing but you know what? Israelis don’t care about all these useful fools as it has all the chips and the Arabs are hopelessly divided between Shia and Sunni.
Your ignorance is believable as you are an inbred hasbara troll!
The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
How Israel helped create Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.56d6dbc287d1
Israel takes Fatah Al Sham / Al Nusra Front terrorists to Israeli hospitals: According to a June 25th 2017 article from the AhlulBayt News Agency (an Iranian source), Israel is continuing to accept Syrian terrorists who have been wounded in battle with the SAA (the Syrian Arab Army which is the official, legitimate army of the Syrian Government) in Quneitra province. The articles states:
“The sources reported that a number of injured members of Al-Nusra Front (also known as Fatah al-Sham Front or the Levant Liberation Board) have been transferred to the Israeli hospitals via al-Hamidiyeh region in Quneitra countryside. The army troops repelled Al-Nusra Front’s offensives in the South western province of Quneitra, leaving tens of terrorists dead and many more wounded. Later, the Israeli aircraft attacked the Syrian government forces’ tanks and artillery positions South-West of the war-hit country. This is not the first time that Al-Nusra terrorists have been transferred to Israeli hospital after sustaining injuries in clashes with the army soldiers. In September and November 2016, tens of wounded fighters of Fatah al-Sham (formerly know as the Al-Nusra) Front were transferred from Quneitra battlefields to Israeli hospitals in the occupied Golan Heights, as several Israeli ambulances entered Syria’s Southern province of Quneitra and transferred those terrorists injured in clashes with Syrian Army troops to their hospitals in the occupied part of the Golan Heights.”
3. Israel is coordinating attacks inside the Golan Heights with Al Nusra: Further evidence of the Israeli-ISIS connection can be found in this PressTV article of June 25th 2017, which reports a Syrian military source. Israel claims plausible deniability by saying their attacks on Syria are in retaliation for attacks that come out of Syria against Israel (though no necessarily from the SAA). The source states:
“Israel’s airstrikes on the Golan Heights on Saturday coincided with a push by Nusra Front terrorists against army (i.e. SAA) positions … Israel regularly hits positions held by the Syrian army in the Golan Heights, describing the attacks as retaliatory. Syria says the raids aim to help Takfiri militants fighting against government forces.”
Reports Israeli Operatives Leading ISIS in Mosul
Published on 23 Oct 2016
It is a shame to receive such news that Israeli Operatives are Leading ISIS in Mosul. This report comes after the fact that INL had once before reported from sources in the Israeli Military that had first shared this information with us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr47mKJeuaU
Yes, and Santa Claus comes down chimneys too. Total fantasy as is the norm from the sympathisers of the world’s favourite victims. There have been no Palestinian terrorists of course.
Says an apologist for people who believe in fairy tales, myths, legend and plain old Zionist lies!
Derp, do you know any Palestinians????
Hmmmmm those who deny Israel as a state = evil while those who deny Palestinians a state = good….
Yes, we get it…
They can have a state – just not on another country’s land. Israel is legally sovereign over all the land from the River to the Sea. The Arabs are indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula – let them go demand land for a state from Saudi Arabia!
Actually, the West Bank is not considered, by Israel, to be part of Israel.
Wrong…
The ruling Likud Party considers the borders of Israel to extend from the Sea to the Jordan River.
They just don’t want Palestinians in their state so they expand settlements.
Is that why Palestinians live in Israel and some even get elected to the Knesset??
There are 2.5 million Palestinian citizens of Israel, living in Israel, and worshiping in Israel—Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
They are on their own country. Israel does not have sovereignty over the West Bank nor Gaza.
Neither does sovereignty mean you can expel populations.
The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are stateless. They have never had a country on this land. Israel absolutely has sovereignty over Gaza and Judea and Samaria – it is enshrined in international law. And, please, exactly what population has been expelled?
Um, no.
Israel withdrew from Gaza during the disengagement in 2005. Prior to that, it had never formally annexed either Gaza or the West Bank (except for East Jerusalem), so those areas were not under Israeli civil law.
One thing I learned when I took International Law during law school is that it is a far more vague concept than most people realize. Without recognition by others and enforcement, many things that some people insist are established international law simply aren’t.
That’s the point. Israel doesn’t need to annex them. The land belongs to her through the San Remo Resolution, the Treaty of Sevres, and the Treaty of Lausanne, which incorporates the first two. That is how international law is made, as I’m sure you know. But, Israel has been willing to share her land with the Arabs, if the Arabs would make a genuine peace. They refuse to do so, and thus we have the current situation.
No, that’s not really how international law works. It’s ultimately based on a combination of treaties, common recognition and enforcement.
The San Remo resolution created the British Mandate for Palestine. The goal of creating a Jewish home is mentioned, but that in itself did not create the state of Israel. It was simply the hoped-for outcome after the period of the British Mandate. Sovereignty – the power to rule – did not exist for Israel until 1948.
As of 1949, with the armistice agreements, Israel had authority over its territory and recognizable borders, and was admitted as a member of the UN. It was clearly a sovereign state.
Israel has not extended its civilian law and administration to the West Bank and Gaza, as it did with East Jerusalem. You can’t say that a country has sovereignty over an area, when that country itself hasn’t acted as a sovereign.
They are stateless because Israel doesn’t want them in a state, ffs. So millions of people in the West Bank are held stateless because of the religious ideology of its occupying power.
Israel does not want a one state nor two state solution.
It is Israel (who bleats about not being recognised) which refuses to recognise the state of Palestine.
Israel has no sovereignty over Gaza either derp. That’s why it has a border fence. And there is no Judea and Samaria except in the minds of religious zealots. (Not to mention that parts of the West Bank are administered by the Palestinian Authority eg Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron)
How stupid are you?
“And, please, exactly what population has been expelled?”
Just the lazy 700 000 refugees…..
Your post makes no sense. Since I have never in my life suggested that the Palestinians should not have their own state, this would not apply to me. It is only the Palestinian leaders and the leaders of some of the Arab states that are doing their best to deny the Jews an independent state. Israel has always been open to a two state solution, although there are many people who will tell you that is not true, they are lying. It has always been the Palestinians and Arabs states that have worked so hard to destroy Israel.
Lol…..Netanyahu has refused a one AND two state solution.
The only one lying here is you.
Why is that?
Oh, it’s because you hate Palestinians.
When did Netanyahu do that? When have the Arabs ever sat down with him to negotiate? How many times have the Arabs refused the land that was offered to them, even when it was everything they had demanded?
Lol…you mean like Arafat and Rabin.
Well we know how that ended, don’t we. Why was that again?
Lol, Netanyahu, the liar….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0B5mlkBdIo
Netanyahu says no Palestinian state as long as he’s prime minister
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election-idUSKBN0MC1I820150316
That’s why he’s expanding settlements…..
It is right that Netenyahu stands at a podium and speaks to the World, my only objection is that he should be doing it at The Hague
Alicia be like
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Isn’t there a warning in scripture from God/Jesus to people and nations that oppose/Hate
Israel/Judah?
hmmmm.
Isaiah 1:17 states:
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
The following is a passage that I believe bears careful reading at this moment and be aware that this is written in the Torah, as it is written in The Bible, as it is written in the Quran. Each of these beliefs hold Jerusalem as a Holy City. The Passage generalises all of the factions here into one category: “This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.” – The answer is not one denomination or the other – but those who carry God in their hearts, and act according to his will who are right. “Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, ALL you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, ALL you who MOURN her” not Israel, Jerusalem.
Isaiah 66 JUDGEMENT & HOPE
“Heaven is my throne, and the Earth is my footstool.
Where is the house you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
Has my hand not made all these things, and so they came into being?”
declares The Lord.
“This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.
But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a man, and whoever offers a Lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
Whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever burns memorial incense, like one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations;
so I also will choose a harsh treatment for them and will bring upon them what they dread.
For when I called, no-one answered, when I spoke, no-one listened
They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”
Hear the word of The Lord, you who tremble at his word;
Your brothers who hate you, and exclude you because of my name, have said
“Let The LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy!”
Yet they will be put to shame.
Hear that uproar from the city, hear the noise from the temple!
It is the sound of the Lord repaying his enemies all they deserve.
Before she goes into Labour, she gives birth; before the pains come upon her she delivers a son.
Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things?
CAN A COUNTRY BE BORN IN A DAY OR A NATION BE BROUGHT FORTH IN A MOMENT?
Yet no sooner is Zion in Labour than she gives birth to her children.
“Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says The LORD
“Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, ALL you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, ALL you who MOURN her
for you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts;
You will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.
Who then are the children of Zion? Those who believe in God, and carry his word in their hearts. The World’s religions have one basic commonality – they all share words to the effect “Do unto others as you would have them do to you” – those on either side who plot to murder their brothers and sisters, their neighbours will all be found wanting when judgement arrives.
If you are an athiest and read all of this, I’m impressed! I hope that you understand the religious context of the question required a religious reply.
I’m a Christian none of this pertains to me.
I serve Christ Jesus.
New Testament scripture, please.
Has the Christian Bible removed the First Testament now? I used the relevant passage from this book because it is a commonality among all of the denominations. But if you want a quote from the Gospels, I shall give you one. Matthew 22. 36 – 40 says
“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
A lot of the First Testament speaks prophetically of Christ, especially Isaiah – I would recommend it as one of the really interesting books to read. Funny thing, when I was pondering over the right passage to quote, my Bible opened on this page – you must have heard of this happening so often to people before – it goes on to speak of the children of Zion (which each denomination identifies with as themselves – and perhaps it means the people within that region) Interestingly, just as the Palestinian Jews trace their ancestry back to the Hebrews, the Arabic population in the region claim to descend from the Canaanites, who built Jerusalem and Jericho
You mean like those who call evil good and good evil?
You obviously hate the prophets.
There’s also a command in scripture to stone a woman to death on her father’s doorstep if she’s proven to have not been a virgin when she married. So…
Which tribe are you from?
The human race.
Feel free to join it some time.
LOL!!!
There are 12 tribe from Israel.
Which one is Sarah from?
No thanks. Most of the human race ‘ Hates ‘ our Lord Jesus.
The only thing I will do for the human race is pray for them.
Nah… you aren’t Jesus.
Get that in your head sometime.
And your conduct proves that your prayers are useless when they can’t even work for you.
By your post it’s obvious that your master is Satan.
Our Lord Jesus is no part of your life.
Sad.
When did I ever state that?
I serve Christ Jesus.
It’s obvious that you don’t serve our Lord.
You are funny too. There are about 2.1 billion Christians who do not hate Jesus.
There are 1.6 billion Muslims who do not hate Jesus (you are aware that Jesus is mentioned in the Qur’an as a prophet and a man who lived a life without sin).
Most Hindus and Buddhists are accepting of Jesus as one of the many incarnations of Brahma (Hindu) or Siddhartha (Buddhist-reincarnation) and that is another 1.5 billion people, that totals 5.2 billion out of the 7.5 billion estimated population of the earth.
So how can it be that most of the human race hates Jesus??
And you are very,very funny.
There are 2.1 billion people that profess to be Christian.
But I doubt that 5% of that number are truly Christian and follow Our Lord Christ Jesus.
My own sister states that she a Christian and she’s pro-choice.
She’s no more a Christian than the Mormons are.
Anyone can acknowledge Christ Jesus even Lucifer does that.
But living to serve HIM is a whole different story.
I’m going to keep trying to serve Him ( Jesus ) daily.
But you keep telling your LIES to the masses, they will probably believe you. Because
‘ most ‘ people are blind to the truth of our Lord Christ Jesus.
Your 1.6 billion Muslims have no clue who Jesus is. They worship Issa – a made-up person.
You mean..Jordanians? Palestine doesn’t exist as a nation and the area known as the Palestinian territories
is just another Arab place where people speak the same language, have the same religion and culture as the Arabs
in Jordan. Over 4000 Palestinians have been slaughtered by Asdad’s forces in the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, yet where is the outrage in the media?
“Palestine doesn’t exist as a nation and the area known as the Palestinian territories is just another Arab place where people speak the same language, have the same religion and culture as the Arabs
in Jordan.”
You keep repeating that drivel as though that will somehow make it so. Kinda like flat-earthers…
Prove otherwise? Show us some historic, archaeological, and genetic proof of the Palestinian people and their Palestinian nation in the Southern Levant. Dare you! You’ll be the first ever in the history of man!
Lol…..what bs…..
Do you want to see Europeans driven out of America and Australia because that is the sort of stupidity you’re arguing for? Heck our indigenous people have been here for 60 000 years…..
Btw according to the fiction in the bible, the Israelites slaughtered the indigenous population (which isn’t true because Lebanese are direct descendants of the Canaanites).
Lol…Palestinians aren’t Jordanians….
Bethlehem, Hebron, Nazareth, Ramallah are not part of Jordan.
Moron!
Lol….Assad kills Palestinians therefore Jews who kill Palestinians are good.
Nice logic, d*ckhead.
They were Jordanians until Jordan took away their citizenship. And many of the families living in the territories were brought there by Jordan after the 1948 war. And you’re right – those cities are Israeli, not Jordanian.
Derp…Jordan has renounced its claim on the West bank .
The West Bank is not Jordanian no matter how much you say it is.
Bethlehem, Hebron, Nazareth, Ramallah are not part of Palestine either. I think what James was pointing out is that the occupied West Bank was taken from Jordan in the six day war, not from Palestinians. The war in 1948, the first attempt by Arabs to destroy the Jewish state. Both Jordan and Israel too part of Palestine, by 1968 there pretty much was no Palestine left.
Huh…Bethlehem, Ramallah and Hebron are sure as shit not part of Israel and Jordan has relinquished any claim to the West Bank. So the Palestinians are free to call themselves whatever they want.
Oh but democracy doesn’t apply in your world.
The war in 1948 actually was a result of the expulsion of arab villages which poured into neighbouring Arab countries eg
The Arab League gave reasons for its invasion in Palestine in the cablegram:
(A) The right to self determination of the population of Palestine
(B) The establishment of peace and order after over 250 000 Palestinians had been evicted and massacres of Arab villages
(C) The termination of the mandate led to an abolishment of law and order
(D) That the solution to the Palestinian problem be just and fair
(E) Instability in Palestine directly effected neighbouring Arab countries
https://undocs.org/S/745
You must be from some parallel earth where history is different.
Note: of the estimated 6 million Palestinians in the world, 2.5 million live in the West Bank.
All 3.5 million Palestinians not living in the West bank are considered refugees by the UNRWA, even though there were only 1 million to begin with and fewer than 300,000 of the original refugees from 1948 and 1967 are still alive (even there many have been given citizenship status in Jordan.
Being a Palestinians refugee is the only inheritable refugee status in the world, if any of your descendants were among the original 740,000 1948 refugees or the 250,000 1967 refugees, then you get to claim refugee status and are entitled to benefits from UNRWA, cool huh!
If you die as a terrorist resisting Israel, the Palestine Authority will pay your family a lifelong stipend. If you survive your attempted martyrdom, the Palestinian Authority will pay you a lifelong stipend. Terrorists sitting in Israeli prisons are being paid by the PA for their terrorist efforts.
What a wonderful world we have.
Of course, everybody calls Israel the evil one, when all they are doing is trying to defend their nation.
Isreal rewards its terrorists with campaign ribbons and makes the one that escaped getting hanged with premiership!
You got that backwards, the Palestinian Authority pays terrorists in prison and the families of dead terrorists (they call them martyrs) while Israel rewards terrorists with jail time.
But imagine what reality one is living in to make such a “choice” even remotely tenable. Just take a minute to think about that. The way you put it s as if the choice would be simple and easily made. Even if you could for two seconds put yourself in their place, could you imagine making that choice? So imagine the psychological degradation that this conflict has perpetrated in order for that decision to even happen. Only someone with the most desperation could go that route. This is what Israel has caused. Israel has NEVER been in danger of not existing because of Palestinians. It’s a real David and Goliath story, only Goliath is winning this one. (Source of graph: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/14/5898581/chart-israel-palestine-conflict-deaths)
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Couldn´t they have “defended” their state and the Gaza border without live ammunition this week???
Aaaand Israel will pay for you to take Palestinian land if you are a Jew.
In fact Donald Trump’s grandchildren have a greater claim to a birthright then people who have lived for generations in Palestine….according to your parallel earth.
I’m just wondering where else in the world do you deny people rights? Like the right to return?
And who taught you to be such a bigoted racist?
But you’ll be happy that Israel got to shoot more Palestinians.
I said the were not part of Palestine, although, Bethlehem, 5 miles south of Jerusalem is definitely in Israel.
Nice fallacy. A strawman fallacy, where you assume a extreme position was taken and then debunk that, although you didn’t go that far. Nobody but YOU, Bones, has suggested that Jews who kill Palestinians are good. Maybe you believe that??
Sometimes I read things people post and I wonder if we inhabit the same planet. SMDH
Clearly a lot of people do not inhabit reality.
Obviously you don’t.
I am about the only person here who actually inhabits reality. You choice of Albert Einstein being playful says lots about you. I am wondering, were you even alive when he was??
No, you clearly don’t. You know nothing of the Palestinian people who you regard as terrorists.;
You support the expansion of extremist Jews into Palestinian territory and deny people their right to self determination.
You are nothing but a Zionist shill which says a lot about you.
I have met Palestinians. I met a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset.
I studied under one of the foremost Christian experts on the Middle east and Islam.
I do not regard Palestinians as terrorists, I merely do not believe, as you clearly do, that there are no Palestinian terrorists.
You blind yourself to reality. I am done with you. Maybe if you do some real study and learn about what is going on in the Middle east it might someday be worthwhile for me to converse with you. But all you do is spout foolishness and insults, clearly showing that you are basing your position on emotion and lies rather than rationality and facts.
Good-bye!
Yes, the Bible has aboslutely NOTHING to do with the modern nation-state of Israel. If Muslim Fundamentalists want to go back to the Middle Ages, Bible Fundamentalists want to go back to Mosaic times!!!
Israel was created under the same Mandate system that created Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. The bible had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, better call Jay Suckyoulow right away and tell him!
BS Israel was created by Christian Zionists which had no concern at all for the 90% Arab population. The Bible had everything to do with it.
It sure as shit had nothing to do with democracy.
The Asia Minor agreement created Palestine, which contained a region they dubbed the brown area – Sykes and Picot in effect saying – I ain’t touching that sh*t – someone else can sort that tangle out. You really hail that as the creation of Israel?
White colonial invaders slaughtering unarmed natives in the name of racial superiority.
Yep. Its genicide
Yep. In fact the only things missing are the “slaughtering”, the “unarmed” and the “name of racial superiority”!
52 dead this morning. “Unarmed” isnt accurate, but the level of weaponry Israel has compared to Palestinians is far more advanced, as well as numbers of military personnel. The “superior” is debateable… most Israeli civilian’s I don’t think support the actions of just government or military, the majority want peace and compromise. The military and government officials, there is some truth to that.
An enemy has stated its plans to cross the border of a sovereign nation and murder its citizens. What do you suggest is the appropriate response? Israel leafleted Gaza, telling the people exactly what would happen if they approached the fence or attempted to harm the IDF. They ignored the warning and attacked anyway. Israel used appropriate force to defend her border and protect her citizens.
Ffs…shooting unarmed protestors is appropriate force…..And these people were going where if they breached the fence?
Not sure why you even dignified his comment with a response. And they absolutely believe they are superior. People who truly don’t agree with the horrors done and the use of “chosen people” or any other superlatives as justification for those horrors look into them. They avail themselves of the knowledge of what is supposedly being done in their name. When they don’t do that because right or wrong, fair or unfair, it will not change their lives or threaten their way of life, it’s called privilege. Privilege is by design based on an assumption of superiority or the entitlement to favor, which implies more worthiness.
Jews do not believe they are superior to anyone. They also don’t call themselves “chosen people” – that is generally reserved for the use of antisemites. The term itself refers only to the fact that G-d chose the Jews to receive His Law – if He’s chosen the Italians, you’d be hating them now.
Israel is defending her sovereignty and her citizens against an enemy which has stated for all the world to hear that their intent to is to overrun a sovereign nation’s border and murder her citizens. Either you’re okay with that, or you need to support Israel.
BS…you’ve made it clear that you think you are superior to others….including Palestinian Christians who you openly despise as not real Christians because they don’t drink your nationalistic bs. Your words are all on here for all to see.
You believe your claim to the land was given to you and your people by God himself as opposed to anyone else living there. This god and your Zionist belief is undoubtedly racist. It calls for the expulsion and liquidation of the local Arab populace based on your own extremist religion. WHich you’ve made more than clear.
Israel isn’t defending anything.
It’s just doing what it likes to do.
Kill Arabs.
Which you’re defending and rejoicing.
And there isn’t a chance in shit that Israel will have peace while it carries on like it does.
Israel is no light ot the nations.
It’s a f***ing disgrace.
Every race and every culture is guilty of that including the native Americans. When was the last time you saw a Huron Indian? You never have because every last one of them was slaughtered by the Iroquois.
We study history in order to avoid repeating it, or are you proposing it is the way it should be, in some kind of Darwinist argument?
Mind you, there are Orthodox Jews and Arabs who want the peaceful brotherhood that existed between them before the creation of a state called Israel.
What peaceful state? The Arabs/Muslims have been persecuting and slaughtering the Jews and Christians since they invaded in the 7th century. Both groups were treated as dhimmis – inferior people – and lived in constant fear of what could happen to them.
Just as the Jewish population claims to descend from the Hebrews, the Muslims there claim descent from the Canaanites, before Abraham, who founded the cities of Jerusalem and Jericho. The region was war-torn in biblical days – then came serfdom under the Egyptians, and then the Romans – because there has been hostilities in past centuries, that does not make justification for any hostility towards either side today. Let’s call it relative peace. The Jewish Palestinians, the Christian Palestinians and the Muslim Palestinians largely opposed the Zionist movement before the creation of Israel. The past 2 days my newsfeed has been filled with pictures of proud Jewish people who oppose the actions of the Israeli government. The Zionists do not speak for Judaism, they do not represent the entirety of Jewish communities around the World, they do not represent the will of God, especially when they steal the land of others, and in bearing false witness to their neighbours. The Torah pronounces those commandments in the book of Exodus, as well as the 10th commandment: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:14)
So your rejoiner is what? “Everybody’s doing it”? They were living side by side without warring when the British drafted the Balfour Declaration. They proposed the 1949 White Paper withdrawing support for that declaration because Zionists breached the agreement. How? By systematically disrupting and destroying both the culture and lives of the indigenous. Those indigenous that immediately attacked Israel the year before when it declared itself a country right in the middle of their land while actively throwing them off it.
go to the year before the Balfour Declaration to the Sykes-Picot ‘agreement (officially The Asia Minor Agreement), when the British and French carved up the Ottoman Empire into the various Nations there today. They knew that as a single power the Arab Nations united posed a massive threat to them. Within the Mandate ‘Palestine’ was another area dubbed ‘the brown area’ which included Jerusalem. Even then they knew that this region would be problematic and decided that this area would be later ironed out after consultation with Russia and ‘other allies’ (see above posted letter by Jock Doubleday re: The Balfour Declaration)
I’m not even gonna read the comments – I could tell you without looking exactly what each of them says. I just wanna leave a quick note here to say THANK YOU for sharing such strong and ACCURATE words! The majority supports Palestine, they’re just too afraid to talk openly about it, or to fully educate themselves. It’s important those of us who stand in solidarity with Palestine let each other know we see and support each other.
Exactly where did you acquire this full education? I hope you didn’t pay for it, as it has left you completely ignorant of the facts.
Absolutely agree!
That’s how you came to your opinion, by not reading. Such a scholar are you.
Well, I guess we’re not very good at it since the Palestinian population has INCREASED and they actually have an OBESITY PROBLEM. Not much of a genocide. Literally everything you have written is a lie. While all these points are factually incorrect, the idea that the law abiding, productive, socially open Jews you have met in your life gave you the impression that mass murder is our national ethos is incredible. Kiss my ass, from Israel. A completely routine story for anyone who bothers to look on a regular basis: Hamas refuses to accept humanitarian aid donated by Israel to Gaza https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/174831-180516-hamas-refuses-to-accept-humanitarian-aid-donated-by-israel-to-gaza
Hamas is a death cult loved by the ultra-naive like Silly Steve. Their charter is openly racist and it says that, given the chance, they will commit genocide against the Jews until they have driven them out of the Middle East. And people like Steve Chapman actually support this mob? Incredible!
“the idea that the law abiding, productive, socially open Jews you have met in your life gave you the impression that mass murder is our national ethos is incredible”
The author in no way suggests that all Jewish people are responsible for this genocide, please don’t attempt to drag this journalism into antisemitism.
The median age in Palestine is 18 against a global figure of 29. By all means put your arguments forward on how Palestinian people have never had it so good, but please try to keep your arguments within the bounds of what is actually under discussion in the article without distorting it into something it is not.
Numerous films and documentaries have been mede about life in the West Bank and it certainly is nowhere near as bad as it is made out to be. There are lots of cars in the streets, people ordering pizzas from Dominos, teenagers playing bowls in indoor sports centres. Life could be better but let’s not try and portray it as a Somalia or a Yemen – it isn’t.
You realize that there is actually no such thing as a Palestinian. There is no country called Palestine and there hasn’t been one for about 3,000 years. The Romans, more than 2,000 years ago, chose to name the area that included Judea, Galilee, Samaria, and Lebanon after the defunct nation of Philistia, home of the Philistines.
Those you call Palestinians are Arabs, do you think Israel is trying to kill all Arabs??
Now, Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO, and several Arab nations ARE trying to commit genocide and kill all the Jews in the middle-east.
Gabby, Israel is an apartheid state. You can live in your fantasy world for as long as you want, but reality is reality.
Chris, please define apartheid and then give specific examples.
No Israel is NOT an apartheid state, not even close.
Israel supported South Africa to the very end. Racism exists everywhere but Israel has actual legislation to confer rights to some and not others based solely on religion. Israel is the one of the most racist nations on the planet. How many Slavs did the Bolshevik’s murder? 20 plus million murdered by stalins henchmen ( the goebbels and Eichmans of Russia who were 80% Jewish.) Zionism is a narcissistic- master race philosophy. Mao’s genocide 50 million, Stalins henchmen another 20 plus million. I don’t hear those groups whining demanding special privilege. We often hear “our only friend in the Middle East”- we had no enemies until we had a friend. And now the “only democracy” have been able to bribe 26 states to deprive people of their rights to work if they boycott Israel – a none violent Uber democratic means of expression. Can boycott the neighboring state or any other country but not a state based on religion. Israel is neither democratic nor our friend. Narcissistic self centered master race sickos quick to take offense so they can get one over on others. And I am Jewish!!!
Alicia, try Googling your answers. And get a different perspective of the reality you deny. Nobody is asking you to hate one side and love the other without discernment. Just know the facts and choose peace and justice. Since we do not live over there, it is the best way to support them.
“During a joint press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday, [Mandla] Mandela said: “The settlements I saw here [in the West Bank] reminded me of what we had suffered in South Africa because we also were surrounded by many settlements and were not allowed to move from one place to another freely.
Palestinians are being subjected to the worst version of apartheid.”
He added: “Israel is the worst apartheid regime” and called for the continued support of BDS and for South Africa to cut all ties with “apartheid Israel.”
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Mandelas-grandson-on-visit-Israel-is-the-worst-apartheid-regime-515397
BDS is a movement that was started by Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups whose goal is the destruction of Israel. Sadly, it is YOU who are believing the lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcEL-NlxBk0
Why would a group of Israeli women protest & form a ‘watch’ group if they didn’t see injustice toward the Palestinians? I guess they have nothing better to do…
https://machsomwatch.org/en/about
Because they believe the lies being spouted??
They actually have live cameras documenting the mistreatment.
Alicia, I hope somebody takes over 80% of your house soon on the basis that ‘God gave it to him.’ Then see how you feel.
The Jews have been living in the area now known as Israel, constantly for the last 3,000 plus years. There is no other ethnicity that has been there even close to that long. The idea that the Arabs, often called Palestinians, have some right to the area over and above those who have been living there more than twice as long as any of them is ridiculous.
Israel has a right to exist. If the PA and other terrorist organizations just gave up their genocidal intent and chose to let Israel exist in peace there would be a Palestinian state in what is not the occupied territory of Jordan, known as the West Bank.
BTW, the Muslim’s believe that God gave them the land, they are the ones who tried to take over (and still want to take over) 100% of Israel’s land and kick the Jews out of the middle-east altogether.
Stop believing the lies promulgated by anti-semites and do some research into the actual situation.
Educate yourself on the numbers, Alicia. Stop believing the lies propagated by Zionists. Listen to what Jews from the diaspora themselves have to say about Israel too.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-and-non-jewish-population-of-israel-palestine-1517-present
must be true then?
4 those that don’t know, Israel took in significantly more Refugees after the ’48 War. They were expelled from Muslim Countries forfeiting their Properties They are now Citizens of the Only Democracy in the M.E.; Most Israeli Muslims would be worse off; were they to lose their Israeli Citizenship. Israel is constantly harassed yet keep on carrying on.
Nothing about Israel is a Democracy. That’s a BS talking point that comes straight out of the mouths of the AIPAC drones that serve America. Another country that is not a Democracy.
Many Arabs Live & Vote in Israel; not so much’ Jews in Muslim Lands.
Fun fact: Many Palestinians are Christian….and they don’t like you either.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
That’s probably why Israel has a lot of shit things happen to it then. when you treat people like shit, they bite back.
How long are you going to occupy the West Bank for???
At the moment there are 500 000+ Jewish settlers there just in the West Bank and another 300 000+ Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem brought in by the Israeli government…..
Well said, timeklek. The truth has been told at last.
Only if your definition of truth is abject lies…..
Which yours seems to be.
Funny, that’s the same argument American racists use to talk about Black Americans being better off, because of slavery. Timeklek- is it that you are brainwashed, or simply believe that God didn’t create Palestinian Christians and Muslims, or that God’s commandments don’t apply to Israel? Which is it. The Arabs in Jordan are treated far better than those in Palestine. With few exceptions, most Arabs are treated better, enjoy a better standard of living, and peace, than they do in Israel’s concentration camps.
The exact opposite is true! The Arabs in the territories have a much higher quality of life than any other Arabs in the region. Israeli Arabs have made it clear that they don’t want to leave Israel. Jordan is the one who murdered and expelled its so-called Palestinian population.
So this guy saved Jews only to be killed by them……
But I’m sure you’ll justify that…..
Israel’s forgotten hero: The assassination of Count Bernadotte – and the death of peace
He was charged by the UN with bringing peace to Palestine– but died at the hands of Jewish assassins. Now, 60 years after his death, the memory of the Swedish aristocrat Folke Bernadotte is dividing Israel.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israels-forgotten-hero-the-assassination-of-count-bernadotte-and-the-death-of-peace-934094.html
I see you do not know much about conditions in Arab countries for what you have just said is nonsense. I have travelled throughout the Middle East and, with the exception of the oil-rich states, the standard of living is much poorer than certainly any European state. And conditions in Palestine it is not that bad. This pseudo state gets the largest amount of aid in the world, There is huge exaggeration from the Arab propagandists and their useful fools. Don’t believe a word.
And did you travel to the West Bank?
How can it be a pseudo state if the people want to be that state?
Why has democracy suddenly been wiped away from your vocabulary?
It’s because you basically just hate Palestinians and want to see them die.
And yes, I have Palestinian friens in Ramallah – Christian ministers, so I don’t get my information from bigoted fools like you.
Absolutely agree my friend! It’s high time the world acknowledges this… Well done and KEEP SPEAKING TRUTH Brother in Christ, for He is the Way, The Truth and The Life – So be it.
Have you read Romans 11? You can’t be a Christian If you hate the Jews. This article is pure antisemitism, full of lies, and you agree with it!
Justice for Palestinians does not equal hating Jews.
Stop being exceedingly dishonest.
Justice for the Arabs lies in them electing competent leaders who will accept Israel as the Jewish state, renounce all claims to any of this land, stop teaching their children to hate, stop incitement to kill Jews, and make a real peace. There is nothing Israel can do to make those things happen. and so she will need to continue to defend herself from the continual depredations of these Arabs.
Over 98% of the Arabs live under PA control. Most of them have never even seen a soldier or an Israeli civilian. This article is nothing but lies and bias against the Jewish state, and, if you agree, you are against the Jews.
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arabs-have-highest-life-expectancy-in-arab-muslim-world/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_campaign=20171228_m143272748_Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_term=Israeli+Arabs+Have+Highest+Life+Expectancy+in+Arab-Muslim+World
Israel does not want a two state solution. Neither do they want the Palestinians to be part of Israel. If they did, Israel would no longer be a Jewish State. And Likud’s charter has always been to expand Israel (hence settlements in the West Bank – 223 settlements with well over half a million Jewish Israelis).
Netanyahu says no Palestinian state as long as he’s prime minister
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-election/netanyahu-says-no-palestinian-state-as-long-as-hes-prime-minister-idUSKBN0MC1I820150316
At least try not to be so blatant in your lying.
Lol….pro-Israeli websites are evidence of nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgWMRFnavg
The Palestinian population has literally quintupled since this particular group of Arab people began calling themselves Palestinians. Also, that’s a picture of SYRIA.
The number of settlers have grown even more…….
Christians who support Israel, support this……and yeah I have Palestinian Christian friends its happened to.
Hamas, the rulers of Gaza, are waging war on Israel. Their goal is the destruction of the Jewish state and the elimination of all Jews.
They have stated this. Israel is defending themselves against Hamas. The destruction of parts of Gaza would stop, instantly if Hamas stopped waging war on Israel.
Sine Hamas surrounds their military sites with civilian sites and places civilians in harms way to protect their people, if genocide IS being committed, Hamas is the one doing it.
Is that why Israel bombed the USS Liberty too?
Why did Israel attack a spay ship, is that what you are asking?
Way back in 1967. Were you even alive then??
Ah a dishonest dodge to a question.
Except of course, this entire article is a lie. And the fine old european tradition of Jew Hate is again seen.
Exactly!
Nice recitation of bigoted faith! Too bad you can’t back it up with any evidence! After all, as the old university history department saying goes, Israel has a great ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the documented record.
And of course the US was engaging in Catholic Hate when it fought Mussolini.
What exactly did the Jews do to Europe? False analogy on your part.
Well Mara, I expect more from you than the perfunctory, boring, and banal accusation of Jew hate.
Using lies to demonize the Jewish state is most definitely antisemitism.
Why don’t the globalists stop the incremental genocide of Europeans?
Take that thought to your next cross burning, Jethro.
Spot on Hephie.
There is another term that is clearly intended for these types of situations where the physical extermination of a large share of a population is neither occurring nor intended. That is “politicide”, the term was created at the same time, more or less, as genocide, as a subspecies of the broader crime. just as the US refused to sign the Genocide convention if “cultural genocide” was not removed from the document (black American leaders had already used the term to accuse their government of genocide), the Soviet Union refused to allow politicide–that is, the destruction of a national/political community (not necessarily physically, but making it impossible for them to realize their national aspirations) as part of the convention on genocide because it was busy making it impossible for all the territories it conquered to have any sovereignty.
As for genocide proper, the discussion from the negotiations leading up to the convention shows that by “whole or in part” the convention drafters intended to mean a significant enough part of the population would be killed to through the continued survival of the protected group asa community into doubt. that would be the proper criteria to evaluate whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and Palestine more broadly.
What is unquestionable is that it’s committing massive crimes against humanity and is essentially a criminal state that needs to be condemned, sanctioned and ostracized until it stops. Sadly this will not happen because too many other countries, from Syria to Russia to China and of course the US, either have committed similar crimes or are at this very moment doing so. So no one with power has an interest to punish Israel because they could be next.
This leaves Palestinians with very few choices other than the extremely difficult decision to end their national aspirations and demand full citizenship and equality in Israel.
Those interested in a detailed historical and legal analysis of this issue vis-a-vis Israel’s crimes against Palestinians are invited to read the following article: http://israelgenocide.com/2017/05/02/israel-palestine-and-the-poetics-of-genocide-by-mark-levine-and-eric-cheyfitz-on-jadaliyya/
If the target population is increasing, if their longevity is increasing, if their infant mortality rate is decreasing, and if they have the highest quality of life compared to the other Arabs in the region, it’s pretty hard to argue that genocide is taking place.
infant mortality has not declined in a decade in Gaza and is at an alarming rate, in Gaza, see https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unrwa-report-finds-infant-mortality-in-gaza-no-longer-in-decline-press-release/. As one of the lead authors of a recent study declared, ““this is an extraordinary warning sign, an alarming trend in the overall situation not only of health for infants but also the health of entire Palestine refugee population in Gaza. Moreover, it is a warning sign on the overall social and economic situation of Gaza, as the Palestine refugees account for more than seventy per cent of the entire populations in Gaza. Infant mortality is a barometer of the health of an entire population”.
Perhaps you should get your numbers straight. As for broader population declines, in fact genocide can be said to occur even when the vast majority of a group is not killed as long as the intention of those engaged in the violence against them is to render their national/religious/ethnic/tribal/etc. life untenable. there is very strong evidence that this is the case in the WB and Gaza, especially the latter.
Gaza is Hamas’ problem, not Israel’s.
When Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, officials took measures to improve the conditions that Palestinians had lived under during Jordan’s 19-year occupation of the West Bank, and Egypt’s occupation of Gaza. Universities were opened, Israeli agricultural innovations were shared, modern conveniences were introduced, and health care was significantly upgraded. More than 100,000 Palestinians were employed in Israel, and were paid the same wages as Israeli workers, which stimulated economic growth. There were 708 Palestinian villages in the region, four of which had running water. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=793486377656322&set=a.152197488451884&type=3&eid=ARAHAWlWrjYzsu8dirgAoCcrxi65ohmCwQwIB_h9O_3csJiRZFwuco4Sg1_9d59AMMnS6D3mqCY0vsqC
life expectancy
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14304
http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=569
http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/growth.asp
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP UNTIL 1990
(published in June 1994 by Dr. Wael R. Ennab, UNCTAD consultant)
The infant mortality rate is a critical factor in overall mortality and a good indicator of the overall health status of Palestinians residing in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The trends in IMRs appear to have been about the same for the West Bank and Gaza Strip; they are estimated to have fallen from 152 and 162 per 1,000 live births respectively in 1967 to 132 per 1,000 in both areas in 1974 (U.O. Schmelz, et al., 1977, p. 76), and then dropped more rapidly to about 53.1 to 56.1 in the Gaza Strip, and about 53.5 to 63.5 in the West Bank in 1985 (S. Vernmund, et al., 1985, p. 26).
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arabs-have-highest-life-expectancy-in-arab-muslim-world/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_campaign=20171228_m143272748_Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_term=Israeli+Arabs+Have+Highest+Life+Expectancy+in+Arab-Muslim+World
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a5d098f8cc455c6770d020cdb32ffe4d
https://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2018/10/excellent-professor-israel-and-arab.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LoveOfTheLand+%28Love+of+the+Land%29
You are channeling Hitler. It’s verrrrrrry Apartheid Israeli!
Zion heil!
Has it occurred to anyone that when palestine/Hamas stop their 70 year war that the population would grow normally…?…!
It’s occurred to me that, as a Nazi-loving Zionist scum, you love blaming the victim!
Zion heil, Nazi maggot!
Without Israeli genocide, the native Christian and Muslim population of Palestine/Israel would be around 13 million. Instead, it is six.
Care to try to prove that?
https://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000636
No problem. The total population worldwide is thirteen million. Without Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing, they would all be in their homeland.
The Arabian Peninsula? What’s stopping them?
No. PALESTINE, where they have roots going back to the Bronze Age. Only uneducated hillbillies think that Palestine’s native Christians and Muslims come from Arabia. They suck this nonsense from Goebbels’ rigid member.
Zion heil!
Again, actual proof? Archaeological, historical, genetic, etc. Because I have proof that they are mostly Arabs, mostly moved into the region in the past 300 years or less, and that they are genetically linked to the Arabian Peninsula.
The actual proof is the UNIVERSAL ACADEMIC CONSENSUS. NO ONE serious accepts the cockamamie idea that there was a massive influx of foreigners into Palestine. Not in the seventh century CE. Not in the 19th or 20th. Not ONE SHRED OF ACTUAL EVIDENCE. They are NOT genetically linked to the Arab Peninsula. That is simply Goebbels’ spunk you, as a credulous moron, scooped out of your back passage in typical lunatic-fringe fashion. You are very Israeli that way, scooping Goebbels’ spunk from your rectum, I mean.
PROVE me wrong with actual academic studies — not freakazoid hate site nonsense. Your problem is, as always, that while Nazi-scum-sucking Apartheid Israel has a fake ‘narrative’, Palestine has the actual historical record.
Zion heil, ignorant maggot!
Try again. I’ve given you all the studies – you’ve ignored them, and refused to provide anything that supports your arguments – such as they are. So put up or shut up!
Ignorant maggot! You have only supplied info that supports MY position!
Still waiting for proof!
That YOU supplied the proof??? Just look at your links!
My links support my position. Where’s your proof of your position?
Read your own links, fool!
Still no proof? Guess you don’t have any.
Read your own links!
There are 11 million “palestinians” in Gaza and Judea/Samaria. You’re saying that Israel has killed 2 million “palestinians”?
What nonsense! Israel couldn’t commit genocide against the Palestinians if they bombed them around the clock. Israel is under attack daily and considering that, they are very restrained in their response. Israel is here to stay so get over it. https://media0.giphy.com/media/vu0YlGmqDTeV2/giphy-downsized-medium.gif
I understand that, as a Goebbels’-spunk-sucking scum, you don’t even bother to read the actual article. There IS a legal definition of genocide. Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel meets that definition. I understand that supporting Nazi-imitating Israel requires a certain level of slack-jawed idiocy, but at least read the damn article and make salint points!
The article is a lot like the Quran . Once you know it’s garbage there is no use of reading on.
Thank you for that opinion from the undereducated, frothing-at-the-mouth, flat-earth, lunatic-fringe fanatic’s point of view!
Since you must be intellectually honest, you must also realize that the Torah and New Testament are garbage, right?
Nope. There cannot be MORE ‘palestinians’ now than before if genocide is taking place. You cannot destroy a ‘people’ is there are NOW more of those people than have ever existed in history. And that’s not even getting into the fact that ‘palestinians’ don’t even exist.
I understand that you have to be jaw-droppingly stupid to be a supporter of Apartheid Israel. I get that you have had a substandard education. I suggest that you read the ACTUAL LEGAL DEFINITION of the crime of genocide given in the article to understand the ACTUAL MEANING of genocide. If some of the words are too big for you, I’m sure that a good dictionary will help.
When you call someone stupid, you should be looking in a mirror. Seriously, your ignorance is epic.
Says an illiterate who thinks that the Bible is an historical document.
Do you even know what illiterate means. If I were illiterate, I would not be able to read you dreck. Illiterate means you can’t read.
The Bible is a collection of books and stories gathered across millennia. Most of it is figurative, but, yes, there is some historical information in it, for example, Pontius Pilate did rule Judea from 26 C.E. to 36 C.E. Further, the Assyrians did, in historical fact conquer Israel (the northern kingdom) in 722 B.C.E. and many of the leading citizens were expelled from the country. The Babylonians did exile a the leading citizens from Judea to an area near Babylon. When the Persians conquered the Babylonians in 539 B.C.E., Cyrus, the Persian King, allowed the Jews to return to Judea. These facts are supported by a LOT of extra Biblical sources.
Your knowledge of history is deeply flawed.
It includes some of the most beautiful poetry in the world. Only a fool would discount what the Bible has to say.
You really make me laugh, illiterate moron! It’s especially funny to see an illiterate moron try to define ‘illiterate’. Go to any dictionary you choose. (Those are books that give you the definitions of words.) My Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition ‘Of a person: ignorant of letters and literature; without book-learning or education.’ Its third definition is ‘unable to read and write’. The Dictionary goes on to say that it is synonymous with ‘ignorant’.
Go back to grade school.
Do not use a religion as any part of your debate – as it is an automatic lose!! Stay with the facts (you were doing well) https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b6f4a77ae9c2f1d0fd927f592eae2946d4aa0cd3ce180fd18aece903d2669098.png
The Bible is actually either 66 or 80 separate books (depending on your denomination) and is in mostly figurative language. The truth in it is most in terms of teaching.
Hephie is a troll who spouts garbage, there is no point in using logic.
In terms of Sherlock Holmes, the descriptions of Victorian London are true. So you can use them as a reference to Victorian London (although there are better sources).
There are elements in the Bible, particularly the New Testament that provide considerable information. Pontius Pilate was a real person, as were Herod “The Great” and Herod Antipas. Saul of Tarsus a.k.a. Paul is also a real person.
So, if I want to provide evidence that Jews lived in Judea 2,000 years ago, they are excellent proof of that. The troll claims that no Jews lived in Judea, Galilee, or Samaria in the 1st century, so references to people in the New Testament make excellent evidence.
I also reference Philo, Josephus, Hillel, Gamaliel, and a few other well documented Jews who lived in the area.
Unfortunately, since the Bible is a historical ‘novel’,
and not a ‘history book’,
it is not considered a source for the purposes of historical ‘fact’.
However – this is not the issue here….
It is getting this Hephie arrested for ‘his’ nazi commentaries….and hate crime!
The Bible is not A book, it is a collection of books, many, probably most of which are, indeed fiction—figurative language: metaphors, similes, allegory, parable, hyperbole, and morality tales. Some are letters written by a real human being to a group of real human beings, these are NOT fiction.
Some of the books do reference historical events, events which have been proven through archaeology and references in extra Biblical writings.
For many academics in many different disciplines, it is, indeed, a source of historical fact.
Hephie is a nazi, there I agree.
Which is why it is a ‘historical’ novel…. fables intertwined in real locations; just like Sherlock Holmes, with moriarity, in a real context with Scotland Yard….
We need this Hephie arrested….
The Bible is NOT a novel. While there are a number of books that could be considered novels, some of the books are poetry, some are morality tales, some are letters, and some are what the ancients considered a history. Calling it A novel simply shows that you do not understand anything at all about it.
There are real locations, real historical events, and real people intertwined with myth, poetry, and outright novels.
Yes – it is a book (who cares if it is many little books),
in historical venues,
{yes – full of lots of cute stuff}
and this book proves that a book exists;
but a ‘book’ does NOT prove your god!!!
Now – what are you going to use to prove your god exists [a book is useless, words are useless, claims are useless…] https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/13439e72cfdf0a1f68dbf02386c169676d08ac5c7ddf81071d149c3b2f503355.jpg
I never suggested it did prove the existence of God. Note: I do not own a God or god, so it is not my God.
I said it proves that Jews an their ancestors have lived in the area that the Romans named Palestine for at least 3 millennia.
Further, the fact that it is many books adds to its historical function. Historians prefer to have more than one witness. So a bunch of individual books/witnesses, if far and away better than one or two.
Other evidence I mentioned were Josephus’ Antiquities and the histories of Tacitus.
After all, the discussion is about whether to not the Jews have a claim to the land now called Israel.
I would never even bother to try and prove the existence of God. If God wants you or me or anyone else to know he exists then he will do it on a subjective level. He will never provide objective proof of his existence, so I do not bother looking for it.
Think of the Bible as a library, it is not a single book.
The Palestines will never accept peace:
”Abbas, is acutely aware that Muslims will condemn him — and perhaps issue a fatwa calling for his death — if he ever dares to make peace with the Jews. ”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13827/palestinians-peace-infidels
Gatestone? Why not Volkischer Beobachter? It’s the same kind of Nazi crap. The fact is that EVERY single government on the planet EVERY single body of international law or court with a remit from the UN Security Council (Resolutions 242, 298, 446, 452, 468, 469, 471, 476, 478, 607, 608, 636, 641, 672, 673, 681, 694, 726, 799, 904, 2334 [23 December 2016]) to the International Court of Justice (2005 Wall Opinion) to the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to the International Committee of the Red Cross to even Israel’s own High Court of Justice (Duweikat et al.[1979], Mara’abe v The Prime Minister of Israel [2005], Israeli HCJ 619/78 “El Tal’ia” Weekly v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 69/81 Abu Ita v. Commander of the Area of Judea and Samaria; Israeli HCJ 606/78 Ayoob v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 393/82 Jam’iat Ascan Elma’almoon Eltha’aooniah Elmahduda Elmaoolieh v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the Area of Judea and Samaria) agree that the West Bank and Gaza are under belligerent foreign occupation, that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies and that Apartheid Israel hasn’t got a legal claim to so much as a single dog turd there.
Stop sitting up Goebbels propaganda!
Looks like some coward had to delete his hatred comments! What happened??
Just wait – they will be knocking on your door…
I still want my decoder ring, Nazi moron!
Don’t worry – they will give you bracelets…. I think we know who is the nazi here – you posses all attributes of a fascist – lies and bullying….
I get that, perhaps from physical impotence, you have fantasies of connections to magical spy organizations. It’s rather typical of Nazi wannabes.
You had some comments deleted???
You are hilarious, Nazi maggot!
WOW! How interesting! The only comments deleted here are YOURS, Heinrich!
Do I still get a decoder ring, wannabe Hitler?
‘FORCIBLE TRANSFER’
Not happening, not a violation of International law.
Sorry if EVERY single government on the planet and EVERY single body of international law from the UN Security Council (Resolutions 242, 298, 446, 452, 468, 469, 471, 476, 478, 607, 608, 636, 641, 672, 673, 681, 694, 726, 799, 904, 2334 [23 December 2016]) to the International Court of Justice (2005 Wall Opinion) to the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to the International Committee of the Red Cross and even Israel’s own High Court of Justice (Duweikat et al.[1979], Mara’abe v The Prime Minister of Israel [2005], Israeli HCJ 619/78 “El Tal’ia” Weekly v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 69/81 Abu Ita v. Commander of the Area of Judea and Samaria; Israeli HCJ 606/78 Ayoob v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 393/82 Jam’iat Ascan Elma’almoon Eltha’aooniah Elmahduda Elmaoolieh v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the Area of Judea and Samaria) disagree with you and think that you are simply an illiterate with a script.
ZIon heil, idiot maggot!
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And this is for the idiot, Nazi-imitating worm that, rather than deal with the actual history, wants to see any discussion of the love affair between the Zionists and the Nazis, their shared ideological world view, stricken from the ACTUAL DOCUMENTED RECORD.
Cowardice is an essential element of Zionist apology.
Had enough of your nazi insult crap –
You were told to cut it out – and for a number of reasons – the first being that I and my family fight and fought the nazis.
You have been reported to a number of security agencies and they are the sort to investigate you.
I have not blocked you for the purpose of you hanging yourself.
Oh my! I am so frightened! Did you call the CIA? I’m sure you would have called the Gestapo, you Nazi moron. You think like a Nazi, act like a Nazi and goose-step like a Nazi.What is a person to do? Call a Nazi Cinderella?
Do you have the guts to show your profile?? How not afraid are you?
and no – I report to people who will take an interest in you ( groups that I would normally never contact, but will be interested in you)
Your comments and attitude make you look more like the nazis than we ever will…
I see! You are a secret agent! Can I have a decoder ring, Adolph?
Zion heil!
Still waiting for my secret Zio-Nazi decoder ring.
Let’s have your address – see if you have the courage of your own warped nazi convictions.
[let’s face it – the disgusting catholics and moslems were the defenders of the nazis – you are one twisted extremist for your Islamic agenda]
Let’s have your address – see if you have the courage of your own warped nazi convictions.
I often wonder . . . Why are bankers creating countries?
“The Balfour Declaration”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/israel/balfourdoc.gif
Why did the bankers purchase Jerusalem? They were planning ahead to the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and Hitler’s transfer agreement of 1933, and of course the UN partition.
“THE ROTHSCHILDS PURCHASED JERUSALEM IN 1829”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KwYHoI6M7A&feature=youtu.be
The Rothschilds Own 80% of Israel – and Direct Its Genocidal Policy
http://humansarefree.com/2016/02/the-rothschilds-own-israel-and-direct.html
The Rothschilds created Israel for two reasons: 1) to destabilize the Middle East and 2) to store their nuclear weapons for use against the U.S. and other countries. Most human misery, and untold deaths, in the last 200 years can be traced back to the House of Rothschild.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p389_john.html
Why is the ancient country of Palestine missing from Google maps, but newcomer Israel is named?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1063829077005727&set=a.566143886774251.1073741860.100001359335487&type=3&theater
American Jews Solidarity Against Zionism
https://www.facebook.com/Zionocracy
Judaism rejects Zionism.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1491541564234474&set=a.566143886774251.1073741860.100001359335487&type=3&theater
Zionism is the (Rothschild-created) problem
https://www.bruceonpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Israel-zionism-problem-not-Hamas.jpg
Even if you boycott Israel, you’ve still got Satan on your products. Every single one of them. Thanks House of Rothschild.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=157902604265050&set=a.157665937622050.49498.100001359335487&type=3&theater
Bar code 666
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=157902604265050&set=a.157665937622050.49498.100001359335487&type=3&theater
Did you know that #ZionistPrimeMinisters changed their Western names to Hebrew names to steal land? #JewsAgainstZionism
https://www.facebook.com/Zionocracy/photos/a.318585191570530.70523.318506794911703/1395098123919226/?type=3&theater
The United States of Rothschild – when the Rothschild parasite got into the currency system in 1913, that was the end of its host – a slow end, but sure.
The bloody track record of the United States of Rothschild and the United Kingdom of Rothschild and the literally Rothschild-created Israel. Thanks, House of Rothschild, for endless senseless wars, endless death in wars in which brothers fight against brothers, endless rivers of human blood.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=972257889496180&set=a.566143886774251.1073741860.100001359335487&type=3&theater
Israel tries to take away rights from Palestinian Christians….because they’re Palestinian…..and give their land to Jews….
“We are believing in justice…”
A shame that Christians have given up on justice in favour of ideology and Israeli nationalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_w-UOnFLc
The following is a quote from Brian Zahnd, pastor of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri:
“To American evangelicals I want to say this: If you hold to a theology that forces you to vilify Palestinians; and if this hostile attitude causes you to excuse political policies that in other circumstances you would deem as injustice; and if as a result of your theology and politics you are unwilling to humbly listen to and learn from your Palestinian brothers and sisters in Christ, then you need to know that you are driving the spirit of Christ out of your midst and your movement is being animated by an unholy spirit. If you are categorically committed to viewing Palestinians as enemies, then at least act toward Palestinians as Jesus taught us to act toward our enemies: Love them, bless them, and do good to them. For love alone is the Jesus way.”
“A shame that Christians have given up on justice in favour of ideology and Israeli nationalism.“
Which sounds not much different than the Pharisees, the enemies of Jesus. Obey Torah to the letter in the hopes of ushering in a Jewish nation state without regard to seeking justice, mercy, and compassion for oppressed people. A friend of mine once remarked that of all the characters or groups in the Bible, Christians as a whole most resemble the Pharisees. As a Christian myself, I sadly concur. God help us.
Yet another attempt at an important topic presented on the basis of how you stand with Trump. There was peace in the Middle East for thousands of years, until “Trump”.
You are either unbelievably ignorant or a flat-out liar! Or maybe you’re being sarcastic – that I could live with. Otherwise, there hasn’t been peace between the Jews and Muslims since the Muslims invaded in the 7th century. And the Jews didn’t even start fighting back until the early 20th century.
Wrong…….as usual…..
It was Christian persecution which drove out and massacred Jews. Umar and Saladin both welcomed Jews after defeating Christian forces.
In fact in the First Crusade, Muslims and Jews defended Jerusalem together and were massacred.
Uh, there’s a lot more history than those couple of hundred years. From the 7th century on, Muslims have been persecuting and slaughtering Jews and Christians. In fact, the only country in the ME where the Christian population is growing and where they have complete freedom of religion is Israel!
https://www.jns.org/what-you-need-to-know-about-israels-christian-minority/#.V-VqMtQrKHs
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/72209/father-gabriel-naddaf-no-better-place-christians-israel/#bMQwlqXDVaHAl73r.97
Bethlehem was 90 percent Christian, 10 percent Muslim, in the 19th century.
Bethlehem was 85 percent Christian in 1948.
Bethlehem was 54 percent Christian in 1967.
Bethlehem was handed over to PA rule in 1995.
Bethlehem was 40 percent Christian in 1998.
Bethlehem was 15 percent Christian in 2009.
You conveniently forget how Jews were treated by Christians and that it was Omar and saladin who welcomed back Jews after being slaughtered and exiled by Christians.
But then you are a liar.
Muslims moved in from other villages having been driven out of thiers hence the drop between 48 and 67.
The drop since 98 has to do with Israel’s occupation.
But then you insult Palestiian Christians as not being real Christians….unlike yourself who advocates violent nationalism.
Bethlehem’s declining Christian population casts shadow over Christmas
Walid al-Shatleh, a gym teacher at Talitha Kumi school in Beit Jala, a traditionally Christian village next to Bethlehem, is one of the Palestinian Christians considering emigration. He and his extended family are debating between moving to Canada or Australia.
Al-Shatleh said the Israeli army seized 24 dunams (six acres) of his farmland to construct the separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories, cutting down his family’s old growth olive trees and ruining his livelihood.
“We feel like there is no future for us in this land,” he said. “I can travel to Europe and move freely between countries, even leaving my passport [at the hotel]. But here, I have to show my ID everywhere I go, I have to cross a checkpoint every day,” he said. “I can’t visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, I used to go once a month but now I need special permission.”
“We live like we’re an animal in a cage in a zoo, there’s only one exit and entrance which is a piece of paper from Israeli authorities saying when I can go to Jerusalem and at what time,” al-Shatleh added.
Bethlehem mayor Vera Baboun, a Catholic who has led the city since 2012, when she was the first woman elected mayor, said the city is trying to increase tourism. One major initiative is a sorely-needed $17 million renovation of the Church of the Nativity, including work which would reveal the original floor mosaics, among other needed restoration.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism, 1.16 million foreigners visited the Church of the Nativity in 2013, the most recent year statistics were available.
That same year, about 3.54 million tourists visited Israel. All tourists to Bethlehem arrive from Israel via one of 29 checkpoints that lead to the city and surrounding villages. One of the main complaints among residents is that many tourists come to Bethlehem just for a few hours to visit the church and then immediately get back on the bus to return to Jerusalem, spending very little money in the city. Baboun said the city is considering a tourism tax to ensure some of the tourism dollars are directed back to the city.
Nabil Giacaman, a Catholic shop owner of the “Christmas House” store on Manger Square, said media emphasis on the shrinking Christian population was part of an effort to create an internal divide in Palestinian society. “It’s not about Christians and Muslims, it’s not that I’m facing these issues only because I’m a Christian,” said Giacaman. “As Muslims suffer, Christians also suffer. At the end, we are all Palestinian, we get the same permits and the same treatment at the checkpoints.”
Others say the situation is more nuanced.
“Officially, the laws are the same for Christians and Muslims but there is still some racism,” said Qumsieh, who noted that most of the prejudice is connected to land ownership, and that people generally try to sell land to others from the same religion.
“I can’t see how we have a future with this problem of ongoing emigration,” said Qumsieh. “I hope it won’t come to be that the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher will become museums, but the fact on the ground is dark and gloomy.”
Qumsieh said his own family is a perfect example of this. As one of six highly-educated brothers, four of whom are engineers, Qumsieh is the only one still living in Palestine. His two sons, studying in the United States, laughed in his face when he asked if they were coming back to Bethlehem after graduating from college, Qmsieh recalled.
Qumsieh faulted the Israeli occupation for Bethlehem’s struggles, but added that the city also needs to address internal strife, including the stagnant economy. “We need housing projects, we need investors who will employ our youth,” he said. “People will stay if they can get a flat and a job.”
According to Baboun, the unemployment rate in Bethlehem is 27 percent, the highest in the Palestinian territories after Gaza. Average unemployment in the West Bank is 22 percent.
Part of the obstacle towards economic development is that many of the large infrastructure projects must be coordinated with the Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli Army, the Palestinian Authority, and the Bethlehem City Council, she said. Much of the city does not have running water, and residents must get water delivered privately. Additionally, there are no wastewater treatment areas in the region, a major environmental issue.
Sr. Lucia Corradin, the Caritas Baby Hospital administrator who has lived in Bethlehem for 13 years, said that whenever she hears of another Christian moving abroad she is disappointed but understanding.
“It’s really linked to your freedom, to do what you want, to search for your future,” she said. “We have so many colleagues who are resigning to find a better future. What can you say? I think people, before reaching that decision, they suffer a lot. It’s a really painful decision. You don’t want them to suffer more, you just hope for the best, even for those who are choosing to emigrate and leave this country.”
Baboun is hoping that the tourists who throng Manger Square Dec. 24 will acknowledge the difficult realities while still celebrating the traditional Christmas sprit. “Bethlehem is open, and Bethlehem is ringing the bells of joy for peace in the Middle East,” she said.
There are now 55 hotels in Bethlehem, Baboun added, hopefully ensuring that, unlike Joseph and Mary, everyone who wants to will find a place at an inn. And despite all the difficulties, there is a certain thrill when she tells people around the world that she is from Bethlehem. “My faith has affected my ability to hope,” said Baboun. “I was born and raised in Bethlehem, and I always carry that inside of me.”
[Melanie Lidman is Middle East and Africa correspondent for Global Sisters Report based in Israel.]
https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/bethlehems-declining-christian-population-casts-shadow-over-christmas
Only a historical idiots like you would still condemn a group of people that did something wrong hundreds of years ago.
The U.S. and England went to war against each other 200+ years ago today we’re allies.
I doubt that you’ll ever be able to forgive people’s wrongs.
Lol…..you need to thread, idiot.
That’s what your mate is claiming…
Oh except its ok to accuse Muslims.
HA HA – historical idiots! That’s amazing
Trump is making it worse.
As with most things. 🙁
That we still give aid to Israel in light of their disgusting fascism is proof of how corrupt our system of lobbying is. The Jewish State is like Donald Trump among Jews. It can do anything and still lose no support.
Perfect and brilliant comparison.
Israel defends herself against Arab aggression at both the individual and corporate level. There is no fascism – which I doubt you know what it is – involved. 80% of the aid the US gives to Israel is spend in the US, and the US benefits greatly from the R&D that Israel does with the rest. And, if you think Israel has support – take a look at all the Muslim UN resolutions against her.
Israel causes Arab aggression by being God-damned EVIL.
What exactly has Israel done? Name on war crime she has committed? And the US gets more out its aid to Israel than Israel does!
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/israel/what-aid-to-israel-buys-america/
https://www.israelandstuff.com/how-u-s-military-aid-to-israel-actually-works#.WcUVOEP9eC4.facebook
West bank settlements, genocide.
Israel repeatedly violates the Geneva Conventions by:
*Targeting, killing, and collectively punishing non-combatant men, women and children
*Moving its own population into an occupied zone
*Imposing unnecessary curfews and closures
*Exercising disproportionate use of force
Israel defies international law and hundreds of U.N. resolutions by:
*Refusing to end over 40 years of military occupation
*Expanding and adding Israeli settlements
*Building the Apartheid Wall to take over Palestinian land and water resources
*Denying the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees
DEFINITION OF “WAR CRIME”
A war crime is defined as a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions or international humanitarian law. Both Israel and the United States are signatories to the Geneva Conventions. Under US Constitution, ratification of a treaty, such as the Geneva Conventions, makes that treaty binding U.S. law. In other words, a treaty becomes, in effect, U.S. and Israeli law that those government are duty bound to uphold
*Israel does not have a constitution
ISRAEL’S MILITARY OFFENSIVE AGAINST GAZA
During Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s military offensive against Gaza in 2008-9, and again during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Israel violated both the principles of distinction and of proportionality. About 1,400 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, and 80 percent of those were civilians, according to UN figures. About 300 were children. In contrast, 13 Israelis were killed, including 3 civilians. Four of the Israeli soldiers were killed by friendly fire. During Operation Protective Edge, more than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, including more than 500 children. UN, Gaza health officials, and human rights organizations estimated that up to 75 percent of those killed were civilians. About 66 Israeli soldiers were killed, along with six civilians, including one child
During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces attacked hospitals, mosques, a poultry plant, a flour mill, Gaza’s infrastructure, police stations, a prison, residential housing, ambulances, and other civilian targets, according to a United Nations (UN) investigation. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) dropped bombs and fired rockets, tank, artillery and mortar shells, and white phosphorus against a virtually defenseless population, only a tiny percentage of which had fired primitive, home-made rockets at Israel. In carrying out its attack the IDF used drones, advanced jet fighters, helicopter gunships, tanks, gunboats, and other sophisticated weaponry against a population that lacked an army, navy, or air force. The IDF used white phosphorus, an incendiary device that spreads out over a wide area and can cause severe burns, in one of the world’s most densely populated regions. This is further evidence that the IDF did not attempt to protect the civilian population.
OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE
According to numerous news accounts, the International Red Cross, and human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, during Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2014, the IDF once again bombed hospitals at least 24 medical facilities, 203 mosques (73 of which were completely destroyed), 2 churches, rendered uninhabitable over 20,000 civilian homes, fired on ambulances, civilian infrastructure and UN shelters. The UN Human Rights Council once again found grounds for an investigation into possible war crimes. Among the more shocking scenes were the artillery shelling that killed four children playing soccer on a beach, the shelling of a UN school where people sought refuge, the shelling of a playground and a market, and the leveling of neighborhoods killing entire families were killed in their homes.
Israel’s disproportionate use of force shocked even U.S. military officials who told U.S. reporters that a Pentagon report showed Israel used 11 artillery battalions to fire 7,000 shells into the Shujaiya neighborhood of Gaza City during a 7-hour period. Retired Lt. General Robert Gard said that if the report was even “half-right, Israel’s response was absolutely disproportionate.”
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT SINCE 1948
Collective punishment has been a consistent practice of the IDF, beginning in 1948, continuing through the early years of Israel’s existence, during the first and second Palestinian uprisings known as the intifadas in the late 1980s and early 2000s, and on to the very present. In 1953, a young Israeli lieutenant named Ariel Sharon, later to become Israel’s prime minister, led a raid on the Palestinian West Bank village of Qibya, killing 67 men, women, and children and destroying 56 houses. The raid was retaliation for a Palestinian guerrilla incursion into Israel. Sharon openly stated, “The orders were utterly clear. Qibya was to be an example to everyone.”
The Israeli military has openly adopted the policy of collective punishment, declaring it a form of deterrence. During Israel’s 2006 attack on Lebanon, it targeted civilian neighborhoods and infrastructure, particularly the Dahiye neighborhood of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. More than 1,100 Lebanese were killed in this attack, the vast majority of them civilians. In a October 2008 interview with Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Israeli Major General Gadi Eisenkott defined what he called the Dahiye Doctrine:
“What happened in the Dahiye Quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which shots are fired on Israel. We will use disproportionate force against it and we will cause immense damage and destruction. From our point of view these are not civilian villages but military bases. This is not a recommendation, this is the plan, and it has already been authorized.”
THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS DO APPLY
In adopting Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions following the end of World War II in 1945, the international community sought to outlaw collective punishment to ensure that crimes like those carried out by the Nazis never occurred again. Israeli and Palestinian civilians deserve that protection. The Israeli government is virtually alone among the world’s nations in arguing that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories. But their argument only reinforces their disdain for human rights and international humanitarian law.
..well, you asked
Boom.
Let’s here it for Israel.
Lol…….more lies…..
Key U.S. lawmakers want to boost Israel’s $38 billion defense aid package
Reuters Staff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. senators who just returned from a trip to Israel called on Tuesday for an increase in the $38 billion in military aid the United States is currently providing Israel, signaling support for more funds for Israeli missile systems.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-defense/key-u-s-lawmakers-want-to-boost-israels-38-billion-defense-aid-package-idUSKCN1GB2NQ
Do you know what a non-sequitur is? You are the master of them.
Hallelujah……
Yes, you like killing people.
Of course, that’s the sort of hideous human you are.
I like that we protect persecuted Israel from fanatic Muslims and people like you.
The world will like it even more when we are protected from Fanatical Talmudists!
Yes, the 144,000 Jewish Christians that are spoken of in the book of Revelation from the 12 tribes of Israel.
Well using your logic Iceland is guilty of genocide since it doesn’t allow its Jewish population to do mila and scheita. We Jews are intolerant of anti-Semitism parading as theology. I realize that there will always be Christians that have cognitive dissonance from Jews doing well, but wrapping that up with liberation theology is still bigotry
A shame you aren’t intolerant of bigotry against Arabs.
I wonder which one was the anti-semite?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpecFERU9wQ
Bones, just wanted you to know that online harassment continues at the Sojourners comment section, as a user has yet again opened a fraudulent Disqus account to impersonate me. Their account is marked as private in the hopes of masking their deception. Just wanted to alert you.
Oh, and a fellow user and friend, catlady, just reminded me of another important distinction: I currently have 4,497 comments with 13,272 upvotes. The fraudulent abuser thus far has 1 comment alone.
I see in this article criticism of Zionism and The State of Israel – you may not use anti-semitism as a shelter behind which to hide these atrocities. Because a country does not recognise your belief in genital mutilation or ritual killings, does not make them genocidal
In what universe is accusing Jews of genital mutilation and ritual killings not anti-Semitism
genital mutilation definition: The destruction or removal of a portion or the entire external genitalia, which may occur in the context of a crime of passion or as part of a cultural rite
ritual killing definition: the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
you think that these terms are antisemitic when applied to circumcision of babies and the blessings and rituals associated with Kosher food. I call it ‘The English Language’
Shechita is simply a method of slaughtering an animal for meat via swift, clean cut to the neck to sever the artery. Traditionally, this was seen as a way for it to occur with the least amount of pain (stunning being a recent innovation).
It isn’t animal sacrifice, so calling it ritual killing is a bit bizarre. Just like non-kosher methods of slaughtering, the purpose is to provide meat.
As an outsider looking in, who sees Rabbis expressly trained for these rituals it seems an apt description. I don’t mean it in an offensive way. I respect your right to follow your beliefs as you see fit. Ritual sacrifice as an all-encompassing descriptor for the process in the context of this conversation, where a country has seen fit to outlaw all such practices across the board. Please don’t try to remove the context in order to portray ‘victimisation’
Yes, you do. You mean it in the most offensive way possible. And this discussion had no context of ritual sacrifice.
Iceland has about 250 Jews and 1500 Muslims. It is possible that the intention was to target Muslims and that Jews are collateral damage, or it is possible that they wanted to feel moral by passing laws to ban strange things that they didn’t understand well, knowing that they would not be personally affected.
Not sure how “across the board” any ban on specific methods of slaughter can be when the vast majority of people are not affected at all while Jews and Muslims are unable to get any locally sourced meat at all without violating their religion. I note that hunting – which obviously doesn’t involve stunning and which can clearly result in much pain prior to death if the shot doesn’t hit in exactly the right place – is perfectly legal.
In a representative democracy, all citizens are required to obey the laws of the many. This doesn’t make anyone in particular targeted. I personally have no issue with circumcision, although as someone who campaigns against enforced female genital mutilation, I can see where there may be levelled accusations of double-standards, so perhaps a blanket ban is the way to go. In so far as Halal and Kosher foods go – I honestly have no problem with the practise – no abattoir is a pleasant place to work or visit, and if it is a constituent part of someone’s belief system, surely there can be work-arounds, as in abattoirs constructed specifically for those practices and conforming to animal welfare standards of a given country. I presume that religious leaders are mounting legal challenges to these policies, as is permitted in any representative democracy. We all know that you can not please all of the people all of the time. I would expect any solution to involve compromise from both sides, and wish you luck with the endeavour if it is something close to your heart.
Kosher food seems to be a very humane method of animal slaughter, perhaps more generally our Nations should adopt similar rules to the kosher food purely on the grounds of animal welfare which regulation is all to often insufficient. According to the definition (I have just read to confirm that we allow it in Britain) provided by koshercertification.org.uk: “According to the laws of the Torah, to be eaten, a kosher species must be slaughtered by a “Schochet,” a ritual slaughterer. Since Jewish Law prohibits causing any pain to animals, the slaughtering has to be effected in such a way that unconsciousness is instantaneous and death occurs almost instantaneously.”
Interesting that they can casually describe a schochet as a ritual slaughterer, yet for some reason when I use the terminology you find it offensive?
In a free society, people are allowed to practice their religion without interference from the government. Period.
You said ritual sacrifice, not slaughter.
And, circumcision is the sign of G-d’s covenant with the Jews. We didn’t choose it – He did. But you’re okay with telling us we can’t do, even though it doesn’t harm you or society in any way. Even though it actually makes sense medically.
are jewish protestors murdered in Iceland?
So if the Palestinians murder Israelis, which they do, then they’re guilty of genocide?
Are they kicking Jews out of their houses and taking their land????
Trying to! That’s what the conflict is all about.
If you take the trouble to read the article, the legal and moral grounds for describing the situation as genocide is based upon the definition: “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” so no, by this reckoning, no, they are not. It’s in emboldened text in the article quoting the legal definition. Murder, on the scale that Jewish people have been exposed to, is not genocide, and I do not condone those lives taken. As justification for then taking tanks, apache helicopters, jet fighters and missiles to entire communities in response for those actions though, that probably is… just putting that out there
I didn’t say the Arabs had managed to commit genocide against the Jews, I said that it is their stated goal. And, precisely what do you think Israel should do in response to 10,000 rockets fired at their citizens over ten years, at tunnels dug for the specific purpose of infiltrating Israel and murdering her citizens, etc? What is the appropriate response? How many dead Jews will make you happy? I can tell you – for people like you, it will never be enough.
“for people like you” – in the same phrase as accusing me of antisemitism.
Criticism of the State of Israel is not antisemitism. You do the many Jewish people who are horrified and outraged at these events so much of a disservice, and I level to you – that your assertion that my criticisms of The State of Israel are antisemitic IS being truly antisemitic, because you are suggesting that all Jewish people share your murderous intent towards your human brothers and sisters, which is an offensive generalisation in the extreme. Not all Jewish people share your viewpoint. You are not defending Jewish people or Judaism, you are defending the actions of a government and a military force. YOU are the racist. You suggest that every man woman and child in Palestine wishes you dead, and that is a hideous untruth! Your xenophobia is prevalent throughout your comments on this page. I shall no longer treat you with the courtesy or respect of answering your comments – you have demonstrated to me what a vile and disgusting racist individual YOU are!
OK, I am not going to waste my time responding to your bias and prejudice against me any further. “for people like you” – wow! Imagine the reaction had I used that language against you – which I can tell you I have spoken with nothing but respect for you up until this hideous remark. I ask you to delete this comment. Disgusting human you are!
Except your description is a parody of the true situation
psycience. It is no parody, sadly. It is accounts from The UN, the Red Cross, Amnesty International and Human Rights watch to name but a few. I am not someone who blindly accepts everything that mainstream media tells me, I read the reports, I speak as someone who first ventured into looking at this situation 20 years ago wanting to believe that Israel stood on the side of good against evil. I am sorry, but the evidence of Israeli citizens sitting on a hillside with picnic hampers and cheering as missiles struck residential buildings in Gaza, seeing the helicopter gunships and tanks ploughing through mudhuts – the use of white phosphorous on densely populated civilian areas. My conclusion has been that Israel views these humans as vermin, fit to be crushed. According to The Fourth Geneva convention ratified by Israel and the US, therefore constituting law in those countries, disproportionate force and group punishment are warcrimes, and are open policies of the Israeli government and the IDF, and every bullet and bomb is paid for by the US taxpayer, making the US equally liable – of course Trump will veto an investigation. Netenyahu should be speaking about this, but he should be doing so in The Hague
Both Bibi and Gantz, actually, should show up at the Hague. Thank you Steve, I benefit from your content and attitude. Peace.
First false report – the people were cheering Iron Dome destroying Hamas rockets! They couldn’t even see Gaza from where they were! Propaganda that you can’t recognize because you want to believe the worst about Jews.
Second false report – white phosphorus was used decades ago – it is a legal military chemical used by virtually all militaries to light up the combat area. The Red Cross investigated and said that Israel had used it properly. However, when the IDF saw what had happened to the people who came in contact with it, they banned its use, despite that doing so makes their work that much more difficult.
Third false report – proportionate force has nothing to do with what weapons are used by either side, but whether or not the force used was sufficient to accomplish the mission.
Fifth false report – the US gives military aid to Israel, 80% of which has to be spent in the US. The US also benefits greatly from the R&D that Israel does with the rest.
Sixth false report – Israel has not initiate even one violent conflict with the Arabs. She supplies Gaza with food, water, medical supplies – tons every day. She gives aid to the PA, and treats Arabs in her hospitals free of charge. This is obviously the behavior of a government who considers the Arabs vermin.
Not so in the images that I saw. I have always wanted to believe in the best from all of humanity, and I still do. I know that many Jewish people are horrified by what is happening to their fellow humans in their name, so no, I do not generalise in that way at all, it would fly in the face of what I know to be true. Zionist may be happy to commit war crimes, and however you wish to dress it after the fact, using white phosphorous in a densely populated area does NOT satisfy the 4th Geneva Convention. Proportionate response is for example, 60 protesters being murdered by sniper fire and to protect a chain-link fence – 0 deaths on the other side. Lethal force should only ever be a last resort, when lives are directly at risk. The blockade in Gaza is inhumane.
Thanks for making that first point. Yes, Gaza is flat and you can’t see it from the Tel Aviv area. You can, however, see the Iron Dome hit Hamas rockets in the sky.
This convention in Geneva was drafted precisely in response to the way that the Jewish people and other ethnic minorities were treated by the Nazis! Now Israel has become the ‘angry kid’ burning ants with a magnifying glass!
It was actually written to counteract the Germans from ever trying to take over the world again. It would be nice if you read some history before you made these inaccurate comments. And, your hyperbolic, hate-filled comments about Israel – read Jews – are more than proof of your antisemitism.
So any criticism or discussion of disagreement of Israel’s policies = antisemitism to you? That’s not fair.
Criticism of the secular democratic state of Israel is not anti-semitism.
Neither is criticism of religious extremism.
If you knew anything about the actual policies of the Israeli government and had a valid criticism – no problem. But you just spout hate and propaganda. If you’re going to criticize religious extremism, better stick with the Muslims. Their countries are theocracies – Israel is not.
So you’re saying it is just a coincidence. Not buying
Yeah this must be confusing for you…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNMDjj5LKc
Awful!
If you believe that the treatment of Jews in Iceland is antisemitic, then you have a case to take up with them, it does not serve to empower Israel to brutalise a people in the way that it has brutalised the Palestinian people.
Please be specific, with credible sources, as to how Israel is brutalizing the Arabs? Not forgetting that almost two million of them live as full citizens, and only 40,000 are under Israeli rule in the territories.
It is a difficult task dealing with a blunt tool, but the point was that if a country like Iceland can legislate out of existence core parts of both Muslim and Jewish practice which then by the author’s extrapolation of genocide, Iceland is committing genocide. Of course Iceland is definitely not committing genocide ergo his extrapolation is wrong. So his claim that Israel is committing genocide is also not correct. Problem is that hatred trumps logic when the issue is Jews or Israel
When in Rome, do as the Romans do – if any particular religion’s practises are counter to that country’s public interest and law, then compromise must be met. Does Iceland ban the import of Kosher or Halal food? Do they check that you are not circumcised before you enter? They do not prevent you from following your faith as you choose, but they expect you to adhere to the law of the land even when that is counter to your religious belief. This is not discrimination, it is enabling a rich cultural diversity where EVERYONE’s views and beliefs are respected
That was not the Roman way. The Romans never stopped the Jews, or any of the other people they conquered, from practicing their religion! They actually had a lot of respect for Judaism because they loved all things that were ancient. and your religion stopping me from practicing mine doesn’t add to cultural diversity, it stifles it.
Rome was not a modern-style democracy, Iceland is. Iceland does not agree with the requirement of some African religions practising FMG, and so have banned all Genital mutilation (as I understand it), across the board so as not to single out one particular sect over others. As I have stated, I do not necessarily agree with the decision and am happy with the laws in place governing those issues in Britain – I see those laws as all-encompassing. However I do respect the will of the people in a democracy such as Iceland or Poland to establish their own laws as they see fit.
Jewish communities of all denominations are welcomed in most Western democracies. The West welcomes Jews into the various folds of our lives and communities. If you have a feeling that the West is unfairly discriminating against Jews and can demonstrate this, I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you and denounce those practises. If you announce measures that are anti-Zionist, then I am surely permitted to disagree with you on those matters. Here in Britain we are seeing attempts to include Criticism of Zionism or the State of Israel as antisemitic – and I vehemently oppose that. Criticism of government is a fundamental cornerstone to democracy, and this would be an infringement upon the human right to free speech. Again, as I have replied to you in other segments of this discussion: Criticism of the State of Israel, it’s government and it’s military is NOT a hate crime, and anyone attempting to demarcate such as a form of discrimination is, frankly, pathetic and overdelicate.
If you can not support the right of others to oppose your political viewpoint, then you come with an authoritarian standpoint rather than a democratic one, I stand firmly against authoritarianism just as strongly as I oppose religious extremism in all of it’s forms. Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
Palestinians are prevented from voting for their own laws, or severely limited – and even then Israel has free reign to veto any law made through democratic process there, do you see the difference?
They are not! They vote whenever elections are held in Gaza and the territories. Now, given that neither Hamas nor Abbas want to give up power, they don’t get to vote very often, but that is not Israel’s fault. They vote in municipal elections, and all the Arab Israelis vote in Israeli elections, even having their own parties. Please list all the Arab/Muslim countries where Jews have the vote. In fact, list all the ones where there are any Jews!
I just googled “Can Israel veto Palestinian Laws” and got a big fat zip. If you have a source, please cite it. Otherwise, please stop saying what you can’t prove.
Wow, so much nonsense in the article and many comments. But hey, that’s thetimes we live in: the internet giving everyone a plce to promote even their crudest ideas and opinions, as unfactual and made up they may be.
Please back that up with evidence of any form? Your opinion here is the proof of your second statement indeed
If good Christians had even a small fraction of moral outrage that this pomposity claims to own then could the real genocides of the past century ever happened. It goes with the disconnect from facts.
I would be classed by many Christians as an athiest. I believe in God and I adhere to the teachings of The Gospels, but question a lot of the other stuff… I honestly can say that I haven’t been responsible for anyone else’s death or hardship. The price of apathy to politics is to be ruled by evil men. This has never been more strongly proven than in 1930s and 1940s Germany, and it saddens me to hear a Jewish man advocating such an attitude, when the price of such apathy commited against his own brethren and many others was so great.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s website states:
“—“Bystanders” is a catch-all term that has often been applied to people who were passive and indifferent to the escalating persecution that culminated in the Holocaust.
—After the war, many ordinary Germans and Europeans claimed that they were “not involved,” that they were “bystanders” to the events of the Holocaust. Use of the term “bystander” to avoid any responsibility for what happened, however, obscures the many different levels of individual involvement at all levels of society.
—Reviewing the use of “bystander” as a general category leads to a more nuanced exploration of the full range of behaviors and what people did—or did not do—to facilitate the persecution and mass murder of other human beings.”
I do the best I can to be a good father to my 2 daughters and raise them to be caring and conscientious. As soon as they were old enough to begin school, I sat down with each and taught them about the holocaust and intended this to set their moral compass, together we sat and watched documentaries, and I demonstrated to them clearly the path that led to it – Nationalism, dehumanisation, segregation, execution. The rise in politics again in recent years of politicians stroking prejudice in order to gain votes frightens me greatly
I believe in a 2 state solution in Palestine (we all understand where I am talking about, so let’s bypass the semantics on what to call the region). I do not support the Zionist goal of taking all of Palestine. I believe that there should be the Jewish State of Israel, and an Arab state of Palestine – although I feel that Jerusalem should be open to all denominations. I feel that events such as those that have occurred in recent weeks will only serve to create martyrs and give rise to even more violence. I believe that we are past the time of the blame-game and need to sit around the table and hammer out diplomatic and political solutions to what has now become a global and ethical crisis in the Middle East.
I respect, and would campaign for your right to oppose my viewpoint, were it ever threatened. I know that this whole issue poses many difficult questions. Both sides have committed atrocities – no one side has been perfect. The important question for us all, is how do we move forward without all of the recriminations? I would suggest an amnesty.
At the same time, we are duty-bound not to allow these things to ‘normalise’ into our world. It is not normal to gun down hundreds of people. It is not normal for people to know that they are likely to die or be maimed and yet still have the desperation to make a statement against oppression. The first step must be an end to the deaths and mutilations
I believe in a 2 state solution in Palestine (we all understand where I am talking about, so let’s bypass the semantics on what to call the region). I do not support the Zionist goal of taking all of Palestine. I believe that there should be the Jewish State of Israel, and an Arab state of Palestine – although I feel that Jerusalem should be open to all denominations. I feel that events such as those that have occurred in recent weeks will only serve to create martyrs and give rise to even more violence. I believe that we are past the time of the blame-game and need to sit around the table and hammer out diplomatic and political solutions to what has now become a global and ethical crisis in the Middle East.
Agreed with you on every point. (nods in affirmation)
Well I know Palestinians so no, you can’t deflect it.
But your lack of moral outrage is noted.
Hamas claims that 61 people died of which 50 were members of their armed wing. But we’re not surprised and you’ll get at the same lies
Yeah you support christians being driven out by settlers.
We get it.
You’re more interested in ideology than justice.
My ideology is “justice, justice pursue”. But it seems that you can’t bother to use facts, since the claim that settlers are driving out Christians is ludicrous.
Mr non-sequitur strikes again. Can’t defend his assertions so he deflects.
Any death by violence is a crime. The young baby that died: “Leila’s family told media that the baby’s mother had left the child at home to join the demonstrations. When the infant began crying her uncle took her towards the protest area in order to locate his sister.
Reports on Palestinian social media said Leila had been in a tent away from the security fence when a tear gas canister was dropped by a drone.“
Does this not bear investigation? Surely if found to be factual, you will be as horrified as the rest of us? It matters not anyone’s views within the protest groups here, this is a baby who does not yet even know that she is Palestinian, or Arab, or Muslim. The medical first responders and press who were shot… are you not deeply offended by this? It is a direct assault upon humanity, and I would say the same whoever was responsible. Had Leila been anywhere close to the fence, then my outrage is directed at the adults who took her there as much as it is directed at those who administered the lethal blow.
I wonder if you hate Israel as well?
You think?
I just wanted to see if he would admit it.
This religion-thing is the cruel wedge that is dividing human race. To hell with it!
It is crucial to our advancement as a society that we learn to embrace people of all races, religion, gender and sexual orientation. Your right to freedom of speech does not justify denying any such freedom to others
Unless the people of one religion are determined to subjugate or murder everyone else.
that is an unfair generalisation to level towards all Muslims because of Islamic fundamentalists, just as it would be unfair to condemn all of Judaism for the actions of the right-wing Zionists. You are here guilty of Islamophobia.
Bibi
“a great day for peace”= over 60 dead…..
That’s how stupid the Israel lobby is.
50 of whom, by Hamas’ admission, were Hamas terrorists! Another little troublesome fact.
I have personally seen how Hamas manipulates Israeli soldiers, and believe Israel is fed up. The *only* way this will cease permanently is when Trump’s military get involved.
Some info on Hamas – https://en.wikipedia . org/wiki/Hamas
Hamas (Arabic: حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Wikipedia is infested by pro Zionist trolls, you’ll have to produce better “evidence”
Lol….that was supported and financed by Israel…….
Why was that?
How ironic the dog they fed to divide the Palestinian people turned around and bit them in the arse.
But that’s what happens when you use religious extremists to do your dirty work.
Is everyone a religious extremist to you, except Palestinians?
That’s how you’re coming across on here.
Sigh. He uses the term “extremist” to differentiate between the types of religious people who simply practice a religion and want to just live and let live and the types of religious people for whom the only answer to salvation is the destruction and annihilation of another race, religion, or people. Unlike many posters here, he does not paint all people (Jews, Muslims, Christians) with the same brush.
Sigh.
There’s only one way to the kingdom of heaven and that is to accept that Christ Jesus as their Lord, Savior and Master only.
You certainly are.
Yes I am for Christ Jesus.
Which is exactly what we Christians are supposed to be.
All of the apostles were.
And they were all Jews!
And they were all Christian Jews.
Did God not create all the lands and all the people? Do you not rejoice in all of God’s creation? The apostles were Jewish, as was Christ. They then chose to follow Christ. Muslims and Christians also follow the Teachings as written in the Torah. They are all three, Judaism, Christianity and Islam classed as the Abrahamic Religions. Is it not time that all of those people came together and celebrated the many things that they have in common, rather than focus on the things that separate us?
Did God not create all the lands and all the people? Do you not rejoice in all of God’s creation? The apostles were Jewish, as was Christ. They then chose to follow Christ. Muslims and Christians also follow the Teachings as written in the Torah. They are all three, Judaism, Christianity and Islam classed as the Abrahamic Religions. Is it not time that all of those people came together and celebrated the many things that they have in common, rather than focus on the things that separate us?
This, this, & this! 🙂
No you are an extremist like ISIS.
We know that.
But im not going to give an oxygen thief like you the attention you dont deserve.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah!
Steve posted:
“About 1,400 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, and 80 percent of those were civilians, according to UN figures. About 300 were children…During Operation Protective Edge, more than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, including more than 500 children. UN, Gaza health officials, and human rights organizations estimated that up to 75 percent of those killed were civilians…
Among the more shocking scenes were the artillery shelling that killed four children playing soccer on a beach, the shelling of a UN school where people sought refuge, the shelling of a playground and a market, and the leveling of neighborhoods killing entire families were killed in their homes…95% of water is undrinkable…46% of Palestinian children suffer from anemia. 50% kids in Palestine express no will to live.”
To which DMS responded:
“Let’s hear it for Israel…Hooray for Israel,” while yet simultaneously claiming that he serves Jesus and those calling him out serve Satan. You seriously cannot make this stuff up. I unblocked him to see his comment. I suppose for my own sanity I’ll re-block him.
He’s a textbook case of blindly following an ideology purporting to be Christian while not knowing better. And it all goes back to an interpretational system of biblicism that I suspect he gets taught on a weekly basis that ultimately misses the very core of Jesus’ kingdom principles. It’s just scary how people like him can’t see it. I think he truly believes he serves God.
Let’s look at the real casualty figures and not the lies released by Hamas. And, everything you listed didn’t happen the way you think it did. The UN admitted that Hamas had stored munitions in their schools. Shells fell outside a playground and a market, and Israel warned the Gazans exactly where shells were going to fall, even showing them where they could go to be safe. Guess who didn’t let them leave their buildings? Right again – Hamas!
http://www.thomaswictor.com/israel-didnt-kill-500-palestinian-children/
http://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-rockets-killed-gaza-civilians-during-war-amnesty-094310033.html
“Gaza Ministry of Health published statistics that point to majority of casualties being men of fighting age, and not women or children as the press would have you believe..
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports the following statistics as at 1900 hours on Thursday July 31, 2014.
Deaths: 1,418 – 324 children, 166 women 18-60 years, 60 persons over 60 years.
Deduct children, women, and elderly from the total and you are left with 868 males of fighting age. Easily the largest number of casualties in the conflict are men of fighting age.”
“Deaths: 1,418 – 324 children, 166 women 18-60 years, 60 persons over 60 years.
Deduct children, women, and elderly from the total and you are left with 868 males of fighting age. Easily the largest number of casualties in the conflict are men of fighting age.”
Do you even hear what you’re saying? So 868 males of fighting age outnumbering the 560 deaths of women, children, and elderly somehow justifies DMS’ hoorays for Israel?
For those unread in the situation, or those who speak on threads such as this as apologists for this brutal regime, here are a few brief FACTS for you:
1. The median age in Palestine is currently put at 19 yrs old.
2. 95% of water is undrinkable
3. Palestinians enjoy 4 hours of electricity per day (remember how we all laughed at North Korea for being dark at night)
4. Unemployment is at 45%
5. Palestinians are denied the vote.
6. 46% of Palestinian children suffer from Amenia
7. 50% kids in Palestine express no will to live
8. 2 million are denied freedom of movement
9. There are 145 “official” and 50 “unofficial” illegally built
settlements* in the occupied territories of the West Bank and including East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.
10. There are 200,000 settlers in the West Bank, 6,500 settlers n Gaza Strip, 173,000 in East Jerusalem
11. There are 4.5 million Palestinian refugees in the
World, of which 3.7 million are registered with the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Some 1.3 million refugees live in 59 refugee camps in
the West Bank, Gaza and neighbouring countries.
12. In 1947, 33% of the population of Palestine was Jewish, and that minority owned less than 10% of the land. The
UN General Assembly — under heavy pressure from the US government — suggested giving 54% of the land of Palestine to the Jewish people. The Arab residents of Palestine, making up 67% of the population, objected and questioned the right of the UN to make such decisions. By 1949, Jewish/Zionist forces had conquered 78% of the land given to Palestinians.
13.The US provides Israel with $3.0 billion in aid annually with $1.8 billion in military aid combined with the economic aid of $1.2 billion, aid to Israel (whose population is 0.1% of the world’s population constitutes 30% of the total US foreign aid budget (Washington Report On Middle East Affairs) – pretty much every bullet that lodged in a child’s skull yesterday was paid for by the US taxpayer.
14. To this day Israel has not declared its borders; fifty-five years after its establishment, Israel still has no formal written constitution. For thousands of years until 1948, the place now called Israel was called Palestine.
15. Both Palestinians and Jews have been living in the area for thousands of years. Just as today’s Jews claim descent from the ancient Khabiru or Hebrews, today’s Palestinians claim descent from the Kena’anu, or Canaanites, who founded the city of Jerusalem as well as the city of Jericho.
16. The idea of creating a Jewish state in Palestine came from a European Jewish nationalist movement called “Zionism” which ignored the fact that Palestine already had inhabitants. Both Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Arabs objected to the Zionist movement.
17. Israel attacked Egypt and defeated Jordan in 1967, taking the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan River. Its continued occupation of these territories is apartheid-like and illegal. The Occupied Territories have never been formally annexed into the nation of Israel, and so over three million Palestinians who remain there-are not citizens of any country. They are subjects of a military occupation and have been living under Israeli military laws since 1967. These laws closely resemble the apartheid laws which until recently oppressed the Black majority in South Africa.
18. Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have no right of free speech.
19. Their homes can be entered and searched without warrants.
20. They can be arrested without warrant or charge.
21. They can be held in jail for up to 6 months without charge or trial.
22. They are routinely tortured during interrogaton.
23. They have no freedom of movement between towns.
24. They can be expelled from the country for no reason
25. Palestinian farmland and homes are routinely confiscated and demolished to make room for Israeli settlements and special Israeli-only highways connecting them. The Israeli government subsidizes the building of these settlements and gives financial incentives to certain Israeli citizens to move to them
26. Israeli settlements are illegal according to the Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids an occupier to transfer its own people into the area.
27. Israel occupied and then annexed East Jerusalem in 1967. International law forbids acquiring territory by force.
28. Israel has never offered an independent state to Palestinians, nor ever offered to share sovereignty in Jerusalem.
29. The 1993 Oslo Accord created nothing more than semi-autonomous Palestinian zones which are almost identical to America’s Native American reservations or to the bantustans created to divide and disrupt the Black majority in old South Africa. These scattered areas of Palestinian authority are isolated from each other, and have limited authority over things like sewage and traffic tickets. Real authority remains with the state of Israel.
30. Israel retains the right to veto any laws passed by the Palestinian National Authority. Israeli soldiers are still allowed to search, arrest, and deport Palestinians at any time. Palestinians, though still subject to Israeli authority, are still not able to vote in Israeli elections. Land confiscation and settlement building have accelerated since the Oslo plan was signed. All civil and economic injustices have continued: the Israeli government continues to confiscate land for roads and towns, demolish homes, assassinate people, and block access to jobs, medicine, and schools. Thus it is hard for Palestinians to believe that the Israeli government is negotiating in good faith.
If you can take in half of these facts and still appease yourself that this was ‘just a group of malcontents’ – then I have little faith in the integrity of any statement that you may make on any issue past or present.
I have verified and updated the first 13 points, as you will see, a lot of the evidence is worse than I initially reported. I’m not going to continue the exercise because the backwards individual who asked me to do so has become abusive and defamatory towards me on this thread
1. The median age in Palestine is currently put at 18 yrs old. (source https://www.newscientist.com/…/dn25993-the-reasons-why-gaz…/)
2. 97% of water is undrinkable (https://www.haaretz.com/…/.premium-expert-warns-97-of-gaza-… https://www.reuters.com/…/gazas-water-shortage-worsening-no…)
3. Palestinians enjoy 4 hours of electricity per day (remember how we all laughed at North Korea for being dark at night) (https://www.haaretz.com/…/.premium-gaza-faces-16-hour-power…)
4. Unemployment is at 42% in Gaza and 45% among women. Across all of Palestine the average is put at 29% according to The World Bank(http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx… http://www.worldbank.org/…/palestine-s-economic-outlook–oc…)
5. Palestinians are denied the vote.”If we exclude Gaza, one in every 4.5 people living under Israeli rule doesn’t have the right to vote in the coming elections; that one person is (almost) always Palestinian. If Gaza is included, it’s one in three who is not represented.” (https://972mag.com/who-gets-to-vote-in-israels-democ…/58756/)
6. 46% of Palestinian children suffer from Amenia (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391478/ Children in Gaza 59% – Before the blockade, malnutrition was not prevalent. However, between 2000 and 2010, malnutrition rose by 41.3 percent in Palestine and by 60 percent in Gaza alone. In 2004, stunting and malnutrition affected 9.4 percent of children under five in Palestine and 11 percent in Gaza. This number has not decreased significantly. In June 2014, 10 percent of children in Gaza below the age of five were still inflicted by stunting and chronic malnutrition. (http://www.borgenmagazine.com/malnutrition-palestine/ pointing the direct correlation of the Blockade to the effects on malnutrition on the children in Gaza)
7. 50% kids in Palestine express no will to live
8. 2 million are denied freedom of movement (https://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=9206)
9. “The number of settlement sites and military bases in Israel in the beginning of 2016 in the West Bank is 413 sites, including 150 settlements and 119 random settlement outposts and 144 sites and military base. And Israel has built the apartheid wall, which isolated more than 12 percent of the West Bank with the goal of severing the West Bank and preventing the establishment of a Palestinian unit between its areas. Israel has isolated these areas from each other through the apartheid wall (Wafa, 2016). Full report here:
Palestinian State through the Official… (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/…/323400556_Palestinian_State_… [accessed May 17 2018].
10. There are 200,000 settlers in the West Bank, 6,500 settlers n Gaza Strip, 173,000 in East Jerusalem (https://www.haaretz.com/…/.premium.MAGAZINE-revealed-how-ma…) the numbers actually appear much greater than my original information
11. There are 4.5 million Palestinian refugees in the World, of which 3.7 million are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Nearly one-third of the registered Palestine refugees, more than 1.5 million individuals, live in 58 recognized Palestine refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. (https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees)
12. In 1947, 33% of the population of Palestine was Jewish, and that minority owned less than 10% of the land. The
UN General Assembly — under heavy pressure from the US government — suggested giving 54% of the land of Palestine to the Jewish people. The Arab residents of Palestine, making up 67% of the population, objected and questioned the right of the UN to make such decisions. By 1949, Jewish/Zionist forces had conquered 78% of the land. (palestineinformation.org)
13.The US provides Israel with $3.0 billion in aid annually
with $1.8 billion in military aid combined with the economic
aid of $1.2 billion, aid to Israel (whose population is 0.1% of the world’s population constitutes 30% of the total US foreign aid budget (Washington Report On Middle East Affairs) – pretty much every bullet that lodged in a child’s skull yesterday was paid for by the US taxpayer. (this total is from early 2000s). According to Congressional Research Service documentation
P.L. 115-141, the FY2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act, provides the following for Israel:
$3.1 billion in Foreign Military Financing, of which $815.3 million is for offshore
procurement;
$705.8 million for joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense projects, including $92
million for Iron Dome, $221.5 million for David’s Sling, $310 million for Arrow
3, and $82.3 million for Arrow 2;
$47.5 million for the U.S.-Israeli anti-tunnel cooperation program;
$7.5 million in Migration and Refugee Assistance;
$4 million for the establishment of a U.S.-Israel Center of Excellence in energy
and water technologies;
$2 million for the Israel-U.S. Binational Research & Development Foundation
(BIRD) Energy program; and
The reauthorization of War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I) program
through fiscal year 2019.
Thank you very much for taking the time to post this much-needed info.
There are Israeli Arabs, Arabs living in the PA, and Arabs in Gaza. All are equally palestinians but they live under different conditions. But, you couldn’t care less because you run with people who despise facts. The conditions in Gaza are admittedly bad, but seeing that Hamas takes most the aid it gets to build tunnels to Israel they lack the infrastructure to properly provide for the people. Easier to send them as canon fodder then to feed and care for them.
Hamas played by our rules in 2006 when they won administrative control of Gaza, but Bush II refused to recognize the results, just like with Algeria in the 90’s. So can anyone blame them for being suspect of the electoral process???
Just like Hitler in the 1930’s Hamas used elections to close down democracy. The clear sign was that they started throwing Fatah people off tall buildings in order to consolidate power. I’m just curious what your comment has to do with mine? After all both Fatah (PA) and Hamas are actively suppressing Palestinian and depriving them of their human rights. Objectively Israel is no paradise, but in comparison to the autocratic regimes that fill the Arab world we are softies. Not that we don’t benefit: our hospitals are fill with Arab-Israeli doctors and health professionals
Please do not make assumptions on what I care about. I don’t care about Hamas, okay, I care about the horrific conditions being enforced on these poor people. I do not make judgements about you, and I ask that you show me the same courtesy and respect. The answer to this problem is diplomatic and political. There will be no need for militias and rebellion if the two state solution is reached. The 1967 lines are an acceptable and legal solution. It is time for the needless bloodshed to cease
There were originally just under 1 million Palestinian refugees who fled the fighting in `48 and during the 6 day war (some were ejected for crimes).
So how come there are more Palestinian refugees today than there were originally? Simple, being a Palestinians, according to the incredibly biased UNRWA being a Palestinian refugee is an inheritable status, so descendants of the original refugees are also consider refugees, even if they have settled and obtained citizenship in other countries. That is ridiculous.
1,000 years from now, when this has all been settled, UNRWA will still claim there are Palestinians refugees.
Biased because you disagree with them. I get it.
Remember Yarmouk! Nothing about the Palestinians who were massacred by Assad’s thugs, 4000 of them. This phoney Pally mob omit anything about that, they are guilty of selective outrage.
James Cormackkk, provide link or shut up!!! The article below mentions over 5000 refugees, BOTH Palestinians AND local Syrians, NOThing about a “masscre.”
““Yarmouk was a refugee camp that had already been transformed into a death camp, and even in that state it has just experienced a week of really intense fighting,” said Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), the agency for Palestinian refugees.
“Things have become unimaginably brutal for the civilians there,” he said
Thousands of homes have been destroyed in the fighting over the last week and there is no running water in the area, Unrwa said. The area’s last functioning hospital has also been taken out of commission by bombing, according to the agency. ” — Raf Sanchez, UK Telegraph, April 2018.
Ah, but simpson says UNRWA is biased so this must be fake news.
You realize this was done by Assad, not Israel. What is your definition of a massacre? When Jews kill Arabs in battles started by the Arabs, ten people constitute a massacre. When it’s Arabs killing thousands of other Arabs – crickets!
We’re not discussing the Syrian conflict. We are discussing Israel and Palestine. Nobody here, as I see it, supports anybody killing anybody.
The Palestinians have been massacred by the brutal regime in Syria but you’re right on one point, lots of other innocent civilians have been massacred by him too.
In denial about Assad’s brutalities, are we?
Are you still going on with this bs?
Those living in the West Bank are stateless derpy.
Now those 1 million who fled should be allowed home according to the geneva convention and international law.
They weren’t.
Your post is just complete bs which actually tries to minimise what is happening to the palestinians.
As for being a refugee….
A Palestine refugee camp is defined as a plot of land placed at the disposal of UNRWA by the host government to accommodate Palestine refugees and set up facilities to cater to their needs. Areas not designated as such and are not recognized as camps. However, UNRWA also maintains schools, health centres and distribution centres in areas outside the recognized camps where Palestine refugees are concentrated, such as Yarmouk, near Damascus.
The plots of land on which the recognized camps were set up are either state land or, in most cases, land leased by the host government from local landowners. This means that the refugees in camps do not ‘own’ the land on which their shelters were built, but have the right to ‘use’ the land for a residence.
Socioeconomic conditions in the camps are generally poor, with high population density, cramped living conditions and inadequate basic infrastructure such as roads and sewers.
https://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees
And
Citizenship or legal residency in host countries is denied in Lebanon where the absorption of Palestinians would upset a delicate confessional balance, but available in Jordan where approximately 40% of UNWRA-registered Palestinian refugees have acquired full citizenship rights.[19][20]
On 11 December 1948, the UN General Assembly in non-binding Resolution 194, Article 11 resolved that the refugees who wish to “live at peace with their neighbors … should be permitted” to return to their homes at the “earliest practicable date”[21][22] This forms one basis for the Palestinian political claim for a ‘Palestinian right of return’.
An independent poll conducted in 2003 with the Palestinian populations of Gaza, West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon showed that the majority (54%) would accept a financial compensation and a place to live in West Bank or Gaza in place of returning to the exact place in modern-day Israel where they or their ancestors lived (this possibility of settlement is contemplated in the Resolution 194). Only 10% said they would live in Israel if given the option.[23]
Re the last paragraph – any more recent poll data on that issue?
If a majority would accept a Right of Return to a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, as opposed to demanding a Right of Return to areas within the current borders of Israel itself, why has this issue been a stumbling block? Is it fear of the other 46%? I don’t think Israel had any problem with Palestinians from elsewhere coming to a separate Palestinian state.
First of all, Abbas has said that he wouldn’t allow any refugees to enter a potential Palestinian state. Second, the issue is not for them to come back, but for them to destroy Israel as the Jewish state.
Right, and all the fault of Hamas who spends the money they get on missiles and other weapons to attack Israel with.
Missles??? LMAOFF
What world do you live in? Not the real one that is for sure.
Rockets aren’t missiles. Learn the difference.
Right, missiles are powered by rockets.
Take a rocket engine and add a warhead and you have a missile.
Rocket attacks, not missles. Big difference. I’d rather have a missle than a rocket.
I do not really know how to respond to this piece of idiocy.
A missile is a projectile powered by a rocket.
A rocket is a method of propelling things and is sometimes used to refer to the thing being propelled.
So a rocket and a missile are basically the same thing.
Greater trajectory, idiot.
You are funny and truly ignorant. Missiles have trajectories from a few meters to several thousand miles. Rockets are engines that power missiles and many of the uneducated masses use the term rocket and missile interchangeably.
Which was financed by Israel….
How foolish does someone have to be to believe that anyone would provide financial support to people that want them dead.
Of course, Americans did the same silly thing claiming Sadam Hussein supported Al Qada. I guess we are foolish that way, believing people support their enemies.
Israel did not finance Hamas. She did support them when they were acting like a community social work agency, and, foolishly supported them over Fatah, although both choices sucked.
It is a fact Mossad suported Hamas to subvert al Fatah.
Which I said.
Not in the real world.
Sorry, it’s historical fact whether you like it or not.
It is simply not possible that Mossad supported Hamas in any way.
Mossad has been trying to destroy Hamas since the day they formed, THAT is fact.
So, again, not in the real world.
Hooray for Israel…
Lol….hamas was created by israel…you dont even know how funny your post is.
Right, Israel financed an organization whose goal is the destruction of Israel. You now have zero credibility. So I won’t bother to respond to you are anymore. I do not converse with people have no knowledge.
Quite right, Alicia. His ignorance is only matched by his absurdity. he’ll be saying the Nazis were a creation of the Jews next. These people are desperate.
Chew on this then you triggered moron!
AFTER THE war Winston Churchill wished to quote from a letter written to him by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, then residing at Oxford, England, on August 28, 1937, about the big industrialists who had supported the Nazis before and after their accession to power.
Brüning was reluctant to provide any ammunition that might be used against his fellow Germans in “the so-called war crimes trials.” He felt [he wrote] that Friedrich Flick and the IG Farben company were blameless, having been forced to make their contributions after the Nazis came to power; and added,
“I did not and do not even today, for understandable reasons, wish to reveal that from October 1928 the two largest regular contributors to the Nazi Party were the general managers of two of the largest Berlin banks, both of Jewish faith, and one of them the leader of Zionism in Germany.”
Brüning [wrote that he] also knew that French sources, including the Schneider-Creusot works and both French intelligence services, had paid one half of Hitler’s revenue from 1921 until 1932; that the SA and SS had before 1933 been equipped largely with revolvers and machine guns made in the United States.
(Source: Letter from Heinrich Brüning to Daniel Longwell, February 7,1948; Longwell collection, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York City)
I suspect there is a lot more to this than just what is given above. In 1928, the Nazi party was virtually nothing in German politics. This post is an excellent example of how haters lie.
“Propaganda cost money and this was something that the Nazi Party was very short of. Whereas the German Social Democrat Party was funded by the trade unions and the pro-capitalist parties by industrialists, the NSDAP had to rely on contributions from party members. When Hitler approached rich industrialists for help he was told that his economic policies (profit-sharing, nationalization of trusts) were too left-wing.
In an attempt to obtain financial contributions from industrialists, Hitler wrote a pamphlet in 1927 entitled The Road to Resurgence. Only a small number of these pamphlets were printed and they were only meant for the eyes of the top industrialists in Germany. The reason that the pamphlet was kept secret was that it contained information that would have upset Hitler’s working-class supporters. In the pamphlet Hitler implied that the anti-capitalist measures included in the original twenty-five points of the NSDAP programme would not be implemented if he gained power.
Hitler began to argue that “capitalists had worked their way to the top through their capacity, and on the basis of this selection they have the right to lead.” Hitler claimed that national socialism meant all people doing their best for society and posed no threat to the wealth of the rich. Some prosperous industrialists were convinced by these arguments and gave donations to the Nazi Party, however, the vast majority continued to support other parties, especially the right-wing German Nationalist Peoples Party (DNVP).”
“In the General Election held in May, 1928, the Nazi Party won only 14 seats, while the left-wing parties, the German Social Democrat Party (153) and the German Communist Party (54) still continued to grow in popularity.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-the-nazi-party-nsdap
Clearly, the Jewish bankers and industrialists in 1928 didn’t think they had anything to fear from the Nazis.
The Zionits funded and aided the Nazis!!
Read the comment above – and then explain why you didn’t show the whole truth!
Just did you moron. I have plenty of documents to back up my assertions, what have you got apart from wind?
You didn’t show the whole story, and you didn’t back up anything.
What an idiot, You can’t even spell Zionists
is that all you can come back with as a response? You pathetic inbred maggot. Ever heard of predictive texts? Zionits is about right for w*nktards like you.
Typical page out of Hasbara manual… ” if you have just had your backside handed to you on a plate, whine about something else and defect from having been proven to be a total idiot””
Run along little boy and read your dicktionary!!
Your immaturity and your dreadful spelling give a good impression of what kind of person you are: an uneducated moron.
The Palestinians will never get independence because it will just become another failed, Islamic state run by Islamofascists (Hamas) who will continue with their blatantly racist, homophobic, misogynist policies. Sharia Law? No thanks. I’d rather have the type of society which Israel epitomises – open, democratic with rights for all minorities.
FALSE
Try again ignoramus!
AFTER THE war Winston Churchill wished to quote from a letter written to him by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning, then residing at Oxford, England, on August 28, 1937, about the big industrialists who had supported the Nazis before and after their accession to power.
Brüning was reluctant to provide any ammunition that might be used against his fellow Germans in “the so-called war crimes trials.” He felt [he wrote] that Friedrich Flick and the IG Farben company were blameless, having been forced to make their contributions after the Nazis came to power; and added,
“I did not and do not even today, for understandable reasons, wish to reveal that from October 1928 the two largest regular contributors to the Nazi Party were the general managers of two of the largest Berlin banks, both of Jewish faith, and one of them the leader of Zionism in Germany.”
Brüning [wrote that he] also knew that French sources, including the Schneider-Creusot works and both French intelligence services, had paid one half of Hitler’s revenue from 1921 until 1932; that the SA and SS had before 1933 been equipped largely with revolvers and machine guns made in the United States.
(Source: Letter from Heinrich Brüning to Daniel Longwell, February 7,1948; Longwell collection, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York City)
Please explain what the Nazi party was like in 1928. Here, I’ll help you – they got 2.6% of the vote in the German election! And Hitler had written a pamphlet lying about his theories and plans. All kinds of Germans gave them money based on that.
Laugh some more….
I don’t believe anything that you have to say, considering your hatred of our Lord Christ Jesus.
Hamas was created by the Muslim Brotherhood, not Israel. At its beginning, it acted as a sort of community charitable organization in Gaza, and was briefly supported by Israel as a better possible peace partner than Fatah.
http://www.cfr.org/israel/hamas/p8968
Hamas was supported by Israel to destabilise the plo.
How Israel helped create Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/?utm_term=.e9407c8cf765
WaPos use of the word create is inaccurate. The Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas – Israel foolishly fostered it.
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
By ANDREW HIGGINS
Wall Street Journal, 24 January 2009
Moshav Tekuma, Israel
Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an “enormous, stupid mistake” made 30 years ago.
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel’s destruction.
Instead of trying to curb Gaza’s Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with “Yassins,” primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.
Last Saturday, after 22 days of war, Israel announced a halt to the offensive. The assault was aimed at stopping Hamas rockets from falling on Israel. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hailed a “determined and successful military operation.” More than 1,200 Palestinians had died. Thirteen Israelis were also killed.
Hamas responded the next day by lobbing five rockets towards the Israeli town of Sderot, a few miles down the road from Moshav Tekuma, the farming village where Mr. Cohen lives. Hamas then announced its own cease-fire.
Since then, Hamas leaders have emerged from hiding and reasserted their control over Gaza. Egyptian-mediated talks aimed at a more durable truce are expected to start this weekend. President Barack Obama said this week that lasting calm “requires more than a long cease-fire” and depends on Israel and a future Palestinian state “living side by side in peace and security.”
A look at Israel’s decades-long dealings with Palestinian radicals — including some little-known attempts to cooperate with the Islamists — reveals a catalog of unintended and often perilous consequences. Time and again, Israel’s efforts to find a pliant Palestinian partner that is both credible with Palestinians and willing to eschew violence, have backfired. Would-be partners have turned into foes or lost the support of their people.
Israel’s experience echoes that of the U.S., which, during the Cold War, looked to Islamists as a useful ally against communism. Anti-Soviet forces backed by America after Moscow’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan later mutated into al Qaeda.
Hamas supporters in Gaza City after the cease-fire.
At stake is the future of what used to be the British Mandate of Palestine, the biblical lands now comprising Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Since 1948, when the state of Israel was established, Israelis and Palestinians have each asserted claims over the same territory.
The Palestinian cause was for decades led by the PLO, which Israel regarded as a terrorist outfit and sought to crush until the 1990s, when the PLO dropped its vow to destroy the Jewish state. The PLO’s Palestinian rival, Hamas, led by Islamist militants, refused to recognize Israel and vowed to continue “resistance.” Hamas now controls Gaza, a crowded, impoverished sliver of land on the Mediterranean from which Israel pulled out troops and settlers in 2005.
When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and ’80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity. It allowed Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools. Crucially, Israel often stood aside when the Islamists and their secular left-wing Palestinian rivals battled, sometimes violently, for influence in both Gaza and the West Bank.
“When I look back at the chain of events I think we made a mistake,” says David Hacham, who worked in Gaza in the late 1980s and early ’90s as an Arab-affairs expert in the Israeli military. “But at the time nobody thought about the possible results.”
Israeli officials who served in Gaza disagree on how much their own actions may have contributed to the rise of Hamas. They blame the group’s recent ascent on outsiders, primarily Iran. This view is shared by the Israeli government. “Hamas in Gaza was built by Iran as a foundation for power, and is backed through funding, through training and through the provision of advanced weapons,” Mr. Olmert said last Saturday. Hamas has denied receiving military assistance from Iran.
Arieh Spitzen, the former head of the Israeli military’s Department of Palestinian Affairs, says that even if Israel had tried to stop the Islamists sooner, he doubts it could have done much to curb political Islam, a movement that was spreading across the Muslim world. He says attempts to stop it are akin to trying to change the internal rhythms of nature: “It is like saying: ‘I will kill all the mosquitoes.’ But then you get even worse insects that will kill you…You break the balance. You kill Hamas you might get al Qaeda.”
When it became clear in the early 1990s that Gaza’s Islamists had mutated from a religious group into a fighting force aimed at Israel — particularly after they turned to suicide bombings in 1994 — Israel cracked down with ferocious force. But each military assault only increased Hamas’s appeal to ordinary Palestinians. The group ultimately trounced secular rivals, notably Fatah, in a 2006 election supported by Israel’s main ally, the U.S.
Now, one big fear in Israel and elsewhere is that while Hamas has been hammered hard, the war might have boosted the group’s popular appeal. Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in Gaza, came out of hiding last Sunday to declare that “God has granted us a great victory.”
Most damaged from the war, say many Palestinians, is Fatah, now Israel’s principal negotiating partner. “Everyone is praising the resistance and thinks that Fatah is not part of it,” says Baker Abu-Baker, a longtime Fatah supporter and author of a book on Hamas.
A Lack of Devotion
Hamas traces its roots back to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group set up in Egypt in 1928. The Brotherhood believed that the woes of the Arab world spring from a lack of Islamic devotion. Its slogan: “Islam is the solution. The Quran is our constitution.” Its philosophy today underpins modern, and often militantly intolerant, political Islam from Algeria to Indonesia.
After the 1948 establishment of Israel, the Brotherhood recruited a few followers in Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and elsewhere, but secular activists came to dominate the Palestinian nationalist movement.
At the time, Gaza was ruled by Egypt. The country’s then-president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a secular nationalist who brutally repressed the Brotherhood. In 1967, Nasser suffered a crushing defeat when Israel triumphed in the six-day war. Israel took control of Gaza and also the West Bank.
“We were all stunned,” says Palestinian writer and Hamas supporter Azzam Tamimi. He was at school at the time in Kuwait and says he became close to a classmate named Khaled Mashaal, now Hamas’s Damascus-based political chief. “The Arab defeat provided the Brotherhood with a big opportunity,” says Mr. Tamimi.
In Gaza, Israel hunted down members of Fatah and other secular PLO factions, but it dropped harsh restrictions imposed on Islamic activists by the territory’s previous Egyptian rulers. Fatah, set up in 1964, was the backbone of the PLO, which was responsible for hijackings, bombings and other violence against Israel. Arab states in 1974 declared the PLO the “sole legitimate representative” of the Palestinian people world-wide.
A poster of the late Sheikh Yassin hangs near a building destroyed by the Israeli assault on Gaza.
The Muslim Brotherhood, led in Gaza by Sheikh Yassin, was free to spread its message openly. In addition to launching various charity projects, Sheikh Yassin collected money to reprint the writings of Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian member of the Brotherhood who, before his execution by President Nasser, advocated global jihad. He is now seen as one of the founding ideologues of militant political Islam.
Mr. Cohen, who worked at the time for the Israeli government’s religious affairs department in Gaza, says he began to hear disturbing reports in the mid-1970s about Sheikh Yassin from traditional Islamic clerics. He says they warned that the sheikh had no formal Islamic training and was ultimately more interested in politics than faith. “They said, ‘Keep away from Yassin. He is a big danger,'” recalls Mr. Cohen.
Instead, Israel’s military-led administration in Gaza looked favorably on the paraplegic cleric, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Sheikh Yassin formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, which was officially recognized by Israel as a charity and then, in 1979, as an association. Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza, which it now regards as a hotbed of militancy. The university was one of the first targets hit by Israeli warplanes in the recent war.
Brig. General Yosef Kastel, Gaza’s Israeli governor at the time, is too ill to comment, says his wife. But Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who took over as governor in Gaza in late 1979, says he had no illusions about Sheikh Yassin’s long-term intentions or the perils of political Islam. As Israel’s former military attache in Iran, he’d watched Islamic fervor topple the Shah. However, in Gaza, says Mr. Segev, “our main enemy was Fatah,” and the cleric “was still 100% peaceful” towards Israel. Former officials say Israel was also at the time wary of being viewed as an enemy of Islam.
Mr. Segev says he had regular contact with Sheikh Yassin, in part to keep an eye on him. He visited his mosque and met the cleric around a dozen times. It was illegal at the time for Israelis to meet anyone from the PLO. Mr. Segev later arranged for the cleric to be taken to Israel for hospital treatment. “We had no problems with him,” he says.
In fact, the cleric and Israel had a shared enemy: secular Palestinian activists. After a failed attempt in Gaza to oust secularists from leadership of the Palestinian Red Crescent, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, Mujama staged a violent demonstration, storming the Red Crescent building. Islamists also attacked shops selling liquor and cinemas. The Israeli military mostly stood on the sidelines.
Mr. Segev says the army didn’t want to get involved in Palestinian quarrels but did send soldiers to prevent Islamists from burning down the house of the Red Crescent’s secular chief, a socialist who supported the PLO.
‘An Alternative to the PLO’
Clashes between Islamists and secular nationalists spread to the West Bank and escalated during the early 1980s, convulsing college campuses, particularly Birzeit University, a center of political activism.
As the fighting between rival student factions at Birzeit grew more violent, Brig. Gen. Shalom Harari, then a military intelligence officer in Gaza, says he received a call from Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint on the road out of Gaza. They had stopped a bus carrying Islamic activists who wanted to join the battle against Fatah at Birzeit. “I said: ‘If they want to burn each other let them go,'” recalls Mr. Harari.
A leader of Birzeit’s Islamist faction at the time was Mahmoud Musleh, now a pro-Hamas member of a Palestinian legislature elected in 2006. He recalls how usually aggressive Israeli security forces stood back and let conflagration develop. He denies any collusion between his own camp and the Israelis, but says “they hoped we would become an alternative to the PLO.”
A year later, in 1984, the Israeli military received a tip-off from Fatah supporters that Sheikh Yassin’s Gaza Islamists were collecting arms, according to Israeli officials in Gaza at the time. Israeli troops raided a mosque and found a cache of weapons. Sheikh Yassin was jailed. He told Israeli interrogators the weapons were for use against rival Palestinians, not Israel, according to Mr. Hacham, the military affairs expert who says he spoke frequently with jailed Islamists. The cleric was released after a year and continued to expand Mujama’s reach across Gaza.
Around the time of Sheikh Yassin’s arrest, Mr. Cohen, the religious affairs official, sent a report to senior Israeli military and civilian officials in Gaza. Describing the cleric as a “diabolical” figure, he warned that Israel’s policy towards the Islamists was allowing Mujama to develop into a dangerous force.
“I believe that by continuing to turn away our eyes, our lenient approach to Mujama will in the future harm us. I therefore suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” Mr. Cohen wrote.
Mr. Harari, the military intelligence officer, says this and other warnings were ignored. But, he says, the reason for this was neglect, not a desire to fortify the Islamists: “Israel never financed Hamas. Israel never armed Hamas.”
Roni Shaked, a former officer of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, and author of a book on Hamas, says Sheikh Yassin and his followers had a long-term perspective whose dangers were not understood at the time. “They worked slowly, slowly, step by step according to the Muslim Brotherhood plan.”
Declaring Jihad
In 1987, several Palestinians were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver, triggering a wave of protests that became known as the first Intifada, Mr. Yassin and six other Mujama Islamists launched Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement. Hamas’s charter, released a year later, is studded with anti-Semitism and declares “jihad its path and death for the cause of Allah its most sublime belief.”
Israeli officials, still focused on Fatah and initially unaware of the Hamas charter, continued to maintain contacts with the Gaza Islamists. Mr. Hacham, the military Arab affairs expert, remembers taking one of Hamas’s founders, Mahmoud Zahar, to meet Israel’s then defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, as part of regular consultations between Israeli officials and Palestinians not linked to the PLO. Mr. Zahar, the only Hamas founder known to be alive today, is now the group’s senior political leader in Gaza.
In 1989, Hamas carried out its first attack on Israel, abducting and killing two soldiers. Israel arrested Sheikh Yassin and sentenced him to life. It later rounded up more than 400 suspected Hamas activists, including Mr. Zahar, and deported them to southern Lebanon. There, they hooked up with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed A-Team of anti-Israeli militancy.
Many of the deportees later returned to Gaza. Hamas built up its arsenal and escalated its attacks, while all along maintaining the social network that underpinned its support in Gaza.
Meanwhile, its enemy, the PLO, dropped its commitment to Israel’s destruction and started negotiating a two-state settlement. Hamas accused it of treachery. This accusation found increasing resonance as Israel kept developing settlements on occupied Palestinian land, particularly the West Bank. Though the West Bank had passed to the nominal control of a new Palestinian Authority, it was still dotted with Israeli military checkpoints and a growing number of Israeli settlers.
Unable to uproot a now entrenched Islamist network that had suddenly replaced the PLO as its main foe, Israel tried to decapitate it. It started targeting Hamas leaders. This, too, made no dent in Hamas’s support, and sometimes even helped the group. In 1997, for example, Israel’s Mossad spy agency tried to poison Hamas’s exiled political leader Mr. Mashaal, who was then living in Jordan.
The agents got caught and, to get them out of a Jordanian jail, Israel agreed to release Sheikh Yassin. The cleric set off on a tour of the Islamic world to raise support and money. He returned to Gaza to a hero’s welcome.
Efraim Halevy, a veteran Mossad officer who negotiated the deal that released Sheikh Yassin, says the cleric’s freedom was hard to swallow, but Israel had no choice. After the fiasco in Jordan, Mr. Halevy was named director of Mossad, a position he held until 2002. Two years later, Sheikh Yassin was killed by an Israeli air strike.
Mr. Halevy has in recent years urged Israel to negotiate with Hamas. He says that “Hamas can be crushed,” but he believes that “the price of crushing Hamas is a price that Israel would prefer not to pay.” When Israel’s authoritarian secular neighbor, Syria, launched a campaign to wipe out Muslim Brotherhood militants in the early 1980s it killed more than 20,000 people, many of them civilians.
In its recent war in Gaza, Israel didn’t set the destruction of Hamas as its goal. It limited its stated objectives to halting the Islamists’ rocket fire and battering their overall military capacity. At the start of the Israeli operation in December, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told parliament that the goal was “to deal Hamas a severe blow, a blow that will cause it to stop its hostile actions from Gaza at Israeli citizens and soldiers.”
Walking back to his house from the rubble of his neighbor’s home, Mr. Cohen, the former religious affairs official in Gaza, curses Hamas and also what he sees as missteps that allowed Islamists to put down deep roots in Gaza.
He recalls a 1970s meeting with a traditional Islamic cleric who wanted Israel to stop cooperating with the Muslim Brotherhood followers of Sheikh Yassin: “He told me: ‘You are going to have big regrets in 20 or 30 years.’ He was right.”
We’re not really disagreeing. Israel did not create Hamas, but enabled it to be much worse than it might have been. Using create in the sense of from its inception.
Fact, Hamas was created by Israel
http://www.cfr.org/israel/hamas/p8968
That’s what I said.
First, there is no such place as Palestine. There is Gaza, and the occupied territories. Hamas runs Gaza. The Palestinian Authority governs 98% of the Arabs in the territories. The remaining 2% are under military rule in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, which Israel follows voluntarily. The GC do not legally apply in this situation because there is no other sovereign nation besides Israel involved.
2. Because Hamas won’t pay for sewers or water purification. Hamas runs Gaza, not Israel.
4. Because Hamas doesn’t pay its bills to the PA, and has done nothing to create new infrastructure.
5. Gazans voted for Hamas. The Arabs in the territories voted for the PA. If they don’t have the right to vote, it’s nothing to do with Israel.
6&7 Please provide credible sources for these figures,
8. Arabs cross into Israel and Jordan every day. Egypt, however, does not permit them to enter.
9. None of the Israeli towns in the territory are illegal. The land belongs to Israel. There are some illegal, meaning Israel did not approve them, Israeli outposts in Area C – which is governed by Israel. There are none in Areas A and B, which are governed by the PA. There are no Israelis in Gaza. In addition, there are illegal Arab settlements in Area C.
10. There are no settlers anywhere – all the land from the Jordan to the Sea belongs to Israel in accordance with international law, ie, the Treaty of Lausanne. There has also been no new settlement since the late 1990’s.
11. The only true Arab refugees number around 40,000, and most of them are in their 80’s. The Arab world has been particularly cruel to them and their descendants by keeping them in camps, refusing them citizenship, refusing them jobs, etc. They are the only people in the world whose descendants have been considered refugees. There were over 800,000 Jews who were expelled from Arab countries with the clothes on their backs after the ’48 war. They were all taken in by Israel, settled, and their descendants make up approximately half the population of Israel today.
12. None of this land was ever under Arab sovereignty, nor was any of it ever given to the Arabs. When the Ottoman Empire was broken up after WWI, the Arabs got Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan – which was created on 78% of the land that had originally be given to the Jews. Every inch of land that the Jews lived on was purchased by them. Most of the Arabs, under the Ottomans, were either renters or squatters. Under the Mandate, Arabs flooded into the Mandate for economic reasons – the Jews were creating an economy and providing employment opportunities.
The UN had no authority to give any of this land to anyone. It was a violation of its charter to even attempt to do so.
13. The US reaps a huge benefit from the military aid given to Israel. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/israel/what-aid-to-israel-buys-america/
https://www.israelandstuff.com/how-u-s-military-aid-to-israel-actually-works#.WcUVOEP9eC4.facebook
14. The land was named Palestine by a very disgruntled Roman Emperor, Hadrian, in 135CE, who was angry that the Jews had nearly defeated him. It is the Latinized version of Philistia, the land of the Philistines, Israel’s ancient enemy. It was meant as an insult. Prior to that, the land was known as Judea and Samaria. It was never a nation, there was never a Palestinian people, and everyone in the world, including the Arabs, knew that it referred to the Jews. Under the Ottomans and the Mandate, everyone who lived there was called Palestinian as in Palestinian Jew, Palestinian, Arab, Palestinian Circassian, etc. The Arabs hated it, and wanted to be called Southern Syrians. If they knew their descendants were calling themselves by that term, they would be rolling over in their graves!
Israel has not been able to declare her eastern border because the Arabs refuse to live up to the terms of UNRES 242 – which wasn’t actually written about them, but about Jordan. Until the Arabs make peace, the border will remain in contention by a legal fiction. The legal border is the Jordan.
15. The people who call themselves Palestinians are Arabs. This has been proven genetically, as has their indigenous status in the Arabian Peninsula. The only people on the planet with some genetic connection to the Canaanites are some people living in Lebanon. The Arabs have absolutely none.
The Arabs invaded this land in the 7th century, and only a handful can claim a history that goes back that far. Most of them arrived in the late 19th century and early 20th century. There were so few of them living in the region that the Ottomans had to transfer populations there, including Muslims from Bosnia! Even when Jordan was created, the British were concerned that there were so few Arabs living there that they might not be able to sustain a nation.
16. Zionism began with the Babylonian captivity. Since then, the Jews have dreamed of returning to their homeland as is reflected in the Seder, which ends with the phrase, “Next year in Jerusalem”. Modern Zionism was revived in the late 1800’s. No, not every Jew was in favor because they didn’t want to rock the boat. The Holocaust put an end to that thinking.
17. Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran – an act of war. It also expelled the UN peacekeepers and massed its troops on Israel’s border. Israel begged Jordan not to enter the war, but Jordan attacked anyway. Israel defeated them both. She did not acquire land in an offensive war – she took back what was legally hers.
Both Egypt and Jordan gave up their rights – such as they were – to the land that Israel recaptured. Jordan, which had ethnically cleansed or murdered the Jews living in Judea and Samaria, had also brought in its own citizens to take over Jewish property and assets. After ’67, it took back its citizenship from the Arabs, leaving them stateless.
There is no occupation as defined by the Geneva Conventions. There is also no apartheid, since apartheid takes place when a government discriminates against its own citizens. The Arabs are not Israeli citizens. The Israeli Arabs, on the other hand, have full citizenship, and even serve in the Israeli Knesset.
After the ’67 war, the Arabs in Gaza and the territories had freedom of movement and trade. Israel helped them to build schools, hospitals, universities, and other infrastructure. in 1967, there were 708 Arab villages in the territories, four of which had running water. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home. Unfortunately, the Muslim hatred for the Jews overcame their sense of self-preservation and that of their descendants, and the intifadas were launched. That put an end to peaceful relations between the two peoples. Everything that has occurred since – the checkpoint, the fence, the military presence – is a result of the continuing Muslim goal – as stated in the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter – to destroy Israel and commit genocide against all Jews.
Today, only 2% of the Arabs are under military rule, which is done in accordance with the GC.
18. Of course they have free speech – unless the PA prevents them from expressing themselves. Which it does!
19. They are not citizens of Israel, and therefore are not subject to Israeli laws. Under Oslo, Israel has the right to search their homes for terrorists and military equipment. The Arabs agreed to this.
20. Military law
21. Not unlike many other countries. It’s called administrative detention.
22. There is no evidence of torture. However, Amnesty International has admitted that the Arabs lie about such things when giving supposed “eyewitness” accounts. Lying is an accepted practice in Islam.
23. They have freedom of movement in Areas A and B – there are no Jews living there. Only in Area C are they restricted.
24. No, they can’t. At least, not by Israel. If they could, all the terrorists getting university educations while in Israeli prisons would have been expelled.
25. It is illegal to take privately owned Arab land. The military, however, can confiscate land but must compensate the owner. Most of the Arabs do not have valid deeds to the land they live on. And many of them build illegally on land owned by the military.
26. The Israeli towns in the territories are not illegal because the GC doesn’t cover this situation. The land belongs to Israel – for now, they allow the Arabs to live there.
27. Jerusalem already belonged to Israel. Also, that oft-quoted law was specifically written to prevent land acquisition by the attacking country, not the defending one.
28. Israel has made several offers of land – to which the Arabs have no legal claim – for a state. The Arabs have refused every offer. They don’t want a state – they want the destruction of Israel and to commit genocide against all Jews. See #17.
Why would Israel offer sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem? It has never belonged to them, and they already have a capital in Ramallah. The only reason they want Jerusalem is because they don’t want the the Jews to have it!
29. The Arabs agreed to Oslo – even though they’ve done nothing but violate it. Oslo was also intended to be an interim agreement, but the Arabs have refused to negotiate. The PA has authority over sewage, traffic tickets, etc. It refuses to treat its sewage and pollutes the Jordan and everyone else’s water supply. Israel doesn’t interfere with daily governance – only in matters of security.
30. A. Yes, Israel has the right to veto.
B. They can’t deport the Arabs – where would they deport them to?
C. There has not been a new settlement built since the late 1990’s. Nor has land confiscation occurred except when militarily necessary, and then the owner is fully compensated.
D. There have been no assassinations in the territories. Homes are demolished if they are illegally built, or if they are owned by terrorists. Given that the PA is in control of 98% of the people, Israel couldn’t block access to jobs, schools, medicine, or anything else. In fact, a significant number of Arabs have jobs in both the new towns and over the Green Line. And Israeli hospitals treat them at no charge if needed. Even the leaders of Hamas go to Israeli hospitals!
E . They can’t vote in Israeli elections because they are not Israeli citizens! They can and do vote in PA elections.
F. The Arabs refuse to come to the negotiating table without pre-conditions that affect every issue that is to be negotiating. That’s called making demands, not negotiating. The Israelis have shown up every time, have made good-faith offers of land, and have been rejected every time.
I’ve answered all your so-called “facts”. Now let’s look at what is really going on at the Gaza border. Hamas is using civilians as human shields (nothing new there) to hide their terrorists, polluting the air by burning tires so they can hide in the smoke, firing guns, hurling grenades and molotov cocktails over the border, sending flaming kites over the border to set fire to Israeli fields, slinging chunks of concrete over the border, attempting to break through the fence for the express purpose of murdering Israeli citizens. Name one country that would tolerate such aggression and that wouldn’t fire on the the people involved.
Very well said, indeed.
I am making the same suggestion to you and Steve, and anyone else who is interested:
1. Get a copy of Benny Morris’ “1948”.
2. Read it. The whole thing.
3. Try to understand how two completely different narratives managed to emerge.
While no one source will ever tell everyone’s story or be completely without controversy, this is the best that I have found for systemically going through everything, documented from archives. There is some analysis, particularly in the “Some Conclusions” chapter, but it doesn’t overwhelm the book and much is pretty straightforward description of battles and other events. It honestly does more to explain why two peoples can have such different views of the same war that you would think they are describing entirely different events, than anything else I’ve seen.
Okay, your first statement: “First, there is no such place as Palestine. There is Gaza, and the occupied territories. Hamas runs Gaza. The Palestinian Authority governs 98% of the Arabs in the territories. The remaining 2% are under military rule in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, which Israel follows voluntarily. The GC do not legally apply in this situation because there is no other sovereign nation besides Israel involved”.
I enclose the Map posted by the UN upon the formal establishment of the Nation State of Israel. Please read for me the Title of the map: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/019de7ec0a117d9aaa70491a4375e2836e4534a08213f8b1f6e6c68b695e6541.jpg
That map is meaningless. It was based on the illegal attempt of the UN to appease the Arabs by giving them even more of the land belonging to the Jews. It was a General Assembly resolution, which is non-binding, and was not accepted by the Arabs. It had no force in law and was rendered null and void when the Arabs refused it. The only legal document showing the land belonging to the Jews – from the Jordan to the Sea – and to the Arabs – Jordan – is the Treaty of Lausanne, which contains the Treaty of Sevres and the San Remo Resolution.
yes, your comeback is very similar to the position of Israel herself over the years. Take the 1993 Oslo accords which were based on the promise of creating an Arab state of Palestine within 5 years. You are right when you claim that there is no such place as Palestine, in so far as that is yet another promise reneged by Israel
See my last comment to litlover re reading Morris’ 1948.
Thanks Cynthia – I have dyspraxia and can often find books problematic. But will look it up
Silly question, but can you get your device to read aloud an e-book?
The paper book is really long – over 500 pages, and it is dense. That is what you get for being comprehensive, but it is not a quick or easy read.
I’m not sure, you can get spoken word books though, can’t you?
Now, do you note the International Boundaries surrounding the region designated by the UN as ‘Palestine?
Now look carefully at the areas designated as Arab Territories, a comparison with a modern map of the region shall no doubt illustrate other points that I have made regarding illegal occupations and settlements in Palestine, and perhaps go a long way to explaining why protagonists towards the plight of the Palestinian people hold so little regard for the findings and rulings of the United Nations
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dedb0ab439b6898b80265b63bc2dd24c7b2491231699196b4d31d9690034f05e.png
When these partitions were proposed, Arab representatives thought even at that time, that awarding more than half of the territory to 1/3 of the population, who previously held 10% of the Land was unfair. Perhaps the modern map of Israel and occupied territories will explain just one part of people’s frustrations with Israel, backed by the US.
The Arabs got Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and 78% of the land promised to the Jews – Jordan. And you have a problem with the Jews having less than 22% of their ancient homeland where they are the indigenous people, have had a continuous presence for nearly 4,000 years, and which was created legally by international treaty? That’s called being an antisemite.
The Arabs invaded this land in the 7th century. They are not indigenous. They have no legal claim. They do not want a state – they want the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews. Read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter and see for yourself. They make no effort to hide their true purpose.
avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp
The ‘Arabs’ – I like this assertion. So you support the notion that the Arabs should stand as one, from Marrakesh to Bahrain? It would certainly strengthen their position on the World stage and dispossess brutal regimes such as The house of Saud – But I was referring to the boundaries within Palestine, as drafted by Sykes-Picot, and later ratified in the United Nations which formed the establishment of Israel, and in 2011 recognised as a full member of UNESCO. At the time Jews in the region made up 1/3 of the population and owned 10% of the land. I can support the very reasonable distribution of land in 1949 which took account of the Diasporic Jews around the World who may wish to migrate to Israel. It apportioned 56% of Palestine to Israel, and although it gave the Arab population only 44% of the land, did so in a way that they could be financially and socially stable. The systematic acquisition of those Arab lands through illegal settlements has destabilised Palestine (as defined in those ratified, and therefore legal treaties which defined Palestine and Israel) concentrating on the strategic areas which would deny the Arab lands that stability, has been the Zionist agenda since 1949. Claims running back to the 7th century are not relevant to this discussion. The current regime wants a return to the 1967 lines, prior to the 6 day war. This is reasonable. It is considered a war crime in the Modern World to annex territories through military conquest, hence you don’t see the US state of Iraq or Afghanistan today. This is the 2-state solution that Palestine asks for, but that the right-wing zionists, most especially Netenyahu refuse. How would it damage Israel to just make the concession required anyway by International Law? Why not simply accept International Law? Why do we in the West invade Nations for disobeying these laws and Human Rights violations, yet stand back and allow Israel free reign to abandon the same rules that we enforce through military dominance?
Oh and we’ve already seen that Herodotus labelled the land Palestine in the 5th century BCE.
You seem to have bundled up all your lies in one post.
We went over this. You are the one who chooses to ignore facts and continue to lie. All he did was transliterate the word Philistia – land of the Philistines. Nothing to do with the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians today. But, let’s say we buy your lie. From 135CE until 1964, the name Palestinian meant Jew! The Arabs hated the term and wanted to be called Southern Syrians. But I know you won’t let a little thing like a fact get in the way of your hatred!
http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2013/08/palestine-no-southern-syria-yes.html
We have also established here that the Sykes-Picot agreement designated the country as Palestine (the same agreement which created the other Arab Nations). An area within that was called ‘the brown area’ which was the foundation of Israel – but the specific borders within Palestine were yet to be established. Without acknowledging that creation of Palestine, you can not accept the creation by the same means of Israel, or of any of the Nations of the region… that’s a simple fact that surely even you can’t squirm out of
Palestine – the land of the Jews, Judea. Hadrian changed the name to Palestine in 135 CE in a fit of pique against the Jews. The word is a transliteration of Philistia, the land of the Philistines, and means “invaders” in Hebrew. No one other than the Jews was called Palestinian until the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate when everyone who lived in the region – and that’s what it was, a region, never a country – as in Palestinian Jew, Palestinian Arab, Palestinian Circassian, etc. The Arabs hated the name – because they knew it referred to the Jews – and wanted to be called Southern Syrians.
Sykes-Picot didn’t not determine the boundaries of Israel – the League of Nations did. The Mandate for Palestine was a Class A Mandate for the creation of the Jewish state. The Arabs aren’t even mentioned in it except as “non-Jewish residents” whose civil and religious rights were guaranteed.
The biggest ‘ LIAR ‘ on these pages is you ‘ Bones ‘.
And most of us know it.
Actually israel is behaving the same as totalitarian regimes.
I’d be fricking mortified if our soldiers were mowing down unarmed civilians.
But you enjoy it.
Then it’s a good thing that not what the IDF is doing. Hamas already admitted that 50 of the 60 deaths were of Hamas terrorists!
By your own words, 10 innocents have died. Isn’t it a fact that if those were Israeli deaths, the IDF would retaliate with a brutal lethality to send a message, as they have stated is policy, of disproportionate consequence? Wouldn’t 100 deaths answer for each innocent killed? That is by policy been the historical response in those situations. Group punishments and disproportionate retaliation? Doesn’t this policy by definition target the innocent? It would be the catalyst for yet another war crime committed by Israel, and that is black and white print saying that you value the blood of innocent Jews over the blood of innocent Arabs. Is that not racist to you? Are you not offended to the core of your being? I know that I would be ashamed were I in your shoes. Because I will answer my own question here: it is a crime against humanity according to the fourth Geneva convention and is a government stated policy.
40,000 people rioted, many of them violently. Israel killed ten civilians who were participating in an event that called for the destruction of Israel and the death of the Jews. All things considered, there probably isn’t another army in the world who could have minimized the civilian casualties in such a way. And every one of those deaths will be investigated by the IDF to see how they could have been avoided. How many Israeli Jews do you think would have died if the IDF did nothing to prevent Israel’s border from being overrun? Or would that be okay with you?
It’s also not a crime against humanity – Israel is being attacked. Here’s an interesting little piece of international law for you –
VOLENTI NON FIT INIURIA
Volenti non fit iniuria is a legal doctrine which states that if someone willingly places themselves in a position where harm might result, knowing that some degree of harm might result, they are not able to bring a claim against the other party in tort or delict. Volenti applies only to the risk which a reasonable person would consider them as having assumed by their actions.
It is a voluntary assumption of risk.
Yeah you’ve tried these lies before and they fell apart under scrutiny.
Stick to posting sources which blatantly refute what you say.
It basically comes down to we hate palestinians because of hamas even though it was financed by Israel to destabilise the plo which it did and has done.
Well done!
As usual you deny facts, justice, self determination and democracy because of your own religious bigotry which denies the Arab populace simply because of what some book claimed happened 3000 years ago.
And the population of Palestine in 1900 was 90% Arab.
Lol the Israelis allow the Palestinians to live in the West Bank.
What a merkin you are.
But we cant expect more from this extremist as he denigrates Palestinian christians sho font swallow his lies as not true Christians.
Welcome to the type of despicable human being which help cultivate violence and extremism.
And disgracefully claims to follow the Messiah.
The messiah has nothing to do with those who advocate bigotry and injustice.
While Israel did support Hamas over the PLO, that was not why Israel funded it in the beginning. Try to tell the truth once in a while.
What is happening in the territories is the direct result of Arab violence against Israel. It is not bigotry or injustice. The Arabs stop the violence, they get to live normal, prosperous lives, and Israel will even help them as she did before.
Read your bible a little more carefully. When the Messiah returns, He is going to destroy all the enemies of Israel. He takes your hate seriously – maybe you should, too.
I am going through my post at present and providing the relevant sources. But let me make one thing clear to you right now at this juncture: Israel failing to recognise Palestine does not make it’s existence non-factual. This is the same language European colonialists have used for centuries, and for the exact same genocidal processes, The Inuits, The Australian Aborigines, The Native American Indians – we’ve heard it all before – and my reason for speaking up over these horrendous conditions enforced in Palestine, is that I would save you and your children from the weight of debts that may never be repaid. Whatever our personal beliefs from politics, to science to the esoteric, most of us hold to a common morality of “treat others as you would wish to be treated”. I believe that there are bad people and good people on both sides of the conflict. I do not attempt to justify the Israeli government and military’s actions and I do not attempt to justify Hamas. I can see that a very great crime against humanity is being committed in Palestine and that as mature and developed humans we have a responsibility to work together in order to lessen all suffering. Denial is a built-in form of mind-control, question me and my points by all means, but most of all question yourself and your own motives
Israel recognizes that stateless Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are living on Israeli territory. Those are all facts. As far as genocide – please explain how the Arab population has substantially increased in the territories every year since 1948. And how it is that they have the highest quality of life of any other Arabs in the region. Pretty lousy form of genocide. Of course, said Arabs have declared their goal of committing genocide against the Jews, but don’t let that worry you! The only people who are committing crimes against humanity are the Arabs against the Israelis and against each other. It was obvious from your list that you have only read Arab propaganda instead of actual history and factual, credible documents because that is what suits your bias.
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arabs-have-highest-life-expectancy-in-arab-muslim-world/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_campaign=20171228_m143272748_Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_term=Israeli+Arabs+Have+Highest+Life+Expectancy+in+Arab-Muslim+World
They are facts as declared by the right-wing Zionist government of Israel and it’s supporters. Yes, that is democratic in it’s establishment, just as the Nazi Party was when it rose to power in the 1930s. Those laws and declarations are disputed by the United Nations. When Israeli cabinet ministers use language such as ‘pogrom’, ‘shoah’ and ‘the nuclear solution’ then from their language alone their intentions are clear. I will not give any credence to laws or reports produced by such fanatical sources
In fact, In October 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO) voted to admit Palestine as a full member
Which in no way makes it a state, or a member of the UN. It is also instructive to see which countries voted in favor. Hint – they’re almost all Muslim.
Well apparently we should all move out because of what happened 3000 years ago.
Which country is goving the land back to its indigenous people none.
(And even according to the Bible Israel slaughtered the indigenous population).
Btw israeli pm ehud barak said if he was born a palestinian he’d be a terrorist too.
Thats what happens when you treat people like shit
there have been positive examples (I forgot to mention the people of ‘The Indian Subcontinent’, which was similarly carved up in the same ‘solution’ to the threat these vast Nations posed to ‘Asia Minor’ by Sykes and Picot in 1916) – The Maoris in New Zealand, Papua New Guineans (unlike the threatened indigenous people in West Papua being eradicated by Indonesia – all hushed up and on a parity with Israel, placing settlements throughout the mineral rich regions and along the border, ‘training’ settlers and arming them to form militias) and few other examples… by and large European heritage is blood-soaked with peaceful indigenous people and it can not be reconciled. As an englishman I can no more justify it or feel pride in the actions of the country of my birth, and any attempt to do so would be akin to trying to justify a member of my own family had they killed someone. I’ve spoken to many Germans who carry a burden of guilt for what previous generations had perpetuated on ethnic minorities in the past, and I know in my heart that future (as well as many present) Jewish generations carry a burden of guilt for what is being perpetuated in their name today. The difference in Israel, is that they have a unique opportunity to cease and desist… embrace their brothers and sisters – that is the way to combat terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism… no more ‘but Hamas…’ – address your own role in what is happening
Yep. You have to call genocide genocide, and not make excuses for actions that are committed in the name of ideology.
Israel is the only sovereign over this land. It’s legal, it is not analogous to any of the situations you posit above. The Arabs came as invaders and immigrants – they have no legal claim. Israel is defending her citizens against an avowed enemy that seeks her destruction and the murder of all the Jews. I dare you to read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter (links above) and then come back and tell me differently.
But there you labour under the premise that I support Hamas or the PLO. I am not defending them. I find death and murder reprehensible. This isn’t a game of soccer, I am not supporting one ‘team’ over another. I am calling out Israel on it’s crimes against humanity, you do not appease this with arguments ‘but they did this, they said that’
Just don’t mention Israel’s role in creating Hamas…..
The Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas. It would be so refreshing if you would actually cite a fact.
To litlover: This.
“This is the same language European colonialists have used for centuries,
and for the exact same genocidal processes, The Inuits, The Australian
Aborigines, The Native American Indians – we’ve heard it all before -”
~Steve Chapman
Nice to see someone who actually knows the facts on here, very good.
Lol…no surprise you support the arab hater and liar.
….just…. ….wow…
I agree. The level of ignorance is beyond belief. I imagine the psychological oblivion displayed here is similar to that of German citizens during the holocaust. The question is how to break through the brainwashing?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/555568ee184d32608772deda05c2338011b121e8c0b82de0e99b4d90221297a5.gif
Thank you for responding. I can see that you have satisfied yourself that everything is fine and above board
He’s spewed this stuff all over here and has shown to be a liar.
He even quoted a source which says the opposite of what he claimed.
If we aren’t allowed to quote sources from within Palestine, nor even acknowledge that Palestine exists, then forming responsible and coherent argument is impossible, which is the way the Government in Israel consistently side-steps out from the International condemnation and is supported by vetoes from the US. Still, I have faith in humanity. Those evil powers who plot to murder Billions of our global population see this as a simple next step. When nations are corporations and subject to corporate laws, their only obligation is to the shareholders. It’s just a shame that there seem to be so many unwitting collaborators
When you’re traveling near the borders in Israel, you see many signs that warn you of danger if you go near the border. It’s total psychological brainwashing. Israelis are terrified of the Palestinians. It’s really bizarre. So one can easily see how manipulated the Israeli population is.
Who initiated the attack in 1948, in 1954, in 1967, in 1973? The Arabs! Who started the intifadas and murdered Israeli children at a birthday party? Who sneaks across the border and slits the throats of Israeli babies in their sleep? Who murders entire families in their homes and cars? When has Israel ever done anything even vaguely like these atrocities to the Arabs?
Learn about the Arab propaganda machine, and the use of lying to further Islam before you talk about sources from within “Palestine”. Try looking for slightly more credible sources – and citing them would be nice, too.
Ashkenazis have no connection with the land and are not Semitic people!
Try again. They are Jews, Jews are semitic – which just means they speak a semitic language. It’s not a people group.
https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37821/title/Genetic-Roots-of-the-Ashkenazi-Jews/
Is Yiddish a semitic language?
A Christian response to what is happening in gaza….
I am deeply distressed and broken hearted by the massacre perpetrated by the State of Israel in Gaza yesterday. I pray to God to open the eyes and hearts of all citizens of the Holy Land – and of political and religious leaders across the world – to assist them to recognise our common humanity and membership of God’s family. People who recognise the humanity in others do not author or perpetrate massacres.
Desmond Tutu
Cue the Arab haters to claim Tutu isnt a real christian in 3…2…1
Reports of Tutu’s senility are true then?
So I was looking at hotel listings for the palestinian territories and I was wondering what kind of “conditions of life calculated to bring about the groups physical destruction” would allow for more than a dozen 4 star hotels when I realized… There aren’t any.
There are no “death camps” that have 4 star hotels, amusement parks and shopping malls. This “Doctor” Corey (PhD’s in theology don’t count) is just another antisemitic poopstain. There’s no definition of genocide that fits Israel so professional racist agitators like Corey have made one up that fits their blood libel. This is no different from “The Protocols” or accusations that jews were behind the Black Death or behind the collapse of the German economy.
https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotels-g660378-Palestinian_Territories-Hotels.html
Who owns the hotels?
The Arabs. They are in Gaza, and Areas A and B.
Today we could already talk about a Palestinian holocaust at Israel hands …
Sure. You point out the location of the concentration and death camps, and provide figures for the great reduction in the Arab population of the territories. In the meantime, I’ll show the consistent increase in Arab population and the quality of life and health stats for the Arabs.
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arabs-have-highest-life-expectancy-in-arab-muslim-world/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_campaign=20171228_m143272748_Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_term=Israeli+Arabs+Have+Highest+Life+Expectancy+in+Arab-Muslim+World
https://israelipalestinian.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000636
Good MOSSAD HASBARA troll!
These are a little more PR conscious than those Germans in the 30s and 40s. After all, the whole world is watching.
The Following information was provided by the Foreign Policy Journal in 2010 by Jeremy R Hammond, an independent political analyst and recipient of the Project Censored 2010 Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.
Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region.
Although Arabs were a majority in Palestine prior to the creation of the state of Israel, there had always been a Jewish population, as well. For the most part, Jewish Palestinians got along with their Arab neighbors. This began to change with the onset of the Zionist movement, because the Zionists rejected the right of the Palestinians to self-determination and wanted Palestine for their own, to create a “Jewish State” in a region where Arabs were the majority and owned most of the land.
For instance, after a series of riots in Jaffa in 1921 resulting in the deaths of 47 Jews and 48 Arabs, the occupying British held a commission of inquiry, which reported their finding that “there is no inherent anti-Semitism in the country, racial or religious.” Rather, Arab attacks on Jewish communities were the result of Arab fears about the stated goal of the Zionists to take over the land.
After major violence again erupted in 1929, the British Shaw Commission report noted that “In less than 10 years three serious attacks have been made by Arabs on Jews. For 80 years before the first of these attacks there is no recorded instance of any similar incidents.” Representatives from all sides of the emerging conflict testified to the commission that prior to the First World War, “the Jews and Arabs lived side by side if not in amity, at least with tolerance, a quality which today is almost unknown in Palestine.” The problem was that “The Arab people of Palestine are today united in their demand for representative government”, but were being denied that right by the Zionists and their British benefactors.
The British Hope-Simpson report of 1930 similarly noted that Jewish residents of non-Zionist communities in Palestine enjoyed friendship with their Arab neighbors. “It is quite a common sight to see an Arab sitting in the verandah of a Jewish house”, the report noted. “The position is entirely different in the Zionist colonies.”
More lies.
1. The Arab/Muslims have persecuted and massacred the Jews, and others, since they invaded in the 7th century. There has never been a real peace in which the Jews were treated as equals by their Arab overlords. And it had nothing to do with Zionism. Here is a short list of Arab atrocities against Jews ( which I gave to Chapman who has chosen to ignore history)
https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-a-levy/muslim-pogroms-against-jews-prior-to-zionism/10152225862404115
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/coexistence.html
2. The British themselves were antisemitic! Read the disgusting White Papers that tried to deprive the Jews of the land that was legally given to them. And, the British owed the Arabs a huge debt for their help in WWI. They paid it by giving 78% of land designated for the Jews to the Arabs to create Jordan. Jordan is the de facto “Palestinian” state on Jewish land.
3. Here’s the full quote (read homesteads for the British term ‘colonies’): “P.I.C.A.’s relations with the Arab.—In discussing the question of the effect of Jewish Settlement on the Arab it is essential to differentiate between the P.I.C.A. colonisation and that of the Zionist Organisation.
In so far as the past policy of the P.I.C.A. is concerned, there can be no doubt that the Arab has profited largely by the installation of the colonies. Relations between the colonists and their Arab neighbours were excellent. In many cases, when land was bought by the P.I.C.A. for settlement, they combined with the development of the land for their own settlers similar development for the Arabs who previously occupied the land. All the cases which are now quoted by the Jewish authorities to establish the advantageous effect of Jewish colonisation on the Arabs of the neighbourhood, and which have been brought to notice forcibly and frequently during the course of this enquiry, are cases relating to colonies established by the P.I.C.A., before the KerenHayesod came into existence. In fact, the policy of the P.I.C.A. was one of great friendship for the Arab. Not only did they develop the Arab lands simultaneously with their own, when founding their colonies, but they employed the Arab to tend their plantations, cultivate their fields, to pluck their grapes and their oranges. As a general rule the P.I.C.A. colonisation was of unquestionable benefit to the Arabs of the vicinity.
It is also very noticeable, in travelling through the P.I.C.A. villages, to see the friendliness of the relations which exist between Jew and Arab. It is quite a common sight to see an Arab sitting in the verandah of a Jewish house. The position is entirely different in the Zionist colonies.
Zionist colonisation: the Arab.—In the Memorandum submitted by the Jewish agency attempts were made to establish that the purchase of the villages in the Esdraelon valley and their settlement by the Jews had not had the effect of causing the previous tenants to join the landless class. A list of the ejected tenants was submitted as an annex to the Memorandum, giving the subsequent employment of each one of these tenants in so far as they could be traced. The annex dealt with 688 tenants. The following is an extract from the Memorandum : —
” . . . . Very few traced belong to the landless class; 437 are continuing farming—58 as harraths; 89 are shepherds—they were all shepherds before the evacuation, farming being with them a merely subsidiary occupation; 4 are craftsmen, 14 are merchants; 50 are urban labourers; 4 are vegetable vendors; 10 are camel drivers; 2 are milkmen; 37 died; 41 whereabouts unknown. In addition, out of the 688 not less than 154 have became property owners—that is, they now possess a house and lot of their own.”
The Arabs benefited greatly by the presence of the Jews, and continue to do so to this day. The Arabs in the territories have a higher quality of life than any other Arabs in the region.
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arabs-have-highest-life-expectancy-in-arab-muslim-world/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_campaign=20171228_m143272748_Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_term=Israeli+Arabs+Have+Highest+Life+Expectancy+in+Arab-Muslim+World
And, after Israel took back her land in ’67, things got even better for the Arabs – until they chose to indulge their hatred of the Jews, and throw away their own and their children’s futures:
When Israel won the West Bank in 1967, there were 708 Palestinian villages in the region, four of which had running water. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14304
http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/growth.asp
More lies??? LOL What are you, Adenoid Hynkel??? How about trying to refute the facts above line by line … ??? Yeah, let’s just forget all about Qibya and Der Yassin, eh??? If Palestine was such the unpopulated desert, as Zionist propaganda claims, WHAT Jews then were massacred by WHAT heinous Arabs???
I thought so, because you can’t. Only react with emotionalism.
Eretz israel. LOL That says it all!!! The Zionist version of the Nazi lebensraum.
I have separated out each of the ‘Myths’ as appropriated in this journal in order to make it easier for anyone to challenge specific points raised by Jeremy R Hammond in his article – I feel it better to quote his arguments directly where I was seeking clarity on some of the points raised by one commentator on this discussion thread. But before anyone comments, I would like to point out that the journalism is simply applying facts based on historical record here.
Myth #2 – The United Nations created Israel.
The U.N. became involved when the British sought to wash its hands of the volatile situation its policies had helped to create, and to extricate itself from Palestine. To that end, they requested that the U.N. take up the matter.
As a result, a U.N. Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) was created to examine the issue and offer its recommendation on how to resolve the conflict. UNSCOP contained no representatives from any Arab country and in the end issued a report that explicitly rejected the right of the Palestinians to self-determination. Rejecting the democratic solution to the conflict, UNSCOP instead proposed that Palestine be partitioned into two states: one Arab and one Jewish.
The U.N. General Assembly endorsed UNSCOP’s in its Resolution 181. It is often claimed that this resolution “partitioned” Palestine, or that it provided Zionist leaders with a legal mandate for their subsequent declaration of the existence of the state of Israel, or some other similar variation on the theme. All such claims are absolutely false.
Resolution 181 merely endorsed UNSCOP’s report and conclusions as a recommendation. Needless to say, for Palestine to have been officially partitioned, this recommendation would have had to have been accepted by both Jews and Arabs, which it was not.
Moreover, General Assembly resolutions are not considered legally binding (only Security Council resolutions are). And, furthermore, the U.N. would have had no authority to take land from one people and hand it over to another, and any such resolution seeking to so partition Palestine would have been null and void, anyway.
I want to state that I am blocking comments from ‘litlover’. I will partake in a sensible debate with anyone, but when a coward attempts to hide behind a barricade of antisemitism in order to protect their feeble mind from the assault of facts contrary to their own, discussion with such idiocy is not something that I am prepared to do. Criticism of Israel, her government or Zionism is not antisemitism. Not all Semites are Zionists. My faith in humanity is restored by all of the strong-minded Jewish people who stand in unity against the Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people. Whichever side of sensible debate you stand on, I respect your thoughts and views. I am aware that I do not know every fact in the matter and even accept the possibility that my views may be misplaced – I do not persue my convictions with any kind of zealotry, unlike the above-mentioned individual.
My motivation for speaking is that shared by the member states who ratified the Fourth Geneva Convention, I do not wish to see history repeated and believe in treating all humans with mutual respect, unless they demonstrate through action or speech that their judgement is clouded through the blood-haze of hatred, as ‘litlover’s’ appears to me to be. This individual repeatedly attempts to besmirch my name with racist tints, and as someone who has campaigned strongly throughout my life, spurred primarily by my education of the events of the Holocaust. I am a disabled man, who would also have fallen fowl of the Nazi hardline and been dubbed a ‘useless eater’ – I stand with the Jewish people of the world in solidarity in condemnation of the Holocaust. My personal involvement in this issue is to attempt to persuade the people involved to not repeat that terrible chapter in history themselves.
I am open to any contradiction to my point of view, but I shall not abide unfounded slurs against my name. Please feel free to block me if my opinion offends
Given that you have no actual facts at your disposal, and seem incapable of recognizing them when they are presented to you, I find your comment quite ironic.
in this comment, you have accused me of being a coward and that my judgement is clouded by bloodlust, Please use my own words to convict me of these accusations. Otherwise, consider yourself called out for libel!
In addition, you have just insinuated that Israel is the same as the Nazis. Please show where all the concentration camps, death camps, ditches full of Arab dead, transports, and along with all the other Nazi accoutrements of death. Or, accept that you are indeed an antisemite. You all say the same things, and invariably reveal yourselves, just as you have done.
Racial discrimination, discrimination of any kind is offensive and a hate crime. Throwing unfounded allegations of this nature as a deflection to geopolitical and social conversation when confronted with arguments that can not be countered is weak, libelous and demeans the serious attempts of everyone who campaigns for a fairer society and global community
You mean the Arab/Muslim discrimination against the Jews? Surely that must be what you’re talking about. Because Israel, and most Jews (being like all other people) don’t discriminate against others based on race, religion, or any other criteria. In Israel, there are multiple religions being practiced freely, people from every race and color on the planet – many of them citizens – and complete freedom of speech regardless of whether you agree with the government or not.
Don’t deny that there has been Ashkenazim discrimination of the Sephardic Jews, who in turn are more intolerant towards the Arabs than the original Jews of Eastern European desent.
There has been Ashkenazic discrimination against the Mizrachim – the Jews who remained in the ME – not the Sephardim, who are Jews from Spain. At this point, the Mizrachim outnumber the Jews from the diaspora, and there is not that much discrimination. The government does not discriminate against any of them. The Mizrachim are no doubt less tolerant toward the Arabs because they were forced to live as dhimmis (second-class citizens) in Arab countries where they were frequently persecuted and often massacred. They were also forced to leave their homes with the clothes on their backs after Israel declared independence. These countries confiscated all the Jews’ property and possessions, and have never offered any compensation. Perhaps you can understand why they might have a hard time with the Arabs.
I don’t know who you mean by “the original Jews of Eastern European desent.”
It started with the late Bill Buckley Jr, who considered even the slightest criticism of Israeli domestic or foreign policy, to be “anti-Semitic.” (Nevermind, of course, Buckely’s Church’s ancient role in demonizing the Jew). It’s as if supporting the colonial settler state today is somehow, some kind of penance for past institutional anti-Semitism.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/gaza_end_the_massacre_loc_mena/?aYUFJeb&post_action=1&cid=36045&lang=en&v=&_checksum=&t=&fbogname=Steve&fbogname=Steve
Join the campaign to end the violence, death and suffering. Economic sanctions helped in Apartheid South Africa, let’s pull together now and pressure the government of Israel to act humanely to all of it’s wards
As I said on another post on this website: I support Israel & her people, but I also support Palestinians, too. I just want both sides to get along with each other, love one another, & be happy together. 🙁 After all, are we all not children of the seed of Abraham? God may have promised the Jews their own land, but there’s absolutely NO reason that the land can’t be shared openly & freely with their neighbors, without any bigotry or segregation or any of that!
Furthermore, Netanyahu (sp?) is a bloody A-hole, & a dreadful person! 🙁 I wish we could bring Yitzhak Rabin back from the next dimension–he’d have done something to take care of all this unnecessary hatred, violence, & bloodshed!
Have you read the Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel? It invites the Arabs to remain and become citizens of the new state. Now read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter, both of which state the Arab goal of the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews. Israel was created as the Jewish state. Muslims have 22 states where they can happily live. There is no reason why Israel should commit suicide on the Arab’s behalf.
Pre 1967 borders or bust
The pre-67 borders are legally from the River to the Sea. And that’s today’s borders as well. The Jews were given that land by the League of Nation via international law with the stipulation that none of it could be taken from them. The Arabs got Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
The West Bank belongs to Jordan by right, occupied by Israel by force, as a human shield to discourage attacks. Gaza belongs to Egypt by right, occupied by Israel by force, as a human shield to discourage attacks. The Golan Heights belong to Syria by right, occupied by Israel by force, as a human shield to discourage attacks.
Love is the law. Fantastic sermon today at the Royal wedding in Britain by Rev. Michael Curry – would recommend to anyone – there is a very great message of love:
“Love is not selfish and self-centered. Love can be sacrificial. And in so doing, becomes redemptive, and that way of unselfish, sacrificial, redemptive love, changes lives. And it can change this world. If you don’t believe me, just stop and think or imagine. Think and imagine, well, think and imagine a world where love is the way. Imagine our homes and families when love is the way. Imagine neighborhoods and communities where love is the way. Imagine governments and nations where love is the way. Imagine business and commerce when love is the way. Imagine this tired old world when love is the way, unselfish, sacrificial redemptive. When love is the way, then no child will go to bed hungry in this world ever again. When love is the way, we will let justice roll down like a mighty stream and righteousness like an everflowing brook. When love is the way, poverty will become history. When love is the way, the earth will be a sanctuary. When love is the way, we will lay down our swords and shields down, down by the riverside to study war no more. When love is the way, there’s plenty good room, plenty good room, for all of God’s children. Because when love is the way, we actually treat each other, well, like we are actually family. When love is the way, we know that God is the source of us all and we are brothers and sisters, children of God. My brothers and sisters, that’s a new heaven, a new earth, a new world, a new human family. And let me tell you something, old Solomon was right in the Old Testament, that’s fire.”
Israel doesn’t hate the Arabs. She just wants them to stop trying to destroy her and her people. Please go preach your message of love to the Arabs and see where it gets you.
Zionist policy is made clear in this quote from Menachem Begin, later a Prime Minister of Israel…
“We intend to attack, conquer and keep until we have the whole of Palestine and Transjordan in a Greater Jewish State
I have tried to find this supposed quote to no avail. However, I am quite certain it is either fabricated or taken out of context as are these other “quotes” in the following article. I would appreciate you providing a source.
http://www.zionism-israel.com/fake_zionist_quotes.htm
Judaism: What you do not wish for yourself, do not wish for others. Talmud Shabbat 31.A
Islam: No one will be a true believer unless he wishes for others what he wishes for himself. Sunnat
Christianity: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Matthew 7: 12
Confucionism: What we do not wish to be done to us, let us not do to others Analects 15. 23
Buddhism: Do not offend others as you would not like to be offended Udanavarga 5.18
Maya: You are myself, we are one. Popol Vuh
Brahmanism: Never do unto others what would hurt you if done to you. Mahabharata 5. 15
Bahai Faith: if you seek justice choose for others what you would choose for yourself. The Bayan
Taoism: Make as yours the profits of your fellow man as well as his loss. Tai-shang Kin-ying P’ien
Bob Marley and the Wailers: One love, one heart, Let’s get together and feel all right – One Love
The Beatles: All you need is Love
There is no such thing and never a justification as a War of Religion or Jihad. It is a contradiction to all Religious belief and practise. Don’t speak as a Christian, or a Muslim, or Jew about justification for these killings. We are all humans, and we all claim the moral rule as detailed above. Choose your actions based upon love for humanity, lay down your weapons and your will to destroy one another, think of tomorrow and the World we would dream for our children. If we can dream it, we can make it happen.
The central authority of Orthodox Judaism is the Babylonian Talmud which states…
Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a gentile (“Cuthean”), there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep. Could this be the reason why there is no remorse for the damage done to the Palestinians since 1947?
Here’s what it actually says – try to follow the argument. It doesn’t say that Jews can murder or steal from Gentiles without penalty. That is the antisemitic, cherry-picked, misinterpretation.
https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.57a?lang=bi
David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff.
From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978:
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
Zionist policy is made clear in this quote from Menachem Begin, later a Prime Minister of Israel:
“We intend to attack, conquer and keep until we have the whole of Palestine and Transjordan in a Greater Jewish State”.
Fake quote. What you need to ask yourself is why you are so happy to believe such a thing?
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2219
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&x_context=7…
And, if you are a born-again Christian, you need a refresher course in Romans 11. If you’re just from a family that told you that you were a Christian, you need to be saved.
And you need a refresher course in 1 John 4:8 & Galatians 3:28…
You certainly clearly have NEVER REALLY STUDIED Romans 11. You quote talking points from Zionist Christian propaganda. I hope you get cut to the heart by the truth one day. You will know when it happens, And you may lose most of your (self-deluded) privileges for cozying up to those you believe are acting in a godly manner. How blind.
Jesus rightly said of their religious leaders:
“You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.” And “You will know them by their fruits.”
Pray for the leaders of the Israeli government parties, and for the Palestinians too, as many in their people want to see change happen, without violence. THAT would be the most godly outcome.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e3e653d529c66ab80de4cff2d80af65b93cc180ad80149d385a1cf9b99684e1c.jpg
Ilan Pappe wrote a book on this subject called the Ethnic cleansing of Palestine & here is a link to an Israeli women’s group who try to stand up for the rights of the Palestinians…https://machsomwatch.org/en BTW God has no favorites as Acts 10:34 & Christ’s own words make this absolutely clear.
I’d think about taking you more seriously if your Disqus profile didn’t show that you also hate fluoride, think hurricanes are man-made and claim that gas chambers never existed.
Maybe you could read some of the great work of David Irving and then, you, too would realize that there were no gas chambers. Or is that too much to ask of you?
I know who David Irving is. I prefer to learn actual history, from those who lived it, from actual sites and from the mountain of historical records that exist.
Ilan Pappe is a very well know advocate for Palestinians and is against Zionism
Ilan Pappe is a self-confessed liar who admittedly chooses his bias over fact. He has zip credibility with real historians. There was not ethnic cleansing of the Arabs. A few villages on the Jerusalem road were emptied for strategic reasons during the ’48 war because the villagers were attacking Jewish convoys. Many other villages on the same road were left untouched because they were not fighting against the Jews. Virtually all of the Arabs fled because their leaders told them to, something those leaders later admitted. They didn’t want civilians in the way while they were murdering the Jews! Didn’t quite work out that way for them. After the war, Israel allowed 100,000 Arabs to return, and approved another 100,000 who were then prevented from returning by the Arab League. Pretty poor way to conduct ethnic cleansing. Finally, as per Israel’s declaration of independence, all the non-Jews who remained in place and didn’t fight against the Jews, became citizens of the new state. There are now over 1.6 million Arabs citizens in Israel.
http://www.meforum.org/1886/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/11-03-17the-liar-as-a-hero-about-pappe-by-benny-morris.pdf
http://hnn.us/article/4479
http://cifwatch.com/2013/08/08/are-jews-the-most-incompetent-ethnic-cleansers-in-the-world/
It’s pretty simple…The World Zionist Organization wanted a homeland for the Jews & Madagascar was 1st considered. The Balfour Declaration was all over this securing a homeland for the Jews. I have met Palestinians who’ve suffered b/c they were forced from their homeland so arguing is NOT the point. If Israel wanted peace they would not be destroying others lives & property & this has been documented too many times to debunk. Israeli government is a rogue entity that is ruled by hate. The attack on the USS Liberty, murder of Rachel Corrie & the Israeli women who have a live cam to record these continuous barbaric acts against a defenseless people are just a few of the facts that further shows the truth. The very fact that the Israeli Mossad’s motto is ‘war by deception’ shows their true colors. I will believe that Israel wants peace when they show they abide by international laws. Until then their very own people (Israeli citizens) will turn on them. https://youtu.be/oCKWDarNdGw
I guess you were happier with the Jews when they did not fight back in any organized fashion in World War Two, and marched guietly to the gas chambers?
Admit it. Thats what you want.
Still pretending that there were gas chambers? After all the evidence that has been uncovered? Why the ignorance? It’s not acceptable, you know.
There was no such thing as gas chambers as admitted by the curator of Aushwitz (David Cole has on record)https://youtu.be/DFrJF-noN7A …and in the court of law by Jewish scientists in case against Ernst Zundel. (https://youtu.be/_Y55i4icwHM) (https://codoh.com/library/document/1069/)The truth is I come from Jewish roots & am tired of the hate rhetoric. I love the Jews, the Muslims, all mankind. Since when does hate destroy hate.It’s time
to come together against ANY violence toward ANY HUMAN period. I can never support such thought as quoted by Israel’s founder…David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff.
From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978:
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”
Oh, a Jew hating Holocaust Denier I see.
I have talked to people who were there. You are a liar.
The typical Zionist troll response he must be a self hating Jew right?? The
hasbabra has been well imbedded in your brainwashing
You talked to liars. Face it.
ZERO PROOF of any gas chambers or death camps. Deep scan radar turns up ZERO mass graves where “eyewitnesses” claimed they were. Face it, boobalah, you got conned.
Rather ask yourself – now that they have the 8th most powerful army in the world, with nuclear power, how are they behaving with civilians living in they occupied lands? And the answer is: anyone suggesting that speaking against Israel war crimes and infamy are necessarily wishing that they “go back to the oven” is really in need of education.
YOU MAKE IT ABOUT THE JEWS BUT IGNORE THE HUMANITY OF THOSE THE JEWS ARE NOW PERSECUTING. What an amazing moral superiority you display. Not.
MILLIONS of Jews around the world are AGAINST Israel’s present regime and denounce their crimes. Do online searches. Learn something outside of the usual propaganda. Israel today is Goliath. Not David.
DEATH to Zionism
So you want to kill virtually all the Jews?
See, there you go, putting words in peoples’ mouths. laughatbabyboomers said death to *zionism*, which is an ideology. Ideology is not a person or people. It’s an idea.
Virtually all Jews are Zionists – he is calling for their deaths. We’re not stupid, you know.
I know many jews that follow their faith and are not Zionists, more and more are waking up and see Israel as an Aparthied state. Zionists would like to believe all Jews, btw most European Jews are AshkeNazi not of the blood of Abraham, follow their sick racist ways but I have hope as so many don’t!!
Over half of world Jewry lives in Israel – almost by definition they are Zionists. I think that trumps the handful you might know. Next, you need to learn the definition of apartheid – Israel most certainly doesn’t practice it. Finally, Jews who spent the diaspora in Europe did not lose their DNA. They are called Ashkenazi because that is the Hebrew word for Germany, not because they are from Ashkenaz – which is an actual place. All Jews are genetically linked to each other, to the ancient Israelites, and to the Southern Levant, the ancient and modern homeland of Israel.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3032072/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274378/
https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37821/title/Genetic-Roots-of-the-Ashkenazi-Jews/
Only responding because you are also Canadian so I could theoretically run into you IRL.
You are seriously criticizing people for being “sick racists” while at the same time calling an entire group of people Nazis just because of their alleged bloodline? Think about that carefully for a moment.
You also have no idea that half of Israeli Jews are of non-European descent, mostly from the Middle East and North Africa. The only place in North America that is similar is Montreal, where Anglo Ashenazi Jews left for Toronto and Francophone Jews from North Africa moved in.
The Israeli media is hardly government propaganda – that is why Sheldon Adelson was persuaded to fund a free giveaway paper, Israel HaYom. He did it because the Israeli papers are not supportive of Netanyahu and constantly criticize him.
Hamas are racists.according to their constitution.
Not people- an idea. Extremism in any form isn’t a good thing.
Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people are entitled to self-determination in their own ancient homeland. How is that extremism. Words have meanings.
Zionism is a step-child of 19th-century German Nationalism, founded by a self-loathing Jew.
What ‘Jewish people’??? Is there a Zoroastrian ‘people’ too?
I think the part about expelling other people who happen to have been living there for 100s or 1000s of years in favor of this homeland is the extremist part.
Exactly what people were expelled? There were a handful of villages that were attacking Jewish convoys along the road to Jerusalem that were emptied for strategic reasons – there was a war going on. All the other Arabs who left did so of their own volition, usually at the urging of the Arab leaders – who admitted so after the war. The only real ethnic cleansing that took place was of the Jews in Judea and Samaria. Jordan expelled and/or murdered them until there were none left, and then brought Arabs from Jordan to take over the property and assets of the Jews. When Israel recaptured that land in ’67, they were only taking back what had been theirs in the first place.
As to how long the Arabs had been living there, they invaded the region in the 7th century, but didn’t settle it. Under the Ottomans, there were so few Muslims living there, that the Ottomans brought people in from other parts of the Empire, including Bosnia. By then, the Jews were the majority population of Jerusalem and have remained so. Again, under the Mandate, the Brits were concerned when they created Jordan on 78% of the land originally designated for the Jews, that there weren’t enough Arabs living there to sustain a state. Finally, most of the Arabs came as economic immigrants in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s when the Jews made the swamps and deserts bloom and produced employment opportunities. Some had been there such a short time that the UN had to change their definition of a refugee to one who had lived there at least two years!
Thank you for that recitation of your catechism learned at your Zio-madrassa. I suggest you read an actual book.
There are plenty of brainwashed Christian Zionists, too. Without them, Israel wouldn’t be raking in the cash from US taxpayers. $30,000 per Israeli citizen, per year.
Of which, 80% must be spent in the US. It is military aid, and does not go to Israeli citizens. The US also benefits from the R&D that Israel does. It is the best ROI the US receives from any of its foreign aid. Do you have a problem with the aid that goes to Arab countries that proclaim “Death to the US”? Or to the terrorist groups Hamas and the PLO? Or is it only Israel that bothers you.
Speak for yourself, Heinrich. I’m Jewish. I want nothing to do with a cousin ideology to Hitlerism. Zionism is a cancer on Judaism.
What do you think Zionism is? And comparing it to Hitlerism is obscene! Zionism is an integral part of Judaism which began with the Babylonian captivity. Why do you think we say, “Next year in Jerusalem” at our seders every year? That’s Zionism.
Zionism is a racist political ideology founded by a rabid German nationalist and self-hating Jew named Herzl.
Zionism is a racist, 19th-century political ideology invented by a rabid German nationalist and self-harting Jew named Herzl. In 1930s Germany, only the tiny Zionist cult and the NSDAP saw Jews as a race. It was this commonality of views that made the 1933-1939 Nazi-Zionist Cooperation Agreement possible.
‘[The German government] is in agreement with the great spiritual movement within Jewry itself, Zionism, whose position is based on the recognition of the unity of Jewry throughout the world, and the rejection of all ideas of mixing in.’ Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Final Solution, 1938, in Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, Francis R. Nicosia (http://tinyurl.com/y9uttvv8)
‘From a purely Zionist point of view, a pure and consistent point of view, it is not Hitler who is the enemy of the Jews and the Return to Zion, it is not Hitler who condemns us to fall into his hands time and again, but only Britain.’ – Stern Gang leader, Israel Eldad, had written in the spring of 1940
‘I did see enough to be very impressed with the way the Jewish colonists were building up their land. … In the years that followed I often said to Jews with whom I had dealings that had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist.’ Eichmann, Adolf, “Eichmann Tells His Own Damning Story”, Life (28 Nov. 1960) p 22.
‘Next year in J’lem’ is a call for the Messiah. It is a complete, sucked from Josef Goebbels’ member, invention.
Zionism is a ghettoized political ideology invented by a rabid German nationalist and self-hating Jew named Herzl. It is a completely modern invention with no connection to actual Judaism. Remember that in 1930s Germany, the only two political tendencies supporting the idea that Jews are a race were the NSDAP and the tiny German Zionist cult. It’s why the Nazi-Zionist Cooperation Agreement lasted from 1933 to 1939.
‘[The German government] is in agreement with the great spiritual movement within Jewry itself, Zionism, whose position is based on the recognition of the unity of Jewry throughout the world, and the rejection of all ideas of mixing in.’ Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Final Solution, 1938, in Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, Francis R. Nicosia (http://tinyurl.com/y9uttvv8).
‘I did see enough to be very impressed with the way the Jewish colonists were building up their land. … In the years that followed I often said to Jews with whom I had dealings that had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist.’ Eichmann, Adolf, “Eichmann Tells His Own Damning Story”, Life (28 Nov. 1960) p 22.
‘From a purely Zionist point of view, a pure and consistent point of view, it is not Hitler who is the enemy of the Jews and the Return to Zion, it is not Hitler who condemns us to fall into his hands time and again, but only Britain.’ – Stern Gang leader, Israel Eldad, had written in the spring of 1940
‘Next year in J’lem’ is the historic desire for the Messiah to establish a holy kingdom.
Zionism is a cancer on the Jewish soul.
The Nazis’ only interest in Zionism is that it would get the Jews out of Germany! It wasn’t until Hitler met the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Husseini, that he got the idea of exterminating them. The Zionists were also only interested in cooperating with the Nazis in order to get Jews out of Europe.
Belonging to the Jewish people is belonging to the Jewish ethnicity. Race is an outmoded concept that only racist give any credence to. Jews are genetically distinct from other ethnicities, regardless of what countries they may have lived in.
Next Year in Jerusalem is Zionism – the desire of the Jewish people to return to their homeland, of which Jerusalem is the heart. Both G-d and the League of Nations made this a reality.
It is clear that you love Goebbels’ semen! Your slander of the Mufti being responsible for the Holocaust is such a desperate defense of Zionism’s Nazi allies it’s funny!
As the old university histroy department saying goes, Apartheid, Nazi-imitating Israel has a great ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual record: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/netanyahu-faitytale-hitler-mufti-holocaust,
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-nazis-not-jerusalem-mufti-responsible-for-holocaust/?fb_comment_id=333218753468883_333374486786643.
What ‘Jewish peopleˇ??? Only Nazis and Zionists see Jews as a race. Normal people see Jews as adherents of a religion. YOU are the one fantasizing that this is the case.
Next year in J’lem is a call for the Messiah.
Please read a real book and not tracts from the lunatic, Nazi fringe.
https://israelunwired.com/swastika-flag-at-gaza-march-exposes-underlying-antisemitism-of-palestine/
https://mydailykvetch.blogspot.co.il/2015/04/palestinian-arabs-and-nazis.html
http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/1937.htm Arafat nazi connection
http://israelbehindthenews.com/20th-century-cleric-behind-21st-century-hate/16907/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ibn-today
Jews get to define themselves. So do Palestinians. This weird argument of trying to define people out of existence needs to die.
It is pretty obvious that Israel’s Law of Return was drafted as a response to the fact that Jews had so recently been persecuted for having any Jewish descent, regardless of actual belief.
There are plenty of Jews who are very aware of that fact and identify with their history even if they don’t have a formal belief in God – including some who don’t identify as Zionist (google UJPO or Humanist Judaism or Pew survey on American Jews).
That’s what he just said.
Then what about the genocide being carried out and planned against the Jews?
Should they fight back, or not?
Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel. This will mean death to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Jews.
Does that count as genocide?
Thank you for this pile of propaganda crap! Any person with the slightest trace of humanity has to hope for the destruction of the bucket of moral abortions of Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel! Gandhi called its very existence a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. Wanting the destruction of the Soviet Union was not a call for genocide. Wanting the destruction of Apartheid South Africa was not a call for genocide. I understand that you are basically just a sewer conduit of idiot propaganda, but it’s so clearly sucked from Josef Goebbels’ member that it is funny. The Nazi-imitating logic of the scum backing Apartheid Israel: Palestinians want to go back home. → This will destroy the Jewish character of Israel. → This will destroy Israel. → The Palestinians want to destroy Israel. → The Palestinians want to kill all the Jews. → The Palestinians are all terrorists.→ It’s OK to kill all Palestinians in self-defense.
Zion heil!
sounds like you have an opinion of what others do
and how is it you know so much about Nazis?
Here is the full version of what Gandhi wrote in 1938 – prior to both the full horror of the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/lsquo-the-jews-rsquo-by-gandhi
ETA: found an Indian review of a more comprehensive book on Gandhi’s views on the subject, which had apparently shown a shift by 1942. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/swarajyamag.com/amp/story/books%252Fthe-nuanced-shift-in-gandhis-views-about-israel
Very interesting. Of course in hindsight what he said made no sense.
What? You mean the existence of Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel ISN’T a crime against humanity?
I will pass on propaganda pieces.
Gandhi made the common error of likening the Crucifixion to a “Stigma” against the Jews; in Truth it was an prophetically foretold Achievement for which the Messiah was born & submitted to willingly. Without the shedding of HIS blood, there would be no Christians today.
Precisely how would they accomplish anything on that scale? With rocks? Primitive missiles?
The question is what would happen if they gained greater means. They already showed during the last war that they had rockets capable of reaching Tel Aviv.
They don’t currently have greater means because of the restrictions put in place by Israel – which unfortunately also make life more difficult for regular Gazans. If the goal is to actually make life easier for people, with greater fishing range, open port and freer trade, then the ideological threat needs to go and be replaced by peace.
Simply planning it is the same as committing it according to the Geneva Conventions. They should be punished by the UN, but, since the Muslims run the UN, that will never happen.
But since EVERY government on the planet and every body of law with a remit, including the Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israeli High Court of Justice recognize the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to the West Bank and Gaza (as well as E. J’lem and the Golan) as territories under foreign occupation, certain moral and legal consequences follow. Most salient: if the French Resistance had the right to slit the throats of foreign occupying Nazi scum in Occupied Paris, any native son or duaghter of Palestine has the EXACT SAME RIGHT to gut IDF scum like fish.
The law’s the law!
It’s my prayer that Raytown Law& litlover be blessed in Jesus Name. That the eyes of your hearts be opened to see that our battle is NOT against flesh & blood but against the principalities of darkness. I pray that the hate behind all terrorism be quenched by the greatest weapon of mass destruction-love. We can argue all day long or we can surrender our lives to become what God created us to be-made in His image & carry His love to all mankind. Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He demonstrated this perfect love by laying down His life…as He did so should we.It’s your choice to continue in ‘hate’ or to live in the light. To put it rather simply, I quote C.S.Lewis “You must make your choice. Either this man (Jesus)was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.
He did not intend to.”
I’m sorry, but as a Christian, I prefer Christ’s judgement to your own. “Judge not lest ye be judged”
The Christ that I believe doesn’t need WMDs or American taxpayer arsenals of weaponry
That Christ came to us and was called by his followers “Rabbi” which means teacher, no matter what C.S. Lewis said
Christ lived during the Roman occupation. He did not concern himself with these matters. You have Christ dressed in khaki with a sub-machine gun and big red button.
I pray for you, that you will repent of your wickedness and judgemental ways
The people of Palestine are not all terrorists, yet you would condemn all of those people, who worship the same god that you do (minus the combat fatigues) to annihilation – I pray for your soul
I’m glad to see you praying against terrorism. There will definitely be a day when G-d puts an end to all those who come against Israel. The powers of darkness have always fought against Israel, but they will be defeated. If you are a Christian, it would behoove you not to poke your finger in G-d’s eye.
… G-d will put an end to all the human stupidity and horrors claiming that G-d is on their side, rather. Israel’s sin has always been arrogance, pride, injustice, idolatry, rebellion. Those who claim to represent the Jewish people today, don’t really represent all Jews. Ask around and you will find that a lot of the Jewry is very critical of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, and the constant oppression. Reminiscent of what happened in Eastern Europe from the end of the 19th century. Think.
Its hard to take a Holocaust Denier seriously.
Remove the log from your own eye, before you try to help someone else.
Truth does not fear investigation.
Be sure to have ALL the facts…not just the ones you like, to make a decisive history (the last 70+ years) of who is right/wrong in this ongoing battle for land/rights/occupation? or not?
It’s not difficult. In settler-colonialism we know who is right and who is wrong. The settler-coloniser is always in the wrong. There are no two sides to a story where you have a gross imbalance of power between perpetrators and victims, as you do in settler-colonialism. Zionism is a settler-colonialist movement created to replace the non-Jewish indigenous people of Palestine with Jewish people from all over the world in an exclusively Jewish state. I am from Israel myself, before you tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Half of Israel is secullar. Why did Egypt and Jordan not offer the Gaza strip and the West Bank to the Palestinians when they controlled it before the 1967 war? Strange that.
yes, I want to know also!
http://ifamericaknew.org
What about the Rockets & Mortars?
It’s called ‘resistance’ to an occupying army and a life of servitude just for being Palestinians. Being a semitic people too, this is antisemitism. NEVER AGAIN was meant for ALL nations and peoples.
King David took Jerusalem away from the Jebusites 3,000 years ago & David was Jewish (no Jebusites exist today) & Israel has had a Jewish presence ever since; usually a Majority’
You are wrong. Wishy-washy propaganda. Let me share with you the power of GOOGLE to find facts.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-and-non-jewish-population-of-israel-palestine-1517-present
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c8ed94edb9a3f1ecff053d44a88c0d244712f31d67bcba333c9fa7954a60e6b0.png
There’s no such thing as “semitic” people. The term refers to a language group and to the peopole who speak those languages. On the other hand, the term “antisemitism” was specifically coined to mean hatred of the Jews – not anybody else, just the Jews.
Word Origin and History for anti-Semitism
n.
also antisemitism, 1881, from German Antisemitismus, first used by Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) German radical, nationalist and race-agitator, who founded the Antisemiten-Liga in 1879; see anti- + Semite.
Not etymologically restricted to anti-Jewish theories, actions, or policies, but almost always used in this sense. Those who object to the inaccuracy of the term might try Hermann Adler’s Judaeophobia (1882). Anti-Semitic (also antisemitic) and anti-Semite (also antisemite) also are from 1881, like anti-Semitism they appear first in English in an article in the “Athenaeum” of Sept. 31, in reference to German literature.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Anti-Semitism, hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time.
I reckon’ a Fair International Court would Honor the 1922 San Remo’ Borders & send the Pali’s across the Jordan where they belong.
The essence of ‘Jewish democracy’: ‘We will gas you till you die!’ — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC5_W_zUzHc
It saddens me to the core this threat of execution for throwing stones. This is directly in breach of the Geneva Conventions
You are a very sick human being and vile Antisemite with no understanding of the full context, history, and scope of the conflict. Some genocide with the Palestinian Muslim population growing. That’s a first, but I notice you also didn’t allude to the pesky fact that these same Arab Muslims (look up all the cases in history where they refer to themselves as 1 Arab nation) have ethnically cleansed more Jews from the vast Arab world that outnumbers Israel 1000 to 1. How about their dispossessed status? How about their loss of land, rights and freedoms? I see you also didn’t include the pesky nugget that these same Arab Muslims fought with and coordinated with Hitler during the Holocaust. Look up the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and all his nefarious activities. So you mean to tell me, you exclude all that, and the very obvious fact that the sole Jewish state the size of NJ has millions of minorities and Arab Muslims while the vast Arab world has truly been ethnically cleansed of Jews and all religious minorities, but it’s tiny Israel that is guilty of apartheid and genocide. You make me absolutely sick and should be ashamed of yourself to spread such vile lies and filth. Grow a brain, read more, and educate yourself, instead of falling for the propaganda of Arafat the Egyptian and Hamas, hook, line, and sinker. One more point, there was never an Independent Muslim nation of Palestine in history at all. There was, and is, an Israel, however, as well as Jerusalem, which has been the capital of the Jewish people for 3000 plus years. Israel has actually given back quite a bit of land. The original mandate said they could reside and recreate a homeland in all of the geographic area of Palestine, which includes modern day Jordan, the real Muslim Pal state if they can’t live in peace and with Jews. Israel willingly accepted them lopping Jordan off from the mandate. Modern Israel is still only a fraction of Biblical Israel and Israel has also given back even more land in Gaza and parts of Judea and Samaria (the ill named West Bank for stupid liberals). If you bothered to read at all, you’d know the term Palestinian as far as a national group was hijacked by the Egyptian, Arafat, to describe yet another Judenrhein Muslim nationality that never existed before 1967. Of course you left that out too. The most vile lie of all is referring to only Muslims as indigenous people. Israel contains the oldest Jewish communities in the world and Jews are just as indigenous as Muslims, probably far more so actually. Just check the impartial British census stats upon Israel’s rebirth to see how Muslims unfairly inflate stats and apply a definition to refugees never used before in recorded human history. It’s all a total sham and for you to be spreading the lies, smears, and propaganda of Islamist extremists is the height of pure idiocy, spitting on Jews, spitting on victims of the Holocaust, and an utter disgrace. Wake the hell up!
Wow! A whole gallon of invented ‘narrative’. I guess the article touched a nerve.
Because you know better
Indeed I do. I actually know the history, not some regugitated Goebbels’Gonad Juice — beverage of every apologist for Apartheid Israel. I go by the old university history department saying that while Israel has a great ‘narative’, Palestine has the actual documented record. It has never failed to prove correct.
Unadulterated BS. All the archaelogy, history, & Holy Books point to Israel, not some phony narrative dreamt up by Arafat the Egyptian in 1967
How ’bout the British Mandate authorities?: ‘For the sake of convenience it is usual to speak of the Moslem population as “Arabs”, though the actual Arab element in the blood of the people is probably confined to what is really a landed aristocracy, the vast majority of the population, both Moslem and Christian being of mixed blood and largely consisting of indigenous races which have occupied the country [Wait for it!] from time immemorial.’ — Sir Philip Palin, Report on Nebi Musa Disturbances, April 1920.
How ’bout a Polish mass murderer? ‘David Ben-Gurion [actual Polish name: Grunn] and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi claimed that the population at the time of the Arab conquest was mainly Christian, of Jewish origins, which underwent conversion to avoid a tax burden, basing their argument on ‘the fact that at the time of the Arab conquest, the population of Palestine was mainly Christian, and that during the Crusaders’ conquest some four hundred years later, it was mainly Muslim. As neither the Byzantines nor the Muslims carried out any large-scale population resettlement projects, the Christians were the offspring of the Jewish and Samaritan farmers who converted to Christianity in the Byzantine period; while the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders’ conquest.’’ Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine,634-1099 Cambridge University Press, (1983) 1997 pp.222-3
How ’bout the Encyclo-freaking-pedia Britannica?: ‘The process of Arabization and Islamization was gaining momentum there. It was one of the mainstays of Umayyad power and was important in their struggle against both Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula…. Conversions arising from convenience as well as conviction then increased. …. The predominantly Christian population gradually became predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking. At the same time, during the early years of Muslim control of the city, a small permanent Jewish population returned to Jerusalem after a 500-year absence.’ Encyclopædia Britannica, Palestine,’From the Arab Conquest to 1900
How ’bout the hard sciences and a standard university textbook?: ‘Palestinians are an indigenous people who either live in, or originate from, historical Palestine. Although the Muslims guaranteed security and allowed religious freedom to all inhabitants of the region, the majority converted to Islam and adopted Arab culture.’ Peter D. Turnpenny et al., ‘Genetic Disease in Palestine and Palestinians,’ in Dhavendra Kuma (ed.) Genomics and Health in the Developing World, OUP 2012 pp.700-711, p.700
How ’bout an Anglican priest and Holocaust scholar?: ‘[T]he word ‘Arab’ needs to be used with care. It is applicable to the Bedouin and to a section of the urban and effendi classes; it is inappropriate as a description of the rural mass of the population, the fellaheen. The whole population spoke Arabic, usually corrupted by dialects bearing traces of words of other origin, but it was only the Bedouin who habitually thought of themselves as Arabs. Western travelers from the sixteenth century onwards make the same distinction, and the word ‘Arab’ almost always refers to them [Bedouin] exclusively. . .Gradually it was realized that there remained a substantial stratum of the pre-Israelite peasantry, and that the oldest element among the peasants were not ‘Arabs’ in the sense of having entered the country with or after the conquerors of the seventh century, had been there already when the Arabs came.’ James Parkes, Whose Land? A History of the Peoples of Palestine,(1949) rev.ed.Penguin, 1970 pp.209-210
How ’bout a Catholic theologian?: ‘While population transfers were effected in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian periods, most of the indigenous population remained in place [during the Muslim Conquest]. Moreover, after Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 the population by and large remained in situ, and did so again after Bar Kochba’s revolt in AD 135. When the vast majority of the population became Christian during the Byzantine period, no vast number were driven out, and similarly in the seventh century, when the vast majority became Muslim, few were driven from the land. Palestine has been multi-cultural and multi ethnic from the beginning, as one can read between the lines even in the biblical narrative. Many Palestinian Jews became Christians, and in turn Muslims. Ironically, many of the forebears of Palestinian Arab refugees may well have been Jewish.’ Micheal Prior, Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry, Psychology Press 1999 p.201
How about a capital or leader or government or history or founding?
Can’t read, eh? Typical moron for Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel!
How ’bout a standard university history textbook written by the Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, 2003-2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005-2007? ‘Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture.’–Dowty, Alan (2008). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Polity. p. 221
A.k.a. ARABS
Illiteracy: a requirement of supporting Apartheid Israel.
THAT old Goebbels’ Gonad Juice favorite, that there were no Palestinians before 1967? All the archeology, all the history points to the universal academic consensus: that Palestine’s native Christians and Muslims have roots going back to the Bronze Age. Don’t believe me? Read the ACTUAL DOCUMENTED RECORD:
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Goebbels’Gonad Juice: Beverage of choice for all supporters of apartheid Israel.
How ’bout the 1911 Encylopedia? ‘The pure Arab origin of the Bedouins is recognized in common conversation in the country, the word “Arab” being almost restricted to denote these wanderers, and seldom applied to the dwellers in towns and villages…The sedentary population of the country villages – the fellahin, or agriculturists – is, on the whole, comparatively unmixed; but traces of various intrusive strains assert themselves. It is by no means unreasonable to suppose that there is a fundamental Canaanite element in this population: the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” often remain undisturbed through successive occupations of a land; and there is a remarkable correspondence of type between many of the modern fellahin and skeletons of ancient inhabitants which have been recovered in the course of excavation.’
Wow, another person who doesn’t WANT to believe Israel is justified in their defense of country and self.
Foreign occupation and genocide are not defense.
You don’t understand the legal definitions of occupation, foreign, or genocide. Come back when you do.
The legal definition of occupation is given in the Fourth Geneva Convention, and every court with a remit in the world — even Apartheid Israel’s own HCJ — agrees that it applies to the West Bank, Gaza, East J’lem and the Golan. The legal definition of genocide is in Article II of the International Genocide Convention. It fits Apartheid Israel like a glove. Sad to see far-right bigots like you living in an alternative reality of denial!
According to the Geneva Conventions, there must be another sovereign nation on the land being occupied. There wasn’t, and there isn’t. Hence, no occupation. The Israeli High Court created a legal fiction of there being on occupation for the purpose of ruling on one specific case. In addition, overall, Israel has tried to follow the principles laid out in the Geneva Conventions even though there is no actual occupation. UNSC 242 acknowledges that the territories are in contention, not that they are occupied.
The only groups in the region who meet the definition of genocide are Hamas and the PLO. They have conspired to murder all the Jews living in Israel. The proof is in the Hamas Charter and the PLO Covenant.
Now, you show, using real events or documents, how Israel is committing genocide.
Finally, it isn’t apartheid if it’s not a government discriminating against a segment of its own citizenry. Since all citizens of Israel are equal under the law, there is no apartheid.
Made up nonsense that has been laughed out of every legal body on the planet. The Israeli HCJ, unlike you, has to deal with reality. UN 242 recognizes no disputed territory whatsoever. The second line of the preamble — ‘Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war…’. DO actually read the definition of genocide, ignorant fanatic. It would make at least you look less of an idiot.
Read the documentation as well as later legal arguments. “The inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war.” was written to prevent another Germany. It is understand that if a nation is attacked, and manages to take territory, it has every right to keep it. Regardless, that is not what happened in Israel. This has nothing to do with genocide.
UN242 was written to end the conflict with Jordan and Egypt, not the Arabs left behind by them. Israel signed peace treaties with both countries, both of whom gave up all claim to the territories they had illegally occupied after 1948.
I have read the actual documentation. I have also read the universally-rejected ‘arguments’ invented by far-right fanatics like you. ‘The principle of inadmissibility of acquiring territory by force has become part of general international law, endowed with the character of a preemptory rule of international law (jus cogens). It has been confirmed in such instruments as, inter alia, the Friendly Relations Declaration of the General Assembly (GA) in 1970 and reaffirmed in a series of Security Council (SC) resolutions concerned with specific cases, including Resolution 242….The illegality of acquisition of territory by force is interpreted extensively to encompass also acquisition of the aggressor’s territory by the victim state in the exercise of the right of self-defense.’–International Law: A Dictionary, Boleslaw Boczek, p. 214. — www dot tinyurl dot com/hlt6tvm
You fantasy of 242 is equally baseless.
Aparthied Israel has a made-up ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual record.
‘According to the Geneva Conventions, there must be another sovereign nation on the land being occupied. ‘ Where EXACTLY is that in GCIV??? Cite chapter and verse.
Goebbels’ spunk drinking Apartheid Israel has a fake, BS ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual record.
Prove me wrong!
Look it up yourself. Try the Fourth Geneva Convention. It’s right there in black and white.
As to the actual record, you continue to fail to produce it.
Look it up yourself. EVERY legal body with an actual remit has laughed you far-right, extremist nonsense out of court! PROVE me wrong. Show me a SINGLE judicial body supporting your fantasies. Not a whitewash ‘commission’. Not an opinion piece. An actual legal decision. Me. I’ve got every country in the world and every legal body on the planet on my factually based side. You. You’ve got insane Bibi and insane Trump in your Nazi love-a-thon.
Zion heil, ignorant maggot!
I almost missed your clueless and ignorant posts. I keep wondering if you are capable of making a post that is something more than an insult.
I assume not.
I know GCIV. I know the rectally-extracted nonsense you make of it. Too bad for you that EVERY court with a remit in the matter has laughed your fantasies out of court.
PROVE ME WRONG, punk! Show us an actual legal body — not a whitewash commission, not an opinion piece — that has assigned an Apartheid Israeli claim to so much as a single olive pit in the West Bank, a single strawberry in Gaza, a single grain of dust in East Jerusalem or a single grapevine in the Golan.
C’mon girl! Show us your stuff!
Under the Nation State law, Apartheid Israel is a state only for its Jewish population. All others are second-class. I understand that you live off of the spunk you suck from Goebbels’ rigid member. It’s typical of Israel apologists.
Those of us living in the non-racial-fanatic world, however, deal with the real world.
First, Israel has always been the Jewish state. Putting it in writing changed nothing. Show me in the Nation State law where anyone’s civil or religious rights were affected, or where any existing law was superseded.
You are quite right. Apartheid Israel has never been a normal democratic state of all its citizens! It has, from its inception, benn an apartheid monstrosity and alien to the family of democratic nations.
Wow!! So defending one’s country is now genocide!? If the moslem world, especially the made up people of the made up state of palestine laid down their arms, there’d be peace that very day; if Israel laid down their, that very day the arab world would wipe them off the face of the planet!
Hmmm how long has Israel had a country? Oh only about 70 years. How long has Palestine been a country on the same land that Israel is claiming as theirs? Oh maybe a couple of thousand years longer than Israel. Who has an army, navy and airforce? Oh now that would be Israel. Who does not have an army navy and airforce? Wow hard question… Could it be Palestine? Of course it is genocide when one side fights back with slingshots. Made up state my arse you ignorant, no knowledge of history idiot
Other than as the name of the region of the Southern Levant that is the home of ancient and modern Israel, there is no such thing as Palestine. The so-called Palestinians are simply Arabs who invaded the region in the 7th century, and came again from the neighboring Arab countries as economic migrants during the late 19th and early 20th century when the Jews began to return and to make the the region prosperous. The “Palestinians” have no history before Arafat named them in 1964.
As far as genocide, the Arab population in Gaza and Judea and Samaria has steadily increased since 1948. Since 1967, when Israel recaptured their land, the Arab quality of life has been higher than any other Arabs in the region. Their longevity has increased, and their infant mortality has decreased. That’s a pretty unsuccessful genocide.
When Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, officials took measures to improve the conditions that Palestinians had lived under during Jordan’s 19-year occupation of the West Bank, and Egypt’s occupation of Gaza. Universities were opened, Israeli agricultural innovations were shared, modern conveniences were introduced, and health care was significantly upgraded. More than 100,000 Palestinians were employed in Israel, and were paid the same wages as Israeli workers, which stimulated economic growth. There were 708 Palestinian villages in the region, four of which had running water. Today, about 96% of West Bank Palestinians have running water in their home.
https://firstonethrough.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/mad-world-of-palestinian-quality-of-life-statistics/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-arabs-have-highest-life-expectancy-in-arab-muslim-world/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_campaign=20171228_m143272748_Iran+to+Support+Hamas+in+%27Battle+for+Jerusalem%27%3B+Palestinians+Publish+Online+Guide+to+%27Rock-Throwing+Terror%27+for+Kids&utm_term=Israeli+Arabs+Have+Highest+Life+Expectancy+in+Arab-Muslim+World
that is not really the details – I guess you forgot the Jews were there at least 2000 years ago???
So I suppose you also think that all non-Native Americans should be sent packing from the Americas, Hungarians have a ‘racial right’ to parts of Central Asia and the Irish have the right to reoccupy Bohemia.
you are creating a logical fallacy called “moving the target”
Feel free to invent a non-existent fallacy. I am only applying your logic to other situations and only questioning the consistency of your apparent argument.
If, by your chop-logic, there is such a thing as a racial/religious ‘claim’ to territory (There isn’t.), then shouldn’t it apply universally? If multi-ethnic, multi-racial Jews have the right to turn back the clock by 2,000 years to the time when the now dead Ancient Hebrews ran Palestine, why shouldn’t Native Americans, Hungarians and Celts have the same right?
Me, I go by actual law. Self-determination is what determines sovereignty, and self-determination is what was specifically denied to the native population of Palestine by the colonial Mandate.
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Genocide? How laughable. If I was in charge, after the first kassam was launched, I would have eradicated those rats with impunity.
Of course you would. You need to see them as sub human so that you can justify taking their land and attempting to destroy them as a people. The hatred that so many Americans have for African- Americans, and that white people in our intermountain west see our indigenous. It’s necessary to see them a subhuman in order to justify the wrongs that have been done to them. Welcome to the club schmuck.
This guy has no clue when it comes to facts. The so called Palestinians once include Jews and Arabs that lived in the land then called Palestine and was Israel before the Romans renamed it.
When Israel came back into existence all those Arabs were invited to be citizens but they refused because their Arab neighbors convinced them they would soon take back the land. Then when they could not these Palestinian Arabs were not allowed to settle in the neighboring Arab nations by their Arab brothers. They were not a distinct people called Palestinians until their terrorist leader, Arafat, start pushing the term.
Israel has bent over backwards trying to accommodated these people offering them everything they wanted yet Arafat refused. Israel even removed their own people out of the area known as Gaza and turning the land, buildings, homes, gardens, orchards and all kinds of improvements to the Palestinians and these people were so grateful (sarcasm) they destroyed all the improvements because they wanted nothing of the Jews. Then they turned around and rained thousands of rockets down on the Jews.
No this guy is clueless and too many are blind to the truth.
Pure historical fiction sucked straight out of Joseph Goebbels’ rigid member.
Good old Hephie, the guy who lives in a parallel universe where things are different.
Poor little, uneducated bigot!
Zion heil!
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-discussdisqus/admin_racism_and_harassment/ lmao this guy
Brian is a delusional Nazi.
Since Apartheid Israel has only an invented ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual documented record, lunatic-fringe fanatics like Bwyan’s only option is to try to ban those with the actual historical record: if you can’t win the argument, shut down the other speaker. The McCarthyite tactics demonstrate the testicularly-challenged position of the supporters of Apartheid Israel. They are finding out, like Bwyan, that the artificial reality they live in simply doesn’t fly any more in the real world and want to silence any voices of sanity. Nobody buys the idea that calling out Apartheid Israel as a Nazi wannabe state is in any way, shape or form anti-semitic when Apartheid Israel is so obviously goose-stepping its way into a dystopian racialist nightmare state in the process of fulfilling the ideology of Zionism.
dom’t remember Jews attacking Hitler, Ukrainians attacking Stalin,Cambodians attacking Pol Pot=Isreal is defending itself against ROCKETS!! They gave up Gaza & what happened? MORE ROCKETS!! Get ur head ooya!
Israel never actually gave up Gaza. That’s the point. Gazans are now fighting for their very lives. It is Gazans that defending themselves against the invaders of Israel.
Odd that Israel stopped taking the lands from Jordan, Sinai, Syria, Lebanon, (all the other neighbours) etc – only from the ‘Palestine’ lands….
I think all logical people can see that maybe the Palestines could have their own nation when they start acting civilised…..
Israel didn’t take any land from anyone! In fact, they even gave back land to Egypt. The Arabs currently occupying Judea and Samaria and Gaza do not want their own nation – their self-declared goal is to destroy Israel and to commit genocide against the Jews. Read the Hamas Covenant and the PLO Charter – here are the links:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/plocov.asp
We all understand that, as an Israel apologist, your model is Joseph Goebbels, father of the Big Lie.
Too bad that EVERY single government on the planet EVERY single body of international law or court with a remit from the UN Security Council (Resolutions 242, 298, 446, 452, 468, 469, 471, 476, 478, 607, 608, 636, 641, 672, 673, 681, 694, 726, 799, 904, 2334 [23 December 2016]) to the International Court of Justice (2005 Wall Opinion) to the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to the International Committee of the Red Cross to even Israel’s own High Court of Justice (Duweikat et al.[1979], Mara’abe v The Prime Minister of Israel [2005], Israeli HCJ 619/78 “El Tal’ia” Weekly v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 69/81 Abu Ita v. Commander of the Area of Judea and Samaria; Israeli HCJ 606/78 Ayoob v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 393/82 Jam’iat Ascan Elma’almoon Eltha’aooniah Elmahduda Elmaoolieh v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the Area of Judea and Samaria) says that you are simply full of it.
Stuff the U.N.
Yes, I understand that Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel prefers the legal world that enabled the Holocaust. Both the Nazis and their ideological cousins — the Zionists — SPIT on the laws put in place as a consequence of the Holocaust to prevent a repeat. It’s because the Nazis and the Zionists are cut from the same ideological cloth.
Zion heil!
Do you even know what apartheid is?
Of course I do! Its legal definition is covered in Article II of the International Apartheid Convention. It fits Apartheid Israel like a glove.
Please give the definition here, and show, point by point, how it fits Israel, keeping in mind that the Arabs in Judea and Samaria are not Israeli citizens.
The black natives were not citizens of the RSA, moron. That’s how apartheid works.
There is no such entity as ‘Judea and Samaria’. It is a figment of fanatic fantasy.
Look it up, slut!
Wow. Israel didn’t give back land to Egypt. They traded land they stole from Egypt for the land in Lebanon. They neutralized Egypt from coming to Lebanon’s defense.
And please read the REAL Charters. Both Hamas and the PLO recognize Jewish rights and Isel.
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Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt. Israel didn’t trade any land with Egypt. The part of the land that Israel captured in Lebanon became a legal buffer zone. If you have proof of anything different, please provide citations.
Neither Hamas nor the PLO recognize the legal existence of Israel. The citations I gave above are the real documents.
They neutralized Egypt by returning the Sinai. Egypt did not come to Lebanon;s aid when Israel invaded. The ‘buffer zone’ is the only part of Lebanon they were able to keep. Isreal went all the way to Beirut. My husband was a Hebrew Arabic translate during the war.
If those are the real charters of the PLO and Hamas, then they are old. It was in the newws today that the PLO was thinking of reversing recognition due to Israel keeping the Golan and annexing Gaza.
I suppose you could say that because of the peace treaty and return of the Sinai that Israel had “neutralized” Egypt, but that is only one perspective. It certainly wasn’t done to prevent Egypt from aiding Lebanon in the future.
Those are the actual documents. There were promises that they would be amended, but they never were. As far as the PLO’s “recognition”, they never agreed that Israel was the Jewish state, so it amounted to nothing.
Ever heard of the Basic Bigot Sniff Test? You simply switch the group named to see if the idea is knuckle-walking, slack-jawed bigotry or not.
Shall we play?
Your sentence: ‘maybe the Palestines [Sic! Why are all supporters of Apartheid Israel illiterate monkeys?] could have their own nation when they start acting civilised’ = (with changes for literacy: ‘maybe the JEWS could have their own nation when they start acting civilised’.
The resulting sentence implies that Jews are uncivilised monkey idiots. It is clearly anti-semitic. Thus your sentence is bigoted nonsense. This is because the ruling ideology of Apartheid Israel — Zionism — is a Nazi copycat ideology.
Zion heil, bigoted maggot!
Ever heard of the Basic Bigot Sniff Test? You simply switch the group named to see if the idea is knuckle-walking, slack-jawed bigotry or not.
Shall we play?
Your sentence: ‘maybe the Palestines [Sic!] Why are all supporters of Apartheid Israel illiterate monkeys?] could have their own nation when they start acting civilised’ = (with changes for literacy: ‘maybe the JEWS could have their own nation when they start acting civilised’.
The resulting sentence implies that Jews are uncivilised monkey idiots. It is clearly anti-semitic. Thus your sentence is bigoted nonsense. This is because the ruling ideology of Apartheid Israel — Zionism — is a Nazi copycat ideology.
Zion heil, bigoted maggot!
Just constant name calling – there is bigotry!
Learn to read, ignorant maggot.
ad hominem – used by those without a sound foundation or beliefs.
I have been reading this crap since the 60’s……
Talk to your hateful muslim mates…..
You need to read up on the ad hominem fallacy. Like most ignorant bigots, you do not know what it is. I call maggots like you maggots because I am honest.
Zion heil, maggot.
As bad as all the religionists – don’t get your way so you go straight to insult… You have shown your character, and who you defend….
Like all cornered bigots, all you can do is whine.
Zion heil!
What a sick person you are – You talk the nazi talk with all the hatreds common to their methods and yet you call everyone a nazi?
You brave? Tell us your name and town….
Piss off.
Obsessed extremist obviously, and now you are starting to sound demented in your obsession, and possibly dangerous.
(over the decades I was at least able to see both points of view while you are just an obnoxious hater)
You fail the Basic Bigot Sniff Test. You are a bigot.
In comparison – to you?
I make an observation in fact and you go on an aggressive attack with personal insult —
You have shown a hatred that is dangerous and warrants investigation.
(You might want to start shutting down your accounts…)
You follow the course of all zio-maggots. With no defence for Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel, you get the vapors at direct language.
You are such a funny little maggot.
Zion heil!
Having to resort to insult just tells us that you cannot handle
the logic and truth of the Palestinians’ refusal to even discuss peace’
[forcing Israel to act in these aggressive manners…]!!
Why should anybody negotiate when the issue is 100% clear? Nazi-butt-licking Apartheid Israel, according to EVERY government in the world, EVERY body of international law and EVERY court with a remit, has a legal claim to 0.00000000000000000% of the Occupied Palestinian Territoties. The ONLY thing that must happen is for the scum to leave.
Zion heil, maggot.
When your Hamas, and Brotherhood and other terrorist scum decide to negotiate, ‘Every’ government will know!
Right now – they all do know who is at fault for no negotiations…. regardless of all your opinions and cherry picking to defend a group which deserves no defence…
Go talk to your own scum….I don’t really care about Israel – only about the terrorism of Islam… which you are defending…
What need is there to negotiate? All that has to happen is for Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel to comply with international law.
Oh just stop your childish ‘nazi’ crap — you accuse everyone of being a nazi when they disagree with you – that – in and of itself – tells us all we need to know about your character and education in these matters !!
You defend Palestine ie Hamas and terrorism !!
That is all we see from your mouth…!
Nothing childish at all about calling out Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel on its shared ideology with the Third Reich. I do not defend terrorism. Your stating that I do merely reflects the gallons of Goebbels Gonad Juice — beverage of choice among all supporters of Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel — that you have sucked from Goebbels’ rigid member.
Zion heil, ignorant maggot!
No – you are demented in your obsession with everyone being nazis in your mind – when you don’t get your way;
you utilise the methodology of the nazis yourself with the constant irresponsible, and criminal, accusations!
These are tactics known to be used by your ilk.
Simply because you reject the documented fact that, before WWII, the Nazis and the ZIonists were on the same page; simply because you reject the commonly known fact that both Nazism and Zionism are daughter ideologies of German Nationalism and anti-semitism, simply because you spout a fabricated historical ‘narrative’ that would make Joseph Goebbels proud of you does not make me in any way ‘obsessed’ by the fact that you walk, talk and goose-step like a Nazi.
Zion heil!
Now we know that you are deluded in your own lies….
there is evidence everywhere of Nazis and Priests; and Nazis and Clerics!!
You are a radical extremist backing the Muslim ideology to just hate….
I am a Muslim only in your fevered imagination. The only ideology I support is basic democracy. The shared love between the Nazis and the ZIonists is well documented.
‘[The German government] is in agreement with the great spiritual movement within Jewry itself, Zionism, whose position is based on the recognition of the unity of Jewry throughout the world, and the rejection of all ideas of mixing in.’ Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Final Solution, 1938, in Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, Francis R. Nicosia www [dot] tinyurl [dot] com/y9uttvv8).
‘From a purely Zionist point of view, a pure and consistent point of view, it is not Hitler who is the enemy of the Jews and the Return to Zion, it is not Hitler who condemns us to fall into his hands time and again, but only Britain.’ — Stern Gang terrorist leader, Israel Eldad, 1940
Got that wrong too…!
Where did I accuse you of being a Muslim??
and Islam is the complete opposite of democratic principles except one – majority rules!!
The shared love between the Nazis and the Muslims is far more documented. Not so much with the ‘zionists’….
Look. I understand that you are most likely the product of multiple generations of incest and thus a slack-jawed cracker MAGA moron, but you really ought to read a book sometime. Zionism’s collaboration with the Hitlerites was extensive. At least one Israeli premier —the Belorussian Yitzhak Jezernitsky (fake ‘Hebrew-sounding’ name: Shamir) —wanted to fight alongside them against Britain. There was the 1933-1939 Nazi-Zionist Cooperation agreement. Then, of course, there are their shared ideological outlooks and views — racial supremacism, military fetish, blood and soil nationalism, cult of violence, cult of victimhood, doctrine of lebensraum and genocidal drive. Now with the Jewish Power party set to enter government in Zio-Naziland, this is completely out in the open. Even Einstein made the comparison.
Why you would think that a non-religious anti-colonial movement for national liberation whose central leadership has historically been overrepresented by Christians is a Muslim religious movement can only be caused by your less-than-grade-school education afforded you by your crack ho mom.
Zion heil!
The shared love between the Nazis and the Muslims is far more documented. Not so much with the ‘zionists’….
No. You make a moronically bigoted statement, and I call you on it, idiot maggot.
Well, you are certainly well familiar with the ad hominem fallacy, you use it more than everyone else here. Even in the post about the ad hominem fallacy you use an ad hominem.
You continued and repeated use of ad hominems, tells everyone else that your opinions and beliefs are pretty much worthless.
Look, Alicia, I understand that you are an unschooled moron. I feel sorry for you, so I will explain the terms. Please take notes.
Example 1: My statement that you are unschooled. This is called a ‘logical deduction’ or an ‘observation’. It is a mere statement of observed fact based on the evidence of your posts. It has about as much emotional charge as observing the blueness of the sky.
Example 2: My statement that you are a moron. This is called an ‘insult’. I use it to display my utter contempt for unschooled morons.
Example 3: The ad hominem fallacy. This is ‘achieved’ when someone argues that the sky cannot be blue because the person saying that it is blue is, say, a Bible-thumping idiot, and Bible-thumping idiots are never right. The point of the fallacy is to avoid the actual subject of the discussion by shifting ‘to the man’– ad hominem. It is very frequently used these days by apologists for Israeli genocide when they call people terrorists for criticizing Israeli mass murder.
As in our previous exchanges, the value of my postings rests in their being based on the ACTUAL DOCUMENTED RECORD, which I have no trouble linking to. Unlike indoctrinated scum like you who have a ‘faith-based’ connection to reality.
Since I have a LOT more schooling that you do and my IQ is a LOT higher than yours, if I am an unschooled moron (with nearly 400 credit hours of post secondary education including 2 bachelor degrees and 2 masters degrees) then that makes you.
However, an ad hominem is an attack on the person, the truth or falsehood of the attack is irrelevant. Calling me an unschooled moron is meaningless since even an unschooled moron can actually be correct in their statements, even if only accidentally.
All your insults do is prove that you do not have a reasonable argument against what someone has said so you resort to insults, i.e. ad hominems.
Oh, and I also have a far more realistic view of the Biblical text than you do, your dismissal of the books of the Bible is just as bad and as foolish as the “Christian” fundamentalists who take it as literal truth.
You are also clearly biased and tend to reject any and all facts that do not support your position and worldview.
That pretty much makes anything you type worthless.
I really do enjoy how unschooled bigots believe that they can read minds via the internet! How else would you claim to know either my IQ or level of education. I WILL offer you a chance to prove your mind-reading skills however. Simply tell me the consistency of my last bowel movement — from rocky road to Bellagio Fountains. Get it right and I will believe you.
I’d like to suggest to all the so-called Christians on this thread that they first read Romans 11, and then the entire Tanach (Old Covenant) so that you could understand G-d’s love for the Jewish people and the Land which He gave to them.
the idiotic author of this piece of garbage conveniently leaves out many things like the constant attacks by Palestinians on Israel and Israeli citizens. nor does he mention the Palestinian Hamas run government or their death to Israel charter. he lies about it conditions and so called illegal settlements. honestly Israel has been accused of Apartheid like conditions and genocide for so long that they probably ought to just slaughter each and every last palestinian and be done with it. but for some reason they don’t? strange? why? perhaps this quote from Golda Meir can explain it. “When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” or perhaps this one, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” I think that these two quotes sum up why Israel is not guilty of the things they claim. it is also the reason why they work so hard to not kill as many as they can. each and every time they clash the Israelis could retaliate much harder than they do. the Palestinians constantly wail and cry about the children that THEY PURPOSELY PUT IN HARMS WAY! and decry the Israelis for killing a few of their children that Hamas has purposely and deliberately placed on the battlefield. but when all is said and done the Israeli strikes are surgical in nature rather than wanton destruction. incremental genocide? yet another bullshit made up term by the left. ridiculous!
Great post Robert. It’s actually Palestine who is guilty of genocide, many times over.
Absolute garbage. Yet morons pass this around Facebook as if it’s fact.
As always, Jews and evangelicals hate the truth.
“Christian” fundamentalists hate the truth. Jews seek the truth. I am a progressive ELCA Lutheran and I also seek the truth. You seem to ignore the truth.
Alicia, read the article: “Does the term apartheid fit Israel? Of course it does” from the Los Angeles Times. Or, you can go on You Tube and watch: “Israel Persecutes Christians” form a 60 Minutes documentary. Better yet, go to israel and talk to Palestinians. Stop living in ignorance!
Israel does not discriminate against Christians, Muslims, Arabs, or anybody. They are one of the most democratic states on this planet.
The article has almost as many lies as Donald ‘john’ Trump says in a day.
If you went to Israel and spoke with Christians, Muslims, Arabs, and others, you would learn that I am right. Now, if you go to Occupied Jordan, a.k.a. the West Bank, you will hear a different story. Of course, taking the talk of an occupied people as truth…
Well there is little more foolish than that.
You are the one living in ignorance.
You never visited Israel, Alicia, or the West Bank, never spoken to a Christian Palestinian, have you?
I do know people who have, including one of my professors who is one of the leading authorities on Jewish-Muslim relations.
Alicia, you REALLY need to read up! Israel has a two-tiered citizenship. Le’um — members of the ‘Jewish people’ — are ‘nationals while non-Jewish ezrahut are mere ‘citizens’. The two classes of citizen most definitely do NOT have the same rights, especially with regard to property, with over 90% of it blocked to non-Jews. If you go by the estimate of the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property, 70% of the deeded real estate inside Israel’s legal 1949 borders is confiscated native Christian and Muslim PRIVATE property taken from the owners BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T JEWISH. They and their heirs cannot return to their confiscated private property BECAUSE THEY AREN’T JEWISH. They can claim no compensation for their private property BECAUSE THEY AREN’T JEWISH.
I realize that to be a supporter of Israel is to be an ignorant bigot, but you could try learning not to hate so much. It’s never too late.
I have. I know what is going on in Israel. Mostly because I don’t listen to the lies that get spread but talk with people who have actually been there. YOU are the one who needs to do some research.
I have read, both sides. You are the only one who needs to learn.
You merely spew regurgitated dogma. It is typical of uneducated morons. Read a single book other than the Bible.
Well, Alicia … “There are none so blind than those who will not see.” Good luck!
True, try opening your eyes.
I have seen BOTH sides, you have only seen one.
Right, you should open your eyes and try to see both sides.
Nonsense. Writing that this genocide and just afterwards it is not genocide, but…
It’s terrifying how many scary, stupid people are out there. Apparently, a lot of them subscribe to this blog. Thank you for self-identifying.
Very true. The Likud is culpable for mass murder and the Irgun committed terrorist atrocities even before World War II. Fortunately God will not be mocked on Judgement Day. https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851685553
What mass murder would that be? And what were the Irgun atrocities? It’s easy to make generalizations – now support them with proof. And, G-d will be destroying all those who come against Israel in the final days.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ef824a87a361a831a96f7a09f195603869b3bb5f0ba92ab3431bea6252a8a2e2.jpg
Israel has been well known to pay people to defend and shill for them online. Zionist interest is arguably the greatest threat to peace on earth. They subvert and influence those in power to keep us divided while they gain more power.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2651715
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-23695896
https://huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/14/israel-pay-students-propaganda_n_3755782.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_cs=Uj2Hfsllr_gzULJcaopjCw
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook
Biggest pack of lies I have ever read. Worse than anything Mr. Trump has come up with. Having lived in Israel myself, I can testify that Arab citizens of Israel enjoy the same rights and privileges as any Jewish citizen. That is a fact.
Read the truth here: http://el.avalonrisen.com/index.php/about-israel/
Wow! the ‘truth’ can be found on a rinky-dink neo-druid webpage!
I have met Arab citizens of Israel, at the time he was a member of the Knesset.
What party? What’s his name? C’mon! Put up or shut up.
He gave a talk at my school, didn’t mention a party, spoke about the government of Israel.
So you didn’t meet him and quite conveniently remember neither his name nor party. Got it!
Next!
None of that matters, because none of that changes the reality that I listened to his talk.
The Jews have been living in the area for about 3,000 years. They are the indigenous people. The Arabs didn’t arrive until a bit less than 1,400 years ago.
What the so-called Palestinians are trying to do to Israel is genocide. Palestinians are just Arabs that live in what the Romans called Palestine, named after the defunct country of Philistia. There is no country called Palestine nor an ethnic group called Palestinians.
How are they committing genocide?
BTW, what you are talking about is occupied Jordan, not technically part of Israel.
The ANCIENT HEBREWS lived there 3,000 years ago. They were dark-skinned Middle Easterners, not white Europeans. Jews are members of a religion, not a nation. The idea that they were a nation was an idea invented by a self-hating Jew named Herzl. Only the Zionists and the Nazis saw Jews as a race. It’s why the Zionist Federation of Germany was the only Jewish political organization the Nazis tolerated. It’s why the ZFD SUPPORTED the Nuremberg Laws. It’s why they were able to break the international Jewish BDS effort against Nazi Germany and make the Nazi-Zionist Cooperation Agreement.
There are still ethnic Jews living in the area—dark skinned Middle Easterners.
As I said previously, the Hasmonean dynasty is well documented:
The Hasmonean dynasty (/ˌhæzməˈniːən/ (audio); Hebrew: חַשְׁמוֹנַּאִים, Ḥashmona’im) was a ruling dynasty of Judea and surrounding regions during classical antiquity. Between c. 140 and c. 116 BCE the dynasty ruled Judea semi-autonomously from the Seleucids.
It is also well documented that Jews lived in the area during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE. The Jewish revolt in 66 CE and the 2nd Jewish revolt in 132 CE. Not to mention the Jewish sect, the Essenes, who produced the Dead Sea Scrolls.
There is plenty of proof that the ethnic Jews predated the Arabs.
The truth that many of the diaspora Jews who lived in Europe for centuries chose to return to Israel after its creation is not in any way evidence that there were not already ethnic Jews living in the area.
Non-rubes generally know better than to cut and paste Wiki articles and pass them off as their own writing. It’s the true moron who leaves in all the telltales. Of course it’s well documented that ancient Hebrew Jews lived in Palestine at the beginning of the first millenium CE! It’s just that they have kittle or no connection to modern Jews. White European Jews, at best, might have a single drop of Hebrew blood in their bodies, but that’s sbout it. And it’s on the basis of that tiny droplet that you build a RACIAL claim to the land?
Please tell me of any civilized country that recognizes a racial claim to territory. Please link to a legal source that grants an eternal racial claim on territory. Plesse tell me if you think that other racial groups have the same rights. Imimsgine you think all non-Native Americans should stsrt packing their bags.
Jews did not ‘pre-date’ Arabs. (Herod the Great was Arab!) What is the general scademic consensus is the the peasantry in Palestine never left, converted first to Christianity and, after the Muslim Conquest were arabised and islamized over the next three centuries.
You really ought to go to a community college or something and take a history course.
Stupid is as stupid says. I made it pretty clear that it was a quote, so clear that even YOU with your 3rd grade education figured it out.
StupidnIS as stupid says. That’s why you should quit while you would do yourself a favor by not posting ignorant nonsense.
You are the most ignorant person I have met on here.
There were peoples other than Israelites living in these regions over many more centuries than 1400 years. (Your number of 1400 comes from the beginning of Islam, but the Arabs as a group of peoples long predates that.) Also, the Torah explicitly claims and asserts that the Israelites are NOT indigenous to the land, not in the normative sense of indigenous as you are using it. It’s simply worthless to argue about who is more indigenous, either way, on behalf of either group’s indigenousness. We have no real idea who are the ancestors of the Palestinians — some may have arrived 1400 years ago or less, some may have been there before Israelite religion formed, and quite a few Palestinians ancestors were probably Jewish people who may have converted under Islam or married into the group, which would make their descendants just as indigenous as any of the people you claim are more indigenous. So it’s all ridiculous.
Except, if you simply consult with any standard academic history, there is a general consensus — from the Encyclopedia Britannica to Israeli scholars to most Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, that the bulk of the population traces back to Canaanite times having converted, reformed, mixed with passing horny soldiers.
Note: I have said that Jews have lived there continuously for 3,000 years. If you want to get technical, there are no indigenous peoples anywhere outside of Africa. The Jews have the best claim to being indigenous of any modern peoples.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian prior to the 20th century. The country of “Palestine” is Philistia where the Philistines lived more than 2,000 years ago.
But why then were the early Zionists convinced that they came to Palestine as COLONISTS?
So what if they did? Whether or not they knew that there were already Jews living in the area, they were joining an existing Jewish community.
Ah! So you are telling us that the founders of Zionism were uneducated and ignorant. Good to know!
Some did. In the USA we have the descendants of colonists and indigenous people.
And Apartheid Israel is doing to the Palestinians EXACTLY what was done to the indigenous people in the United States and, guess what, what the U.S. did is generally recognized as a genocide.
So, we only have records of the Canaanites, the Israelites, the Philistines, and Moabites. You whole position is based on your desire that the Bible be completely false and of no value. That is just your bias showing. Until you present evidence that the tribe that moved into Canaan was NOT the Israelites, everyone will assume that it is the Israelites.
The universal academic consensus — remember? Palestine’s native Christian and Muslim core population dates back to the Bronze Age. Simply find me a mainstream, non-lunatic-fringe, peer-reviewed piece saying anything different.
As an illiterate moron, you can do no such thing.
Academics are universally agreed that there were no Muslims prior to 600 CE and there were no Muslims in Israel prior to about 700 CE.
You can find hundreds of peer reviewed papers on the beginnings of Islam.
I am glad you finally realize that you are an illiterate moron.
The Jewish people have been there for at least 5,000 years, and likely much longer. You can find peer reviewed papers on that as well.
I get that you never fiished high school, darling. The native population CONVERTED to Islam. Thank you for proving my point that you cannot point to even a single academic source to back up your jibbering-idiot racial fantasy.
Zion heil and try to get a GED at least.
What happens, do you wake up every once in a while an notice that people are actually starting to think you have an brains, so you come on here and act incredibly stupid?
It is no my fantasy, it is what most of the world knows as reality. You are the one with, how did you say it, oh yes, jibbering-idiot racial fantasy.
I have 100 times the education you have. You make Donald ‘john’ Trump look smart.
Yes. I get that, by your typing, you post while drunk. Yes. I get that you live in an uneducated and bigoted artificial reality. Yes. I get that you STILL cannot come up with a SINGLE academic source for your ignorant, lunatic-fringe ravings. In short, I get that you haven’t finished high school and are compensating for your wasted life by hating.
Zion heil!
Why do you always talk about yourself?
You can’t produce a single academic source for your idiocy. I am not going to bother to research to post information that you, in your fanaticism, are going to ignore.
Besides, I AM an academic source. Given that I have about 375 more post secondary credits than you do, assuming you even finished high school, some thing that is doubtful at best.
However, if we keep this up, I have high hopes that you will at least learn to produce quality insults instead of the 3rd grade level insults you do produce.
Gee! So much shouting to cover up the fact that you cannot produce a SINGLE academic reference to support your idiotic claims! You’re hilarious!
Finish grade school, dropout!
You are the one with the idiot claims without a single academic reference to support them. You are uneducated and I have 2 bachelors degrees and 2 masters degrees.
That make ME an academic resource. All you can ever do it is insult people. You say NOTHING that is real, just stupid 3rd grade level insults. They are not improving, if anything they are getting repetitive and worse.
Try finding some new insults.
You are quite correct, Alicia. However, Judea and Samaria, what Jordan called the West Bank, is legally part of Israel, and is currently occupied by stateless Arabs.
Actually, EVERY single government on the planet EVERY single body of international law or court with a remit from the UN Security Council (Resolutions 242, 298, 446, 452, 468, 469, 471, 476, 478, 607, 608, 636, 641, 672, 673, 681, 694, 726, 799, 904, 2334 [23 December 2016]) to the International Court of Justice (2005 Wall Opinion) to the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to the International Committee of the Red Cross to even Israel’s own High Court of Justice (Duweikat et al.[1979], Mara’abe v The Prime Minister of Israel [2005], Israeli HCJ 619/78 “El Tal’ia” Weekly v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 69/81 Abu Ita v. Commander of the Area of Judea and Samaria; Israeli HCJ 606/78 Ayoob v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 393/82 Jam’iat Ascan Elma’almoon Eltha’aooniah Elmahduda Elmaoolieh v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the Area of Judea and Samaria) agrees that the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are under belligerent foreign occupation and Israel hasn’t got a legal claim to so much as a blade of grass there.
How do you go from 60,000 Jews in Palestine in 1918, to over 700,000+ in just 30 years (1948)?
And how do you go from over 1,250,000 Palestinian Arabs in 1946, to barely 150,000 in 1948?
Demographics of Israel: Jewish & Non-Jewish Population of Israel/Palestine
(1517 – Present)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-and-non-jewish-population-of-israel-palestine-1517-present
A huge part of the increase in the Jews living in Israel has to do with the nearly 850,000 who were expelled from various Arab countries and Iran in 1948. Maybe that has something to do with it.
Current research
estimates that the number of Jews living in Arab countries and Iran
totaled more than 850,000 at the time of Israel’s independence. Some
scholars even think the number is closer to one million. In the North
African region, 259,000 Jews fled from Morocco, 140,000 from Algeria,
100,000 from Tunisia, 75,000 from Egypt, and another 38,000 from Libya.
In the Middle East, 135,000 Jews were exiled from Iraq, 55,000 from
Yemen, 34,000 from Turkey, 20,000 from Lebanon and 18,000 from Syria.
Iran forced out 25,000 Jews.
Then there are the 700,000 Arabs who fled from Israel during the fighting in their war for independence.
History is such an interesting subject.
Ask them: no one was expelled.
I understand that you live in a universe of racial hate, ignorance and fantasy history.
You ask them, then study some history. 850,000 Jews were expelled from a number of Arab countries in the years following 1948 and the Jewish war for independence.
Of course, I know you will reject any fact that does not fit your world view.
Not my circus, not my monkeys!!
While the article clearly makes its case that Israel is, in fact, committing a genocide against the native Christian and Muslim population of Palestine in its pursuit of latter-day lebensraum, it does not mention the special twist that makes the situation there chillingly innovative. It’s called ‘ethnocide’: the elimination of a people from history and an erasure of their presence in memory. You see it in the familiar motifs of its supporters. ‘There is no Palestine.’ ‘There never was a Palestine.’ ‘The Palestinians are an invented people.’ ‘The so-called Palestinians.’ It is no matter that the history of Palestine’s native people goes back to the Bronze Age. The desire to throw these people into a collective Orwellian memory hole stems, I believe, from Tony Judt’s point that Zionism is an historical anachronism — a colonial enterprise entered into after the sell-by date of colonialism itself has expired. The act of colonization — something that Israel’s founders were PROUD of — cannot be admitted to, for it would open the act to moral questioning. Thus it never happened. ‘Israel always has been Jewish’ and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
The next time you see reference to the ‘so-called Palestinians’, think of how Israel is trying to do the Third Reich one ‘better’. At least the Hitlerites acknowledged that Jews exist. Israel can’t even allow that.
How does the history of the Palestinian people go back to the Bronze Age? Why do you think you need to exaggerate to make what is a valid point?
WHat exaggeration? It is merely the general academic consensus. Not sure? How ’bout the British Mandate authorieis? ‘For the sake of convenience it is usual to speak of the Moslem population as “Arabs”, though the actual Arab element in the blood of the people is probably confined to what is really a landed aristocracy, the vast majority of the population, both Moslem and Christian being of mixed blood and largely consisting of indigenous races which have occupied the country [Wait for it!] from time immemorial.’ — Sir Philip Palin, Report on Nebi Musa Disturbances, April 1920
How ’bout a Polish mass murderer? ‘David Ben-Gurion [actual Polish name: Grunn] and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi claimed that the population at the time of the Arab conquest was mainly Christian, of Jewish origins, which underwent conversion to avoid a tax burden, basing their argument on ‘the fact that at the time of the Arab conquest, the population of Palestine was mainly Christian, and that during the Crusaders’ conquest some four hundred years later, it was mainly Muslim. As neither the Byzantines nor the Muslims carried out any large-scale population resettlement projects, the Christians were the offspring of the Jewish and Samaritan farmers who converted to Christianity in the Byzantine period; while the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders’ conquest.’’ Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine,634-1099 Cambridge University Press, (1983) 1997 pp.222-3
How ’bout the 1911 Encylopedia? ‘The pure Arab origin of the Bedouins is recognized in common conversation in the country, the word “Arab” being almost restricted to denote these wanderers, and seldom applied to the dwellers in towns and villages…The sedentary population of the country villages – the fellahin, or agriculturists – is, on the whole, comparatively unmixed; but traces of various intrusive strains assert themselves. It is by no means unreasonable to suppose that there is a fundamental Canaanite element in this population: the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” often remain undisturbed through successive occupations of a land; and there is a remarkable correspondence of type between many of the modern fellahin and skeletons of ancient inhabitants which have been recovered in the course of excavation.’
How ’bout the Encyclopedia Britannica?: ‘The process of Arabization and Islamization was gaining momentum there. It was one of the mainstays of Umayyad power and was important in their struggle against both Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula…. Conversions arising from convenience as well as conviction then increased. …. The predominantly Christian population gradually became predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking. At the same time, during the early years of Muslim control of the city, a small permanent Jewish population returned to Jerusalem after a 500-year absence.’ Encyclopædia Britannica, Palestine,’From the Arab Conquest to 1900
How ’bout a Catholic theologian and historian?: ‘While population transfers were effected in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian periods, most of the indigenous population remained in place [during the Muslim Conquest]. Moreover, after Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 the population by and large remained in situ, and did so again after Bar Kochba’s revolt in AD 135. When the vast majority of the population became Christian during the Byzantine period, no vast number were driven out, and similarly in the seventh century, when the vast majority became Muslim, few were driven from the land. Palestine has been multi-cultural and multi ethnic from the beginning, as one can read between the lines even in the biblical narrative. Many Palestinian Jews became Christians, and in turn Muslims. Ironically, many of the forebears of Palestinian Arab refugees may well have been Jewish.’ Micheal Prior, Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry, Psychology Press 1999 p.201
How ’bout the hard sciences and a standard university textbook?: ‘Palestinians are an indigenous people who either live in, or originate from, historical Palestine. Although the Muslims guaranteed security and allowed religious freedom to all inhabitants of the region, the majority converted to Islam and adopted Arab culture.’ Peter D. Turnpenny et al., ‘Genetic Disease in Palestine and Palestinians,’ in Dhavendra Kuma (ed.) Genomics and Health in the Developing World, OUP 2012 pp.700-711, p.700
How ’bout an Anglican priest and Holocaust scholar?: ‘[T]he word ‘Arab’ needs to be used with care. It is applicable to the Bedouin and to a section of the urban and effendi classes; it is inappropriate as a description of the rural mass of the population, the fellaheen. The whole population spoke Arabic, usually corrupted by dialects bearing traces of words of other origin, but it was only the Bedouin who habitually thought of themselves as Arabs. Western travelers from the sixteenth century onwards make the same distinction, and the word ‘Arab’ almost always refers to them [Bedouin] exclusively. . .Gradually it was realized that there remained a substantial stratum of the pre-Israelite peasantry, and that the oldest element among the peasants were not ‘Arabs’ in the sense of having entered the country with or after the conquerors of the seventh century, had been there already when the Arabs came.’ James Parkes, Whose Land? A History of the Peoples of Palestine,(1949) rev.ed.Penguin, 1970 pp.209-210
What point of his is valid?
How ’bout a standard university history textbook written by the Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, 2003-2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005-2007? ‘Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture.’–Dowty, Alan (2008). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Polity. p. 221
Get out a dictionary and look up defensive warfare.
Yes, we all have seen your idea of ‘defensive war’ before: http [colon] //tinyurl [dot] com/mgqwmer
There is a threat to jewish nation. And this threat want to eradicate their existence. Have this threat changed in a course of time? Do they admit that Jewish nation should exist? No. So Israel have to do the course for them to survive. As simple as that.
What ‘Jewish nation’? The idea of a ‘Jewish nation’ was invented by German nationalist and self-hating Jew named Herzl.
The Hasmoneans are well documented. A Jewish nation in the 2nd century BCE.
The concept of national identity doesn’t exist until the 16th century. Kind of hard for there to be a nation in the second century BCE.
By the same token Palestinian national identity didn’t exist until 1967. There is no such thing as indigenous Palestinians. The majority were invited to move to the British Colony called Palestine by the Grand Mufti Mohammed Al-Husseini as a counter to Jews moving into the region. In fact al-Husseini illegally appropriated lands from other Arab land owners to sell at outrageously high prices to the incoming Jews. You want facts then spend some time reading real history Hephie instead of spewing propaganda. I don’t support the Israel Government’s push into East Jerusalem at all. Much of the land there is subject to final negotiations, but that won’t happen until the Palestinian Authority and other factions of Palestinians accept the fact that they will NEVER reclaim all the land. Israel’s claim to the land and the archeology substantiates that the people living in that particular region of the Levant were Jews, both Ashekenazi and Sephardic.
You really won the slack-jawed ignorant award, didn’t you?
Who exactly IS ‘Mohammed al-Husseini’? 🙂
A good friend of Hitler’s who helped him design his plan for the genocide of the European Jews. He also asked Hitler to come to the Middle East to get rid of “his” Jews.
https://israelbehindthenews.com/20th-century-cleric-behind-21st-century-hate/16907/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ibn-today
I understand that you have to be slack-jawed, drooling, product-of-multi-generational-incest stupid to be a supporter of Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel, but you guys really take the cake!
The man you’re thinking of was AMIN al Husseini. You are too idiotic to even spit out the Goebbels’ gonad juice that is your daily fare.
Nutteryahoo had to walk his lie back a couple of years ago!
The Mufti was a minor figure, exaggerated by Israeli propaganda. The Stern Gang, on the other hand, produced even a Prime Minister: the Belorussian Jezernitsky. That whole organization, DURING THE HOLOCAUST, wanted an alliance with the Third Reich.
Thanks for the laugh!
Why don’t YOU read some history.
We have solid evidence that there was a Jewish country with a SOLID national identity in the first millennia BCE.
The concept of national identity goes back to before the time of Rome. Rome certainly had a national identity.
You really don’t know anything do you?
Wow! If you say that the concept of nationhood goes back two thousand years it MUST be true! Even if the suggestion would be laughed out of any university classroom in the world, because you think so, it must be true! See, I know that you are a slack-jawed moron. You’ve made that quite clear. You word is meaningless. Either bavk up you fantasies with a citation or else understand that your say so doesn’t amount to so much as a warm pile of manure.
Who cares if or when it started!!!
It exists NOW!!
What? A ‘Jewish nation’? Not by any accepted definition of a nation known to humanity.
It exists NOW!!
(we don’t much care what your opinion is…)
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STOP this lying!!!
We have watched the Balfour jerks and their 70 year war – FOR 70 YEARS !!!!!!!!
If I were Israel – I would have bulldozed ALL of Palestine by now!!!!
This is NOT genocide by any definition – it is defence!!!
Of course! Every thief has the right to lethal self-defense during commission of a crime. Right? I’ll be there soon to take over your home, because God.
Thief?
Name the thief! The UN? The British??
and stolen from whom?
A bunch of disparate tribes who all hated each other until they could find a common enemy?
{shall we move on to the many small nations which were ‘illegally’ created before the iron curtain, and after the fall of Russia – let’s deflect to their ‘freedoms’}
In 1945, what would you have suggested for the 10’s of 1000’s of Jews in 1945?? Back to the chambers….?
The Hol0caust was divine punishment. Jewish people had become modern day Caaninites. Atheist, promotion of ungodly values, greed… all these things Jewish people had promoted before the Hol0caust.
It got worse after the Hol0caust. Now we have Jewish people promoting h0m0sexuality, obesity, socialism and self love.
The Jewish people had cast aside god, and you were punished for it.
Thankfully many Jewish people today are returning to god. They shall be spared the destruction of Israel.
‘divine’ what???
There is no ‘divine’ anything!!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1255f57511860c9767a2e6628fb61c0d0f2cf37171e46561bd54733cb87ad762.jpg What an idiotic way to try to defend the hatreds written in someone else’s holy books by their imaginary gods/allahahas….
Sorry, didn’t to mean to trigger you with millions of dead Jewish people. I guess you can’t handle dead Jewish people.
I can’t handle the lies of fools who try to use their fake gods as their excuses for their own bad behaviours https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc4f211db52286408067da1928cfae686b8197178912ee9046db8dd80ca061bd.jpg and hatreds….
…’divine’…? Divine what???
You make silly arm-waving idiocies and you haven’t proven any gods yets…
Sounds rather insolent to base your whole argument on a fallacy…. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3dab138ed49cc720a6bc83eec5873068d848b6a6a5aa5a7875ad15715f222259.jpg
The Hol0caust was punishment. It’s that simple.
I take it you’re a typical atheist Jeew?
That’s why your people were punished.
Atheist – of course (there are no gods);
and no, don’t have any particular care for the Jews;
but I am not an anti-semite as you all appear to be…. I am against Hijra!
Jewish people promote filth. Even if God were to not exist. Many people would be against the anti-European, pro degeneracy Jewish people.
Wow – that one definitely falls under hate-speech and racial bigotry….
[got your number…]
Btw – screw the gods…..
“and stolen from whom?” People, real human beings who have lived on that land for more than 2000 years. And, if you paid attention in History of the Jewish people, many of them converted to various religions, and inter-married over the centuries, so… who is a Jew and who is a Palestinian? I am convinced that among those Israeli soldiers are terrorizing or killing, there are many who have common ancestry dating back centuries.
I know Palestinian Christians who have title deeds to their land from the time of the Ottoman Empire. Still, for 27 years they have had to defend themselves in Israeli courts to assert their rights. And they keep being challenged. What kind of feeble-minded thief can believe that repeating a lie for decades make it true?
Sure, land ownership laws in Israel are severe, as they are with Palestinians among themselves – you can’t easily sell your property to an Israeli Jew. But that doesn’t justify the violation of international law in the Golan Heights, the West Bank, Gaza. The frantic need to always find some kind of justification for crimes against humanity places those who do at the level of the most despicable murderers in History. Accomplices. Blood on your hands too? I will let God judge that.
You could be a prophetic voice that amplifies God’s call to modern day Israel to return to their God, and rend their hearts. And let His people go. Children of Abraham all of them. Do we think God ONLY cared for Isaac, and not Ishmael? Who is the supplanter, the schemer, the one who steal inheritances?
So, if I were you, I’d start REALLY praying for light and wisdom from above. And I’ll continue doing so too.
What are you on about???
There are no gods…..(get back https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4542b9afe02268a3e2120a40ed43a91c9c1c6e378cdc06e7a4bb8c7db7d46949.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9141141f8e95e8381941c1bd5b349053dc9de264a4a663cdff8d01dff98cf8f8.jpg to reality before you try to debate reality…)
It is the very legal definition of genocide. I realize that it may come as a shock to you, but YOU don’t decide the legal definition.
No – what israel is doing does not in any fashion define ‘genocide’!
(as there has never been any intent to destroy the entire group [HAMAS, sure but then that is a terrorist group]
Educate your self in simple English….
Look, I understand that you have to be a slack-jawed moron to support Apartheid Israel. But the heirs to the Thrird Reich in Tel Aviv meet the ACUTAL DEFINITION of genocide.
FInish grammar school.
So you start with a personal insult (you lose all credibility);
and you support a murderous ideology which has the genocide of all Jews written in their ‘holy’ books from their god!!
(no – you have no place in decent society creating lies, and attacking those who are fed up with the Muslim hatreds and Hijra throughout the world)
All your opinion is based on a hatred of the Jews….
I insult you because you are an illiterate moron.
Show your tomes which define this defence against one tribe of people as ‘geno-cide’ – there is no program of ‘geno’-anything!!!
Just tell your Palestines and other Balfour mates to stop their hatred (which is written in their korans.
[you obviously exemplify the perverse and purposeful lying to defend the attackers…..] https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a0aedb1b609e7d449636e9fbbb4c39c81236ea22f61bab29fac99b3bed28fecd.jpg
You make me laugh, bigot.
Over 50+ years of actively watching these scenarios –
I have gone back and forth as to who made the mistakes (sometimes blaming Israel, but overwhelmingly it is the refusal of the Muslim Arabs – ALL of them – to accept ANYTHING Israel…)
It is pure hatred by them …….and obviously by you…
Lost in your own bigoted world of hate. How sad!
“If I were Israel – I would have bulldozed ALL of Palestine by now!!!!
This is NOT genocide by any definition – it is defence!!!”
In what kind of demented moral vacuum do you live and breathe? In the words of Jesus: “You do not know of what spirit you speak.”
This is exactly the kind of genocidal sentiment that Israel is playing with right now, as have all the other ethnic-cleansing movements, some of which have come up again in South Africa lately, slaughtering people because they are white. Elsewhere because of religion.
Correction: most Palestinians are non-violent, but still suffering. Their leadership need to find solutions and unity. They need to stand up to Israel’s bribes and fake deals with diplomacy. Not rockets. (BTW, Hamas was brought up by Israel hoping to have a wedge between the PLO and other factions in order to keep them busy fighting one another. (And I’m not even kidding. Read some Israeli newspapers).
But that doesn’t change the reality: the Palestinian resistance is allowed under international law. The Israeli occupation – and all the crimes committed for 70 years – are not. There will be hell to pay. Unless Israel aligns itself with God’s law, and they could even start with international law, which was for the most part developed to avoid a repetition of the Holocaust. But NEVER AGAIN was meant for ALL peoples and nations, not just the Jewish people. Are you paying attention?
Look it up.
Why bring silly myths into the issue? Some pseudo god is not important here. [you lose all credibility immediately]
I have for 60 years watched this 70 year war conducted by all of Israel’s neighbours –
a war declared for the total and absolute destruction of a legitimate nation and all the peoples in that nation
– just because it is written in their holy books!!!
When these ‘peaceful’ Palestinians want peace and toss out Hamas – and come to a proper negotiation – then they may get their own nation for themselves…..
LOL!!!!! A couple of interesting facts, 1) There are more Arabs in Israel than there are Jews in Europe. 2) The population of Arabs on the south Levant has increased x6 since 1948. Further, on the south Levant, there is no shortage of Arabic Speakers, those who practice Arab and other Islamic Cultures nor in fact are Arab Christians in short supply, in fact, Israel is the only place in the middle east where the Christian population is growing, as the ancient Christian Communities are being wiped out by the fundamentalist Islamists.Sadly this Anabaptist Liar is typical of Jew Hating Liars. And sadly, some people actually listen to their hate speech.
Given that my American Indian Family has experienced an ongoing genocide at the hands of such as this colonizer Corey and his Supraseccionist ilk, I find it amusing that his hate should spread to one of the few Indigenous Peoples who survived the Arab conquests. My Jewish Grandmother refugeed to the US in 1931 due to the Nazi Grand Mufti’s butcheries of the ancient Jewish Community of Hevron.
But truly? This idiot thinks that Arabs are being “genocided” by Israelis? LOLOLOL!!! Wherever he got his degree from, they need to come take it back! What a stupid twit!
The voice of experience…. Thank you for your very perceptive and thought-provoking post. Certainly if the Israelis were interested in genocide against Pals they would round them up from within their own borders and do away with them. But that is not what they do — quite the reverse. And the thanks they get? Just more heaped-on abuse, insults, and threats from some of the most backward moslems on the planet, even after advanced medical care is used to save Pal children etc.. Bizarre. And yet the Israelis continue to provide all manner of support and aid to Pals in hopes they’ll see the light. I think I am not as optimistic as most Israelis seem to be in that regard.
My goodness! Non-Jews in Palestine should be grateful for not being exterminated!
Zion heil!
Exactly!
The native Christian/Muslim population in Palestine Israel should be 14 million. You are darn tootin’ that the Nazi wannabes in Tel Aviv have always been about genocide!
Even the Arab Women don’t breed that prolifically. Why? When you run away from your new Sovereign, not because you are pushed out, but because you don’t want to live in the rule of a Dhemmi People, and because your own Leadership tell you to.
Mara, there is this thing called ‘objective reality’. I understand that it is a foreign concept to you, but you only have to go any census study to find that the estimated total population of Palestinians inside the legal 1949 borders of Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in the diaspora is 13.05 million.
I further understand that one have to be remarkably ignorant and stupid to support Nazi-imitating Apartheid Israel in the first place. I get that it requires slack-jawed idiocy as a matter of course. You may not have heard this before, but there were no orders for the native Muslim and Christian population to flee. What IS a matter of record is that the colonial Zionist forces began a war of terror in 1945 and turned it into a military campaign of ethnic cleansing in December of 1947.
Sorry buddy, as a Mil Historian, this IS my field of study, plus the fact that I have actually been there and speak the languages, and have traveled about that Land. And had you ever bothered to actually do an informed study of the “Objective Realties”, not only of the Ottoman Empire, but also of the aftermath of WW1, including the San Remo Conference and the Treaty of Sevres, as well as the Mandate for Palestine, you would know that what you just spouted is so far from objective realities as to be laughable. Further, as Jews and Samaritans are Indigenous to the South Levant, and Arabs are not, your stance is pretty hilarious. Try looking up “The Pact of Umar”, and the Rashidouan. Spouting Arab Supremacist Narratives, the propaganda terms standard to those Supremacist Narratives, and the complete reliance upon revisionist “history” and propaganda is pretty much a dead giveaway, y’know….
Don’t waste your time on this one, Mara. Dyed-in-the-wool hater.
Sorry, but you are as much a military historian as I am the Easter Bunny. The objective data are with me. Like I said, go to ANY source for the world’s population of Palestinian Christians and Muslims. All put it at over 13.5 million. As a ‘military historian’ (LMAO!), you should have no trouble at all proving me wrong. Put up or shut up!
The San Remo Conference etc. are irrelevant footnotes. Their finalization was the actual British Mandate.
LOL!!! So sad, but no matter how much Jew Hate spew you put out, and the fact you apparently have no clue as to what the term “Genocide” means, and seem hell bound on your fantasy, which is a rank insult to folks who have actually experienced genocide.
To the point, you actually indulge in projected Arab behaviors, and Nakhba fantasies.
Yet not once, have you ever considered the fate of not only the Indigenous Jews of the Levant, but their generationally repatriated cousins. You of course do realize that Arabs are Colonizers on the Levant?
LOL!!! So sad that you live in a Nazi-imitating world of hate and fantasy. To the point that you deny the existence of the 13.5 million Palestinians now alive. You clearly have not read this article and are most likely too stupid to understand that it has a legal definition that Apartheid Israel fully meets.
In 1850, there were 10,000 Jews in all of Palestine. 8,000 were foreigners. That was before the admittedly colonial ZIonist movement. The ‘Jews are native to Palestine’ meme only comes into existence after 1967.
You clearly suck your propaganda straight from Goebbels’ rigid member. It’s very Apartheid Israeli.
Zion heil!
LOLOLOL!!! No, we have the Ottoman and British approximations on populations prior to 1916. Most of the Arab population actually moved into that area after 1870, peaking during the illegal Arab immigration during the 28 years of the Mandatory. Further, when a base population increases exponentially over a time frame in which it claims they are being genocided, well….you can pretty much figure the claim is bogus. Oh, and regarding the Arab flight out of the war zone created by the Arab League, and the Mufti’s Militia, well-read Mahmoud Abbas autobiography…Arabs who left tended to leave as his did. Ramle and Lydda however, were cleared out. Primarily as during the War against the invading Arab League, they were providing aid and comfort to the enemy. No one fighting in a hot war leaves an enemy stronghold bejind the frontlines. Helphie? You obviously know how to read and write. Did you miss that “How to research and validate and cite findings” class?
Do you know the old university history department saying? ‘Israel has a great “narrative” while Palestine has the actual historical record.’ You are living proof.
‘Most of the Arab population actually moved into that area after 1870, peaking during the illegal Arab immigration during the 28 years of the Mandatory’??? Then please explain how it is that, the Peel Commission report states on page 125 that “unlike the Jewish, the rise [of the Arab population] has been due in only a slight degree to immigration.” Please explain this ‘peaking immigration’ in light of the 1946 Mandate Survey of Palestine stating on pp. 210 – (tinyurl dot com/zede5f4: “Arab illegal immigration is mainly casual, temporary and seasonal” and on p. 212: “The conclusion is that Arab illegal immigration for the purpose of permanent settlement is insignificant”. While you’re at it, please explain this massive Arab immigration into Palestine when the 1946 Mandate survey (p. 185 — tinyurl dot com/zmo9umm) data for legal immigration puts the total of Arab immigrants from 1920 to 1945 at a mere 33,304.
Apartheid Israel: ‘narrative’ sucked straight from Goebbels’ rigid member. Palestine: the ACTUAL DOCUMENTED RECORD.
Hey, totally unrelated but does every architect in the Middle East live in Dubai? It sure seems like there’s an awful lot of dull gray cinder blocks with window holes as housing. I mean, even trailer park homes have colors. Do they live in stacked gray cinder block huts because of the bombing or are they being bombed because they live in stacked gray cinder block huts? Look, the $#!T is ugly AF but I do agree that bombing them really sucks.
Palestinians living in Israel rather than the territories are discriminated against, but there is no way one could call that genocide, in any sense of the term. So unless the author intends to say that Palestinians in Israel are not really Palestinian, his argument is bogus and harmful — even though what Israel is doing in the territories needs to stop.
There is no discrimination among any peoples based on religion or race in the are of Israel that was never part of another country.
Apartheid Israel has its Nation State law, its two-tier citizenship and over 50 separate discriminatory laws.
Two-tier citizenship? Proof? All citizens, regardless of ethnicity, religion, etc, are equal under the law in Israel. Please prove otherwise.
What horribly hilarious shit!
Again, proof?
Jews are ‘le’um’ (nationals — members of the ‘Jewish nation’). Non-Jews are merely ‘ezrahut’ — mere citizens. 93% of the land is reserved for leúm’ to which ezrahut are excluded. There are over fifty laws inside the legal 1949 borders of Nazi-imitating apartheid Israel…selection committees, zoning that make this distinction. The HCJ recently ruled for a second time that there is no such thing as an Israeli nationality. An Israeli passport says ‘citizen’, Israeli IDs saw ‘Jew’, ‘Arab’, ‘Druze’etc. JUST LIKE APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA.
List those laws.
It would do you a world of good to actually read the article and understand the actual legal definition of the crime of genocide.
Since there is no such thing as a Palestinian, just Arabs who call themselves that, genocide would be impossible.
See? You are at least open about being a bigoted moron! New York city council member Kalman Yeger lost his job last week for just this sort of outrageous racism. How often do you go to cross burnings?
Israel has a right to defend itself — and certainly they will not do so by allowing bloodthirsty Palestinian moslems to continue their cowardly hit-and-run attacks, infiltration, and subversion. Also there’s not parallel of Israel to Nazi Germany, so you can give that argument up right now.
Apartheid Israel: all bigoted hate all the time.
Zion heil!
If that’s all you got, you’re as dishonest as this article. Problem is, people will never understand if there is an issue since liars can’t help expose themselves and their fake agenda. You and the gang at Patheos are Pathetic-os.
Oh, and the Sunni of Jerusalem sided with Hitler and served in concentration camps, so Heil yourself.
Zion heil!
Here, listen to former Israeli soldiers talk about their own experiences. Be informed before you mouth off talking points based on ignorance of a situation, or worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-cJEK5EKUQ
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/…/lies-damn-lies-and…
http://israelbehindthenews.com/btselems-casualty-figures-based-largely-phone-interviews/12532/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ibn-today
http://jewsdownunder.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/an-imaginary-village-invented-by-real-bigots-2/
B’tselem pays the soldiers who “testify” against Israel. They have been proven to be unreliable in their reporting. Basically, they exist to undermine Israel.
Who needs hate sites?
You do, it’s where you get all your information.
B’tselem is a HATE site??? You uneducated, bigoted morons are such a laugh!
Zion heil!
Jay, I used to support Israel “unconditionally.” Only an ignorant person could do that. I was ignorant. But I started listening to Israelis talk about their own country’s modern history. Here is Ilan Pappe, an Israeli Jew, historian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIWvcBzbqVc
Ilan Pappe, in his own words, is a liar. He disregards facts if they don’t suit his bias, which is against Israel.
http://www.meforum.org/1886/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/11-03-17the-liar-as-a-hero-about-pappe-by-benny-morris.pdf
MEForum is a hoax site. Morris’ article is a desperate grasping at straws.
Sure there is a parallel between Zionism and Nazism! They are essentially cousin ideologies that grew out of the racial ideas of 19th-century German nationalism. Only the Nazis and the Zionists saw Jewishness as being in the blood. That’s why the Zionist Federation of Germany was the only Jewish political organization the Nazis allowed. It’s why the ZFD supported the Nuremberg Laws. It’s ehy they were able to make the 1933-1939 Nazi-Zionist Cooperation Agreement. It’s why both Heydrich and Eichmann spoke of Zionism as a kindred ideology.
Just like Israel today, Nazi Germany claimed it was only defending itself while it preyed on its neighbors.
Birds of a festher.
Geesh, your ignorance knows no bounds.
Clearly any evidence that does not fit your worldview is discarded by you.
I had hoped that given the number of people here who have told you that you are wrong, would have caused you to actually do some real research.
Do you have a red hat??
Geesh! You don’ t even know what evidence is! I’ll give uou a hint: it’ s more than ‘narrative’. It begins with factual argument. Did Zionism and Nazism both stem from German nationalism? Yes they did. All you have to do is read Herzl’s diaries. Was the ZFD the only Jewish political group tolerated by the Nazis? Di it support the Nuremberg laws? No question. Even jewishvirtuallibrary will verify that.
You have yet to produce snything more than a poor wikipedia cut and paste and the Bible as a source. It’ s time you stopped pretending like you have anything to say except ignorant nonsense.
I repeat my advice: go to a community college or adult learnibg center and take a basic history course
I already have 4 degrees, 2 Bachelors and 2 Masters.
Maybe you should take your own advice.
Wow! You keep piling up on non-existent degrees every time you post!
And I have a right to defend myself when I break into your home, take everything and kick you out at gunpoint. I even have the right to punish all your cousins for any resistance. OK with that? If not, then shut up.
You’re using an old but no less false analogy. The Jews bought all the land that they lived on and worked. Most of the Arabs living there were either renters or squatters. There was no existing Arab, or any other, sovereign nation on the land when the League of Nations designated it for the Jews. On the other hand, the British gave the Arabs 78% of the land that the League had set apart for the Jews. So, who stole what from whom?
In addition, the Declaration of the Establishment of the Jewish State specifically asks all non-Jews to remain in place and become citizens of the new country. Many Arabs and other groups did just that. The rest either fought against the Jew – antisemitism is enshrined in the Koran – or, at the urging of the Arab League, fled of their own volition. After the war, Israel allowed 100,000 Arabs to return, and would have taken back another 100,000 if the Arab League had not forbidden it. Israel also paid every valid property claim brought to it by the Arabs. So, what was stolen?
Finally, after recapturing Judea and Samaria in 1967, Israel, at her own expense, greatly improved the lives of the stateless Arabs, who had been abandoned by Jordan, who were living there. That land, in accordance with international law, belongs to Israel. The only ones stealing land are the Arabs!
1) You are a shameless liar. According to the two-volume, thousand-plus page British Mandate Survey of 1946 used by the UN in the drafting of the non-binding 1947 recommendation to partition Palestine, immigrant Jewish deeded real property in Palestine amounted to 5.8% of the total, that of the native Muslim and Christian population, 94.2% (including 84% of the all the deeded arable land): www [dot] tinyurl [dot] com/6jrp6po. The rest of the land was simply stolen from native PRIVATE HANDS.
THe Zionist war of ethnic cleansing was half finished before the illegal declaration of the apartheid colony.
‘Judea and Samaria’ are figments of the ultra-Zionist imagination. Not one country, not one government, not one international body, not one court with a remit recognizes a legal Israeli claim to so much as a single dog turd in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Merely reciting lies will not make them true.
1. Population does not determine sovereignty. 2. That 94.2% is actually state-owned land, with a tiny percentage owned by Muslims and Christians. Most of the Arabs didn’t bother registering their land because the process was both arduous and expensive. And the vast majority were either renters or squatters. 3. None of the land was stolen. The non-Jewish residents were asked to remain in place, in their homes and on their land, and to become citizens of the new state. Many did, and are the ancestors of most of the Israeli Arabs today. Sadly, hundreds of thousands fled at the urging of the Arab League. Very few were removed from their villages, and only those villages that were attacking Jewish convoys on the road to Jerusalem were emptied. Thus, one Arab village might have its residents removed, while the one next to it would not. There was no ethnic cleansing. The Jews were barely able to fight off their attackers; they certainly didn’t have the time or resources to eject a large population. In fact, after the war, Israel brought back 100,000 Arabs, and were stopped by the Arab League from bringing in another 100,000 – that’s not what you do if ethnic cleansing is your goal!
As far as Judea and Samaria are concerned, the League of Nations gave the Jews all the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan. They had planned to also give them all the land that today comprises Jordan, but the British asked to have it removed from the Mandate in order to use it to pay off their war debt to the Arabs. There’s your stolen land! All of this was made international law in the Treaty of Lausanne, and there is even an article in the UN Charter forbidding any of this land being given to another people or nation.
Finally, actual ethnic cleansing. When Jordan illegally occupied Judea and Samaria, it forcibly removed every Jew that it didn’t kill. It then brought in its own citizens to take over the Jewish property.
Among the ‘military operations’: Operation Ben-Ami in May: ‘Our mission: to attack for the sake of occupation…to kill the men, destroy and set fire to Kabri, Umm al-Faraj and Nahr. (Eshel [ed] ‘The Carmeli Brigade in the War of Independence’, p.172.) Or perhaps Operation Broom (also in May), where over seventy surrendering villages were summarily executed at Ayn al Zaytun, all the houses burnt, the remaining residents were stripped of their belongings, taken to the edge of the village, shots fired over their heads and ordered to leave. (The Palmach Book, vol. 2, p. 304). Or how ‘bout Operation ‘Cleansing the Leaven’ in April. Carmeli Brigade again, making sure that as large a number of Arabs fled Haifa. Hagana loudspeaker trucks telling women and children to flee before it was too late and commander Mordechai Maklef’s orders: ‘Kill any Arab you encounter; torch all inflammable objects and force doors open with explosives.’ The panicked population fled for the port of Haifa (where they were shelled and picked off by snipers the next day) while the troops looted their houses. (Hagana Archives, 69/72, 22 April 1948; ‘Carmeli Brigade in the War of Independence’. P. 147). These were classified as military operations, not expulsion orders.
In a report prepared by the intelligence services of the Israeli army, dated 30 June 1948 and entitled “The emigration of Palestinian Arabs in the period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948”. This document sets at 391,000 the number of Palestinians who had already left the territory that was by then in the hands of Israel, and evaluates the various factors that had prompted their decisions to leave. “At least 55% of the total of the exodus was caused by our (Haganah/IDF) operations.” To this figure, the report’s compilers add the operations of the Irgun and Lehi, which “directly (caused) some 15%… of the emigration”. A further 2% was attributed to explicit expulsion orders issued by Israeli troops, and 1% to their psychological warfare. This leads to a figure of 73% for departures caused directly by the Israelis. In addition, the report attributes 22% of the departures to “fears” and “a crisis of confidence” affecting the Palestinian population. As for Arab calls for flight, these were reckoned to be significant in only 5% of cases…
I understand that one has to live in an artificial reality to be an Israel apologist. That’s why Joseph Goebbels is nearly an Israeli national god.
1. Population does indeed determine sovereignty. It’s called ‘national self-determination’. This was denied to the native population of Palestine by the illegal declaration of the apartheid colony.
2. The ACTUAL DOCUMENTED RECORD speaks for itself: 94.2% of the land was in native PRIVATE hands — www [dot] tinyurl [dot] com/6jrp6po. One of the major accomplishments of the Mandate period was to bring the Palestine Land Registry into shape. ALL private lands were registered. None of these figures include public, waste or other kinds of lands www [dot] tinyurl [dot] com/go34732.
3. 70% of the deeded real estate is confiscated native private land. The owners are denied the right to return to their private property BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT JEWISH. They cannot receive compensation BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT JEWISH. Conquest by force of arms cannot, in law or in ethics, abrogate the rights of the legal owner to his personal property.
Don’t you know that Palestinians are religiously diverse? They are not all Muslims. They are also Christians and Jews. Yes, Jews. Palestinian Jews were the founders of most of the liberation organizations, such as the DFLP.
Blood thirsty. Israelis get chairs, pack picnics and bring their families to watch Israel bombing Gaza or watch snipers shoot children, elderly, disable, medical personal, etc…loudly cheering as each one hits. They chanted ‘Burn Baby Burn’ when they burned a Palestinian baby on the grill. Yeah, but its the Palestinians who are blood thirsty, eh?
And yes, there are many many many parallels to Nazi Germany.
When does Palestine get the right to defend itself?
Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, with heavy words about Israel’s modern history:
“How could Jews, 2 years after the Holocaust, be so callous, so determined in committing a crime of such a magnitude?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV9gv7w3pLY
A self-confessed liar!
http://www.meforum.org/1886/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine
http://www.ee.bgu.ac.il/~censor/katz-directory/11-03-17the-liar-as-a-hero-about-pappe-by-benny-morris.pdf
http://hnn.us/article/4479
meforum is a debunked hoax/hate site.
By whom? Citation, please. And what about the others?
Well, the best example is the ‘Smoking Gun’ piece. It’s as crude as it gets. The other two are smear jobs. The funniest is Morris’ piece, which British material debunk. The village ‘surveys’ were understood by the British to be military intelligence operations going back to the 1930s.
Your citations? You can say anything you want, but if you can’t prove it’s true, it means nothing.
1) You cannot OCCUPY land that was already your’s to begin with. 2) The conditions in Gaza are totally the fault and result of the policies of Hamas, the terrorist group currently governing Gaza. Remove Hamas and everything goes back to normal. IF Israel was really commiting genocide,why not just do it? A small nuclear blast from the middle of Gaza would accomplish this quite nicely, with minimal radiation. Why don’t they do that? They could you know. They won’t do it because Israel is not committing genocide. But keep lying about it. You and Mr. Trump can lie and lie and lie.
Yes, that is the only thing holding Israel back from using nukes. You’re a genius.
Of course EVERY single government on the planet EVERY single body of international law or court with a remit from the UN Security Council (Resolutions 242, 298, 446, 452, 468, 469, 471, 476, 478, 607, 608, 636, 641, 672, 673, 681, 694, 726, 799, 904, 2334 [23 December 2016]) to the International Court of Justice (2005 Wall Opinion) to the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to the International Committee of the Red Cross to even Israel’s own High Court of Justice (Duweikat et al.[1979], Mara’abe v The Prime Minister of Israel [2005], Israeli HCJ 619/78 “El Tal’ia” Weekly v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 69/81 Abu Ita v. Commander of the Area of Judea and Samaria; Israeli HCJ 606/78 Ayoob v. Minister of Defense; Israeli HCJ 393/82 Jam’iat Ascan Elma’almoon Eltha’aooniah Elmahduda Elmaoolieh v. Commander of the IDF Forces in the Area of Judea and Samaria) considers you insane.
The UNIVERSAL legal consensus is that acquisition of territory by force is jus cogens illegal, that Gaza and the West Bank are ubder belligerent foreign occupation and that Apartheid Israel hasn’t got a legal claim to so much as a single dog turd there.
I understand that to support Apartheid Israel is to be deliberately stupid. Naturally you have challenges with your reading skills. Please reread the legal definition of genocide contained in this article.
It was not Israell’s land. Palestinians were living there. If you want to go back in history to Biblical times, Palestinians were still there first. If you want to claim God gave it to the Israelites, well, Palestinians are the ancestors of the Israelites, as proven by DNA. Palestinians have a closer DNA connection to ancient Israelis than modern Israelis do.
The conditions in Gaza are the result of repeated bombings by Israel, the deliberate stealing of or opoisoning of water supplies.
Israel wants Hamas gone. Before that they wanted the PLO gone and created Hamas to do that. Before the PLO, they just wanted the Palestinians gone. Israel always has someone to blame Just like other abusers, they always say “Look what you made us do.”
But why are you using a photgraph from Syria war? This has nothing to do with your article. I suppose misleading is your trait.
It’s a shot of the Beit Hanoun neighborhood of Gaza, leveled by indiscriminate Israeli bombing, raining death and destruction. www [dot] youtube [dot] com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kYcrYud3R94
Why not a photo from Hiroshima?
It’s hard to believe how many willfully ignorant fascist racist nitwits will step up to defend international crimes—because “God”?
Let’s just see what happens when the ‘Palestinians’ finally stop their 70 year war against Israel.
Up to now Israel has had to defend themselves against constant – CONSTANT – attacks from all of its neighbours (all dedicated to Jewish genocide) as is written in their religious books.
If I had to constantly defend my nation and its people from this CONSTANT war, I would be doing far worse than just taking over little bits of land.
Suppose you all get rid of Hamas and the Brotherhood et all – FIRST!!
How can it be a war waged on Apartheid Israel when it’s a conflict based on the aggressive foreign colonization of Palestine?
Each movement by Israel has been predicated on and preceded by attacks by these Palestinians – constantly funded and encouraged by every Muslim nation!!!
When Palestine stops – so will The Israeli advances and takeovers….
{you have an un-natural hatred of the Jews!!!}
I’m Jewish, Heinrich! I hate Nazism, even of a Jewish stripe, and Zionism is a form of Nazism. The biggest mistake made by Palestine’s native Christians and Muslims was to not line the shores of their homeland with field guns to sink the Zionist colonial scum in their boats back in the 1880s. No foreign colonists, no problem.
and you are a Jew-hater by all your posts,
and you defend all the Muslims hatreds against Israel!!!
Palestine has lost any and all rights to having their own nation (maybe they should start acting like civilised people instead of following their Surahs and Hadiths to kill all Jews!!!!!
You conflate your anti-zionism with just plain jew-baiting…..
What a simple and moronic world you live in, Nazi scum! Anyone who disagees with the zionazi colonial project is an anti-semite, and if they are Jewish, they hate themselves! Quite the perfect hermetically sealed world of bigotry and hate you have there, Heinrich!
Zion heil!
Do you know what a colonist is? Someone who comes from their home country to set up a colony elsewhere. What home state were the Jews of Europe and the Middle East coming from?
Roughly 99% of all Jews are Zionists. So, if you claim not to be antisemitic, you are obviously lying.
‘We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Zionist COLONIZATION, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the NATIVE population’? –Ukrainian admirer of Mussolini, Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923
‘You are the only man who can help me now….it is a big- some say, too big –thing. To me, it does not seem too big for Cecil Rhodes… You are being invited to make history…It is not in your accustomed line; it doesn’t involve Africa but a piece of Asia Minor, not Englishmen but Jews…How do I happen to turn to you seeing this matter so remote to you? How? BECAUSE IT IS COLONIAL, and because it presupposes an understanding of a development that requires 20 to 30 years…put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan…’ Self-hating Jew Theodore Herzl to arch-colonist Cecil Rhodes, 1902
‘Never before has the WHITE MAN [!] undertaken COLONIZATION with that sense of justice and social progress which fills the Jew who comes to Palestine.’ — Berl Katznelson, Jewish Agency leader, 1937
‘Zionism is a COLONIZING adventure and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces.’ Ukrainian Mussolini lover Vladimir Jabotinsky, 1923
Why was the Jewish Agency’s department for Jewish settlement in Palestine called the COLONIZATION department?
Why did the Second Zionist Congress establish the Jewish COLONIAL Trust–now Bank Leumi–as the Zionist Organization’s financial instrument?
Ask the scum who were the founding fathers of the apartheid colonial entity. They were pretty darn clear about it. Why, for example, was the Palestine Jewish COLONIZATION Association such a major player in the meagre land purchases the colonists were able to make before stealing the rest in 1947-9?
Actually, no, Israel has attacked first each and every time…”prememptively” What a joke.
Israel has also volated every cease fire or ‘Peace’ treaty they ever signed
No – you choose to find stories to lie to yourself….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4542b9afe02268a3e2120a40ed43a91c9c1c6e378cdc06e7a4bb8c7db7d46949.jpg
I have watched this scenario for 60 years, and every time Israel has attacked, it has been as a result of some incident initiated by the ‘neighbours’….
Suppose the ‘palestines’ try to recognise Israel First, try peace for once….
Who is this Jew hater, Hephie, who defends the sacred murders of all Jews as written in the holy books of the god allahaha, and cannot admit the objectives of all Muslims to completely eradicate all Jews and non-Muslims???
Sucked-from-Goebbels’-rigid-member slander is the best you can do??? You reveal yourself as a mindless wannabe Nazi saying that the aim of over a billion people is to eliminate Jews. For your information, I myself have Jewish ancestry. My family has always recognized that Zionism, the cooptation of the ideas of 19th-century anti-semitism, is a cancer on the Jewish soul.
Can someone print his/her full profile and data…?
It is pure hatred and lie!
I document while you spew hate. Apartheid Israel has a fake ‘narrative while Palestine has the actual documented record, and this really pisses bigots like you to no end.
Please show us your documentation of Palestine. Archaeology, history, genetics, government, etc. You’ll be the first to ever do so!
Just tell me when to stop!
How ’bout a standard university history textbook written by the Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, 2003-2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005-2007? ‘Palestinians are the descendants of all the indigenous peoples who lived in Palestine over the centuries; since the seventh century, they have been predominantly Muslim in religion and almost completely Arab in language and culture.’–Dowty, Alan (2008). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Polity. p. 221
Ad nauseum!
Now go talk to the actual aggressors – the Palestinians; and all their mates sending arms and money to reward the terrorists.
Try that slant as they are the ones refusing to stop their hatreds and bigotries – this is what is obvious to all.
The colonized have the right and duty to resist the colonizer.
Not colonialist!! They are taking over all lands that harbour terrorists… You stop the Palestinians or …..Live with it !
Your intellectual idols the Nazis called Jews terrorists. It’s just another thing you sucked from Goebbels’ rigid member — the teat of Zionist ideology.
Zion heil!
What is wrong with you??
Every one but you is a nazi???
You blindly defend the terrorists and attack at every opportunity – You sound like the Muslim/terrorists that keep attacking Israel….
In your fevered imagination, Heinrich.
‘We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Zionist COLONIZATION, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the NATIVE population’? — Mussolini-loving Ukrainian Vladimir Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, 1923
German nationalist and self-hating Jew Theodore Herzl to arch-colonialist Cecil Rhodes: ‘You are the only man who can help me now….it is a big- some say, too big –thing. To me, it does not seem too big for Cecil Rhodes… You are being invited to make history…It is not in your accustomed line; it doesn’t involve Africa but a piece of Asia Minor, not Englishmen but Jews…How do I happen to turn to you seeing this matter so remote to you? How? BECAUSE IT IS COLONIAL, and because it presupposes an understanding of a development that requires 20 to 30 years…put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan…’
‘Never before has the WHITE MAN [!] undertaken COLONIZATION with that sense of justice and social progress which fills the Jew who comes to Palestine.’ — Berl Katznelson, Jewish Agency leader, in 1937
‘Zionism is a COLONIZING adventure and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces.’ Mussolini-loving Jabotinsky, 1923
If Jews are ‘native’ to Palestine, why did the Second Zionist Congress establish the Jewish COLONIAL Trust–now Bank Leumi–as the Zionist Organization’s financial instrument?
If Jews are ‘native’ to Palestine, why was the Jewish Agency’s department for Jewish settlement in Palestine called the COLONIZATION department?
If Jews are ‘native’ to Palestine, why was the Palestine Jewish COLONIZATION Association such a major player in the meagre land purchases the colonists were able to make before stealing the rest in 1947-9?
Because that was term in currency at the time. You can’t be a colonist if you don’t have a home country to colonize from!
No. They were just being accurate and before they grew ashamed of the reality.
Because they were honest back then.
How ’bout a Catholic theologian?: ‘While population transfers were effected in the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian periods, most of the indigenous population remained in place [during the Muslim Conquest]. Moreover, after Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 the population by and large remained in situ, and did so again after Bar Kochba’s revolt in AD 135. When the vast majority of the population became Christian during the Byzantine period, no vast number were driven out, and similarly in the seventh century, when the vast majority became Muslim, few were driven from the land. Palestine has been multi-cultural and multi ethnic from the beginning, as one can read between the lines even in the biblical narrative. Many Palestinian Jews became Christians, and in turn Muslims. Ironically, many of the forebears of Palestinian Arab refugees may well have been Jewish.’ Micheal Prior, Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry, Psychology Press 1999 p.201
How ’bout an Anglican priest and Holocaust scholar?: ‘[T]he word ‘Arab’ needs to be used with care. It is applicable to the Bedouin and to a section of the urban and effendi classes; it is inappropriate as a description of the rural mass of the population, the fellaheen. The whole population spoke Arabic, usually corrupted by dialects bearing traces of words of other origin, but it was only the Bedouin who habitually thought of themselves as Arabs. Western travelers from the sixteenth century onwards make the same distinction, and the word ‘Arab’ almost always refers to them [Bedouin] exclusively. . .Gradually it was realized that there remained a substantial stratum of the pre-Israelite peasantry, and that the oldest element among the peasants were not ‘Arabs’ in the sense of having entered the country with or after the conquerors of the seventh century, had been there already when the Arabs came.’ James Parkes, Whose Land? A History of the Peoples of Palestine,(1949) rev.ed.Penguin, 1970 pp.209-210
How ’bout the 1911 Encylopedia? ‘The pure Arab origin of the Bedouins is recognized in common conversation in the country, the word “Arab” being almost restricted to denote these wanderers, and seldom applied to the dwellers in towns and villages…The sedentary population of the country villages – the fellahin, or agriculturists – is, on the whole, comparatively unmixed; but traces of various intrusive strains assert themselves. It is by no means unreasonable to suppose that there is a fundamental Canaanite element in this population: the “hewers of wood and drawers of water” often remain undisturbed through successive occupations of a land; and there is a remarkable correspondence of type between many of the modern fellahin and skeletons of ancient inhabitants which have been recovered in the course of excavation.’ —Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911
How ’bout the Encyclo-freaking-pedia Britannica?: ‘The process of Arabization and Islamization was gaining momentum there. It was one of the mainstays of Umayyad power and was important in their struggle against both Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula…. Conversions arising from convenience as well as conviction then increased. …. The predominantly Christian population gradually became predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking. At the same time, during the early years of Muslim control of the city, a small permanent Jewish population returned to Jerusalem after a 500-year absence.’ Encyclopædia Britannica, Palestine,’From the Arab Conquest to 1900
How ’bout a Polish mass murderer? ‘David Ben-Gurion [actual Polish name: Grunn] and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi claimed that the population at the time of the Arab conquest was mainly Christian, of Jewish origins, which underwent conversion to avoid a tax burden, basing their argument on ‘the fact that at the time of the Arab conquest, the population of Palestine was mainly Christian, and that during the Crusaders’ conquest some four hundred years later, it was mainly Muslim. As neither the Byzantines nor the Muslims carried out any large-scale population resettlement projects, the Christians were the offspring of the Jewish and Samaritan farmers who converted to Christianity in the Byzantine period; while the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders’ conquest.’’ Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine,634-1099 Cambridge University Press, (1983) 1997 pp.222-3
How ’bout the British Mandate authorities?: ‘For the sake of convenience it is usual to speak of the Moslem population as “Arabs”, though the actual Arab element in the blood of the people is probably confined to what is really a landed aristocracy, the vast majority of the population, both Moslem and Christian being of mixed blood and largely consisting of indigenous races which have occupied the country [Wait for it!] from time immemorial.’
Like I said, Issrael has an invented ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actuals documented record.
Zion heil, maggot!
1. What are you quoting from? 2. Modern genetics has proved that specutlation wrong.
Every year a different conclusion. Hell! I’ve seen one study that says that Jews are Romans: tinyurl [dot] com/y5gzz47d.
Meanwhile, the native Muslim and Christian population — whether as untermenschen citizens inside the legal 1949 borders of Apartheid Israel or as the either the Diaspora or those under military occupation in their own country — has absolutely no need whatsoever to prove their Middle Eastern origin by finding a single gene. It’s obvious wher they come from.
Face your intellectual challenge: demonstrate how it is that Ashkenazi whites are Middle Eastern brown people. Playing genetic games clearly doesn’t mean anything.
You only have to understand that Europeans are Europeans, Bantu are Bantu, Chinese are Chinese to know that a Pole like Benzion Mileikowsky could only be considered Middle Eastern in a drug-induced fantasy.
How ’bout the hard sciences and a standard university textbook?: ‘Palestinians are an indigenous people who either live in, or originate from, historical Palestine. Although the Muslims guaranteed security and allowed religious freedom to all inhabitants of the region, the majority converted to Islam and adopted Arab culture.’ Peter D. Turnpenny et al., ‘Genetic Disease in Palestine and Palestinians,’ in Dhavendra Kuma (ed.) Genomics and Health in the Developing World, OUP 2012 pp.700-711, p.700.
C’mon, sweetheart! When are YOU going to cite a single independent source telling us how Poles are native to the Middle East!
Zionists are such idiots!
I eagerly await ANY historical connection between Polish Ashkenazi and the Ancient Hebrews! 🙂
Remember, honey, Apartheid Israel has a fake ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual documented record. I eagerly await the first historical connection between Poles and ancient Hebrews ever made. 🙂
Sucked-from-Goebbels’-rigid-member slander is the best you can do??? You reveal yourself as a mindless wannabe Nazi saying that the aim of over a billion people is to eliminate Jews. For your information, I myself have Jewish ancestry. My family has always recognized that Zionism, the cooptation of the ideas of 19th-century anti-semitism, is a cancer on the Jewish soul.
Yeah – I have met Jew-hating Jews before – usually uber-left wing commies. There is no defence of Palestine’s actions!
That is all!
Of course there is a defence of Palestinian resistance to foreign colonialism! It’s called patriotism.
Zion heil, Nazi scum!
Hilarious!
This is Not patriotism by the Palestinians (they call for the destruction of Israel – we rarely hear of them wanting a nation)
– it is programmed hatred of all jews,
and constant war to destroy a legal and legitimate nation.
[why do you feel the need to use personal and ad hominem insult in all your replies….]
The illegal creation of the state of Israel was based on the destruction of the state of Palestine. Why do I feel the need to address idiot, scumbag Nazis as idiot, scumbag Nazis? Because I am honest.
Wow – you really do just hate !!
Not illegal! (see how that works??~!)
….very telling that you have to constantly resort to personal attacks (hang out with Hamas much…)
I hate Nazis like you.
Of course the creation of Apartheid Israel was illegal! It certainly had nothing to do with the non-binding UN recommendation that Britain partition Palestine.
NOT illegal – ( see how that works!)
Btw – I hate Nazis (and you are the one sounding like one)
I support civil democracy. You support racial democracy.
Oh – do I?
Glad you decided that also for us…
wanting to told which race now…
OF course! No other country on the planet puts an adjective on the kind of democracy it pretends to be, only Apartheid Israel.
Since Zionist ideology is a wholesale borrowing of 19th-century anti-semitism, it proposes that Jews are racially distinct from non-Jews. This language has fallen out of fashion since WWII, but it is still basic to the idea.
ZIon heil!
Zionism says that Jews, like all other peoples, have a right to self-determination in their own homeland. It has nothing to do with racial distinction – especially since Jews aren’t even a race! Your ignorance knows no bounds!
The sick ideology invented the idiotic fantasy that Jews are a people.
Ever hear of the League of Nations? That’s who gave the land from the River to the Sea to the Jews. They also gave the rest of the land they conquered from the Ottoman Empire in WWI to the Arabs. Have a problem with that, too? As to apartheid, how many Jews are there in those Arabs countries? How many Arab Muslims, Arab Christians, Ba’hai’s, etc in Israel, living as full citizens?
The UN does not have the authority to create nations. And, the partition resolution was in direct violation of the UN Charter.
Nice fantasy! Too bad that the LON gave Jews no land whatsoever. You really SHOULD read up more on your history!
Thank you for pointing out that the UN hasn’t got the authority to create nations. You are quite right that the partition recommendation was a violation of Palestine’s right to self-determination.
Nice fantasy! Too bad that the LON gave Jews no land whatsoever. You really SHOULD read up more on your history!
Thank you for pointing out that the UN hasn’t got the authority to create nations. You are quite right that the partition recommendation was a violation of Palestine’s right to self-determination.
There was no Palestine! Read the Mandate – it creates a Jewish state, not an Arab one.
Read it. Read the post-WWI treaties. Read the League of Nations legal decisions. Palestine was most definitely a state.
Palestine was never a state! It was the name of the region that was set aside for the Jews, and the name the British assumed the new Jewish state would be called. The Brits were given temporary authority to help set up the infrastucture needed for the state to be independent – issuing stamps, issuing passports, etc.
THe State of Palestine was recognized by the League of Nations, the signatories to the post-WWI treaties and by the Permanent Court of International Justice and an International Court of Arbitration in 1925.
Again, puppy, show me one legal instrument where it says IN BLACK AND WHITE that the Mandate was to set up a Jewish state. While you are doing that, please explain how it is that every White paper produced gave the Mandatee’s position as being NO JEWSISH STATE.
Chop, chop!
Please provide the requisite documentation for your allegation that Palestine was anything other than the Land of the Jews.
YOU are the one alleging that the Mandate says that a Jewish state was intended. I have asked you to cite ANY part of the Mandate specifically calling for a Jewish state. You cannot provide any, so you try to change the subject.
Again — CHOP the FVCK CHOP: Please provide a single citation calling for a Jewish state in the British Mandate.
‘The Permanent Court of International Justice and an International Court of Arbitration established by the Council of the League of Nations handed down rulings in 1925 which determined that Palestine and Transjordan were newly created successor STATES of the Ottoman Empire whose sovereignty was in abeyance until such time as they would be recognised as independent of the Mandatory.’ (Marjorie M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law, vol. 1, U.S. State Department (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963) pp 636, 650–652)
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp
“The Council of the League of Nations:
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them; and
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; and
Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country; and
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have selected His Britannic Majesty as the Mandatory for Palestine; and
Whereas the mandate in respect of Palestine has been formulated in the following terms and submitted to the Council of the League for approval; and
Whereas His Britannic Majesty has accepted the mandate in respect of Palestine and undertaken to exercise it on behalf of the League of Nations in conformity with the following provisions;”
EXACTLY! The Mandate gives no land to the colonists. It offered to help them in the acquisition of waste land and in the small quantity of state land in Palestine. Nothing more.
There were no colonists! The Mandate doesn’t say anything like what you allege. And the land to be given to the Jews consisted of the entire region of Palestine. Britain finessed 78% of it to give to the Arabs in payment of the Brits war promises. That created the Arab state of Jordan. And the Mandate didn’t offer to help, it gave the Jews the land!
The Zionist scum identified themselves as colonists. The British Mandate autorities identified the Zionist scum as colonists. The Zionist scum department for settling Jews in Palestine was called the COLONIZATION department.
Please show the text in the Mandate that allots all of Mandate Palestine (which never included Jordan) to the Zionist colonist scum.
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why would the spiritual grandfather of Benyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, the Mussolini-loving Ukrainian Vladimir Jabotinsky, write that ‘We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Zionist COLONIZATION, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the NATIVE population’?–The Iron Wall, 1923
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did the Polish colonist David Grün (fake ‘Hebrew-sounding’ name: Ben-Gurion) claim ‘We have come as Europeans’? (David Ben Gurion, 1934. Segev, One Palestine, Complete, p. 153, op. cit.: ‘Ben Gurion to Wauchope, 29 to 30 July 1934, Central Zionist Archive number S/25/16/1).
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did the self-hating Jew Theodore Herzl write to Cecil Rhodes in 1902 ‘You are the only man who can help me now….it is a big- some say, too big –thing. To me, it does not seem too big for Cecil Rhodes… You are being invited to make history…It is not in your accustomed line; it doesn’t involve Africa but a piece of Asia Minor, not Englishmen but Jews…How do I happen to turn to you seeing this matter so remote to you? How? BECAUSE IT IS COLONIAL, and because it presupposes an understanding of a development that requires 20 to 30 years…put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan…’
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did Mordecai HaCohen explain the warm relations between European visitors and dignitaries on the one hand and the Jewish colonists on the other by saying ‘we Jews being the only Europeans in the country’?
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did Ukrainian Vladimir Jabotinsky write ‘We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the “Orient,” thank God.’?
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did Berl Katznelson, a Jewish Agency leader, write in 1937 ‘Never before has the WHITE MAN [!] undertaken COLONIZATION with that sense of justice and social progress which fills the Jew who comes to Palestine.’
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why was the Jewish Agency’s department for Jewish settlement in Palestine called the COLONIZATION department?
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did Vladimir Jabotinsky, spiritual grand-daddy of Likud, write in 1923 ‘Zionism is a COLONIZING adventure and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces.’
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why did the Second Zionist Congress establish the Jewish COLONIAL Trust–now Bank Leumi–as the Zionist Organization’s financial instrument?
Because that was the concept and language used in the 19th century. But the Class A Mandate system created states, not colonies, and the Mandate for Palestine (the name of the region) was a Class A Mandate for the purpose of creating a Jewish state.|
And that is my last response to you. Your extreme level of antisemitism makes it impossible for you to respond rationally, so it is a waste of time to explain reality to you.
Of course as always, you can never cite any language in the Mandate calling for a Jewsih state. I have pointed to the White Paper of 1922 clearly rejecting a Jewish state. I have pointed to the Zionist Agency’s agreeing that the Mandate does not call for a Jewish state. I have referred to British Mandate reports like that of the ‘Disturbances of May, 1921’ report mentioning the zionist scum obsession with the ‘absurd’ idea of a Jewish state. All to no avail because you live in a lunatic-fringe alternate reality where facts that get in the way of your ‘narrative’ are deemed anti-semitic.
Zion heil!
The White Papers were not legal documents, and were ultimately rejected.
From the Mandate: “Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; and
Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country; ”
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/mandate_for_palestine.htm
The White Papers were very much legal documents. Denial is an essential part of Zionism. And again, NOTHING about creating a Jewish state.
They were policy papers – not law.
If the Mandate wasn’t for the creation of a state for the Jews, what was it for? Please support with quotes from the Mandate.
They were policy papers that made absolutely clear that the British government at NO TIME WHATSOEVER considered the instalation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
YOU are the one saying that the intention was to create a Jewish state. Support it with quotes from the Mandate. BE SPECIFIC. Highlight the sentences that mention the word ‘sovereignty’, ‘Jewish state’, ‘homeland’ or ‘rights’ given to the Zionist colonists.
Chop, chop!
The British government had nothing to do legally with the Mandate – that came straight from the League of Nations. Britain was the trustee under the Mandate until the Jews had a sustainable state – just like all the other nations created by the Mandates.
http://israelnjudaism.blogspot.com/2010/08/palestine-1920-san-remo-conference.html
YOU are the one saying that the intention was to create a Jewish state. Support it with quotes from the Mandate. BE SPECIFIC. Highlight the sentences that mention the word ‘sovereignty’, ‘Jewish state’, ‘homeland’ or ‘rights’ given to the Zionist colonists.
Chop, chop!
The Mandate for Palestine was a Class A Mandate. Class A Mandates were for the creation of new states. The only people mentioned in the Mandate are the Jews. If you can prove otherwise, please do. In the meantime, here’s a lesson in Class A Mandates:
Class A mandates
Palestine and Transjordan
Syria and Lebanon
Mesopotamia (draft)
Iraq treaty
The three class A mandates of Palestine and Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon and Mesopotamia. The Mesopotamia mandate was not enacted and was replaced by a treaty with the Kingdom of Iraq.
The first group, or Class A mandates, were territories formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire that were deemed to “… have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone. The wishes of these communities must be a principal consideration in the selection of the Mandatory.”
The Class A mandates were:
• Palestine (United Kingdom), from 29 September 1923 – 15 May 1948.[13][14][15] In April 1921, Transjordan provisionally became an autonomous area for 6 months but then continued to be part of the Mandate until independence.[16][17] It eventually became the independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (later Jordan) on 25 May 1946. A plan for peacefully dividing the remainder of the Mandate failed. The Mandate terminated at midnight between 14 and 15 May 1948. On the evening of 14 May, the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine had declared the establishment of the State of Israel.[18] Arab states attacked the following day, marking the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Following the war, 75% of the area west of the Jordan River was controlled by the new State of Israel.[19] Other parts, until 1967, formed the West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. Small slivers of territory east and south of the Sea of Galilee were held by Syria.
From Wiki
No, no, no! Don’t play ‘it must mean what I wish it meant’! Show me IN THE PALESTINE MANDATE where it SAYS ‘Jewish state’. Occam’s razor says that if the name of the Mandate is Palestine, the state to be created would be called Palestine, i.e. the actual state recognized by the League of Nations.
Chop, chop! Where does the Mandate ACTUALLY SAY Jewish state?
Let’s put 1 plus 1 together. The Mandate for Palestine was a Class A Mandate, which means it purpose was to create a new state. The only people mentioned by name in the Mandate are the Jews. Therefore, the Mandate’s purpose was to create a Jewish state. It doesn’t need to use those words explicitly for virtually anyone to understand this.
Throughout history, Palestine always referred to the Land of the Jews. It never meant Arabs. It has been in currency since 135 CE, long before the Arabs even lived in the Land. In addition, the Arabs of the 19th and 20th centuries were well aware of its meaning, and did not want it applied to them. Only since 1964, when Arafat told the Arabs that they were now Palestinians, has it ever referred to anyone other than the Jews and their Land.
Not wink, wink, ‘it must mean’. SHOW ME AN ACTUAL LINE FROM THE MANDATE CALLING FOR A JEWISH STATE.
chop the fvck chop!
Just because you demand it doesn’t mean that it has to be stated in that way.
Let’s try again. Class A Mandate for creating a state, and the only people mentioned in it are the Jews. Where does it say that it is for any other people group?
In other words, you can provide NOT ONE SINGLE line in the British Mandate for Palestine that indicates a Jewish state.
Thank you for playing!
Then you provide a line where it says the state was for anyone other than the Jews.
YOU are the one that says that it was meant for the colonists. YOU have failed to document it. This is because your contention is mere brainwashed fantasy.
There is no need to name who a mandate was for. The one for Mesopotamia was for the people in Mesopotamia. The one for Syria and Lebanon was for the people of Syria and Lebanon. The principle of national self-determination was a key principle that came out of WWI. The mandates were for the STATES that had already been provisionally recognized: Mesopotamia (Iraq), Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The only thing special about the Mandate for Palestine was that it also allowed for Jews to be able to form a community within the new state of Palestine and to purchase whatever land that was still available, in the end, 5.6% of the available total ‘while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced’.
Again, show me where it says the all of this means nothing by showing me ANYWHERE in the Mandate where it says otherwise, ignorant maggot.
EXACTLY! The Zionist scum were PROUD of their racist, colonial venture, an, when colonialism fell out of fashion, 1984 style, the same immigrant scum claim to be somehow ‘native’.
If the Zionist scum were not colonists in Palestine, why was the Palestine Jewish COLONIZATION Association such a major player in the meagre land purchases the colonists were able to make before stealing the rest in 1947-9?
Yes! I HAVE heard of the League of Nations. That’s one of the international bodies that recognized the statehood of Palestine:
‘The Permanent Court of International Justice and an International Court of Arbitration established by the Council of the League of Nations handed down rulings in 1925 which determined that Palestine and Transjordan were newly created successor STATES of the Ottoman Empire whose sovereignty was in abeyance until such time as they would be recognised as independent of the Mandatory.’ (Marjorie M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law, vol. 1, U.S. State Department (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963) pp 636, 650–652)
Apartheid Israel has a made-up ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual documented record.
Yet you use the language and actions of the nazis yourself – not us…
Perhaps in your imagination.
No. Unlike you with your fake ‘narrative’, I can rely on the independent historical record:
‘The Permanent Court of International Justice and an International Court of Arbitration established by the Council of the League of Nations handed down rulings in 1925 which determined that Palestine and Transjordan were newly created successor STATES of the Ottoman Empire whose sovereignty was in abeyance until such time as they would be recognised as independent of the Mandatory.’ (Marjorie M. Whiteman, Digest of International Law, vol. 1, U.S. State Department (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963) pp 636, 650–652)
Apartheid Israel has a made-up ‘narrative’ while Palestine has the actual documented record.
Thank you for playing, Nazi scum!
Zion heil!
Read the Mandate – Palestine, as the region was called, was the newly created state of the Jews. When the British abandoned the Mandate, the Jews declared independence and named their state Israel. Never was there a legal state called Palestine.
I HAVE read the Mandate. No mention whatsoever of a Jewish state. The British stuck to the Mandate. It’s why the Zionists started their war of terrorism in late 1945.
What state of Palestine?
The one created by the Mandate and recognized by the signatories of the post-WWI treaties and upheld by the League of Nations in 1925.
You really ARE an illiterate, unread slob, aren’t you?
The state created by the Mandate is a Jewish state, not an Arab one. The British stole 78% of the land allocated to the Jews by the League of Nations to give to the Arabs, thereby creating Jordan. The Arabs aren’t even mentioned in the Mandate except as non-Jewish residents whose civil and religious rights are protected!
You sound like a white hating white person.
No. I hate Nazis of all stripes.
Report this deluded and dangerous person to the ADL and other groups including your local police…(Disqus refuses to get involved…)
Zion heil, impotent Nazi maggot!
Sharing – The Killing Must STOP!
Please share and hope some World Leaders will take action against the Evil Zionists
Open Letter to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
https://palestinerising.com/open-letter-to-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/
Is all that the UN & EU can say no wonder the World is in this MESS?
https://palestinerising.com/is-all-that-the-un-eu-can-say-no-wonder-the-world-is-in-this-mess/
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social
services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.” – David Ben-Gurion, a.k.a. David Grün (1886-1973), Israeli
Prime Minister (1948-53, 1955-63) revered by Israelis as “Father of the Nation”
Looks like a recipe for genocide.
The U.S.A. should be divided in two. One side should be a Native American State. the other can be the United Trump monarchy. they can build a wall. All the current reservations can stay. those on Trump’s side can be called settlements. If Emperor Donald is pissed off and feels like expanding he can invade Mexican Territory and use the lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkein and “the best ever scientific evidence” to show that Aryans first inhabited the land down there and that It was promised to the children of Eric the Red by great cthulu and that modern day Mexicans are actually Arabs who refused to go back to Transjordon and Uruk and be with their own people back when all that complicated stuff happened in the middle east a long long time ago. Based on all of this the Emperor can justify mass genocide of the so called Mexican people. because there’s really no such thing as Mexico anyway. So the people down there don’t really count. and also everybody knows that prior to the Balfour declaration Mexico was half empty. Its not even a real name. the Romans called it that back in the day just to get on the nerves of the West African Real Jews who lived there under occupation because in their language it refers to a very ancient people who back in the BC era inhabited the region near the sea who nobody liked and Shepherds pwned them with pebbles for fun. Also those in exile in Canada such as the Grey owl linage and the lobsang Rampa lineage should be allowed to become citizens of the new Native State because in reality even though there’s probably absolute 0 connection between them on so many levels they do have cultural appropriation in common as well as being exposed and derided by the mainstream and nobody loves people with a persecution complex more than this new Native American State, they’ll use their history of persecution to justify doing whatever the hell they want.
Thank you so much for your accurate appraisal of what is happening to Palestinians. It takes both objectivity and courage, since apparently American orthodox Christians are expected to blindly support the State of Israel’s occupation, even when it has a violent, oppressive and racist government.
I also think Palestinians would do much better to use non-violent protests, in the style of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, but understand their utter frustration with the situation. I don’t understand the refusal of American Christians to face the obvious facts of Israeli occupation and oppression over many decades. The rest of the world mostly seems to get it. It is sad when “alternate facts” driven by a political agenda replace truth.
Alternate facts are what most of world use.
Fact, Israel has full right to Jerusalem.
Fact, the so called “Palestinians” are not native.
Fact, Israel has been improving the living conditions of the so called “west bank”. I understand Israel could do more on that but its not like the PA or Hamas try to improve the lives of their people.
…violent, oppressive and racist government… None of those things. Now all that applies to Jordan.
You say equally wrong when the Palestinians use violence, I disagree, aggressor and victim can never be equal. Resistance by any means necessary and at their disposal is an internationally recognized basic right when a people are occupied by a foreign army. But I agree with you on one point, the use of violence by Palestinians at this point will only play into Israels hand and draw more aggression from the latter. A well organized boycott is the only answer, hit them in the pocket books, it’s more effective.
You’re trying to have it both ways; having a god who can choose favorites and then saying we’re all equals.
It’s the central fairy tale that keeps painting you into corners.
Israel (including the Jews) were scattered until suddenly and miraculously after 2000 years in 1948 the State of Israel was founded. “Israel On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years.” This was prophesied in the bible but many felt it was impossible or misinterpreted. Those who feel that this land belongs to others do not fully understand history or the bible
The prophecy in Zechariah goes further – all the way to the end of this age.
Zechariah 12:3:”And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Today’s Israel is spiritually very different from the original biblical Israel of David’s time. Their place as a chosen nation has been rescinded for now. Jeremiah 3:8. So the discussion is about secular Israel not biblical Israel.
Whether Israel is performing a time-release Genocide is obviously hotly debated as per the many comments. What is not debatable is the outcome of this era ofviolence. Israel will be protected and the surrounding nations will not.
Okay, I think that should fully establish who has the facts, and who is lying, and who posts with his real name and photos as opposed to the quite disgusting antisemitic alt-right Hasbara troll Eric Hammer. It is people like this who really are more suited to Breitbart, Der Sturmer, and Daily Caller and the other racist Web sites that comprise today’s alt-right neo-nasi wingnuts who should not be allowed to post in polite company, they are just not quite right in the head.
I am who I say I am, I post with my real name and my photo[s] and I have offered to “proud zionist” and Eric Hammer the troll many times the opportunity to go on camera with me and discuss the kinds of actual facts I have provided here, as opposed to the neo-nasi claptrap that these despicable and disgusting trolls exhibit on a daily basis.
I ask that Patheos let these stand for all to see because we all must pull together and start exposing these horrible monsters with their nasty antisemitic musings for the truly disgusting human beings that they are. I think it is appropriate to end with Martin Niemöller’s poetic lament, I am not posting anymore in this thread, I have provided days worth of factual reading material that fully back up every word I have written today that will fully withstand any objective review of the facts gleaned from primary and secondary sources including various NGO’s that are under fire by Ayelet Shaked and others within Israel even as I type this.
So I ask that it all be allowed to stand, this is a fine place to help expose these alt-right people.
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
— Martin Niemöller – this version appears at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Michael Hess, reformed Zionist, editor of BBSNews 1990 to current date, and editor of the new project Hasbara News Club (HNC), http://hasbara.club, standing at the Petroglyph National Monument 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I live just off the res’. Well, one of them, we have lots of them here.
At HNC, antisemitic alt-right Hasbara trolls such as Eric Hammer and “proud zionist” and all the others many of us see polluting comment threads all over the ‘net, will be forever banned by IP address using drop tables immediately upon discovery. HNC is for a frank and factual discussion among adults and not for Hasbara trolls who always gum up the works. we are looking for solutions based on the rule of law and human rights for everyone, Muslims, Jews, Christians and the non-religious or of other faiths or spirituality.
You see alt-right antisemitic Hasbara trolls, I am exactly who I say I am. You have been served. We all must start speaking out and stand up and be counted for truth, fairness, the rule of law, and human rights.
I do not remember a time in my lifetime when they have been more under threat, even in this “land of the free”.
This is nothing but more nonsense. Children being tear gassed? Really? As for your nonsense about people dying while trying to access medical care, it’s medical care provided by Israel for free to the so called Palestinians and they use that as a way to try to blow up Israelis: http://www.snopes.com/politics/israel/eldad.asp/. Once again, facts seem not to matter to you. Just your hatred of Jews.