Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour, general manager of the Al Rowwad Cultural Center in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, talks about his view of the United States.
BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK – At the Aida Refugee Camp, a few blocks from Israel’s separation wall, is the Al Rowwad Cultural and Theater Center founded by Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour in 1998 with the philosophy of “beautiful resistance” against the Israeli power over their land.
Abusrour is part of the first generation of children born to refugee parents in the Aida Refugee Camp, which was established in 1950 between the towns of Bethlehem and Beit Jala. It is now home to around 5,000 inhabitants all descendants from the 1948 expulsion from Palestine.
Abusrour considers himself “fortunate” to have gotten a scholarship to study in France, where he stayed for nine years and got his master’s and Ph.D in biological and medical engineering. But his heart was always also with theater, painting and photography. He came home with the dream of working with children to help shape the future of a Palestinian state.
The center started working with children in refugee camps in the area of Bethlehem and Bet-Jala, but then spread all over the West Bank with mobile “beautiful resistance” programs in theater, dance and music training.
He explained the center’s philosophy: “Resistance, because we are under occupation still until today and we have this right to resist the occupation; and beautiful, to reflect all this beauty, this humanity, this culture, this heritage, this beautiful heritage of unarmed struggle that the Palestinians have carried over the years even before Gandhi and Martin Luther King.”
U.S. is ‘supportive of an apartheid system that is suffocating us’
The center takes some of the children to tour and perform internationally.
“We go internationally to give the children the possibility to see real, free and peaceful countries without checkpoints, without tear gas, without occupation soldiers,” said Abusrour.
Children have toured in the United States, among many other countries.
Abusrour says he was very eager to tour with the children in the U.S. because it is the richest, most powerful democracy in the world. But he also wanted to show them that even in the biggest democracy, injustice can be found.
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“We took our children to poor areas like Afro-American neighborhoods because it was important for me to show them as Palestinians that there are equal injustices in other places of the world,” he said.
While he appreciates the power of the U.S., Abusrour believes that as a country, it is not living up to its ideals.
“The United States of America is a country like any other country. It has its beauty and faults," said Abusrour. He added that it is "the land of free and the brave, apparently, and they are violating the values that they pretend defending.”
For many Palestinians, it is hard to ignore the long-term support the U.S. has given and continues to give Israel for its security. Many find it hard to understand how a country like the U.S., which plays a leading role in shaping the policies of other countries, can help Israel’s continuous violation of the Palestinian’s rights.
“As a Palestinian I see that [the U.S.] is supportive of an apartheid system that is suffocating us, that is continuing a violation of human rights and human values that we share as Palestinians,” said Abusrour. “I see the governments of the United States of America, one after the other, supporting this illegal occupation.”
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Why MSNBC, why do you support these Palestinian Terrorists in sheep's clothing?
You are an idiot
Wow smoke another rock!
Dr. Abusrour's statements are blatantly anti-Semitic in nature and typical in blaming the US and Israel for the problems of the Palestinian people. Then he attempts to equate Afro-American neighborhoods in the USA to Palestinian refugee camps as similar injustices, how ridiculous!. His parents and his culture did not care enough for him to make peace with the children of Israel and that is why he was born in a refugee camp and has no homeland.
Arabs are a Semitic people, unlike most Zionists, who aren't Semites. Most Zionists are Ashkinazi, Eastern Europeans, interlopers in Palestine. They are the actual anti-Semitic apartheid occupiers.
Obviously you know nothing of the Jewish religion, passover, moses, the old testament; even the new Testament. You really need a certain level of intelligence and knowledge for discussion which you obviously do not possesss. Their was another race of people (90yrs ago) who also felt the same way. They called themselves the master race and their bible was written by a corporal. It was known as Mein Kampf. I'm sure you'd be in complete agreement with what this corporal had to say.
As amazing as this might be to the rabid Israel-haters, Jews actually DO NOT "just have to" trace their ancestry back 1,000 years in order to be "allowed" to live in their own state. Jews, like other people, have a right to immigrate to a country they want to live in and which is willing to allow them entry. Nobody "needs" to "ask the permission of" the Arabs in order for Jews to "be allowed to" live in Israel.
When the so-called "Palestinians" refer to "occupation" they are not referring to the West Bank, they are instead referring to ALL OF Israel. This is because even after fifty-plus years and numerous failed attempts tot annihilate Israel, they still refuse to accept the fact that that Jewish State really ISN'T going to "disappear" or "go away".
NEWS FLASH: NO, Jews are NOT gonna "be forced to live under Islamic Law or Muslim rule", NO THEY WILL NOT settle for being second- and third-class citizens subjected to constant persecution. There is no Muslim or Arab state anywhere in the world that provides equal rights to ALL its citizens regardless of their religion, there is no Muslim or Arab sthat that does not actively engage in some form of persecution of non-Muslims or treat them as inferior, barely-tolerated second-class citizens. GEE NO JEWS ARE NOT going to meekly accept that or "go back to living under Muslim RUle", it is never going to happen and so-called "Palestinians" need to accept that. They tried to destroy Israel in four consecutive wars, NEWS FLASH, YOU LOST, GET OVER IT.
Why USA, why do you support this zionist rogue state in oppressing the Palestinians and stealing their land?
Imagine that. Jews stealing Jewdia.
aparthied indeed. Those "palestinians" held captive by the PA should be allowed to move back to Jordan where they came and are majority, or to Gaza- the Jew-free zone. That "educated Doctor" should know better. Jordan is where true textbook aparthied exists.
Not sure what some 3000 year old superstitious mumbo jumbo has to do with Israel having the right to practice apartheid against the Palestinians.
Not that I buy into ancient history giving anybody the right to discriminate for or against whoever is living in that land right now, but for what it's worth, most of the Palestinians in that land are descendents of the original Jews who'd been there, and even the folk who'd been there before the first Biblical era Hebrews showed up. And unlike with those of the Jewish diaspora, those guys never left.
They just happened to be more flexible - when the Babylonians came along and got ornery with the Jews, either massacring or exiling them, they figured maybe they don't want to be Jewish no more and went right on farming their land and herding their goats. When the Persians showed up they were chill. When the Greeks/ Macedonians arrived, they were cool and went along - want us worship some Hellenic king? No problem - no do or die rebellion about graven images here. When the Romans came they went "hail Caeser" and kept on farming the land and herding. When Christianity came they went to church on Sunday, and the rest of the week they kept farming the land and herding their goats. When Islam came it was no skin off their back so they went "Allahu Akbar" and kept farming the land their ancestors had been farming for thousands of years and herding goats in the same pastures.
So by that (flawed) logic of whoever had been there longest having some greater right, the Palestinians would have greater rights to that land :D
Apparantly, Khalid, like the "good" doctor, fat and sassy, not strangled at all, you don't understand the term "apartheid." Fully 1/5 of Israel is not Jewish--mostly Christian and Muslim Arab while the majority of the disputed West Bank, outside of settlements, all of Gaza, and Jordan, the original "Palestinian" state are JEW FREE.
Arabs practice apartheid! Israel does not!
(and Egypt has a border with Gaza but blockaded it as they hate the terrorist "Palestinians," too.)
Why Henrich von Dorf do you support the Waffen SS and continue to use the palestinians as an excuse to continue your campaign of genocide against the jews?
Always easy to critisize the USA- we just take it in stride and who cares? On the other hand if people like Abusrour would be critical of the death lovers and the vile hatred and violence they worship it would mean a lot more- of course there would be some risks to that. Either he is a hypocritical liar or or a cowardly craven-take your pick.
I guess nobody wants to stop fighting a two thousand year old war. Both sides want to blame the other and apparently prefer to keep the status quo.
While reading these posts, I decided to Google the number of deaths of Palestinians and Jews during this "conflict" (or whatever term you choose to call it). There are about 6 times the number of Palestinians killed for every Jew.
I'm not taking any sides in this argument, but if you don't want to play nice together then be prepared for a perpetual body count. Life must be pretty cheap over there.
Bryan, It is because the Palestinian 'animals' are beneath humans. They are a sub species, didn't you know? They have no rights. They fight for their right to live and therefore are terrorists. Hypocrisy at its best. What a stinker this thinking thing.
Yeah, through suicide vests and rocket attacks. Fukk them. Fukk them all.
Don, Your attitude would make you a 'GREAT' negotiator (sarc). Congratulations. Clue, life is sacred. Take care of it in all of its magnificent expressions. The same rights the Jews have in calling upon the Holocaust as a historical reminder makes me question the validity of present policies and reminds me of the definition of hypocrisy. Giving land for peace? Hmmm, what land, stolen land, spoils of war? Usually when I see a fire I carry water to it and not gasoline. Natural law dictates a cornered animal to come out fighting for its sacred life. Wow, let go of your hatred. It'll make you sick.
Peter Jacobs, it takes two to tango and I don't see Hamas doing jack sh!t. I suggest you do something about your own closet-like Nazi tendencies before you start pointing fingers at others.
Renounce suicide vests, renounce rocket attacks into Israel, recognize Israel's right to exist and then you might have a start.
Until then, fukk them. Fukk them all.
Don,
Read again. Read and leave your hatred and your accusations aside. Do not attack me personally again. You know nothing about me and I would challenge you to prove your assertions regarding my person and or philosophies. If you can not do this then you need to look in a mirror. I defend life in all of its expressions and would therefor naturally denounce any form of life taking, including any types of weapons, such as white phosphorus, vest bombs, rockets, etc. I am a pacifist and will NEVER take life. I am Dutch and I am American. During WWII my family ranch in Curacao was used as an American air, land, and water base. The foundations of the canons, which could reach Venezuela, are still there. In Holland, my extended family was part of the underground. My last name has Jewish history behind it from all four sides. If you want to express yourself with credibility then you should stop personal attacks.
Well I'm not a pacifist and I have no problem using violence when it's necessary. You can brag about yourself all you want to but anybody can make up stories about themselves around here.
The fact is you haven't been evenhanded in this whole thread so let's cut the phony one-sided bullsh!t, about "taking life", shall we?
Until you denounce HAMAS you are nothing more than a hypocrite who's full of sh!t.
Just for you to check out the veracity of our family history.
http://www.norberthendrikse.nl/blaauw1.pdf
http://www.norberthendrikse.nl/blaauw2.pdf
http://www.bluebay-curacao.com/
Sorry it is in Dutch but I am sure you can spell the family name and see the pictures for yourself. Today, Blaauw Baai, or Blue Bay, is a luxury golf resort for you and your family to visit. We welcome you.
I do not have to denounce anything of which I am not a part of. You really need to check your hatred at the door.
Bragging? Really. Ask for proof, you get it, then facts turn into bragging. Seek help.
@Peter Jacobs, so what. Who cares.
Even if that was true, is that supposed to make you special or what.
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Until you denounce HAMAS, you're still full of sh!t.
http://bluebay-curacao.com/eid/88868
This one, in English for you to be able to understand, should enlighten.
Tyler, Not advertising but trying to shut down a troll which attacks personally.
Hasn't changed anything except you looking for an excuse to advertize and change the subject.
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You're not a true pacifist and until you denounce HAMAS, you're still full of sh!t.
Continue with personal attacks.
Whatsa matter, Peter?
Can't bring yourself to denounce what HAMAS does?
That violence is acceptable if one side does it and not the other?
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How can you claim to be credible when this leads to hypocrisy in it's ultimate form.
You really do not read, do you. Wow. Hatred is awful thing which makes the bearer suffer greatly. Tell you what, I will denounce hamas if you denounce violence in all forms. Does that help calm you down a bit and maybe stop attacking Vine members personally. It is, after all, a part of the contract you agreed to when becoming a member.
I've already picked a side, Peter. How about you?
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Instead of hiding behind phony, 'magnanimous' lies.
You even said it yourself about the Palestinians:
That doesn't sound like a pacifist to me. A pacifist would turn the other cheek no matter what side.
I don't think you even know the meaning of the word.
You hit the nail right on the head. In choosing sides you create a divide inside of you, usually based in hatred. This is called 'personal apartheid'. Apartheid is a Dutch word meaning divided. In choosing your side you become unable to renounce hatred and violence. Either way, you loose.
In citing Natural Law, does not mean I agree with it. It is 'natural' for an animal to fight for its survival. I would like to think that advanced humans could reach above such animal responses. I hope you can understand this someday.
You sound a little desperate yourself, Peter. You're scrambling.
You sure I didn't catch a moment of hypocrisy here?
Or maybe a 'little' double-standard that shouldn't have been brought up?
Hmmm?
;)
You implied that you agree with it. Just the fact that you continue to refuse to denounce HAMAS violence tells us so, Peter.
And you keep changing the subject because you were caught in a lie. That needs to be said, too.
Please show me my desperation. Please.
Injecting your own meaning into words of another is a common fallacy . Wow!
I gave you a solution, I renounce hamas and you renounce all violence. You still don't get it, do you?
Could you please show me the lie.
So are you telling us the Palestinians are a bunch of animals? That they have an animal right to fight for their survival?
But didn't you sarcastically say earlier:
So which is it, Peter? They're not "animals" but they have that "animal right" to commit violence?
I thought only animals had that "animal right" to commit violence. Not Palestinians.
But then you're supposed to be a 'pacifist' against violence in any form.
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So which is it, Peter? You can't seem to make up your (double-standard) mind here, dude.
Sure, the fact you claim you're a 'pacifist' yet you refuse to denounce HAMAS violence.
You're not a pacifist so stop lying.
That's why I'm pointing out your hypocrisy here. You talk out one side of your mouth but you really mean another. That also needs to be said.
You should thank me for all this since you seems so confused.
oy vay. There is just no way to help someone who doesn't want to climb above hatred. You are not going to win with circular arguments. Suggestion, look up the definition of sarcasm.
Once again, for your benefit, here is a deal for you. Do you agree that hamas is violent. OK. You want me to denounce hamas and I say OK if you denounce all violence. How is that for a nice approach.
I have repeatedly tried to be nice to you, showing you facts, and trying to help you see your way out of hatred, apartheid, violence, diversionary tactics, etc. Your response has always been with personal attacks and accusations. I just can't help you.
I can do without your patronizing 'help', Peter. I don't compromise, so...
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You can't seem to stay consistent except when you persist in calling yourself a 'pacifist' and then hypocritically refuse to denounce HAMAS violence.
But you go ahead and hide behind that fantasy all you want to. Just remember Don will always be there to help you out.
lol... :D
Don, as already explained above, a myriad of times, my sentiments about violence. Violence of all types is to be denounced. Circular arguments are a no win situation. No need to repeat. Once is enough. I wonder who is hiding and baiting here. Your line has caught no fish. Troll busting with logic, facts, truth, kindness and without personal attacks is a new sport and it is fun, thanks. Have a great day my friend. Good luck.
to Khalid, posting #1.9...."The present-day Palestinians are descended from the Original Jews" (these True Jews, *accepted* Mohammad's VISION, and became Muslim)
NO Problem!!!! Proving the Exact *WHAT (?!)*, of WHO The Palestinians ARE,
is as SIMPLE as a DNA TEST;
IF The DNA TEST Shows that the Palestinian Sunni, have Exactly the SAME DNA, as The Syrian Sunni<
then THAT *DNA PROOF*, would make The Palestinian Sunni as The Brothers OF The Syrian Sunni<
either BOTH are Jews, OR, BOTH are Arabs....!!!!
ANY Palestinian Volunteers, for The DNA Test....????
Maybe the brothers who come from the same loin of Abraham can someday live in peace.
Amazing how people still look for who is right and who is wrong. What matters is life and the search for enlightenment. The power of human conscience can be measured logarithmically and has been documented by Dr. David Hawkins, Md, Phd. A good read would be his book on Power vs. Force.
Here is what he says regarding the power levels. Enlightenment 700-1000, Peace 600, Joy 540, Love 500, Reason 400, Acceptance 350, Willingness 310, Neutrality 250, Courage 200, Below 200 (Below the critical level of integrity): Pride 175, Anger 150, Desire 125, Fear 100, Grief 75, Apathy 50, Guilt 30. Remember, the level of power he is speaking of is logarithmically. The question is, at what level do we want to operate.
Personally, as a student, I am still learning and am amazed at the difference it makes in life. Truly in the land of an eye for an eye everyone is blind. If traced all the way back to the origin our DNA is all the same and our blood red. Anything else is racism.
tka-2405407, Don41331, you're each suspended for a day for violating #1 of the Code of Honor.
WHO HERE Doubts, that, in *THIS Creation*
WE Have DNA that WILL Tell, *Who We ARE !!*
NOT.... we are "better" OR "Less "good" than Others....
but,
WILL TELL WHO we ARE, and from WHERE we CAME....
IF, The Palestinian Sunni and The Syrian Sunni Have The SAME DNA,
then, The Palestinian Sunni AND The Syrian Sunni ARE RELATED !!!!
IF They BOTH, ARE NOT Converted Jews, Converting from Judaism to Mohammad's *VISION*....
then,
The Palestinian Sunni, And The Syrian Sunni, ARE INVADERS from a *Previous* Invasion.
Question: WHICH Invader, gets the Territory....??!!
I lost any sympathy for the palestinians when I watched them celebrating in the streets, holding up pictures of Bin-Laden, after 9/11
Don, you need to calm down, your vitriolic posts are making your case less believable. Real people read your hatred and wonder why you need to act so crazy. Simple.
We all know that Israel is violating international law. The question is whether the USA is going to continue to allow them to do that and cater to the political pressure from the Jewish community here in America. The excuse of supporting Zionism because the Jewish people have been suffering is no longer valid. That ended in 1967.
All economic and military support to Israel should end now. Let them figure out how to maintain the lifestyles to which they have become accustomed. They made the nest, now let them wallow in it. The oil is not worth the cost and the false guilt is over.
don413 always attack other posters in person when their views were contradictory to his pro israel stance. He is non-qualified for this forum of free expression. A one day suspension would hardly deter him. he should be BANNED.
Well Mein Führer, even if I was BANNED, it still wouldn't shut me up. I'd be back again the next day.
I make no apologies for anything I've said up above. None.
The answer is YES because you can't stop it.
But go ahead and try. lol...
Sure. Keep telling yourself that. I 'wish' you luck.
more lol...
Life has the right to express itself in all of its magnificence. Even haters and those who would support apartheid, oppression, stealing, murdering, etc, have a right to life. The price paid for such aggressions will always be high and ultimate. After all, life is a circle and all offenses meet with a day of reckoning. Israel has a right to exist. So does Palestine and the Palestinian people. All Americans should stop paying taxes until all foreign aid and foreign wars cease. Our public military, paid for by you and me, should be brought home and be Constitutionally obliged to only defend American Homeland.
The real reason we are in AfPak is because our public military protecting the TAPI pipeline. Israel won the rights to explore the gas fields of Turkmenistan and Unocal is building the pipeline to India via Af. and Pak. The reason America and Israel are so 'worried' about Iran is because they can sell gas to India at a third of the price of the Turkmenistan gas. We Americans are being lied to by our own politicians, we are being used, we have been set up. It is time we STOP all this BS. Israel needs to get out of our government and stop mixing politics with religion. Washington has been highjacked by Israel to do her bidding. The American people are nothing more than an ATM for the Israeli solution. Time to get get out. Time to grow some balls and speak the truth.
"I have never learned anything from people telling me what I want to hear ..............."
"Discrimination" is rarely acknowledged by the "Perpetrator" because of their inherent belief that of "righteousness " is on their side, and that the victim is less important ... (subhuman, wrong faith or sex, or just to ignorant to be considered as humanity) in the grand scheme of things. For most people, they have never "walked" in the victims shoes, and can't even imagine what that attitude of "discrimination" does to relationships...... "Ignorance is bliss ..."
But, as hard as I try, I can find no excuse for Israeli national behavior.
Of all the people in the world .... Jews know what "discrimination" and national acceptance of such a policy, can led to...... and s a group, they keep the word "Holocaust" alive .... To remind us all of the result of such behavior. And yet as a group that has been so discriminated against .....they continues to practice the behavior that they so abhor; like most abusers world wide, that have come from abusive situations.
The United States has become simply their "Enabler" .... allowing them to persecute their victims in the name of "political" expediency for the past fifty years, as the world watched on ..... as we lost our "Believability" throughout the world.
The intransigence of the Israeli government in this regard, is the main catalyst, in the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism throughout the world, perhaps the biggest world threat of the past fifty years ...
It's time the Israelis begin to listen .... before it's to late for all of us ......
Wow! moonbeamracer. I wish I could have said as well as you. Thank you.
The fact that Peter Jacobs and his sycophants have collapsed my posts is a good sign. A sign of fear that their hypocrisy is being exposed.
Israelis have a right to live too. They have a right to live lives free of rocket attacks and suicide bombs. Something 'Peter the Pacifist' deliberately FAILS to address.
You'll never permanently silence me on the internet, Peter. Only God can do that.
Don, I have absolutely no need to silence you at all. I offered you a different point of view and you gave back nothing but hatred and personal attacks. As long as you see violence as an option then you will continue seeing the World you currently experience. Imagined persecution is one. Thinking you are being patronized is another. If someone where to be humble and grateful for their lives then persecution would turn into people who care to share with you and patronizing would become heartfelt advice. Look at the language you use against Vine members and tell me if that is sanity or sobriety in thinking. At fifty years of age the last thing I need to do is waste my time trying to convince you of anything. Yet, I find it gratifying to be able to retrace the steps I took towards spiritual growth as well as professional, financial and social success in life. I tried sharing with you but even that gift is turned into a defensive posture. Israel does have a right to exist and so does Palestine. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Deny others what you would have for yourself is hypocrisy. Even while personally attacking me, I still see a benefit you are freely affording me, a chance to show my children how to navigate people such as yourself. For that I am very grateful.
This is why MSNBC is losing popularity and ratings. Writing about terrorist rat bastards like they are some type of victims. Only the real liberal socialist Obamaites support these terrorist rat bastards.
Don, I completely agree with you - until the Palestinian people denounce the violence perpetrated by Hamas in their name, they have no credibility when criticizing anyone else, be it Israel or the United States.
I also get tired of the Palestinians trying to portray themselves as innocent victims. They are so quick to point out the flaws in everyone else, but they never hold themselves accountable for their own actions.
That is my opinion - and I realize others have a different opinion. I don't consider them idiots - they just view the world from a different perspective.
The US needs stop spending my taxes on foreign 'aid' of all kinds until we are solvent. Until then we are being cheated and lied to. Why are we Americans economic slaves to foreign Nations? Our government has forsaken us and lied to us into believing that our taxes are for the public benefit when in reality it goes to create profits for the few. The truth is hard to swallow.
Which would YOU rather have? An apartheid system that separates Palestinians and Israelis or a Palestinian system of genocide that would kill millions of Israelis?
Let me steal your land and kick your family out on the street see how you would take it. Oh you would bend over and take it dry, IC I am sorry. I do not see the palestinians attacking anyone else. One day Isreal must face the fact that you cannot treat people like garbage and wreck everything in their lives without repercussions.
You bulldoze my house, kick me off land that has been in the family for generations and put me and my family on the street in some backwards country, I will come for you and your family to equal the score and would die trying, only a pussie would not defend such actions.
The chosen people thing has gone to their heads, STOP LAND GRABBING!!
Allthough this guys views on our democratic society are wrong he has some valid points
When one side was blowing up our planes in the '70s, kidnapping our citizens in the '80s, cheering incoming scuds in the '90s and dancing in the streets on 9/11, its not hard to support the other side.
Does it matter if Israelis kill Palestinians? The ratio of Palestinians killed by Israelis to Israelis killed by Palestinians is 5 to 1. It may not to you, but it does to the Palestinians. The facts may be different than you suppose, not that you will care.
It always matters when someone dies, the question though is not how many die its why. If these Palestinians were the absolute victims as this article would lead you to believe then it would be impossible to support the Israel occupation. However it has apparently been forgotten that the Palestinians have been their own worse enemy in this whole process, beginning with the 1948 Arab- Israeli war. Israel has steadily grown over the years due to conflicts with the Arab powers who have used the Palestinians as pawns in their game against Israel. The Israelis have also restricted the freedoms of the Palestinians in order to secure their own security. The Intifadas were a major reason for this and one reason Israel built the west bank wall.
Peace in Palestine is desirable for Americans, but we don't just blindly see the suffering, we have to look at why and then try to bring both sides together, but both sides will have to make sacrifices to achieve peace, and right now the Palestinians (Hamas for instance) are more inclined to offer armed resistance rather than take the tough steps to lasting peace.
Rocky did you forget the reason Israelis had to leave Israel to begin with!? This was Israel's birthplace. You say generations of people who own the land. Their history goes back centuries. It is unfortunate the Palestines founded a home over the top of a previous peoples; and maybe more unfortunate for the Palestines that those people decided to come back; but it is not the Israelis fault, they just wanted to return to their origins. The Israelis understand that there is another people living on their land now; and unlike most regimes around the world; are more than willing to come to the negotiation table and try to settle their differences. And now the Palestines are at the point they are more a terrorist group then a respectable government willing to negotiate on the behalf of their people. They need to find a leadership and come back to the negotiating table and are probably lucky Israel doesn't say enough is enough and take all their lands back and kick the Palestines out completely. China moves an army from one region to another and forces their governments to cede their territories; maybe Israel should strive to be more like China?
Like in Gaza, where the Israeli evacuation even included exhuming the dead in Jewish cemeteries?
"Land for peace" is a lie. Unless you mean 'drive the Jews into the sea' being a euphemism for 'land for peace'.
Israel routinely bulldozes the homes of terrorists. It's a good policy; you blow up a bus, we knock down your home.
Its very hard to with some of the comments which are made. Wheree do you start when most of these people have no understanding of History. Where do you start when most of them will deny that there was ever a holocust or anyone of thousand upon thousands of injustice that occurr annually around the globe. It leads one to believe that the world is perfect and that if we can just annihilate Israel peace and harmony will exist worldwide. Chamberlin tried that by throwing Czechoslovakia under a train. This convinced Stalin that the west could not be trusted. It also convinced Hitler that Poland and the rest of Europe was up for grab. Indirectly that led too 100million deaths.
The palestinians are vicitims of their own decisions. There their own worst enemy. They have know one to blame but themselves. Most societies want their children to become productive. The palestinians want them to become martyrs and terrorists. They teach their children from a young age the meaning of infatah. Their losers and will continue to be for generations to come. A hundred years from now they'll still complain about their refugee status or camps. Nobody in the world has received more international aid per person with nothing to show for it. Everyone is tired of hearing of their situation. No one cares about this hopeless bunch of losers.
Funny too that true textbook apartheid exists in the palestinian homeland (carved out of the Jewish Mandate because Syria, Lebenon, Saudi Arabia and all the oil etc was not enough for the Arabs) called "Jordan" where a hashemite minority rules over and oppresses the 80% Palestinian Majority.
NEWS FLASH: When you start no fewer than FOUR SEPARATE WARS OF AGGRESSION against Israel and LOSE THEM ALL, you really donlt have any right to complain when you lose land as a result of those imperialist antisemitic aggressions. Guess what, lands captured in war BECOME THE PROPERTY OF THE VICTOR.
RockyRoad claims he "doesn;t see Palestinians attacking anybody else", it must be nice to be so selectively blind, maybe he has a vision problem and "didn't notice" the thousands of missiles and mortars which the so-called "peace loving" Hamas-stani Palestinians have fired at Israel from Gaza. Maybe he conveniently "didn't notice" the Israeli who was just murdered less than a month ago by "Palestinian" terrorists attempting to infiltrate into Israel from Sinai. Guess what -- the rest of us NOTICED it just fine.
Until the Nazis started to drive the Jews from Europe and later commit a genocide on them the number of Jews immigrating to the Palestine was small and they paid for and bought land. The Palistinian leadership was active in the Holocaust and killed many Jews in Europe. Muslim leadership raised divisions of SS troops for the Nazis. The Muslims do not and did not want any non-muslim in their midst. When a Jew bought land they had the right to hire those that they wanted not have to keep workers because their family worked there for so many years. The Muslims did not like that. Yes the Zionist wanted to set up a Jewish state but they were far from being able to do it. The first ones to use violence was the Muslims. That occurred throughout the 1920s and 30s. The Jews only started to use violence after they were slaughtered in Europe and realized it was fight or die. The Muslims attacked and lost. People have remained in the camps as much because Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon,and others all refused to allow the displaced people to settle in their countries and if they did they made them stay in camps and denied them citizenship. Israel has given up a lot of the land they took in war. The deal was suppose to be land for peace. They gave the land but got no peace. The Palestinians are walled up because they launched suicide missions in Israeli towns and because they shoot rockets, mortars and missiles into Israel. They have hijacked planes and killed civilians. They killed the Israeli Olympic team members. They hijacked a cruise ship and killed a civilian. All outside the conflict zone. When Israeli gave back Gaza all the Palestinians had to do was go about the business of creating a state based on law and justice. The did not. They continued their attacks. Israel had to stave them because they continued to bring in weapons and war material. The PLO, the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas, and Hezbollah are criminal organizations that steal from heir own people and oppress them. When Arafat died he had more money that the Queen of England. On 9/11 the only people that celibrated the attack in the whole world were the Palestinians. Since that day as far as I am concerned they get what they asked or ask for.
Hey Willie - The Israels started the wars, not the Arabs. The Israelis took Arab villages and made them Israeli villages. The Israelis attacked Egypt, not the other way around. It was Zionists that blew up the WTCs, making them fall straight into their own footprints in a controlled demoliition. The Arab hi jackers would never have been able to accomplish what was done on 9/11, without inside help.
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not
even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because
geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab
villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz
Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar
Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in
this country that did not have a former Arab population."
Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in
Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June
1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff,
which was born and developed after the war."
Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
“In violation of international law,
Israel has confiscated over 52 percent of the land in the West Bank and 30
percent of the Gaza Strip for military use or for settlement by Jewish
civilians...From 1967 to 1982, Israel’s military government demolished 1,338
Palestinian homes on the West Bank. Over this period, more than 300,000
Palestinians were detained without trial for various periods by Israeli
security forces. “Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli
Occupation,” ed. Lockman and Beinin.
World
opinion on the legality of Israeli control of the West Bank and Gaza.
“Under the UN Charter there can
lawfully be no territorial gains from war, even by a state acting in
self-defense. The response of other states to Israel’s occupation shows a
virtually unanimous opinion that even if Israel’s action was defensive, its retention
of the West Bank and Gaza Strip was not...The [UN] General Assembly
characterized Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as a denial of self
determination and hence a ‘serious and increasing threat to international peace
and security.’ “ John Quigley, “Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to
Justice.”
“I do not think Nasser wanted war.
The two divisions he sent to The Sinai would not have been sufficient to launch
an offensive war. He knew it and we knew it.” Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s Chief
of Staff in 1967, in Le Monde, 2/28/68
Moshe
Dayan posthumously speaks out on the Golan Heights
“Moshe Dayan, the celebrated
commander who, as Defense Minister in 1967, gave the order to conquer the
Golan...[said] many of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately
provoked by Israel, and the kibbutz residents who pressed the Government to
take the Golan Heights did so less for security than for the farmland...[Dayan
stated] ‘They didn’t even try to hide their greed for the land...We would send
a tractor to plow some area where it wasn’t possible to do anything, in the demilitarized
area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn’t
shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the
Syrians would get annoyed and shoot.
And then we would use artillery and
later the air force also, and that’s how it was...The Syrians, on the fourth
day of the war, were not a threat to us.’” The New York Times, May 11, 1997
Apparantly, many here, like the "good" doctor, fat and sassy, not strangled at all, you don't understand the term "apartheid." Fully 1/5 of Israel is not Jewish--mostly Christian and Muslim Arab while the majority of the disputed West Bank, outside of settlements, all of Gaza, and Jordan, the original "Palestinian" state are JEW FREE.
Arabs practice apartheid! Israel does not!
(and Egypt has a border with Gaza but blockaded it as they hate the terrorist "Palestinians," too.)
Hey RALPH H, your claims are lying BS and you must be on drugs and not sharing. Kindly take your false, lying, hateful, Jew-hating, antisemitic BS somewhere else eh?
By the way, feel free to PROVE your false and lying claims about "It was Zionists that blew up the WTCs, making them fall straight into their own footprints in a controlled demoliition" or else withdraw them for the false and lying tinfoil-hat drug-addled Looney-Toons "conspiracy theory" BS that they really are.
It must be really frustrating for you, continuing to parrot the mindless hateful antisemitic "It was Zionists that blew up the WTC" BS EVEN AFTER BIN-LADEN CONFESSED TO HAVING ORGANIZED AND PLANNED THE 9/11 ATROCITIES. Sucks to be you, doesn't it?
Bin Laden: Yes, I did it
By David Bamber
12:01AM GMT 11 Nov 2001
OSAMA BIN LADEN has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Telegraph can reveal.
In a previously undisclosed video which has been circulating for 14 days among his supporters, he confesses that "history should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1362113/Bin-Laden-Yes-I-did-it.html
Well, Willy, at least Ralph H has stopped repeating his previous mantra: The Jews killed Jesus. Talk about Jew baiting!
ralph - you always appear on the vine to either support the murderous regime of muslim Iran or post blatant lies in bashing Israel and the jews. You show your true colors - every time. You have no credibility.
Ah, Farideh the alleged Iranian Jew is back pushing Zionist propaganda.. I only post the truth and the truth is that the WCTs were brought down in controlled demolitions, not by airplanes. In fact, Bldg 7 was not even hit by an airplane, yet it fell straight down into its own footprint in 6.5 seconds. It sure looks like a controlled demolition when you view the tape.
Strange how only the buildings owned by Silverstein, who had insured all 3 against a terror attack, shortly before the attacks, were the ones that fell. The firemen were reporting explosions on many floors of the WTCs, an indication of explosives. The airplane fuel was consumed in the initial fiery crashes and would not be hot enough to weaken the steel building supports. Here, watch the fall of Bldg 7 and tell me it wasn't a controlled demolition. If one building was rigged, they all were rigged.
Bldg 7 falling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3dW_gUwOg
Molten Heat -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YaFGSPErKU&feature=related
British Newman -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgABDdU7yD8&feature=related
Jim Marrs -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TLwK4_0g4&feature=related
Why USA gives money to Isarel?
Here is why:
1) There is a condition that money has to be spent in USA, sothey could keep some corporations going and creat jobs.
2) Israel provides USA intelligence on the neigbouring states, who are nenmies to USA just as much as to Israel.
3) Israeli military provides US military training, see as they do have plenty to teach.
4) Every time somehting new is invented in Israel (like a new medicine, a new weapons or a new chip for the tweeter you are using right now) USA gets the first claim on th blue-print which allows USA to make billions on the market.
As for Raph's conspiracy theories, here are some responses to those:
Why would the USA support the Palestinians?, they don't have oil, diamonds, rare earth, any earth of their own.
Who runs the Western/world economies? the Jews. Money counts guys'.
Ralp H,
Please advise us of your credentials that make you qualified to determine this was a controlled collapse. The FD during their attempts to fight the fires in the building noticed that the structure was in eminent risk of collapse, at which point they stopped going into WTC 7 so as to avoid getting killed. If this was done through rigged explosives, then no signs of collapse would have been visible until the explosives went off and members of the FD would have been in there not knowing it was going to blow. Finding a bunch of fools with credentials to make up claims that this was rigged is no big deal. As anyone who has to deal with people with credentials should be aware, the credentials don't mean the person has a clue as to the subject matter they are credentialed in.
In any case your comments are very foolish and show a certain prejudice and bias. The lacking of objectivity you exhibit makes anything you say of minimal value. Like you mention if one building was rigged they all were, so to if you are prejudiced then all your statements are suspect and not worthy of consideration.
So you sayin' Osama bin Laden was lying when he took credit for al Qaeda flying the planes into the towers?
RalphH,
For God's sake, dont confuse these brainwashed, hate filled, greedy zombies with the REAL history of the Israeli policy of land theft. They might go UZI on us all. Don't forget what they did to the Liberty in 1967. Can you name a country that attacked a USN vessel in open waters in the last 100 years that did not get a few 2000 bombs on their capital?
Having travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East, and N. Africa during the 1970's, I did not witness a more NAZI dominated country than Israel. Strange how through a mentality of violence, you become your own enemy.
Israel is not protecting its people, it is making them more vulnerable to the inevitable. Time will come when they have to deal with an angry, oppressed, abused people who have the same technological tools that are currently provided only to Israel. It will not be a pretty picture when it comes. If anyone in Israel had a brain they would realize the ugly death sentence they are putting on their children.
Read the book"A Case for Israel". You will get a chronological historical view on what Israel has done to get along with the terrorist over there which is called Palestine. Over the decades they tried to work with them. Arafat ripped the Palestine people off for years skimming international money off for him and his wife.
The Israelis only bulldoze housing that house terrorists...needless to say they bulldoze a lot.
......The Israelis only bulldoze housing that house terrorists...
Israel also bullozed Rachel Corrie to death, she must be a terrorist according to your twisted zionist mind.
To: Peanut Gallery Theater who said:
"When one side was blowing up our planes in the '70s, kidnapping our citizens in the '80s, cheering incoming scuds in the '90s and dancing in the streets on 9/11, its not hard to support the other side."
I offer to you, USS Liberty. June 8, 1967. Read more and speak less.
This guy is typical in that he has mixed emotions about the US. On the one hand, people admire our way of life. On the other, they don't like our foreign policy and feel like it's inconsistent with our ideals. There is, of course, no way that the US would ever support freedom and security for Palestinians and the naive belief of people like this gentleman that we might actually consider doing so is just amazing given the history of Israeli-American relations.
We in America would be overjoyed to support freedom and security for the "Palestinians", IF AND ONLY IF they in turn complied with our demands.
The first and foremost demands I would make of them are:
Israel will never have peace. Its sad that the British created Israel, The British screwed
us all with their early mid east policies . Both the Jews and Mooslims dont understand
secularism, or rights like we enjoy in civilized western style government.
No secular American would want to live in Israel, they are backwards, if it
wasent for all the rich American Jews and the US government giving them billions,
they would be even less civilized. Lets face the Jews and Muslims love killing each other
for the same same God, and basically same religion. Poor palestinians dont stand a chance,
they are arab/muslim and dark skinned, even the Christian Palestinians are ignored by America.
Israel is reaping what it sows.
The U.S. has been supportive of the "Palestinians" more so than it has been of Israel, contrary to what we have been led to believe most "Palestinians" (the other half) are living in the lap of luxury, most in villas with swimming pools but BBC and CNN will never show this to the world. There's no such thing as apartheid in Israel, it is the "Palestinians" who are practicing it. "Palestinian" corruptions among their wealthy and even the poor is their major set-back.
ABdelkader, nobody belives this nonsense. What the media does not show in America is
the walls and checkpoints these people have to go through to carry on daily life.
American media is so pro Israel its sickening. Being Pro Israel is probably the only
issue where Dems and Republicans agree on.
@thechupacabra
Without the Jewish people, you won't be here today. Without the British the world would be less civilized and there wouldn't be an America (forget South America and Mexico) today that's relatively Anglo-Celtic and decent. Surely we must take our hats off to tiny little Israel, a country with zero natural resources, for being able to survive against the giant Arabic monster out to wipe it out and along with it the resourceful, enterprising, talented, creative, generous and hard working Jews around the world. Also, without the Jewish people there would have been no Hollywood and a lot of good music.
thechupacabra -
The walls and checkpoints are there precisely because the so-called "Palestinians" could not be trusted to travel through or into Israel without strapping bombs to themselves, to their women, to their children, to their animals, to their mentally handicapped people. They could not be trusted to transit peacefully without trying to murder more Israelis.
It's typical of the "Palestinians' " murderous anti-Jewish hatreds and willingness to shoot themselves in the foot and destroy their own progress. Create a border crossing where they can peacefully travel into Israel and they will either launch a terrorist attack and gun down and murder people, strap bombs to children and send them to the checkpoint to spontaneously explode among Israelis or else try to destroy the checkpoint by firing mortars and missiles at it.
NEWS FLASH: Israel is not "obligated' in any way, shape or form to allow ANYONE to cross onto its soil. Israel could keep the border crossings closed for the next 100 years and let the so-called "Palestinians" starve to death and they would be entirely within their rights to do so.
Tell you what: See if you can go one year without lobbing rockets, or attacking Israel.
Israel gave 'land for peace'.
Instead of peace, Israel gets terror from Hamas.
"...this beautiful heritage of unarmed struggle..." my ass. If Yasser Arafat had been Ghandi, the Palestinians would have their own country now.
Maybe check your facts Denver? Gandhi wanted peace and co-existence, not separation. So by the little pieces of information your providing; he is more like Gandhi then not.
Yukk,
Thank you for proving my point.
"....*India*....AND....*Pakistan*...."
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"....*Israel*....AND....*Palestine*...."
Apartheid? No! In Israel today, every Arab citizen has exactly the same right to vote and be elected as any Jewish citizen. There are Arab members of parliament. Arab members of the cabinet. Arabs on the Supreme Court. Arab diplomats. Beyond that, not one place is forbidden to Arab Israelis. They can sit in the same cinemas as Jews, swim in the same pools, run on the same beaches, eat in the same restaurants, attend the same universities, lecture at those universities, lie on adjacent beds in the same wards in the same hospitals. Palestinian children attend special educational courses alongside their Jewish coevals and are taught the virtues of co-existence.
And thinking of Palestinian children, an Israeli charity called Save a Child’s Heart brings well over 200 children suffering serious heart conditions and operates to save their lives. Forty percent of the children who underwent cardiac surgeries are from Africa, 49% are from the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Iraq and Morocco, 4% are from Eastern Europe and the Americas and 7% are from Asia. And you call this an ‘apartheid state’?
This is Arab propaganda accepted by the well-meaning naive or Jew haters...Shame.
The last true friends of the Apartheid Govt of South Africa was Uncle Sucker and Israel. It appears that Israel learned a few things from "Nazi Jr. (South Africa).
It seems to me everyone likes to compare situations with apartheid South Africa. However, I have to say I have never seen an image of massive walls dividing ( as in Israel ) groups in South Africa, I have never seen images similarly of South African forces of the time using artillery to bombard civilian areas, or the use of white phosphorus in civilian areas, or of the use of combat aircraft against civilian areas. If someone can produce such images I would be forced to agree with the comparison - otherwise not. In the absence thereoff I would have to say Israel is almost unique in its own right.
You make a very good point. We need a new word to describe the Israeli policy towards muslims, perhaps culturecide. I was speaking with an Israeli a few weeks ago when he explained to me that Israel could not be guilty of apartide because Jews were the majority and apartide applies only when a minority does it to a majority. In other words, the legal opression of Muslims is proper and legal because the Jews are doing it to the Muslims but, if the Muslims did it to the Jews it would be a crime against humanity. He finished with saying, after all, it is a Jewish State.
You cannot negotiate with a people who redefine established international law to support their policies. No one ever speaks to the heart of the matter anyway. The unholy aliance of funamentalist American Christians and fundamentalist Jews are waiting for the right moment to rebuild the temple. Something that even thinking Israelis recognize is that the current power elite in Israel has no intention of ever rebuilding the temple. The conflict is viewed as eternal. These people left Germany in large part because they hated the Nazis. They became what they hated.
Now, with powerful defense industry lobbies and, yes, Israeli and Jewish lobbies continuing to invest billions in Washington and with the globalization of American politics decision of the Supreme Court it is difficult to assess the future except to say that a storm is coming and it does not look good.
Israel has two priorities. It wants more land and it wants its land culturally cleansed. Peace is not a priority.
@MCR-4250086
It was the Jewish people (Oppenheimer et al) who stood up against apartheid in South Africa and the Jewish people who fought alongside Black folks against segregation the South. Israel is the fairest and democratically liberal country not only in the Middle-East. The policy of the Israel Left puts the ACLU to shame. The Israeli people should be tougher to those who bite the Jewish hand that feeds them. Can't win the hearts and minds of people without neither hearts nor minds.
Seriously, I am getting nauseated reading your posts.
I am very fair, but you are soooooo blindsided, it is not even interesting to read.
I don't know who brainwashed you, but you need to get a reality check.
When I am driving, and everybody I pass by try to flag me, blow the horn at me, .. that means there IS something wrong I am doing!Otherwise either I am delusional,narcissistic , or both
Get real!
Bob-3360448 -
I have never seen any images of black South African "freedom fighters" setting off massive car-bombs in white South African shopping malls, of black South Africans slaughtering white children on school buses, of black South Africans strapping bombs to themselves and blasting dozens of white South African teenagers in a Pizza Hut restaurant into pools pf blood and bloody wreckage. Have you?
So-called "Palestinians" have done all of these things and many more. Would you like to see photos of the carnage? Some of it is pretty horrific but I'd be happy to supply the links to you if you have the stomach for it. I am assuming up-front and going on faith that you are not going to belittle, dismiss, trivialize or otherwise minimize these horrors merely because the victims are "only" Israelis or "only" Jews.
Joe Cox-540351 -
I don't see you complaining about the fact that Saudi Arabia is a nation-state whose entire society and existence are organized around the Koran, or that Saudi Arabia is officially and proudly "an Islamic State" which does not even tolerate the existence of other, competing religions on Saudi soil. Christians in Saudi Arabia who openly practice their faith outside of their homes can expect to be thrown in prisons and publicly whipped; attempting to spread Christianity or proselytise in Saudi Arabia can get you the death penalty.
Yes, Israel is a Jewish State and will proudly remain so. There are close to two dozen exclusively or majority "Islamic States" in the world which Palestinians can live in. This State is for Jews. If you have a "problem" with that then that's really just too bad for you. You don't seem to have a problem with any non-Jewish religiously governed states (Saudi Arabia, etc.) so I have to question your apparent hypocrisy and what motivates it.
It is rather tragic to see a culture that has been persecuted throughout its history turn around and take the opportunity to do some gold ol' persecuting of its own.
Toasty, you have that wrong. those Arab/Palestinians that live in Israel are treated well. It is the Arab/Palestinians that follow Hamas and PLO that continue to bomb innocents and cause a retaliatory reaction by Israel. At every attempt of peace it has been the Arab contingent that has walked away from any attempt at equal co-existence. Most Jew's living in Israel or America want peace, but it has to be an equal peace not a capitulation.
Jeff - horse manure. Your post below stating "we" reveals you cannot possibly be objective. Most Americans who visit and/or work with Palestinians in Israel, West Bank, or Gaza for any period of time come back with a radically changed view of reality compared to what gets peddled in the American media, Jewish community, and pro-Israel lobbying / propaganda machine.
I grew up in a "republican leaning" rural ranching community in the US and in a Christian religious context that was formative in shaping a sympathetic view of Israel vis-a-vis the Palestinian "problem". Subsequently I spent a decade working in the Middle East region. Now I know better. Peddle your "treated as equals" tripe somewhere else.
It is rather tragic to see a culture that has been persecuted throughout its history turn around and take the opportunity to do some gold ol'
persecutingexisting of its own.If you really did, you'd understand that Israel lives in a tough neighborhood, where not even one battle can be lost. To lose is to no longer exist.
a statement like that just goes to show anti-semitism is still alive and flourshing. thanks steven for revealing this to me and the rest of the readers. your a true anti-semite. your even worse. you try and hide it. but its there for all to see. be a man and just tell everyone that your anti-semite.
Wow rich. Thats the most flagrant circular logic I've seen lately.
Why are the Palestinian Arabs still refugees even in the territories & countries under Arab control?! Because their leaders want to use them as political pawns in their war against Israel, and get the cash hand outs from the UN, US and the Europeans. Saudis with all their wealth do not give them much.
As a Jewish refugee from the USSR I know what it means to be a refugee. I left the USSR at 19, without money, education or relatives waiting for me in the land of the free. I am glad I got help from humanitarian Jewish organizations. No one forced me to a "refugee" camp. And I knew that I cannot be on a handout for longer than 3 months.
Arabs should be ashamed of not helping one another and using their unfortunate status in order to destroy Israel. But they are destroying themselves first and foremost. Well, I am not very surprised because what else can you expect from people who blow one another on a daily basis, destroying their own mosques, schools, weddings & funerals, schools. Just look at Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt. And killing Jews and Christians when they can get their hands on them.
Jerry, the so-called "Palestinians" are getting exactly what they deserve. Guess what: Israel doesn't have any "obligations" to allow ANYBODY to cross its borders. When you get given the opportunity to cross into Israel via border checkpoints, and if instead of being grateful and reasonable you respond by strapping bombs to kids and trying to use the open border checkpoints as a way of murdering Israelis via terrorist attacks, you have no right to act "surprised" when Israel understandably tightens its security precautions.
I seriously doubt you give a flying fukk about the jews, burnt toast.
Maybe you can start by renouncing suicide vests and rocket attacks into Israel itself.
I agree, but its human nature. Genocide will always occur. Given the chance
the Jews will do exactly to others what the Nazis tried to do to them, what the
USA did to the American indians, what the Turks did to the Armenians, etc etc...
Looks to me the Jews are using the stategy that the US used to nearly eliminate
the "indian problem", well sometimes the US just outright massacred them but
most of the time it was more subtle, steal their land slowly and with subterfuge,
"settle" land that they they deemed not used, even though it was, etc etc.
Both the Jews and Arabs/Muslims are mostly nuts, cant reason with them.
Lets face it the Palastinians were kicked off their land and the Jews won
some fair and square but they are settling areas that are clearly not thiers,
and the Palestinains are fighting like most people would, to keep their land.
Funny you rarely hear about all the illegal Israelie settlements.
@thechupacabra
The low caste Arabs (so-called Palestinians) were kicked out of Jordan and Syria and Egypt and just about every Arab country. They are Arab misfits who had nowhere to go and were pushed upon the land of Judea, that is to say Israel. Kuwait took in some of them who ungratefully turned on the Kuwaitis when the opportunity came during the Iraqi invasion and occupation. Illegal "Palestinian" settlements we never hear about.
@Jerry-668318
You, along with many Americans were subjected to "Palestinian" propaganda, moral and emotional blackmail, which they are very good at. They have chosen to live in filth and squalor to get pity. They brought all the staged misery upon themselves. More than half the world's population are living in abject poverty and children dying like flies and so much attention is given to these useless "Palestinians" who are treated like scum by fellow wealthy "Palestinians" who are happy as can be driving around in BMWs and Mercedezs socializing in opulence with Israelis. Wake up! Go and liberate some slums in Africa, India and Latin America if you have a craving desire to be a knight in shining armour.
This Palestinian is full of it. The "occupation" as he refers to it, is the Palestinians fault. They are the progeny of former Jordanians who were co-conspirators in a war to destroy Israel. They have no right to resistance, they are on land that Israel won by repelling enemy invaders! It is a fact that the West Bank formerly belonged to Jordan, and they gave the land to Israel as part of the peace deal.
This land, which belongs to the Israelis' the way any piece of land anywhere was taken possession of, belongs to them, not the former owners who lost a war they started.
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Further, the charge of Apartheid is false, the Palestinians do not want to become Jews or become loyal citizens of the state of Israel, rather they want a state of their own on land their people lost.
Israel really shouldn't tolerate these enemies living on soil they paid for in blood. They certainly don't owe them anything! If the Palestinians are to ever get a state of their own, people like this one are going to have to recognize that the US supports countries who deal that respect democracy and human rights. The Palestinians don't even have a legal government and don't posses any land at present. They are an organized group of squatters on Israeli territory and refuse to even negotiate a settlement that doesn't give them all of the land Israel took from Jordan. The losers don't set the terms in a war ever!
That is why the US and every country that understands the world and the way it works have contempt for the Palestinians. They act like victims, even though they were the original aggressors, not accepting the partition of the territory or the existence of the State of Israel. They are in a plight that is their own fault, born of selfishness and excessive ambition. This has been going on for nearly 50 years since the '67 war and Palestinians are still talking about resistance instead of making peace. They are not a reasonable people and they are unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions.
It never occurs to them to apologize to Israel for trying to destroy it, or to admit they lost the war and should leave, like normal rational people. It never occurs to them that the only ones who can give them a state of their own are the Israeli's and this is why they never are prepared to negotiate a real settlement. They go to the UN and try to get world opinion on their side, but for the Israelis' this is a matter of survival.
There is nothing about the Palestinians that entitles them to a state of their own. Indigenous people have been kicked off their land ever since history began, and the Arabs in that part of the world were all conquered people, part of the Ottoman empire, before they lost it to the British and French. The Palestinians have no respect for history or any civilization, or they would be more realistic in their struggle for independence. All they have to do is act like normal human beings and they could have a state of their own.
They just like harvesting organs from the Palestinians.
Nah, we consider them treif
Tom gave you a check by mistake.Don`t get too excited.Has someone stolen your mind and harvested it and put it in the head of an Islamic terrorist.. Are you harvesting bomb in your garden.Almost all countries including the U.S and many Muslim countries have some of its citizens involved in this unspeakable crime. They must be hunted down as it is a capital crime .Israel has done a very good job in rounding up its citizens who are involved.so have most other countries.The majority of harvesting is sadly done in Asia. Sto mucking up newsvine with your anti Israel and racist statements. As for NBC they seem to like to publish non stories which they put in their files and bring out occasionly to attack Israel.
Cut off by nbc and couldn`t correct errors.Please excuse!!
The truth is upsetting to some in that it is blinding.
The Arabs have made the jewish cultures in their own extinct. In Saudi Arabia 1500 years ago there were thriving Jewish communities around Meccah and Medina. they are gone. The muslims have so much contempt for the Jews that it is illegal in many of the countries for the Jews to practice thier own faith. In Saudi Arabia you'd be imprisoned for trying to build or organize a Synogogue. As a result, Isreal is the only refuge for the Jewish people in the entire middle east, from Afghanistan, to Morroco.
The Palestinians are the beloved cause of the entire Islamic world, from Morrocco to Egypt, from Iran to Indonesia, Pakistan etcetera. They are welcome in Meccah and Medina.
Yet, 10,000,000 square kilometers of friendly brotherhood Muslim lands to choose from, the Palestinians choose to linger at the border of one of the tiniest national plots, Israel, and launch random missiles into civilian neighborhoods, then have the gall to complain about aparthied.
Yes, we should remove all of their gall bladders to remede this!
Ohhhh they do, corpselocker. Those gallbladders are converted into swim bladders that are implanted in Mossad trained sharks that patrol off-shore of Egypt' tourist beaches where female-gropping landsharks also prowl. Wake up and smell the formeldahyde.
How about MAKING PEACE. Sign a paper that says you RECOGNIZE ISRAEL as a soverein nation with its right to exist in peace. ALLOW ISRAEL to protect itself by maintaining security along borders that WOULD INCLUDE YOURS. Eliminate all links to ANY EVIL GROUPS like Hamas, Hezbellah, and Al Quida. THEN ASK to share Jerusalme as your capital, ALLOWING IT TO BE A SHARED CITY for Jews, Israelis, Muslims, and Palestinians. Sign ALL THESE PAPERS, MAKE A WORLDLY PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT instead of whispers, AND MOVE YOUR PEOPLE FORWARD, not backward LIKE HAMAS OR HEZBELLAH or all the OTHER MIDEASTERN MUSLIM / ARAB / PERSIAN regligous and political leaders. As i have been told many times in my life, STEP UP! QUIT PLAYING GAMES
Israel tried that approach. Arafat would not accept and the Arabs started their bombing campaign which resulted in Israel putting up wall to separate them from the arabs. Read your history so I don;t have to waste time doing it for you.
Share Jerusalem? Sure....and move the pope there too. The palis built a capital in Ramallah they don't need to steal anymore from Jerusalem or Judea.
All Palestitinians are seeking death and destruction of Israel. They are of the devil and only purpose is to do the devils will, rob, kill and destroy. To hell with all of them ASP.
Read the words of the real devils.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and
the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab
population."
Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion,
clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with
time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish
State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their
lands."
Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it
employment...Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must
be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization,
speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
Hey RALPH H why doncha go to Hamas-stan and strap on a suicide-bomb since you hate Jews so much. Or do you not have what it takes to actually try to do something about it in real life so you merely cheerlead for genocide against the Jews from afar?
Yes, Willy W., and no doubt Ralph H's last words would be "The Jews Killed Jesus."
"... this beautiful heritage of unarmed struggle that the Palestinians have carried over the years even before Gandhi and Martin Luther King.” Talk about selective memory, unarmed struggle? If we forget about the suicide bombers and the rockets flying over from Gaza erery day this guy may have had an argument. I think I just heard Ganhi and Martin Luther King rolling rolling their graves."
FREE Palestine!! End the Occupation!
Showing support from Oklahoma, USA!
Take your milf status and move to Gaza where you can really do some good. You certainly aren't doing anything useful in Oka.
We support them because they have a right to live same as you. Stop trying to kill them and they will have no need for security and you could be living peacefully together as you have for thousands of years.
At the same time Israel need to compensate the Palestinians for anything that was taken from them so they can find ways to rebuild and move on. Allow them to have their own country and rule themselves.
At this point Palestinians can not be trusted to act peacefully towards the Israeli people - you must first prove you want peace by denouncing all violence towards them and stopping all attempts to bomb or kill. Until that happens nothing will change and we will continue to support them.
If the victim of a home invasion robbery were evicted and forced to live in a corner of the back yard, would you tell them to suck it up and go move in with a neighbor?
If in their anger ther threw a rock through the window of their own home, and were shot at in return by the well armed thugs who had disposessed them, would you wag your finger and say "you'll just have to camp out there in the yard until you learn to control your feelings towards home invasion robbers!"
Think the Palestinians left voluntarily? Google "Deir Yassin".
The only solution to this tragedy is to extend the Right of Return to all. Palestinians have at least as much right to return after 64 years as Poles and Russians do after 2000 years. There's plenty of room, unless the objective is apartheit.
The so-called "Palestinians" DID LEAVE VOLUNTARILY, they CHOSE to leave to avoid the fighting and because they completely believed that they would be back in less than a week to help themselves to the lands and property of the Jews they believed would be slaughtered. Gee tough rockos for them, when you pick fights and LOSE you don't have any right to go whining that "it's not fair, we oughta be treated as though we WON". Gee tough #$!&^! for the Arabs eh?
There are 22 or so Arab- and/or Muslim states the so-called "Palestinians" can go live in, let them pick one. This State belongs to the JEWS and they are going to jolly well keep it regarrdless of whether you or the Arabs like it or not.
Why are the Palestinian Arabs still refugees even in the territories & countries under Arab control?! Because their leaders want to use them as political pawns in their war against Israel, and get the cash hand outs from the UN, US and the Europeans. Saudis with all their wealth do not give them much.
As a Jewish refugee from the USSR I know what it means to be a refugee. I left the USSR at 19, without money, education or relatives waiting for me in the land of the free. I am glad I got help from humanitarian Jewish organizations. No one forced me to a "refugee" camp. And I knew that I cannot be on a handout for longer than 3 months.
Arabs should be ashamed of not helping one another and using their unfortunate status in order to destroy Israel. But they are destroying themselves first and foremost. Well, I am not very surprised because what else can you expect from people who blow one another on a daily basis, destroying their own mosques, schools, weddings & funerals, schools. Just look at Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt. And killing Jews and Christians when they can get their hands on them.
Amen Alex! 10,000,000 square miles of oil: 22 countries, and a half score of other muslim dominated/ruled countries of their own and they still have to steal Jewdia and Jewrusalem.
I fully agree with what Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour is saying. It correctly depicts the current situation. However, that is the end result of what has goes on in this area of the world for so many years. It can only be changed if both people would agree to a peaceful settlement. Is this going to happen soon? NO. It will take almost another generation to think about the consequences of the violence that is being perpetrated by both parties against each other. If this continues there will be more deaths, more violence and the entire new generation will see hopelessness. So if both sides want to live in peace then both should give a little, compromise and learn how to live together. I hope it happens sooner than later. US must change its policy that is very much tilted toward Israel and convince both sides to settle this dispute peacefully.
To the author: Call me when you do a story on what Americans think of "Palestinians". It's very nice what the gentleman is doing. But like all of his friends and relatives, he forgets that they've NEVER ruled themselves above the tribe or clan level. He forgets that only because some earlier generations of Israelites ignored God's command to exterminate from the land all who didn't accept the one true God that they exist on the land today. He also forgets that his parents' and grandparents' generation (as well as his own) have tried to push the Jews into extinction since 1948.
Sir, go to hell!
It's up to the Palestinians and if they don't want to talk with Israel they will remain a people without a country. They are their own worst enemy.
the jewish people had no country until they foughtstealing other peoples everybody and created their own; however they have turned around and become the very people they fought against stealing other peoples land and keeping others hostage other would say they have become NAZI.
The claim that the Jews, or Zionists, are the new Nazi's,is a common claim found on inner-net chat rooms.
It's a slander and a false charge, by some, with an irrational antipathy toward Israel.
Because the comparison does not relate with, nor is it supported by any factual observations, and has no independent verification that's supported by reality.
Israel has not invaded any western European nation, has no African colonies, operates no death camps.
Has not now, nor ever had a deal with Russia to divide Poland.
Has no power sharing treaties or agreements with totalitarian Asian nations
and is not aggressively sinking internationally registered Ships, steaming across the North Atlantic conducting free trade.
Israel never participated in night bombing raids over London.
Has yet to invaded Russia, the Ukraine or any Baltic nations, has not annexed Norway as a Quisling state.
Has stolen no works of art from French Museums.
Israel does not murder homosexuals or Gypsies as state policy.
So excuse me, if I do not view the comparison as anything more than an expression of hate, bigotry and intolerance.
Really, its an absolute embarresment for US.
We always say, we are the leaders in democracy, fairness etc., but when it comes to isreal, all our values are down the drain..
Think about it; We are the only country in the world who support these freaking isrealis' crimes against humanity.
It appears that you are merely rubber stamping anything anti-Israel. fine its your privilege. Those refugees are kept and guarded by the arab world smack dab in the middle of your would be Arab state #23 where other arabs are now walking freely in: an area that has some of the world's largest annual domestic economic growth. Most of us read the Doctor's claims and thought about it. Its an embarrassment to intelligence. From his claims I'm sure the good doctor also thinks Arafat was more benevolent than Mother Theresa, andas someone else pointed out Ghandhi.
Ab Ab stop representing yourself as a typical American.You speak for a handful or maybe more of Islamic finatics who live in the U.S ...if that´s where you live? .Also stop this absurd lie i.e. the U.S is the ONLY country that supports Israel.How about Canada,Thailand,Germany.Nigeria,Sudan.India,Phillpines.Columbia,Costa Rica.Australia and MANY more. from all 6 continents.I really doubt if you live in the U.S but if you do, the U.S needs people like you like they need a hole in the head.There are many people on newsvine who might chip in for a ticket for you to go to Iran Pakistan or Somalia and be at home .with your fellow jihadists and the BIG LIE types who invent ridiculous stories!
Fart,
As I said before, 90% of americans do noyt know what is going on in isreal, why it is going on etc.
Just like the economy; Also, 90% of the americans do not know, or does not want to know why US economy is freaked up..
The key is now people are waking up and asking questions:
Why 0.5% of US population is represented 30% in Wall street? 15% of govermnet key positions etc etc.
So, stay tuned...
Its just a matter of time US jews will stop support of isreal.
As for countries you listed support isreal, most of them cannot locate isreal on a map..
Yes, ab, and most Americans know the correct spelling of "Isreal."
And with that, Abdallah Abdallah reveals himself to be the Jew-hating anti-semitic Nazi-lover that is typical of supporters of "Palestinians". It's always the same thing, no matter how graceful they try to make their language, how measured and thoughtful they try to make their statements, sooner or later their neo-Nazi Jew-hating antisemitic "The Jews control the world" lying BS and fanaticism always comes out in the end. They just can't help themselves.
Yeah, right, keep frantically pleasuring yourself while you keep repeating that to yourself.
Let me explain the Facts Of Life to you, buddy: We Americans absolutely despise your so-called "Palestinians". We see them, quite accurately, as the murderer-loving, fanatical, hateful, rabid antisemitic Jew-hating Insane-iacs that they really are.
And we will NEVER, EVER stop supporting Israel. Hell will freeze over before we stop supporting Israel.
But even if we did stop, Israel would still proudly exist. It would still proudly be there until the end of time. Israe's existence is not "dependent on" the USA and never has been, either. That little Jewish State will proudly stay right where it is, forever. And basically you ain't gonna ever "do" Jack @%$!! about that fact. And you know it.
See, that's what's so hilarious: Ignorant rabid Jew-haters sit around wasting your time pleasuring yourselves and convincing yourselves that "Israel is just hanging by a thread, it's totally dependent on America, all we need to do is give it one big push and they'll collapse."
But in reality, you don't even have a clue how idiotic your world view is. Dude, Israel doesn't "need" the U.S. for anything. Israel has one of the healthiest, most sophisticated and diverse economies on the planet, capable of turning out the most sophisticated and high-tech products anywhere in the world. Israel invented and created the original drone aircraft that were the progenitors of the U.S. Predator and Reaper aircraft. When Intel needed to come up with multi-core chip designs to overcome the bottleneck in computer chip development, it turned to Israeli scientists. Israel already has some of the most advanced weaponry anywhere on the planet and licenses it to the U.S. -- it's the US that benefits from its relationship with Israeli technology, not the other way around.
Meanwhile, what are the people in the 22 or so Muslim and/or Arab states doing? Coming up with more horrific and primitive ways to slaughter each other, strapping bombs to their children, murdering women for wearing makeup. That's "Islamic Culture" for you. No progress or social develoment in 500 years.
Meanwhile, every survery done year after year after year shows that NOT ONLY do Americans NOT support "Palestine", they proudly support Israel by greater and greater margins.
We in America are going to support Israel FOREVER. And no many how many Insane-iacs you manage to strap bombs to, it won't make the slightest bit of difference -- that little Jewish State is gonna stay right there, right where it is, FOREVER. Israel whupped your behind in FOUR SEPARATE WARS and ISRAEL WILL WIN AGAIN. You can keep fanaticizing until the end of time, you ain't NEVER getting that land back. But hey, you're more than welcome to "try." And personally, I hope you do -- it'll be all the reason and excuse Israel needs to bomb you Muslim Insane-iacs back into the Stone Age -- not that you're terribly far out of the Stone Age to start with.
The only mistake Israel has made thus far has been in showing you fanatics and losers mercy -- what Israel SHOULD HAVE done was exactly what the USA did to Japan in 1945, when JAPANESE fanatics refused to face Reality and surrender. So, the USA had the cojones to tell the Japanese,
"YOU WILL YIELD TO OUR WILL. YOU WILL GIVE UP, PERMANENTLY. YOU WILL SAY TO THE WORLD, 'WE ADMIT THAT WE LOSE'. YOU WILL ADMIT AND ACCEPT TOTAL DEFEAT, YOU WILL SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY. And THE REASON you will do this is because, if you do not do so, WE WILL TURN YOUR HOMELAND INTO A RADIOACTIVE ASHTRAY from one end to the other."
Want to be a "martyr"? That's fine, Israel can "martyr" you BY THE MILLIONS. BRING IT ON, buddy.
BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not in THIS lifetime, dude.
2012: Americans Continue to Tilt Pro-Israel
More view Israel favorably than the Palestinian Authority or Iran
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153092/americans-continue-tilt-pro-israel.aspx
2011: Americans Maintain Broad Support for Israel
U.S. adults nearly four times as likely to side with Israelis as with Palestinians
http://www.gallup.com/poll/146408/americans-maintain-broad-support-israel.aspx
2010: Support for Israel in U.S. at 63%, Near Record High
http://www.gallup.com/poll/126155/support-israel-near-record-high.aspx
If you don't play by the rules the other kids won't play with you, Abdullah. Stop electing terrorists and crazies as your leaders and make a good faith effort to live with your neighbors. You might be surprised at the result.
Stop the rocket attacks into Israel and stop murdering innocent Israeli's. Our support of Israel is unconditional. They are a beacon of light in the middle east and make the world a better place. Palestinians should start teaching their children love and respect instead of hate and racism. When Palestinian mothers love their children more than they hate Jews then peace will happen. You realize I said Jews and not Israeli's, that is because Palestinians are taught anti-semitism from childhood. It is so sad.
willy,
Calling anybody who stands for decency "anti-semite" is BS.. Thats not gonna work anymore..
Put this to your thick head: Isreal is electing to live like freaking creatures instead of decent human beings..Thats not going to work..
Nobody here or elsewhere approves of what adolf did, no matter how monstreous isrealis look right now..
That happened in the past, get over it...
Unlike your hysterical interpreation of how world views isreal; Most countries supported isreal and its existance up until say 5 years ago..
That all chaged since then; World sees isrealis (at least the leaders) not a strong willed democratic country, but as a country full of a-holes looking and itching for trouble....
As for US support being 60% + for isreal, well, as I said, many people in US do not pay attention..
But its changing now; people are more informed and it will not be long ask , demand changes and it will happen.
Let me give you an example where you and a-holes like you who suppport isreal unconditionally:
If, 5-10 years ago, some isrealis killed in a natural disaster, 80% of the world would have felt sorry and would have wished well.
But if same thing happens today, I will say, 90% of the world will say, "oh well" and move on, most likely with no sympathy for the survivors..
You might think , "so what?". Well, a-hole, its a very lonely feeling not to be liked.
But, then again, it looks like isrealis do not think its bad..
Its probably a cultural thing; Most Isrealis do believe madoff was a genius, where most normal people considers him a freaking lowlife..
I think its the isrealis who should look for decent leaders. Lokk what you got as leaders in isreal; dikhead liars.
You don't stand for "decency". You openly believe (and hope) that the US will "cut off" Israel and that this will somehow lead to Israel's eventual disintegration and disappearance. Like I said -- you're a typical Arab fanatic on drugs and not sharing. That's not "decency", that's just more of the same fanatical hate-filled Arab and Muslim refusal to accept reality that has characterized Muslim and Arab attitudes toward Jews in general and Israel in particular for years, for decades. Nothing new there.
Calling out antisemites when they openly demonstrate and express attitudes characteristic of antisemitism is not "BS" at all, and it works just fine.
Let's review your statements, shall we?
E.G.: "Why 0.5% of US population is represented 30% in Wall street? 15% of govermnet key positions etc etc."
Now, let's review one of the textbook definitions of antisemitism, i.e. hatred of Jews:
Economic antisemitism
The underlying premise of economic antisemitism is that Jews perform harmful economic activities or that economic activities become harmful when they are performed by Jews.[38]
Linking Jews and money underpins the most damaging and lasting antisemitic canards.[39] Antisemites say that Jews control the world finances, a theory promoted in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and later repeated by Henry Ford and his Dearborn Independent. In the modern era, such myths continue to be spread in books such as The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews published by the Nation of Islam, and on the internet.
Derek Penslar writes that there are two components to the financial canards:[40]
Abraham Foxman describes six facets of the financial canards:
Gerald Krefetz summarizes the myth as "[Jews] control the banks, the money supply, the economy, and businesses – of the community, of the country, of the world".[47] Krefetz gives, as illustrations, many slurs and proverbs (in several different languages) which suggest that Jews are stingy, or greedy, or miserly, or aggressive bargainers.[48] During the nineteenth century, Jews were described as "scurrilous, stupid, and tight-fisted", but after the Jewish Emancipation and the rise of Jews to the middle- or upper-class in Europe were portrayed as "clever, devious, and manipulative financiers out to dominate [world finances]".[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
Your statements demonstrate quite clearly that you subscribe to the monumentally false, lying and antisemitic belief that "a tiny minority of Jews control and exercise power in the US government and economy".
Ergo,you are proven by your own words to be an antisemite.
Game, set and match.
*ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
See if you can get these facts through your thick skull:
Israel has been hated by millions of Muslims & Arabs for fifty-plus years. Doesn't mean a freaking thing. Israel could turn water into wine and they'd still be hated by millions throughout the Muslim world -- it doesn't matter worth a flying $$$$ what Israel "does", they would still be hated for no other reason than that they dare to EXIST.
Israel lives and survives quite nicely in the middle of the toughest neighborhood in the world. It's survived this long by being tough and determinedby sticking to their guns, by standing up for themselves and their beliefs and by not giving a flying #### what anybody thinks of them. You seriously imagine that Israelis spend a lot of time sitting around whining and going "WHAA! Nobody likes us"!??!?! Man, whatever drugs you're on, get them to up the dosage, dude. because you are clearly delusional.
Israel didn't even have a good relationship with the United States until 1973, in the middle of the October 1973 war when the Egyptians launched a surprise attack and tried to wipe Israel off the map only to end up getting their butts whupped by the Jews AGAIN. Before 1973, there never was any military alliance or cooperation between Israel and the US. Learn to use a complicated instrument known as a "calendar", dude. 1973 - 1948 = 25 years. This means that for the first 25 years of its existence, Israel was COMPLETELY ON ITS OWN -- no military alliances with the USA or anybody else, nobody handing them advanced weaponry. They survived on World War II castoffs and what they could buy from anybody willing to sell to them and on sheer grit and determination and ingenuity.
Israel doesn't need to be "liked", dude. Their survival doesn't depend on "world public opinion" - it never did. if it had, they would have been annihilated and genocided out of existence decades ago.
Like I said -- Americans by the millions support Israel. And we always will. You can sit there and wank yourself into a frenzy fantasizing that Americans will suddenly "turn against" Israel and that this will somehow translate to "Israel's demise", but that's nothing more than your dirty little self-pleasuring fantasy. That's all it is, and that's all it will ever be.
Coming from a muslim like you I am not surprised, the fakestinians deserve everything they get and a heck of lot more. Screwem!
Technically they're right. Israel can't allow resident Palestinians the same rights and political power as the Jews, because then the Palestinians would be in charge by sheer force of numbers. So they are made into second-class citizens.
Is this the Right or Wrong way to run Israel? I don't know. I'm not sure what the alternative is, honestly.
If the victim of a home invasion robbery were evicted and forced to live in a corner of their back yard, would you tell them to suck it up and go move in with a neighbor?
If in their anger ther threw a rock through the window of their own home, and were shot at in return by the well armed thugs who had disposessed them, would you wag your finger and say "you'll just have to camp out there in the yard until you learn to control your feelings towards home invasion robbers!"?
Think the Palestinians left voluntarily? Google "Deir Yassin".
The only solution to this tragedy is to extend the Right of Return to all. Palestinians have at least as much right to return after 64 years as Poles and Russians do after 2000 years. There's plenty of room, unless the objective is apartheit.
Let's expand your scenarion a little: the victims of home invasion were evicted forced out of their home, chased around the world, whenthey finally make it back home, there are squtters living there, who are not letting them back in. Would you tell them to just move on? Don't they have the right to kick the squatters out? Or at least tell the squatters that they are staying, and they can share?
You don't get to use Der Yassin as an excuse for everything Palestinians do, they were in full jew-hunting mode long before that happened.
As for your solution, lets see: all the palesitinians move in, they get the majority, elect Hamas as the government of Israel, Hamas issues an official order to kill all the jews.
I see how you would be OK with that scenario, but for the jews it would kind of suck.
Yup. Don't want to make those Canukians any more angry at the US.
After all, the 1/3 of American colonists who didn't agree w/ the revolution of 1776 had to vote w/ their feet and had to high-tail it to the north. The injustice of it all.
I'm sitting here trembling in expectation of all the suicide bombings that are about to happen, the just desserts of Americans oppressing all those wrathful Canuckian basterds.
As long as Islam supports the genocide of Israelis, the US all infidels as they call us and death to anyone who doesn't believe as they do they will be kicked out, marginalized and kept separate from civilized society. When you can admit that Israel has the right to exist and stop all violence we can talk, until then you are banned.
Just wait until the "Arab Spring" flood waters turns into a river of hatred and racism! You wont have to wait very long to see it!
Why dont you take your family to France and Germany to show them how well multiculturalism works? It's not apartheid - its economics. The poor get poorer, rich get richer, this happens all over the world.
You are correct! Multiculturalism has worked so well over the past 50 years,most EU countries now have laws that are forcing these people to adapt to their host country.No more berkas,honor killings,living semi-isolated and being forced to give the women of their culture the rights of women of the host country.A lot of host countries are also phasing out extended welfare payments ,the practice of letting extended families of these jerks to be admitted as part of the original family.Many,many changes are taking place right now.I expect to see the massive flow from the Middle East switch from Europe to North America!Good bye London,hello Detroit!
All right, I will say it again, and my poor carpal tunnel ravaged wrists will just have to endure it:
The Zionists did not TAKE the land, they PURCHASED it from the Arab landowners, starting in the late 19th Century. You can read all about it in "Ulysses," by James Joyce, where Leopold Bloom the Dublin Jew is doing just that, and do you think that at this point I should be getting royalties from the publisher? Anyway, the Israelis then went on to acquire additional holdings when they were used as a base to attack them three times.
And as for that "apartheid" nonsense...that is only helping the Republicans. The Jews remember that that unsupported accusation was first made by Jimmy Carter, after they had done so much to elect him. If he had ever set foot in Jerusalem, he would have seen the Jews and Arabs working side by side...assuming he could tell them apart...to the beautiful music of the Muslim Call to Prayer and the Christian church bells. There WAS one difference, though...the Arabs sold a lot better food.
"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel.
It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us,
but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti -
Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but
one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept
that?"
David Ben Gurion (first Israeli PM, quoted by Nahum Goldmann
in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
"Taken" does not mean the same thing as "bought" Cassandra."
When you keep repeating the lie that I have said that Jews killed Jesus, it only demonstrates that you are trying to discredit me by making it appear as though I am a religious zealot. It shows you are a consumate liar and propagandist troll, as I am an atheist through and through and could care less who killed Jesus.
"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live
here as slaves."
Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of
General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash
Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem
regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a
Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate
Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port
Said, Alexandria and Sinai."
David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From
Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion,
clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with
time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish
State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their
lands."
Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
Cassandra - Expropriation of land is not quite the same as buying land. Go back to school.
Islam is the enemy because it prohibits interest. Islam tells the rulers of this world that slavery is about to end.
The matrix is real:
matrixisreal.wordpress.com
The movie Matrix tells you what is going on using analogies. You are only a battery to the global elite. You are paying interest for money that is created out of nothing when you borrow. You are slaves. But you are not even aware. You think this is how life is supposed to be. Millions die every year to support the rule of the elite, yet you do not care. You make war on terror because media tells you you are under danger. On 9/11/2001, 3000 people died in World Trade Center. And 24,000 children died of hunger. Which war did we fight? We could have won the war against poverty.
And you are surprised to see people flying into buildings?
The supporters of Palestinian rights willsoonere or later have to recornize the facts! One fact is there never has been or ever was a "Palestine".The area now recognized by the world as Isreal has been parts of many kingdoms and territories of several empires but has not been never been independant.The Turks ruled the area in the 1800's and up and throgh WW 1,The it became an Eglish territiory.They were allowed to mint their own coins during this time but because it wasn't authorized by the English,mintage fluctuated greatly and no real volume of coins were produced.At times, before the Ottoman Empire,a large section of the area belonged to the Jordanian Empire.The area was invaded more times than a $.25 whore.The Palestinians have had numerous oppurtunities to sign a treaty,recognizing Isreal and accept dominion and control of sections of land in the area,including parts of todays Isreal.But as someone once put it " the Palestinians never miss a chance to miss a chance !"They are terrorist! Arafat was a pediphile and a terrorist, who was responsible for killing any number of Americans.Now,thanks to Hamas and the Muslum Brotherhood,they are trying to wrap themselves in a blanket of repectability.If Isral allowed these thugs citizenship in Isreal,Isreal would certianly fail to exist!