"Israeli unilateralism means only one thing: it has nothing to offer the Palestinians, nothing worth negotiating over. The Road Map asserts that only a true end of the Occupation and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state will finally see the end of this conflict with its global implications. A genuine two-state solution may already be dead, the victim of Israeli expansionism. A two-state "solution" based on apartheid cannot be an alternative accepted by any of us.
"Yet apartheid is upon us once again. Sharon must act fast to complete his life's work before his term of office expires within the next year. This is the crunch. We cannot afford to have our attention deflected by any other issue, important as it may be. It is either a just and viable solution now or apartheid now. We may well be facing the prospect of another full-fledged anti-apartheid struggle just a decade and a half after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. In my view, the next three to six months will tell."
Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
"Yet apartheid is upon us once again. Sharon must act fast to complete his life's work before his term of office expires within the next year. This is the crunch. We cannot afford to have our attention deflected by any other issue, important as it may be. It is either a just and viable solution now or apartheid now. We may well be facing the prospect of another full-fledged anti-apartheid struggle just a decade and a half after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. In my view, the next three to six months will tell."
Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
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Halper is a well known antisemite without anything to offer.
Unless the Palestinians act quickly and come to the negotiating table in peace, Israel will dictate the borders of the second Palestinian state.
A well-known anti-Semite?
Typical smear, based on lies.
You'll have to do much better than that...
Halper is well known. He is well known as an antisemite. For Lowensteins sake, I'll post all the proof on my blog and let the reader form his own conclution.
Regardless, The Israeli government will finish the fence. Without Palestinian progress on negotiations, that fence will become the boundary and Israel will separate from what is left of the west bank of the jordan river.
Hopefully the Palestinian nation of Jordan will come to their rescue as Israel cuts off all services.
In the meantime, some proof of the nature of Halper:
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=31&x_article=898
Dear Antony
Dont let anyone silence you - hang in there - it is people like you who are actually giving Israel some hope for a future.
I was in Israel and the Occupied Territories last month and the situation there is truly horrendous.
Im an Australian but have been living OS for the last 4 years, and I had forgotten how linited political debate is back home. The arguments that get you a bucketload of hatemail in Australia are mainstream political debate in Israel. The typical editorial page of HAARETZ would get you slapped down as an antisemite.
The real threat to Israel is that the Palestinians are getting fed up with this whole charade - they are starting to lose all interest in a 2 state solution as it becomes clear that the "state" will be a chopped up bantustan. And they are not exactly unaware of the demographic trend running in their favour....
The Palestinians were never interested in a 2 state solution other than as a temporary rest stage for the invasion of Israel.
Truth helps.
You should fault the Arab nations for that little factoid.
But with the Palestinians actually having representation in the UN, I believe they have had their say.
Yes, the facts help. But the facts usually condemn Palestinian and other arab leadership.
You bring up the typical antisemitic resolutions routinely passed by the UN and then call me shallow? LOL.
What is shallow is your understanding of why so many resolutions are passed for so tiny a problem. How many resolutions pass condemning palestinian terrorism?
When Israel is accorded the full priviledges of membership, then it may take the resolutions with less salt.
As for requiring US approval, you're out on the wrong limb. General resolutions, which are the vast vast majority passed, do not require US approval.
The vast majority of those Security council resolutions (which merely require the US to abstain to pass) also require action by Arab nations. Without that action, Israel has no need nor reason to act.
Your whine about the term "antisemitism" has been tossed about for as long as the UN has been in existance. It has lost none of its sting. It has lost none of its meaning nor significance. And it has never stiffled debate.
See how many times you can be wrong with one little post? Perhaps you should go to school and quit parroting Islamo-fascist and white supremist blogs?
No.
Amazing that defending unfair and likely antisemitic criticism of Israel provokes such a display!
At least Loewenstein has the decency to reflect on the criticism while the rest of you yahoos knee-jerk yourselves into meaningless psycho-babble.
Perhaps if you left out the antisemitism and you a fair stick to criticise, then it wouldn't be charged.
Israel has no need to follow any resolution requiring Arab action when the Arabs refuse to act. If the Arabs flout them with impunity, Israel has every right to demand the same exemption.
But your blatant hatred refuses to allow you to see anything like that.
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