While Messianic settlers run riot in Hebron - a direct result of complicit Israeli policies over decades - further evidence emerges of lawless occupied territories:
"The military and police did nothing to prevent the felling of Palestinian olive trees despite having the names of the settlers responsible, the head of the Shin Bet security service claimed Tuesday.
"Yuval Diskin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that the Shin Bet had handed over the names of members of the 'hilltop youth' from the West Bank settlements of Yitzhar and Itamar who were involved in uprooting the olive trees, but the security forces refrained from taking any action.
"According to Diskin, the Israel Defence Forces and Israel Police 'are turning a blind eye, and doing nothing to deal with this phenomenon.'"
Israel is currently experiencing a titanic battle between a majority population keen to maintain separation between synagogue and state and a rabid minority who don't recognise anything other than a state governed by Rabbinical teachings. This last group's ideology is little different to Islamic fanaticism.
Israel has only itself to blame for supporting, funding and protecting the settler movement since 1967. Furthermore, US tax dollars have long funded this occupation, a fact largely unknown around the world.
"The military and police did nothing to prevent the felling of Palestinian olive trees despite having the names of the settlers responsible, the head of the Shin Bet security service claimed Tuesday.
"Yuval Diskin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee that the Shin Bet had handed over the names of members of the 'hilltop youth' from the West Bank settlements of Yitzhar and Itamar who were involved in uprooting the olive trees, but the security forces refrained from taking any action.
"According to Diskin, the Israel Defence Forces and Israel Police 'are turning a blind eye, and doing nothing to deal with this phenomenon.'"
Israel is currently experiencing a titanic battle between a majority population keen to maintain separation between synagogue and state and a rabid minority who don't recognise anything other than a state governed by Rabbinical teachings. This last group's ideology is little different to Islamic fanaticism.
Israel has only itself to blame for supporting, funding and protecting the settler movement since 1967. Furthermore, US tax dollars have long funded this occupation, a fact largely unknown around the world.
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I'm not so sure. Many US citizens have no idea, because the media rarely mentions it. Post the recent Gaza disengagement, Israel requested $2 billion in aid to assist. CNN conducted a rare poll and asked whether the US should pay. A huge majority said 'no'. It's impossible to say exactly why, but I suspect it's because many are uncomfortable supporting, with a seemingly open cheque, a nation in the Middle East.
Antony is not sure? Why not? Because it requires looking up facts? God forbid!
CNN doesn't conduct polls? Care to give a reference for that?
And since none of the comments have to do with settlers behavior, why is moody taking jeffreg to task?
I must admit, antony's argument is mostly nothing.
Now we know that it was a lie to state that the rampant palestinian war crimes are not motivated by a lack of justice.
No one is pretending anything. But antisemites are quick to imagine so.
That in itself is not antisemitism. After all, many people believe that Jews are a superior people and should act better than others.
We feel that those who have the benefits of living in a western democracy should act better than those living in Arab dictatorships.
Sort it is a sort of reverse racism when they expect Jews to be better than Arab Muslims.
Antony, a well known self-hating jew, gives a perfect example; and I quote, "And as a Jew, I believe it is my responsibility to speak out when abuse occurs,".
On one hand, he denies any identification religiously as a Jew, other than pounding an occational latkes up his butt, but then he lays claim to the moral superiority so many believe we have, simply because his mother was jewish. Almost as if he is stating that he is better than others because of the accident of his birth.
And this racial superiority forces him to get on his righteous high horse and command others to do his will.
At least he feels he is racially superior.
Can't let the worst segments of society win the big ones.
Does the Government of Israel have the right to use the land it owns as it sees fit? Is that what you are asking?
What has the israeli Supreme court ruled when this notion was taken to court by Arab Israelis who felt discriminated by this policy you are inferring?
More and more addamo flung here. The Israeli supreme court did not declare the fence to be illegal.
That moodyman fails to see the difference is merely moodyman's failure, nothing to do with legalities.
Strict reading of the Geneva convention and any other International law finds the 'settlements' to be quite legal.
Since moodyman's accusations are merely based on his faulty understanding of law, you can't blame him for being wrong. He's just ignorant.
Politically appointed people disagree with me? Oh my goodness!
Most antisemites make that same lame argument.
Strange how the facts prove them wrong.
Neo, no matter how desirable that might be, that is actually a violation of the law. And collective punishment. And all sorts of other things that are wrong. Our resident antisemite is correct for stating such, but that isn't why he stated it.
Thank you.
Got me on that mannie, I haven't the foggiest who or what you are accusing who of?
Are you stating the Loewenstein is a racist?
http://www.icej.org/cgi-local/view.cgi?type=headline&artid=2005/02/24/307558378
World Court fence ruling inaccurate, ill-informed
The ruling last year by the International Court of Justice on the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians was based on erroneous and outdated information, Israel's State Prosecution said in a document submitted to the High Court of Justice Wednesday. The World Court almost totally ignored the terror attacks that made it imperative to set up the fence, the considerations that led to planning its route, and Israel's duty to protect its citizens, the State argued. The judges also inaccurately assumed that the fence would 'annex' 16% of the West Bank on the Israeli side, rather than the 3.3% actually included beyond the 1967 border.
And this also lays waste to the ape's latest addamo run:
ICJ ruling another example of UN bias towards Israel
http://www.aijac.org.au/resources/aijac-media/af-ct-160704.htm
By Andrew Friedman
Canberra Times - Friday, 16 July 2004
Friday's decision by the International Court of Justice will go down in the history as just the latest example of anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. As similar proceedings a century ago in the southern US, when whites-only kangaroo courts would "convict" and hang black suspects without even the pretence of a fair trial, the ICJ "advisory opinion" was a foregone conclusion long before deliberations began in February.
Even the UN resolution requesting the ICJ to offer an opinion is couched in partisan language; by emphasising repeatedly Israel's supposedly "illegal" presence in the West Bank and stressing the opinion that Israel "refuse(s) to comply with international law vis-a-vis its construction of the above-mentioned wall", the General Assembly dictated the expected judgment to the ICJ. Moreover, while judges on the court are supposed to be independent, it is difficult to imagine Egyptian judge Nabil Elaraby, a long-time critic of Israel who had previously voiced an opinion on the fence, defying the stated position of the Egyptian Government to vote in favour of Israel. By employing admittedly biased judges the court has removed itself from any serious consideration.
By making no mention of the hundreds of Israelis who have died at the hands of Palestinian "freedom fighters" prior to the beginning of the construction of the fence, the court has earned its rightful place as an organ of the United Nations. Since Israel was founded in 1948 the UN has served as a hotbed of anti-Israel activity in almost every realm. The 400-plus anti-Israel resolutions are far more than any other topic, and fully 17 of the 25 emergency sessions held by the General Assembly have been in relation to supposed Israeli breaches. In contrast, other international crises, such as the Rwandan genocide, were not the subject of even one such session.
Similarly, the UN has never condemned Arab murders of Jewish civilians, anti-Semitism in any form, or Palestinian, Egyptian, or Jordanian breaches of peace treaties with Israel. To the contrary, UN forces in Lebanon are suspected of facilitating the kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers in October 2000 - after certifying that Israel had completely pulled out of that country - and the infamous 2001 UN Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa was one of the most openly anti-Semitic rallies since the 1930s.
Whilst the ICJ decision will likely give succour to critics of Israel, even Israel's detractors must acknowledge that the fence has helped give Israel the first significant respite from Palestinian terror in nearly four years. It is no coincidence that no suicide bomber has penetrated the security fence that has surrounded Gaza for years, or that terrorist activity from the West Bank city of Jenin - once the terror hub for the northern West Bank - has virtually stopped since Israel completed a section of the fence near that city. Moreover, despite the genuine inconvenience it causes to some Palestinians near it, of all the measures available to Israel for responding to terrorist organizations, the fence clearly harms innocents the least.
Far from being the "illegal" wall the anti-Israel brigade insists it is, the project is similar to others in conflict zones around the world. For instance, Saudi Arabia, a country that has called the security fence an "internationally wrongful act", is building its own separation wall along its southern, undefined border with Yemen. In contrast to Israel, however, there have been no violent infiltrations to Saudi Arabia from the south, only a vibrant drug trade.
One day soon a majority of Americans will wake up to the damage their country's relationship with Israel has done them. It will take a hard landing economy-wise, but that is a prospect which looks more possible daily.
They will begin to understand how the agents of Israel who dominate this administration led the country into a disastrous war of world-historical importance more for Israeli than American imperatives - to the extent of fabicating 'evidence', threatening whistleblowers, and co-opting via a fellow travelling Likudnik journalist the nation's newspaper of record into the deception.
They will suddenly 'get' the fact that they have been the horse to Israel's rider; a big, strong, well-fed and complacent Tonto for this crowd of Lone Rangers to ride until it's exhausted it's usefulness.
They will wonder at the complicity of their media in this charade, and if they pursue that line of thought with ten minutes research, the wonder will turn into concern and even anger.
They will eventually realise that the massive fundumentalist Christian support for illegal Israeli expansionism rests solely on the childish belief, exploited to the full by Israeli hardliners who can't believe their luck, that God has ordained those lands as the place their 'rapture' or ascension to heaven, will take place.
They will read about how AIPAC and other Israeli influence shops in Washington financially intimidate politicians of both parties at every level from the local town hall to the White House, while at the same time fronting for Mossad by hosting spies busy stealing classified documets from the US government.
They will squirm a little more upon discovering that Jack Abramoff's comprehensive compromising of the governing class was another avenue of political control, and they might even say some bad words when they read that he too is an ultra-Zionist with links to settlement expansion, and to some of the shady casinos and banks around the world where the interests of the Sharon family, gunrunner Marc Rich and the Russian/Israeli mafia meet.
They will be outraged when they learn about the USS Liberty, and stunned that serious efforts are still being made to have Jonathan Pollard released, a man who fed shedloads of classified intelligence to Mossad.
Chins will be stroked and kitchen floors paced when a connection is finally made between the massive animus of the Arab world (and most of the rest of us too) and the occupation and oppression of the Palestinians by Israel, a crime backed without demur by the US for decades. The sheer obviousness of the best way to reduce that terror-inducing hatred; forcing Israel into withdrawal to within the Green Line, will burst free of the media straightjacket it's been trapped in for years.
It will begin to dawn on people that perhaps funding this troublesome and aggressive little ethno-religious enclave to the tune of 3 billion a year, with additional military largesse, is not such a good idea from a purely, pragmatically American point of view.
And when that happens, the honeymoon will be over. Divorce prceeedings may follow.
Poor Glenn. He's going to be pissed when he finds out that America is awake and that the vast majority of every day Americans fully support Israel.
They do so for two reasons; They believe the Jews are God's chosen and that the land belongs to the Jews. Secondly they can not stomach the palestinian people, especially when so many of them dance in the streets after they murder 4 little girls at point blank range in front of their pregnant mother.
America can not stomach it.
And when they read the addamo Glenn just crapped, straight from some white supremist hate site, they just reach in their pockets and send more money to help Israel maintain itself as the forefront of western civilization in the Middle east.
You don't need a stick, except to beat your self. The Palestinians have won the atrocity battle by a few hudred miles. That is why most Americans wonder if you need a breathing coach.
Neo, Just because it appears that we are better than everyone else in the region does not mean we should rule the region.
The US is better than all of the other American countries put together. That doesn't mean the US should rule them. Nor that the other people living their do not deserve their nations.
Besides, do you really want to be responsible for the welfare of 4 generations of people who have lived on the UN dime?
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