Thread: Israel will never withdraw from Golan Heights - Netanyahu

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

And while we're at it please bomb Luxembourg.

Your stupidity knows no bounds.

israel is a fox in a chicken farm. It walks around slaughtering the chickens around it, keeps some chickens inside the Gazan coop which it goes into sporadically to slaughter. Then it looks up at people like ent and herman and says, "but i'm the only fox and I am the victim". Well the fox could easily move somewhere else where it is not surrounded by chickens and the temptation to slaughter them, but it wants to stay.

It's about time the farmer shot the fucker

You're stumbling Psue. Who exactly is the farmer ?...Britain, Russia, China, Iran, France...the US ?

Yup Psue...Israel is the front line. EXACTLY the way the super-powers of your miserable world want it to be. Even your Gulf State friends don't give a toss.

You can call me a POS if it makes you feel superior , happy or virile.

The real issue is how does the world turn back the clock 68 years...and really in exchange for what ?
Throwing all Israelis out of your Palestine isn't ever going to erase the lies and deceit of the British Govt.
Yes , you can make a case that the State of Israel is the bad fox in the ME.
There can also be made a case that the British were responsible for the Holocaust...so what.

Your type of talk isn't ever going to sway Israeli moderates or "Two-Staters" to accept a deal that "promises peace." They've heard that undercurrent pack of lies before. (IMO)

Israeli Government Suspends Work at Golan Oil Drilling Site


The Golan Heights.David Bachar

Testing at exploratory oil wells on the Golan Heights was suspended by an unexpected order of the Energy Ministry on Tuesday on the grounds that the company exploring hadn’t received proper approvals to continue.

The ministry said all work at the Ness 2 site, one of five drillings Afek Oil & Gas has completed at a site on the southern Golan Heights, should end “as soon as possible,” a move the company said took it by compete surprise.

“The company has acted in accordance with the terms of its approvals and is right now at the peak of its activities in the field inside the period it was awarded under the law,” said Afek, a subsidiary of the U.S. company Genie Energy. "Given the situation, we were taken by complete surprise by the request of the follow-up committee, which three weeks ago approved extending our testing, to bring them to an end as soon as possible.”

The Golan drillings have been controversial both because they are taking place on land still claimed by Syria and because of environmental opposition. Last October, Yuval Bartov, Afek’s chief geologist, said the company has identified an oil stratum 350 meters thick, which would suggest large amounts of oil.

Shares of New Jersey-based Genie Energy, which was founded by American Jewish businessman Howard Jonas, were up 0.8% at $7.96 in early afternoon local time in New York. Genie had issued no announcement about the suspension.

Despite the controversy, the ministry’s order suspending operations appears to be only procedural. Six weeks ago, Afek received an extension on its license from a inter-ministerial follow-up committee, but the Energy Ministry said on Tuesday the government’s Oil Committee was the only body authorized to grant the approval. Sources said it was likely to grant the approval since the committee had awarded the license and extensions in the past.

Israeli Government Suspends Work at Golan Oil Drilling Site - Business - Haaretz

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

Who exactly is the farmer

International Law.

ISRAELI OCCUPATION IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) & 51 (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 1
(1970).
Israeli Actions: It is illegal under international law to acquire land by force: Israel annexed land occupied by force during 1948 and 1967 wars (lands
other than those given by the UN 1947-48 partition plan) ILRC article. Military action and occupations are legal only if they are for self-defense, or
to directly benefit the native population. But studies show Israel is not just defending itself as it develops de-facto annexation with its settlements and
separation barrier on occupied land, as it takes over most of the occupied territories (over 70%) and its natural resources for its own use and
economic benefit, at the expense of the native population. ILRC article on why the Occupation is illegal.

ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ON OCCUPIED LAND:
Laws Violated: Geneva Conventions IV, Article 49(6) (1949). It is illegal to colonize occupied land or transfer non-indigenous population to that
land.
Israeli Actions: Immediately following the 1967 war, Israel began building Israeli civilian settlements on Palestinian lands, eventually building over
200 settlements throughout the occupied territories, and settling over 450,000 Israeli civilians in them, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
civilians from their own legally owned lands. In addition, Israeli citizens live in hundreds of Israeli settlements on occupied land not originally given
to them in the UN Partition Plan, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. ILRC article.

ILLEGAL TO TAKE LAND BY FORCE & CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY:
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 1
(1970).
Israeli Actions: In violation of the UN Partition Plan, Israel took an extra 15% of the land in 1948, and then, following the 1967 war, Israel
confiscated East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. ILRC article.

ILLEGAL ISRAELI PRACTICE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING:
Laws Violated: Forbidding civilian populations the right to return to their homes following the end of armed conflict is in direct violation of
international law and UN resolutions. Geneva Convention IV, Articles 45, 46 & 49 (1949), UN resolutions 194 (III) (General Assembly; 1948) &
237 (Security Council; 1967).
Israeli Actions: Since 1910, in different ways, the Zionists and then Israel have taken Palestinian lands, forced native populations from their land,
and then refused the Palestinian landowners or tenants’ residency or employment on them. Following fighting in 1948 and then again in 1967,
Palestinian civilians who wished to return to their homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories were forbidden re-entry (“right of return”), confining
them to increasingly smaller areas of Israel and Occupied Territories. The Israeli government enacts laws, and employs its military to keep
approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arab civilians from returning to their homes following the end of fighting both in 1948 and in the occupied
territories in 1967. Israel then violates UN resolutions ordering them to respect Palestinians’ right to return to their homes. See the ILRC article on
Right of Return and ILRC article on Ethnic Cleansing.

ISRAELI APARTHEID SYSTEM IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1976).
Israeli Actions: The State of Israel has a formal system of legalized discrimination against Palestinian Arabs which technically fits the official UN
definition of Apartheid. ILRC article. Israel’s society-wide system of discrimination and isolation of the Palestinian people within Israel, and its
system of exploitation, oppression and isolation in the occupied territories, fits exactly the official, legal UN definition of apartheid, which is
considered to be a crime against humanity. The practice of passing laws which give special favor throughout Israeli society to the Jewish people over
all other people, and especially the native Palestinian Arab people, embodies the UN definition of apartheid, which is giving special favor to one
group of people above all other groups based on criteria like what religion they are.
Another example is in 2003, the Israeli legislature (Knesset) passed legislation that forbade spouses of Arab-Israeli citizens who are in the occupied
territories from joining their families in Israel (with some exceptions). The reason for this legislation is to help maintain the Jewish demographic
majority family unification. The racist nature is evident in that only Palestinians (no other ethnic groups) are not forbidden to live in Israel after
marrying an Israeli. ILRC article. General article. Amnesty International argues that this law violates fundamental principles of equity, human
dignity and personal freedom enshrined in basic law as well as the rights of the child to live with both parents and other fundamental rights enshrined
in human rights treaties in which Israel is a signer. ILRC article on Israeli Apartheid

MASSIVE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS (HR):
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 1 (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 5 (1970).
Israeli Actions: Studies by UN, I.C.J., and International H.R. organizations have found that Israel violates the human rights of Palestinian people on
a massive scale, including torture, imprisonment without charges or trial, land confiscation, harassment at checkpoints, unwarranted civilian
shootings, not punishing Israeli settlers’ crimes against Palestinians, unwarranted disruption of medical care, commerce, employment, free
movement, destruction of public and private property, family separation, etc….ILRC article.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: Geneva Conventions IV, Article 33 (1949); Geneva Conventions (Protocol I), Article 75(2d) (1977).
Israeli Actions: In response to Arab rebellion, Israeli Military takes massive action against entire Palestinian communities, for example destroying
entire neighborhoods of homes, or confiscating communal farmlands, bulldozing homes, blocking off certain areas, or not allowing civilian
populations to leave their houses for extensive periods of time. This is called collective punishment because it punishes entire communities for the
actions of a few. ILRC article.

ILLEGAL MASSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL LAWS:
Laws Violated: Hague Regulations IV, Article 43 (1907).
Israeli Actions: Israel has created a dual legal system in the occupied territories – a democratic one linked to Israel for the Israeli settlements, and an
oppressive, exploitive one for the Palestinian communities run by the Israeli military committees and Israeli-controlled civic administrations,
replacing all Arab government functions with Israeli military committees, and dismissing or deporting all Arab government official. ILRC article.

VIOLATIONS OF U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS:
Laws Violated: Israel has violated 28 resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (which are legally binding on member-nations U.N.
Charter, Article 25 (1945); a few sample resolutions - 54, 111, 233, 234, 236, 248, 250, 252, 256, 262, 267, 270, 280, 285, 298, 313, 316, 468, 476,
etc.
Israeli Actions: Israel has violated many U.N. Security Council resolutions especially relating to its occupations, land annexations, military
aggression, HR violations, etc.. ILRC article.

Separation Barrier Ruled Illegal
Law Violated: International Court of Justice of 2004, in an advisory opinion, ruled the Israeli separation barriers illegal. They condemned the
separation wall Israel is building throughout the occupied West Bank in a 14 to 1 ruling. The Court begins by citing, with reference to Article 2,
paragraph 4, of the United Nations Charter and to General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV), the principles of the prohibition of the threat or use of
force and the illegality of any territorial acquisition by such means, as reflected in customary international law. It notes that significant amounts of
land are defacto annexed by the separation barrier. It further cites the principle of self determination of peoples, as enshrined in the Charter and
reaffirmed by resolution 2625 (XXV). As regards international humanitarian law, the Court refers to the provisions of the Hague Regulation of 1907,
which have become part of customary law, as well as the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of
1949, applicable in those Palestinian territories which, before the armed conflict of 1967, lay to the east of the 1949 Armistice demarcation line (or
“Green Line”) and were occupied by Israel during that conflict. The Court further notes that certain human rights instruments (International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child) are applicable in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It finds that the construction of the wall and its associated régime are
contrary to the relevant provisions of the Hague Regulations of 1907 and of the Fourth Geneva Convention; that they impede the liberty of
movement of the inhabitants of the territory as guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and that they also impede the
exercise by the persons concerned of the right to work, to health, to education and to an adequate standard of living as proclaimed in the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Lastly, the Court finds that this construction
and its associated régime, coupled with the establishment of settlements, are tending to alter the demographic composition of the Occupied
Palestinian Territory and thereby contravene the Fourth Geneva Convention and the relevant Security Council resolutions.
Israeli Action: The separation barrier built by Israel snakes it way though the West Bank, isolating Palestinians from each other, from their land,
work, schools and health care. The wall confiscates significant amounts of land and annexes more land to Israel. The court said: The construction of
the wall being built by Israel, the occupying power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated
regime, are contrary to international law.” “Israel is under an obligation to make reparation for all damage caused by the construction of the wall
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem.” The court noted that significant amounts of the West Bank are,
defacto, annexed by the wall. Link to International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion.
References

The Farmer is International Law.

It is currently locked in its farm house by the utterly corrupt USA, who carries on doing this because of support from idiots who think that israel are the victim.

As your pal sub-bung (aka sabang) said earlier;


"there is a simple word for these overly lengthy cut n paste's you are flooding this thread with.

It is a common tactic used by Liars everywhere, bullshit artists who want to drown out every inch of intelligent discourse and just repeat their barefaced lies ad infinitum."

Originally Posted by ENT

Liars everywhere, bullshit artists

Is there any Lies of Bullshit in that?

No. On your bike, plastic israeli.

Me? An Israeli? I told you once before I'm not.

You're really losing your marbles.

Plastic israeli.

You really have problems reading and comprehending, don't you, plastic israeli boy.

^ how very israeli - beating someone when they are down.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

It's about time the farmer shot the fucker

Hey Pseudo,

do you have any idea which U.N. International Law the CHICKENS are breaking below ?



Later the CHICKENS (including Pseudo) cry "Cock Allah doodle do" the Israeli are miss treating our poor kids.






Typical Muslim !

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Originally Posted by pseudolus

It's about time the farmer shot the fucker

Hey Pseudo,

do you have any idea which U.N. International Law the CHICKENS are breaking below ?

You idiot. You fell for the "child soldiers" hoax?

You are thicker that you think son. You actually a Jew? Your mother would be ashamed of you being hooked in by such a hoax. You dim shit

Another hoax

Originally Posted by pseudolus

You are thicker that you think son. You actually a Jew? Your mother would be ashamed of you being hooked in by such a hoax. You dim shit

Short fused, ill tempered, small brain.....the Pseudolus donkey hand's will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility.

^Dear me - you did. My word, I know there are gullible fuckers in the world but you take the cake in your stupidity

Heh- I got some lovely beach front property for sale in Chiang Mai. Bet you'll be interested.

Did you hear also that the UK has a CHILD army?





Girls as well



Under cover operative for behind enemy lines or for defending the homeland for when the Germans get uppity again?






But what has your posts got to do with the Golan Heights?

Speaking of stupidity...

Here‘s the difference. I made it as simple as possible with visual effects for you.







Smart as hell ! Always have to be carefull, will try to trick you (you will certainly fail if you are a brainless twat)




Dumb as shit ! Reasoning impossible, and will get aggressive. Watch your back!

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Did you hear also that the UK has a CHILD army?

Girls as well

Ohhhh Dear....
C'mmon Pseudo you can do better then that. You're loosing it.

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Reasoning impossible, and will get aggressive. Watch your back!

\

You talking about this guy?


Anyway - keep your racist BS in the doghouse thread.

This is about the GOLAN HEIGHTS and not about your bigoted racist slurs.


The Golan Heights and the “Greater Israel” Project


Ruben Rosenberg Colorni of The Hague University

After the first ever cabinet meeting in the Golan Heights, Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech on April 17, 2016 that the territory “will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.” This elicited admonitions from some of Israel’s greatest allies, the United States and Germany, and renewed attention on the issue.

The Golan Heights were opportunistically occupied by Israel after its victory in the 1967 six-day-war. A United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has monitored the region since 1974, when Israel and Syria signed a ceasefire agreement, and it has been considered an occupied territory of the UN and the international community. In violation of this ceasefire, Israel effectively annexed the territory in 1981 by extending its laws and governmental apparatus over it. Most of the native population has been displaced and over 30 settlements have been constructed to house Jewish settlers. These settlements, like those in the West Bank, are illegal under international law.





The current escalation is really about oil. Since 2013, the Netanyahu government has granted exclusive oil and gas exploration rights to the oil company Afek Energy in a 153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan Heights. Afek Energy is an Israeli subsidiary of the US firm, Genie Energy. Afek’s director is former Israeli Housing Minister Effie Eitam, who is an illegal settler in the Golan Heights himself and is responsible for the fatal beatings of numerous Palestinians. Genie Energy’s strategy-advisory board includes former US Vice President Dick Cheney, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers. Other prominent names include Jacob Lord Rothschild, former CIA director and neocon James Woolsey, and former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson.



Given the clout that these figures wield in US politics, it is unlikely that the US is serious about its admonishments to Israel. Germany’s Foreign Ministry has also criticized Israel´s move as being against international law, but both the US and Germany have declined to call for the Golan Heights to be returned to Syria, citing Syria’s internal situation as a justification. If the US is indeed frustrated with Israel’s behavior, as Vice President Biden recently said, it has a funny way of showing it: the Obama administration recently agreed to grant a $3.2 to $5 billion military-aid package to Israel, its largest ever. Germany is Israel’s next largest donor and military trading partner, which suggest that the indignation is mostly symbolic.



The ascent of Genie Energy, a small Newark-based company, to such geopolitical machinations goes back to the discovery of the Levant Basin (also known as the Leviathan Basin) off the Mediterranean coast in 2010, and the confirmation of first deposits of natural gas in the Golan Heights in 2011. The Levant Basin extends from the Northeastern coast of Egypt to the Northwestern coast of Syria and covers a vast area within the territorial waters of Egypt, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Shortly after this discovery and the announcement that Israel intended to begin exploration and drilling, the government of Lebanon objected to the unilateral move, given the fact that the deposits extend into Lebanese territory. In an interview, Israel’s Minister of National infrastructure said that Israel would “not hesitate to use our force and strength” to protect the drilling operations. The Israeli energy giant Delek Group partnered with the US company Noble Energy to develop the exploitation of the reserves, which, according to a 2010 US Geological Survey, amounted to “approximately 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, with a current market value of $240 billion.”



Shale gas deposits were also found in Shfela valley in July 2011, and the Israeli Energy Initiative, a subsidiary of Genie Energy, was granted the drilling rights. Three months later, US Senator Mary Landrieu led the first official US Energy Mission to Israel, whose goal was to “introduce US firms to Israel’s rapidly expanding oil and gas market and to assist US companies pursuing export opportunities in this sector,” according to the US Department of Commerce. In reality, Landrieu was lobbying on behalf of Noble and Genie. But local environmental activists, and a consequent Knesset bill halted the venture in the Shfela Valley. By the time the bill passed, most of the company’s employees had moved to its sister subsidiary, Afek Energy.

US Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, and Israeli Treasury Director General, Doron Cohen, hosted the US-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) in Washington on October 24, 2012. After the meeting, the JEDG signed an agreement to extend US loan guarantees of $3.8 billion to Israel to 2016, in order to develop its natural gas industry. In essence, the Obama administration gave $3.8 billion of taxpayers’ money to Israel, so that they could use it to benefit the investments and interests of American and Israeli oil companies. Given this financial backing and success of her first mission, Landrieu sent a second delegation of 12 energy (gas and oil) company representatives to Israel. During a roundtable discussion hosted by Landrieu and the Chair of Israel’s oil and gas association, Uri Aldubi, “the delegation received presentations from Noble Energy, Zion Oil, and Genie Energy.” They also met with Uzi Landau, Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructure.

All the while, the US ambassador to Israel lobbied Israeli Members of Knesset (MKs) to support legislation that would favor the gas and oil industry, particularly after the botched project in the Shfela Valley. These efforts were largely successful and resulted in the 2013-14 US-Israel Energy Cooperation Bill, which is intended to foster cooperation between Israeli and American energy companies in the exploitation of these “strategic” reserves.

After the passage of the US-Israel Energy Cooperation bill and grant of rights in the area, Afek Energy continued its exploratory and drilling operations. In October 2015, Israel and Afek Energy announced the discovery of oil reserves of 10 times the global average and capable of ensuring Israel’s energy sufficiency for many years. The announcement did not garner much attention outside the industry, but its connection to the recent militarization of the area by Israel was not coincidental. During a Washington visit on November 9, Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Barack Obama to back a formal Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, citing the dysfunctional Syrian government, gripped by a foreign-backed civil war. He failed to mention that Israel was undermining the Assad regime and Hezbollah forces that were attempting to thwart ISIS in the region. Other political figures within Israel, such as Zvi Hauser, claimed that Israel should demand this annexation as a compensation for having tolerated the nuclear agreement with Iran.


In the past year Israel has intensified its military presence in the region and contributed to the armed conflict by utilizing the region as a staging and support ground for anti-Assad Islamist groups. As far back as 2012, UNDOF reported that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were seen providing military and medical aid, on numerous occasions, to al-Nusra affiliated extremist groups engaged in hostilities against President Bashar al Assad in the South of Syria. In the week leading up to Netanyahu’s announcement of unilateral annexation, the Israeli military forces practiced a series of weeklong drills in the region, as well as along the border with Lebanon, in an apparent show of force. More recently, there have been reports of Israeli weapon shipments also being seized along Syria’s southern border, and intended for rebel groups in Syria. This suggests that the area is being used as a staging ground to destabilize the Assad regime even while this destabilization serves as a justification for the annexation.

Perhaps the IDF worries that the Syrian Arab Army, with the help of the Russian Aerospace Forces, is regaining territory formerly under rebel control and that, once this task is achieved, Assad might turn his eyes to the Golan Heights. Whatever the reason, a military escalation in the area coincides with the establishment of enormous economic interests, and these interests are linked to some of the most powerful individuals in the world. Political lobbying is taking place at the highest levels to ensure that the international community recognizes Israel’s claims of sovereignty over the region. For her services to the gas and oil industry, Ms. Landrieu has received tens of thousands of dollars of political contributions from both Genie and Noble Energy between 2010 and 2014. When this failed to get her reelected, she was quickly ensured a spot on Genie Energy’s Strategic Advisory Board, where she is still employed.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Anyway - keep your racist BS in the doghouse thread.
This is about the GOLAN HEIGHTS and not about your bigoted racist slurs.

Youre cracker Pseudo...

Anyway, here is some good news for you

Rubio walks back support for Israeli annexation of Golan Heights


Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday walked back comments he had made as a presidential candidate about supporting Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, saying Israel should keep its presence on the Golan Heights “for the foreseeable future” as a buffer against the instability in Syria. “What I try to avoid doing is add additional irritant to an already difficult issue because it would almost be used by some of the forces in Syria to call for additional arms with regards to what’s happening and perhaps even trigger more activity near the Golan at a time when Israel faces multiple threats,” Rubio said during a foreign policy discussion at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. ”But the reality of it is that even if Israel tomorrow would give up the Golan, who exactly would they turn it over to?”
In March, just a week before he suspended his presidential campaign, Rubio said he’s in favor of Israel annexing the Golan Heights, a request recently denied by the Obama administration. “I believe at this point [in regard to] the Golan Heights, Israel should take a position that it is now something they will permanently hold, especially given what’s happened in Syria,” Rubio said in an interview with Ami Magazine.
During his last visit to the U.S., in November 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly asked President Barack Obama to recognize full Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights. Obama did not respond, according to Haaretz. But senior White House officials called the request “unjustified” since it would undermine attempts to reach a diplomatic solution to the Syrian civil war.
Netanyahu repeated his call for the international community to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights last month. Speaking at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting held on Israel’s border Sunday morning, Netanyahu said he had told Secretary of State John Kerry in a recent phone call that the Golan Heights is not on the table for discussion in the ongoing talks to settle the Syrian civil war. “I chose to hold this festive Cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights in order to deliver a clear message: The Golan Heights will forever remain in Israel’s hands. Israel will never come down from the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said. “The time has come for the international community to recognize reality, especially two basic facts. One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.”
But on Tuesday, Rubio, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence, walked back his endorsement, which was meanwhile endorsed by his colleague Ted Cruz. “My guess is that for the foreseeable future, Israel will continue to have an enduring presence in the Golan,” the Florida Senator said.
“The wisdom of that has only increased since the instability in Syria has grown – it is a valuable buffer from that instability in the region,” he explained. “And of course, the bigger long-term threat to Israel is an enduring permanent Iranian presence in Syria that will allow them to conduct an attack against Israel, which doesn’t have to be launched in Iran – it can actually be launched in Syria itself – and the ability of the Syrian regime to protect itself from Israeli air forces. It would also be a significant complicating factor that extends all the way to Iran as well. These are things Israel is watching every single day very carefully. But on the issue of the Golan, there is no one to turn it over to.”
Rubio also reassured concerned Israelis that the Golan Heights is not on the table in negotiations over a cease-fire and an attempt to reach a political solution in the Syrian civil war. “I anticipate there is no pressure on Israel to turn it over to anyone right now because there’s no one to turn it over to,” Rubio said. “I think that as part of the final matrix, it is likelier than not that the Golan Heights will remain in Israeli control for a long, long time.”

Rubio walks back support for Israeli annexation of Golan Heights | Nation | Jewish Journal


Amen !

Don't forget to keep your racist slurs in the Doghouse Pseudo



I know its going to be tough to control that donkey temper.

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Another hoax

June 12 1970, seriously?

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently

No Bibi, it hasn't. Because of course the international community fully knows your agenda. Give in to that, and next you know- "after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that Palestine will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently." Nice try. Not.

Any 'deal' involving the Golan Heights will only follow the sorting out of the illegal occupation of Palestine and the granting of legal and human rights to the indigenous Palestinians- be that via a one or two state solution. Even then the issue will remain highly contentious, given the illegal nature of the occupation and the duplicitous way Golan was seized (ie after a ceasefire had been signed). Nevertheless, given it's land borders with Israel, Jordan and Syria, some kind of free trade zone arrangement may well be a way forward in the long term.

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

And while we're at it please bomb Luxembourg.

Your stupidity knows no bounds.

israel is a fox in a chicken farm. It walks around slaughtering the chickens around it, keeps some chickens inside the Gazan coop which it goes into sporadically to slaughter. Then it looks up at people like ent and herman and says, "but i'm the only fox and I am the victim". Well the fox could easily move somewhere else where it is not surrounded by chickens and the temptation to slaughter them, but it wants to stay.

It's about time the farmer shot the fucker

It seems in previous attempts to kill the fox, the fox has proved to be a formidable foe.

Easily move move somewhere else?

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

Who exactly is the farmer

International Law.

ISRAELI OCCUPATION IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) & 51 (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 1
(1970).
Israeli Actions: It is illegal under international law to acquire land by force: Israel annexed land occupied by force during 1948 and 1967 wars (lands
other than those given by the UN 1947-48 partition plan) ILRC article. Military action and occupations are legal only if they are for self-defense, or
to directly benefit the native population. But studies show Israel is not just defending itself as it develops de-facto annexation with its settlements and
separation barrier on occupied land, as it takes over most of the occupied territories (over 70%) and its natural resources for its own use and
economic benefit, at the expense of the native population. ILRC article on why the Occupation is illegal.

ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ON OCCUPIED LAND:
Laws Violated: Geneva Conventions IV, Article 49(6) (1949). It is illegal to colonize occupied land or transfer non-indigenous population to that
land.
Israeli Actions: Immediately following the 1967 war, Israel began building Israeli civilian settlements on Palestinian lands, eventually building over
200 settlements throughout the occupied territories, and settling over 450,000 Israeli civilians in them, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
civilians from their own legally owned lands. In addition, Israeli citizens live in hundreds of Israeli settlements on occupied land not originally given
to them in the UN Partition Plan, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. ILRC article.

ILLEGAL TO TAKE LAND BY FORCE & CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY:
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 1
(1970).
Israeli Actions: In violation of the UN Partition Plan, Israel took an extra 15% of the land in 1948, and then, following the 1967 war, Israel
confiscated East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. ILRC article.

ILLEGAL ISRAELI PRACTICE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING:
Laws Violated: Forbidding civilian populations the right to return to their homes following the end of armed conflict is in direct violation of
international law and UN resolutions. Geneva Convention IV, Articles 45, 46 & 49 (1949), UN resolutions 194 (III) (General Assembly; 1948) &
237 (Security Council; 1967).
Israeli Actions: Since 1910, in different ways, the Zionists and then Israel have taken Palestinian lands, forced native populations from their land,
and then refused the Palestinian landowners or tenants’ residency or employment on them. Following fighting in 1948 and then again in 1967,
Palestinian civilians who wished to return to their homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories were forbidden re-entry (“right of return”), confining
them to increasingly smaller areas of Israel and Occupied Territories. The Israeli government enacts laws, and employs its military to keep
approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arab civilians from returning to their homes following the end of fighting both in 1948 and in the occupied
territories in 1967. Israel then violates UN resolutions ordering them to respect Palestinians’ right to return to their homes. See the ILRC article on
Right of Return and ILRC article on Ethnic Cleansing.

ISRAELI APARTHEID SYSTEM IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (1976).
Israeli Actions: The State of Israel has a formal system of legalized discrimination against Palestinian Arabs which technically fits the official UN
definition of Apartheid. ILRC article. Israel’s society-wide system of discrimination and isolation of the Palestinian people within Israel, and its
system of exploitation, oppression and isolation in the occupied territories, fits exactly the official, legal UN definition of apartheid, which is
considered to be a crime against humanity. The practice of passing laws which give special favor throughout Israeli society to the Jewish people over
all other people, and especially the native Palestinian Arab people, embodies the UN definition of apartheid, which is giving special favor to one
group of people above all other groups based on criteria like what religion they are.
Another example is in 2003, the Israeli legislature (Knesset) passed legislation that forbade spouses of Arab-Israeli citizens who are in the occupied
territories from joining their families in Israel (with some exceptions). The reason for this legislation is to help maintain the Jewish demographic
majority family unification. The racist nature is evident in that only Palestinians (no other ethnic groups) are not forbidden to live in Israel after
marrying an Israeli. ILRC article. General article. Amnesty International argues that this law violates fundamental principles of equity, human
dignity and personal freedom enshrined in basic law as well as the rights of the child to live with both parents and other fundamental rights enshrined
in human rights treaties in which Israel is a signer. ILRC article on Israeli Apartheid

MASSIVE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS (HR):
Laws Violated: U.N. Charter, Article 1 (1945); Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations…, Principle 5 (1970).
Israeli Actions: Studies by UN, I.C.J., and International H.R. organizations have found that Israel violates the human rights of Palestinian people on
a massive scale, including torture, imprisonment without charges or trial, land confiscation, harassment at checkpoints, unwarranted civilian
shootings, not punishing Israeli settlers’ crimes against Palestinians, unwarranted disruption of medical care, commerce, employment, free
movement, destruction of public and private property, family separation, etc….ILRC article.

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated: Geneva Conventions IV, Article 33 (1949); Geneva Conventions (Protocol I), Article 75(2d) (1977).
Israeli Actions: In response to Arab rebellion, Israeli Military takes massive action against entire Palestinian communities, for example destroying
entire neighborhoods of homes, or confiscating communal farmlands, bulldozing homes, blocking off certain areas, or not allowing civilian
populations to leave their houses for extensive periods of time. This is called collective punishment because it punishes entire communities for the
actions of a few. ILRC article.

ILLEGAL MASSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL LAWS:
Laws Violated: Hague Regulations IV, Article 43 (1907).
Israeli Actions: Israel has created a dual legal system in the occupied territories – a democratic one linked to Israel for the Israeli settlements, and an
oppressive, exploitive one for the Palestinian communities run by the Israeli military committees and Israeli-controlled civic administrations,
replacing all Arab government functions with Israeli military committees, and dismissing or deporting all Arab government official. ILRC article.

VIOLATIONS OF U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS:
Laws Violated: Israel has violated 28 resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (which are legally binding on member-nations U.N.
Charter, Article 25 (1945); a few sample resolutions - 54, 111, 233, 234, 236, 248, 250, 252, 256, 262, 267, 270, 280, 285, 298, 313, 316, 468, 476,
etc.
Israeli Actions: Israel has violated many U.N. Security Council resolutions especially relating to its occupations, land annexations, military
aggression, HR violations, etc.. ILRC article.

Separation Barrier Ruled Illegal
Law Violated: International Court of Justice of 2004, in an advisory opinion, ruled the Israeli separation barriers illegal. They condemned the
separation wall Israel is building throughout the occupied West Bank in a 14 to 1 ruling. The Court begins by citing, with reference to Article 2,
paragraph 4, of the United Nations Charter and to General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV), the principles of the prohibition of the threat or use of
force and the illegality of any territorial acquisition by such means, as reflected in customary international law. It notes that significant amounts of
land are defacto annexed by the separation barrier. It further cites the principle of self determination of peoples, as enshrined in the Charter and
reaffirmed by resolution 2625 (XXV). As regards international humanitarian law, the Court refers to the provisions of the Hague Regulation of 1907,
which have become part of customary law, as well as the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of
1949, applicable in those Palestinian territories which, before the armed conflict of 1967, lay to the east of the 1949 Armistice demarcation line (or
“Green Line”) and were occupied by Israel during that conflict. The Court further notes that certain human rights instruments (International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child) are applicable in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It finds that the construction of the wall and its associated régime are
contrary to the relevant provisions of the Hague Regulations of 1907 and of the Fourth Geneva Convention; that they impede the liberty of
movement of the inhabitants of the territory as guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and that they also impede the
exercise by the persons concerned of the right to work, to health, to education and to an adequate standard of living as proclaimed in the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Lastly, the Court finds that this construction
and its associated régime, coupled with the establishment of settlements, are tending to alter the demographic composition of the Occupied
Palestinian Territory and thereby contravene the Fourth Geneva Convention and the relevant Security Council resolutions.
Israeli Action: The separation barrier built by Israel snakes it way though the West Bank, isolating Palestinians from each other, from their land,
work, schools and health care. The wall confiscates significant amounts of land and annexes more land to Israel. The court said: The construction of
the wall being built by Israel, the occupying power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated
regime, are contrary to international law.” “Israel is under an obligation to make reparation for all damage caused by the construction of the wall
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem.” The court noted that significant amounts of the West Bank are,
defacto, annexed by the wall. Link to International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion.
References

The Farmer is International Law.

It is currently locked in its farm house by the utterly corrupt USA, who carries on doing this because of support from idiots who think that israel are the victim.

Who would enforce this international law, and at what cost?