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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    So which version do you prefer?
    This version, says it all:

    So after five days in detention, interrogation by the Israel Security Agency and the prohibition of a meeting with a lawyer, he went home. He actually did light a fire, he burnt garbage on his own premises, 150 meters from his home, 1.5 kilometers from any Jewish town,” Hasson stated.

    “Oh, and he also put out the fire,” Hasson added.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    So which version do you prefer?
    As above, plus the one I added (which you avoided). Both versions virtually the same, and both versions pointing to Israeli persecution of a Palestinian....by the facts presented.

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    Wow.....

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    Two Arab arsonists were captured on Tuesday while they were lighting fires next to the Atarot industrial zone in northern Jerusalem.

    Border Police officers operating out of a surveillance point spotted the fires and quickly dispatched and guided units to the scene to apprehend the terrorists.

    Officers sent on foot to the area saw two Arab teenagers setting tires on fire just outside of Atarot. The pair attempted to flee, but were captured after a brief chase.

    The suspects, both 16-year old residents of Jerusalem, were in possession of lighters and papers for kindling.

    The two were transferred to the central police station in Jerusalem for interrogation, and are expected to be brought before a judge to have their arrests extended.

    More than 2,000 fires ravaged Israel last week and through till Sunday, forcing tens of thousands of Israelis to flee their homes.

    Last Thursday the Internal Security Ministry estimated that at least half of the fires were the result of arson and many others were a result of the original fires spreading to other areas due to the winds.

    On Sunday, Israeli police said 37 people had been arrested in connection with the fires

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    Keep up the resistance, boys, way to go! Keep nipping away at those criminal Zionist oppressors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maanaam View Post
    Keep up the resistance, boys, way to go! Keep nipping away at those criminal Zionist oppressors.
    ....and get shot.

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    Yeah, probably. But you have to try. No use being trodden on by the jackboot of the Zionists all your life.

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    How did this thread end up with the pharohs canaanites phoenicians etc? although one would have to disagree with the Arabic papers slant on the fires. It is tempered with some sympathy for the Palestinian plight on the west bank, Gaza and Indeed Israel itself.
    The argument is pointless regarding who was there first. The Jews are as likely to leave Israel/Palestine as are the white Australians who were late comers to Australia by about 40,000 years.
    The facts are the Israelis are in violation of a number of UN resolutions and have no right to building settlements on occupied land. The Israelis have no intention of giving up occupied Arab east Jerusalem and the Arabs will not give it away in any settlement.
    How many people would agree to having 100% of their land occupied and a peace negotiation where only 95% would be given back?
    Until sensible people are willing to do the right thing we will still be talking about this in another 50 years and the misery and suffering will go on.

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    Why would Israel ever give up the West Bank?
    There's about as much chance of that happening as of the Arabs giving up on their ambition of driving all Israelis into the sea.

    The land that's now Israel was won through wars instigated by Arab Muslims.
    Israel fought back and won. Much of the conquered territory was handed back to Egypt, the prime instigator of the 1967 war.
    Does it not make sense that Israel keeps the strategically important Golan and West Bank to ensure its security?



    Compare that map to the ones below.

    There was almost zero chance of Israel enjoying any measure of security if the 1947 UN allocated borders were adhered to by Israel, as demonstrated by the Arab instigated 1948 war, which saw Israel's borders extended to a safer demarcation line.

    After that, Jordan, which initially offered sanctuary to all the 1947-8 displaced Arabs, invaded and occupied the West Bank then annexed it, (1950) against international law.

    That land was then taken off Jordan by Israel in 1967, three years after Arafat the Egyptian founded the PLO, with an eye to unseat the Hashemite rule of Jordan and replace it with Fatah, his own organization, riding on the back of the myth of the exclusively Arab Palestinian.

    That plan of Arafat's backfired after a civil war where thousands of Palestinian Arabs and Jordanians died in battles culminating in 1971 with Jordan expelling thousands more Palestinians along with Arafat who all ended up in Lebanon to create more trouble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    Why would Israel ever give up the West Bank?
    Because it is not in Israel- it is in Palestine (in fact the major part of what is left of Palestine). Thus the illegal settlers and military there are trespassers, and occupiers- and they will never be recognised as anything but by the UN, and Israel will not be recognised by most of the Arab League & Muslim world, until the situation is sorted out (ie one state or two).

    It can, of course 'not give up' the West Bank by combining the two states, which would involve giving the Palestinians their human and legal rights via granting them Citizenship, freedom of movement etc. Seems the best way forward to me, but Israel should hold a national Referendum on the matter. Meanwhile Israeli's are prohibited from travelling to, and trading with, many world countries- and to a lesser extent, curtailed in others. They are also increasingly despised- including by an increasing amount of the diaspora jews. This is a situation that is only likely to increase, via BDS. As Israel settles and colonises Palestine more, it will turn into a standard apartheid struggle a la Sth Africa- you only need read the history of that. Interestingly, the US dragged their feet on that one too.

    From yesterdays Haaretz editorial-
    Expanding the settlements is a guarantee of eternal conflict and the continuation of the occupation regime with no chance of ending it. No less important is the need to oppose the bill that legalizes the outposts, which touches not just on construction in the territories but on the survival of the rule of law in the State of Israel.

    The United States has traditionally tied its policy toward Israel to the latter’s readiness to conduct negotiations with the Palestinians and has seen all settlement construction as laying mines in the path of the peace process. Washington to date has served as a brake, albeit not effective enough, against the process of Israel’s diplomatic suicide.

    read more: America is irrelevant to Israel's settlement policies - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com
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    Jordan controlled the "West Bank" from 1948 - 1967...uhh...uhh...but you want to call if Pale-stein...why not Philly-stine. For twenty years it was under Jordanian control...and nobody called it Palestine because it was called the West Bank , governed by Jordan.

    In the 1967 War Israeli forces overran Jordanian forces up to the River Jordan...a big ooops, eh.
    The West Bank came under Israeli control.

    I do agree that Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank is disheartening...but that is the nature of hardened Israeli outlook after several conflicts. Some might say that the Israelis have large cojones doing what they've done...and I would agree.

    Possibly they look at how the world backpedals and pussyfoots on other territorial grabs whether it was Tibet or currently is Crimea.

    Agreed they've got balls for a country of 8 million. The elected leadership assuredly wants to make sure it remains a Jewish state...same ambition as the other nations wishing to remain white-Anglo , Islamic or ethnic-Chinese et al. Go figure.
    Many here have called Thailand racist. Funny that

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    After that, Jordan, which initially offered sanctuary to all the 1947-8 displaced Arabs, invaded and occupied the West Bank then annexed it, (1950) against international law.
    As an outside observer that is Neutral but looks at the situation in the hope of peace for both sides, I think you are a bit selective about violations of international law. If intransigence is all that can be offered then Israelis will never be safe because there will be endless violence between the sides. The rocket attacks by Hamas are fairly unsophisticated. The loss of Israeli lives from these attacks have been few although regrettable, still far less loss of civilian lives than the Israeli response. Eventually Hamas will get more sophisticated weaponry and the loss of life will increase on both sides as the Israelis seem to have a policy of 100 of you for 1 of us. This will only continue an endless cycle of death which will give no one peace or security.
    Unfortunately I feel some posters have become so polarised in this debate that they can't see the forest for the trees. While both sides look for the moral high ground, men women and children are being killed and injured and a lot of misery is being inflicted on both sides, so I must now remove myself from this circular argument.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PeeCoffee
    Agreed they've got balls for a country of 8 million.
    Easy to have such 'cojones' when you are nuclear armed, your Defence budget is subsidised by the US to the tune of $3.2bn per year (and Uncle Sam is ready to step in in your favor at any time, as has happened several times), plus you possess a modern air force well over double the size of the UK.

    But it does not change the situation one iota- Israel is illegally, and brutally, occupying Palestine and has been doing so for fifty years now- accompanied by creeping, and entirely deliberate, colonisation. But the Palestinian's aren't going anywhere- indeed their numbers continue to grow, as does the rest of the worlds population. They just endure, suffer, remain, and breed- oh, and in many cases Resist. That will never end while the Occupation continues. Every year further delayed just makes a one state solution more inevitable. This is ironic because according to all Polls on the matter that is not what the Israeli's (or Jews) want- albeit by a decreasing majority, but they are effectively being railroaded into it by their governments policies and actions. Schmucks.

    I mean, I've never thought of you as an eejut PC- surely you don't believe that 5.5mm Pali's are just gonna ship out, or be 'driven into the sea'.

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    No I won't spend an inordinate amount of time on this debate line.

    Polls mean shyte...just ask Hillary and the Democranks. Even the largest opinion poll taken includes less than 3% of the registered voters.

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell me again when any US forces were ever involved in the defense of Israel. Providing missile defense equipment to Israel manned by IDF personnel during the Iraq conflict was to stop Israel from taking out Saddam's missile capabilities once Israel was fired a upon.

    What is England's defense for the illegal immigration of 'America', Canada, Australia or New Zealand...along with illegal bondage, suffering, death and traffiking of millions of Afrikans into the Americas ?
    When will the land be returned in all cases to it's rightful inhabitants? Simply it never will.

    The world keeps spinning. We keep going around in the same circle on this debate. Something will change one way...one day...with or without either of us.

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    One difference between the Jordanian occupation (more accurately, attempted annexation) of Palestine, and the Israeli, is that the Palestinians were full citizens of Jordan- with all of the rights and obligations that entails. Some countries recognised it as a legitimate annexation (including the UK, I think)- but most did not. Indeed, the other Arab nations were some of the most vehemently opposed! This is obviously not the case with the illegal Israel occupation- which has been going on for some 50 years now, compared to the Jordanian involvement of 10. Not one country in the world has recognised it. The Palestinians have virtually no Rights on their own land.

    The other difference, worth pointing out, is that the Jordanian occupation was not accompanied by the widespread violence and brutality of the ongoing Israeli occupation. Neither was it accompanied by the same degree of resistance- in fact nowhere near. Something to do with the fact the Palestinians had been granted human and legal Rights, perhaps?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PeeCoffee
    When will the land be returned in all cases to it's rightful inhabitants? Simply it never will.
    In all of these cases, the 'rightful inhabitants', or indigenous people, are full citizens of the country they inhabit- with the Vote, Freedom of movement, Freedom of abode, etc etc. What of the Palestinians? The last country to give way on this score was apartheid Sth Africa, The next will be Israel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    In all of these cases, the 'rightful inhabitants', or indigenous people, are full citizens of the country they inhabit- with the Vote, Freedom of movement, Freedom of abode, etc etc. What of the Palestinians? The last country to give way on this score was apartheid Sth Africa, The next will be Israel.
    Sounds totally reasonable to me. Israel will eventually cede land, prolly including the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem to form a Palestinian homeland.

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    I'm not so sure really- I mean actions speak louder than words, and the actions on the ground there suggest to me that the Israeli government has no intention of withdrawing, and is effectively creating the facts on the ground in Palestine. This over the heads of the Israeli people & Jewish diaspora- I mean how democratic, brutally and illegally occupying and colonising another peoples land, while hoodwinking your own people!

    But frankly it doesn't matter to me, one state or two. What matters to me is the granting of basic human rights and freedoms to the oppressed Palestinians- the conflict will only ever continue until that happens, and in much of the world Israel will remain a pariah state. Resentment, even hatred, of Israel is only increasing worldwide- much as happened in the latter years of the SA apartheid regime, after the world took a firm stand against it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang
    But frankly it doesn't matter to me, one state or two. What matters to me is the granting of basic human rights and freedoms to the oppressed Palestinians- the conflict will only ever continue until that happens, and in much of the world Israel will remain a pariah state. Resentment, even hatred, of Israel is only increasing worldwide- much as happened in the latter years of the SA apartheid regime, after the world took a firm stand against it.
    I feel exactly the same way. But hatred of Israel is not increasing worldwide and, even if it was, that is not enough to destroy Israel.

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    I think you've got to go to the loony edges of the internet to talk about either destroying Israel, or the genocide/ ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
    Quote Originally Posted by wjblaney
    But hatred of Israel is not increasing worldwide
    H'mmm,
    'Why do they hate us?' -- Israeli version
    The Growing Cancer of Israel Hatred in Britain | Observer
    Hatred of Israel “is increasing”
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20...is-increasing/

    Jewish people can yell 'antisemitism' all they want, but as long as the Occupation continues they are pissing on the wrong tree.

    It’s the Colonialism They Hate, Not Jews
    Most Europeans do not doubt the Jews’ right to an independent state, but they vehemently object to a reality in which we are keeping masses of people under occupation and consciously trampling their basic rights.
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.616546

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    What matters to me is the granting of basic human rights and freedoms to the oppressed Palestinians- the conflict will only ever continue until that happens
    Today, 21% of Israel's population is Arab, most of them Suni Muslim and all have full Israeli citizenship, voting rights, access to medical aid and education.

    Those in the Golan have been offered the same, but most have rejected those rights, preferring residency rights only, with rights to municipal voting and services. East Jerusalem Arabs who hold ID cards and are permanent residents of Israel are increasingly taking up Israeli citizenship.

    West Bank Arabs are also applying for Israeli citizenship, on the grounds of having family in Israel.
    Gaza citizens have the same rights to apply.

    As both West Bank and Gaza were/are supposedly under the Palestinian Authority which depends primarily on Israel for food, supplies etc to be distributed to its residents, there's no real incentive for Arabs living there to do much other than eat sleep breed and throw rocks and fire bombs or try and stab another Israeli.

    Most of the foreign funds pouring into Gaza and West Bank are just soaked up by Hamas leadership and Abass' PA leadership to build themselves opulent homes, new offices, arm their thugs and do very little else to improve the infrastructure.

    42% of Gaza citizens are unemployed, Gaza's youth are at 58% unemployed and 80% of Gaza citizens receive foreign aid. While West Bank unemployment rate is slightly below Gaza's which is the worlds highest unemployment rate.

    Their economy is totally stagnant, as they concentrate on making war while their leaders are busy stealing from them.

    C'est la vie.

    A one statesolution is really the only humane method of handling the situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Jewish people can yell 'antisemitism' all they want, but as long as the Occupation continues they are pissing on the wrong tree.
    Anti-Semitism existed long before the creation of Israel.

    It was the spur to Zionism.

    Even if Israel ceased to exist, anti-Semitism will continue, driven by Xtian bias and Muslim hatred.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I think you've got to go to the loony edges of the internet to talk about either destroying Israel, or the genocide/ ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
    Quote Originally Posted by wjblaney
    But hatred of Israel is not increasing worldwide
    H'mmm,
    'Why do they hate us?' -- Israeli version
    The Growing Cancer of Israel Hatred in Britain | Observer
    Hatred of Israel “is increasing”
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20...is-increasing/

    Jewish people can yell 'antisemitism' all they want, but as long as the Occupation continues they are pissing on the wrong tree.

    It’s the Colonialism They Hate, Not Jews
    Most Europeans do not doubt the Jews’ right to an independent state, but they vehemently object to a reality in which we are keeping masses of people under occupation and consciously trampling their basic rights.
    read more: It?s the colonialism they hate, not Jews - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com
    So this 'hatred' is different from antisemitism?
    “The Master said, At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”

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    Yes- look at the bottom link above, from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. I do not deny that anti-semitism exists (djoo's secretly rule the World right!), but being opposed to the ongoing and illegal occupation of Palestine has nothing to do with anti-semitism. If so, you are calling most of the Jewish diaspora anti-semitic. Do anti-semites despise the Occupation too? Of course. Did some right wing bigots vote for drumpf and brexit- of course. Does that make most of them who voted that way so- of course not.

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