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E1, against all odds
Amos Gil
Published: 16.03.06, 10:45
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1. Kol Hakovod fro building
Ron ,   Tel Aviv   (03.16.06)
Keep building homes! The Jews have returned home. Get with the program or drink the water in Gaza.
2. Good. I hope Yerusahlyim remains wholly ours for ever!
Dudu ,   Kfar Sava   (03.16.06)
3. Build ! Build! Build !
Ezra ,   Canada   (03.16.06)
4. Cutting off east Jerusalem
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (03.16.06)
Excellent idea. Pali's will just have to choose another capital. Gaza City, or maybe Ramallah, or Amman. The only reason they have their wormy, greasy little hearts set on Jerusalem (and please note, they demand ALL of Jerusalem, completely Jew-free, not "East" Jerusalem) is because it is the capital of ISRAEL.
5. exelent idia
mona ,   jerusalem   (03.16.06)
ecxelent idea for the palastinians to get washinton as the capital //kyli we need to live as human being to reache the hospital to visit the relatives to reach the schools orcollages do you know how many mothers get birth of her child on a checkpoints please let the ecxelent to the american to shoose their democraty and their wars and thier eviles also we have no choice only to suffer the separated regions on our land becouse of the israili securaty please tell them about the ecxelent to keep their securaty other than the setelment on palastinians land
6. Dont be silly, there is plenty of land for the Arabs
David Landman ,   Boston, USA   (03.16.06)
They already have 80+% of historic Palestine. Why give them more? Beside, if its just Judea and Samaria, there is plenty of land connecting Judea with Samaria in the east, as much as part of Israel on the western side of the green line. E-1 should be built up by Israel. It wont change the results of any agreement at all. Oh I forgot, the Palestinians never wanted an agreement. They just want the right to RESIST peace and prosperity.
7. Mona, you really should post in Haaretz.
AK   (03.16.06)
You'll find little sympathy here and absolutely none from me. One thing is for sure, forget Washington as your capital or anything else. My humble suggestion is for you to turn in the direction of Amman. Just think what a wonderful place you could make of Amman with all that welfare mullah you have been getting from the UN, EU and US and your Saudi and Kuwaiti brethren.
8. not cutting off east JSLM,but uniting it BACK with west JSLM
Yonatan ,   Israel   (03.17.06)
thank you!
9. Visit our city
Jacob Richman ,   Ma'aleh Adumim, Isra   (03.17.06)
I would like to offer readers to visit Ma'aleh Adumim and see for yourself what Jewish pioneers have done to the desert. You can also view pictures of our city at: http://www.jr.co.il/ma
10. to ak and jacob
mona ,   jerusalem   (03.17.06)
aki donot know you as well as you do not know me ..i want to tell you i never write to haarts for one reason that i always have my choice never aske any one what to do or write yes iread many openions here and there by my choice also ///////jacob palastine is never a desert mainly jerusalem and maali adomim is on a mount like all the settelments befor full of trees which the men cut and replace it with bulding and if the palastinians have the money allthese mountains will be paradise for the palastinians good buildings instead of the poor camps and the israili want us to be for ever in camps stealing our land here in the west banks cutting the trees our olive trees from where we get the oil and can live a good life ..and then they say palastine is a desert with no people and we jews make it the paradise ////i wish you a good one in other life but be good to have it there after death if you believe that there is god and paradise
11. #10
(03.17.06)
The land of Israel for hundreds of years was a marshland and a desert, historical facts are not to be denied, besides, with the +5billion$ Palestinians recive yearly from the world they could of built beyond your wildest dreams.
12. Divide and conquer Hamastan! Now!!!
Ben Avraham ,   Tel Aviv   (03.17.06)
13. BUILD faster faster faster
sandgroper ,   Australia   (03.18.06)
14. historic palestine #6 ! ! !
yakov shani ,   afula   (03.17.06)
Pray tell me where this place is or was.Was it a country, a republic, a kingdom ?. did this place have presidents, kings or emperors.? Were there any famous people who came from this strange land. I have sifted through the history books of Oxford,Cambridge,Harvard and Yale but could find nothing. Please enlighten me.
15. Jerusalem is already divided
paul ,   T-A   (03.17.06)
OK guys back to the real world : Jerusalem already is divided between two cities, one jewish and one palestinian. I bet you never go to east-jerusalem, to sala'adin street. Ideology is not a good sustitute to reality...
16. The hell with them!
jason white ,   afula,israel   (03.17.06)
Who gives a damn about U.S. and european pressure? I spit on the euros for the 2,000 years of persecution we suffered there. May your continent go up in flames by the terrorists you worry about. The U.S. is more than haj bush and the state dept. bush will go down in history as a lousey president following in the hoof prints of carter. Watch and see what a lame-duck president he will be remembered as. The state dept. is a cancer in the American govt. and should be replaced by people who care about the U.S. and it's real allies.
17. Think, Jason, don't scream
orri ,   T-A   (03.18.06)
Dear Jason, the world is a bit more complicated than apparently you think. People can disagree with you without being kapos. By the way, I am jewish and I do think that the E1 story is stupid ideology. Last point, respect your opponent : it is called jewish humanism
18. jewish humanism #14
yakov shani ,   afula   (03.18.06)
This caused 6 million to dig a hole in the ground and then be forced to jump in,wake up my friend. I have fought three wars and experienced at first hand what "humanism" can do to Israeli soldiers who show humanism and " tohar haneshek", they get shot in the back, I have seen it too many times.
19. to 11
palastinian ,   jerusalem   (03.18.06)
i said palastin is not a desert and never was befor ,,i do not say israil land may be it was a desert but never is palastine ..i know that the jews was lost 40 years in the desert and ask for the different sorts of food and god gave them the water from the rocks ..this desert is sina which now is in egypt but not palastine i think mosa the prophet never enter palastine but yusha who is the leaderwwas invide palastine with the rest of the jews
20. facts are wrong
Jacob ,   USA   (03.18.06)
From the maps I've seen, there will still be 17km from the Eastern most point of the Maaleh Adumim fence to the border with Jordan. This is far from cutting off the North from the South. There will be no cantons, as the Pals like to say.
21. To #17
jason white ,   afula,israel   (03.18.06)
Orri try reading my comments. I never said they were "kapos". We suffered for two thousand years in europe. That was long before the nazis. We Jews should be free to build where we want to in our country. We do not tell other countries where to build. Maybe it would be a good idea for them to shut up and to keep their dirty noses out of our business! Screw my opponent, Jewish humanism is a one way trip to the cemetery. I do not care to hear what a friend of my enemy has to say,especially the primitive euros or the arab-ass kissers in the state dept. Also I am a life-time republican,but I can see that hajj bush is no friend of Israel. He wants to fight world terrorism,but wants to give the palis a state. I said it before,give them Texas.
22. Palestine was not a..
Eilon ,   Yerushalyim   (03.19.06)
desert a jungle a forest or a beach It was nothing because it never existed. It is like Alice's Wonderland
23. wonderland
alice ,   jerusalem   (03.19.06)
yes palastine is a wonderland and iam alice ha ha and by by
24. denial of reality
david ,   T-A   (03.19.06)
why you people refuse to see the reality? that the palestinians exist, that in fact they are here in front of you, 3 millions of people who won't leave, that jerusalem is already divided, that your words are only words which reflect only your obsessions
25. Build the homes, buy out the 5th column, and live.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA   (03.19.06)
26. To David in Tel Aviv
Eilon ,   Yerushalyim   (03.19.06)
The same was once said about the Nazis and Soviets peopels - that they exist and that we have to deal with them. But history shows that fictional peoples eventually disappear. It is our role as Jews to fight this evil and expose such garbage. We have seen what "practical" policies cause - Oslo produced 1500 dead Israelis.
27. eilon
nancy ,   jerusalem   (03.19.06)
you are a jew see palstinian is the evile iam a palastinian see the jew is the evile i think we both look to a mirrore and fight the mirroe .your hand is wounded and bleeding ..who will stop the bleeding ,,it is easy to bye another mirror nazi soviete palastinians ,,but the bleeding from the jews in each time it is becouse you change your evil do you think after the palastinians what you will fight or do you think no evil beyond palastinians as we see no evil beyond jews
28. E1 "06, our new home.
akiva ,   chicago, il   (03.20.06)
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