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UN chief: End of Israeli occupation only way to advance peace
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Published: 05.06.07, 20:33
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1. Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, were LIBERATED from Arab Occupati
David ,   Boston, USA   (06.05.07)
Please get the facts right. There already is an Arab Palestinian state. No justification for another. End the experiment, 2 states, NOT 3.
2. Yeah, like the political solution between N. & S. Korea.NOT!
jan   (06.05.07)
3. I'm sooo tired of it already
David Levsky   (06.05.07)
Arabs causing World Wide problems for everyone while simply saying, it will all go away if you just assist us to finish of the Jews and Israel. There are people actually capitulating with this. First Kofi Annan and now this Moon clown. The Arabs are soo stuborn with religious zeal. Their religion does not allow them to loose anything, not even an argument, thats why they have chopped of heads back when, and finish little arguments with the AK-47 today. Why do they want the Jews gone you might ask? Beacause Judiasm is the FIRST and only religion with the one true G_D. In order for Islam not to be hypicritical, we Jews must go, so they can re-write history and say their religion is the one and only. My question is, if they know this, then why do they continue to believe in Allah? Why do the Muslims continue to live a LIE?
4. International Law makes a clear distinction..
Mike ,   UK   (06.05.07)
International Law makes a clear distinction between land "occupied" during a war of aggression and land taken as a result of a defensive war. Forty years after a war of survival left it in control of disputed territories, Israel continues to seek a negotiated peace with both the Palestinians and the Arab world. Israel had every legal and moral right to defend herself in 1967 and has legitimate rights within the territory that is under her control today.
5. only by force!
Igor D. ,   New York   (06.05.07)
actually Ban, it is only due to an overwhelming Israeli military might that arab 'brothers' are kept in check!
6. The UN committed to assist those who suffer?
Tracy W   (06.05.07)
What kind of commitment is that UN? On paper only? On statements and only? The fact is that ever since its birth, the UN has been unable or unwilling to prevent suffering, wars, genocides, oppression, assorted violations of human rights and terrorism, among others. The UN is nothing but a club for tinpot dictators, completely biased, completely useless, and often quite corrupt. Please, don't bother with yet another anti-Israel statement. UN, you are completely discredited!!!
7. Oh well.....
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (06.05.07)
it didn't take long to hear the same old song. I have a suggestion: Let all the countries who jump up and down and so want peace in the ME, sign a defense pact with Israel that goes into high gear the minute Israel is threatened, one of its soldiers or citizens gets kidnapped, the first missile of whatever kind falls on Jewish soil and with the detection of the first suicide belt or tunnel. Oh, and let there be a bank account with a few billion from each subscriber to this pact, just in case things turn out as usual and Israel has to fend for itself.
8. Palestinean Arab state west of the Jordan is a cruel joke,
Uzi ,   Haifa   (06.05.07)
mainly at the expense of the Western Palestine Arabs. The only viable nation state for all greater Palestine Arabs is the Kingdom of Jordan which is already in peace with Israel. Jordan and Israel could and should divide Judea and Samaria between them.
9. Self defence is more than an inalienable right;
Uzi ,   Haifa   (06.05.07)
It's an absolute duty. It's utterly immoral to expect Israel to give up territories she took in defensive action and which are essential for her security.
10. Possession is nine tenths of the law.
Uzi ,   Haifa   (06.05.07)
The Arabs must spell out what they offer Israel in return for what they want.
11. "Land for peace" is immoral and can't really work.
Uzi ,   Haifa   (06.05.07)
The Arabs don't want, can't make and won't maintain real peace. They do want to regain territories they had used to threaten, pester and attack Israel and which were taken by Israel in defensive action. In addition the Arabs want the benefits of peace, from Israel and the rest of the world, and offer nothing real in return. The so called 'peace process' is a deceitful sham, as in shampoo. With the Arabs as they are, security for Israel can only be achieved by force. Arabs respond favourably only to thorough and complete defeat.
12. U N
colin   (06.05.07)
Typical of the Secretary to say what the arabs want.Why look at 1967--go back to the UN law in 1948.Does not suit you and the arabs.Ban before your talk bullshit check your dates and stop looking at arab oil.The arabs occupied the land as decided by the U.N. and now crying because they lost the control of thier occupied lands !!!! Please Please ban stop the UN of being anti Israel in all its deliberations.Call the arabs liars once .
13. anniversary
josephine ,   london.uk.   (06.05.07)
the whole world recognizes this as 5th june.but in israel "it" is recognized according to the jewish calendar which this year was 16th may,"it" is jerusalem day,not 40th anniversary of war.so whole world should change from gregorian calendar to jewish calendar for "jerusalem day"
14. #3 - David
Glenn ,   Canada   (06.05.07)
Could it be that without that lie, as you call it, they have nothing? But that lie may well bring them control of the whole world one day. They are making significant progress already, and in the Wetern world, of all places. So, for them it is not about which G-d is the true one. It's about power. Now, you take the average Western-educated Muslim. They should be able to discern which culture is the most able to provide him and his family with values such as freedom, technological progress and justice. But this same guy will make a trip to Pakistan to get trained in guerrilla warfare to help destroy Western culture, the same one that has provided him with a home, a job, and hope for a good future. One question remains, why is the West giving up. That is the most difficult question of all.
15. Do as I say. NOT as I do.
Gideon Reader ,   USA   (06.05.07)
Another day, another schmuck from the UN giving advice to Israel to committ suicide. Stick it where the Kimche done grow.
16. Ban Ki-Moon(bat)
Bill ,   Salem, USA   (06.05.07)
Why doesn't this guy have anything to say about the reason for the war in the first place, or what it is that keeps Lebannon and Israel at odds? Oh, because that wouldn't be propular with the cadre of anti-Semites in the UN, would it? Why tell the truth when it is easier to just pocket the oil money that flows into the corrupt hands of Israel haters? Help like this, Israel doesn't need; it's just another rerun of the views by his predecessor, Koffe(pot) Annon.
17. end of jihad only way to advance peace
Marcel ,   Florida   (06.05.07)
The globalist are all afraid to speak the truth . They don't have anything to say about the oil rich purveyors of hate and intolerance masquerading as a religion. From Kashmir to Thailand it is not the Jews who kill and maim others who do not follow their vile religion. They operate under lies. If the intolerant religion of Islam were removed from the face of the earth the rest of us might possibly live in peace without having to convert to Islam.
18. with respect, you are a little ignorant big man. What r u
Simon Mohammed ,   Falls Church, Va USA   (06.05.07)
Talking about? no one talked about religion and whose first or last. The guy is just telling to all of you in the region that it is time to stop hostility, walk toward peace and live in good neighboord. is it so hard to understand? Good luck
19. finally he woke up...
(06.05.07)
20. Soon or later
(06.05.07)
you make it now or you make it later but you will make it no way , you have no choice and if someone still think that by force you can get what you want so he is a dreamer almost 60 years of occupation and still you live in danger and with time your dreams and your goals which you came with it to this land is getting smaller and smaller and the Arabs is getting stronger and more danger than anytime before and soon Israel will be serounded with neuclear weapons from all sides and this will be the real nightmare ... so better now to put your nose down and make real peace or your nightmare will increas everyday .
21. It is Israel's land
Brod ,   USA   (06.05.07)
Judea and Samaria belong to the Jews since the time of their forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 4000 years ago. The towns and cities in these territories were Jewish towns. It is all recorded in the Holy Bible. As Spain and Eastern Europe did in the Medieval when they liberated their historic homeland from the Islamist-Jihadist occupiers, Israel liberated their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria from the Islamist-Jihadist occupiers in 1967. It is none of the business of the Islamist-Jihadists to continue dreaming and thinking of usurping Israel's land from the Jews. The Arab Islamist-Jihadists already own vast expanse of land that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. They do not seem satisfied with what they have. They want to usurp and occupy Israel from the Jews. It is time the Islamist-Jihadists stop fooling the world about their occupation crap excuses. Awash in their Jihadism, they seem intoxicated in blaming Israel for their own SINS and self-inflicted wounds. It is time they stop deceiving and manipulating the world and the UN about their occupation crap excuses for their own belligerence and aggressions. It is time the UN stops being fooled around by the dark forces. And it is time Ban Ki Moon stops paroting their occupation crap excuses.
22. talk about your own divided country
go home kim ,   Nederland   (06.05.07)
23. # 14 Why is the West giving up?
David Levsky   (06.05.07)
The West is giving up because of Liberalism. Nutjobs who consider the West Imperialistic, while iognoring the Genocide the Muslims commited on their way from Medina to Morroco, and Medina to Persia. Why do you think the Chinese built that big a-s WALL. I'm not saying everyone has to be a warmonger, but the intoloant Religion of Peace is still on the March in Darfur before our very eyes, and no one is doing squat about the Islamification by the sword in Darfur. Liberalism will embrace the enemy as it has in the West. As Arafat said, the most powerful weapon of the Muslims is the mothers womb, and they will outpopulate any society, and if it is run by Democracy, they will win elections. Time time, and eventually it will happen. PS, I don't recycle because I am a Republican who does not want to give any money to Democrate candidites in election funds. But more importantly, I see the same world demonation of Islam you speak of myself, and why should we give the Muslims a nice planet after they barbaricly remove every religion from the planet.
24. "You can't achieve peace through force"
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (06.05.07)
Care to give any examples in all of recorded history in which peace was NOT achieved through force? And the Saudis buy another one.
25. only way to advance peace...........
mike ,   Jerusalem   (06.05.07)
Is to dismantle the Hashemite Regime and return all arab squatters to their REAL state the one originally created for them AKA Jordan! Span ki moon has a lot to learn, like how to use his incompetant coward army AKA UNIFIL to do what they were sent to do: dismantle or at least contain Hiz ball a!
26. TO: Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Poitcha ,   Israel   (06.05.07)
I have just one thing to say: THERE IS NO OCCUPATION !!!!!! Where do you live? On the MOON????? You name says it all: BAN MOON !!
27. Ban Ban! Now!
enzo ,   london,uk   (06.05.07)
28. Ban Ki Moon
paulien ,   ede, holland   (06.05.07)
Does mister Ban Ki Moon and other "great" people and groops know that Israel is not just one off the many countries off the world? But that they are Gods children in the first place? Although it gives them not the rights to do everything what they think that is right.
29. Ban Drinks the UN Kool-Aid
Captain America ,   New York USA   (06.06.07)
Let's see, the Arabs attack the Jews and the Jews should not use force? Oh, ya, let's give the Paleos as state for their rockets.
30. Assistance to sufferers.
Colin ,   Barcelona   (06.06.07)
Mr Ban Ki Moon, when did the UN ever provide help for the Israeli sufferers of terrorism? Never! Your views will only be heard with respect when the UN acts with even handedness with respect to Israel and it's enemies.
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