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Livni: Palestinian state - solution for Israeli Arabs as well
Neta Sela
Published: 18.11.07, 14:35
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31. Finally someone with backbone..
Micha   (11.18.07)
this is important. This is what Israel needs. She is speaking the truth. Let's see if the world, including the arab world can follow the logic.
32. mmm... ONE DAY SHE WILL BE A GREAT LADY
avi   (11.18.07)
...like Condie ? don't worry, she works hard on it !
33. Livni talks tougher than Olmert beneath the surface same thi
zionist forever   (11.18.07)
Livni is no different to the rest of the crooked kadima / labour idiots who still belive that they can simply repackage oslo give it a new name, give up Jerusalem and problem solved. She has seen that the general thinking in Israel right now is much more right wing and she is trying to play to the public and sound a little different from Olmert without straying to far from the party line. Barak is the same he talks tough buys new tanks acts right wing but make him PM and he will be the same old left wing Barak we all know and didnt love. Livni wants to be the kadima candidate for the top job at the next ellection becaused she can see Kadima is going to be lucky to get as many seats as the arab parties if Olmert is still running the show so she doesnt want to act to much like somebody who follows the line set by Olmert publicly just yet. Even Sharons vision for kadima which was nothing like this was never a party that would last soon if the offer is rigfht the top people in kadima will be defencting back to Likud and Labour where they came from.
34. this Zionist is beginning to feel alienated from Israel
David Turner ,   Richmond, US   (11.18.07)
Israel appears increasingly a socially and politically adrift, rudderless, losing touch with her Zionist mission, social justice and basic humanism. Barely one month after the Knesset Constitution Committee chairman announced the possibility of a compromised Law of Return to accommodate Who is a Jew, followed two weeks later by Interior Minister Sheetrit seconding the disenfranchisement by ordering the Jewish Agency to stop assisting non-Halachic communities like the Falashas of Ethiopia to immigrate. And now Foreign Minister Livni goes racist in her announces that Israeli Arabs are, after all, Palestinians and can go home, once there is a home? Take stock, Israel, stop the drift toward social nihilism and isolation even from Diaspora Jews before it is too late!
35. Acting from within against Israel
Nora ,   Tel AAviv   (11.18.07)
The Fifth Column is sensing that now`s the time to attack the "tired -of -fighting -leftist -Israel" If the Right does not legally replace that government, soon no Arab in Israel will recognize Israel`s rights.
36. laviny
jerry ,   isreal   (11.18.07)
laviny how u bee in u postion if u not know how to talk about peace are u crazy or something
37. #30 citizenship of Israel
Helena ,   Finland   (11.18.07)
"you want citizenship you accept the lagal status of that country, you accept its flag, anthem and every other symbold of state and law." I have read that there are plenty of israeli citizens who don´t accept those things at all. Even your Minister of Science and Culture denies the law of Israel on the Temple Mount. Not to mention some sheiks, who openly talk against Israel. I can´t think of any other country in the world where the Minister can say that he is first muslim and everything comes after that. One should be first loyal to the country. Israel is a Jewish state after all, isn´t she?
38. TRUTH Ignored! Muslims Already Have ARAB Palestinian State
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (11.18.07)
22 HUGE Arab countries. 56 Muslim countries. One tiny, embattled Jewish state surrounded by implacable, ferocious enemies determined to annihilate the Jewish state. There NEVER was an Arab country of Palestine. Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish Bible, not once in the Koran. Muslims ALREADY HAVE an Arab Palestinian State. In 1922, Britain illegally gave 80% of JEWISH Palestine to Muslims. The area became Jordan, giving Muslims an ARAB Palestinian State on JEWISH land. The new Arab country was religiously CLEANSED of Jews - Stop the WICKED ethnic Jew cleansing! Stop the EVIL Jew-hate Alija Izetbegovic stated in the ISLAMIC DECLARATION that: "there can be neither peace nor coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions" http://www.balkanpeace.org/cib/bos/bosi/bosi01.html STOP Inciting Children to Murder! http://www.teachkidspeace.com/flash.php
39. Livni Ignores Jewish Refugees from Arab countries
Semsem ,   New York, USA   (11.19.07)
Livni refuses to bring up the issue of the 1 million Jewish refugees who fled the Arab cvountries? Why? Is she a racist?
40. Livni Ignores Jewish Refugees from Arab countries
Semsem ,   New York, USA   (11.19.07)
Livni refuses to bring up the issue of the 1 million Jewish refugees who fled the Arab cvountries? Why? Is she a racist?
41. TRUTH Ignored! Muslims Already Have ARAB Palestinian State
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (11.19.07)
22 HUGE Arab countries. 56 Muslim countries. One tiny, embattled Jewish state surrounded by implacable, ferocious enemies determined to annihilate the Jewish state. There NEVER was an Arab country of Palestine. Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish Bible, not once in the Koran. Muslims ALREADY HAVE an Arab Palestinian State. In 1922, Britain illegally gave 80% of JEWISH Palestine to Muslims. The area became Jordan, giving Muslims an Arab Palestinian State on JEWISH land. The new Arab country was religiously CLEANSED of Jews. Alija Izetbegovic stated in the ISLAMIC DECLARATION that: "there can be neither peace nor coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions" http://www.balkanpeace.org/cib/bos/bosi/bosi01.html STOP Inciting Children to Murder! http://www.teachkidspeace.com/flash.php
42. #40 Jew-HATERS IgnoreJUSTICE for One Million Jewish Refugees
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (11.19.07)
Around, and after 1948, one million Jews suffered VIOLENT RELIGIOUS Jew cleansing from Arab countries. Arab governments seized the land, farms, homes, hospitals, schools, businesses and bank accounts of the Jews. Most Jewish refugees fled to Israel where the religious terror war against Jews NEVER stops. Cruel Global war is waged to subjugate every nation under Islamic sharia law - it is unacceptable to Islamists for Jews to have self-rule in TINY Israel. The 1948 Jewish refugees and their descendants who make up about half of Israel's Jewish citizens MUST be compensated in land and finances! See: http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/
43. Livni has security; her soft Jewish throat will be protected
Steve ,   Fla.   (11.19.07)
Because of Foreign Minister Livni's foolishness, perhaps thousands of innocent Jews might be slaughtered. Not to worry. Tzippy Livini has security and protection. She will not suffer the fate of the unfortunate Jews she consigns to Muslim vengeance and rage.
44. 40
zionist forever   (11.19.07)
Sharon was the first and sadly looks like he will be the last PM that not only talked about financial compensation to palestians to drop this right of return nonsense but also compensation for jewish refugees of arab lands. Neither Rabin or Peres brought it up Natanyah didnt bring it up Barak didnt bring it up So far anybody in this regime in Israel has brought it up. We have become so obsessed with how much we can give the palestains we have forgoton that the jews lost out here as well. If this had been holocaust repriation demands it wouldnt stop but because they were kicked out by force from arabs states and not Germany its ok to forget the jews and worry about land and financial compensation to arabs for peace. Sharon made his mistakes but brining up this issue was not one of them and future Israeli leaders shouls also make this a demand of peace talks. It musnt be all one sided in the arabs favour.
45. Dont forget the Golan
zionist forever   (11.19.07)
Assad wants the Golan so how about he give us back the millions of dollars worth of land bought for the zionists by Edmund De Rothschild in land that was give over to Syria?
46. #7 Rivkah - Our Native American Indians are Wonderful People
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (11.19.07)
Your nasty insults regarding our precious Native American Indians are disgusting. What shameful character assassination to suggest that our indigenous Native Americans were killers who had to be placed on reservations. U.S. evil treatment of the Indians is a shameful and terrible chapter in the history of the United States. Native Americans showed the new European immigrants how to survive in the new land.
47. # 39-40 Forget About It
Joe ,   USA   (11.19.07)
48. To Observer
Shai ,   IL   (11.19.07)
Your claims in your post conflate the Balfour Declaration with the United Nations resolution that called for splitting Palestine between a "Jewish State" and an "Arab State". That's the source for the demand that the "Arab" side of the equation recognize the "Jewish" side, as the Jewish one will be willing to recognize the Arab one. Secondly, what you missed about the phrasing of the Balfour Declaration was that it offered non-Jews "civil" and "religious" rights. The only part in that declaration to receive "national" rights was the Jews. If the matter between us and the Palestinians were merely one of religious and civil rights, then Begin's proposals that would have offered "cultural autonomy" to the Palestinian areas within the WB and Gaza while retaining Israeli sovereignty would have been consistent. The problem is, and always has been, that since the 1947 resolution the Palestinians have won for themselves rights that no other nation had before, such as the ability to inherit refugee status, the ability to have their civil rights upgraded to national rights when they met none of the criteria of the Montevideo Conference (which was Int'l law) regarding "self determination" as a prerequisite for earning national rights, and many more. If all the do gooders who bash Israel and worship the Palestinians, makign them the equivalent of 19th century Romanticism's "Noble Savage", would only have cajoled the Palestinians to be more realistic, they'd have a state by now and thousands of people who are now dead on both sides would be alive and well. My impression here is that the Palestinians would rather be worshipped than take responsibilities for themselves with a state.
49. 29
Igor ,   Munich, Germany   (11.19.07)
I understand as far as I understand. What exactly do you mean? I just don´t see simple solutions which would finally solve this 60 year old problem!
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