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UN expert: Palestinian terror 'inevitable consequence' of Israeli occupation
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Published: 26.02.08, 19:46
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1. Is this guy that crazy? Hateful? racist? forgot clueless?
David ,   Boston, USA   (02.26.08)
When people like this dont deal with reality, thats a sad day. Arab commit terrorism when they are taught to hate Jews. This happened before Israel was re-created and has nothing to do with 67. It has to do with hate education. Only in the Arab/Muslim world can you get away with telling lies as truth and have Eurabia and UN defend it. Its disgusting.
2. TERROR AGAINST EUROPE IS LEGITIMATE !!!!
(02.26.08)
3. Why even report this BS?
Bernd ,   Germany   (02.26.08)
Dugard is as infamous as the so-called Human Rights Council. Even me as a non-jewish European can see that such reports by so-called UN experts have no political relevance - they are only interesting in connection to research on antisemitism. Bernd, Germany, Old Europe
4. racism
Boaz ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (02.26.08)
Deliberately targeting civilians is racist. It is racist when white supremacists attack black people, It was racist when Nazis annihilated Jews, It is racist when Jewish extremists deliberately murder Arab civilians. It is racist when Palestinian ‘freedom fighters’ deliberately slaughter dozens of innocent Israelis. It is racist when Palestinians celebrate such deeds. It is racist when John Dugard justifies such deeds.
5. Israel should get out of this council
Ignacio ,   Zaagoza, Spain   (02.26.08)
It's the only reason why some people still pays attention to the second home of Arab League that UN really is. Spanish Jews situation much worse than any palestinian.
6. Way to confuse "cause" and "effect"
Neil ,   USA   (02.26.08)
7. John Dugard has a long history of antisemitism
Nannette ,   London   (02.26.08)
Dugard’s U.N. mandate is to demonize Israel. Palestinian human-rights violations were deliberately omitted from the job description... http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MmRlYzUwZjk3OTI4ZjIwYmYzZWY4MWVhMzgzOWJmZWU
8. no entry of UN personnel in Israel from now on
(02.26.08)
the only way
9. Terror is not inevitable, it is a choice
jared ,   orlando US   (02.26.08)
one of many and let the record show the pals have NEVER embraced any other means, most could probably not even think of any other way. If terror were inevitable, there would be Tibetan suicide bombers, and even that case still has some sharp contrasts with that of the israeli dilemma. The UN has it backwards. Israeli "occupation" is the end result of numerous bad decisions made by palestinians and arabs alike since 47/48, and even since the 1920s. Time and time again they have refused peace and chosen war and invasion, not the Israelis. Occupation and a loss of some of the land they had no historical claim to but immigrated to at the end of the 19th and early 20th century was the inevitable result of pal/Arab wars upon israel and invasions into israel, not the other way around. That is the dirty little secret of all this. And the pals and arabs would like the world to just forget their own misdeed over the last 60 years and beyond.
10. This guy is a real anti-Semite
Sidney ,   USA   (02.26.08)
An anti-Semite is somebody who blames Jews for everything that goes wrong. He blames Jews for Palestinian killing of innocent children. Were he around a century ago, he would have blamed jews for the Cossack pogroms against them.
11. "Judaization" of Jerusalem?
Chatich   (02.26.08)
WTF? How can one "Judaify" something that's been Jewish for four-thousand years? More crucial and relevant output from the esteemed braintrust at the UN. Not.
12. evrything has an end
nahla ,   jerusalem   (02.26.08)
but who will be ended first .the terror or ocupation // but i think it is difecult to end both of them at the same moment .and it is diffecult to end only one of them .. it means there is a relation between terror and ocupation .. and i think this is what these human righters want to say
13. Once again
mike ,   seattle   (02.26.08)
Once again, some "neutral" expert has concluded that the Jews have only themselves to blame for the acts of those who kill them. This proves the UN is worse than worthless, and blatantly anti semetic.
14. He contradicts what he says
Freejay ,   Israel   (02.26.08)
"Acts of terror against military occupation must be seen in historical context," Dugard says. In Historical content, these so called Palastinians are from Egypt. Jordan and other surrounding countries. In historical content, these so called Palastinians have always called for Israels destruction as stated in their Charter. In historical content, before Arafat came and stole our land, few of any Arab would even consider themselves Palastinian, as it was Jewish Palestine back then. Now who are the real occupiers??
15. un expert
michelle ,   london   (02.26.08)
so is this man saying that if you don't agree with something or someone you should turn into a terrorist and kill innoncent people
16. south african blacks didn't commit international terror
mike ,   israel (formerly usa   (02.26.08)
we never saw hate and gratuitous bloodlust on the scale we see from the palestinians.
17. UN expert
Stanley Epstein ,   Modiin Israel   (02.26.08)
John Dugard is no UN Expert. His only expertise is a consitent hatred of Israel.
18. Sounds like a cut-and-paste job
Ypip ,   Canada   (02.26.08)
without really putting any effort into it while extensively written about South African apartheid.
19. Completely laughable and pathetic.
(02.26.08)
20. Still more to come
(02.26.08)
The world can not be cheated anymore ... Israel will be soon or later isolated and empty from Jews ... it's all written .... like Jesus said ... from dust to dust .
21. to 14 freeja
lili ,   gaza   (02.26.08)
iam sorry to tell you that you are wrong about the history and about the real ocupiers /but even you are right about both iam sorry again that both will not protect israil / th history is the past and the ocupation from past .we are at the present and the future will be more diffecult becouse you are wrong
22. why pay for UN membership lets give the money to Israelis
zionist forever   (02.26.08)
The guy talks abour Israels occuptation, apartheid laws because of checkpoints & roadblocks and judaisation of Jerusalem. He needs to start looking at the bigger picture here not just the one which justifies blaming Israel for everything. OCCUPATION - that came about because the arabs wanted to invade and destroy Israel and the UNs very own resolution 242 makes no mention of palestians and doesnt obligate Israel to give up even 1 inch of this territory unless its in exchange for a JUST AND LASTING PEACE. The resolution also doesnt say how much Israel should withdraw from in exchange for this mythical peace its an issue to be negotiated between Israel and the side wanting the land. The palestias still refuse to recognise Israel, they have shown no signs of being serious about peace. They havnt given us any reason to end this so called occupation which is legal untill a deal is agreed on by all sides. Checkpoints and roadblocks well hay didnt it occur to this guy there might be a reason for those and thats to stop the palestian terrorists he seems to justify the existance of trying to get into Israel to murder Israelis. He might see terrorists as heros fighting for a noble goal but the families of the victims of the actions of these heros dont have the same romantic vision of the terrorists that he does. Judiastaion of Jerusalem well didnt anybody tell him that Jerusalem is the capital of the jewish state the fact that the arabs have this grand idea of dividing the city doesnt mean thats how its got to be so as long as Jerusalem is the united capital of Israel then jews living in the capital of their own state is quite legal. I cant understand why Israel bothers to pay for UN membership, whats the UN ever done for Israel instead of pass resolutions condeming it for even the smallest of things. Israel has more General Assembly resolutions against it than any other country in the world so even the likes of Saddam Hussains Iraq, Kim Jong Ills North Korea and all the other rogue states out there have fewer UN General Assembly resolutions against them than the only free country & democracy in the entire Middle East. UN hates Israel its a fact so what this UN beurucrat says should just be ignored
23. UN expert Dugard
Øystein Hansen ,   Oslo, Norway   (02.26.08)
This man and his report is a disgrace to the international community - I am not surprised though. The UN is now in the pockets of Islam,and their blindness and hypocrisy is outragious. Israel has the right to defend itself. In fact, in my opinion Israel is patient-they keep feeding the dogs which bites you to death. But - Israel will survive!!
24. yeah, just look at non-occupied gaza
er der   (02.26.08)
" . . bring the occupation to a speedy end. Until this is done, peace cannot be expected, and violence will continue." well, there goes THAT theory down the drain.
25. Can somebody please...
Gary   (02.26.08)
stop this man! Remember when we actually had some spine, in the days when we got Eichmann!
26. Expectations
Reality Check ,   BaGolan   (02.26.08)
What do you expect from an organization that has offered Mein Kampf as its bible
27. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAR - AGAINST THIS WORD "OCCUPATION"
andrew ,   miami,fl   (02.26.08)
JEWS RE INDIGINOUS - WE ARE NOT OCCUPIERS
28. Dugard's Durban Warmup
eh-oop ,   UK   (02.26.08)
ignores the fact that Palestinian terrorism against Jews predates the Six Day War (fedayeen) and even the Second World War. I'd say that to-day's terrorism is the logical extension of yesterday's on the part of people who have never sought to compromise.
30. Access OHCHR's Media Site
Gideon ,   Zeev   (02.26.08)
Show how much you care about the "UN Human Rights Council" by accessing their presssite: http://portal.ohchr.org/ L: hrc extranet P: 1session
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