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Yesha council: Rice comments 'impertinent and shameless'
Efrat Weiss
Published: 15.06.08, 18:54
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1. The Settlers have a bloody nerve
Michael ,   Haifa   (06.15.08)
They have been spitting in the face of Israel since 1967...their lunatic aims have caused us irreperable damage, and only when the world starts tightening the economic screws on us, will we begin to understand
2. Judea and Samaria.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (06.15.08)
The people of Israel and Israel’s countless friends in the United States and abroad will welcome any steps to further the Jewish, peaceful and productive alternative to a terrorist state in Judea and Samaria. Throughout history, whenever and wherever allowed to exist, the quiet, stable, constructive Jewish home has been a successful antidote to extremism and barbarism. We can make it so again – this time in Judea and Samaria, a historically Jewish area whose importance to world peace cannot be overestimated. More about legitimately and Judea and Samaria at : http://xrl.us/bj5ng
3. I was born in the S. and relate to "Palestinians" - Rice
redmiike ,   TA - LA - London   (06.15.08)
After Rice said that she was born in the South and related to the Arabs in the West Bank she lost all believablility for me. She was a failure and achieved nothing that I can think of and she is on her way out. Mike
4. OUTRAGEOUS
fish ,   t-a   (06.15.08)
I wonder if Israel is a sovereign country anymore... Ms Rice always gives us advice of astronomic proportions and astronomic stupidity. Their vision of bringing democracy to Iraq on bayonets failed miserably, the US dance around their Saudi friends, they don't mind a a praody of country like Pakistan doing what it does, only Israel causes concern and worry to all the US State Dpt do-gooders. Ms Rice doesn't voice her concern when mortars and missile rain down on Sderot, when suicide bombers blow themselves up in Israel - this doesn't constitute an obstacle to peace. Why have we become so meek? Have we got no more PRIDE?
5. #1 You're also a Settler, by the way. Just ask any Arab.
Miriam ,   Israel   (06.15.08)
Jews THROUGHOUT the ENTIRE land of Israel have the same right to settle OUR JEWISH land as you in Haifa and those in Tel Aviv and Rechavia.
6. Not to worry about dumb and dumber
David Masada ,   Orlando, FL   (06.15.08)
In a few months GWB will go back to his cows and his ranch and Rice will go back to playing pianos for commies.
7. Finally - talking the talk
Millie ,   Israel   (06.15.08)
Rice is one in long line of anti-Israel State bureaucrats. Shame on her, her toadies and her Israeli appeasers.
8. Efrat Weiss
Curtis Gustafson ,   phx az U.S.A.   (06.15.08)
My dear Jewish friend.I dont know what to say about Mrs Rice.Please know that America as a whole loves you and Israel.We in America understand what is happening to you and pray without ceasing for the Peace Of Israel. May God bless you. Curtis
9. Bush and Rice are both failures
Sidney ,   USA   (06.15.08)
They can be ignored.
10. Enough is enough.
Steve ,   Minneapolis, USA   (06.15.08)
We Americans have beent over backwards to support a country, that everyone else hates. We have supported that state of Israel with billions upon billions of our tax money, and what do we get? A nation that bites our hand as we try to feed it. All i want is to cut our ties with this ungreatful country called Israel, it is you who needs us, not the other way round. The only reason there is even a country called Israel is because of the US of A, and Europe, both of whose handsyou bite. I will vote for anyone who advocates cutting all free aid, and see how long you will last.
11. Rice is an arab wanna be
PatriotUSA ,   Redmond, Oregon   (06.15.08)
What a shame this person comes to Israel and spouts this garbage. Keep building new housing as long as the islamofacists keep killing Israelis and Jews all over the world. Keep building until these "pigs" who want every Jew dead have no more room left and have to retreat to the arab countries where they actually belong. There is no use in negotiating with these terrorists; from abbas to assad, to the nut case in iran. The only thing they understand is violence and warfare so do not be a disappoinment to them and give them what they ask for in bullets and whatever means work for Israel.
12. Condoleeza the failure has 4 months to harm Israel
trumpeldor ,   eurabia   (06.15.08)
13. #1 Are you a bloody fool?
MrLincoln ,   usa   (06.15.08)
If you have no right to Judea and Samaria, you have no right to Haifa or TA. And that is the way the Arabs see it. They want it all and asserting their "right" to all. You had better get with reality here. You either assert your right to ALL of Yisrael, including Judea, Samaria and all of Yerushalyim or you will loose it all, Haifa too. This is an all or nothing deal, Hamas is not going away and they want ALL of Israel. That is reality. So who has the greater will? You or Hamas?
14. #13
Michael ,   Haifa   (06.15.08)
Since you choose to be offensive and call me a fool, allow me to reply that you are a moronic cretin living thousands of miles away from here and given your ignorance about the Middle East, the next best thing you can do is to shut up
15. #3 A failure?? While I do not agree at all with Condis stand
jan ,   usa   (06.15.08)
where Israel is concerned, I will not agree at all that she is a failure. She came from a very hate filled environment in the south while she was growing up, she managed to pull herself out of there, is a very highly intellegent person(though not where Israel is concerned), and has acheived on of the highest positions in the US government. Only Albright is the other women in US history to be a female Sec. Of State. You cannot be as dumb as a box of rocks and get these positions. While I do not agree with some of the things she has done, I will not for one moment ever think that she as a person is a failure!! And you, all you know how to do is tell others on a talk back how bad the Israeli and Palestinians are. Gee, you have most certainly obtained the height of notoriority in life hey?
16. Israel careless what Rice,Bush,UN say, occupation continues
JF ,   USA   (06.15.08)
US dollars, arms, & UN vetoes on Israel's war crimes/occupation will keep pouring on Israel no matter how much Israel snubs Rice/Bush or how many UN resolutions it violates and defies.
17. Rice has globalist goals for the mid-east
Psalms 82 ,   Selah   (06.15.08)
Rice ,Bush are members of the tri-lateral commision and the council on forigen relations and both have attended Bilderberger meetings in the past..... but if folks think the Democrats will have a diffrent approach to the mid-east ...they have another think coming ....a prouasl of thier advisors will show they too are members of these globalist organizations. Presidents Repblican and democrats for the past 60 years have chosen thier cabinets from members of these organizations...research on the readers part will bear this out. Israels best interest is in Israels and G-ds Hands..... Psalms 83
18. Rice,Olmert,Livni,Barak-obfiscated themselves
CSB ,   USA   (06.15.08)
I don't know,if Israelis understand that the US' Federal government could not preclude any building in a US state or city unless the area is declared for national defense purposes. Zoning is determined by local zoning boards, and there is the right to appeal in the courts. How Rice even has the nerve to intimate whether or not any local building should not be built is astounding. She has basically no power.These impositions on a foreign power that has not been voted into any position by the people of this democracy is beyond the Pale, is ludicrous. Israelis must stand up.This is NOT a 'right, or left' issue.It is a sovereign issue. Could Israel, France, Britain, decide to demand that NY not build any new housing? That its police return guns and money to terrorists, or murderers, kidnappers, drug dealers and the other confiscated properties? Could they override the criminal justice and military laws at whim? Can Russia come into Washington, Chicago, etc. and demand it does not build new stockyards, or preclude weapons entry,or it will barrage the US with missiles and suicide bombers?That the US must standdown and not defend itself? Where are the people knowledgeable about the laws of any body? How and why do the Israelis continue to accept succumbing to terrorists who have never lived up to one agreement? THINK! These are all precedents for the future of any other sovereign democratic country, and the world has made Israel the frontline for Western Civilization. Israel, recognize who and what you are.This transcends all fabricated positions. It is up to the people of Israel, now.The government is you, because Olmert, Livni, and Barak have utterly failed. They have imperiled your children and the future.Therefore, you have the right and the commandments to self-defense.They all have expelled themselves to obsolescence.They broke their vows on every level.No one can help you until you help yourselves.For the good of Human kind, do what you must.Bush reportedly broke from Rice and the purported line.Not the Palestinians, but Iran, is the first problem to be addressed if the ME is to survive he states in an interview. Evict those Arabs from Jerusalem who do not want to remain under Israeli sovereignty.The world will not care. The Saudis will accept it, and the Koran supports the Jews in the Holy Land, I understand. Force the Arabs and the UN to accept International Law.Otherwise, we will permit all hard won democratic concepts and laws to be run roughshod and destroyed by the 7thc.civilization.
19. #10, totally incorrect
Baruch ,   Boston, USA   (06.15.08)
I think you need to look at the Arab states, if you want to see people that bite our hand. We saved Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from Saddam. We give huge foreign aid to Egypt. We allow Moslems to preach the same hate here in the US that they preach in Moslem countries, in the name of free speech. We were attacked by Moslems in Africa, Yemen, and the US, as well as elsewhere. And today we have $4 a gallon gas and no help in dealing with Iran. The Arabs and other Moslems are playing the US for a fool, and we choose to pick on Israel because it is small, and far more reasonable in general. Steve, you know that even Minneapolis is being overrun by Moslems. You'll be praying in a mosque soon, and not by your own choice, if you keep thinking the way you do. Wake up.
20. Who is more stupid...Mrs Rice or #1.......a tie i think!
Jayjay3 ,   Israel   (06.15.08)
21. Hey Steve
tinashkuli   (06.15.08)
If you're only willing to vote for anyone who advocates cutting off aid to Israel, you'll have to move to an Arab country. The US will never cut off aid to Israel, even though I wish she did. No aid, no leverage over Israel. No leverage over Israel, no Israeli restraint. No restraint, no Palestinians. Get it.
22. Michael, Michael, Michael
tinashkuli   (06.15.08)
"They want the whole pie. I've never read a Muslim publication in relation to the Jews that doesn't say, 'From the River to the sea.'" He continued, "And let there be no mistake. Once they get Gaza, then they want Acre, Ramleh, Haifa, Tel Aviv. [The Land of] Israel was never interesting to the Arabs. The only time they wanted it was when the Jews had it." Walid Shoebat, FORMER PLO TERRORIST http://www.arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=3986
23. Condi
Hilda ,   US   (06.15.08)
Let's call her like she is --an antisemite. When she came into Israel Tzipi greeted her as Madame Secretary and Condi condescendedly referred to her as Tzipi. Isrel should have made Condi's biuddies Fatah do the security for her visit. She should have been reminded that once the entire US was considered settlements. Today these settlements are Los Angeles, Phonex, Las Vegas etc. US has less legitimate claim for this land than Israel. Israel owned all this land more than 3500 years ago. Look in your bible and your history books. The Arabs are the newcomers and the sqatters and have no rightful claim for this land.
24. Jan #15: I'm not enamoured of Dr. Rice as you are.
Steve ,   Fla.   (06.15.08)
I will not forget, as Jew, when Rice invoked the civil rights movement in the South to clarify her position on the Palestinian-Israel issue as Red Mike #3 mentioned above. Rice: "Jews are the White racists; Palestinians are the African Americans." Consider the following (from Wikipedia) in terms of Dr. Rice's and her father's moral courage during the battle for civil rights in the South. A movement in which many Jews took part. Some gave their lives for Blacks in the South. Wikipedia: "While Condoleezza was mostly kept by her parents from areas where she might face discrimination, she was very aware of the civil rights struggle and the problems of Jim Crow Birmingham.... During the violent days of the Civil Rights Movement, Reverend Rice armed himself and kept guard over the house while Condoleezza practiced the piano inside. "According to J.L. Chestnut, Reverend Rice called local civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth and his followers "uneducated, misguided Negroes." "...While the Rices supported the goals of the civil rights movement, they did not agree with the idea of putting their child in harm's way. "(Black) writers have noted what they perceive to be a distance between Rice and the black community. The Black Commentator magazine described sentiments given in a speech by Rice at a black gathering as "more than strange — they were evidence of profound personal disorientation. A black woman who doesn’t know how to talk to black people is of limited political use to an administration that has few black allies." When Rice invoked the civil rights movement to clarify her position on the invasion of Iraq, Margaret Kimberley, another writer for The Black Commentator, felt that her use of the rhetoric was "offensive." Stan Correy, an interviewer from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, characterized many blacks involved with civil rights and politics as viewing this rhetoric as "cynical." Rice was also described by Bill Fletcher, Jr., the former leader of the TransAfrica Forum, a foreign policy lobbying organization in Washington, D.C., as "very cold and distant and only black by accident."
25. Wicked Witch of the West demands new terror state in Gaza
Getzel   (06.15.08)
and the West Bank. Bush/Rice (Google: supertanker Rice) for a picture of her oil supertanker; renamed when she went in politics) support creating a terror state on the West Bank and Gaza and are trying to get a terror state in Pakistan and Iraq and elsewhere. Clinton succeeded in creating a terrorist Islamic state in Kosovo, where it did not previously exist: as a State. It is not in the USA interest to create an Islamic terror state on the West Bank and in Gaza or anywhere else. Which part of their statements: we only want an Islamic terror state dedicated to the destruction of the West do you not understand?
26. #15 - what has she succeeed at?
redmiike ,   TA - LA - London   (06.15.08)
Of course she's bright, and I know her background but she must be judged by what she achieved and not by what she overcame to get to her exalted position which she would not have gotten to had she been white. What did she achieve? Nelson Mandela is similarly overrated because he was elected because he was black. I would not for one moment take away from him how he stood up to suffering but would he have become President if he'd been white? Mike
27. Condi has no clue what's going on and has an agenda ->>
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (06.15.08)
->> totally disconnected from reality. I want to see her enforce a unilateral and unconditional cease fire on Hamas' side. She has balls when she deals with a civilized country but runs away when she has to meet a REAL challenge! SHAME ON YOU CONDI! Learn some history and read the map. You have no clue where Israel is!
28. Hey, Steve, what do the others do for the US?
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, DC USA   (06.15.08)
Steve in Minneapolis writes, "We have supported that state of Israel with billions upon billions of our tax money, and what do we get?" And the US has also supported the Egyptians, the Palestinians, the Pakistanis, etc. with "billions upon billions", and what do we get from *them*? Can any of them truly be considered friends and allies? Here's a test for you: When the towers fell on 9/11, who in the entire middle east was standing in solidarity with the US? Hint: It wasn't the Saudis, the Egyptians, the Palestinians, or the Jordanians.
29. The intelligence of the leaders
Tikkytours ,   AUS   (06.16.08)
Ynet can now reveal it's all been a misprint: Livni's IQ is not 150 as reported a couple of weeks ago, but only 50. Between them, Rice and Olmert also share an IQ of 50.
30. Stockholm-Oslo syndrome
Rami ,   London   (06.16.08)
Olmert, Livni, Peres and the rest of them have no boundaries: they are suffering from victim shock and identify with their torturers, including the "Palestinians" (there is no such thing by the way), and the USA State Department.
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