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Start with the Palestinians
Moshe Elad
Published: 25.01.09, 19:00
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31. to abdeen in rome
oded   (01.26.09)
jews have an undeniable hiistorical, moral and emottional ties to thier homeland. in every scripture, buing it the old and new testement, including a portion of the kuran, the land of israel is mentioned as the promised land for us jews. everyone else was/is just visiting..... any notion to deny it , is doomed to be laughable.
32. to al- australia
oded   (01.26.09)
well you should know... the "palestinian in its modern application was actually attached tothe... jews living in the land of israel under the british mandate... it was slowly and dleiberately changes by arafat(imach shemo)and his gang in 1964... well before ""the occupation", ever became an excuse for the""arab resistence"... if you are a native born australian you should know all about the rights of natives...
33. RoR the ignored issue
Asaf Golan ,   Sugar Land   (01.26.09)
peace process is fake and fraud. And I am sorry but you are wrong about Egypt and Jordan. They are still our enemies. Jordan however knows we are the only thing standing between the King's chair and Syria, and Egypt is preparing for war. Lebanon is Syria and Syria still dreams of rocketing us like Hamas...again.
34. Because palestinians of the first century were Jews!!!
Malkiel ,   New York, USA   (01.26.09)
35. #21 - Abdeen, Because the Jews are "baladi"...
Joe ,   Ramat Gan   (01.26.09)
... and, like I said before, these "refugees" swarmed onto our land from Syria and Egypt, then were promptly sent back to where they came from in 1948.
36. To amin
Freya ,   London   (01.26.09)
The Romanns sent the Jews to the diaspora. Even our lord Jesus was a jew or as you would have it a palestinan and this was long before your mohamed made an appearance.!!!!
37. #29 - jerusalem, I predict a plate of hummus...
Joe ,   Ramat Gan   (01.26.09)
... in your near future. Does this make me a prophet?
38. #11
Jane   (01.26.09)
You had your turn in 1947 and at Oslo, and at Camp David and, and, and. I think your turn is long since up. You blew it, Rami. You blew it.
39. marie-devine, that is so not divine. Islam? holy? barf
(01.26.09)
40. Their Dreams - and Ours...
Zeev ,   Haifa   (01.27.09)
Col. Moshe Elad is looking forward to the day when the Palestinians will “no longer [be] dreaming about a return to Haifa, Jaffa, the Coastal Plain’s villages, and the Galilee”. Years ago, I think it was in the 1980s, a public meeting took place at the Leo-Baeck-School here in Haifa, with the then Palestinian leader, the late Feisal Husseini. In order to enter the lecture hall the public had to pass lines of pickets. I recall that Feisal’s main theme was that “we Palestinians have to forget about Jaffa, Ramle and Haifa, and you Israelis have to forget about Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah” – or words to that effect. If we care to examine the present-day Arab League Initiative we will find that this is still the stance of the Arab world, including the Palestinians.
41. Palestine refugees
Al ,   Perth, Australia   (01.27.09)
you really believe your own lies?Palestine is the Land of the Palestinians, who were mainly Arabs. The Jews refered to it as Eretz Israel. All Cities of Haifa, Jaffa Jeruslem, Lod, Ramleh to which the Writer Moshe Elad are Palestinian Arab Cities since the 7th centuries. Even the Blfour declartion acknowledged the fact of their existense long before the British occupied Palestine. You seem to be living in your own Silo.
42. No more concessions
kenny komodo ,   reno nv usa   (01.30.09)
For the Obama administration to ask Israel to make concessions, whether that means trading land for peace or allowing to continue palestinian rockets to rain down on Israeli cities and towns is irresponsible and unworkable. It's time for the people of Gaza as well as the West Bank to stand up to the terrorists who are supposedly their government and demand they halt their aggression against Israel. Only then can there be peace. There will never be peace so long as the people of Gaza clamor for the destruction of Israel and death to the Jews. Never!!
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