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MKs, leftists tour West Bank outposts
Efrat Weiss
Published: 25.08.09, 14:27
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1. The Left
Ricardo Macher ,   KarneiShomron-Israel   (08.25.09)
This friends are in despair, if not I cannot understand this move to visit places they hate. I don't care about Ben-Simon, Barak won't admit that speaking, as for Oron and Openheimmer, well, they are dedicated to hate and destroy, not to build, small difference with idealistic people who love their land and their country, Most of Peace Now members don't serve in the army, and the one's that do are jobniks, another small difference with "kravim" and elite people. But we are a democracy and however those differences, they have their right to shout.
2. JEWS: if we STAY STRONG we'll have a chance
Shalom   (08.25.09)
to get rid of Barak and his gangsters from the government. KEEP IT GOING and GET SOME MORE OUTPOSTS UP! Most of the citizens in Israel are with you!
3. Extremism and virus containment
Ussishkin ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (08.25.09)
The default position of anyone who supports the occupation status quo is to label those who oppose the occupation as extremists. It’s irritating, bit nothing more than that. When accusations that MKs who oppose the occupation include the 'virus' label, that's a problem. It’s a ratcheting up from irritating to provocative. It began with no less an individual than the former Chief of Staff and Deputy Prime Minister, whose attempt to explain it away failed. At the same time, one settler leaderine accuse Netanyahu of being a Stalinist. What next - pictures of Bibi in Red Army uniform or SS uniform? Much of this is a precursor for major changes in policy towards settlements including a freeze and further down the road, evacuation. Unless the government is prepared to put its money where its mouth is and in the case of the Defence Minister actually show the way by shutting down illegal outposts, as a start, then there will be an increasingly violent struggle and bloodshed - of Israelis by Israelis. The occupation has been allowed to mutate into a contamination of our country, our state our people and our faith. Only radical and swift treatment will stop it.
4. Rule of politics not rule of law
Ilan ,   Ariel   (08.25.09)
They want Jewish communities destroyed not for the rule of law but out of an ideological hatred. With luck a disease free future for Am Yisroel
5. MK Michael Ben-Ari is the master of all fools
Sohail ,   India   (08.25.09)
The Mk doesnt understand a simple fact that if you build a illegal settlement on someone else;s land...you would definitely be attacked in defense by the native land owners.Get out of there and stop getting being attacked.Abolish the settlements & outposts and evacuate the land grabbers from the palestinian land of west bank and jerusalem..only that can save u from the defensive and justified attacks ..Simple as that....Even a 10 yr lad would understand that...I beleive the MK need psychiatrist.....Fool..
6. #3 is right
(08.25.09)
You make a lot of sense Ussishkin. Every illegal house, caravan or outpost signals that the extremists want a fight, want a single state covering all territories, and maybe into other countries and territories. Settlerism is a cancer that will destroy Israel. Peace Now or never!
7. “There is nothing illegitimate about Jewish settlements ...
Ron B. ,   Lod   (08.25.09)
“There is nothing illegitimate about Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. The right of Jews to settle in the Land of Israel, and not only on one side of the Green Line, is not only based on the Bible and the history of the Jewish people, but has received international recognition in the League of Nations mandate for Palestine and U.S. approval in the Anglo-American Convention of 1924. This international recognition and the subsequent American approval have never been revoked. Insistence that certain areas in the Land of Israel be closed to Jews stands in opposition to these rights and the accepted values common to all Western societies.” (Moshe Arens, “Great expectations and pious hopes” June 2009) . As to facts and authenticity : http://xrl.us/be8b6g
8. I agree with Ussishkin - we should end this occupation.
rebecca ,   Modiin   (08.25.09)
Get rid of the Jordaian / syrian / egyptian Arabs and make Israel whole. And Peace now and their followers can go with. Really Ussishkin, who do you think you are, deciding that those of us who approve of the settlements are all wrong, but you are right. Arrogant
9. TREASONOUS JERKS THESE LEFTIST DERELICTS
stude ham   (08.25.09)
israel can no longer be pushed back. the settlers are right. and history proves that pushing back the jewish people only leads to incineration of the jewish people.
10. Stude Ham
(08.25.09)
Your point being.......??
11. To 5
Eliyahu ,   Yrushalayim   (08.25.09)
Just whose country are we occupying in Y'hudah/Shomron? It wasn't the Arabs or even any indigenous people's when the British left and after that it wasn't a country. So since they didn't make it a country and Jordan doesn't want it what are we occupying? History just doesn't sit well with you revisionists does it. You might mind your own business until you get your facts straight.
12. Not 1 inch of our land will we give 2 those muslim infidels
Those who oppose ,   can go live in gaza.   (08.25.09)
13. let them stay where they march. or send them
ghostq   (08.25.09)
to jail.
14. LEFTIST ISRAEL IS THE ONLY CHANCE FOR FUTURE ISRAELIS.
ATİLLA KARAGÖZOĞLU ,   RIGHTIST MUSLIM.   (08.25.09)
15. My arrogance?
Ussishkin ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (08.25.09)
Is not the issue, tho i hardly think your accusation appropriate. I never called the movement you clearly support a virus, not until this irritating little word was applied to Shalom Achshav and then picked up by other so-called representative individuals. I see from the rest of your remarks that the illusion of the Greater Land of Israel is alive and well in Modiin. Are you one of those who invested in the part of Modiin on the other side of the Green Line? And I'm arrogant?
16. metaphoric illnesses
Michael ,   Haifa   (08.25.09)
If Ben Simon has caught a left wing virus, the Ben Ari apparently suffers from a complex right-wing, nationalist, racist cancer.
17. Peace Now is the Swine Flu not a virus.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (08.25.09)
18. a visit to occupation hell
bobbyg ,   paris   (08.29.09)
all you americans writing about the West Bank and peace now and viruses..you are donkeys and right wing morons. you have never been there. Palestinians live in the West Bank and Israelis in Israel. Israelis occupy Palestinian land and steal it from them and kick them out. its illegal and immoral, as if the mexicans kicked you out of southern California cause they were there 500 years ago, the bible is not a land registry. many settlers are criminals and many average israelis hate them. only you donkey americans like them. wake up.
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