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'West Bank on verge of intifada'
Yoav Zitun
Published: 09.12.12, 07:33
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31. Israel must send a message to it's enemies
Chaim Ben Kahan ,   Efrat, Israel   (12.09.12)
This message should be that violence against Israel will not pay.
32. Time we got some new blood into the PA
Sammy ,   Newcastle   (12.09.12)
Havent they any ideas about tactical negotiation and conflict resolution? Are they so mired in their old stodgy ways? Are they so short of ideas that they can only resort to publicity and theatrics and violence to progress Palestinian Independence? What good will any of that do for East Palestine in the West Bank? Any student of such tactical negotiations will know that the momentum and advantage lies with the initiator of the negotiations Set no preconditions and call Netanyahus bluff. Watch Likud being caught off balance. Then start on minor confidence building measures...bit but bit..This is not going to happen overnight but over a period of five years until Israel AND Palestine are ready for Palestinian Independence So unless the 'old guard' of the PA get going and understand that the old way is history, there are plenty of highly talented young Palestinians who would gladly take up the challenge
33. Heavens to mercy who would think someone let the Jihadists
Melvin Drysdale ,   Beverly Hills   (12.09.12)
out of the arabian peninsula. So now lets right the world. From londonstan to Manilastan and elsewhere all Jihadis on your marks go! Go back to the homicidal Hamite peninsula homeland of your own name. Even though you act as mad asses of men the nations united have even canonicalized the justification for the enforcement of your return to the peninsula of your own name. Its your customary genocidal hate while not unique, that localizes your true homeland to where hudnaniks first extorted and genocidaly mass murdered Jews in what is now called Medina. Yea that be Medina. so keep heading south and east if you have any camel poop of self respect for what is yours and not another's. Allah (picture not available) notwithstabding
34. Israel should take pre-emptive action
Terry ,   Paris France   (12.09.12)
Israel should take action to clearly send the message that WB is not Gaza and Gaza is not WB.
35. More checkpoints less violence
(12.09.12)
36. Israel Should deport illegal settlers
Butros ,   London, england   (12.09.12)
Simple solution. All Jewish settlements disbanded and given to the Palestinians. Zionist wall knocked down. 2 states side by side.
37. More violence=No tourist access, no funds from Israel of any
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (12.09.12)
kind, no supplies of any kind, go complain to the UN.
38. Irish fooloshness
Wexford stooge ,   El paso, usa   (12.09.12)
Hey potato boy, you are a disgusting anti-semite. Mind your own damn business
39.  Price tag is considered terror give me a break
Rod ,   Fargo N.Dakota   (12.09.12)
What the 'Defense establishment' considers terrorism is plain and simple vandalism.I hear about Synagogues in Israel and around the world having 'Price Tag' acts all the time.It's not terrorism.As far as confrontation between Israelis and Muslims thats fighting not terror.How many Arabs have been killed by Jewish residents of Yehuda and Shomron this Year? or how many arabs have been critically wounded. You call them 'settlers' but the ones that pay taxes and serve in the military are Israelis.Settlers would be the French in N.Africa in area hundreds of miles away from their homeland. Or the brits who settled parts of Africa or the Malvines hundreds and thousands away from their homeland.But Yehuda and Shomron is the heart of Israel not some far off place
40. The UPSIDE,.....
Gideon Reader   (12.09.12)
...an outstanding opportunity to test all of that new and imporved anti-riot crap that the government has been buying for years and yeasr. And,...IF that don't work there is always the approach used so freely by various and sundry Israeli forces AGAINST Jews in Gush Katif and elsewhere in Judea-Samaria. Kicketh the crapeth out of them. WAIT!! No treatment like that of the PAL Autes/Hamasnikim would be allowed by the US/US/UK/Fr/EU/or any other "Initials" Group
41. foreign observer
aaron ,   toronto,canada   (12.09.12)
I guess you are a blind man,if not can you tell me what you saw when Israel left and REMOVED ALL THE SETTLERS IN GAZA with those beautiful greenhouses to grow produce.These are the people you want israel to let loose.
42. observer
aaron ,   toronto,canada   (12.09.12)
Do you understand that it's a DUTY of ALL muslims to LIE TO INFIDELS,it's written in the quran(phtoo) don't you understand that on monday,wednesday and friday they say one thing and tuesday,thursday and saturday they say the opposite.I guess your hate for jews is way too deep to change,what a shame.
43. jayd
aaron ,   toronto,canada   (12.09.12)
We stated in 1948 that there should be two countries,result war against us,attacked by all arab nations around us result israel gained lost israeli land.arabs attack we fight back,un begs israel to stop.1967 war israel gets back gaza everything quite,signs peace treaty with egypt offers gaza and sinai back to egypt,egypt want NOTING TO DO WITH GAZA(wonder why)israel offers jordan west bank jordan refuses(WONDER WHY) DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE.
44. Why now?
israel israeli ,   tel aviv   (12.09.12)
Why have an Intifada now, when the US (and soon Europe) will be too busy to support Fatah? Maybe the answer is Ehud Barak. Abbas knows that when Barak is gone, he will have serious trouble. Abbas has apparently decided to make military gains as long as Ehud Barak is DM.
45. # 36
Birdi ,   Israel is ours.   (12.09.12)
Oh shut up.
46. west bank on verge of third intifada
amachad ,   london   (12.09.12)
what are we waiting for precisely?
47. #29
(12.09.12)
(Snore) The queen of cut-and-paste annoys us all again. You should get a new thesaurus, or a new identity.
48. #8 foreign
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.09.12)
Wait until your own are killed by the firing of lethal weapons before responding? Patently ridiculous! No General would ever consider such a suicidal act. Is that how Ireland would respond if it were attacked (G-d forbid)?
49. Tired of occupation
Jason ,   Canada   (12.09.12)
All the security collaboration between the PA and the "calm" that the PA has dutifully kept in the West Bank for years...and what did the PA get in return? NOTHING but even more illegal settlements on their lands. Israel wants to keep this status quo but it will not continue.
50. No intifata, resistance to reclaim their homeland form the
SDB   (12.09.12)
european occupieers.
51. Pictures from Jerusalem not west bank misleading!!
yoni ,   Jewish Homeland   (12.09.12)
The pictures of riots in the article are from arab villages within the Jerusalem municipal boundaries. The arabs rioting are Israeli Arabs with blue ID cards. Think about it...
52. # 49
Birdi ,   Israel   (12.09.12)
You cant do a thing about it, silly you.
53. 49 Jason
alsky ,   toronto   (12.09.12)
yup....they missed another opportunity once again in year 2000 If you friends wanted peace, there would have been peace along time ago.
54. Round up the bandits..terrorists to be..
Beary White ,   Norway   (12.09.12)
If intifada raises again, then round up the youths, chackle them and send them to Jordan, the country, especially ment for the pals. At least they do net deserve to be at the WB.
55. # 2
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (12.09.12)
Well this is what happens when you strangle a people economically What a laugh. Tell that to Sufa Arafat. It's not Israel's fault that the ersatz Palestinian leaders strangle their own people out of greed. The Pals were born bitter and will die bittter. It's in their blood. Nothing will make them happy.
56. Re: 38
Foreign Observer ,   Wexford Ireland   (12.09.12)
It is our business as the EU has an Association agreement with Israel granting it access to the European Single Market. Europeans have no wish to finance an illegal occupation.
57. Re: 41
Foreign Observer ,   Wexford Ireland   (12.09.12)
You gave with one hand (Gaza settlements) and took away with the other (West Bank). You also blockaded Gaza making economic life impossible. Then you expect its people to thank you for it!
58. Re: 26
Foreign Observer ,   Wexford Ireland   (12.09.12)
Actually the PLO deleted the destruction of Israel from its charter since 22nd January 1998. "These commitments were kept, leading President Clinton to declare to the assembled Palestinian officials on 14 December 1998 at Gaza: I thank you for your rejection—fully, finally and forever—of the passages in the Palestinian Charter calling for the destruction of Israel. For they were the ideological underpinnings of a struggle renounced at Oslo. By revoking them once and for all, you have sent, I say again, a powerful message not to the government, but to the people of Israel. You will touch people on the street there. You will reach their hearts there. " (14th December 1998) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Covenant#The_Charter_and_the_question_of_Israel.27s_right_to_exist
59. Re: 29
Foreign Observer ,   Wexford Ireland   (12.09.12)
You say 6 wars started by the Arabs. The 1952 Suez Crisis was started by Israel, Egypt and France to steal the Suez Canal from Egypt. The 1967 war was started by Israel. Their airforce was grounded at the time like the Soviets in 1941. Aggressors always claim to be acting in self-defence. The Romans did the same.
60. #8 Take a look at
Get Real ,   UK   (12.10.12)
all the inflammatory speeches and statements Hamas has been putting out over the week-end.
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