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4 EU nations to condemn Israel's settlements plans
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Published: 18.12.12, 20:51
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31. #30. Europe needs to tend to it's own problems.
Chaim ,   Israel   (12.18.12)
#30. Europe has been the source of both World Wars. For Europe to pretend to be a beacon of light, and tell Jews what to do, is absurd. Europe needs to attend to it's own problems.
32. EU
NeilFriedman ,   Israel   (12.18.12)
Great! The more they condemn us, the more justified we are! Keep it coming Europe! Let's see who has the last laugh.
33. Let the EU show us that there is a 2 state solution
Sam ,   Canada   (12.18.12)
The EU knows very well that the Palestinians demand a right of return into Israel making the 2 state solution obsolete but they are afraid to challenge the Palestinians. They are afraid to upset the Palestinians in the same way they are afraid the Israelis will upset the Palestinians if they build. Sorry but it sends the wrong message for humanity to appease Palestinian terror by coddling them.
34. So what!?!?!
Yael Schlichting ,   currently Munich   (12.18.12)
35. Humanitarian Enclave
Zecharia   (12.18.12)
The twelve square kilometres ought be a humanitarian enclave with a Hospitals And a Refugee Sanctuary area internationalized with a Iron Clad Defensive Capacity.
36. we have more pressing problems in EU
eva ,   frankfurt am main   (12.18.12)
To file a complaint at the UN is not worth the paper it is written on. France and Portugal are drowning economy wise. They are under strong pressure from their Muslim citizens. Amazing is the fact that they still believe Israel is a state/nation/land they can to the Jewish people and take it away again. Hypocrisy at its best.
37. it's funny
King David ,   Israel   (12.19.12)
they claim to be Israel's allies but France, Britain and soon Germany too - all are Muslim stats. they are so full with Muslims that within 10-20 years those stats will be just like Iran. they are enemies of Israel and enemies of the free world. the UN and Europe can get bent. take care of your own problems and stop telling others what to do especially when they do it on their own land. we were here long before you and we will be here long after you. good luck with all the muslims in your land, lol. I see an epic future ahead of you.
38. to #10, it was silver
observer ,   Egypt   (12.18.12)
((crusaders came there just to rob ancient Jewish golds ))
39. Israel is nor a vassal state
Cipora Julianna Kohn ,   Zion Eretz   (12.18.12)
the europeans, led by the obama administration from behind the scenes, thinks that they can dictate the actions of a sovereign state just because that state is the jewish state. no other country receives orders from europe the way israel does. europe still thinks that jews can be kicked around and made to obey. however, now, jews do have a state, and they are armed. europe bbbetter get used to this new reality.
40. Eu is breaking up and being flooded by migrants
(12.19.12)
41. Germans trying to tell jews where to live
(12.19.12)
Continuing the tradition of their fathers, eh?! Their hypocrisy has really no end.
42. To nr 30: Our ancient Israelite/Jewish history is...
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (12.18.12)
...no more "fairytale" than the history of France, Germany, UK, Spain or other European nations. You deny and trivialize our history because we are Jews. You don't deny the history of Greeks, Persians, Indians or the Chinese. The Jews, the Chinese and the Indians are the three oldest living civilizations on earth. Try to get this into your thick anti-Semitic skull. You only pick on the Jews. For your information, the Bible is not "a book" but many books - a collection of books - a combination of legends and myths and real history. Many of the historical events recorded in the Bible are actually confirmed by Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian sources. Many of the geographical places in the Bible exist in the real world: Jerusalem, Yaffa, Beer Sheva, Nazareth, Jericho, Betlehem, Hevron, Schechem, the Jordan river, the Galilee, the Sea of Galilee, Mount Hermon etc etc. Are these places "fairytales" too? The problem is not the Bible and our history. The problem is that you trivialize our history by claiming that the Bible is "only" "jiggery pokery" and that you equate our historical proof with the Bible alone. Nice try, but if you try to lie, do that more convincingly. As long as you laugh at our Bible and claim that our history are "fairytales" we have absolutely nothing - zero - to talk about. My final question to you is: Are YOU for real? Get lost and mind your own business. I'm not asking you - get lost.
43. and I'm supposed to care because...
David M ,   Miami, Florida   (12.19.12)
nope, dont care. Just so we are clear... we've got the anti Jewish moslemized British, the Cheese eating WWII French surrender monkey's, the children of Nazi's, and the "I wish I could be your friend and have any relevance in the political arena" Portuguese condemning us? Just making sure as these are clearly legitimate condemnations by the most respectable of countries. Hey Britain, France, Germany, and Portugal... take your statement of condemnation and send it to your arab friends for more oil and please also print the statement on the thinnest paper you can find, preferably Charmin so we can make use of it.
44. France, Britain, Germany and Portugal
ltrail ,   United States   (12.19.12)
Well now. Since France, Britain, Germany and Portugal condemn Israel for Israel's internal matters, I condemn France, Britain, Germany and Portugal for being meddling busybodys. North, East, South, and West Jerusalem belong to the Jews; as well as the Districts of Samaria and Judea. Israel: Do not be mis-directed by the foolish actions of the world's governmental bodies, against you. It is not the settlements that they hate, rather it is the Jewish people and the State of Israel, that they hate. They can't stand that you flourish while the 22 muslim countries surrounding you, fail.
45.  No more Holocaust border!Thanks!
David Damian ,   Iraq   (12.19.12)
Europe gave us the Holocaust. Britain gave us internment camps in Israel during Nazi era. , & carved out the Jewish Nation's territory, stole their land & gave it to the Arabs. All the West did was collude & connive to this day to curry favor with slimy Arab oil barons. ENOUGH OF YOUR INSOLENCE!
46. CAUSE AND EFFECT
Avram Goldsmith ,   tORONTO   (12.19.12)
Hypocrits and decay societies deserve hypocrits and mental corupt leaders. Europe is on verge of moral bankruptcsy and economical anarchy, where the antisemitism findied a very propice ground and punished with millions of Arabs which going to burn Europe as straw shack.
47. 42 - You don't deny the history of Greeks,
split ,   US   (12.19.12)
Because their history and fairy tales are supported by physical evidence that I can see, touch and admire what did you leave to support yours?
48. 42 - Are these places "fairytales" too?
split ,   US   (12.19.12)
The places are just places already existed before the Hebrew showed up but the events are nothing but exaggerated nonessential episodes immortalized by your imagination in fairy tales - Tell me something do you really believe that a little schmock, an illiterate sheepherder like Joseph from an illiterate gathering tribe that couldn't support themselves and sold him for food to Egyptians becomes an administrator of the most sophisticated and organised civilization in those days, or Moses; an adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter, a grandson of Pharaoh, an Egyptian general who conquered Ethiopia had to run for his life because he accidentally killed an Egyptian 'capo' who abused one of his homies? How did he know or who told him that he was a Hebrew, his mom or his grandpa?,... The Genesis narrative was copied almost word by word from the Book of Gilgamesh compiled in Mesopotamia 18 centuries BC. predating Moses 900 years, the Ten Commandments and 613 principles of Torah's law observed by Jews were 'adopted' from an Egyptian Book of Dead recorded on the walls of their tombs around 2600 BC, that's 1600 years before Moses was born, if you believe that he ever existed. The Bible is nothing more than a collection of fairy tales compiled by few to create castes of privileged and keep you in line - To insist that our Creator had nothing better to do but waste 40 days with some hebrew schmock on the top of the mountain while his 'chosen' herd worshipped a golden calf below it's an insult to the Creator itself. According to one of your fairy tale one of your prophets got swallowed by a huge fish, have spend three days and three nights in it's belly, got out alive and lived happily ever after - Yeah right, give me my money back ;) ,...
49. To: No. 47
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.19.12)
Oh, are you ever dumb! Archaeological evidence of the Jewish presence in Israel abounds! How about the Western Wall? How about the Machpelah? How about Gihon? That's just the tip of the iceberg. And -- most importantly -- how about all those scrolls which are written in Hebrew? The Jews gave the world the Bible while your forebears were painting their faces blue and howling at the moon. News flash: the first four letters of the Greek alphabet are alpha, beta, gamma, delta. The first four letters of the Hebrew alphabet are aleph, bet, gimmel, dalet. The Hebrew alphabet is older. Significantly older, actually. I wonder, oh I wonder, from whom the Greeks stole their alphabet .... By the way -- physical things fall into ruin. The glory that was Rome, for example, is no longer all that glorious. The Bible lives on. That -- among other things -- is the gift that keeps on giving, and has been giving for thousands and thousands of years. On balance, which is more important? The ruins of the Parthenon, or the Bible, which has inspired human thought since the Jews wrote it?
50. The Schmock is you Split
Norbus ,   Jerusalem   (12.19.12)
Ttaking things at face value, failing to understand the power of tradition on building a people, their personality indeed their destiny. That it bothers you to distraction, indeed making you obsessive calls for you to seek mental health advice and treatment or stew in your venom
51. #48 I'm sure your experienced and deep
A ,   Belgium   (12.19.12)
bible knowledge equals that of the greatest professors. However, you forgot to mention someone: A certain Jew who was born to a virgin, who later walked on water and made blind people see, claimed that god was his father and rose from his grave after he died. Why didn't you include THAT as one of your so-called "exaggerated nonessential episodes"...hypocrite?
52. 49 - How about the Western Wall?
split ,   US   (12.19.12)
Oops, Western Wall, Second Jewish Temple, Caesarea, Masada among other places was King Herod's achievement who was an ARAB by the way, using Roman architects and Arab craftsmen. Your alphabet was adopted from Assyrians, oops again, and your scrolls are nothing more than fairy tales and the name of the cave too, the structure around the cave was build by Herod the Great too - Darn !!! ,...
53. 51 ,...
split ,   US   (12.19.12)
This part of history and an event is well documented in few languages and supported by countless structures that you can touch and admire unlike your fairy tales ,... Have nice day ,...
54. 49 - still don't get it, do you? ,...
split ,   US   (12.19.12)
The essence of Bible are the ten commandments and those are adopted (plagiarised) from the Egyptian Book of Dead, the Papyrus of Ani to be precise and it's not your gift to humanity I repeat, it's not your gift to humanity and never was, period,... Have nice day,...
55. split US
AL QUDS ALYAHUDI ,   QUDS HAKA ALYAHUD   (12.19.12)
Your brain is split into many pieces. Read history, the OLD./NEW Testaments
56. British & French faults
(12.19.12)
Condemn the British & the French Empire who fucked up all these problems in the M/E
57. #53 What "countless structures" did Christ
A ,   Belgium   (12.19.12)
or his disciples build? None! And the "well documented" stories were written long after his death...if he ever even existed. Read the article about the Dead Sea scrolls, the bible of the Jews written over 3000 years ago....THOSE are no fairy tales...moron.
58. 57 - Not by Christ but for Christ ,...
split ,   US   (12.19.12)
Churches, cathedrals, basilicas, shrines, pinhead. Not all the gospels were written long after His death. Google 'Twelve Apostles of Jesus' for details. 4 of his disciples witnessed and noted. 3000 years ago written Hebrew didn't exist - Any idea in what written language did the Creator dictate the sacred texts to Moses ? Just curious ;),... Take a hike Einstein ,...
59. TO NR. 2.
SJOERD VAN DER VELDE ,   HOORN NH, HOLLAND   (12.22.12)
YOU ARE CORRECT ABOUT ISRAEL. THE UN REPRESENTS ONLY THE GOVERNMENTS/REGIMES OF THE COUNTRIES WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE UN., NOT THE PEOPLES (OF THOSE COUNTRIES) THOSE REPRESENTATIVES WERE/ARE NOT ELECTED DEMOCRATICALLY BY THEIR PEOPLES, THEY ARE APPOINTED BY THEIR GOVERNMENTS. MOST OF THE UN-MEMBERS ARE DICTATORSHIPS. THE UNSC, THE MOST POWERFULL BODY OF THE UN IS ALSO UNDEMOCRATIC, BECAUSE 5 COUNTRIES ARE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF IT, SINCE 1945, WITH THE RIGHT OF VETO. IF THE UN REALLY WANTS TO REPRESENT THE WORLD/THE COUNTRIES/THE PEOPLES/THE ENTIRE MANKIND, IT HAS TO BE REFORMED IN A DEMOCRATIC WAY, WITH EVERY COUNTRY IT''S OWN FORM OF DEMOCRACY FROM THEIR OWN FREE CHOICE/ WILL (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLES).
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