How comes nobody talks about all the territirifes the russians kept after World War ll ?

The fact is that the so-called "Palestinian Issue" is nothing but an excuse for the revival of a reason to hate Jews. Antisemitism is nothing new and, let's face it, it is very easy to be Antisemitic. The only way to combat Antisemitism is reverse boycott by stopping Jewish investment in companies, organizations, universities and so on. Advertising campaigns, "Hasbara" and international news channels, which Israel does not have, will do nothing as people will just look elsewhere or change the channel. Many of these boycotters, like Roger Waters and Elvis Costello have not been shy in the past in accepting Jewish money and Israeli money from visits to Israel so they are just a bunch of money grabbing Antisemitic hypocrites! The Israeli Government must also play its part. A good example of this is Turkey. We all saw the Antisemitic demonstrations in Turkey. Turkey closed its airspace to Israeli aircraft but Turkish Airlines Onur Air still are allowed to fly to Israel. We still import cosmetics,and electrical goods from Turkey are Israelis, disgracefully, are flocking back to Antalya! OK, we export a lot to Turkey too but they need out technology more then we need their washing machines! You fight fire with fire and boycotts must be a two edged sword, but at we all know apathy rules and thus Antisemitism will again drive Jews out but this time, hopefully, they will have the sense to come to the only country where a Jews can be safe from persecution, Israel!

Well then, you read wrong. What about the slaughter of the Fogel family in Itamar, the many maimed and injured by rock-throwing Palestinians. Get real. The |Palis only target civilians, rocks can kill, you don't need knives of guns.

1. Of course Israel is an apartheid state. Arabs are not allowed to work in Israel, or use Israeli buses, or give birth in Israeli hospitals. 2. Arabs can't go to Israeli universities. 3. Arabs can't go to israeli parks. 4. Arabs can't work in Israeli companies. 5. That great man, yasser arafat, tried to make peace all the time. he recognised israel's right to exist and wanted his people in Gaza to stop being primitive and go forward economically. 6. The rockets being fired from Gaza for years, are all set up by the Israeli government so the world will see how bad the Arabs are. 7. Much of so called "Israeli technology" has in fact been stolen from the professors from Gaza. 8. The Israelis orchestrated 9/11 9. Israel has caused all the problems in syria. 10. before Israel existed, there were never any arab conflicts.

australila was developed by criminals deported from Britain. they took the land from its true owners, the Aborigines, killing many and treating the rest as second-class citizens. so I don't believe you have any right to criticise, since Jews are, hisstorically, the true owners of this land. The term palestinian was coined by the Romans as an insult to the Jews, stemming from the root of the word Philistine (plishtim in Hebrew) meaning barbarian. In fact, no true Arab resident of Israel would refer to himself as a Palestinian. It was Arafat who coined the term in 1964 when he set up the PLO. And let's not forget, (Trans-)Jordan was carved out of eastern Palestine by the British, as a homeland for the Palestinian Arabs. so indeed they do have a homeland, but surprisingly, the King doesn't want them.

Like all my proxies,we bought homes In Israel ,we sent our children to Israel,we travel many times a year to Israel and buy as many as possible devices made in Israel ,and speak well about Israel all around with the Gentiles ,and boycott all the boycotters ( don t forget among them Dustin Hoffman)

The Abba and Ima of the boycotters and supporters of BDS and encourage the world to hate Israel are Primarily Uri AVnery and his entire Gush Shalom Staff and Dorothy Naor who is also belongs to the organization the New Israel Fund now if Israel casts them as anti semites and traitors that would be a good thing

Just ignore the has-beens and the never-were (or will be). Welcome to Israel!

you should at least be grateful to Ynet that they allow every racist polak to freely express their ignorance and stupidity for everyone else to enjoy.

but the National Socialist Workers Party wannabe from Minnesota always stays the same...*YAWN*

Your sarcastic post sucks. If you want to support Israel, do so in a way that anti-semites will not agree to your weird post! Thank you-not.

That people are so naive and/or ignorant that they may actually believe that post was genuine? This is the result of your unchecked arrogance. The writer of that post was obviously being sarcastic as anyone could tell from the very first words. That some might find it a bit funny makes it all the better. Your post highlights the fact that you're a scared little rodent who is so paranoid about defending Israel (on a board where the overwhelming majority of posters are fanatically pro-Israel) that you've completely lost the plot. Here's an idea: why don't you stop being such a coward and go post on boards where 95% of the posters don't agree with you? You may actually learn something then.

I don't know if you are simply ignorant or are just lying. The fact of the matter is that the British created the Kingdom of Jordan for the benefit of the Hashemites in return for their support in the struggle against the Ottoman Empire. The Hashemites originate from the Hedjaz, present day northern Saudi Arabia. Also to see you claim that Arafat coined term Palestinian in 1964 confirms that you are simply quoting Zionist propaganda tracts. If you would have known a bit of history you could have known that back in 1912, 5 years before the Balfour Declaration, the editors of two newspapers, published in Jaffa, Falastin and al-Karmil, addressed their readers as Palestinians and exhorted them to unite against political Zionism on the grounds of local patriotism. Read "The Arabs and Zionism before Worl War I", by Neville Mandel for instance.

#65, David, on all counts one to ten, you are wrong. please get your facts right before you spout off. Actually, I would be interested to know just how you came to these conclusions, please enlighten me.

Are the recorded performances and writings of those who submit to BDS blackmail being sold in Israel? If so they should not be prohibited. However, taxes could be lifted on the performers and intellectuals who do come to Israel.

...as we must show that the Occupation with all its injustices is anti-Jewish and anti-rule of law. We can stand the light of day. Your racist policies need to hide in the darkness of half-truths and propaganda.

The myth that Australia was only a penal colony at he start is just that a myth. Yes there were a large number of convicts in the first fleet but there were large number of free settlers. Note the word free settlers. Australia or as it was then known New South Wales was being set up to counter French expansion amongst other things. The free settlers were to run the place & the convicts to supply labour. Yes the natives were treated badly in many cases but in some cases they were treated well. By the way the first inter-racial killing in Australia occurred when two unarmed white convicts were killed by armed Aboriginals. However I do largely agree with the rest of your opinion. But I presume you would like to apologise for slandering every Australian without justification or are you an imitation of the BDSers in that you made false statements

Poor old Roger Waters he was once famous & people (mainly impressionable teenagers) obeyed his every whim & fancy. Well all that ended about 20 years ago. Poor Roger doesn't understand that "every thing has a season under heaven" (recognise the phrase) & his has come & gone. But poor old Roger wants to attention again memories are not enough. Sadly poor old Roger is prepared happily to bathe in Jewish blood to again become the centre of attention. Poor old Roger is simply an evil malignant create full of his own delusional self importance & hatred for Jews.

Are anti-jews; which are worth a shekel a hundred. My response is to simply buy and enjoy some more Israeli wine. Cheers, Alice.

I applaud Mr. Roger Waters and Ms. Alice Walker for their courage and for speaking out against the Zionist propaganda machine and standing up for the legitimate rights of Palestinian people. If you do not like to be cold criminals then stop acting like one and leave the Palestinian people in peace.

The "settlements" have brought prosperity to their Arab neighbours, only interfered with by the return of Arafat and his kleptocrats and armed goons. Abbas has done nothing but enrich himself, his family and friends with donor "aid". Israel brought to the once tiny Arab villages in Judea and Samaria: piped drinking water, electricity, telephone connections, modern sewage disposal in places where they cooperated with Israeli engineers, and its so blatant that the Arab population now has large numbers of modern cars and agricultural equipment, before they drove decrepit old cars,and before the Jews came to those areas the primitive Arab villagers were cultivating small plots with ancient ploughs, herding sheep and goats, shlepping water daily they had to buy at a primitive pumping station when winter rainwater ran out, no phones, electricity for the better off with a oil fired unit, and garbage surrounding all villages. Arabs as far away as Jordan Valley are now using modern Israeli-developed agricultural systems, greatly increasing yields. And by the way, the PA owes Israel Electric Co. a huge sum of money in unpaid bills which they seem to have no intention of ever paying.

Talk about a bonafide nutjob loser. He spends half an hour writing such rubbish which adds no value, even to his own anti-Jew cause. Cannot imagine what he does with the rest of his free time being a loser.

The writer of this article writes about the fact a Jeweish organisation stepped out of a conference because someone compared Israel with the Nazi's, but has no problem doing the same thing by comparing Alice Walker with them. (When he writes about her wish not to be published in Hebrew). But when we REALLY compare an unarmed writer like Alice Walker (who happens to be famous for her struggle against racism) with any IDF soldier in the occupied territory's, do you really believe the writer looks more like the Nazi's than the men in arms? Please give the Palestinians the rights any human has (which are the same Israeli jews already have). Because if that were the case, there wouldn't be a BDS.

A european person in Australia discoursing about who has indigenous rights to a country? That's a pretty good chutzpah!

You're preaching to the choir. You are making the same points that I have repeated endlessly. The Jews and supporters of the State of Israel already know these facts. The anti-Semites and haters of the State of Israel don't care about the truth. I reiterate what I have always said -- it is time to annex Judea and Samaria and repatriate its Arab population to Jordan, country of their citizenship. We have done everything humanly possible for the ersatz "Palestinians" in Judea and Samaria, and they have expressed their gratitude by engaging in violence and terror. Sick, rabid dogs. They'll never fit into Israeli society, and there is no point in trying. It's time for Israel to wash our hands of that misbegotten terrorist rabble -- let them make their way in Jordan. We've wasted entire too many resources -- and cash -- on them already; money better spent on Israelis.

Walker, has just written in her new book that Israel should not be a Jewish state

David said all that ironically, you just did't get it

If Israel ought to be only Jewish State, how about all those Jews who live in other countries,and enjoy all the privileges of being citizens of those countries?how come they want all the privileges over other people and religions? Is this part of that so claimed Choosiness? people don't find that very acceptable nor comforting. I don't understand why some Jews find that acceptable and wish to force it on others! Israel is criticized because of the crimes it commits and not because of the religion it believes in, unless one is mandating the other to be?!

All the citizens of Israel, Jews and non Jews enjoy all the rights that the state has to offer. That is, equal rights.