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Report: Israel clears West Bank land for future settler homes
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Published: 03.12.13, 18:54
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1. From the ridiculous to the sublime!
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.03.13)
"The Palestinians have threatened to sue Israel through international courts should there be a failure in peace talks" Go right ahead! Of course, those that end up on the losing end of a war don't really have standing to bring suit, but they're welcome to try. Do you suppose any of the ersatz "Palestinians" have given any thought to what would happen when Israel annexes Judea and Samaria? That's well within Israel's rights, under all recognized precepts of international law -- and all recognized precedent. All sovereign states have an inalienable right to determine who may -- and who may not -- reside within its borders. Keep in mind that the ersatz "Palestinians" illegally squatting in Judea and Samaria are not stateless -- they are Jordanian citizens. Israel is going to send them home to Jordan. And there is not a damned thing that anyone can do to stop us. The message to the American administration on the eve of Kerry's visit to Jerusalem is quite clear and unequivocal. If any member of the U.S. administration is clever enough to recognize it, that is -- and I have my doubts.
2. Greater Israel is response to Obama doing bad deal with Iran
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.03.13)
3. Not the Necessity now
Zechariah   (12.03.13)
The necessity now is for deep underground shelters as nuclear threshold Proliferation signals a scenario of horror by 2050.Then build settlements .
4. IT'S OUR LAND.... Build baby BUILD!!!!!!!!!!!
Josh   (12.03.13)
The more the MERRIER The faster the BETTER
5. There is no 9 months deadline.. Israel will bomb Iran next
David ,   Tel Aviv   (12.03.13)
spring (if not sooner). And in the meantime it will build homes for Jews. The US has proven it is not interested in helping Israel. SO why should we follow Obama's orders?
6. This is just bad
Dave ,   Sao Paulo, Brazil   (12.03.13)
Israel disregards its closest allies and an historic opportunity to form a peace deal with the Palestinians...all for houses which could be built in Israel-proper...what a shame.
7. the world can no longer stomach these extremists.
alex ,   canada   (12.03.13)
zionism cannot last much longer. its ideology which encourages the discrimination of another group of people does not fit with the western moral standards.
8. Build, baby, build!
manicdrummer ,   Haifa, Israel   (12.03.13)
The Palestinians have violated truce after truce and now it's payback time! Keep building more settlements and don't listen to the Diaspora leaders OR the Palestinians!
9. Israel has got to expand
arne ,   chicago usa   (12.03.13)
It must make room for the future generations of both Arabs and Jews--Yes Arabs too.The greater land of Israel will benefit all who live there. The status quoe will only get stale,They must continue to grow to prosper.
10. To nr 6: it will give Israel defensible borders in our land
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (12.03.13)
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Israel proper - we have 4000 years of Jewish history in that land and international law - the legally binding San Remo treaty signed April 1920 and the Anglo-American treaty signed December 3rd 1924 in London UK clearly stipulated that the legally defined borders of the Jewish state in which Jews would have 100% exclusive national rights, would imply and entail Cis-Jordan, Trans-Jordan and southern Lebanon up until the bend of the Litani river. No "Palestinian" people or nation has ever existed in recorded human history nor does a single ancient civilization mention them - ever, in a single source, they are Arabs, Arabs are no natives, and the Arab-Israeli conflict is not about land - its about Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Either you are deliberately blind out of malign intent or you are truly blind to core of the conflict - Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state within any border. If its about land, don't you Think the Arabs would have accepted Israel's land for Peace offer the last 8 times, and don't you Think that 22 Arab states 1.5 times larger than United States is sufficient land for the Arabs?
11. 6
jonathan ,   aboriginaland   (12.04.13)
You really don't understand history.Read it for free on your computer if you don't believe posters. Post no 10 is excellent.
12. To: No. 7
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.04.13)
So Canada and the United States -- given the outrageous discrimination and willful massacres of native Amerinds -- are for the skids, eh? Morally bankrupt, what your country did to the Cree and the Mohawk and the Seneca and the Ontario and the Oneida and tens of dozens of other natives, wouldn't you agree? The same holds true for the United States. Zionism is nothing more than the nationalist movement of the Jewish people, to be restored to our native land. What's Canada's excuse for massacring millions of natives? A bunch of French and British colonists certainly were not "reclaiming" that which is theirs, now were they? So you might want to stay away from the subject of "western moral standards" -- Canada certainly doesn't have much to be proud of in that regard. Just ask the natives, why don't you?
13. #7 You have NO IDEA what you are talking about!
Ilan ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (12.04.13)
where do you get your information, from, anti-Israel posters during a protest? I'm a Zionist from Canada and we have no such Ideology as you describe. we have no plans for world domination. we don't have our children sign rockets. We may have not had control of the area since the start of modern time, but Israel in one form or another has existed there long before, just the name Judea and Samara should clue you in, but of course you choose to call it the west bank, because it is devoid of the word jew! Go find me a hebrew text book, an Israeli government website, that shows our so called ideology? unlike the Palestinans, who quite the opposite show cartoons to children grooming them to hate jews, kill jews, and die trying to kill jews! have school text books encouraging hate, paying families salerly for if a family member got arrested or died for killing jews! these are all fact i can show you, or you can even find online yourself if you ever bother to question your beliefs. And worst off, fire rockets at Israeli civilians from Gaza schools and hospitals, which children and people still in them, and force us to act in order to save our women and children. and of course Israel has to make the decision to risk collateral damage, otherwise what would happen do you think? they would keep firing rockets blindly, until they actually hit someone. and of course then they parade dead children in front of cameras for you to see, and you never question it. for you Israel just randomly kills Palestinians because we are evil. you never ask why Hamas launches rockets with school children still inside. you never question anything really do you? think about it? think about how you first started hating Israeli, who got you into it? what happened? did a Jew Hijack a plane and fly it into your home?
14. The deal is...
(12.04.13)
No brainer to take Israel to court over building because there will be more screaming for Israel to build and build faster and knock down that horrible wall between Bethlehem of Judea and Jerusalem to build airport. About time Palestinians seek help with their stubborn negative emotional attachment to something that doesn’t belong to them.
15. # 9 - need to expand
elke ,   USA   (12.04.13)
Right now, 80 percent of Israelis live on just 20 percent of the land within the Green Line -- plenty of room for expansion at home. Nice talk about expansion for Arab populations...except for this: Since 1948, 700 new Jewish communities have been created. Not a single one for Arab citizens.
16. #15. Judea and Samaria are part of Israel.
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.07.14)
Judea and Samaria have belonged to Jews for 4,000 years and always will. They are as much part of Israel as New York is part of America.
17. Now is time for UNLIMITED Judea/Samaria building.
Chaim ,   Israel   (03.07.14)
This tiny land is ours now and forever. No more games. No more B.S. Now is the time to claim our land. Now is the time for UNLIMITED Judea and Samaria building.
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