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Ex-Shin Bet head: Lack of peace bigger threat than Iran
Itay Blumenthal
Published: 04.12.13, 22:44
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31. Seriously:where do we find these first class idiots?!
tom ,   tel aviv   (12.05.13)
32. Ah, Diskin again...
Toledano Jean-Pierre ,   Israel   (12.05.13)
I understand the man, but to trust him? He's still not recovered not to be appointed as Mossad director (Memuneh). He's still depressed about it. Maybe the government was right to pass him as director, maybe to weak for the job.
33. Who is the rear and who is the shrapnel
Alon   (12.05.13)
Diskin is a complete ass so that question is answered. Self serving egoist and he always was
34. Mission Impossible
Zechariah   (12.05.13)
Hope for jobs and health ok but Hard to conceive agreement .in Judaea and Samaria seven and a half million Palestinians with Islamic jihad and Fatah Ba'ath Demilitirized.The Jews won't give up control of the Jordan Valley or parts of areaC .Israel needs security controlof airspace land space and Water,As nuclear proliferation or even threshold proliferates the Jews will be as nervous as hell and will prepare more and more for the Sampson Option.
35. Settlements are anti-Israel
Dave ,   Sao Paulo, Brazil   (12.05.13)
They are an existential threat to Israel being a Jewish and democratic state.
36. # 15 and # 21 are 100% correct
Mike ,   Tel Aviv   (12.05.13)
This guy knows his stuff. He has the "kabalot". He knows more about security issues than anybody writing on this forum. So I suggest you all just shut up and keep your ridiculous shortsighted opinions to yourselves. It's a good job you lot are not in charge of anything around here. If we don't listen to Diskin then Netanyahu/Liberman etc will lead us all to doom, whether it be thru more intifadas or Iranian missiles. There is NO alternative to peace but you have to work hard to achieve it. And releasing convicted prisoners in order to carry on building illegal settlements will not help at all. Also it's easy for Netanyahu to insult and deride Diskin but that is a pathetic juvenile reaction. To say that he is disconnected from reality is rich coming from Netanyahu, who lives a life of pampered luxury in his swimming pool in his villa, paid for by us taxpayers. Disgusting and obscene.
37. TO HAROLD # 19 - NETANYAHU AND HIS FATHER !
FO ,   Belgium   (12.05.13)
Netanyahu perhaps spent much time reading his father's books, but I'm afraid he missed one of his father's main achievements, namely being the co-author of Article 80 of the UN Charter, meant to fulfill all the League's decision till full implementation, that means included the League's decision (Mandate for Palestine) that gave the Jewish people the irrevocable right to settle between the Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights, in order to create their state. Am I mistaken, when saying that Netanyahu never uttered a word about Article 80 that binds all UN institutions?
38. #37 FO
(12.05.13)
You mean to tell me that Israel is complying with U.N resolutions?
39. RESPONSE TO # 38 !
FO ,   Belgium   (12.05.13)
I'm telling you and to everybody else, that the United Nations are violating their own decisions. A flagrant example is indeed Article 80 of the UN Charter. And I don't want to hear about the right of interpretation. A decision remains a decision!!! And if you, anonymous 38, you refer to Jews settling in the so called West Bank, than indeed they comply with Article 80, that reaffirms the League of Nations decision (voted unanimously by all its members) to grand the coming Jewish state the irrevocable right to settle between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights. This was no discrimination to the Arabs, because at the same time, the League of Nations voted two other mandates, for the creation of two other (Arab) independent states, namely Iraq and Syria-Lebanon.
40. #39 I understand why you don't want to
On the Balcony   (12.05.13)
hear about "the right of interpretation." It's because you want us to accept that you have a right of misinterpretation. Well, you don't. The civilian settlement of militarily acquired and occupied territories is a war crime under the Geneva Convention and recognized as such by the International Criminal Court.
41. TO # 40 - DON'T MAKE A MASQUERADE OF IT !
FO ,   Belgium   (12.06.13)
Interpretation of law is misinterpreting it. And this is exactly what you are doing with the Geneva Convention. This Convention was signed between "High Contracting Parties", that means between independent states! Not only wasn't the "West Bank" ever a High Contracting Party, (this territory NEVER was an independent state), but by International Law, a residual part of the Mandate for Palestine, intended to be part of the Jewish state, and reaffirmed, as all other League’s decisions, by Article 80 of the UN Charter. Trying to apply the Geneva Convention to Jews settling in the so called "West Bank" is a blasphemy against truth! Interpretation of laws or decisions, leads to misinterpretation, and this is exactly what YOU are doing.
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