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Kerry promises Palestinians an IDF-free state
Roei Eisenberg
Published: 24.01.14, 20:53
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31. #1 - BG airport is ALREADY well within the range
spyguy ,   seattle usa   (01.25.14)
of missiles from a wide variety of places OUTSIDE the west bank.
32. No Plan can Survive
Mark of Lewiston ,   USA   (01.25.14)
No plan can survive if it is based on false expectations and false promises. No plan can survive that does not result in peace FOR Palestinians as well as Israelis. No plan can survive that is not seen and felt as legitimate to the average Palestinian on the street. No plan can survive that guarantees Israeli rule and preference on every subject forever. No plan can survive that stacks the deck against Palestinians and stifles them economically forever. To survive a plan has to appear to be fair and equitable to both sides and be objectively fair and equitable to both sides.
33. 2 Devorah: Considering post #21, I understand your post a
Rivkah   (01.25.14)
few days ago about Lydia from Brisbane living in a dog house. Lurch is a great title for Kerry, too.
34. I have my doubts about it....
Toledano Jean-Pierre ,   Israel   (01.25.14)
It will never be sure that a Palestine state will remain or really become a terrorist free entity. I have my doubts about it. Israel has some rather good (sometimes diplomatic) relations with some Arab-Islamic states. But what then, when their regimes are replaced by radical Islamists? We had the change in Egypt: a Muslim Brother government was installed. They maintained the diplomatic relationship but the tone of the speeches or quotes of some of their leaders about Israel and Jewry were anti-Israel and anti-semitic and were not promising for the future relationship between the 2 countries. Jordan is a - let us say - good example, but there is an Islamic-Palestinian time bomb ticking under Hassan's throne. Again, I'm pessimistic and I have my doubts about Kerry's plan even he would say - he didn't - that Israel has always the right to take back the land, they were given away to implement a peace treaty, if Hamas or other terrorist groups take over the government there.
35. #2 Devorah
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (01.25.14)
Looks like you'll have to dust off that passport and return from whence you came or to pastures new like the vast majority of Israelis evicted from Gaza. Who soon cleared off when the largesse of the Israeli State dried up and the money ran out and they realised they would have to work for a living. Like the vast majority of Israelis within the greenline do. The days when 500,000 settlers could keep 6 million Israelis hostage is coming to an end, and Israel will be a much better place because of this
36. More words from a lunatic (end)
DT ,   TA Israel   (01.25.14)
37. #32 Only plan Pals accept is no Jews from River to the Sea
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38. #21 Lydia
Madeleine ,   Israel   (01.25.14)
No UN resolution uses the words 'occupation' or illegal, but rather 'disputed territories'. It's the Palis and idiots like y ourself who propogate the lies that it's illegal. There was a time, after the Yom Kippur war,when Golda Meir invited the Syrians and Jordanians to sit and talk, with a view to discussing the 'disputed territories'. No Araab state would talk to us then, so tough, the land remained under Israeli rule and will continue to do so. Your time is past - came and went - and you lost an opportunity that h opefully will never be repeated.Anyway,why are you down under there in Aussie land? don't you want to come and support your brothers in Ramallah of Hamastan?
39. USA understands this is never
Zechariah   (01.25.14)
It's like saying that it will never happen clearly the Two Nations .TheTwo Religions have become Toxic Rivals .Only Fear allows a Truce Huge Fear.The Just interim Partitions of 1937 Which Would Saved Millions of Jews and led to a Judeo Islamic superpower Are Avenging their Rejection.
40. In your dreams Lurch...
Moshe ,   USA   (01.25.14)
the answer should be "In your dreams" you gutless, egotistical flop.
41. Dear John
Arturo   (01.25.14)
Dear John, the arab have never honered even one of their committments. Just becuase Barry's in office doesn't mean that they've changed their stripes.
42. More Davos talk for Jew-free.
David ,   uk   (01.25.14)
43. #30
Isac   (01.25.14)
Israelis have about 2 Mio. Arab Israelis living in Israel. They would never consider to leave for Fakistan. So why don't you just get a brain surgeon to have some repetitive polar disorder and paranoia fixed in your head. Your Pal s@#$ is getting boring.
44.  WITH FRIENDS LIKE KERRY
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (01.25.14)
Israel does not need enemies .Kerrys' mad and idiotic and unreasonable ideas and demands should be ignored .
45. That land......
(01.25.14)
Called Judea and Samaria is for Israel and Kerry definately talking to themselves.
46. IMAGINE.......
tiki ,   belgium   (01.25.14)
Imagine, Mr. Kerry is 'quoting the song of John Lennon as a policy to reassure Israel. How dumb is that? Kerry reassures the Israeli's of the benefits of peace. What would Israel have done without this observation from Mr. Kerry? Kerry 'hopes that 20 Arab states 'might perhaps be willing to stop their boycotts & change their policies against Israel, which by the way has never done anything to them beside existing. Well, hopes & maybe's are not a very strong argument and neither is the 'success track record of Mr. Kerry!
47. "Israel is assured new state is not launchpad for terror"
A ,   Belgium   (01.25.14)
And who is going to guarantee that improbable condition, Kerry, or Oblabla, or the United Nothings, or Extermely Ugly Ashton or the terrorist chief Abbas and his gang of murderers, or maybe Haniyeh and HIS gang of murderers? Kerry obviously hasn't yet learned that lying is an integral part of the arab mentality, and he would be smart to be more than a little bit suspicious when an arab places his hand on his heart and says with all the false sincerety he can muster, "B'chayat ayooni, I promise"
48. Can he make such a promise?
Erez   (01.25.14)
If so Israel is a vassal state devoid of sovereignty.
49. #29. Israel is strong. Palestine is fictional.
Chaim ,   Israel   (01.25.14)
#29. Israel is small but mighty. Palestine is fictional, like Oz or Narnia. The idea of fictional "Palestinians" assuring Israel's security is laughable.
50. 35 Sarah B.: You will get your wish since Daniel in
Rivkah   (01.25.14)
Scriptures saw it happen long ago in a vision. The Jewish settlers on the West Bank will be slaughtered when the IDF is withdrawn, three and a half years after Jerusalem is divided. What a horrible thing to wish for, but you are a horrible person. The Palestinians should relocate to the 50+ Arabic speaking nations. That is the only resolution that will delay or avert Armageddon. It is nations calling HaShem a liar and refusing to give to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob what HaShem promised to them that is the problem. Gaza is an ancient Philistine (Palestinian) city that Zephaniah the Prophet said HaShem is going to destroy. So pulling the Jews out of Gaza to spare their lives makes sense. On the West Bank, territory that HaShem gave to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, it is the Palestinians who must be relocated to Arabic speaking nations since that is land HaShem gave not to the Philistines (Palestinians) but to the Jews and other descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
51. Kerry the obsessive and naive lunatic
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (01.25.14)
There is no "occupation" - Israel has been our homeland for the past 4000 years and no "Palestinian" people or nation or state has ever existed in recorded history. Just ask the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Edomites, Moabites, Canaanites, Philisteenes, Phoenicians, Hittites, Persians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs and check their historical records. Israel has historical rights but also legal rights to all of Israel based on the legally binding treaties called the San Remo treaty and the Anglo-American treaty. An Arab presence in Judea and Samaria and an "IDF-free" Judea and Samaria means suicide to the Jewish state since no country can exist and defend itself with such indefensible borders. Kerry is in no position to "promise" the "Palestinians" anything. Israel controls the land - not Kerry. If Israel could resist American pressure in the 1990s when the power ratio favored USA even more, I'm sure today's Israel which has a considerably more robust economy, can easier resist Washington's pressure. And this conflict is not about land or exchange of land - it's about Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state within any border on any land on this planet. Clearly Arabs have 22 Arab states 1.5 times larger than USA. Israel is equivalent in size to half of Denmark. Clearly this is not about land. Kerry can babble all day long about a "Palestinian" state in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, but the Arabs do not recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state EVEN if Israel sacrifices every square inch of Judea and Samaria. End this madness. Tell Kerry to shut up - Israel is an independent and sovereign state and expel the Arabs from Judea, Samaria and Gaza and annex the territories. But doing that will provoke reactions from much of the World? Undoubtedly it will, but status quo or agreeing to the Arab demands will result in Israel's demise so the "World's" "anger" is preferable to our country's demise. Israel will live and prosper forever and we will stay in all of Israel forever.
52. Kerry you should seek psychological help
John Walker ,   USA   (01.25.14)
Kerry - seek a shrink, have your head examined, shut up and leave Israel alone. Neither Kerry nor Obama speak for the American people. We support Israel all the way.
53. Kerry-Obama the hangmen
Philippe ,   Raanana   (01.25.14)
Kerry-Obama wants israel to climb the gallows stairs with a smiling face.Be assured the minute Israel surrender the Samarian central mountains range, PLO_hamas will install their shooting range on Ben Gurion airport, Tel Aviv Hadera power station, ramat david airbase, haifa etc..So Mr Kerry keep your baloney for some more primitive and gullible public, we know quite well your grandiose aspiration , your malicious vocabulary ( occupation ) your adoption of the step-by-step arab plan for the destruction of Israel.Yaalon told the truth : Get out, leave us alone will manage too.Anyway we know you won't budge and the minute those pseudo-peace talks will stop you will ask your european union goons to start a full boycott of Israel .Mr Kerry Mr Obama we also know your grandiose plan to reward Iran with a nuclear license, the very fact you are hiding the content of this Geneva agreement is another hint of your duplicity towards Israel. We are no dupe and we'll manage too despite you and your vicious boss.
54. 38 The Palestinian were never mandated and NOTHING
lydia ,   Brisbane   (01.26.14)
outside Israels sovereign borders enshrined in UN181 belongs to Israel. Not then, not now and not in the future. without the 'recognition' of the stake holders. You have been trying to convince the world that your migrant horde and the brothers in Ramallah and Hamastan have the same DNA
55. 10 The Only POTUS worthy enough
lydia ,   Brisbane   (01.28.14)
Are the ones Israel has leverage on with the Mossad honeypots ie Clinton (Lewinsky) and Bush (Gannon). Obama is trying to put relevance back into the UN an Org. that Israel and previous Presidents have circumvented to protect Israel with ONE US veto
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