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Abbas: Nation has a right to celebrate
Ali Waked
Published: 12.09.05, 21:24
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1. You have the right to a parking lot
(09.12.05)
2. the cossacks also had the right to celebrate in the stetals
benjamin ,   london   (09.12.05)
3. BEFORE 1948, JEWS WERE THE ONES WHO WERE PALESTINIANS
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (09.12.05)
There NEVER was an Arab country of Palestine. Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED OVER 800 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, not once in the Koran. Arabs FIRST took the name “Palestinians” in 1967. Arafat was the FIRST leader of this NEW PEOPLE. Before 1948, Jews were known as the Palestinians! The Jewish newspaper, the Jerusalem Post was called the Palestine Post. http://palestinepostings.blogspot.com/2005/06/historical-palestinians-very-simple.html After the Jews miraculously transformed desert and swamps into rich, agricultural land (for which Jews are world famous!) Arabs came in large numbers from Arab countries for jobs from the Jews. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Arabs resided only briefly in Palestine is attested to by the special UN decree: that any Arab who had resided in Palestine FOR ONLY TWO YEARS BEFORE 1948, and then left, would be considered a refugee and so would his descendants!!! On March 31, 1977, Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein: “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”
4. Selebrate as human been,not like animals.
Eddie Shor ,   Ariel Israel   (09.12.05)
5. #4-What do you expect of animals? They act as their nature.
(09.13.05)
6. What do you expect?
Jared ,   New York, USA   (09.13.05)
The synagogues being destroyed seem to be appalling large numbers of Israelis and supporters of Israel. Are these people really so blind as to ignore that these synagogues are nothing but symbols of an illegal and deadly occupation? The establishment of the state of Israel was dependent on stealing land from the Palestinians and after 1948, the land they stole was not enough. So as they continued to pursue "biblical Israel" because of a promise of God, they killed, they stole, and they destroyed the lives and existences of plenty of Palestinians. And in the end, they complain about a handful of buildings that they chose to leave behind intact. What would these people prefer? What do they expect? Would they prefer that the Palestinians cherish these abandoned synagogues as a symbol of the occupation that they enjoyed so much?
7. jared; All the land belongs to the Jews!
Daisy ,   USA   (09.13.05)
It's the Arabs who stole land and who are occupying Jewish land idiot! The "Palestinians" never existed as a people or nation. http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/palestine.htm
8. THERE NEVER WAS AN ARAB COUNTRY OF PALESTINE
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (09.13.05)
Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED OVER 800 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, not once in the Koran. Around 1948, Arabs violently ETHNICALLY CLEANSED about one million Jews from Arab countries. Arab governments seized the land, homes, bank accounts, businesses and assets of the Jews. Most of the Jewish refugees fled to Israel. THERE MUST NOW BE A JUST SETTLEMENT FOR THE JEWISH REFUGEES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS-COMPENSATION IN LAND AND FINANCES. In 1922, Britain illegally gave MOST OF PALESTINE-80% TO THE ARABS. The area became Jordan, giving the Arabs an Arab Palestinian state on JEWISH land. IT WAS ETHNICALLY CLEANSED OF JEWS. This area is part of ancient, Biblical Israel, and along with present-day Israel, including Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan was recognized by the League of Nations as the Jewish homeland. In 1948, Egypt invaded Gaza and ethnically cleansed ALL Jews. In 1948, Jordan invaded Judea-Samaria (West Bank) and east Jerusalem and ETHNICALLY CLEANSED ALL JEWS. Jordan, opposing G-D DESTROYED 58 synagogues in Jerusalem. In 1967 when Israel won Islam's religious war of aggression against it, Jews returned to the areas of their homeland they had been ethnically cleansed from for 19 years. Islamofascists DECEITFULLY call this return "occupation". Under international law, territories are considered "occupied" only when taken in an act of aggression which does not apply to Israel. Judea, Samaria and Gaza are not 'occupied territories' according to international law because they were not taken from any foreign sovereign. ALL of the Jewish land, homes, properties and businesses stolen from the Jews in the 1948 Islamic invasion must be returned to the Jews IMMEDIATELY.
9. And now the real Palestinians please stand up
Brusensky ,   East Bridgewater, MA   (09.13.05)
Roughly in 13 c. BCE the sea fearing people from what is now central and southern Greese invaded Cicilium, northern Egypt and coastline of Israel all the way from from Tir to Aza. The Hebrews, while posessing this lands for a very short time were pushed to the east towards what is now Galely, Shamron and Yehuda. It took several hundred years for the Hebrews (under Dovid ha-melekh) to deal with them. In Hebrew the name for these "greeks" was simply "invaders" or "plishtim". 1000 years later, the Romans, reminded the destroyed Jews the so much hated name and renamed Judea into Plishtim (Palestina in latin). Whtat do the present day children and grandchildren of Egyptian, Transjordanian, Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi Arabs who were economic migrants and chased the opportunities of economic prosperity provided by the Zionist miracle have to do with the real "Plishtim"? THEIR FATE!
10. #6 is a self-hating Jew
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