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IDF commander: Excavations missed terror tunnel by 500m
Hanan Greenberg
Published: 25.06.06, 19:45
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1. Hot Air Only Response
Marcel ,   Florida   (06.25.06)
Israel is restrained by Snake Bush and will do little but bloviate. The 3 stooges Olmert Halutz,Peretz and the Big pig Peres will easily placate the sheep of Israel headed to slaughter under their evil rule where terrorists are rewarded and settlers criminalized and punished. May the God of Israel shake the ground under the feet of Olmert and his gang of betrayers.
2. Israel poloticians are full of Hot Air
samuel ,   U.S.A.   (06.25.06)
They talk tuff but are more scared of the world opinion than cleaning house with the terror organizations. I hope together with most balanced Jews.That israel takes A real stand so that this does not happen ever again.
3. Why not use guard dogs at each outpost?
jason white ,   afula,israel   (06.25.06)
A dog could have alerted them.I remember that we always had two thirds of the soldiers facing the enemy and one third facing the rear or patrolling.
4. Tit For Tat
freeman ,   usa   (06.26.06)
Israel is an occupier and aggressor in Palestinian areaS. Israel must abandon its terrorism to stop such consequences.
5. Why the demand for 'contiguity' between Gaza & W.Bank?
MED ,   USA   (06.26.06)
These Palestinian terror-rodents can have their 'contiguity' through underground tunnels. Forget about passing overland through Israeli territory!
6. 4 freeman; get yourself educated about facts
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (06.26.06)
A) Occupation only applies under International Law - vis-a-vis the territory of another SOVEREIGN STATE.... You can legally only occupy another State that was under different Sovereignty at the time of occupation - which does not apply to the PA Territories since they were not part of any Sovereign State .... Jordan and Egypt never had annexed any territories to become the sovereign of same, when Israel regained it's territories in a self-defense war. Therefore Legally Judea and Samaria (ancient historical Jewish land) are unassigned territories of the British Mandate for Palestine not "occupied territories." B) Israeli presence in Yesha does not constitute "occupation," and moreover, that the U.N. Partition Resolution of 1947 is a "recommendation" and not obligatory. "Up until 1948, Judea, Samaria and Gaza were a part of the British Mandate. In the 1948 War of Independence, Egypt illegally grabbed the Gaza Strip, and Jordan took Judea and Samaria, the 'West Bank.' Egypt did not claim sovereignty in Gaza, but Jordan deigned, in 1950, to annex Judea and Samaria. This annexation was not recognized by international law. The Arab nations objected to it, In 1967, after the Six Day War, these territories - which were originally meant for the Jewish Nation's National Home according to the Mandate Charter - returned to Israeli control." in 1988, King Hussein of Jordan rescinded its legal and administrative ties to Judea and Samaria. "According to international law," "Israel has full right to try to populate the entire Land of Israel with dense Jewish settlement, and thus actualize the principles set by the League of Nations in the original Mandate Charter of San Remo in 1920. At that time, the mandate to the Land of Israel was granted to the British, and the introduction to the mandate charter states clearly that it is based on the international recognition of the historic ties between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel. Clause II of that mandate charges Britain with 'ensuring the existence of political, administrative, and economic conditions that will guarantee the establishment of the Jewish national home in the Land of Israel.'" "Even the White Paper of 1922," emphasized the Jewish Nation's rights to the national home in the Land of Israel - while at the same time tearing away almost 80% of the mandate's area on the eastern side of the Jordan and giving it to Emir Abdullah." There is nothing in international law that requires a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean - not even the UN Partition Resolution of Nov. 29, 1947. The fact that the Arab states did not accept the Partition Plan, voids the recommendation of any legal basis. Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for negotiations and a "withdrawal from territories" (not "withdrawal from THE territories") captured in 1967, are similarly "recommendations." These resolutions were drawn up under the UN Charter's Clause VI, which deals with non-mandatory recommendations - as opposed to Clause VII resolutions, "which are mandatory, and which deal with a threat to world peace, such as those taken against Iraq." If by chance you don't understand Intl. Law - you should take a lawyer and file for arbitration and explanations with the T.M.C. Asser Institute on Intl. Law in the Hague. http://www.asser.nl/index.htm Good Luck ALSO: Israel White Paper – Israel's Legal Rights to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza http://www.israelwhitepaper.org/
7. #6 Gabrielle
Tony ,   USA   (06.27.06)
Sure buddy, we'll believe you and not the countless UN resolutions which have called the occupation illegal. Oh brother.
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