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We need America's help
A. B. Yehoshua
Published: 25.01.08, 00:43
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1. coerce those who won't listen
AT ,   Boston, USA   (01.25.08)
Why is the left so willing to resort to coercion when they cannot get their way through persuasion?
2. Do you worry about some outpost?..look at it
Not good to be raped ,   by 500.000 hamastani   (01.25.08)
Hamas threatens 500.000 mass march to smash through Israel’s Erez crossing for “return to Ashkelon”
3. Oh yes, like a loving strong father
stephen ,   ludlow usa   (01.25.08)
Bush wants you all in the U.N. mandated pen, of 1946. Better look to the God of father Abraham. Read Daniel chapter 11.
4. More help ???????????????????
(01.25.08)
Poor American tax payers.
5. LET'S GO NOW !!! DO THE RIGHT THING !
RCA ,   USA   (01.25.08)
Get rid of those outposts, once and for all. You have already agreed to it. THE WORLD IS WATCHING ! LET'S SEE SOME ACTION! It's a done deal. Why create more problems for yourselves in the eye of public opinion ? Do you want the world to think that 'the word' of Israel means nothing ? Take it like the great nation that we know you to be ! The world is waiting on YOU.
6. More worship of Baal-RoadMap...
Joe ,   Los Angeles, CA   (01.25.08)
Only a few West Bank settlements are illegal under Israeli law. Most of them are legal via international law, seeing as Israel has the strongest de jure claim of sovreignty over the West Bank in comparison to Israel's neighbors, the PA included. To all who disagree, the PA is not a country yet. The West Bank, and Gaza too, are terra nullus, unclaimed by any other sovereign nation. As regards settlements and peace with the Palestinians, isn't the main reason we went through Intifada II, still suffer daily rockets on Sderot and are in an undeclared war with Hamas in Gaza the result of the Oslo Accords and handing partial sovreignty over to the Palestinians? Yehoshua is fundamentally flawed in his analysis because he turns a blind eye to history while bowing in servitude to Baal-RoadMap. Settlements in Eretz Yisrael are not just an answer to the terror problem, they are also binding Halacha. Kol haKavod to those brave individuals who face leftist scorn and international condemnation in our struggle to be "Am Chofshi beArtzeinu"!
7. land for peace
yehu ben zohar ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (01.25.08)
This author is considered one of the great minds of Israel? Not by me, or anyone with a lick of sense. land for peace never got us peace,. just more dead Jews. So he thinks the US should come in here and drag our people from their homes, its not enough that the IDF is forced to do that, AB wants American troops to do the dirty work. Other than injuring hundred or thousands of Jews, what benefit will it bring us? A pat on the back from Ms Rice? An "atta boy" from GW? Will the UN stop its new anti semetic pogrom to applaud briefly before the next round of international rebukes of Israel. If this man is a "great mind" then no wonder we are in such dire straits, maybe he will volunteer to lead the Jewish people into the Mediteranean from the safety of a boat, while the rest of the Jews are drowning to the applause of the Arabs and Condelezza. Tell me AB, were you in Annapolis? If you were did you use the "service entrance" the Jews were forced to use? We were not good enough to use the same door as the Arabs. Your Dhimmi status is assured, and they may just kill you last, as a favor for all your hard work. Go live in Saudi Arabia, oh wait, no Jews allowed, I forgot. You're not good enough for them to spit on you, yet you bow and scrape to get their approval. You are a pathetic appeaser and traitor to your own people. You will have to answer to HaShem, and there will be no lying or excuses allowed, your judgement will be well deserved.
8. A.B. wouldn't be on my invite list
Steven ,   San Francisco   (01.25.08)
A.B. should be changed to B.S.
9. Yehoshua is the same name as our saviour Jesus
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (01.25.08)
And as Jesus, AB is absolutely right. Israel need to be humiliated for what they did. My church voted in favor of boycotting Israel and I am happy Yehoshua is right and I support him wholeheartedly.
10. Mentality of a rapist
Ilan ,   Ariel   (01.25.08)
Hasharetz editor Landau and A.B. Yehoshua are demanding that US rape Israel into submission. Landau said so explicitly and the "renown" author continues. We have an Arab fifth column and a leftists sixth column.
11. Juden-rein Tel Aviv too?
Zoli ,   Hungary   (01.25.08)
Your basic idea is that Jews are not allowed to live in certain areas while Arabs can live on both sides of the 67 line is racist to the core.
12. Simple solution: let US ban its citizens entering West Ba
Chanalau, Tova ,   London, UK   (01.25.08)
As almost all the troublemaking settlers appear to speak with an American accent, an extremely simple solution is available to the US on the lines of the restrictions it imposes on its citizens in Cuba and elsewhere. Then the settlers would have to chose between their US and Israeli citizenship and we know which one they will chose.
13. post #11 is right!!
Matis ,   boca raton, FL   (01.25.08)
Bush is pressuring Israel to give in to a double standard. There are Arab MKs who oppose Israel, so why not Jews in Judea?
14. do you mean illegal arab outposts? lol of course not
jack bauer   (01.25.08)
All jewish land is Israel, and non are illegal the USA should transfer its embassy to Jerusalem like they said they would that is before they started to push a terror state on Israel just say no to juden rein
15. Stupid
Sidney ,   USA   (01.25.08)
Yehoshua has a great plan, the USA makes a demand and Israel yields. With this precedent, what happens when the USA demands that Israel go back to 1967 borders or even back to the original UN 1947 partition plan? Unless Israel is a sovereign country it is a doomed country. The issue is not whether the illegal settlements should be removed but whether it is an Israeli decision or an American decision. Does Y think that the USA cannot elect a president openly hostile to Israel? If the minor candidate Kucinich had been a major candidate, it might have happened in the forthcoming election.
16. "illegal" outposts are a problem for whom? NO ONE!
dante ,   uk   (01.25.08)
the arabs want peace, right? of course, not. they want surrender. and, they seize upon any issue to weaken Israel. it happens that some Israeli fools join the arab chorus. Yehoshua is one of those fools. if all the "illegal" outposts were abandoned, the situation would not change at all.
17. #12 is right, actually
Sabiel Chapnick ,   New York, NY   (01.25.08)
Excellent, excellent idea
18. Coerce Jews to Give More Ground to Killers
Patrick ,   Boston, U.S.A.   (01.25.08)
Yeah, that's exactly what America should do—stab the only friend we have in that entire area in the back. I mean, it's not like Israel hasn't already given enough blood and land in exchange for hatred and murder. Right?
19. Total Hutzpah
Rachel ,   Negev   (01.25.08)
A.B Yehoshua, you and your leftist friends (like the editor of Ha'aretz) have done enough damage to the State of Israel. Everything you claimed would bring peace is a farce. You don't understand the realities of the region that you live in. And believe me, your fame as an author, your extreme leftist views and your home in Tel Aviv won't save you from the terrorisism you promote and encourage. The outposts and the children manning them understand that far better than you ever will.
20. ABY - Hell is not bad enough for you
Sid Emess   (01.25.08)
ABY wants to create Hell in Eretz Yisrael. Why can't the OLD FOOL just be taken to the nearest mental home
21. Mature child should grow away from loving father
Ussishkin ,   Tel Aviv Israel   (01.25.08)
If Israel is a mature child - and its a very big if - it's government should see that its priority is to its self-respect and honour to somehow wrest from its recent shattered past some vestige of morality and dignity - indeed the very precepts of our country's founding ideology, itself a reflection of the Mitzvot. And in so doing we would stop bull......ng ourselves and everyone else and end the occupation. We would be showing the Ameriucan loving parent how grown up we are.The joke is that the vast majority of us and of the settlers know that the occupation is not endurable. Is it really our mistrust of our entire political class that makes us all yawn when Olmert says the illegal hilltop outposts should go, or are we so bored with the inevitability of it we take that for granted and can't be bothered to go out into the streets and demand it? That sort of complacency is what Bibi feeds off. Can you imagine another period under his auspices? It'd be worth switrching out the light and throwing away the key for the duration.
22. He needs a brain scan
Chaya ,   Bat Yam, Israel   (01.25.08)
He and David Landau and Avraham Burg are functioning without total brain function!!
23. Grovelling Jews
Niko ,   Albania   (01.25.08)
So Israel is the baby whore of the big pimp(USA) & must grovell on her knees to daddy pimp.How sick.Jews should unite as one, annex all Jewish lands, expell the Arab barbarians, & to hell with world opinion.Arabs only understand one thing-strength & any kindness shown to them is considered a weakness.
24. If Jews behaved like Arabs...
Chaim ,   Canada   (01.25.08)
Leftists like Yehoshua would not be alive. All leftist would have been shot for being 'collaborators'.
25. It's the article that should be withdrawn from YNet, stupid!
Jack ,   San Diego, USA   (01.25.08)
26. Israeli Democracy -Listen Closely
Jason, Ph.D. ,   USA   (01.25.08)
First of all, I think the author is crazy to try to get the U.S. to get involved in this internal Israeli issue. Having said that, it is very important that Israelis respect the rule of law. No democracy can function without this principle. The illegal settlements should be removed because the Israeli government lawfully passed this law. If you do not like this, then try to change it by lawful means; do not take the law into your own hands. To do so, is to undermine Israeli democracy and Jewish values. Period. People who think it is ok to take the law into their own hands remind me of the zealots who fought each other over how to defend Jerusalem from the Romans in 70 CE.
27. Fools like A. B. Yehoshua are destroying our country
Freejay ,   Israel   (01.25.08)
I dont see this leftie fool complaining about the thousands of illegal Arab houses built on Israeli land! What a hypocrite............they have been destroying Israel for the last 30 years and uys Israeli citizens are sick of the lefts appeasing suicidal policies. Elections now!
28. Leftist Crap article
Brod ,   USA   (01.25.08)
It is article like this that is detrimental to Israel's sovereignity and national security. Israel should be wary of these elements that function from within. Is he trying to help the ravenous wolves in crusading Jihadism on Israel?
29. a.b, still clueless!
oded   (01.25.08)
like the rest of the small, a.b is still disillusioned about what's important....get a life already!
30. Israel & America
Marilyn ,   USA   (01.25.08)
I don't see the US in the role of a father very much, I see it more like a friend trying to help out in like an severely unhappy marriage situation.
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