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UK deplores Israeli decision to allow new settler homes
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Published: 01.07.09, 00:02
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1. In what way are settlements illegal, F.S. Milibrand?
Steve   (07.01.09)
I'm at a loss Mr. Miliband.
2. Crooks....
k.h ,   stockholm   (07.01.09)
Who cares what the corrupt leaders of the UK thinks. People in the UK think that Brown ,Milliband are crooks. Actually, leaders in Europe are crooks. They will gang up on Israel ,hoping to score votes with muslims. I say to Israelis, keep building, keep having children...send the muslims to the sea.
3. This is untrue according to intl law.
Attorney ,   Miami   (07.01.09)
They need to check their facts... Here is the truth: http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=1717407&ct=7158483
4. ariel1270@hotmail.com
Arie ,   Argentina   (07.01.09)
Malvinas (Falklands), South Sandwich, South Georgias, Gibraltar, etc... What about them??? Who is talking? Brits have no shame...Colonialists and hypoccrites...
5. Advice from the land of Neville Chamberland and capitulation
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (07.01.09)
at any price. England was such a nice place, even with the cold and rain, before it became a lover or terrorism.
6. Its none of Miliband's business, and he is wrong
Steve   (07.01.09)
Firstly, when he says that settlements are illegal under international law, he's talking rubbish. Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria since biblical times. The only time in history when Jews have not been allowed to live there is when Jordan controlled the area for 1948-67. It was noted by Stephen Schwebel in the American Journal of International Law (April 1970) that a country acting in self-defense can seize and occupy land when necessary to protect itself. He also observed that a state may require security measures to protect itself as a condition of withdrawl. (source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf22a.html#a) It is impossible for Israel to be occupying Palestine, or establishing settlements in Palestine, because there is not and never has been a country named 'Palestine.' It should be noted that when Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria, the Jordanian Government made no effort to establish a Palestinian state there. Furthermore, it is anti-Semitic to declare the 'West Bank' a judenrein area, and ban all Jews from living there. Imagine the outcry if the British Govt. declared that all Jews living in London had to leave. It is not fair to say that Israel must allow Arabs to live there, but the Palestinians have the right to kick all Jews out of their proposed state. The settlements are only illegal in Miliband's mind, and his delusional speech was nothing but lies.
7. someone
(07.01.09)
should remind this cruel colonial once empire that they are not great britain any longer. they don't have amandate to stop jewish refugees excaping the holocaust death to palestine. they don't have the mandate to hang jewish ressistence that finally threw their asses off our jewish homeland and they have no call here to mandate to a sovreign nation how, what and where of anything. better deal with your own social and internal problem, england. you'll need all the help when your muslim population grows to 50% and more and swallows you and your, oh so democratic system of government whole. shariah is coming folks, to england first, then to france. at least sarkozy is fighting the islamists. england, as usual, has a love affair with them for oil and golf states trade. stop your hypocricy england and face the fact that no, you were not able to kill us all as much as you tried in ww2. also, where would you have been during the war if the usa didn't save your behind??
8. To Hell with the British Crap
Brod ,   USA   (07.01.09)
It is Israel's land since ancient time. Judea and Samaria are Israel's liberated historic homeland. It is time the British stop spewing their crap. Why are they so obsessed in helping the Islamist-Jihadists in crusading their Jihadism on Israel? Why are they so obsessed in intruding in Israel's internal affairs? Why aren't they crusading democracy on worst countries like Sudan, Burma, N. Korea, etc? The only explanation is that they are AntiSemites who are once again colluding with their Islamist-Jihadist Ally in inflicting a Final Solution on the Jews as they did during the Holocaust. Israel can tell these dark forces to go to Hell.
9. He needs to read his in-file more often
Ypip ,   Canada   (07.01.09)
10. Get a grip on yourself
Ypip ,   Canada   (07.01.09)
11. I referred to crows long ago
Ypip ,   Canada   (07.01.09)
Are you wanting inspiration?
12. lnathan@pathcom.com
Lawrence Nathanson ,   Canada   (07.01.09)
I would like Mr milbrand to explain how or why further settlements building is illegal. who decided that is the case
13. They are illegal under the 1949 Geneva Convention
Giora Me'ir ,   USA   (07.01.09)
This point has been established ad naseum.
14. Deplore
Giora Me'ir ,   USA   (07.01.09)
Deploring doesn't do anything. Israel must suffer actual, real world consequences as a result of its continual violation of international law.
15. UK Is A Failed Nation Under Sharia Law
Volubrjotr ,   St Paul USA   (07.01.09)
Tell U.K. To Sleep It Off, They don't matter anymore.
16. 'ere bloke. I gotcha illegal here in my fist.
Gideon Reader   (07.01.09)
Eckchewlee old skunk, it's the Old Lady's bit of Terra Sancta, doncha know, that is a bit on the shady side. What with all of the Muzzies and Pakis drifting in, it wont be possible for a REAL Englishman to live there after a while. And as for the Gays,well,...it's a good thing that there are still absolutely hundreds of straight men still residing in the UK. Hundreds I say. They just walk oddly.
17. to help understand this
Steven ,   San Francisco   (07.01.09)
I have found the Wikipedia article on "New Anti-Semitism" to be helpful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_antisemitism
18. Britain is illegal!
Alan Berg, MD ,   NY, USA   (07.01.09)
Jews have a right to live anywhere on their Land. Brits came to islands illegally. They must be deported & land given to it's Irish owners. Down with arrogant Brit criminals!
19. LIES - They are not illegal under any international law
JM ,   USA   (07.01.09)
20. U.K. GOVERNMENT - DEPLORABLE & ARROGANT !
ABRAHAM ben JACOB ,   CANADA   (07.01.09)
THE U.K. GOVERNMENT AND THE " SO-CALLED LEADERS" LIKE DAVID MINIBAND DISPLAY THE MOST ARROGANCE IMAGINABLE. IT IS AS IF THE BRITISH OFFICIALS WENT FOR SPECIAL TRAINING IN " ARROGANCE " COURSES. THE BRITS DO WHAT THEY WANT, THEY CAUSED EXTREME TROUBLES IN THEIR FORMER EMPIRES, COLONIES, AND MANY OF THESE PROBLEMS STILL EXIST TO THIS DAY. WE FIND MR. MINIMAN DEPLORABLE. THE BRIT. GOVT. IS DEPLORABLE AND IT DISPLAYS WHAT IS CALLED THE UTMOST CASE OF "CHUTZPAH"
21. An I object all new construction in Britain!
Nour (real) ,   Land of Israel   (07.01.09)
22. No they are not!
Aaron ,   LA, USA   (07.01.09)
Only the rogue settlements are illegal. Settlements type A, B, C, and D are legal. Ironic that the UK is telling another sovereign country where it can settle.
23. Britain must be charged with war crimes for the occupation
Yehud ,   Jerusalem   (07.01.09)
of Israel during the time of the "mandate". The Jewish, indigenous people did not grant permission to the invading British force, who provided arab groups with weapons for launching attacks on Jews. England must pay reparations for its war crimes against the Jewish people amongst countless nations held hostage by its imperialist ideals. Britain is no friend of Israel. It sometimes bewilders me why we grant them permission to keep an embassy here.
24. The BRITS ARE STILL-----
Ely greenhut ,   Tzfat Israel   (07.01.09)
Angry on Israel for stuff that happened to them in 1947. Israel forced them out & as a result Israel was born. They still can not accept that & the events on the ground. By the way. They do not have any right to meddle into Israel internal affairs. That goes for theUSA & Hussein Obama as well.
25. David Miliband & Co.
Ariel Ben Yochanan ,   Kfar Tapuah, Efraim,   (07.01.09)
B"H David Miliband is a major blockage to peace in the Middle East on the basis of a two-state solution, not Jews living in Judea and Samaria. His country, Britain, screwed up the partiton, giving 78% of Mandate Palestine to the Arabs. That's why Jordan IS "Palestine". And even if this were not so, who says that what they call "West Bank" has to be cleared out of Jews? Some neo-Nazi thug?..
26. British government is dead on its feet
Adam ,   UK   (07.01.09)
Most British people have lost all respect for the UK government, so Israel certainly shouldn't listen to Miliband. They're on their way out at the next election anyway.
27. UK - a voice of "Nobodies"
DT ,   TA Israel   (07.01.09)
You can ignore the UK's opinion (on anythng) as it is sinking quickly with no government at all. The MP's are too busy fiddling their expense claims , robbing the overburdened tax payer, increasing their debt and supporting radical Islam.
28. There is only one blockade to peace...
Avinoam ,   Tel Aviv   (07.01.09)
...the failure to recognise Israel's right to exist.
29. Israel deplores UK decision to allow Shari'a Law
Avinoam ,   Tel Aviv   (07.01.09)
30. "Illegal Settlements"
Bobo ,   Mechanicsburg Penna   (07.01.09)
Settlements, illegal? How so? Which settlements? Which ones? Please explain what credible international law defines the "settlements" as illegal? (Got ya with that credible part). Which law? What Section of that law? What publication? When was that law decided? Really, help me out here. If they are illegal, I would like to know about it. They just may be, but until this British Foreign Secretary uses more than his big mouth to prove it...Oh yeah, he's British, that explains it!
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