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Peace Now: Settlements are a burden on Israel
Efrat Weiss
Published: 14.07.09, 14:41
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1. Hamas and the PLO are a security burden...
(07.14.09)
I would like to see this oppenheimer guy leave the country...please. Go to Europe and spend more time face to face with your employer. The Jewish people reject you...you cut yourself off.
2. WHAT IS PEACE???
al mann ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.14.09)
The people who are willing to give away the heritage and birthplace of the Children of Israel have a lot to learn from the history which they vehemently deny. These people have no content in life and dwell within the darkness and emptiness of a physical existence. How will they achieve peace of mind? How will they get deeper meaning from their existence?
3. Oppenheimer is a loser that desperately seeks attention!
redbourn ,   tel aviv   (07.14.09)
Peace Now is made up of a bunch of losers whose only claim to fame is attacking Israel. If anyone has any information on what Yariv Oppenheimer or any other members of Peace Now did that is noteworthy then please post links. But don't waste too much valuable time looking. Unfortuantely the media publishes their nonsense, and if they didn't then these otherwise nobodies would disappear after a few months and start trying to attract the attention that they crave in some other way. Mike
4. Good going P.N.
Giora Me'ir ,   USA   (07.14.09)
Keep up the good work.
5. Peace today is a hollow word thanks to "peace" now
m   (07.14.09)
6. Peace Now hasn't convinced Arabs.Jews driven to settle
Sam ,   Canada   (07.14.09)
Look, if Peace Now wants to get somewhere on 2 states, it will have to convince the Arabs to accept the Jewish state. Jews and religious Jews in particular, are driven to settle the biblical territories . They are not going to wait around for Peace Now to convince the Arabs. The Jewish population as a whole will be indifferent until they do.
7. settlements
colin   (07.14.09)
Peace now are feeling the pressure.They are using any excuse to remain inthe leftest twisted mebia Peace now with only a few members cannot find more lies.WHAT IS A SETTLEMENT? IS ISRAEL WITH OR WITHOUT YEHUDA AND SHOMRON??IS AMERICA AN OCCUPIED LAND TAKEN FROM THE INDIANS AND SETTLED BY BRITISH FRENCH SPANISH AND OTHER SETTLERS ?? Let peace now answer hard questions
8. Our burden isn't the Settlements...
DT ,   TA Israel   (07.14.09)
Peace Now is a bigger burden
9. Specious Reasoning
Kevin ,   Canada   (07.14.09)
If the Palestinians become the majority in 2015, which I don’t believe to be true in any event, then the Jews are/were the majority from 1948-2015. That’s 67 years of Palestinians being the minority and not accepting either the Jewish state or a two state solution. Why would the situation be so dramatically reversed the moment the Jews are in the minority? All of a sudden the Jewish narrative will be irrelevant and they will no longer deserve a state in the parts where they remain the majority? To say a two state solution will be taken of the table and replaced with a one non-Jewish state solution is part scare mongering and part wishful thinking on the part of Peace Now.
10. But Entire state is a security economic & diplomatic problem
tomer ,   Herzeliyya   (07.14.09)
Even Tsfon Tel Aviv where the Peace Now Idiots live is a problem to defend, build & provide jobs etc. So maybe they should all move back to where their grandparents come from?? This will solve lots of problems for everyone.
11. Peace now Crap
Brod ,   USA   (07.14.09)
This group is aligned with Israel's enemy-the world of AntiSemites and Islamist-Jihadists. As such they are a threat to Israel's national security interests. If they are genuine Jews, they should know the GOD of Israel and the Holy Bible, and the History of the Land of Israel. It is evident that they are fake Jews. Israel should be wary of them. The fact is the Land of Israel is GOD-given and GOD-restored to the Jews. Read Genesis, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Israel should not be tolerating this group that is calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews living in their own liberated historic homeland of Judea and Samaria-Land of Israel.
12. Burden
Meir ,   Arad   (07.14.09)
I did not read this arcticle since is a burden to me to hear again and again the same lies that Piss Now dissiminates. Most of the public in Israel, according to the last elections, despise the leftists lunatics, are they gonna shut up one day? or somebody will have to do that for them?
13. Czechslovakia was Burden on Europe
Marcel ,   Florida   (07.14.09)
The same Neville Chamberlain approach of appeasment for no peace is the only solution the losers of no peace now offer. You're condemned to repeat a new tradegy because you refuse to learn from history.
14. Our problem is extreme leftists that support fascists
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (07.14.09)
Surrender Now is the problem. Jews living in Judea and Samaria are not. I wonder why the leftists hate democracy so much. They lost yet are still attempting to overthrow the government.
15. Being Jewish is also a burden. Does that mean that we should
Amihai ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.14.09)
simply give up on who we are, on our people, on our country and on our heritage and civilization? I don't live in any of the villages or towns of Judea and Samaria, and perhaps at some point Israel will choose to allow a Jordanian regime to rule over some of these territories. But why expel Jews from their homes? Why not to permit Jews, only because they are Jewish to reside anywhere in the world, including that part of it that is the cradle of Jewish civilization. Singling out Jews to do so amounts to racism, regardless of who advocate it...!!!
16. Peace Not is a Burden
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (07.14.09)
These thugs are the enablers of the enemies of Israel.
17. burden?
alan ,   Texas   (07.14.09)
Peace Now are a bunch of traitors. I think we must increase building activities of jewish neighborhoods, so the arabs see that procrastination leaves them less land. They must see some downside to their terrorism and delay.
18. Settlement
Robert Blum ,   new Albany USA   (07.14.09)
What is illegal about Jews living anywhere in the Jewish homeland? The Arabs made it illegal for Jews to live in Arab countries & disenfranchised them totally, and massacred them. In 1929 Muslims massacred Jews in Hebron & expelled them. Remember the 1920 San Remo Conference, League of Nations? look it up! Is the world blind to the settlement issue of millions upon millions of muslims settling in Europe, Canada & America? THIS settlement issue should frighten all "infidels"! In 1970 USA had 80,000 Muslims. Today almost 10,000,000 rapidly breeding muslims live here! The muslims are devouring us without firing one rifle! Wake up liberals! It's is almost too late to rid ourselves of them! Obama just made an executive order to bring in thousands of so called Palestinians" into California for a new settlement! Israel needs many more Jews to settle the land! G-d gave it to the children of Israel eternally! As an aside the Hamas work on Israeli construction of settlements to feed their huge families. What hypocrites!
19. "your problem?" Mr Oppenheimer excludes himself.
ged   (07.14.09)
excludes himself from his owen people
20. what do they care they don't serve the army
ghostq   (07.14.09)
they didn't pay or contribute to Israel society and make only trobles, don't get much sympathy from noone.
21. to #19 you r right, if it's not his problem
ghostq   (07.14.09)
what does it bother him so much? surly he belong to the Israel society, he contribute so much(cynical) .
22. ApPease NOW : violent leftist radicals who provoke Arabs and
JEWdea ,   4000yroldJewishhome   (07.14.09)
Jews fighting.
23. ApPease NOW brought 10,000 hamas missiles on Jewish playgrou
JEWdea ,   8MILEWIDEISRAEL   (07.14.09)
playgrounds, parks, and family Shabbat dinners for 20% out the countries population. yea, these stubborn and violent dreamers learn no lessons. ApPease Now: a fools dream.
24. Extreme left wants to be surrounded by no womens rights,
JEWdea ,   4000yroldJewishland   (07.14.09)
"honor " murders of wives, sisters, & daughters, of al qaeda, hizbollah, hamas, and intolerance of Jewish Homeland. These people need to go contact Daniel Pearl's (of blessed memory) and Burg's Arab murderers for an interview. Maybe they will get some reality then.
25. ... SH/ ACHSHAV"S FINAL GIVE-AWAYS ARE...?
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (07.14.09)
26. Calumny and demonization.
Ron B. ,   Lod   (07.14.09)
The “enlightened intelligentsia” have, over the years, orchestrated demonization campaigns against the settlers, backed by most of the media and gleefully taken up by opportunistic politicians seeking to promote their own agenda. The Gaza disengagement and the shameful manner in which the settlers were uprooted from their homes will remain one of the ugliest stains on Israeli society. Many former Gush Katif farmers have been transformed into refugees in their own land and to this day, have yet to be settled and provided with a livelihood. Their anger and frustration was intensified when it was subsequently demonstrated that their sacrifice only served to strengthen the extremists in our midst in addition to empowering the terrorists who pose new threats to communities inside the Green Line. As to the legitimate rights of the Jewish people (3 parts): http://xrl.us/osjoz
27. Fairness and hatred.
Ron B. ,   Lod   (07.14.09)
One must beware of those who talk about the greatness of the rule of law even as their hearts are full of hatred when it comes to the Other. Someone who beats up Palestinians and damages their property should sit in jail. But are the settlers as a whole – all 300,000 of them – responsible for that? What does Talia Sasson, the champion of the rule of law when it comes to illegal outpost construction, have to say about the tens of thousands of illegal buildings constructed by Bedouin and Arabs in the Galilee, Negev and East Jerusalem? In order to know more about the rights of settlers : http://xrl.us/bj5ng
28. #15 Amihai
eddie ,   london UK   (07.14.09)
Amihai, this is exactly what the haters of Jews say, and the agenda of Hamas and PLO, as well as self hating jews such as neturei karta and oppenheimer.
29. Peace Now Deliberately Missing the Point
SDunc ,   Texas, USA   (07.14.09)
Peace Now has bought into the anti-Israel lie that settlements are the "problem." Nothing could be further from the truth. The real problem is the PA/Hamas/Hizbollah refusal to acknowledge and accept Israel as the Jewish state and homeland. And don't forget there is already a two-state solution - Jordan & Israel. The real problem is the PA desire to destroy every living Jew and Christian and take every inch of the land of Israel. God gave the Jews the land from the very beginning; it belongs to them whether Obama and PA approve or not.
30. Actually, I was thinking the same about Peace Now
William ,   Israel   (07.14.09)
I'm ok with the settlements, mostly because they don't break any ACTUAL laws. Now, the laws of public opinion and Arab sensibilities - that's a different story, and not my concern. Yariv - the fact that you must turn your venom back onto the Israeli public to get support means you're fighting a losing battle. The truth of Peace Now and your stance is this - you're not so much for peace with Arabs and rights for Palestinians, as you are against settlements and the people who live in them. Call us again when you have a lighter heart and less bias. I don't expect a a phone call any time soon.
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