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Palestinians uproot Hebrew road signs in West Bank
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Published: 27.08.09, 15:20
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31. # Harry, Wasting whose money?
marucho ,   Bs.Aires-Argentina   (08.27.09)
Harry, pay attention, it´s not palestineans´ money which is wasted, it is yours, americans´ and Europe´s. You americans still do not realize that you are funding and helping a future racist arab entity whose first measure will be to establish a JewsFree land in the W.B., such as it exists in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and so many other arab countries created by the british 70 years ago.
32. American money being wasted, again.
David ,   Hartford USA   (08.27.09)
Instead of building schools that teach peace and tolerance, or hospitals and clinics that improve the health of the population, or even sanitary infrastucture, the USAIDiots waste OUR money on road signs!! HELLO? US government general accounting office? Anyone home? STOP WASTING OUR MONEY!!!
33. What a load of rubbish
John ,   jerusalem   (08.27.09)
What rubbish journalism? Where are these roadsigns? In areas A+B? In that case they'll have been in Arabic only for years. In areas C (i.e. all the main roads)? Then there is no way that the PA could replace the signs. And, as someone who spends most of his time in the West Bank, I can assure you that this is simply not the case. Incidentally, although the Israeli signs are indeed in English/Hebrew and Arabic they too are not averse to a little political engineering: the vast majority of signposts on Route 60 are for Israeli settlements and the transliteration of Jerusalem into Arabic rather than the use of Al Quds is just silly.
34. Typical - first step for future Pal state is to waste money.
Rebecca ,   Modiin   (08.27.09)
all the signs already have Arabic and English. This is one big waste of $20 million. But hey, they're not paying. Maybe USA's idea of creating jobs.
35. no to hebrew signs
john ,   JERUSALEM   (08.27.09)
Arabic is an official language in Israel. Facts - not all signs in Israel induce Arabic and if they do it is in wrongly spelled or a transliiteration from Hebrew. -Surrounding countries with which Israel made peace do not include Hebrew in their signs (i.e Egypt,Jordan). So why expect the Palestinians under Israeli occupation to include Hebrew. When peace is attained then it is to the Palestinian state discretion to include Hebrew or not to.
36. Forget eliminating Hebrew---what's the English for?
(08.28.09)
...as if any tourist who speaks English would ever want to visit the Terrorist State of Palestine? Here's a roadsign for them: Now Entering Palestine (formerly Jordan, formerly Israel)
37. PA Arabs intolerant as always---such spoiled brats!!
What a waste of $$! ,   USA   (08.28.09)
38. To 6-but then dont come to Israel when you NEED IT!
NURIT ,   TLV   (08.28.09)
Because you are in the mood of proposing, I'm too. Ok, Install of the signposts in English so that all the Jews will get out of the West Bank, BUT, - next time your kids need a doctor, a real one, PLEASE DON'T COME TO ISRAEL. - when your children go to university, PLEASE YOU AND THE REST OF THE ARABS, DON'T SEND THEM TO 'OUR UNIVERSITIES'/ - when you take a medication, just know it, for sure a Jewish/ Israeli is behind it... - when you use technology, know it,most of it it's developed by Israel FOR THE WORLD. Nour, we don't need YOU. is that clear??? we don't. we have: the minds, the professionals, the universities, the teachers, the doctors, the progress, the technology, the science,. the will, the scientists, the spirit.. and with or without the West Bank (and you included) we are a powerful nation and country because of the human resources and brilliant brains we have. I doubt you can say the same. But remember Nour, PLEASE DON'T COME HERE AFTER TO BOTHER WHEN YOU NEED IT. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH WITH YOU ALL! AND I MEAN IT. LEARN TO BE THANKFUL, AN ABOUT DECENCY.
39. TO#38 LEARN TO BE THANKFUL, AN ABOUT DECENCY
john ,   JERUSALEM   (08.28.09)
NURIT THANKFUL TO WHAT ? YOUR 40+ YEARS OF OCCUPATION ? STOLEN LANDS FOR SETTLEMENTS ? HOUSE DEMOLISHING POLICIES ? IDF " HIGH ETHICS" ? NATURAL RESOURCES ROBBERY YOUR NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE MINDS,THE PROFESSIONALS ETC ,ETC... STOP YOUR RACIST BRAGGING AND COME TO GROUND WITH REALITY PALESTINE IS HERE TO STAY FOR EVER.
40. thank G-d
nurit ,   tel aviv   (08.28.09)
I can still speak for myself, not for the rest. JOHN?? from Jerusalem? first tell our real name and real address and then address me.... I speak out MY experience, and my experience is 20 years of teaching, and 25 years as a doctor. It was me, NURIT, the person who taught and cured these people ,YES me. That's why I speak. BUT, it wasn't ME the one who occupied anything, I'm not a settler, I live in Tel Aviv not in the West Bank, and the decisions of the goverment haven't always been endorsed by me, NURIT and it's not bragging it's facts. I answer to the first person who stepped here as a racist, NOUR #6, as an intolerant.. and because you "John" don't know how to read, I must tell you I answered with the same level of irony and despise that SHE did it first. She wants all the signpost in English so that they will cleanse the Jews there, I answered , OK!!!! BUT, let's do the same here and as such you will have what you want. YOUR STATE, and us, OUR STATE. BUT, don't come here for my medicine or our teachers. If she feels she's so self-sufficient as she speaks, she deserves an answer of the same level, the same type. THAT IS FAIR. so, if you "John: has seen ME (nurit) occupying, stealing, teaching and curing with no ethics,, robbing resources, etc... as you listed, I would love to challenge to proove that on a Court not here. JOHN (?) LEARN TO READ AND INTERPRET FIRST. COME ON!
41. #38 Catch your breath...
Nour ,   Palestine   (08.28.09)
After such long and glorified score card so eloquently written put by our fellow NURIT in Yafa Tel Aviv. I wonder what your own personal achievments are, if any? I also wonder what grandiose list of accomplishments would you have come up with should Israel not have been on permanent incubation and life support system extended it by the USA? Never forget that any modern invention has had Arab roots! The clock you read, the great medicines you are talking about (Kindi, etc.) it was them who laid the foundations of modern science. It was also the Arabs my dear who made America's discovery possible (navigation by stars) which eventually made America possible to begin with! I guess your knowledge of history spans 100 years at the most? "next time your kids need a doctor, a real one, PLEASE DON'T COME TO ISRAEL." The joke of the century. Amman next door has the best doctors in the Middle East. Health tourism there is flourishing, thank you very much I can afford treatment in Jordan, by my Arab brethren. And by the way, WE INVENTED HOSPITALS - get an education and take some history lessons. "PLEASE YOU AND THE REST OF THE ARABS, DON'T SEND THEM TO 'OUR UNIVERSITIES'/" Why would we send them to crowded classrooms in 2nd/3rd rate universities? If you're talking about the best - it is CERTAINLY not Israeli universities. Ask any bright young Israeli - if you know any! Your glory days are LONG gone baby. "Nour, we don't need YOU. is that clear??? " EXACTLY - it is mutual. Show us your backs, but there's no remote possibility we'll EVER forget the Nakba. And recognition of the Apartheid entity as a "jewish state": -> keep dreaming.
42. YOU ARE A WASTE OF TIME
NOUR (SOUR) ,   TEL AVIV   (08.28.09)
First of all, I'm Nurit from Tel Aviv, not Nurit from Yafa Tel Aviv, I don't live in Yaffo thank G-d! WHEN YOU COME WITH STRONG ARGUMENTS, PLS LET ME KNOW. THE SECOND RATE UNIVERSITY HAHAHA POOR YOU, "RECENTFUL"? NEED A BURST OF SELF- ESTEEM..? GET A SHRINK FOR THAT BECAUSE AT THE UNIVERSITY I HAVE TAUGHT FOR YEARS, MOST OF MY STUDENTS IF NOT ALL (ARABS AND JEWS) WOULDNT HAVE BEEN THERE IF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SECOND RATE UNIVERSITY. PLUS, SEND THEM ABROAD ANY UNIVERSITY: NAME ANY IN THE WORLD, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A JEWISH PROFESSOR THERE, WE USE OUR HEADS TO CREATE, TO INNOVATE, TO CHALLENGE THEORIES AND TRY NEW THINGS, NOT NECESSARILY TO PLAN BOMBINGS, OR TO BLOW OURSELVES IN A RESTAURANT, AND SO FORTH... AS FOR ME, I TOLD YOU THE SAME I TOLD THAT PERSON CALLED "JOHN", I HAVEN'T ULHELD MOST OF MY GOVERNMENT'S DECISIONS, AND I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT RESPONSIBILITIES COME FROM BOTH SIDES. BOTH! DONT PLAY THE ROLE OF THE VICTIM, ARE TERRORISTS VICTIMS?? HUH? THANK G-D I STILL BELIEVE THAT NOT EVERY ARAB IS A TERRORIST, OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T HAVE TAUGHT THEM A SINGLE LESSON IN MY CLASS. AS FOR MODERN INVENTION, I DIDN'T SAY THAT THE MODERN INVENTION DOESN'T HAVE ARAB ROOTS? DID IT MENTION THAT? (again your lack of self-esteem), why underestimating yourself Nour??) I SIMPLY SAID "WE DON'T NEED YOU AS YOU DON'T NEED US", AND AS A DOCTOR, I CAN TELL YOU THAT YES, I HAVE CURED THOUSANDS OF ARABS, YES, IN ISRAEL, IN AN ISRAELI HOSPITAL, BECAUSE SENDING THEM TO AMMAN, NEXT DOOR, WOULD HAVE PUT THOSE PEOPLE'S LIVES INTO RISK. THESE ARE CALLED EMERGENCIES, OR CASES IN WHICH MOBILIZING THE PATIENT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORSE AND FATAL. NOW, AS I SAID TO THAT JOHN WHO REPLIED TO ME, I ANSWERED YOU (NOUR) WITH THE SAME DEGREE OF IRONY AND ARROGANCE YOU SPOKE. DON'T BELIEVE I ENJOY THIS. I'M SO MUCH SICK TIRED OF THIS, THAT TO BE HONEST, I PREFER YOU GUYS FAR FAR AWAY. OF COURSE, I WOULD HAVE ANY PROBLEM IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN HERE, BUT SINCE YOU STARTED WITH THE IDEA OF REMOVING ALL THE JEWS FROM THE WEST BANK, WHY NOT THEN DOING THE SAME HERE? AS I REPLIED TO YOU IN #28, YES, LET'S REMOVE EVERYTHING ARAB FROM OUR TERRITORY AS WELL. (LANGUAGE, SCHOOLING, TV ETC). THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU PROPOSE. SO I REPLY IN THE SAME WAY. AS FOR YOUR INTRODUCTION TO YOUR REPLY: ( I wonder what your own personal achievments are, if any? ). AGAIN I TELL YOU THE SAME I TOLD JOHN IN #40: "can still speak for myself, not for them".. and then i enumerate my contributions, if at all, so i tseems that you and John don't know how to read, to interpret, you read half way and understand what you want to understand. I spoke for myself in entries 28, 38 and 40. Last, since I have my mind open enough to say that not every Arab is a terrorist, and you speak of occupation, Nakba, ethnic Apartheid (haha what you suggest to do now, you are funny), etc.. the only thing i can tell you Nour is this: If you have seen ME (nurit) occupying, stealing, teaching and curing with no ethics,, robbing resources, planning an ethnic cleansing, etc... as you listed, I would love to challenge to proove that on a Court not here. If you can, welcome! and in the meantime, try other self-esteem methods..they work, but honestly, you have to have been doing something fruitful in your life (other than eating burekas from Abulafia) .. otherwise, it doesnt work. and pls, don't answer back if not with grouded-arguments, you are really a waste of time if you don't follow the thread and you read carefully what I say, but I see, the natural instinct for fighting is there, boiling in the blood, not my case. Bye, Yafa Tel Aviv ? hahaha
43. U.S. hypocracy
D ,   Denver, CO, USA   (11.01.09)
Wish I had seen this article back in August to issue a timely comment. This is another sign of U.S. hypocracy, courtesy of Barrack HUSSEIN Obama. Obama's justification for demanding an Israeli settlement freeze is to not make changes to the status quo ahead of negotiations - yet that's just what he's doing by funding these "no Hebrew" signs. WHAT A DISGRACE - AND A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE ONLY SURE ALLY AMERICA HAS IN THE ME = ISRAEL!!
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