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France to Israel: Reconsider Jerusalem construction
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Published: 16.10.10, 17:06
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1. There is no such thing E.Jerusalem!!!!!!!!!!!!
Period!   (10.16.10)
All of Jerusalem is the capital of Israel!
2. TO FRANCE AND USA AND BENYAMIN NETANYAHU
BENJAMIN ,   SINGAPORE   (10.16.10)
6 MILLION JEWS WERE MURDERED IN THE HOLOCAUST AND IT IS PROBLEM TO ALLOW THE COMPLETION OF 240 HOUSES WHICH ARE ALREADY HALF WAY THROUGH ? YOU WANT US TO SELL OUR OWN PEOPLE ? WOULD YOU AMERICAN AND FRENCH SELL YOU OWN PEOPEL ? WE JEWs HAVE GIVEN A LOT OF TIME AN SPACE FOR THESE PEACE PROCESS, WE HAVE NOT CLOSED THE DOORS YET. DONT ARM TWIST US JEWS ! THER IS A LIMIT TO OUR KINDNESS. AS YOU ALL KNOW WE JEWS HAVE BEEN PROACTIVE WITH THE AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS. DONT TWIST OUR ARMS. YOU VERY WELL KNOW THE TALK BY IRAN- AHMEDINEJAH. YOU FRANCEN KNOW THE ATTACK BY AL QAEDA. YOU WANT US TO NAIL THAT IRAN AND YOU ALSO WANT US TO STOP THE PROGRESS OF OUR JEWS OF EAST JERUSALEM ? dont let me give you history lessons on the RIGHT OF THE JEWS to stay, live there !
3. Jerusalem is outside Israel's international border
observer   (10.16.10)
UN resolution 181 from 1947 clearly defines Israel international borders, so how capital of Israel can be out of those borders. No country has so far recognized Israeli sovereignty in either West or East Jerusalem. With regard to West Jerusalem, the European states have de facto accepted the applicability of Israeli law. The case of Yossele Schumacher; this young ultra-Orthodox boy was abducted in the 1960s by his father from Jerusalem to the United Kingdom. The British court applied the law in force in West Jerusalem, i.e., Israeli law. Interestingly, foreign states have not claimed that the law of occupation should apply to West Jerusalem." Another example is the Regency Hotel, formerly the Hyatt Hotel on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. It is partly built in an area where there was an Israeli enclave from 1949 to 1967 and partly outside it. When official European representatives come to the hotel they go only into those parts located on land that belonged to this enclave. the UN GA resolution Resolution 46/82, December 16, 1991 determines that Israel's decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem is illegal and therefore null and void and has no validity whatsoever. If Jews continue presence in the West bank over centuries and hold documents of ownership of land; then why it's the right of the the settlers alone to build on UNCLAIMED land.
4. Jerusalem, the capital city of the Jewish people for more...
Jehudah Ben-Israel ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (10.16.10)
...than 3,000, since King David set it up as such, thus called today Jerusalem, DC Jerusalem, David's City) has never been the capital city of any other people or any other state, ever!! Jerusalem that has been at the heart of every Jew and the center of Jewish civilization for thousands of years is mentioned more than 600 times in the Hebrew Bible! It is not mentioned even once in the Quran, the Muslim holiest of texts! Asking Jews, only because they are Jewish, to refrain from moving into certain neighborhoods of the city is akin to the form of anti-Jewish racism that existed in the United States until the middle of the previous century and exists to this day in ALL the Muslim-Arab states. It is particularly interesting that in disputed territories over which negotiations are to take place, Jews and only Jews are asked by "enlightened" Europe to cease normal life, but non-Jews may continue to build and lead their normal affair, in the very same areas which are in DISPUTE. What we face is racism, anti-Jewish racism, pure and simple, and we must not allow for it to pass!!
5. Leave Israel alone
TJ ,   SA/TX   (10.16.10)
The land belongs to Israel. The Bible has been around for thousands of years. One religion says its theirs the other says its theirs. Fact is Israel was attacked unfairly and the Arabs lost this land in 1967. Its Israel until a peace deal is negotiated. Palestine cant be demanding Israel stop building in there own nation. Ridiculous.
6. A Freeze for 100 Years Won't Do a Thing
Dallas ,   Canada   (10.16.10)
This is irrational - the PA offers nothing, not even a recognition of Israel, no resolve to foster peace, and Israel is expected to go into suspended animation forever. Meanwhile real dangers in the world increase.
7. Said best....
john   (10.16.10)
Ackerman said it best: "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel." You know what was never a capital of any Arab entity? Jerusalem. Know when Jerusalem became important to the Arabs? After the Jews claimed it. I'm telling you, we are living in a very dangerous age of anti-Semitism. The delegitimization of the State of Israel is just the newest form.
8. Abbas refused to recognise Israel in any form or fashion
Harry Wright ,   UK   (10.16.10)
Let the Pals stay in their time warp. Life goes on and the world continues to spin. Build, build, build. It makes no difference despite the US and France's comments. Abbas is not serious about peace talks. He is only looking for a way out of it. Let him find one that is not at Israel's expense. Jerusalem belongs to Israel. The rest is disputed territory. Building is a non-issue until there is a serious agreement. Meanwhile, both sides are busy building. So what! Israel cannot give this inveterate liar the power to dictate its actions. Let him mess up the Pals. That is the limit of his jurisdiction. If Obama and Kouchner want to allow Abbas to make them groan over Israel then they are fools.
9. We choose house, Palestinians chose bullets
Brian Cohen ,   Peoples FrontofJudea   (10.16.10)
Note the past tense. When peace talks opened the Palestinians shot and killed for Israeli civilians, and tried to kill four more. One of the dead was a pregnant woman. One of the injured was also a pregnant woman. Did France come out and issue a condemnation of the Palestinian Authority? No. Read our lips. They kill us, we build houses. Makes you wonder about what the ethical values of what a Palestinian state will be. Will the Palestinians still be paying reward pensions to the families of suicide bombers? Yes. Excuse us, France, buy you should think about liberté, fraternité, égalité and talk to the Palestinians first.
10. Reconsideration
Gabriel ,   Jerusalem   (10.16.10)
Please have Hamas and other terrorism reconsider their recent attacks and murders of Jews.
11. Jerusalem, 3000 year ol capital of Israel
Lioness ,   Israel   (10.16.10)
Jews have the right to build anywhere in our capital city. We have built here for over 3000 years and we will continue to build FOREVER!
12. to number 4- Observer
David ,   Haifa, Israel   (10.16.10)
Jersualem is OUR capitol in Israel. NOW... i think your comments would be better on anti israel and german owned haaretz..... as for the french... there is NOTHING french in my life
13. building
jj ,   montreal canada   (10.16.10)
Building is a deterent, but Abbas not recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is not a deterent? If the palastenians don't recognize Israel then what is the point of a peace deal with some one who doesn't recognize the very existance of the country with whom they are negotiating.
14. Israely construction
Leonard Arseneau ,   Quebec city ,Canada   (10.16.10)
I now boycott all products coming from Israel and I hope others will also
15. building in jewish neighborhoods
meyer ,   israel   (10.16.10)
if i'm not mistaken the tender for building is in ramot and psgat zev are both solidly jewish neighborhoods.
16. Oh dear!
Ram ,   London   (10.16.10)
It seems like, other than when capitulating, Israel has a 100% success record in upsetting France, the US and the EU in general, these days. Meanwhile dear old Abbas, anything but a saint, sits there watching those useful idiots fight his battles. Not that I think there will ever be true peace with the arabs in general, let alone the Palestinians, but how do their actions contribute to achieving peace, What, by pandering to the people who have yet to show a gesture after Israel made Lord knows how many?
17. #4Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Torah of Moses even once
observer   (10.16.10)
Jerusalem was the capital of Jews for 100 years (2nd – 1st century BC), and it was the capital of Christian Kingdom for 100 years, and a capital of a Muslim and Christian province for 1900 years, while it was the holy place of pilgrimage for all its history. Israel kingdom did not exist 2000 years before Islam, but A princedom called Israel came to existence 500 years later, and it had no relation to the ‘Jews’ who appeared a millennium later. ‘Jews’ are not even mentioned in the Torah of Moses, only in the very late books of Esther and Ezra. The native dwellers of Palestine were called “Palestinians” by Herodotes in 5th century BC, 2500 years before (modern) Israeli statehood; but Herodotes never heard of Jews, though he walked across the whole land. Jews appeared three hundred years later.
18. Oh yeah? And what did they say about the Jews?
(10.16.10)
Il faut tout refuser aux Juifs comme nation et tout accorder aux Juifs comme individus - Stanislas-Marie-Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, (1757-1792) (We must refuse everything to the Jews as a nation and give everything to Jews as individuals)
19. France has no 'deep disappointment' over Gilda Shalit
rebecca ,   Modiin   (10.16.10)
One of it's citizens.
20. France Took Care of its Jews
Stan ,   Johannesburg   (10.16.10)
France has already showed it took care of its Jews during WWII and should know to leave us alone now.
21. France is correcting sins of the past
observer   (10.16.10)
France's Mirage air craft fighters were responsible for the 67 capture of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Without the 73 blackmail by the Israeli atomic bomb, founded and engineered by france, all the occupied Arab territories would have been regained.
22. Arabs should show willingness by
Larry ,   los angeles   (10.16.10)
stopping building in the occupied west bank of Israel. It is our land and they are living in it; it is they who should show good faith by dropping dead with the rest of the world.
23. Follow The Growing Muslim Population
Dan ,   USA   (10.16.10)
It is quite simple. The French government and French citizens, aside from having a history of anti semitism, are frightened of the growning number of radical Islamists it has allowed into the country. Eventuially France will become Algeria.
24. The ultimate hypocrisy !
Gabe Yakmore ,   Canada   (10.16.10)
They all know all too well that a cease-fire line is not a border !
25. Bibi's feeble defense encourages attacks
RayS ,   USA   (10.16.10)
Never mentioning the hundreds of illegal Arab buildings going on in Jerusalem and throughout Judea and Samaria, Bibi surrenders the PR initiative to the enemies of Israel (open and subrosa) in European and USA State Departments.This hesitant and irresolute policy enhances the phony Abbas "peace" position.
26. Talks ended when arabs refused to recognise a jewish state
Russ Harris ,   Tlv   (10.16.10)
No treason to stop building; this is a two way street - no reason we must give in to the arabs for nothing in return
27. to 14 in Quibeck and all the other 'boycotters
tiki ,   belgium   (10.16.10)
Stop the tought talk already, you boycot ONLY (if already) what is convinient to you and what YOU don't use anyway. "Stopped using the computer already?...didn't think so. Only dummies want to boycot Israel, because the intelligent ones 'know the history, truth and reality of the area and do not 'parrot other brainwashed dummies.
28. A French distraction
Arie ,   BaGolan   (10.16.10)
while it engages in ethnic cleansing of the Roma
29. To # 14 : Hey, Leonard !
Gabe Yakmore ,   Canada   (10.16.10)
Just make sure that you would never swallow a medication developed by ISRAEL .
30. France should worry about Muslims blowing up the Eiffel Towe
Jean ,   Paris   (10.16.10)
France should worry about Muslims praying and blocking streets(forcing Islam on all of us). France should worry about Muslims taking neighborhoods in Paris and burning cars. I could go on....
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