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UN official: Settlements violate international law
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 18.10.10, 19:23
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31. UN anti-Israel
Mikhael   (10.18.10)
This organ' just gives Israel's bitter enemies a forum to channel their hateful ideas then they endorse and rubber stamp their plots against Jews.No amount of incitement,terror or wishful evil thinking/action can ever change the fact that Israel was,is and will be the only country With Jerusalem as its capital.The Romans know how fiercely Jews can fight fo J'lem.Titus led the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple but never did he break the Jewish spirit and love for Jerusalem.The Romans fell whereas Israel prospers and back in the promised land.Arabs refuse to learn the crucial lesson:live and let live.They should look at the apocalypse of the true Egyptians led by their Pharaoh.They tormented Israelis without mercy,where are they now.This is the path Arabs are trodding...they will reap what they plant
32. End of the beginning, Jews will lose, again
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (10.18.10)
CIA predicts one State by 2030. 60% native Palestinian, 40% mostly immigrant Jews, of which a few million Jews will leave for America, Australia, Europe, and back to Russia.
33. #23!!! # 24!!!!
Israeli 2   (10.19.10)
All the time Sarah B. is superb and correct in every way but once in a while she reign supreme. This is one of those times when I actually enjoyed reading her talkbacks. Heee! Heee! Heee! Those suckers never knew what hit them! P.S. Sarah B. is much more qualified than Oscar Taranco and she's got the degrees to show it too.
34. Steve #32
Brod ,   USA   (10.18.10)
There is no need spewing your AntiSemite crap. The fact is the Land of Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people the past 4000 years and continue to be their homeland forever. AntiSemites and Islamist-Jihadists should stop usurping the Land of Israel from the Jews.
35. #32 Benassi. What a pity the CIA did not predict 9/11.
Harry Wright ,   UK   (10.19.10)
Did they predict the encroachment of the Mexican warlords into the US? By 2030? Man, they are so accurate, I bet they can predict the year of WW3. And I'm sure they also predicted how long the US would stay in Iraq and Afghanistan.
36. Wow
Goy to the World ,   Georgia, USA   (10.19.10)
90% of the people who commented here are racist against arabs. I honestly think they don't know it, but they are.
37. The three B's to solving Israel's problems
Alexander ,   NJ, USA   (10.19.10)
BUILD BUILD BUILD! There is nothing wrong or illegal about creating homes for people. It's abhorred to think that the international community driven largely by the Muslim world thinks there's something innately wrong with building homes and that this is the real cause the peace talks are nonexistent. These are disputed territories meaning that they belong to no one and the boarders need to be negotiated between Israel and the Arabs. The Arabs "never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity" (Abba Eban).
38. TO SARA AND ARTHUR...........
Cali Cal ,   Los Angeles, USA   (10.19.10)
KEEP TELLING YOURSELVES THE PALESTINIANS ARE A DEFEATED PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT GAIN THEIR LAND, MAYBE YOU'LL ACTUALLY START BELIEVING THE GARBAGE YOU SPEW. HAMAS HAS ALREADY LIBERATED GAZA, LIKE HEZBOLLAH LIBERATED SOUTH LEBANON. HAMAS WILL LIBERATE THE WEST BANK AS WELL AND YOU IDIOTS KNOW IT. THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK IS SO OVER AND MAKES BOTH OF YOU WANT TO WET YOUR PANTS.
39. Confusing
Marcia ,   KCMO/USA   (10.19.10)
I'm someone trying to understand all the problems experienced in Israel. It seems as soon as I think I've got a handle on things, I read or hear something new and realize I'm not even close. I do wonder though why the U.S. gives more than $3 billion to Israel each year. Does anyone have an answer? Thanks
40. To: Sarah B, no. 7, 9, and 10
Gazan   (10.19.10)
The whole world recognizes that the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem do NOT rightfully belong to Israel. So yes, those particular slices of the "pizza" are Palestinian, and you can cry and shout all you want, no one agrees with you. It's no wonder that you don't agree with the construction freeze; you don't believe this is Palestinian territory to begin with. I wouldn't agree with the freeze either if I thought, with complete ignorance, that the territories rightfully belonged to Israel. So that's why we're all going to end up with a one-state solution. Sarah, I'm so happy that you don't wish to negotiate and that you don't want Palestinians to get anything. That attitude is only going to bring the one-state solution on top of your head. Understand? Good. ;)
41. #14 Wissam. Sorry to burst your bubble but...
Harry Wright ,   UK   (10.19.10)
the international community has been "considering" the settlements as illegal because they are in fact legal and they cannot prove it otherwise. the WB is disputed territory and will remain so until the PLO regularises it. But Abbas has not and his predecessors did not regularize it ever in the 63 or so years, during which they had ample opportunity to do so. So what are you carrying on so for? It is your fault, you so called nouveau Pals. You have only yourselves to blame for the mess you made for yourselves. Got it? You must be the only people in the world bawling for a state and doing everything in your power not to get it. Great comedians, you people. Just go check and see how many tiny countries got statehood since 1948. Many are tiny banana republics but they show more maturity, responsibility, pride and common sense than the whole bunch of you. You should be ashamed because all you have achieved in all those years are fostering and nurturing a violent mentality and honing and refining beggary to a fine art.
42. #5 - sarah: if settlements are not illegal...
eporue ,   europe   (10.19.10)
as you say... why then didnt your ambassador, bring this argument at his UN speech in order to "defend" the settlements ?
43. Wissam no 14
JUDAH THE LION   (10.19.10)
negotiatet so called international law put it in your , because the International law is very biased due to their own business interest, etc,. Israel with all the Jewish territories in west bank including JERUSALEM is not for grabs.This HOLY LAND was promised & given by G D and your quran confirms this.There is nothing to negotiate about this land.It seems Islam dont respect their QURAN
44. To: No. 42
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (10.19.10)
No need to "defend" anything, dear. If it's legal -- which the settlements are -- there is no need to defend them. That's why. I trust you understand.
45. Poor math skills Schreiber.
Bob the cleaner ,   Kouchibouguac, CA   (10.19.10)
Schreiber, your numbers do not add up. None of the israeli kills are listed, probably because there is not enough space on this blog to list them all. Another case of the Israeli fire calling the kettle black . To continue against international law is suicide, and destroying any future Israel had hoped to have.
46. no.14
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (10.19.10)
The very same international law called for the disarming ,withdrawl of Hezbollah and no more Iranian / Syrian proxies south of the Litani river in Lebanon, the same international law says prisoners of war ,including Gilad Shalit must be allowed visits from his own family,diplomats ,foreign ministers and be treated according to international standards ,the same law says international waters are just that,for all shipping ,which means the Gulf of Aden ,where Somali Muslim pirates hijack international shipping is illegal,the same law calls for the arrest and incarceration of the Muslim butcher of Sudan and his Muslim Janjaweed militia commanders ,on charges of war crimes,and crimes against humanity ,in Darfur ,are you stupid just a hypocrite Wissam ,or maybe both ?
47. no.39
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (10.19.10)
Simple answer Palestinian .the only democratic secular state in a sea of Arab/Muslim violence,corruption and despotism ,next question ?
48. no 40
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (10.19.10)
But who,s actually going to try and enforce a one state solution in a soveriegn independent Jewish homeland; the Muslim armies ,no chance,the inept UN peace keeping contingents,Unfil ,Nato ,who exactly stupid Gazan,not Allah ,who ?
49. There NEVER was an Arab country of Palestine
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (10.19.10)
Jerusalem was Never the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish Bible, not once in the Koran. The inalienable rights of Jews to the Biblical heartland must not be violated! No one is demanding Muslims surrender THEIR top religious areas of Mecca and Medina! In 1948, Egypt invaded Gaza, ethnically cleansing all Jews and in 1948, Jordan invaded Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem, ethnically cleansing all Jews. In violent opposition to G-D, Muslim Jordan destroyed 58 synagogues in Jerusalem. The jihad is against the Holy One. When Israel won the Arab war of aggression in 1967, Jews returned to the areas of their ancestral homeland they had been ethnically cleansed from for 19 years. Anti-Israel propaganda deceitfully calls Jews' legitimate return "occupation". Jews have had a continuous presence in physical and spiritual homeland Israel for 4,000 years.
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