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Ken Livingstone: 'Creation of Israel was fundamentally wrong'
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Published: 07.05.16, 22:33
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1. After the Shoah Israel has to be strong
Zola   (05.07.16)
After the Shoah Israel has to be strong militarily with huge defensive and deterrent capacity . All Jews of Justice ought support the Strongest Israel Strong militarily and Strong in social justice to its citizens who are with the Justice of the Post Holocaust Jewish State .
2. A few years ago this disgusting person
Sagi   (05.07.16)
spoke these words to my face, to me personally, he said, I believe that Israel was a mistake. i responded by saying to him that I believe that he himself was a mistake and should never have been born.
3. Well, the sick bastards feel now they can crawl out from
(05.07.16)
under their rocks...That ship is sinking fast. Much faster than we've imagined.
4. Anti - semite
Hayyim ,   Ra'anana ISRAEL   (05.07.16)
I remember the treachery of the English Labor Party even before Israel was established. They treated the Jews as if we were animals. They turned back ships carrying Holocaust victims which led to the deaths of thousands. They were supposed to create a Jewish homeland but instead they encouraged Arab immigration from the east and limited Jewish immigration. The purpose was to ensure British rule in Palestine for ever to protect oil interests. They knew the Jewish Agency of those days was weak and would bough down to English demands. They did not take into account Etzel and Le'hi. who kicked the English out and enabled the State of Israel to be declared. Labor's cronies have still not got over the defeat. and they lie and cheat to make their point!!
5. catastrophe
BAB ,   Jerusalem   (05.07.16)
UK would have been great for resettlement, thanks to Cromwell. I'm sure Lilvingstone would make Jews very comfortable there today. from Wikipedia: "In 1290, King Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. The expulsion edict remained in force for the rest of the Middle Ages. The edict was not an isolated incident, but the culmination of over 200 years of increased persecution. Oliver Cromwell permitted Jews to return to England in 1657, over 360 years after their banishment by Edward I, in exchange for finance."
6. Never mind. Our revenge is new Khalif of Londonistan
Alan ,   SA   (05.08.16)
He is the first Muslim mayor of any EU Capital City.The downward spiral has momentum
7.  Livingstone sounds plausable
ky   (05.08.16)
to those who have a passing knowledge and especially to left leaning young people. who are not old enough to remember the reality. Briefly without going into the appaling state of what was left of European Jews after the war and the lack of desire of the UK and US to take in those sort of numbers, his argument falls down on the fact that not one Arab state contributed to the struggle against Nazism in terms of losses or effort. In fact the Grand Mufti Of Jerusalem actually contributed an army towards the SS. The struggle against Nazism was paramount for that era and the new world order had the right to make the decision and define what was justice for both Jews and Arabs and they did so via the UN in 1948. By denying this he denies the fact that Nazism also had an agenda to sooner or later conquer what was to them " sub human and semitic" Arab states as is evidenced by the battle of El Alemain which stopped Hitler's venture into the Middle East. He is in essence denying the racist nature of Nazism and that makes him, quite simply a Nazi Sympathiser.
8. "Haaretz" fully supports him ,after all Uri Blau spent 2
ab   (05.08.16)
years in London with stolen IDF secrets ,before even Livingstone couldn't stand him and had to return to the hated Israel.
9. what a putz
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.08.16)
it's hard to believe there are such anti semitic idiots in politics but, we have our own democrat party who is now known as the friend of both he Saudi's and Iranians rather than our only ME ally, Israel. No matter, G-d chose Israel and her enemies chose to be cursed. MORE BUILDING IS NEEDED!!
10. # 5 BAB Today, London has a muslim mayor.
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.08.16)
tomorrow Brits will bow down 5 x's a day facing Mecca. Cursed is he who curses Israel.
11. Ken Livingston was a mistake
David ,   New york   (05.08.16)
12. israe was a country long before livingston's britain
irwin   (05.08.16)
the colonialistsof livingston ignore the fact that the romans and then the arabs occupied the country of israel long before britain existed. israel knows how to take care of its enemies where they are.
13. Old geezer losing his marbles
Benji ,   US   (05.08.16)
Must be lonely when no one calls or cares about your opinion. Desperate for attention, he throws out anti-Israel rhetoric to see if someone will hire him. Arab attacks and persecution of Jews began long before 1948. Trying to blame Israel for Islamic terror is just plain stupid. He probably blames Israel for his constipated state of mind.
14. No. The creation of Livingstone was wrong.
Andre ,   Clichy, France   (05.08.16)
No. The creation of Livingston was wrong. Unfortunately abortion was illegal then. But Jews WILL remember him. His name WILL remain as one dishonoured by cowardice and the vilest instincts. History will remember that he hid in a disabled toilets to flee from Mann who was confronting him verbally. A coward. Forever to be remembered as one...
15. This Guy is a Total moron
Michael Ezrachi ,   U S A   (05.08.16)
This guy is a total moron, Jews were second class citizens in the arab world long before Israel was re established as the Jewish Homeland. Britian is now no better then any other arab country, full of Jew hating savages.
16. UK's Holocaust Crimes Unpunished
WhyNoCriminalCharges ,   Jerusalem Israel   (05.08.16)
There never ever has been a highly publicized discussion on the role of the UK and "others" USA on the major Criminal role played by them in imprisoning 10 million European Jews in Nazi Occupied Europe and not allowing them even"temporary residence elsewhere a holding area NOWHERE was either provided or even suggested Oil for the war and a promise the Jews would not ever be allowed into Palestine was exchanged for the systematic murder of millions of Jewish men women and children even after the slaughter and to this very day those same super powers are the main obstacles preventing the building of a strong Jewish Homeland the question remains WHY are these subjects continually swept under the rug especially Britain's role in preventing the Jews from reaching the ONLY safe harbor British Mandated Palestine
17. BAB, #5, I think Livingstone is a more of an Edward I
Jake   (05.08.16)
than an Oliver Cromwell. But perhaps he can help to establish a palestinian entity in the new Londonistan.
18. ky, #7, Livingstone sounds implausible to sane individuals
Jake   (05.08.16)
but plausible only to neo-Nazis, hardcore Communists, and Islamic-fascists. As for the UN Partition Plan, it was not, in fact a decision at all; it was a binding recommendation, that ultimately died on the vine. The Arabs had the right to reject it, but they did not have the right to impose their will by force. They went to war, and they lost, and the Jews won with the lost of 6400 dead, and that is how the State of Israel became a fact and a reality, not by any "permission" by any world body. Israel became a UN member state in 1949, after satisying the UN's conditions that it agreed to uphold the UN's Charter and that it was a peace-loving State. Neither the partition plan boundaries nor the recommended establishment of an "Arab State" were pre-conditions for Israeli membership.
19. In the eyes of anti Semites we lived in paradise before 1948
Zionist forever   (05.08.16)
So by Livingstone logic 9/11 was carried out because a bunch of rich Saudi men felt like victims and had felt a need to do something. ISIS and their supporters are not looking to set up a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and the reason that middle class Britsh girks don't go to Syria and become ISIS brides anbecause they support the Islamism it's because they feel like helpless victims because of the Pals. Livingstone is just an old fashioned waste of space anti semite like so many others in the British Labour Party
20. For sure his mother made a big mistake
nibor ,   israel   (05.08.16)
21. Ken Livingstone
John Savage ,   Llandysul, Wales.   (05.08.16)
It is obvious that Ken Livingstone knows very little about the history of the Jews. He should read about Samson and Delilah and the Israelites' wars and struggles with the P(h) ilistines. There always has been enmity between the Jews and Arabs, including Palestinians.
22. Ken Livingstone
Leone Nauri ,   Tel Aviv Israel   (05.08.16)
In 1945 when there was not Israel, between 4 and 7 november, in Libia, where iewish live 2000 years, "smoking Aushvitz" and under the government ogf england there was a terrible pogrom thet kills 130, wounded 600 and burn thousand properties of the jewish ! Mr Livingstone has to study the history before speaking!!!!
23. LIVINGSTONE IS VILE
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (05.08.16)
24. MESSAGE TO LIVINGSTONE
TEL EM STRAIGHT ,   SAFED HONESTY   (05.08.16)
You , Livingstone ,are a Turd .Go play with the Traffic .
25. Livingstone
Sandro ,   Rome   (05.08.16)
At the very heart of his arguments lies to negatation of the jewish historis rights on the land of Israel
26. Did his mother make a mistake when she had him ?
Roland ,   london England   (05.08.16)
27. no 12 - irrelevant
Mike ,   Tel Aviv   (05.08.16)
Your comment is puerile and irrelevant. This isn't about Britain (which is spelt with a capital B by the way). It's about Livingstone who is an unpopular individual in Britain too. Britain is NOT an enemy of Israel, even if Livingstone is so I suggest you get your facts straight before spouting rubbish.
28. no 10
Mike ,   Tel Aviv   (05.08.16)
He's Muslim but Pakistani which isn't as radical as some others. I doubt he prays to Mecca 5 times a day.
29. no 15
Mike ,   Tel Aviv   (05.08.16)
He is indeed a total moron but so are you by the sounds of it. Britain is NOT full of savages and certainly not Jew-hating savages. It's perhaps the most tolerant country in the world. Obviously you couldn't be bothered to watch the intense condemnation of antisemitism in the Houses of Parliament - on both sides of it - which was on TV.
30. And he is right
Haider ,   Gothenburg, Sweden   (05.08.16)
The arabs are also Semite. Are they anti themselves? come on.
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