israel-palestine conflict

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-middle-east-11462635 An Israeli military court has convicted two Israeli soldiers for using a Palestinian child as a human shield during an offensive in Gaza in 2009. The soldiers were found guilty of reckless endangerment and conduct unbecoming for...

The oppression and persecution of the Palestinians by Israel has long been documented, yet is still denied by the supporters of the apartheid state. The Israeli state is desperate to stop the world from hearing about the human rights abuses they commit on a daily basis against the Palestinians...

'..Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said a permanent Middle East settlement could take decades and that Iran is at the heart of conflict. ... He also pressed a plan for transferring Israeli Arabs to any Palestinian state. ...' From...

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=189541 This man is an embarrassment to Israel and Netanyahu. At the United Nations today, he called for Israel to trade land populated with hundreds of thousands of Arab-Israelis, for the settlement blocks in the West Bank. Wanting to trade land...

As everyone expected, Israel has started officially stealing Palestinian land again. Would you talk with a thief while that thief was actively burgling your property? PS The term 'started' is misleading as Israel never actually stopped officially stealing Palestinian land during the so-called...

"'UN panel accuses Israel of war crimes for 'unlawful' assault on Gaza flotilla Israel dismisses report of 'unnecessary and incredibly violent' attack as 'politicised and extremist'" A United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Israel of war crimes through willful killing...

There is a lot of hoopla over whether the Palestinians should recognize Israel as the "Jewish State", or if they they should just call them the State of Israel. The official name of France is the French Republic. The official name of Italy is the Italian Republic. We all know about the...

Oh wait, my bad! This is the actual penalty in the "moderate PA" for Arabs who sell land to Jews: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=188736 Not that the knee-jerk Israel bashers will care... after all, Arabs are savage beasts who cannot possibly be held to the same standards as...

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/health-ministry-joins-trend-no-online-payments-on-shabbat-1.314051 no e-payments to the government during the Sabbath and Jewish holidays? that's not very secular, if you ask me. Israel clearly has no concept of Church-State seperation.

Alright. Having watched all the recent Israel/Palestine threads about the incidents that have happened over the past while, I'm seeing a lot what Israel shouldn't have done but I've seen very little of what Israel should have done. Because I live in Canada, pretty much all I know about the...

There is an accusation here, from a certain member, that the number of Palestinian refugees has been exaggerated and inflated. Any truth to this? Any evidence of this? There are around 4.5 million Palestinian refugees today, from around 750,000 in 1949. This is a growth rate of around 3% a...

'...The Israeli army has admitted that three Palestinian men it killed in Gaza on Sunday were civilians, and not terrorists, as previously claimed. ...' From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11301624 Also from the same article: - '... Separately, a report published by an Israeli...

... 'Cos it's just another day under occupation, but you don't see this reverberating around the worlds headlines and threatening to derail peace talks, oh no, this **** is as routine as breathing in the territories.

Lots of folks at JREF love to accuse people of having a double-standard, when it comes to Israel. Well, lets just analyze the situation, shall we? Israel is a liberal democracy, western-style. Israel recieves $2.5 billion in aid from the USA. This has been going on since 1979. Israel...

In another thread, Skeptic equated opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank to the Ku Kluk Klan opposing black people moving into white neighborhoods. So I went to look for more information about the Israeli settlements to see if this analogy holds up. The very first sentence says...

Hamas killed four members of one family yesterday, leaving seven orphans. You know, the same group which Mr. Moderation, Imam Rauf, refuses to condemn, terrorism being such a "complicated question" on which he will "not be forced" to take sides between the terrorists and their victims (well...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_palestinians_israel "West Jerusalem and 12 Jewish neighborhoods that are home to 200,000 (Israeli) residents will be ours," Barak told the Haaretz newspaper. "The Arab neighborhoods in which close to a quarter million Palestinians live will be theirs," he added...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/world/middleeast/30summit.html?_r=2&ref=middleeast

An Israeli soldier shoots a handcuffed and blindfolded man in the foot with a rubber-coated steel bullet from very close range. 7WEcWNc3DQw