israel-palestine conflict

http://news.msn.co.nz/glance/1012499/palestinians-protest-avatar-style (includes photos)

I'm speechless at the silence in the Arab world on this one. Well thank goodness it's really Israel's fault the Jordanians are revoking people's citizenship. After all... EVERYTHING is Israel's fault isn't it. :rolleyes:

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167299 To this day, Hamas has NEVER made any attacks outside of Israel, the WB, and Gaza. It has been there standing policy to limit the conflict to those lands that are involved. But now, they believe one of their people was killed in the UAE...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147942240&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull well...this is an interesting turn of events. not sure what to make of it.

'State discriminating against Jews' This thread would encompass the concept of illegal building without permits on both sides to counter the illusion that Israel is apparently only demolishing illegal Palestinian Arab homes, which is a farce in itself.

I went to school with a Palestinian girl. At least once or twice, we discussed the ongoing Israel / Palestine conflicts. I'd heard about Isaac and Ishmael as a kid, but never looked too deeply into the stories until after I talked to her. After talking to her, and reading back through the...

Racism in Israeli property rights exposed http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147932330&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim property lost after the 1948 war, but Arabs cannot. Racism in broad daylight. Props to the Jerusalem Post for exposing...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147919566&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull yes, I too wondered if this should have gone in the Comedy sub-forum. but this is true. Palestinian human rights groups are asking Hamas to investigate war crimes allegations against them. :D

Hamas City Bombs Anger Gazans http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135532by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Hamas is preparing for war with Israel by placing large bomb-traps in densely-populated areas – angering local residents. So reports a Fatah website named Al-Ahad. The bombs...

Let me be the last to say, I don't care any more. So many threads, probably equaling the deaths of innocents in those horrid lands. There are comments from those who know their history and are biased. There are comments from those who don't know their history and are biased. There are comments...

From a lay perspective; that is, not subscribing to religious argument, I guess I would put a pox on both sides in the conflict. Israel and the Jewish faith have my every sympathy on the grounds of humanitarian concerns and historical justice. I believe the establishment of a homeland for Jews...

Details here. By the way, in 1947, the UN condemned the Arab world for rejecting the peace plan, calling their invasion "armed aggression". Can you imagine the modern UN - the antisemitic dictators' debating club - doing the same today? The author is quite right to say:

Full article here. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114489&sectionid=3510203 The key point to this boycott is that these people believe that Israel is stealing goods from the Palestinians. This is just more ignorance. Israel is not stealing goods from anybody. It doesn't really make any...

Their goal? "To fight zionism, eliminate the zionist presence, and liberate Palestine". Their method? The same method used to destroy Czechoslovakia -- first get it into indefensible borders by speaking about "peace", then demand the rest / start the war, as per Arafat's "staged plan" of...

'...Israel yesterday reacted angrily to a draft EU proposal for East Jerusalem to be a future Palestinian capital that allows the possibility of endorsing a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. A draft policy document by the Swedish EU presidency, if approved next week by European foreign...

A view days ago, Haaretz published a quite interesting proposal for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Now the correspondent who wrote the piece might be a controversial figure to some people and the plan is a little bit too detailed IMHO, but after examining the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians It is pretty clear now that the two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict is now dead. This is because Israel refuses to stop building new homes in settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The two...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125875.html This is because Israel refuses to stop building and expanding existing settlements, insists that they would control the airspace over any future Palestinian state, and insists that they would control the eastern border of any Palestinian state...

The UN accepts trash report to trash Israel. UN votes to endorse Gaza report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8310754.stm The UN human rights body has endorsed a report into Israel's offensive in Gaza which accuses both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes. The report by...

I love how these illegal settlers complain about their rights being stepped on, but then they go ahead and treat innocent people like this. If these Israelis can't act civilized then they need to go home. Tossing alcohol on a Muslim woman is disgusting and highly offensive.

Israelis flatten Palestinian homes in Jerusalem! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8303355.stm And the Zionists wonder why the world is waking up and increasingly criticising them. All this stuff could be kept quiet during pre-Internet days when they had the monopoly on...

Warning - long political rant ahead, and on the middle-east to boot. You have been warned! I am quite apprehensive starting this thread, as I fully expect the ensuing discussion wont be worth the effort of of writing it. But the ideas have been running through my head for a few weeks now. So...

My personal opinion how to solve this problem is: Israel should give up their oppressive stance and rather focus on making peace by supporting Palestinians to establish their Palestinian state due to economical support, construction of infrastructure and giving up on military advantages...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1102099.html I have to say...I agree with this decision. Israel must protect the right of citizens to dissent...even angrily dissent against state policies..and even past policies. But Israel is under no obligation to use tax funded textbooks to insult and...

Just a hunch, here, but I don't expect any plays by Alan Rickman called "My Name is Raed Wael Sawalha", or songs by Billy Bragg called "The Lonesome Death of Raed Wael Sawalha" anytime soon. Disgusting human beings, all. About the only positive aspect of the affair is that the PA is...

...I think I see a solution to the Israel-Arab conflict. Jordan shall declare itself to be the Palestinian state. Israel will negotiate the borders in the WB with it. New border -- Israel gets the larger settlements, the cities; Palestine -- or Jordan -- the rest. The refugees become...

By request we have started a moderated thread to discuss the legality of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank. As a moderated thread, each post will have to be viewed and approved by a moderator, so please do not attempt to insert cunning insults, topic diversions or any other violations of...

Oh my, the drama. Israel's government seem's to be pretty worried about evil Iran, aka: most aggressive, invading country ever: CNN: Israel stages biggest-ever war drill 41 min In other, important news: Ghotbi's vision for Iran football

Netanyahu continues to sanction Israel's expansionist agenda! http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ak3GxFsdVBPg&refer=home Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a plea by U.S. President Barack Obama to stop Jewish settlements in the West Bank, creating an obstacle...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086829.html The new PA cabinet presented on Tuesday has conclusively dashed any hope of Palestinian reconciliation, and with it, the possibility that the Hamas regime in Gaza can be ousted in the near future. The composition of this new government basically...