Archive for the 'Occupation' Category

  1. Israel’s settlements are legaL

    Sunday, December 20th, 2009

    “The distinguished Anglo-Canadian jurist, Professor Gerald Adler, considers this very assumption. In a painstaking analysis of Jewish claims stretching back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920 and the Palestine Mandate of 1922, Professor Adler demonstrates that Jews have a right to “close settlement” on the West Bank, and that this right was in fact specifically preserved, and carried forward on the demise of the League of Nations, through the deliberate wording of article 80 of the founding charter of its successor body, the United Nations organization.”

  2. Israel’s Legal Territorial Rights

    Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

    By Eli E. Hertz September 13, 2009 The U.S. Administration, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia are rewriting history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied Territories’ and the Settlements as an ‘Obstacle to Peace’ and ‘Illegitimate’. It endows these Palestinian terms with an aura of false history and bogus statehood. Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton [...]

  3. Facts Are Unimportant When They Contradict Our Preconceived Opinions

    Saturday, September 12th, 2009

    “Is non-payment of rent grounds for eviction? What if the tenant is a Palestinian living in East Jerusalem?”

  4. A Collective Arab Rasberry

    Friday, September 11th, 2009

    ” . . . a quick whip round by his Foreign Minister would have produced a 100 per cent Arab raspberry?”

  5. “OCCUPATION” IS STILL A LIE

    Saturday, August 1st, 2009

    President Barack Obama has already placed the Middle East at the very top of his foreign policy agenda. There is nothing inherently wrong with this ordering; quite the contrary. The problem, however, is that the new administration’s ambitious negotiations remain structured upon altogether erroneous assumptions. In this connection, the gravest continuing misrepresentation of all is that there are Arab lands under an Israeli “occupation.”

  6. Douglas Bloomfield’s Boo-Boo Corrected

    Friday, July 24th, 2009

    “I regret your erudite contributor has this aspect wrong for that is exactly what Egypt, which gets half a billion a year less than Israel, has been doing for years. Egypt invariably vote against the US in the United Nations and has never publicly, nor I imagine privately, been intimidated for doing so.”

  7. Disputed or Occupied Territories –
    Who Knows Best?
    BBC or James Baker,
    Former Secretary Of State?

    Thursday, December 1st, 2005

    “Baker replied, “They´re clearly disputed territories. That´s what Resolutions 242 and 338 are all about. They are clearly disputed territories.”

  8. EU to Israel:
    “Take Down Your Anti-Terrorist Barrier”

    Monday, July 26th, 2004

    “Palestinian inconveniences at crossing points, real and imagined, are adjudged by the EU as more deserving than Israel’s desire to save Jewish lives. Should we be all that surprised at Europe’s anti-Semitism? Not when we remember all the European nations which helped the Germans murder our people by rounding them up so efficiently, deliberately, even enthusiastically, for deportation to the death camps.”