Archive for the 'Occupation' Category
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Nakba Day Commemorates the Day the Arabs Failed to Vanquish and Exterminate the Jews of Palestine
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012“Nakba Day commemorates the catastrophe (as the Palestinians have chosen to call it) when five Arab nations (Egypt, Trans Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) attacked outnumbered and outweaponed Israel on its first day of independence. Yet amazingly, and against all odds, the poorly armed Jewish Haganah emerged victorious.”
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Most Palestinians Penetrated into the Land of Israel Between 1870s’-1948
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012“The Palestinian claim that they are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel has no ground”” says this renowned historian.
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Finnish delusions
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011In short, since the beginning of 1996, and certainly following the completion of the Hebron redeployment in January 1997, 99% of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have not lived under Israeli occupation; rather, they have been under the jurisdiction of the Arafat-led PA.
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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.”
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Israel’s Legal Territorial Rights
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009By 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 Territoriesand 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 and […]
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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?”
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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?”
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“OCCUPATION” IS STILL A LIE
Saturday, August 1st, 2009President 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.”
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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.”
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Disputed or Occupied Territories –
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Who Knows Best?
BBC or James Baker,
Former Secretary Of State?“Baker replied, “They´re clearly disputed territories. That´s what Resolutions 242 and 338 are all about. They are clearly disputed territories.”
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EU to Israel:
Monday, July 26th, 2004
“Take Down Your Anti-Terrorist Barrier”“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.”