The peace process could take 300 years so why should Isreal not build new homes. By not allowing the houses to be built the Palestine’s effectively have a veto.
According to the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Jerusalem would always belong to the United Nations. That was part of the original deal when the Palestinians agreed to share Palestine with the Jews.
There was a border called the green line that separated the new "Israel" area from the remaining "Palestine" area. Almost immediately Israel began building "Jewish-only" settlements on the Palestinian side of the green line. after about 20 years of this activity, the Pales grabbed their swords and mounted their camels and rode into Israel to stop this theft of their lands. The Israelis grabbed their guns and mounted their tanks and proceeded to wage war with the angered Pales.
Once the guns beat the swords and the tanks beat the camels (surprise) the Israelis claimed the stolen lands as "war-won"… but… even though they already expanded their lands well beyond the green line, they still never stopped building "jewish-only" settlements on the wrong side of the border…
This is just one more example of the same stuff they’ve been pulling for decades… if it doesn’t stop now when should it stop?
Could you imagine if we built American-only settlements in Mexico? or Canada? who would approve of that? You know we could simply conquer either one more easily than the Israelis conquer Palestinian land… but it’s just not right
March 31st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
because it sends the wrong signal
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:08 pm
It is their country — not even the part that they won when they were attacked… They have every right and SHOULD build as they see fit.
Dear Mark L.,
Americans DID go to Mexico, purchased land and then built a gated community. They purchased the land using Mexican Realtors and built using Mexican contractors. The lived there for almost ten full years before the Mexican government declared that it is illegal for a foreigner to own land in Mexico. Having obeyed all the laws of the land, they were still evicted and lost everything.
What you and everyone else here fails to wrap your heads around is that there are NO "Palestinians." Those who claim to be, are Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian – all of whom were left behind after their attacks failed. It sort of makes them all "Israeli" by default.
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March 31st, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Because they agreed to not do it before they thumbed their noses at the agreement.
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March 31st, 2010 at 3:04 pm
For the same reason China or anyone else should not be allowed to come to your neighborhood and evict you and your family and build new homes for their population.
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March 31st, 2010 at 3:28 pm
According to the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Jerusalem would always belong to the United Nations. That was part of the original deal when the Palestinians agreed to share Palestine with the Jews.
There was a border called the green line that separated the new "Israel" area from the remaining "Palestine" area. Almost immediately Israel began building "Jewish-only" settlements on the Palestinian side of the green line. after about 20 years of this activity, the Pales grabbed their swords and mounted their camels and rode into Israel to stop this theft of their lands. The Israelis grabbed their guns and mounted their tanks and proceeded to wage war with the angered Pales.
Once the guns beat the swords and the tanks beat the camels (surprise) the Israelis claimed the stolen lands as "war-won"… but… even though they already expanded their lands well beyond the green line, they still never stopped building "jewish-only" settlements on the wrong side of the border…
This is just one more example of the same stuff they’ve been pulling for decades… if it doesn’t stop now when should it stop?
Could you imagine if we built American-only settlements in Mexico? or Canada? who would approve of that? You know we could simply conquer either one more easily than the Israelis conquer Palestinian land… but it’s just not right
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March 31st, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Dear Doc,
They aren’t people from Syria, jordania…. – they are arab people that lived in this area (palestine mandate) and after the war a lot of them had to emigrate and stay as refugees in Jordan, Syria,… .
"Mandate Palestine, an area encompassing Israel proper, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, was once after World War One under British Mandate and every citizen in this area could have labeled as Palestinians (arab or not).
After the British left and following the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel, the use and application of the terms "Palestine" and "Palestinian" by and to Palestinian Jews largely dropped from use. For example, the English-language newspaper The Palestine Post, founded by Jews in 1932, changed its name in 1950 to The Jerusalem Post. Jews in Israel and the West Bank today generally identify as Israelis. Arab citizens of Israel identify themselves as Israeli and/or Palestinian and/or Arab. Palestians is now used for describing the arab part of the people former living in the palestine mandate.
Nowadays the total Palestinian population, including descendants, is estimated at approximately 12 million, roughly less than half continuing to live within the boundaries of what was Mandate Palestine.
In this combined area, as of 2009, they constitute a majority of 49% of all inhabitants,[10] some of whom are internally displaced persons.
The remainder, over half of all Palestinians, comprise what is known as the Palestinian diaspora. It is estimated that more than half of the displaced Palestinians are stateless refugees, either lacking citizenship in any country, or having limited citizenship rights in Jordan[11] Of the diaspora, more than 4 million live in neighboring Jordan in which the population is over 70% Palestinian and the rest 25% Jordanian,[12] one and a half million is shared between Syria and Lebanon, a quarter million in Saudi Arabia, while Chile’s half a million is the largest concentration outside the Arab world."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_people
March 31st, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Philistines was migrant people from the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands who settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it "Palastina".
The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from the Peleshet.
In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.
After the Roman conquest of Judea, "Palastina" became a province of the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire, and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. In 638 CE, an Arab-Muslim Caliph took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced "Falastin".
During the First World War, the British took Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. At the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and among its subject provinces "Palestine" was assigned to the British, to govern temporarily as a mandate from the League of Nations.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917, confirmed by the League of Nations Mandate, commited the British Government to the principle that "His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish National Home, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . . " It was specified both that this area be open to "close Jewish settlement" and that the rights of all inhabitants already in the country be preserved and protected.
During the period of the Mandate, it was the Jewish population that was known as "Palestinians" including those who served in the British Army in World War II.
The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in Palestine, until the Jews came and "displaced" them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into Palestine "displaced" the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in Palestine for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a "Palestinian refugees". After the 1967 war this was changed to "Israeli refugees.
What was to become of "Palestine" after the Mandate? This question was taken up by various British and international commissions and other bodies, culminating with the United Nations in 1947. By 1948, the Arabs had still not yet discovered their ancient nation of Falastin. When they were offered half of Palestine west of the Jordan River for a state, the offer was violently rejected. Six Arab states launched a war of annihilation against the nascent State of Israel. Their purpose was not to establish an independent Falastin. Their aim was to partition western Palestine amongst themselves.
They did not succeed in killing Israel, but Trans-Jordan succeeded in taking Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and East Jerusalem, killing or driving out all the Jews who had lived in those places, and banning Jews of all nations from Jewish holy places. Egypt succeeded in taking the Gaza Strip. These two Arab states held these lands until 1967. Then they launched another war of annihilation against Israel, and in consequence lost the lands they had taken by war in 1948. During those 19 years, 1948-1967, Jordan and Egypt never offered to surrendar those lands to make up an independent state of Falastin. The "Palestinians" never sought it. Nobody in the world ever suggested it,much less demanded it.
God Bless!
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March 31st, 2010 at 4:46 pm
because its not their beeping land!
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