Can you look at this map and say Israel does not systemically appropriate land?

Your statements are motivated by your desire to not see the facts presented on just what an apartheid state Israel is, A.

Advocate wrote:

The organization thinks it is terrible that Israel defends its borders and people. The USA has such organizations, which are totally unrealistic about internal and external threats to the country.
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The fact that Israel has such organizations is a tribute to Israel's openness and freedom.

So such organisations in the USA are "totally unrealistic about internal and external threats to the country", but in Israel they are "a tribute to Israel's openness and freedom".
Amazing! I really didn't consider things like that.

Actually, this was noticed in Israel as well: AIPAC, the Kremlin of U.S. Jewry

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If AIPAC wants to show true friendship, it should stop cheering long and start whispering in the PM's ear that people in the U.S. are fed up with Israel.

That is the phenomenon known as the Self Hating Jew.

I don't know why some Jews are compelled to spout outrageous anti-Semitism, but the best solution seems to be to not give their anti-Semitism any credence.

Something like closing down newspapers?

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If AIPAC wants to show true friendship... start whispering in the PM's ear that people in the U.S. are fed up with Israel.

This post was then followed by a discussion by one poster on the topic of the self-hating Jew".

I don't know any"'self-hating Jews".

I've know many Jews, who over time did change their names ( in the US ) and did so for a variety of reasons...but never would I have said that they did so, because they were "self-hating".

The quote above, stated that people in the US are fed up with Israel. Who are these people? Are they Jewish? Are they Christians? Who are they?

I don't know any American Jews who are fed up with Israel.

Walter Hinteler wrote:
Actually, this was noticed in Israel as well: AIPAC, the Kremlin of U.S. Jewry

If AIPAC wants to show true friendship, it should stop cheering long and start whispering in the PM's ear that people in the U.S. are fed up with Israel.

Izzythepush wrote:

Palestine is a democracy, Lebanon is a democracy. Israel is a pseudo democracy because not all of the people controlled by Israel are allowed to vote for the government that makes all the decisions.

Israel has expressed regret over the death of a Jordanian judge, who was shot by Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge border crossing on Monday.

It has also agreed to a request to set up a joint investigation with Jordan.

The Israeli military says Raed Zaytar, who was of Palestinian origin, tried to grab a soldier's rifle and strangle him after crossing into the West Bank.

But the incident was condemned by the Palestinian Authority and Jordan's government, which called it "hideous".

Investigation

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office issued a statement saying: "Israel regrets the death of Judge Raed Zaytar... and expresses its sympathies to the people and government of Jordan."

"Israel has already shared with Jordan the results of its preliminary investigation of the incident," it added. "Israel has also agreed to a Jordanian request to establish a joint Israeli-Jordanian team to complete the investigation."

Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour meanwhile told parliament that Israel was "completely responsible" for Mr Zaytar's death.

"Jordan has pressured Israel to formally apologise. Jordan is now part of the probe into the shooting," he said.

MPs dismissed the Israeli expression of regret and the Speaker, Attef al-Tarwaneh, said the shooting had violated Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel.
Lawyers and judges staged a protest outside the Palace of Justice in Amman to demand the deportation of Israeli diplomats.

The Palestinian Authority has also strongly condemned the shooting and demanded the formation of an international investigative committee.

Originally from the northern West Bank town of Nablus, Mr Zaytar had been working as a magistrate in Jordan since 2009.

Hundreds of Palestinians turned out for his funeral on Tuesday in Nablus. Palestinian Authority security personnel escorted his body in a 20-vehicle military procession.

Mr Zaytar was on board a bus that transports people across the Allenby Bridge crossing with about 50 others on Monday morning when it was stopped by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint.

Describing Mr Zaytar as a "terrorist", the Israeli military said that after getting off the bus he "ran towards the soldiers yelling 'Allahu akbar', attempting to seize their weapons".

"The soldiers felt an immediate threat to their lives and fired toward his lower extremities. The suspect then began to strangle a soldier and the force resorted to firing again," it added.

On Tuesday evening, the Palestinian news agency Maan cited a witness as saying the incident began when Mr Zaytar was pushed over by the soldier as he attempted to board the bus at the checkpoint.

Mr Zaytar got up and pushed the soldier, who then opened fire, the report said. The first shot missed, but the second hit him in the chest, it added.

The witness said the judge lay on the road bleeding for about half an hour before an Israeli ambulance arrived and medics tried to revive him.

Not much more than 24 hours after the incident, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a formal expression of sorrow, sent condolences to the Jordanian people and government, submitted a report from the initial investigation to the Jordanians and even announced the establishment of a binational team to look into the incident. Israel has not taken such steps following the killing of any unarmed Palestinian in recent years.

In their latest redrawing of the map of the West Bank at the expense of Palestinians, Israeli occupation authorities have declared about 250 acres of territory south of Bethlehem to be land belonging to the state, paving the way for it to be used to expand three Israeli settlements.
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It is the largest declaration of state lands in the West Bank since 2004, and draws on 19th-century Ottoman Turkish law [sic!] to take over Palestinian land found to have been uncultivated for a decade.
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The move came as three Israeli settler families took up occupancy of building with 20 apartments in the West Bank city of Hebron after Israel’s supreme court last month ruled they had purchased the property legally. Palestinians and Israeli doves consider this to be the equivalent of a new settlement in Hebron.

Three Jewish families returned on Sunday to a disputed building in Hebron from which they had been evicted more than five years ago.

Permission for the return was given by Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon after the Supreme Court ruled last month that the four-storey building, known as the House of Contention, had been legally purchased by the settlers.

The families were accompanied by a large and festive crowd as they returned to the building. The rabbi of Hebron Dov Lior said that "the purchase of a house in the Land of Israel is, for the people of Israel, the return of the city of the fathers to her sons – and so it should be throughout the breadth of our land.

"Real peace will be when the nations of the world recognize the exclusive right of the Jewish people to this land. Every nation has its piece of land on the earth and we are willing to assist them in returning to their place of origin."

"The soldiers felt an immediate threat to their lives and fired toward his lower extremities. The suspect then began to strangle a soldier and the force resorted to firing again," it added.

In their latest redrawing of the map of the West Bank at the expense of Palestinians, Israeli occupation authorities have declared about 250 acres of territory south of Bethlehem to be land belonging to the state, paving the way for it to be used to expand three Israeli settlements.
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It is the largest declaration of state lands in the West Bank since 2004, and draws on 19th-century Ottoman Turkish law [sic!] to take over Palestinian land found to have been uncultivated for a decade.