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

Ya’alon, who never hid his view that the talks were pointless, is the quintessential representative of this policy. He doesn’t represent the law, but rather the extreme right, which is dragging Israel down a path of conflict with the United States and Europe, and sabotaging Israelis’ hopes for resolving the conflict with the Palestinians. It raises the question of how Ya’alon’s political agenda can possibly be compatible with his responsibility for Israel’s security.

The colonisation project will be the end of Israel as a democratic state.

Oh well... we'll just need to bomb them into good behaviour at some point in the not so distant future.

YOU need to read history. Palestine, which is today claimed by two people, was home to dozens of nations in antiquity.

The colonisation project will be the end of Israel as a democratic state. Oh well... we'll just need to bomb them into good behaviour at some point in the not so distant future.

The B.D.S. movement has nothing to do with animus toward Jews. Many American Jews, myself included, are vigorously working in support of B.D.S. — and there are more and more of us with every passing month. We target Israel for boycott not because we believe Israel is the worst human rights violator (we don’t), but because Israel is the single largest recipient of American foreign aid, more than $3 billion a year. As Jews, as taxpayers, as people of conscience, we have not only the right but the moral obligation to use boycott and divestment as strategies of nonviolent resistance to Israel’s systematic, racist mistreatment of Palestinians being done on our nickel and in our names.

I know you're being facetious, O5, but what most likely will occur will be the global movement campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Sanctions is something that can seemingly move mountains given enough time.

The Palestinian boycott call was initiated in 2005, decades after Zionists evicted Palestinians from the lands of the future Israeli state, after all of Palestine came under Israeli control and occupation, and after thousands of Palestinians had been tortured, detained or killed. International institutions have pointed to Israel’s violations of international law. Yet the United States and Western countries have ignored the harsh realities of Palestinian life and the widening system of superior privilege for Jews in Palestine. From the Israeli-Jewish cocoon it looks like an attack on Israel and the Jewish nation when the criticism of Israeli actions against Palestinians grows after decades of singular support for Israel and total silence on the Palestinian issues. Israel needs to learn to follow international law. The boycott is a teaching tool, nothing more.

Martina Lauer Chesterville, Ontario

The Israelis claim that anti-Semitism is behind the boycott, but they don’t see the real reason: the occupation of Palestinian lands and the subjugation of the Palestinians over the years.

Lillian Laskin, Los Angeles

I'm not anti-Semitic.

I wonder how you come about you're ideas of what's legal in land appropriation.

BTW....many American Jews agree with me.

Your willingness to deprive Jews of their own homeland is pretty disturbing.

Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

he Iranian nuclear project will be active only in another 10 years,” Eilam told the Yedioth Ahronoth daily in excerpts from an interview published on Thursday. “I am not sure that Iran wants a bomb. It could be that they would be satisfied to be a threshold nuclear state to be a regional power and scare the neighbors.”

Eilam also accused Netanyahu of worrying the Israeli public with the specter of Iran for his own political machinations.

“Netanyahu is using the Iranian threat in order to achieve all kinds of political purposes,” he said but declined to speculate on what might be the goals of the prime minister’s strategy.
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Eilam said that the government’s saber-rattling over a possible attack is pointless, especially considering the challenges of military action.

“The talk and threats about a strike on Iran were working up a frenzy that doesn’t help,” he said and noted the practical difficulties in pulling off a successful bombing campaign.

He also argued that the attack would backfire, pushing Iran to double down on its nuclear program and rallying the populace behind the regime.
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Former head of Israeli Atomic Energy Commission Uzi Eilam says Tehran may not even want nuke, but Netanyahu working public into lather for political gain

He also argued that the attack would backfire, pushing Iran to double down on its nuclear program and rallying the populace behind the regime.

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I am only with Americans. Preferably with Protestants.

Not referral with fellow Jews?

Why the preference for protestants, may I ask?

That should read: "Not preference for fellow Jews?"

Foofie, On an even lighter side, many of us Asians find the Chinese to be equal to Jews on arrogance.

I guess one could leave out the "fellow"?

Why can't one accept the less than pleasing traits of one's specific group?