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

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In my opinion, England is for Americans what Disneyworld is for children.

The difference is that the British do not have to put on Mickey and Minny costumes to entertain the tourists with their presence.

How insulting you are!

Don't worry about Fluff, nobody else does, he's completely insane. His world view is fuelled by paranoid delusions and crude stereotyping. He thinks My Fair Lady, is a fly-on-the-wall documentary.

0bserver wrote:

Please don't tell me you believe the health system there only works for Jews .. and only very religious ones.

I'm sure the Palestinians would receive fantastic care if they weren't all being held at checkpoints.

A strike against Syria won't do a damn thing to stop the continuing violence, it will just kill more people.

I'm boycotting Israel until they end the occupation. I boycotted South Africa as well, apartheid supporters like yourself came up with the same arguments then.

Any strike by the US in Syria is not going to change that dynamics. Iraq is the proof.

As for the West Bank, as long as the West allows China to get away with the occupation of Tibet, we haven't got a leg to stand on. It will be a lot easier to be taken seriously by the Israelis about the West Bank once there's a free Tibet

This weekend, a report revealing that African women immigrating to Israel were subjected to mandatory contraceptive injections, effectively amounting to forced (if temporary) sterilization made global headlines.

Some 130,000 Ethiopians, most of them Jewish, live in Israel. The community experiences higher poverty and unemployment rates than the rest of the country’s Jewish population. In the past decade, the birth rate among Ethiopian-Israelis has declined by at least 20 percent. Advocacy groups now claim this decline is the result of a birth control regimen forced upon Ethiopian immigrant women.

According to an article in Haaretz, an Israeli news source, one Ethiopian immigrant said that the doctors who injected her claimed that “people who frequently give birth suffer.” While it is possible, if highly unlikely, that doctors genuinely had the women’s health in mind when they forcibly injected them with contraceptives, there is no excuse for depriving women sovereignty over their own reproductive choices.

Israel has acknowledged the issue (without admitting any wrongdoing) and has vowed institutional changes in healthcare for immigrants. By decree of Israel’s health minister, gynecologists have been ordered “not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment.”

Robin al-Abed, 32, was shot in the chest as he tried to get from his home to his workplace, and Jihad Asslan, 20, was pronounced brain dead after being shot on the roof of his house where he had gone to watch the clashes, said a neighbour of the men, Abu Omar Hammad. The third dead man was Younis Jahjouh, 22, who was also shot in the chest.

Hammad, 46, who sells sweets in the camp, said he had been woken by his children at 6am to find "soldiers smothering the neighbourhood". He said he saw al-Rabed shot as he tried to get to his job with the UN Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa.

izzythepush wrote:

I'm boycotting Israel until they end the occupation. I boycotted South Africa as well, apartheid supporters like yourself came up with the same arguments then.

Don't forget to boycott the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments.