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

Lessons to be Learned From 66 U.N. Resolutions Israel Ignores

By Donald Neff
Former Time Magazine Bureau Chief, Israel
Fifty Years of Israel
Originally printed in the Washington Report in March 1993

Donald Neff has been a journalist for forty years. He spent 16 years in service for Time Magazine and is a regular contributor to Middle East International and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. He has written five excellent books on the Middle East.

There is a disturbing lack of historical perspective to the Clinton administration’s efforts during its first days in office to shield Israel from United Nations sanctions. Like former Secretary of State James Baker’s repeated assertion that both sides must want peace for it to occur, the Clinton-Rabin agreement ignores the sorry record of the 26 years since Israel’s conquest of the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.During that period Israel has unequivocally demonstrated that it does not want peace in exchange for territory. Its insistence on expelling Palestinians who oppose the occupation and on establishing Jewish settlements in the occupied territories are only the latest manifestations of its desire to retain them. Equally important in revealing its true policy is Israel’s successful record of resisting American and other peace initiatives over the years.

The Palestinians DO have a real homeland, and Israel is squatting on it,

which makes Israel not a democracy, but a kleptocracy.

Home > Campaigns > Israeli Artists Condemn Settlements | Twitter | Email | Print North American and UK artists support Israelis who refuse to perform in settlements.
Israeli Artists Condemn Settlements
When some 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights signed a letter stating they would refuse to play in the new theatre in Ariel, one of Israel's largest settlements, the attacks from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel's Minister of Culture and Sport and many others were swift and intense. Over 150 leading Israeli academics and writers- including Amos Oz and David Grossman- came to their defense. It was the first time such mainstream figures had drawn a line around normalizing settlements which are illegal according to international law, and which constitute one of the main impediments to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Inspired by their courage, and responding to a call for international support, Jewish Voice for Peace has developed a statement that has been signed by over 150 theater and film professionals representing some of the most respected and renowned artists in theater, film and television – including Four Pulitzer Prize winners, several recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Medal of Honor,and scores of recipients of the highest U.S. acting honors, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and the Oscar.

The Paslestinian homeland is where they lived for centuries: that's what a homeland is, by definition.

And that's the land where Israel now is, the land the Israelis took, without right or law or compensation, from the Palestinians.

And your attdempt to brand any criticism at all of Israel as anti-Semitism is what is repugnant.

And is in fact a lie, just the latest of the many you repeatedly tell and then deny are lies.

Genetic analysis suggests that a majority of the Muslims of Palestine, inclusive of Arab citizens of Israel, are descendants of Christians, Jews and other earlier inhabitants of the southern Levant whose core may reach back to prehistoric times. A study of high-resolution haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Israeli Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool.[30] Since the time of the Muslim conquests in the 7th century, religious conversions have resulted in Palestinians being predominantly Sunni Muslim by religious affiliation, though there is a significant Palestinian Christian minority of various Christian denominations, as well as Druze and a small Samaritan community. Though Palestinian Jews made up part of the population of Palestine prior to the creation of the State of Israel, few identify as "Palestinian" today. Acculturation, independent from conversion to Islam, resulted in Palestinians being linguistically and culturally Arab.[17] The vernacular of Palestinians, irrespective of religion, is the Palestinian dialect of Arabic. Many Arab citizens of Israel including Palestinians are bilingual and fluent in Hebrew.

My supposed wilfull ignorance is just my not subscribing to your world view, for example,.

you do not know me, as another American knows me.

Most Palestinians lived in Palestine/Israel for much longer than most Americans have lived in the US. THAT IS THEIR HOME by every definition of that word.

Foofie wrote:

you do not know me, as another American knows me.

CI is American, he also finds you profoundly ignorant.

I must say you're quite irritating, like a mosquito, and overall rather whiny and pathetic.

Dumb question. We paid for our property, and have title to it. Jews are stealing Palestinian lands without payment.

BIG DIFFERENCE! You wouldn't understand such simple concepts.

The distinction between the element of citizenship and the element of nationality reflects the state’s relative failure, ever since it was established, to grant equal treatment to all its citizens. The Supreme Court did stress in its ruling that the state was obligated to treat equally all its citizens, residents and others under its rule, but such equality has little chance of being realized as long as the state identifies itself as Jewish and maintains a preference for one group over other groups when it comes to labeling its citizens.

It only stands from ignorance. The US government's, state, and local laws protects my ownership of property as it does in the majority of cases.

Palestinians in Israel do not have the same protections.

Actually, only Jews are equal in Israel. According to Wednesday's ruling by Israel's Supreme Court, only Jews are recognized as members of the "Israeli" nation.
Sixty-five years after the state’s establishment, its authorities still don’t recognize an Israeli nationality independent of religious or ethnic affiliation.

So, Turkish babies are born in Germany, and are not citizens. At least the Israelis are being honest in their concept of a Zionist State. Germany cherry picks as to who may become a German.

So, Turkish babies are born in Germany, and are not citizens.