Israel Under Attack: Does Anyone Care?

cicerone imposter wrote:

You said the UN was responsible for the blockade? Why did they attack Egypt?

The UN did not attack Egypt; they were there as Peacekeepers. See the following from Wikipedia.

Good. Can America finally get back to the community of nations and let Israel fend for itself?

Would you prefer that the United States just abstain from any further votes in the United Nations that have to do with any Israeli or Middle East issues?

Would the Israelis?


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I would certainly prefer UN silence over their usual injustice when it comes to Israel. If you can get Syria to "fend for itself" then let's talk about Israel fending for itself to which you'll find a great American Ally, an ally from which Americans get a lot of benefit from.

"Next you will be calling me an anti-Semite, Advocate."


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Gosh Frank, nice way to get ahead of that one.

"I am not anti-Jew; anti-Semite; or anti-Israel..and most assuredly I am not praying for the destruction of Israel. I am trying to get across to someone who is exhibiting a stone head on the issue...that the creation of Israel in that area IS the primary reason for the discord there"

That's true but not for the reasons you think, Israel and Egypt are probably the only two countries that are also nations. The rest are at best tribal nightmares and typically minority ruled tribal nightmares that try to justify their existence either under a pan-Arabist sensibility or pan-Islamic one both of which subscribe to a local variation of manifest destiny. Kurdistan might be the second nation to form in the post colonial middle east and the region has no more tolerance to that than to a free Israel. Israel is an advanced, multicultural, post industrial democracy and the region need to not only accept it but embrace what it stands for and lot of people will stop dying when that progress is made.

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories

Human Rights Concerns

Amnesty International's concerns are based on international standards and applied equally within the proper legal framework. The legal framework is defined by who retains jurisdiction, or effective control, over an area and the circumstances or situation at the time of the human rights violation. Amnesty's concerns within Israel-proper, the area inside the 1949 (W. Bank/E. Jerusalem) and 1951 (Gaza Strip) armistice lines (also called the '1967 borders') include but are not limited to, ill-treatment and torture of detainees, excessive use of force, the detention of conscientious objectors, and forced evictions and home demolitions within 'unrecognized' Bedouin villages.
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory (the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip) is in its fifth decade and the undercurrent of violence and inherent abuses of fundamental human rights and disregard for international law inherent in any long-standing military occupation is presented by both sides. Both Israeli and Palestinian civilians continue to bear the brunt of the violence in the region.

Palestinians don't have any LEGAL RIGHTS in Israel. That's not a DEMOCRACY by any standard of that word.

I've been to Israel twice; they have control towers on the roads where Palestinian cars with green license plates cannot cross. Bethlehem is a prison where Palestinians cannot leave and Jews cannot enter.

I've posted a picture of Bethlehem. It looks more like a prison than it does a "village" of free peoples.

Where did you learn about the restrictions against Palestinians in Israel? FOX News?

There would never be fences but for the propensity of the Pals to attack innocent Israelis.

Good neighbors don't need fences. We've lived in communities where there are no fences - like in Naperville, IL. I'm sure there are many communities in the US like Naperville.

Better than a racial bigot! I don't mind who lives next door to me!