Israel Under Attack: Does Anyone Care?

Like most such issues and disputes the moral lines are often very difficult to draw.

Not from where I stand and observe how the Jews continue to expland their settlements by stealing Palestinian lands. Isreal is "supposed to be" a democracy. If Palestinians don't have legal protection for their property, it's not a democracy by any stretch of anyone's imagination. Maybe your's, but not mine.

‘Israeli settlements’ are located beyond the 1949 Green Line and include structures in East Jerusalem and in Area “C” of the West Bank. The Oslo Accords established Area “A” comprising approximately 18 per cent of the West Bank and encompassing urban Palestinian areas under full control of the Palestinian Authority; Area “B” representing about 22 per cent of the vast majority of Palestinian rural areas, under Palestinian civil control while the Israeli army has security control; and Area “C” comprising an estimated 60 per cent of the territory, under full Israeli control for security, planning and construction purposes. Settlements are generally located amongst the more vulnerable sections of Palestinian society, predominantly agrarian villages.

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Since 1967, Israeli Governments have openly led and directly participated in the planning, construction, development, consolidation and/or encouragement of settlements by including explicit provisions in the fundamental policy instrument (Basic policy guidelines), establishing governmental structures and implementing specific measures. These specific measures include: i) building infrastructure; ii) encouraging Jewish migrants to Israel to move to settlements; iii) sponsoring economic activities; iv) supporting settlements through public services delivery and development projects; and v) seizing Palestinian land, some privately owned, requisitioning land for “military needs”, declaring or registering land as “State Land” and expropriating land for “public needs”.

Information presented to the Mission demonstrates that distinct legal systems exist in the OPT and are applied separately to Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Broadly, Israelis in Area C are subject to Israeli domestic law enforced by the police and courts in Israel. A patchwork of Israeli military orders and Ottoman, British and Jordanian legislation is applied to Palestinians, who are also subject to a military court system with a wide jurisdictional reach.

Through “channelling” Israeli civil law into the territory of settlements, “legal zones” have been established within the West Bank where Israeli laws apply to settlers in order, for example, to regulate the status and authority of governmental institutions within settlements. These laws do not apply to Palestinians. Other Israeli laws are applied personally to Israelis in the West Bank, giving them preferential legal status over Palestinians. A matrix of military orders applies personally, by law or by practice, only to Palestinians to regulate and control most aspects of daily life, including by restricting an extensive range of rights. Israelis and Palestinians are also treated differently by the same laws. For instance, some military orders designate areas in the OPT as “closed military zones/areas”. With the exception of military training or firing zones, only Palestinians are prohibited from entering such areas unless they have a permit, even if the area encompasses Palestinian land, thereby denying Palestinians access to or ownership of land. The so-called “seam zone” is closed to Palestinians, while Israelis and foreign visitors have unrestricted access. Certain other Israeli laws expressly discriminate against Palestinians. In 2012, the Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination reiterated its concern about the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Provision) that suspends, with rare exceptions, family reunification between an Israeli citizen and a person residing in the OPT, with a severe impact on family rights.

eth·ic
noun \ˈe-thik\

Definition of ETHIC

1 plural but sing or plural in constr: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation


2 a: a set of moral principles : a theory or system of moral values <the present-day materialistic ethic> <an old-fashioned work ethic> —often used in plural but singular or plural in construction <an elaborate ethics> <Christian ethics>

bplural but sing or plural in constr: the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group <professional ethics>

c: a guiding philosophy

d: a consciousness of moral importance <forge a conservation ethic>

3 plural: a set of moral issues or aspects (as rightness) <debated the ethics of human cloning>

According to a recent UN report: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, the Zionists are stealing Palestinian land and violating their rights.

The Zionists are arrogating land beyond the 1949 Green Line which is internationally recognized as the boundary between Israel and Palestine, and repressing the Palestinians therein.

Israel is condemned for going beyond certain borders between the state of Israel and Pal areas. But the Pals have always gone beyond the borders to attack Israel. They have never respected the borders. Thus, why is Israel condemned for going over the borders? It doesn't make good sense.

You fail to understand the simple definition of "ethics."

Stealing is wrong under any circumstance,

but especially when one group of citizens don't have any legal right to their property.

Obviously, you think that Pal ceaseless attacks on Israel are ethical. I don't.

The difference in your comparison is that Israel is condemned for going beyond certain borders between the state of Israel and Pal areas to arrogate Palestinian land.

The Palestinian militants have gone beyond the borders to attack Israel but haven't arrogated Israeli land. The Palestinian militants have gone beyond the borders to attack Israel in retaliation for the repression visited upon the Palestinians by the Zionists.

more innocent Pals have been killed by the Jews than the other way around.

If somebody came and stole your land, would you just accept it?

Be honest - for once.

That is an anti-Semitic propaganda site. You may as well be linking to a Neo-Nazi webpage.

InfraBlue wrote:

The Zionists are arrogating land beyond the 1949 Green Line which is internationally recognized as the boundary between Israel and Palestine, and repressing the Palestinians therein.

Nonsense. That may have been the basis of the boundary had there been a negotiated settlement. But negotiations died when the UN abrogated the Oslo Accords.

Now Israel gets to draw the border where they please, and that means the border is going to be the path of the Separation Fence.

oralloy wrote:

That is an anti-Semitic propaganda site. You may as well be linking to a Neo-Nazi webpage.

It's the world that has the psycho-sociological disorder, not the Zionists.

No, the Zionists have arrogated land since well before the Oslo Accords.

They're merely using Oslo as a pretext to continue their arrogation of Palestinian land.