ISRAEL - IRAN - SYRIA - HAMAS - HEZBOLLAH - WWWIII?

The Zionists still speak with forked tongue; they continue to use the "fear of Palestinians terrorism" as their byword while they take over Palestinian lands illegally - without any legal rights for the Palestinians. The Zionists continues their expansion in the WB - even today.

Then they wonder why they continue to fear suicide bombers. There's no cure for stupid.

From Advocate's article: I know of no people on earth that has prayed for peace longer than the Jewish people.


It's not prayer that will bring peace: it's equality for all its citizens.

Advocate, You mean, ofcoarse, that Pals can live anywhere else outside of Israel and live peacefully, but they are not allowed to live equally in Israel because it's the land for JEWS ONLY.

Too bad you fail to see the bigotry.

From Advocate's article: I know of no people on earth that has prayed for peace longer than the Jewish people.


It's not prayer that will bring peace: it's equality for all its citizens.

Advocate, You mean, ofcoarse, that Pals can live anywhere else outside of Israel and live peacefully, but they are not allowed to live equally in Israel because it's the land for JEWS ONLY.

Too bad you fail to see the bigotry.

Israel has rights to live outside of Israel proper.

Some people could never bring themselves up to the 21st century. If they want to talk about 2000 year old history, it's about as relevant as mickey mouse to the real world. Let's discuss the last 100 years or so; name your country; the geography and politics.

Oh! Most of the Palestinians have lived in Palestine for generations, while the Jews of "Israel" are mostly new emigrants. You make no sense at all (the common kind).

Israel pulled completely out of Gaza, leaving greenhouses and many other assets for the Pals. In thanks, the Pals commenced rocket and mortar attacks on Israel. I guess pulling out of Gaza was a huge mistake.

"We had withdrawal, but we don't have freedom. It is now clear, one year after the departure of Israeli forces that the occupation is continuing," Hani Habib, a journalist and political analyst, told AFP.

Israel still maintains control of Gaza's territorial waters and airspace. Military checkpoints hamper freedom of movement of people and goods inside the Palestinian territory.

"I've decided to invest most of my energy and the government's energy in rehabilitating the north," Olmert said Monday in the northern community of Kiryat Shemona.

"This is a national new priority. It takes precedence for the moment over realignment" of the settlements, Miri Eisin, an adviser to Olmert, said Tuesday. "At the moment there will be no withdrawal."

Even without the financial considerations, the plan for unilateral withdrawal from some settlements is dead, other political figures and analysts said. The seizure of Israeli soldiers and the renewed fighting in the Gaza Strip -- from which Israel withdrew last year -- and in southern Lebanon -- from which Israel withdrew in 2000 -- have left the Israeli public with little appetite for additional pullouts.

The construction is planned to link existing Jewish settlements in Jerusalem with each other and with settlements in the West Bank. Saeb Erekat, the head of negotiations for the Palestinians, said the building plans suggested that Israel had no real interest in peace. "Today it is obvious that Israel wants Jerusalem for only some of Jerusalem's people," he said. "I wish Israel would do what majorities of both Palestinians and Israelis want: accept the two-state solution and accept peace."

While Israel says that it supports the creation of a Palestinian state, its building projects - which include walls, fences, bypasses and tunnels as well as settlements - restrict the amount of land that would be available to the new state.

February 17, 2008 -- More than one-third of the illegal Jewish settlements in the West bank were built on confiscated private Palestinian land that was "temporarily seized by military order" for "security purposes," according to a report by the Civil Administration of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) that is being published for the first time, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Sunday.

The settlements in question, which include Ariel, Kiryat Arba and Efrat, have tens of thousands of illegal Jewish colonial settlers, and many have existed for decades. A security source termed this a "difficult statistic" that is liable to cause trouble for Israel both in Washington and its own courts, Haaretz noted.

In addition to Ariel, Efrat and Kiryat Arba - three of the largest West Bank settlements - the list includes major "ideological" settlements such as Ofra, Beit El, Psagot, Kedumim, Karnei Shomron, Elon Moreh and Shiloh; Jordan Valley settlements such as Gitit and Mechora; and even "quality of life" settlements such as Kfar Ruth, near Modi'in, Meron Rapoport, Haaretz correspondent, wrote.

The Israeli military establishment has consistently refused to publish this information, and a month ago, the "Defense" Ministry told a court that its publication would "damage the state's security and foreign relations."

Peace Now, which discovered the data, said it proves that most of the settlements are illegal even under Israeli law, and termed the attempt to hide the information a "blow to democracy."

International law allows the seizure of occupied territory, but only for military needs. Instead, Israel built many of its colonial settlements via such seizures, in defiance of a 1979 Israeli cabinet decision that forbade using private Palestinian land for settlements.

A legal source said the very fact that so many settlements were built in this way will make it hard for the state to convince the Israeli High Court of Justice that "military necessity" justifies keeping them in existence rather than returning the land to its Palestinian owners, Rapoport added in his report.

According to the IOF Civil Administration data compiled in October 2006, 44 of the 120 West Bank settlements "are based to some extent" on lands seized by military order. A knowledgeable security source said that most of this land was privately owned by Palestinians.

Until the late 1970s, most settlements were built on land seized by military order. In 1979, however, the High Court overturned a seizure order for the land on which Elon Moreh was slated to be built, saying it saw no "security necessity" for the settlement. Following that ruling, Menachem Begin's government decided that all new settlements or expansions of existing ones would be built only on state land, and since then, military seizure orders officially have not been used for this purpose.

However, a Haaretz investigation found that at least 19 of the 44 settlements on the Civil Administration's list were established after 1979, which means they violated this decision. Efrat, for instance, was established in 1983.

A few years ago, the Defense Ministry set up a task force headed by Baruch Spiegel to collect information on how the settlements were established and their current legal status. After Haaretz reported the existence of this database, several organizations, including Peace Now, asked to view the data, but were refused. They consequently went to court, and a month ago, the Defense Ministry told the court that releasing this information might "damage the state's security and foreign relations."

Attorney Michael Sfard, who represents several Palestinians whose property has been taken over by settlers, said the data "proves that systematic land theft for the purpose of establishing settlements was carried out via a fictitious and completely illegal use of the term 'military necessity.' The concealment of this information for all these years shows that the authorities also knew they were committing illegal acts."

In response, the Israel Defense Forces said: "These orders are in force until they are canceled. In some of these settlements, part or all of [the land] was declared 'state land' at the same time, but the seizure orders have not been canceled, either partially or totally." It added that "in general," seizure orders have not been used to build settlements since 1979, but "in the early 1980s, Nahal [an army unit] outposts were still built on the basis of seizure orders, and some later became settlements. There were also isolated cases during those years in which land was seized for roads or buildings for existing settlements."

Advocate wrote:

Israel has rights to live outside of Israel proper.

How so?