Thousands of Israeli teenagers took part in a protest march today through the occupied West Bank. They started in the city of Ma’ale Adumim and marched into the E-1 region, demanding an end to peace talks, and a massive increase in settlement construction.
“We’re here to tell the whole world that the land is ours,” declared Israeli Deputy FM Ze’ev Elkin, one of several hawkish cabinet members who took part in the protest rally.
E-1 is a small, mostly empty area whose primary value is that it is the only settlement-free tract of land in the West Bank that connects the northern and southern portions of the Palestinian territory, and the only way a Palestinian state will ever be remotely contiguous.
Efforts to build Israeli settlements on the tract are centered on the idea that this would be the final death knell for Palestinian statehood, and Palestinian officials have insisted they will take Israel to court internationally over the territory.
The Israeli Housing Ministry has repeatedly approved settlement construction in the E-1 but Netanyahu, fearing the backlash if this move is what finally kills the already weak peace process, has so far cancelled such orders.
"… demanding an end to peace talks, and a massive increase in settlement construction."
Yup, and AIPAC will make sure the US taxpayer funds this so you all better get back to work, tax serfs.
Does this surprise anyone? In the rest of the world, the way it goes is the young want peace, the old and corrupt send the young to war. In Israel, thuggish jingoism and the perpetuation of the national larceny extend to even the young. The Israeli Hitler youth. No, no surprise there.
why you compare these hooligans with Hitler youth.Had Germany under Hitler received billions of dollars every year,had they received unlimited politic support?These mob incited by the most racist education which gives time the "reasons"to despise everyone else not matter money,and not matter support these don't make them more understanding for the interests of the country which ,for not understandable reasons,makes their vicious existence possible.If really this mob would have a genuine spirit of independence they would reject the immense help that they get from US and only then they could shout :"Kerry is an unwanted person".But if a dollar will be took off from the annual present what an indignation would catch them,what cries of anti semitism!!!All this is very well known and make the US policy of permanently frowning to Israel more shamefully.
The Fourth Geneva Convention stipulates that “the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” and “the occupying state shall be regarded only as administrator …."
Despite the Geneva convention Israel has lawlessly continued to bulldoze Palestinian homes, water wells, schools, water treatment plant etc and paid these est. Euro migrants huge sums to settle on land it knows it does not own. Land it knows that MUST be returned to the Palestinian people.
Like Gaza squatters before Israel still hopes the POTUS and US taxpayers again will be foolish enough to step up and pay them compensation to vacate the land.
The Fourth Geneva Convention stipulates that “the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” and “the occupying state shall be regarded only as administrator …."
Despite the Geneva convention Israel has lawlessly continued to bulldoze Palestinian homes, water wells, schools, water treatment plant, schools, airpoort etc and paid these est. Euro migrants huge sums to settle on land it knows it does not own. Land it knows that MUST be returned to the Palestinian people.
Like Gaza squatters before Israel still hopes the POTUS and US taxpayers will be foolish enough again to step up and pay them compensation to vacate the land.
"Protest against peace"
Who in their right mind would protest against peace?
There is only one "country" on earth where such a thing can occur, a "country" that feeds from unrests,occupations and wars in it´s vicinity. Only one. These are the grandchildren of those allegedly "traumatized" colonizers occupiers and settlers that threw themselves at the throats of the native Palestinians as soon as they got there. The crack-pot tribal fanaticism,indoctrination and hate against everybody else is growing, not diminishing, over time. The Zionist colonization experiment and it´s periphery of backers and enablers is a dangerous black hole of hate and a threat to world peace . It is dead and forfeited. There is only one solution:
One nation of all it´s people no matter what race, ethnicity or religion.
and they have a stockpile of nuclear weapons…
Israeli teens–present-day parasites/receipients of US taxpayer money and future destroyers of Palistinian olive orchards and homes and murderers of their innocent men, women and children.
The Israelis are slowly wiping Palestine off the map.
The Israelis are slowly wiping Palestine off the map.
Yonatan,
What else are they wiping out in the process? Hopefully, any ignorant support for them in this country or any other
Can we please demand that our future political candidates expose whether they hold allegiances to Israel over their allegiance to the people of the United States? Our current legislative, executive, and judicial branches failure to uphold the rights of American citizens to control outside lobbyists, political campaign monies, and our own private communication records, along with their failure to ever press for a full investigation of the brutal Israeli attack on the USS Liberty have shown that they cannot be trusted one minute more with our tax money or dealings with Israel. We must stop all foreign aid to Israel or that money pit will never stop draining us into their hell. We cannot allow J Kerry to promise any more U.S. taxpayer money to the nuclear-weapon-holding, racist, blackmailing government of Israel.
They're politicians…they'll say whatever is required to get along, truth or lies make no difference. So, if the "trends" are against being "Israel-Firsters" then they'll tell you they aren't…but you know they are.
protesting peace and arguing to take what little is left to those not 'chosen' reveals the mindset of those coming up and among whom future 'leaders' will be picked. as a consequence, it also reveals the fact there will never, ever be peace in that wretched part of the world.
withdraw from that region of the world completely. let those cretins and misogynists of all stripes have at each other till they burn out…and then continue to ignore them.
i resent – vehemently – the fact that i am forced to support the criminals in charge – israeli and muslim – in that anus of the earth. apparently, my fellow citizens are not so resentful, evidenced by their voting and support of all the crimes we perpetrate in the middle east. this is part of the problem.
They shoyld have had ferranti and Teichher oin a haywagon playing tthe unofficial anthem 'This land is Mie'.
Add to this the joyous news that anybody who thinks he might be sephardic can apply for Spainish citizenship and a Europassport. In a sop to history, the Spaniards have decided to recliaim the jews expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella some 5 centuries ago.
The 'conversos', looking to regain their Jewish hheritage are, it is said, hoping to make aliyah and return to the land their fathers found lying 'empty' some 5 millennia ago. I'd say the europassport is more valuable than an opportunity to serve in the IDF.
They should have had Ferranti and Teicher on a haywagon playing the unofficial anthem 'This Land is Mine'.
Add to this the joyous news that anybody who thinks he might be sephardic can apply for Spainish citizenship and a Europassport. In a sop to history, the Spaniards have decided to recliaim the jews expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella some 5 centuries ago.
The 'conversos', looking to regain their Jewish hheritage are, it is said, hoping to make aliyah and return to the land their fathers found lying 'empty' some 5 millennia ago. I'd say the europassport is more valuable than an opportunity to serve in the IDF.
They should have had Ferranti and Teicher on a haywagon playing the unofficial anthem 'This Land is Mine'.
Add to this the joyous news that anybody who thinks he might be sephardic can apply for Spainish citizenship and a Europassport. In a sop to history, the Spaniards have decided to recliaim 'their' jews expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella some 5 centuries ago. Maybe they'll do the same for 'Moors'
The 'conversos', looking to regain their Jewish hheritage are, it is said, hoping to make aliyah and return to the land their fathers found lying 'empty' some 5 millennia ago. I'd say the europassport is more valuable than an opportunity to serve in the IDF.
Israeli . don't know noting about peace. I wish i could help Palestinian to get their land back. I proud of Iran. Iran is the only nation who stand up for Palestinian .god bless IRAN .
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Lebensraum.
"Eretz Israel".
This is on the USA. Stop funding it, and it will stop happening.
What these demonstrators demand is not new. Herzl is reported to have stated at the time of the Balfour Declaration that he accepted "this half a loaf" with the intent to take "the whole loaf" later. These demonstrators declare that the time is now.
What the Israel Government does counts.
That would have been some feat to report, and would likely have received significant coverage, given that Herzl died 13 years before the Balfour Declaration.
Chaim Weizmann.
That's who he meant. But I bet you felt good being a glib jerk.
@Mike K: "Chaim Weizmann."
Me: Kindly give a proper reference (available, reputable); unsubstantiated assertions may be worse than useless – i.e. misleading and/or a pointless waste of otherwise useful time. Insults help no one.
@Thomas L. Knapp: "… given that Herzl died 13 years before the Balfour Declaration."
Thomas, David just messed up the details – as I expect you know.
Here's one from Herzl, 1897: «… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.»
One from Balfour: «For in Palestine we do not propose to even go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country …»
Then Jabotinsky, 1923: «Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach.»
Ben-Gurion(1936-39): «We must see the situation for what it is. … we are the attackers and the Arabs are those defending themselves. They are living in the country and own the land, …»
Here's one more apposite to David's topic «… Ben-Gurion told the twentieth Zionist Congress, "The Jewish state now being offered to us is not the Zionist objective. […] But it can serve as a decisive stage along the path to greater Zionist implementation. It will consolidate in Palestine, within the shortest possible time, the real Jewish force, which will lead us to our historic goal.[25] In a discussion in the Jewish Agency he said that he wanted a Jewish-Arab agreement "on the assumption that after we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine."»
The point of these quotes is to show a) that the Zs exhibited clear premeditation to commit ethnic cleansing by force = using genocidal methods = murder for spoil, here soil. It's part of the case against the Zs' wicked crimes against humanity, and the Zionist Congress-quote demonstrates b) that the Zs will lie for advantage = say one thing then do another = break promises (see Z-accepted UNGA273 (cites 181&194, still not Z-honoured), say). Proof is what we see today; Zs illegally squatting upon improperly alienated land/property *still* belonging to the hapless ELO/Os of Palestine.
alethia,
No, I didn't know whom David was thinking of. Generally I assume that when people say X, they mean the X they said, rather than some Y they didn't say.
While your quotes are interesting, they're fairly obviously your own hobbyhorse rather than what David was referring to. Fortunately, another glib jer … er, Mike K … seems to have come to the rescue (although I haven't checked to see if his attribution is accurate).
@ Thomas L. Knapp: "No, I didn't know whom David was thinking of."
Me: Perhaps it's not so much 'who' but more 'what.' I don't mind explaining something in simpler terms.
David's topic was 'someone' accepting "this half a loaf," where David got the 'someone' and possibly the time-frame wrong.
Since David mentioned Herzl and Balfour, I supplied *appropriate* quotes from them.
You may call the Jabotinsky quote a 'hobbyhorse,' but Jabotinsky's colonisation by force behind an 'iron wall' is the recipe for permanent war, as adopted by the Zs = exactly what the world is confronted with – hardly some peccadillo.
Then the BG-quote starting "The Jewish state now being offered to us is not the Zionist objective" encapsulates exactly what David seemed to be trying to say.
Any time I can help you, just give me a call.
That land is not yours. That's at least what Herzl said. But maybe Israelis don't know who Herzl is.