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Adventurer
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 Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject: U.S. politician wants American Jews to buy West Bank homes |
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U.S. politician wants American Jews to buy West Bank homes
By Raphael Ahren
Tags: Israel news
An influential Jewish community leader and Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is currently heading a mission of about 50 Americans through the West Bank and East Jerusalem to promote home purchases in the area and to protest U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East policy.
"Our goal is to send a clear message to Washington and President Obama that Jews will continue to live in Judea and Samaria and the ultimate commitment American Jews can make is to actually come and buy property in these areas as this will ensure these communities" security and growth," said Dov Hikind, 59, who has been representing Brooklyn's 48th district since 1983.
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"People buy properties in different places, and I can't think of any reason why people dedicated to the land of Israel shouldn't own something here, whether they will use it or use it as an opportunity for young families to live in that particular home," the politician told Haaretz yesterday in Elon Moreh, an Israeli settlement in the Samarian Hills.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128732.html
This same politician was slammed by Bloomberg, because he didn't want Ukrainian, gay, gipsy and other victims of the holocaust commemorate along with Jews. America doesn't need him using his position in New York to complicate things.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_QFExhQhJdXgbQvasljrf9I |
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Trevor
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| Arabs can't buy land in Israel, but New Yorkers can? How does that work? |
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Safron
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Location: portland, or
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: |
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| Trevor wrote: |
| Arabs can't buy land in Israel, but New Yorkers can? How does that work? |
Arab Israelis also have a very hard time getting a permit to build a home. Israeli politicians state that Obama is racist, because he doesn't want Israel to build homes and demolish Arab homes in East Jerusalem. The world doesn't recognize the annexation of occupied territory. Israel keeps wanting to pre-empt international law. Arab Israelis don't live in settlements and can't. It's only for the Jewish population, and the IDF is used to move those settlers. All that violates the Geneva Convention. It's one thing for the state to do that, and one thing to get billions from the US no matter what they do. I don't see why they should keep getting rewarded for bad behavior. Essentially, the US Government is supporting a state that treats the Arabs not any better than whites treated black people in the US South in the 1950s. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Trevor wrote: |
| Arabs can't buy land in Israel, but New Yorkers can? How does that work? |
Arab Israelis also have a very hard time getting a permit to build a home. Israeli politicians state that Obama is racist, because he doesn't want Israel to build homes and demolish Arab homes in East Jerusalem. The world doesn't recognize the annexation of occupied territory. Israel keeps wanting to pre-empt international law. Arab Israelis don't live in settlements and can't. It's only for the Jewish population, and the IDF is used to move those settlers. All that violates the Geneva Convention. It's one thing for the state to do that, and one thing to get billions from the US no matter what they do. I don't see why they should keep getting rewarded for bad behavior. Essentially, the US Government is supporting a state that treats the Arabs not any better than whites treated black people in the US South in the 1950s. |
It is more like how whites treated blacks in apartheid South Africa. For Palestinians, the new apartheid state of Israel is essentially a Swiss-cheese mosiac of bantustans connected by narrow corridors thru which numerous checkpoints must be passed entailing untold delays, making free travel impossible. We have all heard the stories of people dying in ambulances waiting to cross checkpoints.
As was effective in ending apartheid in South Africa, we now have the growth of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against Israel.
Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood
Virginia Tilley, The Electronic Intifada, 19 November 2009
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| The PA leadership in Ramallah is leading the Palestinian movement of independence to a dead end with its proposed unilateral call for Palestinian statehood. (Thaer Ganaim/MaanImages) |
From a rumor, to a rising murmur, the proposal floated by the Palestinian Authority's (PA) Ramallah leadership to declare Palestinian statehood unilaterally has suddenly hit center stage. The European Union, the United States and others have rejected it as "premature," but endorsements are coming from all directions: journalists, academics, nongovernmental organization activists, Israeli right-wing leaders (more on that later). The catalyst appears to be a final expression of disgust and simple exhaustion with the fraudulent "peace process" and the argument goes something like this: if we can't get a state through negotiations, we will simply declare statehood and let Israel deal with the consequences.
But it's no exaggeration to propose that this idea, although well-meant by some, raises the clearest danger to the Palestinian national movement in its entire history, threatening to wall Palestinian aspirations into a political cul-de-sac from which it may never emerge. The irony is indeed that, through this maneuver, the PA is seizing -- even declaring as a right -- precisely the same dead-end formula that the African National Congress (ANC) fought so bitterly for decades because the ANC leadership rightly saw it as disastrous. That formula can be summed up in one word: Bantustan.
It has become increasingly dangerous for the Palestinian national movement that the South African Bantustans remain so dimly understood. If Palestinians know about the Bantustans at all, most imagine them as territorial enclaves in which black South Africans were forced to reside yet lacked political rights and lived miserably. This partial vision is suggested by Mustafa Barghouthi's recent comments at the Wattan Media Centre in Ramallah, when he cautioned that Israel wanted to confine the Palestinians into "Bantustans" but then argued for a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood within the 1967 boundaries -- although nominal "states" without genuine sovereignty are precisely what the Bantustans were designed to be. |
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