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Secret memo shows Israel always knew settlements illegal
independent.co.uk — A senior legal official who secretly warned the government of Israel after the Six Day War of 1967 that it would be illegal to build Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories has said, for the first time, that he still believes that he was right.
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- allowners, on 07/07/2008, -3/+18How could there be any doubt?
- theShadow51, on 07/07/2008, -2/+16well if you going to do a genocide, you better do it right. Can't give in to international laws and treaties.
the palestinians have been abandoned. When you are torn out of your home and left out on the street and have someone move in and build new homes, that you are not allowed to live in, on your own territory, it is easy to see why there is terrorism. People have to realize that. F16's dont match up to rocks. - jaymzdean, on 07/07/2008, -3/+12There are, in fact, few things the governments of U.S. and Israel do these days which isn't illegal.
- spongya77, on 07/08/2008, -3/+6Self-hating Jew.
(That was sarcastic for the simple minded.) - Tangaroa, on 07/08/2008, -15/+1Of course, 1967 was immediately after the war and many years before the treaties that ceded the land to Israel. Once the land became indisputably Israeli (disputed only by idiots and antisemites), there ceased to be a legal problem with settlements so long as they complied with internal Israeli law.
Also, there were no "occupied Palestinian territories" in 1967. There were occupied Jordanian territories and occupied Syrian territories and occupied Egyptian territories, but there was no such thing as "Palestinian territory" in 1967 nor would there be anything resembling "Palestinian territory" for another 26 years, when Israel gave up parts of the West Bank to the PLO in the Oslo peace process.- Kizilbash, on 07/08/2008, -1/+9What treaties were those, pray tell? Because I think you must have forgotten to tell the rest of the world about it. Jordan formally ceded the West Bank to the PLO, not that it was ever theirs to cede but we'll overlook that. Even the idiots and antisemites in the International Court of Justice in their ruling on the separation 'fence' that Israel is building in the occupied West Bank referred to the west Bank as an occupied territory. Not a single country in the world recognizes Israel's claim on the West Bank.
And indeed if the West Bank were Israeli territory, Israel would have another problem: it would then either have to give up its claims to be a democratic country and become a full-on Apartheid state or give the Palestinians equal rights. - CryRightardCry, on 07/08/2008, -2/+4Another "Israel can do no wrong" *****.
Hey dumbass, once again, criticism of Israel's policies is NOT anti-semitism, which would be a beef with Judaism.
Criticizing the actions and policies of political leadership has NOTHING to do with a religion.
Why can't you dumb bitches get it right?
The "antisemite" argument is a ***** prop you people use to try to avoid the REAL discussion of the actions of Israel's leaders.
It's pathetic and dishonest, and you KNOW it.
- Kizilbash, on 07/08/2008, -1/+9What treaties were those, pray tell? Because I think you must have forgotten to tell the rest of the world about it. Jordan formally ceded the West Bank to the PLO, not that it was ever theirs to cede but we'll overlook that. Even the idiots and antisemites in the International Court of Justice in their ruling on the separation 'fence' that Israel is building in the occupied West Bank referred to the west Bank as an occupied territory. Not a single country in the world recognizes Israel's claim on the West Bank.
- MarkEarhart, on 07/08/2008, -1/+14The very existence of modern Israel is unethical, immoral, and should be illegal. I don't know of any place else in the world where land theft and displacement of its residents is legal today. What makes the Zionists so special?
- sixsixsixtimer, on 07/08/2008, -11/+2The land was purchased fair and square. However the bigots in the Palestinian population started to agitate and commit atrocities along with Israel's neighbors repeatedly going on the attack.
- 7Mystery, on 07/08/2008, -2/+5Assclown!
- medfreak, on 07/08/2008, -2/+10Purchased? Wtf ... worst attempt at propaganda yet. What is next? Palestinians offered it to you at a discount sale?
- Kizilbash, on 07/08/2008, -2/+6The land was 'legally purchased' from feudal overlords, not from landowners in the modern sense of the world. The people working and living on the land had rights that were connected to the land in question,
Israel is one of the last colonial outposts in the world. - CryRightardCry, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2LOL
Yeah, all those people were compensated, right?
NO they were not, you are just being a deceptive piece of *****.
That's cute, tho.
Hey, we "purchased" the US from the natives who lived here, too.
Ask them how many got compensated.
MAN, what a dishonest prick you are to pretend such a thing.
The "Israel can do no wrong" rightard crowd are as unethical and immoral as Israel's leaders, apparently.
Why am I not surprised.
Oh, right. Because I see the same crap day after day.
- sixsixsixtimer, on 07/08/2008, -11/+2The land was purchased fair and square. However the bigots in the Palestinian population started to agitate and commit atrocities along with Israel's neighbors repeatedly going on the attack.
- darkENERGIE, on 07/08/2008, -2/+6I urge all to watch the documentary "Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority"
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