International: 'More Efforts Needed To End Israeli Occupation Of Palestinian Land'

[Purveyor]

Addis Ababa, Ethioia - International supporters of the Palestinian people's quest to achieve a sovereign and independent state need to do more, considering that an end to the Israeli occupation is not in sight, Abdou Salam Diallo, chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, said here Monday.


“Israel continues to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. While the international community condemns this act and calls for its cessation, Israel behaves as if this does not concern it,” Diallo told a two-day UN International Meeting on the Question of Palestine.

“The international community has to put an end to the colonial policies and practices of the state of Israel with a view to encouraging a new dynamic between the two adversaries in the conflict,” said Diallo, whose Committee, through its international meetings programme, intends to generate wide support for a peaceful solution of the Israeli-Palestine conflict based on international law and relevant UN resolutions.

Castigating Israel for its discriminatory policies, he said the separation wall it has built in large parts of Palestinian land has cut off many people from their farmland, hampers access to schools and hospitals and Palestinians entering Israel for work have to use a separate bus line.

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[Peregrine]

1. It's not Palestinian land

There is a price you pay when you go to war. In 67 and 73, they attacked Israel and lost.

[Purveyor]

2. Apartheid is indeed...a 'hefty price'. eom

[delrem]

3. The world thinks different.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. *Some* in the world think different, but by no means all.

[ocpagu]

22. The huge majority thinks different.

Some countries like Palau agree with the US and Israel, though...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

27. I would not be so sure of that...

National governments do things out of convenience, regardless of how the people feel.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. One could argue it was the retaking of land lost in their war of independence

[azurnoir]

9. One could also be very wrong about that too

show us where the West Bank was ever a recognized part of Israel

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. It was certainly part of the map when TransJordan was separated from the rest of the British Mandate

[azurnoir]

13. But the West Bank was never a part of Israel not in the original partition nor in the 1949

peace agreement

[Shaktimaan]

15. Was EJ...

Well, was EJ ever part of palestine? Listed in the un partition plan as belonging to Palestine?

Why is that palestine then?

[azurnoir]

21. No East Jerusalem was to be under 'international' control

however a future Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir took part in the murder of the UN negotiator in Jerusalem, something that was publicly acknowledged in 1977, six years after the statute of limitations had run out

[Shaktimaan]

23. uh-huh.

um... so?

[azurnoir]

24. you asked

I answered

[Shaktimaan]

25. so you're saying that

east jerusalem belongs to Palestine because an Israeli once killed a UN official there many years ago?
Is that seriously your answer?

[azurnoir]

26. No I am saying that it was supposed to be under international control

I haven't aid anything one way or the other about who's control it should be under now, that seems to be your thing

[azurnoir]

8. Really winner take all sorry the Geneva Convention states otherwise

unless of course you do not believe in that one either

[oberliner]

4. What is this website? Afriquejet?

How did you come across this source?

[Purveyor]

7. What the hell difference does it make? I'm surprised you don't already have a 'file' on this site.

Getting busy and let us all know how 'anti-something' they are.

[King_David]

10. Does it have the same gravitas as the New York Times?

Or as the group quoted?

[Purveyor]

11. Is that a 'requirement' now? eom

[King_David]

16. Always has been, here's the relevant quote from the rules,

"A note on sources:

Please use discretion when referencing obviously biased or factually questionable material. Vanity websites are generally not as credible as the New York Times, the Washington Post or the UK Guardian and are likely to be locked. A good rule of thumb is to ask yourself is the author readily identifiable and likely to be cited by the mainline world press or encountered in an alternate format (mass-published book, academic journal, newspaper article, radio or TV show)."

(I agree though that A lot of people disregard them)

[oberliner]

17. This source appears to be primarily in French

From the link, I can't seem to get to any other English-language articles, only French ones.

I'm just wondering how the poster arrived at this article from this source initially.

[oberliner]

14. A file? Anti-something?

What are you talking about?

I just never heard of the site and was curious to know how you came across it.

[Purveyor]

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[oberliner]

19. Thank you

And please allow me to state unequivocally and for the record that I do not believe you to be antisemitic in the slightest.

Feel free to reference this statement in the future if necessary.