Land grab in Gaza casts doubt on pullout

[Resistance]

The Guardian

Israel is seizing Palestinian land in Gaza to expand one of the most controversial Jewish settlements three weeks after Ariel Sharon said he intended to remove all settlers from the territory.

The Israeli army handed orders to Palestinian families on Monday expropriating land "to build a security fence for Netzarim", that increases the territory under Israel's control in Gaza.

The order gave the Palestinians a week to appeal but armoured bulldozers moved in two days later to destroy fruit trees and other crops.

The seizures came as the army was also confiscating large areas of land around a second settlement, Kfar Darom.

[lefty_mcduff]

1. Been a glorious few weeks for the IDF

Strealing Olive Trees
Land
Cash (in a daring daylight heist)

[Resistance]

2. Gunning down the Wall protestors

[TeeYiYi]

3. Israeli apartheid continues . . .

. . . blatant racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing. Illegal confiscation and destruction of land belonging to their neighbors, the Palestinians, while the people of the world look on in dismay.

Confirmation that the words of Ariel Sharon aren't worth the putrid vile air they're spewed into.

TYY

[Resistance]

4. doesn't Kerry's unconditional support for it all

make ya just dog-gone proud?

[Herschel]

5. Kerry's support is gratifying

He must have a pro-Israel position to be elected.

[beanball]

7. Kerry

what would a man of principles do?

[Resistance]

12. not support the blatant land theft

for one thing

[MikeGalos]

6. Care to define your terms

because the word apartheid doesn't mean what you think it means. (nor, apparently do the phrases "blatent racial discrimination" or "ethnic cleansing").

Of course, if you meant to refer to the PA's call for expulsion of all Jews from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Now, those qualify but you seem to have mistyped the country and leader's names.

[Resistance]

8. the PA can call for whatever they want

It's Israel doing the actual explusions - of Palestinians, to make room for settlers and an Apartheid Wall.

[TeeYiYi]

9. "apartheid doesn't mean what you think it means" . . .

Jeez Mike. Thanks for clearing that up for me . . . clarifying the previously little known idea that apartheid only means what 'you' think it means and not what 'I' think it means. Sounds like a page straight out of the IDF playbook. Far be it for me to define my own opinions. I'll leave that job up to you from now on . . . NOT!

Personally, I think I'll ascribe to Nelson Mandela's definition of apartheid since he's had first hand experience:

"The Palestinian state cannot be the by-product of the Jewish state, just in order to keep the Jewish purity of Israel. Israel's racial discrimination is daily life of most Palestinians. Since Israel is a Jewish state, Israeli Jews are able to accrue special rights which non-Jews cannot do. Palestinian Arabs have no place in a "Jewish" state.

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.

The responses made by South Africa to human rights abuses emanating from the removal policies and apartheid policies respectively, shed light on what Israeli society must necessarily go through before one can speak of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and an end to its apartheid policies."

http://www.progressiveaustin.org/mandelap.htm

TYY

BTW--->> In the future, if you're going to quote me Mike, at least have the decency to use the copy and paste function so that I'm not erroneously credited with your defective spelling and grammar. If you're having trouble understanding the definition of blatant (or in your case, 'blatent') discrimination and ethnic cleansing, perhaps it's the dictionary you're using. "Mistyped"? Garsh Mike, I'm jes thenkin' but wot yur tha wun thas bin mistypin'. . .

[Resistance]

10. Hi TeeYiYi

don't you love being told what you really do or don't think?

:party:

[TeeYiYi]

11. . . .

Thrilled. Could you tell? :freak:

TYY :hi: