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Secret British document accuses Israel
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Bill Levinson
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There is no valid peace agreement because the jihad monkeys are totally incapable of keeping any agreement. http://www.omdurman.org/leaflets/pali_word.html for the value of a Palestinian's word of honor, as shown by a litany of broken promises. Israel should end the fraudulent peace process, expel the two-legged locusts, and annex the West Bank and Gaza.
Posted by: Bill Levinson on November 25, 2005 02:07 PM
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Ed D
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Bill, those words are exactly my feelings. Congrats. on having the guts to say so.
Posted by: Ed D on November 25, 2005 04:18 PM
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Leonard
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The contents of this Foreign Office Document should really come as no surprise to your readers. The British Foreign Offices has always pursued a Pro-Arab Foreign Policy that dates back to the days of the British Mandate regardless of which Political Party is in Government, and a whole generation of British diplomats were schooled in Beirute right upto the time of the Civil War in Lebanon and those diplomats were programmed to adopt an anti-Israel mentality that they passed onto new recruits. You also have the strong links with Hashemite Jordan and the small Gulf Kingdoms where the British have strong military ties.
The Britsh Consul remained in East Jerusalem is a relic of the days when the British General Glub Pasha commanded the Arab Legion (the Jordanian army) that with over 200 British Officers supported the 1947-48 siege of Jewish Jerusalem and supervised the evacuation of the Jews from the Old City. The older generation of British diplomats still don't recognise Jewish Sovereignty over the City and will do everything in the international forum to undermine it.The British Government funds Palestinian legal challenges such as the action in the Hague against the security Wall, and has been the maintain supporter of EU donations to the Palestinian coffers to the tune of over Four billion Euros or dollars.
The present foreign minister Jack Straw has not departed from this Pro-Palestinian Foreign policy - and one of its recent mainifestations has been to sacrifice the lives of British servicemen in supporting America in Iraq in return for American pressure on Israel to support the creation of a Palestinian State via the Road Map as a form of payback for British loyalty.
The security barrier has been essential to safeguard the population of Britain since until recently Jerusalem was under a state of sige from the suicide bombers - and most of the attacks were launched from nearby Bethlehem.
Posted by: Leonard on November 25, 2005 06:59 PM
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radiorote
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Anyone who has been to Israel sees the way West Bank Arabs are building many apartments they do not rent out only for land grabs. Funny how that is ignored by the corporate media.
Posted by: radiorote on November 25, 2005 11:22 PM
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Fred Shorts
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Where's the surprise already?
Everybody needs oil. Who needs jews?
Posted by: Fred Shorts on November 26, 2005 12:31 AM
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t
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It s too bad Mr. Straw didn t perish in the 7/7 attacks, it would have been soooooooooo poetic!
Posted by: t on November 26, 2005 01:27 AM
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rocky
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It is truly disgusting (the term at the beginning is appropriate)how analysts, who should know better, construe things as if Israel was surrounded by some angel-like, peace-loving people who are working merely and selflessly for the uplift of mankind.
When will those deluded morons wake up?
Or what will it take to shake them out of their self-delusion?
Posted by: rocky on November 26, 2005 03:14 AM
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Ted Belman
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What the British report ignores is that Palestinians are doing all they can to live on the west side of the fence because they want to live in Israel rather than Palestine.
Posted by: Ted Belman on November 26, 2005 08:12 AM
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georg von mecklenburg
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The facts are simple. Israel HAS NEVER ANNEXED East Jerusalem always leaving that option open to negotiations. Until the Government of Israel starts to act in its own peoples interests, the situation remains in the status quo area. This means that there still is a possibility that East Jerusalem will become the capitol of the Palestinians.
Posted by: georg von mecklenburg on November 26, 2005 08:51 AM
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abu boo
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#7. rocky:
What will it take? A splodydope who takes out a major city with a portable nuke. Or a `martyr` who unloads some botulinum toxin powder upwind from a large population center.
What we need to do is stop talking peace, and start talking containment. We understand the nature of the threat, it is now time to contain it to the region. Let them kill each other. Just don't let them out so they can kill us.
We understand the nature of the threat. Any muslim can be easily radicalized by the application of words against islam, or the application of a commode to their scriptures. Civilized people would simply dismiss the insult and move along. Uncivilized barbarians will torch cars, murder people, and blow up over this.
This is why they can never be integrated into society. 7/7 is the demonstration of this fact. So is 3/11.
These people, using that word in a rather sweeping and loose definition to encompass the splodydopes and their allies, are by their own actions providing support to the words of people like Kahane, who dared to suggest that without muslims, we would not have muslim violence. His groups are currently on terrorist lists. While I am not sure why, sadly his soundbites seem to make more sense these days.
Posted by: abu boo on November 26, 2005 11:32 AM
Secret British document accuses Israel
THIS IS DISGUSTING.
From the Guardian:
A confidential Foreign Office document accuses Israel of rushing to annex the Arab area of Jerusalem, using illegal Jewish settlement construction and the vast West Bank barrier, in a move to prevent it becoming a Palestinian capital.
In an unusually frank insight into British assessments of Israeli intentions, the document says that Ariel Sharon's government is jeopardising the prospect of a peace agreement by trying to put the future of Arab East Jerusalem beyond negotiation and risks driving Palestinians living in the city into radical groups. The document, obtained by the Guardian, was presented to an EU council of ministers meeting chaired by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, on Monday with recommendations to counter the Israeli policy, including recognition of Palestinian political activities in East Jerusalem.
But the council put the issue on hold until next month under pressure from Italy, according to sources, which Israel considers its most reliable EU ally.
Israel has described a recommendation for moving EU meetings with the Palestinian Authority from Ramallah to East Jerusalem in recognition of the Arab claim as "negative occurrence". It claims the eastern part of Jerusalem it occupied in the 1967 war is part of its "indivisible capital". Almost all governments maintain embassies in Tel Aviv because they do not recognise the Israeli claim.
The document, drawn up by the British consulate in East Jerusalem as part of the UK's presidency of the EU, says Israeli policies are designed to prevent Jerusalem from becoming a Palestinian capital, particularly settlement expansion in and around the city. It says Mr Sharon's plan to link Jerusalem with the large Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank by building thousands of new homes "threatens to complete the encircling of the city by Jewish settlements, dividing the West Bank into two separate geographical areas".
It adds: "Israeli activities in Jerusalem are in violation of both its Roadmap (peace plan) obligations and international law."
The Foreign Office also concludes that the vast concrete barrier, which Israel asserts is a security measure, is being used to expropriate Arab land in and around the city. "This de facto annexation of Palestinian land will be irreversible without very large-scale forced evacuations of settlers and the re-routing of the barrier."
The document says stringent Israeli controls on the movement of Palestinians in and out of the city are an attempt to restrict Arab population growth. "When the barrier is completed, Israel will control all access to East Jerusalem, cutting off its Palestinian satellite cities of Bethlehem and Ramallah, and the West Bank beyond. This will have serious ... consequences for the Palestinians," it says.
"Israel's main motivation is almost certainly demographic ... the Jerusalem master plan has an explicit goal to keep the proportion of Palestinian Jerusalemites at no more than 30% of the total." All of this, the document says, greatly reduces the prospects of a two-state solution because a core demand of the Palestinians is for sovereignty over the east of the city.
"Palestinians are deeply alarmed about East Jerusalem," the document says. "They fear that Israel will 'get away with it', under the cover of disengagement. Israeli measures also risk radicalising the hitherto relatively quiescent Palestinian population of East Jerusalem."
The Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, Mark Regev, said: "Israel believes that Jerusalem should remain the united capital of Israel. At the same time Israel has committed itself that Jerusalem is one of those final status issues."
Posted by Tim Dormain at November 25, 2005 01:05 PM