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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Evacuating illegal Israeli settlements= ethnic cleansing?
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1109504.html
right-wing American Jews are about to go on a propaganda blitz. their claim? that evacuating illegal Israeli-Jewish settlements in the West Bank is "ethnic cleansing". well, the solution to that is easy. The Jews can stay in their homes...as citizens of Palestine. ![]() The Israeli civilian settlements in Occupied territory are illegal. They were built on confiscated Arab private property, which is illegal. They are ONLY for Israeli-Jews. Israeli-Arabs are not allowed. Defending these settlements is very difficult..if you have a brain and a soul. |
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NWO Master Conspirator
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Penultimate Amazing
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the settlements are a physical impedement to them having a contiguous state in the WB. the settlements also discriminate against Arabs. the settlements are also illegal. i think that if Israel offered to make the settlers citizens of Palestine, as long as they can stay in their homes, and make the settlements themselves Palestinian property, the Palestinians would have a pretty pickle to deal with. I honestly don't care if a million Jews live in the West Bank, as long as they are willing to become loyal citizens of Palestine. but if they insist on remaining citizens of Israel only, then well..they got's to go. it is not ethnic cleansing to remove a population based on their citizenship and legal status. especially if some of their neighbors will indeed agree and request to become citizens of Palestine. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Where is the evidence that the Palestinians would accept them as citizens?
Articles 5 and 6 of the PLO charter seem to specifically exclude the possibility that those Jews could be ever be allowed to become Palestinian citizens. Sure Arafat promised to overturn those provisions, but they don't seem to have gotten around to doing anything about updating their charter. And the Hamas charter openly calls for the death of the Jews. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Right. The section in the Hamas Charter that quotes from the Quran, which has talking rocks and trees.
![]() We played this little game with Marc39, and he lost miserably. As to the settlers becoming citizens of Palestine, I'm sure the great majority would refuse the idea of losing their Israeli citizenship and becoming Palestinians, so it is a moot point. But I did read that a few small settlements that had a couple thousand Jews were interested in becoming Palestinians rather then leaving their homes, and I can't imagine Palestine refusing a couple thousand Jews. I could really see this becoming a part of a future Israel-Palestine Peace Treaty. Those Jews who want to stay in their homes, as Palestinians, may do so. |
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Philosopher
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Just because Hamas is crazy doesn't mean that they aren't dangerous. In fact, I would suggest that they are more dangerous due to their crazy.
Let's not resurrect old threads. However, you haven't addressed the point. Jewish history suggests to me that a Jew not being able to imagine someone doing bad things to them doesn't mean that the other person can't imagine doing bad things to the Jew. But isn't one of the core issues the fact that the Palestinian leaders don't accept that those Jews have any right to their own homes? |
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Penultimate Amazing
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things change...during negotiations.
allowing those Jews who are willing to stay as citizens of Palestine, would be seen as a measure of good-will on the part of the Palestinians. and in exchange, they could logically argue that those who refuse Palestinian citizenship should return to Israel. |
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Philosopher
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The same argument could apply to the US. We will give the Americans a choice - live as second class citizens in an Indian nation (and trust the good will of the Indians not to treat you even worse than this) or leave your homes and return to whatever country you came from. I can't see why Americans would see anything wrong with this choice.
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Penultimate Amazing
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see, this is what we at JREF call a "strawman" argument. I never said that Jews should live as second class citizens in Palestine. That was a strawman that you created, so that you could easily break it apart, rather then take on the arguments that I actually made.
Any Jewish citizens of Palestine should be treated as complete equals, just as Arabs are treated as complete equals in the Jewish State of Israel. |
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NWO Master Conspirator
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Penultimate Amazing
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I've provided the links. Its your claim that they will be welcomed with open arms despite:
a) being Jews; b) occupying land that the Palestinians consider to be theirs; c) the evidence of what the Palestinian leaders actually say about the position of Jews. So you need to show that your claim is correct. And you can't do that. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Penultimate Amazing
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i would love it...just love it..if you provided us with a quote from a Palestinian leader who calls for the murder of EVERY Jew in Israel and the WB.
i would also love a quote from a Palestinian leader calling for Jews to stay..but as second-class citizens. you show the quotes, and I will believe it. |
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so to all those who want to defend this...
do you want these little bits of Israel to stay within a palestinian state? |
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And what is good, Phaedrus,and what is not good. Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? R. M. Pirsig. (Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance) Lose half your IQ....Ask me how. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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The PA charter does not say that in any final status agreement with Israel, they would never allow any settlers to remain in their homes, even as Palestinian citizens.
And the Hamas Charter does not call for the murder of all Jews in Israel. It has a quote about a talking tree and a talking rock.
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NWO Master Conspirator
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From the PLO charter:
Quote:
So there's your proof right there, but I bet you lied when you said you'd believe it! |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Maybe. But how many of the settlers fall into that category?
Maybe. But we are saying its not as simple as the suggestion you made and we don't see the same reasons to be optimistic as you do, given everything they have said and done in the past. |
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NWO Master Conspirator
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Not so.
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So by that formula there's probably a few Jews who could stay, everyone else has to go. But that's just written documantation, and you have your crystal ball and sooper-psychic powers. It's a close call, but I'll have to go with the official document. |
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Philosopher
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And what is good, Phaedrus,and what is not good. Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? R. M. Pirsig. (Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance) Lose half your IQ....Ask me how. |
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Philosopher
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Sum, ergo cogito
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CNN, Fox, MSNBC are all terrible, all do the exact same thing: take news wire reports, add a bunch of unnecessary opinion, and then re-brand it as "infotainment" as if this were some sort of useful service. It is akin to paying me to read a newspaper to you, while interrupting frequently with my own opinion. -- Zaphod2016 |
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