Comments on: Fatah to Israel: All your Jerusalem are belong to us

By: Yaacov Lozowick

Yaacov Lozowick — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:07:15 +0000

A historical tidbit to consider:

The legal provenance of the Paletinian’s claim to the West Bank and Gaza is that the UN partition plan of 1947 had them in an Arab state (Palestinians weren’t mentioned, so far as I remember), and since 1967 Egypt and Jordan, respectively, have ceded their claims in favor of the Palestinians. This doesn’t hold for Jerusalem or Bathlehem, both of which were to be international. This means, if you wish to be a stickler, that neither Israel nor Jordan and certainly not the Palestinians have any claim to these two towns beyond the fact that they control them. There is no reason the Paletinian claim to jerusalem, which they don’t control, is any stronger than the claim of the Israelis, who do.

By: Eric J

Eric J — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:31:57 +0000

I’m beginning to think the biggest strategic mistake Israel ever made was not taking and destroying the Dome of the Rock in ’67. As long as it stands Arabs will believe Israel is weak, no matter how many times the IDF kicks their asses.

By: Karmafish

Karmafish — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:08:29 +0000

So, let me get this straight.

Netanyahu called for negotiations without preconditions.

Obama demanded the precondition of “settlement freeze.”

And now “moderate” Fatah is demanding no less than 14 preconditions, including the ceding of Jerusalem in its entirety, both east and west, as a precondition for talks.

What idiocy.

If they do not want negotiations then there will be no peace. If they do not want negotiations then there will be no Palestinian state and the status quo will remain. The blockade will remain. The checkpoints in the West Bank. And so forth.

Does anyone not see a 3rd Intifada around the corner?

By: cliff was from montreal

cliff was from montreal — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:55:35 +0000

My dream is for Israel to survive and prosper and that the fraudulent pali scammers be shown the door to Jordan, the real pail state.
I must say that radical islam has taught me the meaning of hate.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:30:56 +0000

So if say the Cannanites of Israel or the Zorastrians of Iran, or any of the older polytheistic and pantheistic middle eastern based religions wanted any ancestral lands back, the same claim could be made?

How many of the Palestinians came from other countries because they were booted out as undesirables by their home country?

And, I’m still trying to figure out why they insist on being called by an old Roman land area identification.

I’m waiting for Big Guy Upstairs to have a rather lengthy conversation with the Palestinians out behind the woodshed.