Roadmap and PeacemakingIsrael and Palestine
What starts the numerous peacemaking efforts? What brings them to a halt? Are they doomed to fail because the problem is intractable? Or are some peacemaking plans simply unrealistic? With one-sided conditions and expectations?
Friday, February 22, 2008
In the first 72 hours after Bush left the MidEast, Israel killed 37 Palestinians and injured more than 90, many of them civilians.
Israel Metes Out Collective Punishment of Palestinians, Bush Yawns | By Matthew Rothschild, January 21, 2008
George Bush doesn’t really want a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Because if did, he wouldn’t be condoning Israel’s callous use of collective punishment in Gaza right now.
In the first 72 hours after Bush left the MidEast, Israel killed 37 Palestinians and injured more than 90, many of them civilians. Israel said these attacks were in response to crude rocket assaults from militants in Gaza, which injured two Israelis.
The rocketing of Siderot and other Israeli towns is immoral, indefensible, and against international law.
But with its disproportionate response, Israel is now engaging in collective punishment against all Palestinians in Gaza.
It closed the borders on January 18, so not even the UN humanitarian supplies could get in.
As a result, hospitals in Gaza are running out of medicine.
And now Israel has cut off electricity to Gaza, leaving an entire population literally in the dark.
Palestinians have no way of getting clean water or staying warm during cool nights or getting enough food or cooking oil for their children, or any fuel to get to and from work.
Collective punishment has long been against international law, and it violates the Geneva Conventions. ...
Israel Metes Out Collective Punishment of Palestinians, Bush Yawns | By Matthew Rothschild, January 21, 2008
George Bush doesn’t really want a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Because if did, he wouldn’t be condoning Israel’s callous use of collective punishment in Gaza right now.
In the first 72 hours after Bush left the MidEast, Israel killed 37 Palestinians and injured more than 90, many of them civilians. Israel said these attacks were in response to crude rocket assaults from militants in Gaza, which injured two Israelis.
The rocketing of Siderot and other Israeli towns is immoral, indefensible, and against international law.
But with its disproportionate response, Israel is now engaging in collective punishment against all Palestinians in Gaza.
It closed the borders on January 18, so not even the UN humanitarian supplies could get in.
As a result, hospitals in Gaza are running out of medicine.
And now Israel has cut off electricity to Gaza, leaving an entire population literally in the dark.
Palestinians have no way of getting clean water or staying warm during cool nights or getting enough food or cooking oil for their children, or any fuel to get to and from work.
Collective punishment has long been against international law, and it violates the Geneva Conventions. ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has been quoted as calling for Gazans to be transferred to the Sinai Peninsula ...
Monday, January 28, 2008 | Israeli Chief Rabbi: Ethnically cleanse the Gazans | 28/01/2008 | Report: Chief Rabbi says move Gazans to a Palestine in Sinai | By Saul Sadka
Check out the blue eyes. Real biblical, hunh?
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has been quoted as calling for Gazans to be transferred to the Sinai Peninsula, to a Palestinian state whichj he said could be constructed for them in the desert.
In an interview in English with the British weekly The Jewish News, the chief rabbi also said that while peaceable Muslims should be allowed to pray in Jeruasalem mosques, they should recognize that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. Muslims have Mecca and Medina, he was quoted as saying, adding that "you don't need a third place."
Metzger called for Britain, the European Union and the United States to assist in the construction of a Palestinian state in Egypt's Sinai Desert. ...
Monday, January 28, 2008 | Israeli Chief Rabbi: Ethnically cleanse the Gazans | 28/01/2008 | Report: Chief Rabbi says move Gazans to a Palestine in Sinai | By Saul Sadka
Check out the blue eyes. Real biblical, hunh?
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger has been quoted as calling for Gazans to be transferred to the Sinai Peninsula, to a Palestinian state whichj he said could be constructed for them in the desert.
In an interview in English with the British weekly The Jewish News, the chief rabbi also said that while peaceable Muslims should be allowed to pray in Jeruasalem mosques, they should recognize that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. Muslims have Mecca and Medina, he was quoted as saying, adding that "you don't need a third place."
Metzger called for Britain, the European Union and the United States to assist in the construction of a Palestinian state in Egypt's Sinai Desert. ...
