visionary Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Well Israel is fairly unpopular among both Muslims and Christians in the middle east, and I saw some media and activists on twitter who were there and confirmed the situation and said that some people even walked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Well Israel is fairly unpopular among both Muslims and Christians in the middle east, and I saw some media and activists on twitter who were there and confirmed the situation and said that some people even walked out. especially unpopular among the Assad and Hezbollah supporters ,"Christians" come in many flavors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 especially unpopular among the Assad and Hezbollah supporters ,"Christians" come in many flavors Guess you didn't get enough attention, the first time you tried to attack the motives of anybody who doesn't agree with your Party, did you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 especially unpopular among the Assad and Hezbollah supporters ,"Christians" come in many flavors That is very true. Although some are probably secretly happy to have Israel around to distract from local issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Guess you didn't get enough attention, the first time you tried to attack the motives of anybody who doesn't agree with your Party, did you? guess you do not know who was booing....kinda like jms and his evangelical line. the difference is I know their motives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 guess you do not know who was booing....kinda like jms and his evangelical line. the difference is I know their motives Right. You know their motive. You can't even so much as name a single one of them. But you possess the ability to look at a video recording, of people who aren't even in the video, and to telepathically divine their innermost motivations. And it is merely a coincidence that this power always reveals whichever answer will be the best possible spin for the Republican Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 The kind of crap that Cruz pulled there happens all the time when talking about Israel and it is annoying as hell: when someone has the gall to criticize the political and military policies of Israel just call them anti-semites and be done with it. Its so easy...you just throw that grenade out there and you don't have to worry about forming any sort of logical argument or dealing with actual policy and grey areas. Don't like what Israel is doing? Well that could only mean you hate all Jews. You're just filled with hatred, no way you could actually have any sort of legitimate point to make. It's disingenuous and intellectually lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 is Cruz the party now?....coulda swore he was a leper not long ago spin is injecting the booing as if it meant anything new Larry.....now back to the usual tripe It's disingenuous and intellectually lazy. what would you call disrupting a speaker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 is Cruz the party now?....coulda swore he was a leper not long ago spin is injecting the booing as if it meant anything new Larry.....now back to the usual tripe what would you call disrupting a speaker? So you're ignoring the meat of my post and going for some fat that looks juicy to you. Got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 So you're ignoring the meat of my post and going for some fat that looks juicy to you. Got it. you are making meat from nothing he said , not even tofu there are of course legitimate objections to Israeli policy and actions, acting a ass to a invited speaker is not the time nor manner to do so ....especially if ya want to wrap yourself in the "disingenuous and intellectually lazy" blanket . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 http://news.sky.com/story/1352283/mps-vote-to-recognise-palestinian-state MPs Vote To Recognise Palestinian State MPs have voted overwhelmingly to recognise a Palestinian state. The vote - which ended 274 to 12 in favour - is not binding on the government but has been described as symbolically important. The UK does not currently recognise Palestine - though is committed to doing so eventually as part of a two-state solution. Labour MP Grahame Morris tabled a motion for immediate recognition, prompting the first full debate on the issue since 2012. MPs eventually voted in favour of an amendment tabled by grandees from the three major parties to recognise a Palestinian state as a "contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Watched a program on TV the other day - 'Storyville: The Gatekeepers', which is 6 former heads of Shin Bet being interviewed. Initially very surprised by what I saw and heard, anyone else seen it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lxjbf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 27, 2014 Author Share Posted October 27, 2014 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/27/us-mideast-settlement-idUSKBN0IG23420141027?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter Netanyahu to expedite plans for 1,000 new settler homes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday, in a bid to placate a restive coalition ally without further aggravating a dispute with Washington. The ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, led by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, has been issuing veiled threats to sever its political partnership with Netanyahu unless he agrees to its call for 2,000 new building tenders in settlements in the occupied West Bank. But Netanyahu, just hours before the opening of parliament's winter session, sidestepped the demand. The government official said Netanyahu ordered the "planning of some 1,000 new units in Jerusalem - approximately 400 units in Har Homa and 600 units in Ramat Shlomo - to be advanced". There was no public pledge to actually erect them, and Pepe Alalu, a left-wing member of the Jerusalem municipality's planning and housing committee, said the proposed projects in the two settlements, in areas of the West Bank that Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed to the city, were not new. "The plans have existed for a long time," Alalu told Reuters, adding that no building permits had been issued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted October 30, 2014 Author Share Posted October 30, 2014 Errr....wtf? http://www.haaretz.com/daily-cartoon/.premium-1.623521?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Haaretz Daily Cartoon - 30/10/14 By Amos Biderman | Oct. 30, 2014 | 6:09 AM http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/30/us-sweden-palestinians-idUSKBN0IJ0HQ20141030?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews Sweden to officially recognize Palestinian state on Thursday Sweden's center-left government will officially recognize the state of Palestine on Thursday, becoming the first major European country to do so, Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told parliament in his inaugural address in October that his Social Democrat government would deliver on a manifesto promise to recognize a Palestinian state, drawing criticism from Israel and the United States. "Today's recognition is a contribution to a better future for a region that has for too long been characterized by frozen negotiations, destruction and frustration," Wallstrom wrote in the daily Dagens Nyheter. "Some will state this decision comes too soon. I am afraid, rather, that it is too late." Palestinians seek statehood in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as their capital. They have sought to sidestep stalled peace talks by lobbying foreign powers to recognize their sovereignty claim. Wallstrom said Sweden's move aimed at supporting moderate Palestinians and making their status more equal with that of Israel in peace negotiations, as well as giving hope to young people on both sides. The U.N. General Assembly approved the de facto recognition of the state of Palestine in 2012, but the European Union and most EU countries have yet to give official recognition. "EU members confirmed in 2009 their readiness to recognize the state of Palestine when it was appropriate," Wallstrom said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.632235 U.S. willing to back UN resolutions on Palestinians, if 'no unilateral moves' included The United States clarified Tuesday that it would be willing to support a United Nations Security Council proposal on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, as long as it contains "no unilateral measures" that would predetermine the outcome of diplomatic negotiations. State Department Spokesman Jen Psaki said that if the wording of the resolution included terms of reference for negotiations on the core issues, the United States would accept it, and not view it as a unilateral move. Netanyahu asks French president to halt UN initiative on Palestinian state "[The] UN Security Council resolution is not in our view a unilateral measure by either one of the parties, there are the obviously the details are what matter. And so, our objection here, and our objection historically, has been to measures that would prejudge the outcome of the negotiations," said Psaki. "If you had a Security Council resolution from the Palestinians, which we've had in the past, that sought to have them recognized as a member state, that's a unilateral action, as you all know. But if you were to do some kind of terms of reference [for negotiations] in the Security Council resolution, that would not be what we would consider to be a unilateral step." Unilateral measures would include any wording that set a timeframe of two years for a Palestinian withdrawal from the West Bank, as stipulated in the Palestinian proposal set for submission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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