Israel/Palestine Thread Part XXX

[Lucy Wiggin]

Hamas bans men from women's hair salons in Gaza

(Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.

ODDLY ENOUGH

"The Palestinian authorities (in Gaza) have decided to ban men from working in women's beauty parlors following instructions from Interior Minister Fathi Hammad," said a statement on the website of the Hamas-run police force in Gaza.

"Anyone who breaches this decision will be arrested and tried."

Over the last three years, several beauty parlors and hair salons in the Gaza Strip have been the target of explosions and other attacks, which Hamas have blamed on radical Islamist groups who share the ideology of al Qaeda.

Such groups, which seek to defy Hamas rule in Gaza and criticize its leaders for not implementing strict Islamic law, have been blamed for attacks on places in the territory such as Internet cafes and Christian schools and property. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6243UG20100305

[Gawd]

So this is where all the Zionists are hiding. Can't take Gallstones anymore or are you guys busy grabbing more Palestinian land?

[Martok]

So this is where all the Zionists are hiding. Can't take Gallstones anymore or are you guys busy grabbing more Palestinian land?

Didn't you make this stupid thread?

Gallstones sucked as moderator. He/she certainly let you and a few others get away with a lot of shit over at the other place.

[Gawd]

Didn't you make this stupid thread?

Even a hunter can miss a few traps once in a while.

Gallstones sucked as moderator. He/she certainly let you and a few others get away with a lot of shit over at the other place.

Get away with "a lot of shit" like criticizing Jews and Israel for their racist violence and land grabbing?

[Lucy Wiggin]

So this is where all the Zionists are hiding. Can't take Gallstones anymore or are you guys busy grabbing more Palestinian land?

Didn't you make this stupid thread?

Gallstones sucked as moderator. He/she certainly let you and a few others get away with a lot of shit over at the other place.

[anthonzi]

Well we might as well get back on topic,

Hey Lucy I was going to ask you something before the RD forum died.

What's the deal with these smacktards?




I've got two questions about them;

Why would they want to go and live in Palestine, next to him:



I think I know the answer, they're religious crackpots that believe God gave them the West Bank but I thought I'd ask for your view.

Don't have the time to watch this, but if we're talking settlers: Too many of them are bastards who are violent against the Palestinians and the army.

What distinguishes normal Israeli citizens from settlers and Jewish fundamentalists, and how do they end up getting to the West Bank?

[Gawd]

What distinguishes normal Israeli citizens from settlers and Jewish fundamentalists, and how do they end up getting to the West Bank?

With help from the racist Israeli government of course:

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/news- ... t2164.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8558347.stm

Israel has approved the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit.

The move will infuriate Palestinians, whose leaders have only recently agreed to resume contacts with Israel - at Mr Biden's urging.

It is also likely to be embarrass the Obama administration, given its timing.

The international community considers East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967, to be occupied territory.

Building on occupied land is illegal under international law, but Israel regards East Jerusalem as its territory.

Under US pressure, Israel has announced a 10-month suspension of new building in the West Bank. But the suspension excludes East Jerusalem, where the Palestinians want their capital.

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West Bank building

Hours before Mr Biden's arrival on Monday, Israel enraged Palestinians by approving 112 new homes in Beitar Illit in the West Bank.

Israeli officials said the move was "an exception", and necessary to improve the settlement's security.

Palestinian leaders told Mr Mitchell that the move put the indirect talks at risk.

Close to 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Correspondents say there is little optimism in the region about what the indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks might achieve.

Periods of direct negotiations over the last two decades have failed to reach agreement.

Mr Netanyahu's right-leaning government has taken a harder line stance on final status issues than that of the previous administration.

He has ruled out dividing Jerusalem, wants the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, and said he intends to maintain a presence along the eastern border of a future Palestinian state.

On Wednesday, Mr Biden will meet Palestinian leaders in the West Bank before travelling to Jordan for talks with King Abdullah.

Israel continues it's settlement building and Jerusalem expansion that flies in the face of "peace talks". Israel doesn't want peace, it wants to take over Palestinian land! Netanyahu is a mother fucking racist hypocrite that's not satisfied unless he continues annexation and war to further the "Jewish state".

[Mr. Olaudah Equiano]

So this is where all the Zionists are hiding. Can't take Gallstones anymore or are you guys busy grabbing more Palestinian land?

• “Can't take Gallstones anymore or...
  
  
  are you guys busy grabbing more Palestinian land?”

wow, did your brain do that?? srsly man, that has got to be the mother of all non sequiturs.....

[Fact-Man]

What distinguishes normal Israeli citizens from settlers and Jewish fundamentalists, and how do they end up getting to the West Bank?

With help from the racist Israeli government of course:

http://www.rationalskepticism.org/news- ... t2164.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8558347.stm

Israel has approved the building of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem, in a move that threatens to overshadow US Vice-President Joe Biden's visit.

The move will infuriate Palestinians, whose leaders have only recently agreed to resume contacts with Israel - at Mr Biden's urging.

It is also likely to be embarrass the Obama administration, given its timing.

The international community considers East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967, to be occupied territory.

Building on occupied land is illegal under international law, but Israel regards East Jerusalem as its territory.

Under US pressure, Israel has announced a 10-month suspension of new building in the West Bank. But the suspension excludes East Jerusalem, where the Palestinians want their capital.

(snippage)

Israel continues it's settlement building and Jerusalem expansion that flies in the face of "peace talks". Israel doesn't want peace, it wants to take over Palestinian land! Netanyahu is a mother fucking racist hypocrite that's not satisfied unless he continues annexation and war to further the "Jewish state".

I don't think Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem occurred in 1967, as the article claims; I think the annexation occurred much later and well into more recent times. No nation on earth has recognized it as legitimate, not even the USA, so it exsts as a fiction in the minds of the Zionists.

[Martok]

Didn't you make this stupid thread?

Even a hunter can miss a few traps once in a while.

Like Elmer Fudd?

[Martok]

Netanyahoo really fucked up this time.

Hillary Clinton rebukes Israel

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal" for the Mideast peace process and ties with the U.S.

The State Department said Clinton spoke to Netanyahu by phone for 43 minutes to vent U.S. frustration with Tuesday's announcement that cast a pall over a visit to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden and endangered indirect peace talks with the Palestinians that the Obama administration had announced just a day earlier.

The length and unusually blunt tone of Clinton's call underscored the administration's concern about prospects for the negotiations it has been trying to organize for more than a year and its anger over Israel's refusal to heed U.S. appeals not to make provocative gestures.

"The announcement of the settlements on the very day that the vice president was there was insulting," Clinton said in an interview with CNN Friday. "It was just really a very unfortunate and difficult moment for everyone, the U.S., our vice president who had gone to reassert America's strong support for Israeli security, and I regret deeply that that occurred and made that view known."

Clinton called "to make clear that the United States considered the announcement to be a deeply negative signal about Israel's approach to the bilateral relationship and counter to the spirit of the vice president's trip," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.

"The secretary said she could not understand how this happened, particularly in light of the United States' strong commitment to Israel's security and she made clear that the Israeli government needed to demonstrate not just through words but through specific actions that they are committed to this relationship and to the peace process," he said.

The harsh criticism of America's closest Mideast ally and questions about its commitment to the U.S.-Israeli relationship followed equally blunt condemnation of the housing announcement from the White House and Biden himself.

It also comes ahead of a trip to the region by U.S. Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell and a meeting in Moscow next week of the Quartet of Mideast peacemakers that Clinton will attend.

Hours after the call to Netanyahu, the Quartet -- the U.S., European Union, United Nations and Russia -- denounced the Israeli announcement in a statement from the world body's headquarters in New York where Clinton was addressing a commission on the status of women and meeting with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.

"The Quartet has agreed to closely monitor developments in Jerusalem and to keep under consideration additional steps that may be required to address the situation on the ground," the statement said.

It did not elaborate on what steps it would consider but said the Quartet members "would take full stock of the situation" when they meet in the Russian capital next Friday.

The Quartet has long urged both Israel and the Palestinians not to take any steps that could hinder peace talks. Crowley stressed that the United States objected to both the content and timing of the announcement and said Clinton had "reinforced that this action had undermined trust and confidence in the peace process and in America's interests."

Netanyahu has apologized for the timing, though not the substance, of the announcement to approve 1,600 new homes for Jews in east Jerusalem. The international community does not recognize Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem -- captured in the 1967 Mideast war -- and the Palestinians see that part of the city as their own future capital.

Earlier Friday, an Israeli cabinet minister said the government is moving to amend the country's planning procedures on sensitive political decisions because of the embarrassing diplomatic flap. Netanyahu has said he was not aware the announcement was going to be made during Biden's visit.

The Israeli announcement enraged the Palestinians and Arab states, jeopardizing the proximity talks Mitchell is to mediate. An Arab League advisory committee has already withdrawn its endorsement of the discussions.

In a bid to salvage those negotiations, Mitchell and the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman, called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Arab League chief Amr Moussa and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over the past two days, Crowley said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... es-israel/