Comments on: Settlements aren’t really colonies, says the Washington Post http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/21/settlements-arent-really-colonies-says-the-washington-post/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thankgodimatheist http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/21/settlements-arent-really-colonies-says-the-washington-post/comment-page-1/#comment-532890 thankgodimatheist Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:20:25 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=16088#comment-532890 VAA <em>Rahid Khalidi</em> ----------- It's Rashid...A typo I know,  something to which I'm not immune myself, my pseudo is rather thankgodimatheist.. A great historian and a great book.   VAA
Rahid Khalidi
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It's Rashid…A typo I know,  something to which I'm not immune myself, my pseudo is rather thankgodimatheist..
A great historian and a great book.
 

]]> By: thangodimatheist http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/21/settlements-arent-really-colonies-says-the-washington-post/comment-page-1/#comment-532889 thangodimatheist Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:12:50 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=16088#comment-532889 land on which Gilo has been built was purchased prior to 1948 ----------------- This of course is a lie! Most claimants'  documents were proven to be forged as in the case of the "disputed" house in Hebron.  But just for the sake of  argument, even if  it were  "Jewish owned", the land is still an integral part of the Palestinian territory which was occupied in 1967.  In regards to International Law and in view of the international community Israel has no right to settle, or rather colonise, the said  territories. land on which Gilo has been built was purchased prior to 1948
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This of course is a lie! Most claimants'  documents were proven to be forged as in the case of the "disputed" house in Hebron.  But just for the sake of  argument, even if  it were  "Jewish owned", the land is still an integral part of the Palestinian territory which was occupied in 1967.  In regards to International Law and in view of the international community Israel has no right to settle, or rather colonise, the said  territories.

]]> By: vaa http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/21/settlements-arent-really-colonies-says-the-washington-post/comment-page-1/#comment-532887 vaa Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:29:24 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=16088#comment-532887 <em>"They knew full well (Zionist leaders) that as late as 1948 ,Jewish-owned land in Palestine amounted to only about 7 percent of the country's total land area ,that the vast bulk of the county's privately owned land and much of it's urban property was in Palestinian hands"</em> Most of the 7 percent land ,was purchased through absentee landlords some were fake owners. <em>"As influential minority of zionist leaders,led by Ze'v jabotinsky (whose followers included two later prime ministers of Israel,Mebachem Begin and Yitzhaq Shamir),were coldly realistic and much more forthright, Jabotinky eschewed such circumlocution and diplomatic double-talk,and argued explicitly from the beginning that overwhelming force would be necessary to impose the zionist program of making Palestine a Jewish state in the face of what he expected would be fierce and understandable Arab opposition. Jabotinsky wrote:"There is no choice:the Arabs must make room for the Jews in Eretz Israel.If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples,it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs ". "</em> Rahid Khalidi the Iron Cage p.185-186. "They knew full well (Zionist leaders) that as late as 1948 ,Jewish-owned land in Palestine amounted to only about 7 percent of the country's total land area ,that the vast bulk of the county's privately owned land and much of it's urban property was in Palestinian hands"
Most of the 7 percent land ,was purchased through absentee landlords some were fake owners.

"As influential minority of zionist leaders,led by Ze'v jabotinsky (whose followers included two later prime ministers of Israel,Mebachem Begin and Yitzhaq Shamir),were coldly realistic and much more forthright, Jabotinky eschewed such circumlocution and diplomatic double-talk,and argued explicitly from the beginning that overwhelming force would be necessary to impose the zionist program of making Palestine a Jewish state in the face of what he expected would be fierce and understandable Arab opposition. Jabotinsky wrote:"There is no choice:the Arabs must make room for the Jews in Eretz Israel.If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples,it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs ". "
Rahid Khalidi the Iron Cage p.185-186.

]]> By: Yisrael Medad http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/21/settlements-arent-really-colonies-says-the-washington-post/comment-page-1/#comment-532884 Yisrael Medad Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:25:00 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/?p=16088#comment-532884 P.S.   actually, land on which Gilo has been built was purchased prior to 1948, so is it a "settlement" or a "neighborhood"?  or another darn Jewish ghetto? P.S.   actually, land on which Gilo has been built was purchased prior to 1948, so is it a "settlement" or a "neighborhood"?  or another darn Jewish ghetto?

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