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Israel continues to steal Arab land
Direct Action Issue 15: September 2009
http://directaction.org.au/issue15/israel_continues_to_steal_arab_land
By Kim Bullimore
On August 26, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offered to freeze the building of new Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank for nine months. Netanyahu’s announcement has been presented in the Western corporate media as a “victory” for US President Barack Obama, who has been pressing Israel to halt its illegal settlement activity in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in order to be able to get the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” restarted.
Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, had been pressing for a 12-month freeze on illegal settlement activity in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem, both illegally occupied by Israel since June 1967. Netanyahu, however, has ruled out any halt to the Israeli takeover of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, which Israel formally annexed in 1980 through its “Jerusalem Law”. This declared that “Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel”. This Israeli law was declared “null and void” and a violation of international law by UN Security Council Resolution 478, approved by 14-0 votes (with the US abstaining) in August 1980. A July 2004 statement of the International Court of Justice expressed the view that all countries are under an obligation not to recognise Israel’s illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
According to the August 27 Tel Aviv Haaretz daily, Netanyahu’s settlement “freeze” offer excludes some 2500 housing units on which construction has already started and allows the erection of new “public buildings”, mainly schools, in existing settlements. Following the meeting with Mitchell, at which Netanyahu made his phony “freeze” settlement offer, the two issued a joint statement saying that “good progress” had been made in their discussions.
Writing in the August 12 Jordan Times, Hasan Abu Nimah, a former Jordanian ambassador to the UN, observed that “by demanding a temporary freeze [on Israel’s illegal settlements], the US is indirectly accepting what has been built so far, as well as the idea that Israel is entitled at the end of the agreed period to resume construction if its ever-escalating demands are not met”. He went on to argue that the notion of a “temporary freeze” allows Israel to shift the debate “from the illegality, under international law, of Israel’s settlements towards something totally superficial: the pace of construction”.
Direct Action Issue 15: September 2009
http://directaction.org.au/issue15/israel_continues_to_steal_arab_land By Kim Bullimore
On August 26, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offered to freeze the building of new Israeli settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank for nine months. Netanyahu’s announcement has been presented in the Western corporate media as a “victory” for US President Barack Obama, who has been pressing Israel to halt its illegal settlement activity in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in order to be able to get the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” restarted.
Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, had been pressing for a 12-month freeze on illegal settlement activity in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem, both illegally occupied by Israel since June 1967. Netanyahu, however, has ruled out any halt to the Israeli takeover of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, which Israel formally annexed in 1980 through its “Jerusalem Law”. This declared that “Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel”. This Israeli law was declared “null and void” and a violation of international law by UN Security Council Resolution 478, approved by 14-0 votes (with the US abstaining) in August 1980. A July 2004 statement of the International Court of Justice expressed the view that all countries are under an obligation not to recognise Israel’s illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
According to the August 27 Tel Aviv Haaretz daily, Netanyahu’s settlement “freeze” offer excludes some 2500 housing units on which construction has already started and allows the erection of new “public buildings”, mainly schools, in existing settlements. Following the meeting with Mitchell, at which Netanyahu made his phony “freeze” settlement offer, the two issued a joint statement saying that “good progress” had been made in their discussions.
Writing in the August 12 Jordan Times, Hasan Abu Nimah, a former Jordanian ambassador to the UN, observed that “by demanding a temporary freeze [on Israel’s illegal settlements], the US is indirectly accepting what has been built so far, as well as the idea that Israel is entitled at the end of the agreed period to resume construction if its ever-escalating demands are not met”. He went on to argue that the notion of a “temporary freeze” allows Israel to shift the debate “from the illegality, under international law, of Israel’s settlements towards something totally superficial: the pace of construction”.
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most oppressed?
22.09.2009 18:02
john
Realistic
22.09.2009 18:49
Solidarity
Palestinians are the most opressed people in all history!!
22.09.2009 18:58
They're MORE oppressed! People in Burma or North Korea don't have the zionist state on their doorstep, raining depleted uranium and white phosphorous down on their heads on a daily basis!
Tom
Interpal use of Hamas-affiliated outlets
22.09.2009 19:00
Surely there are other ways money can be donated to help the Palestinians than this organization?
strepsil
@ tom
22.09.2009 19:45
john
actually tom
22.09.2009 19:48
and the north koreans are starved BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fitzy
Oh well
22.09.2009 23:08
That's a shame, I'd been feeling better disposed to IMC-UK for a bit and had been minded to start posting things and promoting IMC-UK pages.
strepsil
dubious claims and dubious sources
23.09.2009 06:27
Oh, which part of your comment mentioned these? Instead you claimed that the BBC had made allegations and the Charities Commission (both bodies in which Indymedia readers should have the utmost trust apparently) NEVER REFUTED them.
You claimed that Al Qaradawi "presides over" Interpal - this simply is not true - it refers to links to the 'Union of Good'
I don't think the organisers would have decided to support Interpal, without making their own judgement on whether it was a suitable organisation to support.
I therefore think that the purpose of your comment was to undermine the original post, and breached the 'inaccurate' guideline.
Feel free to take this discussion to the moderation list if you think that you've been 'censored'
IMCista
Are you really quibberling?
23.09.2009 09:42
Or are you just a pair (even?) of internet warriors assuming the guise of the natives?
That such a question even arises should show how divisive your comments are, and how, in all probability this was your design.
I'm going.
Jackslucid
Thank you for the money
23.09.2009 09:55
Read our Covenant, to discover what we plan to do with your contributions!
Khaled Meshaal
e-mail:
starsqui@gmail.com
Nitpicking Trolls
23.09.2009 10:34
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Charity Commission's reprimand of Interpal
23.09.2009 12:31
Thank you IMCista for that link. Why wasn't it left unhidden, so everyone could see it and make up their own mind?
Why also do you say that Interpal must be ok otherwise the original poster wouldn't have chosen them? Does the original poster have more in-depth/first-hand knowledge than either the BBC or the Charity Commission, then?
strepsil
The BBC? That bastion of independent reporting.
23.09.2009 18:53
Israel Out of Gaza Now: Lift the Blockade
Assemble: BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA (nearest tube: Oxford Circus) March: to Trafalgar Square
With over 1,100 killed, 350 of them children, and over 5500 injured, the suffering in Gaza is beyond catastrophic. Israel is ignoring the worldwide clamour for it to stop now and is escalating its attacks.
A third national demonstration against Israel’s barbarity and war crimes has been called for Saturday 24 January in London by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Association and many other organisations.
The demonstration will assemble at BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, as a response to the BBC’s largely one-sided coverage of the Gaza massacre, allowing Israeli spokespeople endless opportunities to propagate lies and deception without challenge.'
Isn't this the very reason for Indymedia?
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The BBC in Israel
23.09.2009 20:43
If Hamas-related organizations and their ideology weren't bolstered by Interpal, there would be fewer Qassam rockets, less American sympathy for Israel and more opportunity for peace.
strepsil
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24.09.2009 19:31
Miserablist
Making assumptions
24.09.2009 22:45
Solidarity
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