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Emboldened by their newly upgraded status at the United Nations, the Palestinians are talking of filing war crimes charges against Israel, staging mass demonstrations in the West Bank, encouraging the international community to impose sanctions, and ending the security cooperation that has helped preserve quiet in recent years. These plans, combined with growing international impatience with Israeli settlement construction on occupied land, could spell trouble and international isolation for the Israeli leader.
In a series of interviews with The Associated Press, a number of Palestinian officials all voiced a similar theme: Following the U.N. General Assembly's recognition of "Palestine" as a nonmember observer state in November, the status quo cannot continue. "2013 will see a new Palestinian political track. There will be new rules in our relationship with Israel and the world," said Hussam Zumlot, an official in President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks broke down shortly before Netanyahu's election in early 2009 and have remained frozen throughout his term, mostly due to the dispute over Israel's construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Palestinians claim the areas, along with the Gaza Strip, for a future state. Israel captured the areas in the 1967 Mideast war.
The Palestinians have demanded that Israel halt settlement construction before negotiations can resume, saying the continued building is a show of bad faith. Netanyahu says talks should resume without preconditions, and notes that a 10-month partial freeze on construction he imposed two years ago failed to bring about substantive negotiations. Frustrated with the impasse, the Palestinians turned to the United Nations for recognition of an independent state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza. Israel, which withdrew from Gaza in 2005, rejects a return to its 1967 lines.
Although the U.N. vote did not change the situation on the ground, it had deep implications. Opposed by just nine countries, it amounted to a strong international endorsement of the Palestinian position on future borders. It also cleared the way for them to join international agencies to press their grievances against Israel. Netanyahu has accused the Palestinians of bypassing direct negotiations. "One would hope we will in fact see in 2013 the re-emergence of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiating process," said Netanyahu's spokesman, Mark Regev. "There is no substitute for direct talks. You're not going to make peace in resolutions at the United Nations or other international forums."
More AP Exclusive: Palestinians aim to isolate Israel - Yahoo! News
The Palestinian's are using the same playbook that brought down the apartheid South Africa government.
Basically, to isolate Israel, and use international economic sanctions to cripple it and eventually bring the zionist government down.
The Palestinian's are using the same playbook that brought down the apartheid South Africa government.
Basically, to isolate Israel, and use international economic sanctions to cripple it and eventually bring the zionist government down.
Sunni Man,
Now, we need to see the Palestinians take the illegal settlement issue to the Criminal Court at The Hague. The illegal settlements and their 600,000+ illegal settlers are war crimes! Let's see criminal prosecutions for Israel establishing these illegal settlements!
The Zionists are the Nazis of today with their daily crimes agaisnt humanity carried out in the Occupation of Palestine!
And there was supposed to be some important UN Report issued yesterday on the illegal settlements, but I have heard no news about it! Have to go research that again!
Sherri
The Palestinian's are using the same playbook that brought down the apartheid South Africa government.
Basically, to isolate Israel, and use international economic sanctions to cripple it and eventually bring the zionist government down.
Sunni Man,
Now, we need to see the Palestinians take the illegal settlement issue to the Criminal Court at The Hague. The illegal settlements and their 600,000+ illegal settlers are war crimes! Let's see criminal prosecutions for Israel establishing these illegal settlements!
The Zionists are the Nazis of today with their daily crimes agaisnt humanity carried out in the Occupation of Palestine!
And there was supposed to be some important UN Report issued yesterday on the illegal settlements, but I have heard no news about it! Have to go research that again!
Sherri
Is this screed your way of saying the Arab/Nazi connection isn't real or just your way of justifying it?
The settlements are not war crimes. Do you even know what war crimes are?
A Jew Of Conscience, and he even refers to himself and others who are willing to speak out against Israeli human rights abuses in that way!
And he grew up in Nazi Germany and the way Jews were spoken about and looked down upon by Nazis is exactly the same way Israel speaks of and looks down on the Palestinian! He mentioned Israeli officials calling Palestinians a cancerous growth, and he recalls the very same type of statements about Jews by Nazis, like being called vermin!
Sherri
Sunni Man,
Now, we need to see the Palestinians take the illegal settlement issue to the Criminal Court at The Hague. The illegal settlements and their 600,000+ illegal settlers are war crimes! Let's see criminal prosecutions for Israel establishing these illegal settlements!
The Zionists are the Nazis of today with their daily crimes agaisnt humanity carried out in the Occupation of Palestine!
And there was supposed to be some important UN Report issued yesterday on the illegal settlements, but I have heard no news about it! Have to go research that again!
Sherri
Is this screed your way of saying the Arab/Nazi connection isn't real or just your way of justifying it?
The settlements are not war crimes. Do you even know what war crimes are?
I found that UN Report addressing the illegal settlements! it is actually a two page document from OCHA entitled The Humanitarian Impact Of Isreali Settlement Policies Update December 2012
Also read that in March we will see a Report by The UN Human Rights Council Addressing the illegal settlements!
The OCHA Report, dated 12/19/2012, Findings: "1. Settlements are illegal under international law as they violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of the occupying power's civilian population into occupied territory. This has been confirmed by the International Court of Justice, the High Contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention and the United Nations Security Council."
Peace Not Walls » Blog Archive » New OCHA report on illegal Israeli settlement impact on Palestinians - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Substantial violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention are war crimes, we have documented in the OCHA Report the substantial History of Israel's illegal settlement construction. We are not speaking of one isolated settlement or a few settlements being constructed, we are speaking of Israel, since 1967, officially approving 150 illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Israeli government allowing some 100 illegal outposts to be set up.
Sherri
A Jew Of Conscience, and he even refers to himself and others who are willing to speak out against Israeli human rights abuses in that way!
And he grew up in Nazi Germany and the way Jews were spoken about and looked down upon by Nazis is exactly the same way Israel speaks of and looks down on the Palestinian! He mentioned Israeli officials calling Palestinians a cancerous growth, and he recalls the very same type of statements about Jews by Nazis, like being called vermin!
Sherri
That's it? some jews ape the filth of arabs and wasps in describing others?
If I had not attended sunday school with my lutheran neighbor----I would have
not heard words like "******" and "wop" spoken aloud. I know lots of
Israelis -----lots and lots----and have been there----I have never heard them
describe arabs using any perjorative terms-----in fact----just what words did
the old man claim were used? The only nasty words I hear from Israelis
is in HEAVY TRAFFIC----and ALWAYS ARABIC I would list them but in the past
I got in trouble for doing so
A Jew Of Conscience, and he even refers to himself and others who are willing to speak out against Israeli human rights abuses in that way!
And he grew up in Nazi Germany and the way Jews were spoken about and looked down upon by Nazis is exactly the same way Israel speaks of and looks down on the Palestinian! He mentioned Israeli officials calling Palestinians a cancerous growth, and he recalls the very same type of statements about Jews by Nazis, like being called vermin!
Sherri
That's it? some jews ape the filth of arabs and wasps in describing others?
If I had not attended sunday school with my lutheran neighbor----I would have
not heard words like "******" and "wop" spoken aloud. I know lots of
Israelis -----lots and lots----and have been there----I have never heard them
describe arabs using any perjorative terms-----in fact----just what words did
the old man claim were used? The only nasty words I hear from Israelis
is in HEAVY TRAFFIC----and ALWAYS ARABIC I would list them but in the past
I got in trouble for doing so
And he mentions the land thefts, I think, the Holocaust survivor in that first video. And in the second video, the Jew of conscience there, whose parents fled Poland to escape Hitler, speaks of Israel's murder of Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza as being just like Nazis murdered his grandmother in her own bed!
And to prove the truth about what these Jews have said, I just got through posting yesterday in another thread about a grandmother Israel murdered in Gaza in November, when they wiped out three generations of one family, the Al-Dalou family, in one unlawful strike in Gaza on civilians in a civilian house, a war crime under The Fourth Geneva Convention!
Israel/Gaza: Israeli Airstrike on Home Unlawful | Human Rights Watch
Some Jews have a conscience!
Sherri