Community | July 07, 2009 | 7 comments

thanks to US tax dollars

source: http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2009/07/netanyahu-reaffirms-commitment-to.html

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Netanyahu reaffirms commitment to racism and expansionism – thanks to US tax dollars





Saree Makdisi argues that if Israel is ever to agree to anything for the Palestinians other than “an amorphous entity lacking a definite territory, not allowed to control its own borders or airspace, shorn of any vestige of sovereignty ... and permanently disarmed”, then Americans must demand an end to their leaders’ indulgence of Israel.






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  • zoloftkid
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      zoloftkid  
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    • The statement, released Monday, said Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank was strangling the Palestinian economy and forcing residents into aid dependency.
      "[I]t is the European taxpayers who pay most of the price of this dependence," the commission said, including 280 million US dollars so far this year, because settlements prevent the PA from functioning normally.

      The position was earlier put forward by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which cites the 2 billion shekels (509 million US dollars) spent annually on maintaining the road and checkpoint infrastructure that separates Palestinians from accessing land outside of “Area A” zones, prescribed by the Oslo Accords as areas under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction.

    • 2 years ago
  • zoloftkid
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      zoloftkid  

    • It's funny how money they get from us and pretty much think that they control us (mainly cause they use much of that money for media and political influence in the US)...but now that Obama is being a little more strict about what they can and cannot do, I feel it's better that they are a little dependend on our money. If they get out of line, cut the funding. Little by little till they have none?

    • 2 years ago
  • JohnA
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  • Highr0ller
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    • The strange thing is that Netanyahu’s speech marked both the definitive end and a symbolic return to the beginning of the two-state solution as that hapless notion has been peddled since the Oslo Accords of 1993-95.

    • 2 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      To judge by the next day’s headlines, Binyamin Netanyahu’s policy speech last month was a great success. “Israeli premier backs state for Palestinians,” declared the New York Times. “Israel endorses two-state goal,” said the Washington Post. “Netanyahu backs Palestinian state,” announced the Guardian.

      He did no such thing, of course, unless by “state” one understands an amorphous entity lacking a definite territory, not allowed to control its own borders or airspace, shorn of any vestige of sovereignty (other than a flag and perhaps a national anthem), not allowed to enter into treaties with other states – and permanently disarmed and hence at the mercy of Israel. It would make about as much sense to call an apple an orange or a piano a speedboat as to call such a construct a state, and yet those are the conditions that Netanyahu imposed on the creation of such an entity for the Palestinians (if they get that far in the first place).

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    • 2 years ago
  • Racslider
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    • Highr0ller:

      Proof just doesn't seem to be enough for you does it? Hamas Wins elections in the Gaza Strip on a Wed. and by Friday they're sending rockets downtown Isreal...Now you want them to say 'Hey lucky Us..We have good "neighbors" this time...

      I'm gussing you were alseep at the wheel when Muslims have attacked time and time again. Of course to you those little "details" are known as "rants"...So you blow them off and this is why you don't learn anything

    • 2 years ago
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