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Comment on The BBC, Syria and the Six Day War by BBC’s ‘History of Syria’ erases ancient Jewish community, distorts Six Day War | BBC Watch

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:08:03 +0000

[...] politically motivated historically revisionist versions of events surrounding the Six Day War. This blog post from CMEW regarding a complaint already made to the BBC about Snow’s above statement [...]

Comment on Three days this week to kill the peace process by David Lewis

David Lewis — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:52:07 +0000

You are right, and perhaps the most insightful part is recognising how the dead hand of international diplomacy, with its emphasis on concessions by Israel, is killing any peace process by rewarding the Palestinians for being intransigent.

Comment on Three days this week to kill the peace process by Helen

Helen — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:32:38 +0000

Lets hope & pray we see the last scenario, the collapse of the PA and re-occupation by Israel of the West Bank. Any other way would be a collision course with the God of Israel. We will not keep silent until He makes Israel a praise in all the earth! (Zephaniah 3:19 & 20)

Comment on And when you’ve got your “casus belli”….. by Helen

Helen — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:44:34 +0000

What can we do except pray without ceasing!? How can we get the truth into the secular media? I’ve just written a book of my life story and how I became a supporter of the Jews and Israel and need the Lord’s guidance to share with the right people at the right time.
Helen

Comment on “Apartheid Israel”? Look what’s happening to Christians in Apartheid Gaza! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:39:39 +0000

Apartheid Gaza. You said it.

Comment on Israel and Palestinian Christians by The Ozi Zion Blog » Blog Archive » A good article from Christian Middle East Watch

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:52:21 +0000

[...] is an excellent article from them on the contrasting siutation for Israeli and Palestinian Christians The article exposes the disortions of the Christian anti-Israel brigade to the sunlight. posted [...]

Comment on Peace Talks or No Peace Talks – We’ve Been Here Before, I Think! by Karuna

Karuna — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:33:28 +0000

I’m casting aunord here for ideas and I trust people in this crowd to say what they think.One of the effects of the apparent management success of the PA is that a misconception has developed among the headline readers that Palestinians living in the West Bank are in control of their territory with the exception of the Israeli settlements. In other words, that the occupation is merely a matter of controversial settlements . For example, I’ve spoken with people who were surprised to hear that the border between Jordan and the WB is controlled by the IDF. These people had no idea about the Areas, the ultimate IDF control of the PA security forces, taxation, water control, check points that are internal in the WB, Israeli roads, the size of the area managed by the PA, etc. They seemed to think that the West Bank is an almost-nation with an Isareli settlement problem. (Gaza is a whole other issue.) I’m sure we’ve all had similar discussions.Beginning earlier this year I have been reading news and comment about the possibility of a demand for the vote. It makes me wonder whether a public campaign about the right of all Palestinians (including the diaspora) to vote in Israeli elections might now be useful.The right to vote is the most obvious concept in American politics and surely news about the denial of voting rights for Palestinians would raise some questions.I’m wondering what would happen if Palestinian activists took advantage of the next national election to collect and present ballots from any Palestinians of voting age. I wonder whether the public discussion of Knesset power, images of democratic procedure in Palestine, and finally the Israeli refusal to count the ballots, might make interesting news. This might be effective if the campaign included all the usual features of an election, including a slate of non-Israeli candidates.Fayyad has raised this issue in connection with the failure of two-state discussions, but I think that it’s a separate issue. If you live and pay taxes in a place, that’s where you vote, even if at a later time you decide to secede.There’s a long list of problems and maybe the largest is that Palestinians who still have aspirations to a viable state will be reluctant to risk diverting attention from that goal by implicitly conferring legitimacy on the Knesset. The next problem would be the attitude of Palestinians in Gaza and the degree of freedom they might be denied by their own government. But once the current PA leadership’s project has expired, there might be some enthusiasm for such a campaign.

Comment on The Jerusalem Light Railway – so bad for Arabs! by anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:44:45 +0000

The only ones who are not happy are the Jewish residents of Jerusalem who are not very happy to see all these Arabs in their part of the city – i.e. the city center. It’s too much to see all these Arabs, who we Jews don’t feel are even part of Israel, roaming all daty and night in our streets, coffee shops, parks etc. It’s kind of weird to see east Jersusalem Arabs in the city center walking so condidently when most Jews don’t want to see them there.

Comment on The Jerusalem Light Railway – so bad for Arabs! by David Lewis

David Lewis — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:17:10 +0000

I don’t say there are no problems relating to Israel’s Arab minority, and I would accept that both the Israeli government and Israeli Arabs (and their MKs) should work harder to resolve them. All I’m saying is what I said in my comment, Peter! (The position of Arabs in east Jerusalem is slightly different, as they have the choice whether or not to take Israeli citizenship, but the principles are the same.)

Comment on The Jerusalem Light Railway – so bad for Arabs! by cmewonline

cmewonline — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:56:36 +0000

That’s a good, concise report and generally I agree with its conclusions. The Israeli government should do more for a minority supposed to be equal citizens and the minority should play the game as Israeli citizens. My own experience is that ordinary people will get on across the divide if we let them. The employment of many Palestinians in Jewish settlements, the LRT experience, Jerusalem’s efforts to improve living conditions for E. Jerusalem Arabs and the wish of many of those Arabs to remain part of Israel are, to me, signs that peace at a grasroots level is possible if it is allowed or encouraged to happen. I do agree, though, that there’s a long, long way to go – may it come quickly and in our time (as they say)!