US delegates blame Palestinians for no peace talks »
Posted By israeligirl1 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has blamed the Palestinians for failing to hold talks with Israel, calling it the "largest thing" impeding the peace process. A delegation of 29 Democratic Congress Members is visiting Israel.
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Thinker223 months, 2 weeks ago
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> Last I heard, the Israelis weren't all that interested in talking either.
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I'm not sure where you've heard that but as far as I know the last one who ended the talks was the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat when he walked out from Camp David. The Israelis who "were not that interested in talking either" tried to bring the Palestinians back by extending their offers but to no avail.
Still, I'd like to know who the Israelis would be supposed to talk to in your opinion (in case they WERE interested, of course...).
Please consider that in this case a "NEG" as a response to this question means "NO ONE".
> Someone has to have the first word though.
I'm afraid that you're a bit late with this revelation, Stevie. The Israelis said their first word back in 1948 when they've accepted the UN Partition Resolution that was supposed to create a Palestinian Arab state... -
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StevieGee3 months, 2 weeks ago
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They could start by talking with the democratically elected government in Gaza. Yes I know some people can't accept the results of their election. Apparently, some people can't accept the results of our own election. But, we've been advocating democracy in the middle east for a long time and democracy is a messy business.
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AnteUp3 months, 2 weeks ago
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How nice for Steny Hoyer to be on the same page as Eric Cantor.
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Of course Cantor finds that he must go further by criticizing the US administration's focus on settlements.
Right! If we don't stand for favoritism above justice and the law......What DO we stand for?
What is it that is not understood about the word ILLEGAL -
as in ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS?-
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Edmar143 months, 2 weeks ago
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The word illegal is interesting. What exactly makes it illegal? The west Bank is not a country with an autonomous government. So, there really is no occupation that is different than the last 2000 years of history in that region. Jordan never had international approval when it occupied the West Bank after the 1948 war. It won it in a war just as Israel did in 1967. The West Bank never existed before 1948. So, please tell us all what is illegal? Is the West Bank an occupied country? If so, where is the autonomous government? If not, what makes the settlements illegal? When was the West Bank an internationally recognized nation? Since the West Bank never did and still doesn't exist as an independent nation, what international law actually makes the settlements illegal?
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Daylight3 months, 2 weeks ago
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The word illegal is interesting. What exactly makes it illegal? The west Bank is not a country with an autonomous government. So, there really is no occupation that is different than the last 2000 years of history in that region. Jordan never had international approval
Whether you accept it or not Israel never existed before 1948 as such Israel cannot be accepted as legitimate country. Palestine was under the control of Ottoman empire before it was promised to Palestinians by the British and the French for siding with them to defeat the ottomans. So the Palestine existed as a nation but under ottoman where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived but Israel never existed at that time so what makes Israel a legitimate country? If my forefathers lived in America 3000 years ago, does that qualify me to invade America? BTW the Zionists cannot claim anything in Palestine because they are European gentiles converted to Judaism. In fact entire Israel is immoral, unethical and illegal because it is built on the land of 7 million Palestinians who are still live as refugees in may part of the world.How about giving a part of America to Palestinian refugees? Zionist propaganda will never pay. Israel is illegal. The Muslims will never accept the UN or the American or the European standard of laws to define a sovereign country. Israel is an occupier and an illegal entity which is hated not only by the Muslims but also by the Palestinian Jews and Christians. Dismantling Israel will bring the wider peace in the region and also to the world.-
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Endoscopy3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Your assertion about Israel being a legitimate country flies in the face of what has happened around the world. According to your concept Pakistan is not legitimate along with a lot of countries in the Balkans. War changes borders and countries all the time around the world. With your assertion then all Muslims should go back to Yathrib, now Medina, and live in peace with the Jews that were living there before Muhammad. But Muhammad drove out two tribes and killed the men and enslave the other tribe. He later drove out all Jews and Christians in the Arabic peninsula.
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As Jesus said, "Get the beam out of your eye before trying to get the splinter out of your neighbors eye.
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