06-05-2008
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Member Since: Jun 2004
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Re: Hamas, Fatah slam Obama
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Originally Posted by O'Sullivan Bere
The occupied territories were part of Egypt, Jordan and Syria. They attacked Israel repeatedly and the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied when Jordan attacked Israel seeking to destroy it.
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The Six Day War started when Israel attacked Egypt and Israel was very instrumental in provoking war with the Arab powers namely Syria...
YouTube - Israel deceptions of the six day war 1 of 2
YouTube - Israel Deceptions of the six day war - 2 of 2
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Who violated these principles you are speaking of? Jordan did. Israel has been willing to discuss peace (Oslo, etc). Hamas, etc, want Israel as a state removed and fight in acts of war to achieve that. Who is violating these principles you speak of?
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Israel has been willing to discuss peace as long as they get to keep illegally annexed territory and their 78% of historical Palestine in addition. To understand the sheer unfairness of the Israeli positions in such negotiations with the Palestinians lets go to Camp David. The Israeli negotiator and former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami admitted that he would not have accepted the Israeli "offers" at Camp David had he been a Palestinian...
Democracy Now! | Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister: "If I were a Palestinian, I Would Have Rejected Camp David"
As far as your claims that Hamas is the aggressor?
Since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000, Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiralled. Israeli forces have killed some 4,000 Palestinians, most of them unarmed civilians and including some 800 children. Many were killed in air strikes, artillery shelling and other attacks against refugee camps and densely populated residential areas throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Others were extrajudicially executed in attacks which killed scores of bystanders. In the same period, Palestinian armed groups have killed more than 1,100 Israelis, some 750 of them civilians and including 120 children, in suicide bombings and shooting attacks in buses, restaurants, shopping malls and other areas frequented by civilians.
Killings and attacks by both sides decreased significantly in 2005, after an informal truce (tahadiyeh or "quiet") was declared by Palestinian armed groups early that year. However, in 2006, while killings of Israelis by Palestinian armed groups decreased further, to half the previous year’s figure, and reached the lowest level since the beginning of the intifada, killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces increased threefold compared to the previous year.
Document - Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Enduring occupation. Palestinians under siege in the West Bank | Amnesty International
Last edited by Frank; 06-05-2008 at 12:09 PM.
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