Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumAbbas condemns Gaza rockets, urges militants to halt fire against Israel
Statement comes shortly after Palestinian militants fire Qassam rocket; Israel has said it will hold Abbas responsible for any attack.[/bBy Haaretz | Jun. 11, 2014
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Gaza militants Wednesday not to fire rockets at Israel.
Speaking shortly after Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Qassam rocket at southern Israel, Abbas called on all Palestinian factions to hold their fire "in the interest of the Palestinian people and their security and to prevent giving Israel any pretext to continue its aggression on Gaza," DPA reported.
The rocket fired Wednesday landed in an open area and caused no casualties or damage.
Israel, which opposes the Palestinian unity government that Hamas and Fatah recently formed, has said it will hold Abbas responsible for any attack from the West Bank, controlled by Abbas' Fatah movement, or Hamas-controlled Gaza.
The security cabinet has authorized Netanyahu to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for any such attack, though it did not specify any immediate punitive steps.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.598194
King_David
(14,851 posts)Which Israel should do pronto because of course Chomsky has Israel's best interests at heart ..LOL
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)That makes sense...keep laughing too.
King_David
(14,851 posts)To stop explosives and arms from reaching the terrorists in Gaza still he'll bent on killing innocent Jewish civilians...
Luckily Egypt is opening the border and will probably monitor for arms and explosives.
Chomsky a war monger?, no. Having Israel's best interests at heart or caring what happens to Jewish civilians if they blown up or hit by rockets ? NO
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)shooting their kids, keep expanding settlements.
Chomsky has always had the best interest of people at the forefront..not one side.
King_David
(14,851 posts)If Hamas terror incorporated were allowed unfettered access to explosives ?
In the Palestinian Authorities lingo it would be killing season on all the "Christ Killers"
( more than usual)
As far as Chomsky is concerned why would a rabid anti Zionist think he has any advice for the Jewish State and they would accept it from someone who certainly does not wish Israel well in any manner or form.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)and the Israeli government.
Imagine Israeli policy following international law, the occupation would have been
over, long before Hamas came to power. I will remind you that the unrelenting
settlement expansion and the IDF shooting Palestinians when there have been
no rockets brings forth evidence of Israels plan to make their lives a living hell.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Horseshit.
King_David
(14,851 posts)But it's important to us when innocent Jews are being murdered.
Not so long ago us Jews and Gays.. we went like lambs , since 1948 we been very strong and no longer like lambs to the slaughter.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)That is how the world sees the Israeli government...ask Kerry.
King_David
(14,851 posts)What an insult to Kerry.
He is the last person anyone ever would think of as being Bigoted and certainly not against Jews-- Never !
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)expressing to you.
You're embarrassing yourself.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)King_David
(14,851 posts)He actually is an honest broker.
His motivations a pure, he's not a part of this or obsessed with this conflict just because Jews are involved . That's the part that's different from some posters in forums such as these and other extremist forums such as David Dukes or the UNHRC .
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)occupation.
Kerry knows and is on the record regarding Israel's intransigence.
Read up.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Once you accept that you may realize that Jefferson is right, and...well your position is bankrupt.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Occupation and apartheid are mutually exclusive. Either you believe that WB Palestinians are really oppressed Israelis. And that their state is not legitimate as a sovereign nation. (Apartheid.) Or you believe that Israel is occupying the land of another people. You can't have both.
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)Better late than never I suppose.
Then again, he may just be having second thoughts about what it would mean to be subject to the authority of the International Court of Justice.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)something that 'rumor' has it Israel has now changed it's mind about and refuses to do
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)advisory ruling of any outcome in their favor would be close to zero.
King_David
(14,851 posts)EVER at ANY international forum is zero.
Any UNHRC council,ICC,UN ...ANY
After all Israel is the Jewish State.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)a Holocaust survivor. You need a new slogan...Israel is responsible for their situation, they
refuse to end the occupation with Kerry even when the deal worked out to their advantage,
even with Abbas ready to concede too much..Israel conceded NOTHING.
It is all part of the record.
King_David
(14,851 posts)Nothin new here ...
The great Abba Ebban said about the UN :
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)I understand...the Israeli government needs those excuses to defend the occupation.
Ask Kerry, he'll explain it to you. His OP's are all over DU..read up.
Good luck.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)Do they expect a warm embrace and a pat on the back?
It doesn't work that way.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Which is why groups like the UNHRC seem SOOO interested in states that don't happen to be Israel. Because Israel is clearly the worst state on the planet. It only makes sense for ethical states like Libya and Syria to sit on human rights panels that condemn Israel almost exclusively. Because those rulings are clearly issued without bias.