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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 06:58 PM
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Israel Plans to Build 600 New Homes in Settlements
JERUSALEM, Oct. 2 — Israel announced today it intended to build about 600 new homes in three large West Bank settlements, a move that contradicts the current Middle East peace plan.

The announcement came a day after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government approved the construction of barriers deep inside the West Bank to guard Jewish settlements.

Palestinians expressed anger at both decisions, with Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, calling the barrier a "wall of racism."

New York Times
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I guess the roadmap is dead.
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:23 PM
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1. Oh goody... how domestic!
Or is that 'demonic'...
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:03 PM
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2. OK - so this big news gets no coverage in GD...
...because of DU's policies?

I'm outraged!
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Resistance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:07 PM
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3. the embarrassment
that is the policy of Democrats towards Israel and the O.T. causes all discussion involving Israel to be hidden from mainstream attention as best as possible.
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:10 PM
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5. Anyone who is in favor of democracy...
...would frown on this behavior.

Give us the facts and open the discussion, and the people will decide! Anything less is undemocratic! Hear that, DU?!
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Resistance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:13 PM
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8. You want facts and an open discussion?
You want the people to decide?

Wow what a radical "leftist retard" you must be! :silly:
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:11 AM
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15. If you want to complain about the site...
There's always the Ask the Admins forum for that.
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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:12 PM
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7. D'you know Charles Schumer is Mr I Love The Wall?
Check out the praise he is getting over this CIA thing too.
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:14 AM
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16. Senator Schumer is my senator...
and that "CIA thing" may be what finally brings Bush down. Sorry if you think your opinion of Israel is more important than who's runing the US.
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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 11:47 AM
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17. Last I looked, this was the I/P forum
Hence, I restrict commentary to Israel/Palestine.

As for the "CIA thing", I know all about it, and hope it brings Scooter/Rove/Bush down. I also support Schumer's efforts in this regard. Doesn't change the comment I made about him one jot.
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Jackie97 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:52 PM
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13. I have to say .....
that I've been very disappointed with the Democrats on this subject.
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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:09 PM
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4. Forget it
This already happened anyway.

Israel has published several tenders in the Israeli press recently. The most brazen was in Yediot (or Ma'ariv, I forget which), saying (in effect), "COME TO THE JORDAN VALLEY - FREE STUFF!"

The very first violation was the announcment of a new settlement in Abu Dis roughly two days or so after the Roadmap was published.

This is par for the course.

The shock is that anybody bothered to notice this particular case.
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Resistance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:11 PM
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6. closer to the dream
The dream of capturing the rest of the O.T. - err, I mean, Judea and Sumaria. Why don't we all just start calling it that now anyway? The future history books will. All part of G-d's plan y'know.
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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:18 PM
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9. Judea and Samaria - Israel's largest newspaper


Funny, I don't see the West Bank on there. :shrug:

Don't the Pals get shit for not having Israel on their maps (even though they are)?

Weird that. Anybody would think there was a -gasp- double standard.
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Resistance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:19 PM
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10. Why should the Pals get shit?
They're just "squatters" remember
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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:08 PM
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11. You're being too kind
I think cockroaches is the fashionable term.
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:38 PM
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12. no, they are just misguided human beings...
...thinking they are entitled to land that is not theirs...
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:59 PM
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14. And who is paying for this shit?
We should cut aid to Israel, and the loans that are never paid back, for the same amount of money that Israel spends in the settlements and the occupation. Let Israeli taxpayers bear the true cost of the occupation and the idiotic squatters living in the settlements.
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