Hudson Jones

Can you explain how a Russian Jew, who has never lived in what is now Israel, should be able to live there, while someone whose family has lived in that region for centuries, and who still has land under their name cannot enter Israel? Did you know there were over 700,000 Palestinians who were driven out of what is now Israel by the Israeli military and terrorist groups such as Irgun? Their properties confiscated and over 500 of their villages were burnt down.These 700,000 Palestinians became refugees and ended up having children in other countries. But these countries do not give them citizenship because they are still waiting to return to their homeland.

Even if you weren't just making up things in order to push the so-called Palestinian Myth, how is this different than Jews and Israel? Any Jew can get Israeli citizenship by saying they are Jewish. It doesn't matter if they have 0 ties with that region.

Agreed. Why should the US taxpayers pay anything to Egypt, Jordan and Israel? The welfare cheques need to be cut off.

That's what negotiations are all about. From what most of the talks have shown, the Palestinians have accepted that the Palestinians who were driven out of what is now Israel, by the Israeli army and terrorist groups, will not be returning. Except there would be some form of monetary compensation and land.

How come you Zionists keep moving the goal post? You always have an excuse not to go forward. You always want a conflict. It was never about "recognizing Israel as a "Jewish" State. It's about recognizing the State of Israel.

Seriously? You type so much about the topic and you don't know about the basic stuff like the Arab League proposal called the Arab Peace Initiative? Straight outta Wikipedia - Read and learn before you start typing: The Arab Peace Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السلام العربية‎), also known as the "Saudi Initiative", is a 10 sentence proposal for an end to the Arab–Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit and re-endorsed at the 2007 Arab League summit and at the 2017 Arab League summit.[1] The initiative calls for normalizing relations between the Arab region and Israel, in exchange for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including East Jerusalem) and a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194. The Initiative was initially overshadowed by the Passover Massacre, a major terrorist attack that took place on March 27, 2002, the day before the Initiative was published.[2] The Israeli government under Ariel Sharon rejected the initiative as a "non-starter".[3] Sharon said the new plan could not be accepted because it would replace UN resolutions 242 and 338, which called for bilateral negotiations.[4] After the renewed Arab League endorsement in 2007, then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave a cautious welcome to the plan.[5] In 2009, President Shimon Peres expressed satisfaction at the "u-turn" in the attitudes of Arab states toward peace with Israel as reflected in the Saudi initiative, though he did qualify his comments by saying: "Israel wasn't a partner to the wording of this initiative. Therefore it doesn't have to agree to every word."^ More recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed tentative support for the initiative, saying he accepts the "general idea" with significant caveats, specifically its calls for Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights and accept the relocation of millions of Palestinian refugees into Israel.[6] The Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat immediately embraced the initiative.[7] His successor Mahmoud Abbas also supported the plan and officially asked U.S. President Barack Obama to adopt it as part of his Middle East policy.[8] Islamist political party Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip, is deeply divided,[9]with most factions rejecting the plan.

Your comprehension skills are lacking. The analogy is this: Israel is Weinstein and you are Weisnstein's yes-man. Your support for Israel is unconditional. It doesn't matter what Israel does and who it hurts. Any complaints against Israel and you turn into an attack dog by throwing around your anti-semitism fluff. Because I criticize Israel's decades long violations, I piss on Israel. What? I can't criticize Israel? Sure, I'm pissing on a country that has been violating the rights of the Palestinians for decades. I can't do that? Of course I can do it. You want the audience to see my criticism as anti-semitism. You want to create an atmosphere where Israel cannot be criticized by flipping your anti-semite card. It won't work. Less and less people are intimidated by your theatre. Just because you say it, it doesn't make it evidence. Your opinion is not evidence. Get over yourself. After all these years and you have yet to show actual evidence of 'anti-semitism'. All theatre. All the time. Zionism is a cancer. Just like Wahabism is. Just like any other ideology that is okay with violating others for its own gain. Israel's current government and its ideology is a problem. A much bigger problem than North Korea. A much bigger problem than Saudi Arabia or Iran. Of those countries, Israel is the only country who, not only has nukes, but it is the only one who has a history of aggression and attacking other countries. Israel needs to be tamed. It won't happen by the Western governments who are heavily influenced by the lobby groups. It has to happen by the people around the world, through peaceful means and not through terrorism. And it's happening. The BDS movement is making many of you piss in your pants. It must be difficult watching it grow. Despite all your lobbying efforts. Show me where I have 'championed Hamas and Fatah'. You can't. You lie. Once again, you are doing your theatre act. Time for you to listen to yourself, yes-man: Run along and misrepresent someone else. My words are there for anyone to read.

Your unconditional love and support for a human rights violator is evident. I guess this is how Harvey Weinstein's yes-men reacted to complaints about Harvey. You keep repeating that I support terrorist groups, yet you have never been able to show proof of this. Why? Because I don't. But you go ahead and keep repeating it, because that's what the theatre likes to do. I say, Israel should remove the illegal settlements and illegal occupation and then you come out and announce that my support for international law is support for terrorism. Screw you. Some of the leading advocates of human rights and critics of Israel's violations of international law against the Palestinians are Jews. Your anti-semite card is old and rotting. Your song and dance and the theater you want to shove down people's throats is failing. Israel is not a victim. They are a terrorist state that continues to violate international law. Why do you want to know my real name, Rue? What does that have anything to do with my criticism of Israel's violations of international law?

I'm doing the work for you Altai. This attack in Egypt plays into the hands of those who are against the opening of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/sinai-mosque-attack-derails-gazan-hopes-of-rafah-crossing-being-opened-1.679386 Sinai mosque attack derails Gazan hopes of Rafah crossing being opened Massacre reinforces security concerns cited by Egypt for refusing to allow permanent free passage As Israel wants to isolate Hamas by punishing the Gazans, the attack and the subsequent derailing of the Fatah/Hamas agreement in regards to the crossing, is an advantage to the Israelis. However, this is still not evidence that the attack in Egypt was somehow orchestrated by Israel, even though the end results works in Israel's favour.

Okay, here is some information: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/rafah-border-crossing-close-day-opening-171120081825413.html Rafah border crossing to remain open for two more days 20 Nov 2017 Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt will remain open for two more days as part of a reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Egypt opened its largely sealed border with Gaza on Saturday for what was initially planned to be three days, but that time period was extended by another two days on Monday. The opening came after Hamas gave the Palestinian Authority control over the crossing for the first time since 2007. The Egypt-brokered deal is expected to lead to more regular openings of the Rafah crossing. The Palestinian interior ministry said about 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have applied for entry to Egypt in the past few months. Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip had been sealed since August, and was largely closed for years before that. Question is now, how will this attack effect the border crossing.

Link? You must have something showing that Egypt was planning to open the border more regularly.

Taylor’s piece here provides some answers to the various questions of how, when and why violence in the Sinai has reached such unprecedented levels, with reference to the terror tracking work of TIMEP. What is clear but not mentioned here is that when the Egyptian president says that “we will respond strongly” this unfortunately means a continuation of an exclusive security approach which has not only proved to be failing but continues to exacerbate the crisis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/24/how-parts-of-egypts-rugged-sinai-peninsula-have-become-a-terrorist-hot-spot/?utm_term=.ca6e92a725ae

It's unhealthy to accept so much conspiracy theories without doing any research. Province of Sinai militants instructed Rawda villagers last week to stop performing Sufi rituals near the mosque where at least 235 were killed in a militant attack on Friday, according to a source in the village that spoke to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity. The source told Mada Masr that the Sufi sheikh in charge of conducting the rituals in the worshipping space in a building facing the mosque complied with the militants’ demands. He added that locals expected an attack on the building was imminent nonetheless, and that they had closed the road adjacent to the building as a precautionary measure. Villagers were surprised, however, that the militants who conducted Friday’s attack in the village in Bir al-Abd, 40 km west of the North Sinai capital of Arish, circumvented the roadblock, according to the source. By Friday evening, families had begun burying victims, according to locals who spoke to Mada Masr. A journalist from North Sinai told Mada Masr that the Armed Forces has barred journalists from photographing the funerals and from entering the Rawda mosque. According to the source from the village, not all Rawda residents participate in the Sufi rituals in the building adjacent to the mosque, and the village had become a site of refuge for families fleeing the North Sinai cities of Sheikh Zuwayed and Rafah to escape fighting between militants and security forces. The mosque also serves as resting space for travellers on the Arish-Qantara Road, especially on Fridays when cars of travellers are often parked outside the mosque during prayer, the source added. Rawda is home to the Jaririya Sufi order, one of the largest Sufi orders in North Sinai. The village’s mosque that was targeted on Friday is one of the main mosques affiliated with the order. The order’s derives its name from Sheikh Eid Abu Jarir — the order’s founder — who hails from Sinai’s Sawarka tribe and the Jarira clan, which resides in the Bir al-Abd area. The motive behind Friday’s militant attack, which was the deadliest in Egyptian history, remains unclear, and no group has claimed responsibility for it. https://www-madamasr-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.madamasr.com/en/2017/11/24/feature/politics/province-of-sinai-ordered-rawda-sufis-to-halt-rituals-1-week-before-friday-attack/amp/

Speaking of spam bot, we see here, again, Rue posting the Israeli government's take on this. The same government who has done what it could in order to delay any progress in following international law. Anything that comes out of the Israeli government has 0 credibility. This cannot be denied: All governments agree that Israel is in violation of international law with its occupation and the illegal settlements. Who cares about Hamas' charter? Hamas was not even around when the PLO signed and officially accepted the State of Israel within the green line. There is ALWAYS an excuse for Israel not to follow international law. Today I had a meeting with the manager at Superstore, with a petition, requesting for them to remove produce sent from illegal settlements on Palestinian land, marked as if its from Israel. They have temporary put a halt on putting the produce out until they investigate this issue. BDS is working and it's scaring the international law violators.

No, it's true. Both Canada and Israel have internationally recognized borders but only Israel is occupying another land.

Canada has an internationally recognized border and is not occupying another land. Israel has an internationally recognized border and is occupying another land.

Israel already has a state and a border. The occupation is outside its borders.

While Israel and its mouthpieces try to distract the big elephant in the room, by repeating ridiculous distracting arguments like: "They will not accept Israel as a Jewish State." - like anyone is obligated to do so - we are now decades into the Israeli occupation. The realization of a Palestinian State continues to move further away. Especially with the always increasing illegal settlers in the Palestinian territory, which are over 620,000 now. Despite the song and dance to the international community, Likud's official platform has been to never allow a Palestinian State and Netanyahu, in 2015, running for re-election, vowed that there would be no Palestinian state on his watch. Security is another excuse given for the foot dragging by Israel. Here is an article that looks at Israel's unwillingness to allow a Palestinian State: what explains Netanyahu’s opposition to Palestinian statehood? We can only find an answer to this question by widening the scope of our enquiry, and accepting the unpleasant but undeniable fact that opposition to Palestinian sovereignty is a position that has been shared by every single Israeli government, and remains so today, across the political spectrum.

I think America needs to ban all white guys from having guns, until they can get this figured out.

No Palestinian leader is required to recognize Israel as a "Jewish State". However, Palestinian leaders have accepted Israel as a State. And they are a state. But there is no Palestinian State, because Israel is not interested in allowing one to be formed. Instead, they want to drag this on and on, with b.s. excuses that you continue to post, so that they can continue to annex more Palestinian land. Your auto-b.s. comments have gotten SO old. Just be honest for once, instead of the excuses: The Zionist government is not interested in allowing a real, viable Palestinian State, as according to and as required by international law.

Who financially supports terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS.

At the same time, when you see violent attacks by planes, drones, helicopters and other weapons, where more innocent people have been killed, the usual culprits is the West. Just because collateral damage has been normalized in the West, it doesn't mean that it's okay or not part of the equation. Have you ever thought that perhaps, the brother, sister, cousin, friend of the person who was killed or maimed is not looking for vengeance and this is the only way they're able to fulfill this.

Many of the countries that are being attacked or are occupied or have puppet dictators at the helm are Muslim countries. When they don't have an army to fight back with, you end up with the type/style of attacks we're seeing. This has nothing to do with anyone's religion.

Maybe you can have a go at this: Can you find one thing that Trump has done or even accomplished? How many promises did he make? What has he achieved?

Maybe Bush or Reagan were morons. But Trump, he is a belligerent f*cking moron. As stated before, I don't disagree that the past presidents continued the same system. Trump, however, he has accelerated the process. I have tried finding one good thing he has done for his country or in the world, but all I see is chaos and incompetency. Can you find one thing that Trump has done or even accomplished? How many promises did he make? What has he achieved? This is what happens when you elect a mail-order steak salesman as your president. That's the problem with you Trump supporters. You are in denial. You want to believe that Trump is some rebel who is fighting against the system. Just because he is immature, loud, disrespectful, it doesn't mean that he is a rebel. Have you actually looked at his actions and track record so far? Didn't he say that he was against military adventures around the world? Why have military operations increased under his watch? Did he not put down the Saudis during the election campaign and then, suddenly, they're his best buds. Being a Canadian citizen is a privilege. This privilege does not blind me to what Canada has done in the past and continues to do today. I am happy that we're, at least, going towards the right direction in responding to our sins and I continue to fight to make Canada live up to the standards that it wants to represent itself as.