Palestinian Unity Government

Rue · June 30, 2015

"Paranoia by the Zionists runs deep and is alive and well. Speak out against the injustices against the Palestinians, and you have to be a Muslim/Iranian Agent/Syrian Agent. Boo!"

True.The above does sound like a comment from Justin Trudeau. Don't put an s on Zionists when you refer to me by the way. I speak only for myself.

You can also call me " Mortimer" or "Hodgkins" or " Percival" or hey even " Frobisher Watson". I'm game. I have my mayonaisse and checkered pants ready to go and I have been learning to play golf and drinking warm liquor. Right or is that Righto.

Big Guy · July 17, 2015

Looks like if you are a Palestinian in Israel you will have to watch only pro-Israeli TV.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/israel-closes-tv-station-palestinian-identity-150621120713478.html

The Israeli's do not appear to trust Israeli Palestinians to present news and their views in Israel. What happened to free speech and allow businesses to survive on their own merit? Israeli government controls what its people see and hear - and this is the free state and bastion of democracy that the West is supposed to be protecting?

Time for Canada to seek new allies in the Middle East. Looks like Iran and Israel have the same philosophy towards free speech and Iran would be a far more beneficial ally then Israel.

bush_cheney2004 · July 17, 2015

Looks like if you are a Palestinian in Israel you will have to watch only pro-Israeli TV.

Yeah...just like CanCon rules in another country we know of.

Hudson Jones · July 22, 2015

Right. Nowhere in this article does it indicate anyone who was Zionist attacked this Church but hey why let that try stop you right arcus. Your agenda is to come on this board and incite negativity about Zionists.

Looks like Marcus was right again and your short story was wrong.

Israel arrests Jewish suspects over arson attack at 'miracle' church

Honenu, a group known to specialize in defending settlers accused of crimes, was reported to be acting as the suspects' legal representatives.

Looks like they are Zionists. Unless this group is suddenly in the mood to protect Muslims who pretend to be Jews and attack Christian and Muslim shrines in order to blame Jews.

Last month's blaze was the latest in a string of attacks against Christian and Muslim shrines in Israel, the West Bank and East Jersualem in recent years. While multiple arrests have been made, there have been few indictment and convictions because of the young ages of many of the perpetrators.

Few indictments and convictions... because they're too young. While Israel has passed a law to imprison Palestinian children for 10 years if they throw a stone. ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST... REPRESENT!

The Catholic Church in Israel condemned it as part of a wave of aggression against Christian shrines in the Holy Land, which it said the Israeli authorities had failed to adequately tackle. It sent a report on the matter to the Vatican.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Hudson Jones

Big Guy · July 23, 2015

So as the world focuses on Iran, Israel continues its policies;

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/israel-accused-advancing-settlement-plans-150723125557567.html

Netanyahu starts another 1065 housing units on illegally stolen land. I am not sure that is the way to a peaceful solution.

bush_cheney2004 · July 23, 2015

What would be legally stolen land ? Canada ?

Edited July 23, 2015 by bush_cheney2004

Rue · July 23, 2015

Again the decision to take a thread about Palestinian Unity an dhijack it to try incite hatred against alll Zionists for the actions of some extemist idiots who attacked a church in Israel speaks for itself.

Once again HJ, Big Guy and Marcus hijack a thread to focus not on the topic but a pretext to smeer Zionists.

The latest smeer and slur all Zionists for the actions of extremists speaks for itself.

Interestingly Marcus,-HJ-Big Guy have stated inb this board time and time again that stereotyping Palestinians, Arabs, Iranians, Muslims as terrorists just because some of them are is wrong and yet they have zero problem doing it with Zionists.

Of course these three won't report this:

source: http://www.prensared.com/u-s-jewish-groups-join-recovery-efforts-after-israeli-church-arson-attack/

JERUSALEM (RNS) Two prominent American Jewish organizations are among those helping a torched Israeli church recover from an arson attack. The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee have each donated funds to the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, the site near the Sea of Galilee where, according to Christian tradition, Jesus miraculously multiplied loaves and fish to feed 5,000 people.

Both of the above organizations are of course Zionist.

When the attack happened Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan denounced the incident as a "cowardly and despicable act which contradicts Israel's basic values,". Interesting last time I looked jhe was a Zionist.

Prime Minister Benhamin Netanyahu after the attack immediately described it as "an attack on all of us". and promised that the perpetrators would be found and prosecuted. Psst, he's a Zionist.

Bishop William Shomali, Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, afterr these attacks did speak out warning of a growing threat of anti-Christian violence and stated: "My fear is that these radicals are increasing in number and in the degree of intolerance."

Its interesting though he went on to state that the violence was likely perpetrated byand I quote "a very small and aggressive group".

But here you HJ et all inferring a Jewish-Catholic war and Zionists as being anti Catholic and anti Christian.

Their words for me evidence a transparent, clumsy, attempt to incite Christians to hate Jews, Zionists and Israel.

Interestingly it was Shin Bet Israel's internal undercover security agency led the investigation and arrested the extremists.Someone tell HJ et al Shin Bet is Zionist.

To the trio and anyone else who wants to try incite a war between Catholics and Jews here may I suggest you chew on this:

source:https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-breaking-new-ground-in-jewish-catholic-relations/

“Pope Francis has very close personal friends from his days as cardinal who are rabbis, who are leaders in the Jewish community,” said Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel for the World Jewish Congress (WSJ). “The dialogue and the relationship have been unprecedented in terms of warmth and closeness.”

Rosensaft said the Pope’s relationship with Jews in Buenos Aires reveals “a totally new model that we’ve never seen before.”

“The relationship is not a formal or intellectual one. But in addition to being intellectual, or symbolic, it is also heartfelt and intuitive,” he said. “That makes a tremendous difference.”

and:

"Few things highlight Pope Francis’ relationship with the Jews more than his deep, abiding friendship with Rabbi Abraham Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary in Buenos Aires. The two men started a friendship in the late 1990s with a joke over their favorite soccer teams, and they published a book in 2010 called On Heaven and Earth, revealing their interreligious dialogue on 29 different topics.

“He does what he says, and he speaks what’s on his mind and what he feels in a very direct and clear way,” Rabbi Skorka told the Register in an exclusive interview. “He’s a respectful person who respects me, really, in everything he says. He’s a lovely person, very simple and highly spiritual.”

The Pope and Rabbi Skorka made history by sharing meals and praying together during Sukkot and Sabbath at the Vatican — making Pope Francis perhaps the first bishop of Rome to do so, since St. Peter himself. "

also please enjoy:

"Rosensaft said that Pope Francis’ personal touch leaves the deepest impression. The Pope had surprised Rosensaft with a personal email, later published in The Washington Post, thanking Rosensaft for mailing him a copy of a guest sermon he had written for his synagogue about where an all-knowing and all-powerful God was present in the Holocaust.

Rosensaft is the son of two Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, or Shoah. The Nazis had killed his mother’s first husband and her young son, his brother. Rosensaft’s sermon, which Pope Francis said contained “the only possible hermeneutic interpretation,” concluded that God’s presence was “alongside and within the victims, those who perished and those who survived.”

“The idea that Pope Francis reached out to me and validated my approach is a tremendous gift,” Rosensaft said. “It is very indicative of his sensitivity to be a spiritual leader and a role model for humanity as a whole.” "

The incitement of hatred stops here and now.

Edited July 23, 2015 by Rue

Big Guy · August 17, 2015

Palestinians are awaiting a strengthening of their government and help from the world community:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2015/08/israeli-army-night-raids-spread-fear-west-bank-150810131852196.html

The more information that comes out of the occupied regions, the more world opinion is turning away from Israeli policies. Time for Canada to wipe our hands and look to Iran as an ally in the Middle East.

Big Guy · September 12, 2015

The UN has finally recognized Paestine and allowed it to fly its flag at the UN.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/palestine-flag-un-headquarters-canada-vote-1.3223774

"Canada joined Israel, the United States and six other countries Thursday to vote against a resolution in the UN General Assembly to allow the Palestinians and Holy See to raise their flags at UN headquarters. The symbolic step pursued by the Palestinians in their quest for an independent state saw 119 nations vote "yes" and 45 abstain."

Our current government also cut out the Vatican and is slowly painting Canada into a corner in its association with Israel.

The sooner we have a change of government, a change of foreign policy, an opportunity to wipe our hands of Israel then the sooner we can align with Iran and a positive future in the Middle East.

bush_cheney2004 · September 12, 2015

Better hurry up, because not only is Canada extending free trade with Israel, it is selling billions in APCs to Iran's other enemy, Saudi Arabia.

Rue · September 12, 2015

Bush he reminds me of a combo of Hanoi Jane and Tokyo Rose. Tehran Dan.

Big Guy · September 13, 2015

The Al-Asqa Mosque continues to be a point of simmering hatred.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/israeli-soldiers-enter-al-aqsa-compound-150913053840074.html

The right wing settlers and area Muslims continue to challenge each other.

Many observers feel that this is just the latest event in a concerted policy by Israel to empower extremist settlers into pushing more Palestinians off their lands.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/israel-facilitating-aid-jewish-extremists-150908081548993.html

And some Israelis wonder why they are losing support on the world stage.

Canada_First · September 14, 2015

No such people as Palestinian. They're just Arabs. They need to be moved out of the Gaza and west bank so that the honorable Jewish people may reclaim the rightful land of Israel.

GostHacked · September 14, 2015

No such people as Palestinian. They're just Arabs. They need to be moved out of the Gaza and west bank so that the honorable Jewish people may reclaim the rightful land of Israel.

Winning the hearts and minds of the world.

Rue · September 15, 2015

So Ghost do you think ISIL, Hezbollah, Hamas, Muslim terrorists, Iran and you for that matter are winning the hearts and minds of the world?

Hmmm? Nothing more silly then a pigeon taking aim when its sitting underneath another pigeon.

Kasploosh.

Big Guy · September 30, 2015

Looks like the Israeli are losing the hearts and minds of about 119 nations with another 45 not sure:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/palestinian-flag-raising-symbolic-step-150930124248791.html

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Palestine Liberation Organisation Central Council member Mustafa Barghouti described the decision to raise the flag as "an important symbolic step"

"In essence, it will honour the many Palestinians who were killed by Israel while trying to raise that flag in the occupied Palestinian territories," he said.

The General Assembly approved the resolution to raise the flag with an overwhelming majority voting in favour of it on September 10.

The motion passed with 119 votes in favour, while 45 countries abstained and eight voted against, among them Israel, the US and Australia.

Look like the Palestinians and their complaints are finally being recognized.

Hudson Jones · September 30, 2015

The raising of the Palestinian flag at the UN is a symbolic gesture to generations of Palestinians who have given their lives to fight for their liberty. No Palestinian state can ever do justice to or fully represent that national sacrifice. The continued nobility of that history now and for ever will belong only to the Palestinian people and only in passing to whatever state they may grant or withhold the honor of representing them. A heartfelt congratulations to all Palestinians and their supporters.

Big Guy · October 28, 2015

The Palestinian leadership is appealing to a third party UN group to monitor the way that Israel is treating the Palestinians:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/palestinian-president-protection-151028142057788.html

As tensions continue to rise, rights groups have slammed Israel for its harsh measures as it continues to crack down on Palestinians.

On Wednesday, Amnesty International's Philip Luther said that Israeli forces "have ripped up the rule book" and implemented "extreme and unlawful measures". "Intentional lethal force should only be used when absolutely necessary to protect life," Luther said. "Instead, we are increasingly seeing Israeli forces recklessly flouting international standards by shooting-to-kill in situations where it is completely unjustified."

Looks like it will soon be time again for another Israeli "incursion and bloodbath" into Gaza.

And it goes on ... and on ... and

Canada_First · October 28, 2015

Israel will never allow a full State to be on their borders. If anything Israel should annex the west bank and Gaza and push the Arabs into neighboring states forever. Jews need more room to live and the whole west bank devoid of Arabs would provide that room.

GostHacked · October 28, 2015

So Ghost do you think ISIL, Hezbollah, Hamas, Muslim terrorists, Iran and you for that matter are winning the hearts and minds of the world?

Hmmm? Nothing more silly then a pigeon taking aim when its sitting underneath another pigeon.

Kasploosh.

Still waiting for you to call out Canada_First for the extremist views he holds.

No such people as Palestinian. They're just Arabs. They need to be moved out of the Gaza and west bank so that the honorable Jewish people may reclaim the rightful land of Israel.

Canada_First · October 28, 2015

Still waiting for you to call out Canada_First for the extremist views he holds.

How do I have extremist views?

The world has lots of places for arabs but only one place for Jews.

I believe that the Jewish people are the true people of Israel.

They were promised Israel by Hashem.

It is the rightful place on Earth for Jews and Jews alone.

The fact that Jews allow any Arabs to live in Israel at all merely proves that the Jewish people are a kind and gentle people.

All that kindness just gets Jews killed and most recently stabbed.

Hatikvah...Am Israel Hai!

marcus · October 30, 2015

1) The West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza are occupied. That is the problem. Worse, they're occupied by violent terrorists who steal and destroy Palestinian homes and farms, and even burn children alive!

2) The entire Arab and Muslim world-- about 71 states, offered Israel permanent peace, in exchange for the Green Line border. Israel said, "No!" and refuses to come up with a proposal of her own. We see the crimes! Tens of millions of people see children gunned down and bombed by Israeli criminals. Israel is a land-greedy European colonial state, just like the other European, colonial states. Except colonial occupation has been illegal since 1949.

Feckless bibi represents the majority of Israeli society which have been allowing the building of settlements since 1967. They have no will to change. Only international isolation and economic pain will cause Israelis to alter course. Meanwhile disaster looms.

Edited October 30, 2015 by marcus

Big Guy · November 7, 2015

While the rest of the world is focussed on Syria, Israel continues to absorb the West Bank and push the owner Palestinians off their own lands:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/israeli-forces-settlers-besiege-hebron-151107143253431.html

How can Canadians ignore these criminal acts?

Hey Justin, send a message of goodbye as soon as possible to Bibi and declare that Canada has nothing more to do with Israel!

jbg · November 8, 2015

Winning the hearts and minds of the world.

Is there anything Israel or for that matter the Jews could do other than disappear to win the hearts and minds of the world?

jbg · November 8, 2015

1) The West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza are occupied. That is the problem. Worse, they're occupied by violent terrorists who steal and destroy Palestinian homes and farms, and even burn children alive!

Perhaps they wouldn’t be “occupied” had the Arabs not ignited the 1967 War and the two before them. When you start a war and lose it total conquest is a hazard.

2) The entire Arab and Muslim world-- about 71 states, offered Israel permanent peace, in exchange for the Green Line border. Israel said, "No!" and refuses to come up with a proposal of her own. We see the crimes! Tens of millions of people see children gunned down and bombed by Israeli criminals. Israel is a land-greedy European colonial state, just like the other European, colonial states. Except colonial occupation has been illegal since 1949.

What a lie. Those proposals included a so-called “Right of Return” that would have allowed the Arabs to swamp areas inside the Green Line with Arab immigrants.

Feckless bibi represents the majority of Israeli society which have been allowing the building of settlements since 1967. They have no will to change. Only international isolation and economic pain will cause Israelis to alter course. Meanwhile disaster looms.

The settlements came when the Arabs enunciated the Khartoum Declaration: 1) no peace; 2) no recognition; and 3) no negotiations.