Comments on: Israel Snubs U.S. Call to Halt Settlement

Construction of Housing Project in Disputed Section of Holy City Will Continue, Says Ambassador

[YuSoWrong]

Regarding Jerusalem: On May 28, 1948, the Jewish quarter of the Old City fell to the Jordanians. After 10 months of fighting, an armistice agreement was signed on April 3, 1949, dividing Jerusalem along the November 1948 ceasefire lines of Israeli and Jordanian forces, with several areas of no-man?s land. The armistice line served as a temporary border between what had formerly been two mixed communities.

Upon capturing eastern Jerusalem, Jordan killed or expelled its Jewish residents and desecrated and destroyed Jewish holy sites.

During the Jordanian occupation of eastern Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, Jews were forbidden access to their holy sites?including the Western Wall of the Temple Mount?and to the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, in use from ancient times to the present. Christians were subject to many restrictions, both during pilgrimages to their holy places and in administering their institutions. When the city was recaptured and reunited by the Israelis in 1967, Israel annulled the discriminatory laws, allowing access for all religions to their holy sites, and granted the Islamic Wakf (religious trust) civil authority on the Temple Mount.

Israelis are understandably reluctant to return the most sacred precincts of their worship to a sworn enemy, and yet their rule over East Jerusalem has been more tolerant than when the Jordans had it or when the Palestinians might have it in the future.

[summarex]

Fine
Let the loathsome troublemakers continue to build their settlements. But let's make sure they can't get a single cent out of America. That includes not only government help but also the money funneled to them through Aipac.

[curiously1]

Israel should keep building on and on. "Stolen Land" my butt ! Israel gave these uneducated arab thugs all they asked and it wasn't enough. This is when enough is enough ! Build, Build and Build !

[YuSoWrong]

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[YuSoWrong]

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[YuSoWrong]

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[YuSoWrong]

When I ask you any simple question you evade, you defame, and CBS throws you out. You have the life cycle of a fruit-fly. What more do you need to know? About yourself, I mean.

[YuSoWrong]

Not sure where you're going with this. Off a cliff, hopefully. You're as popular here as you are with the ladies, didja notice?

[kcits]

Granted, God Promised that Israel would be for the Jews. But, he didn't promise it would be a specific size forever, that they could keep the bloody spoils of a modern war, or that they could expand it.

[South-of-Heaven]

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