Comments on: SPHR: Palestine’s right to exist

By: Pax R

Pax R — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:26:58 +0000

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By: Rag

Rag — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:45:23 +0000

“The sickening anti-Semitism of the Arab world and of groups like the SPHR are a reminder that anti-Semitism did not die in that bunker alongside Hitler some 64 years ago.”

This repetition of this “argument” is seriously weakening the IAC case.

Critique of Israel is not anti- semitism.

In a constructive debate a separation between the state of Israel and the religion/people of judaism needs to be clear.

By: Branmuffin

Branmuffin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:21:02 +0000

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RoLFqgpf088C&ots=1VmNJ33784&dq=Palestine&lr=&pg=RA1-PA237#v=onepage&q=&f=false

By: Amar

Amar — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:28:37 +0000

Jordan is the real Palestine. Those expelled were not inhabitants of the Land, but rather people working the lands. The land was bought fair and square from the owners in Beirut and Dimashk. Nice try on the ownership. Its a shame the biggest export from Palestine is whining.

By: Hmm

Hmm — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:11:01 +0000

“Does Palestine have a right to exist?”

Yes.

“the ‘question of Palestine’ is simple”

No.

By: Fahim

Fahim — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:08:35 +0000

“A free Palestine from the mediterranea to the Jordan”

This sentiment, so freely denying Israel’s right to exist, is all too common in Arab and Muslim rhetoric.

The occupation will end when Palestinian terrorism ends.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:17:25 +0000

Yes! Because claiming Palestinians have a right to exist, and a place to live is pretty much the same as wanting to exterminate an entire race. Thank you for proving Godwin’s law in just one step!

By: Palestine

Palestine — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:33:33 +0000

A very clear, consise and right text.
An end of the occupation is the only solution. A free Palestine from the mediterranea to the Jordan see will bring peace to Jews, Christians and Muslims palestinians living there.
The Khazars should weak up: they do not belong to this place, they should stop stealing the land, return to where they come from and they should pay for their crimes.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:24:08 +0000

“Palestine” does not exist and has never existed in the course of human history.

That part of the world has been occupied by various empires throughout the past 2,000 years when the Jews were expelled by the Romans, thus creating the Jewish diaspora.

The Jewish people are the natives to that land, not the Arabs or Muslims. Thousands of years before Mohammed was even born, Jews lived in what is today Israel and the West Bank.

Up until World War I, it was the Ottoman Empire that controlled that land and after the War it was the British Empire who controlled it. It was the British who promised the Jewish people a homeland there and in 1948 the UN voted to partition the land into an Arab state and a Jewish one.

The Jews accepted it and the Arabs did not and attacked the Jews thus starting the conflict in earnest.

There are already 22 Arab states and 56 Islamic ones. Why can’t the Arabs accept a tiny Jewish state in their midst?

The sickening anti-Semitism of the Arab world and of groups like the SPHR are a reminder that anti-Semitism did not die in that bunker alongside Hitler some 64 years ago.