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The REAL Reason for the Assault In Gaza?
We noted yesterday that many speculate that the timing of the war in Gaza is because it is (1) after the U.S. elections and before the Israeli elections or (2) part of the run-up to a war with Iran.
A third reason is also quite possible.
Asia News reported last month:
The debate on U.N. recognition of Palestine will be held in mid-November. This was announced two days ago by Vuk Jeremic, President of the U.N. General Assembly. “The leaders of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) are going to engage in extensive discussions”, said Jeremic, “coming to a conclusion as to what they want to do some time in November.”
On November 6th – before hostilities escalated in Gaza – Anti War pointed out:
Palestine’s upgrade to UN “non-member observer state” status is virtually a foregone conclusion, with an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly expected to vote in favor and only a handful, led by the US and Israel, in opposition.
The question then is what Israel’s reaction will be, and the nation’s cabinet met today to discuss possible “punitive” measures to punish the Palestinians for getting the enhanced level of recognition on the international stage.
Exactly what the move will be remains unclear, and with Israel already not negotiating with the Palestinians and already expanding settlements, the number of options that will actually feel like “punishment” instead of just business as usual is limited.
On November 8th, the Washington Post reported:
The Palestinians took the first step toward raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state Thursday by circulating a draft resolution to the 193 U.N. member states and asking for their support.
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There are no vetoes in the General Assembly and the resolution is almost certain to be approved by the world body which is dominated by countries sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Approval of the resolution would elevate the Palestinians to the same status as the Vatican. The draft resolution states that to date, 132 nations have recognized “the State of Palestine.”
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The upgraded status would add weight to Palestinian claims for a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
The Palestinians also hope to use their upgraded status to join additional U.N. bodies, such as the International Criminal Court, where they could attempt to prosecute Israel.
At the same time, they have expressed fear of financial and diplomatic retaliation.
Following last year’s move by the Palestinians to join the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, the United States withheld funds from the organization, which amount to 22 percent of its budget. The U.S. also withheld money to the Palestinians, and the U.S. Congress has threatened similar sanctions if the Palestinians proceed to improve their status at the U.N. again.
Israel also retaliated by accelerating settlement construction and withholding funds from the Palestinian government.
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The draft resolution expresses hope that the Security Council will consider the application for full membership favorably.
It “reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to independence in their State of Palestine on the basis of the pre-1967 borders.”
And Reuters noted yesterday:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of launching an assault on the Gaza Strip to undermine his efforts to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations.
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Abbas [said] he thought the escalating military campaign was aimed at sinking his own diplomatic maneuverings.
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“Everything that is happening is in order to block our endeavors to reach the United Nations,” Abbas told journalists.
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Abbas [is] recognized by the West as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip ….
Despite the violence, he said he would push ahead with plans for a vote at the U.N. General Assembly before the end of the month to give the Palestinians the rank of an “observer state” within the world body rather than the present “observer entity”.
The upgrade would enhance Palestinians’ legal rights at a time when peace negotiations with Israel have hit a wall over Israel’s refusal to halt settlement building in territory where the Palestinians want their state.
“We are going to the United Nations to vote on the resolution of our becoming an observer state on the 29th of this month. Nothing will deter us,” Abbas said.
Both Israel and the United States have condemned the planned vote, which Abbas looks set to win, saying it violated the 1993 Oslo accords, which were intended to pave the way to a “final status agreement” within five years.
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notice that the formation "joos" or variants thereof is synonymous with the statement "i am a zionist"?
A better question would be:
Why did the idiots that run Hamas start firing rockets and give Israel an excuse to go to war?
http://i.imgur.com/rqOJI.jpg
"Why did the idiots that run Hamas start firing rockets and give Israel an excuse to go to war?"
Easy....they didn't.
REMARKABLY coincidental, isn't it?
Except that Apartheid Israel broke the cease-fire, in full view, by killing a Hamas operative while he was engaged in peace negotiations.
Prior to this, they were bombing from 25,000 feet. But since those bombs fell upon brown people, they don't count.
One picture answer:
http://www.australiansforpalestine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/PALEST...
...wow, talk about 'a picture being worth a thousand words'.
@ Whomever downticked ya: 'sup? Cat got your tongue?
"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
-Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry
"In our political argument abroad, we minimize Arab opposition to us, [but] let us not ignore the truth among ourselves: we are the aggressors and they defend themselves."
--Ben Gurion 1938
"If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country."
-David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99
"Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in this country. We shall not achieve our goal if the Arabs are in this small country. There is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries - all of them. Not one village, not one tribe should be left."
-Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department in 1940. From "A Solution to the Refugee Problem" by Joseph Weitz, Davar, September 29, 1967, cited in Uri Davis and Norton Mevinsky, eds., Documents from Israel, 1967-1973, p.21
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
--Benyamin Netanyahu, November 24, 1989.
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them."
--Ariel Sharon, November 15, 1998
Please, explain.
So Palestine was once a sovereign country? With actual borders?
re:"So Palestine was once a sovereign country? With actual borders?"
Somehow I knew this could all be boiled down to nothing more than semantics.
So which definition of 'sovereign country' are we using at your convenience today? The Pope's? The UN's? Your own special crew of divinely ordained 'border consultants'? Certainly you seem adverse to asking the people who had actually been living there for centuries on end what they think about it.
All academic anyway, I recommend examining the map ME linked, and reading the relevant quotes spanning a century I provided. You know, the realities I was asking about, and your loaded questions didn't address.
well, they didn't have an actual border in Hama when daddy Assad wiped out a whole bunch, nor in Jordan, nor yet in their current location. - Ned
Nor do their Muslim brothers want them to. They prefer to use them to harass Israel with attacks, and then run and hide behind women and children. That is their normal MO..., and they will use it as long as it works to keep all eyes off their own dismal record of human rights abuse. I only wish they would quit whining and crying everytime they get their little chicken_hit asses kicked because they've poked Israel in the eye one too many times.
Or anyone with any sense could say, I bet the mossad false flagged those weak ass rocket attacks for a raison d'être for war with Palestine.
Oh, so that's why Hamas has denied sending any rockets.
Oh wait...
There's little doubt that Hamas is infiltrated by Mossad agents.
There's little doubt that Hamas is infiltrated by Mossad agents.
I figure that's how it works, you think the Mossad is not infiltrated also?.
What about the CIA and the FBI?.
Conspiracies within conspiracies within conspiracies? Love it!
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2012/11/has-world-war-three-begun.html
I was infiltrated by my alter ego, who was already infiltrated by my doppleganger, who had been infiltrated by myself from an alternate timeline. I'm not sure which of us is typing this.
Well I'm just a lost library routine from an alternative simulation of a universe. http://www.simulation-argument.com/barrowsim.pdf
Whichever it is, all that infiltrating makes the lot of you gay.
I am Chumbawamba.
You are a very shit band
I disagree: pretty good cover, IMO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlPzb9lbe64
Whether it is billiards or chess or what have you, I always win when I play with myself.
Um..., well..., if I'm forced to pick a side..., I pick Israel.