As 2010 came to a close in the West Bank under the regular, weekly cloud of teargas experienced among the villages bordering Israel's 1967 Green Line, 2011 started with the death of Palestinian woman from the village of Bi'lin and the arrest of 19 Israeli activists in the Tel Aviv area
One radical element might call for the destruction of Israel all the while the other side keeps chipping away.
Hundreds demonstrate at funeral procession of a woman protester who died after inhaling gas fired by Israeli forces.
"What happened yesterday, there were too many forces from the occupation, guarding the apartheid wall, and they started shooting, so many, so many gas (canisters) mixed with smelly water. And this large amount of gas caused many protesters a fealing of suffocation, and it killed Jawaher Abu Rahme. And immediately we moved her to the Palestinian medical centre," said family member Rateb Abu Rahme.
Wow, did you take any pictures of the barrier walls?
What is there left to talk about? Al? Your not going to budge on Jerusalem. Your not going to budge on the settlements. You want the West Bank to be some kind of a fragmented jig-saw puzzle while you retain sole rights to the primary aquifers and on and on. Whats left Al? Is it Peace or more of the same old flim flam rethoric. Try and buy mor political slots in the US and hope you can flim flam your way to get more and more weapons systems?
The integrity of the peace accord lies in a fair and just resolution to the core issues.
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said a peace deal could be reached within two months if his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to make decisions on core issues.
“I don’t think there is any need for more talks,” Abbas said on Palestine TV today. “What we need now is decisions.”
Netanyahu, in a text message to journalists released after the Abbas interview, called on Abbas to resume direct negotiations that would address core issues such as borders, security, refugees and the future of east Jerusalem.
Saying he would sit with the Palestinian leader “until smoke rises,” Netanyahu added that if talks were serious “we will know quickly if an agreement is possible.”
With the present Zionist mindset firmly in place the only chance for viable "Two-State solution" is for a unilateral move by the Palestine s , in concert with the international community to create their own state. This , with the recent moves by the Palestines to petition the United Nations to declare , once and for all, that the settlements are , in fact, illegal will finally force the Zionists to accept what the world has been saying for years.
Ginzburg preaches a messianic brand of Judaism that views Jews as superior beings and violent revenge attacks on Arabs (or Christians?) as justified by the Torah. He is one=2 0of a small group of rabbis who provides the theological and ideological underpinnings for radical settlers.
Or more fitting a question weould be "Would you feel comfortable going to church knowing one of the radical settlers was waiting out side?
Ariel is a disciple of the charismatic St. Louis-born head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg. Considered a spiritual heir to the late Meir Kahane, Ginzburg gained notoriety -- and some jail time -- in 1994 after penning an article praising Baruch Goldstein's killing of 29 Muslim worshipers in Hebron
Looney Toon, who laughs his way all the waY to the bank. Thinks he's god, takes advantage of ignorant people. Tells them what to think because they aren't smart enough to read and think for themselves
Some Jewish settlers turning against Israel — filed under: Settlements Dina Kraft | Jewish Telegraphic Agency | June 24, 2009
YITZHAR, West Bank (JTA) -- The Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in this Jewish settlement looks more like a well-fortified auto repair shop than a house of learning.
Located in an industrial neighborhood, the yeshiva has a drab aluminum exterior and tin roof, and it’s surrounded by a metal gate. A small guard house sits out front, and teenage boys wearing oversized, thick-knit kipot walk in and out of the gate and past a lonely basketball hoop.
Appearances notwithstanding, these students and their teachers have become the face of radical Jewish nationalism in Israel.
They are a key part of a movement of settler youth, rabbis, leaders and supporters determined to hold onto the West Bank at any cost. Located mostly in isolated corners of t he West Bank like Yitzhar, radicals represent a small but vocal and increasingly violent constituency of the Jewish settler movement.
Radical settlers rampage against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, sometimes hiding their faces behind black ski masks or scarves. Confident they are following the word of God, they call for a Torah-based theocracy that they say will one day triumph over the State of Israel.
Unlike most settlers, these youths mostly eschew serving in the Israel Defense Forces, which they consider criminal for its evacuation of Jews from Gaza in 2005. Mostly second-generation settlers whose fathers had considered IDF service an automatic rite of passage, these radicals have largely turned against a state they view as having betrayed its core principles.
Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a teacher at Od Yosef Chai, says Israel has lost its way with its willingness to cede parts of the Land of Israel, the Jews’ biblical birthright.
“To put faith in the state is not the right way to go,” he said.
Ariel is a disciple of the charismatic St. Louis-born head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg. Considered a spiritual heir to the late Meir Kahane, Ginzburg gained notoriety -- and some jail time -- in 1994 after penning an article praising Baruch Goldstein's killing of 29 Muslim worshipers in Hebron.
Ginzburg preaches a messianic brand of Judaism that views Jews as superior beings and violent revenge attacks on Arabs as justified by the Torah. He is one=2 0of a small group of rabbis who provides the theological and ideological underpinnings for radical settlers.
The foot soldiers in the movement are youths who grow up or study in places like Yitzhar. Some go on to seize and establish illegal outposts on lone West Bank hilltops.
Like its predecessors, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has taken limited steps to dismantle the illegal outposts -- notably in the weeks since Netanyahu’s meeting with President Obama in May -- but the youths return almost as soon as they are forcibly evacuated. Officially, at least, the government has committed to dismantling all such outposts.
Radicals often are dismissed as rogue, fringe elements by the mainstream settler movement, and their precise number is unknown. But radical settlers’ acts of vigilante violence against Palestinians and, increasingly, against Israeli security forces, have fueled debate inside Israel about the settler movement as a whole and about the threat radical settlers pose to the state -- in part because the mainstream settler leadership has not come out forcefully against them.
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