The Olive Branch

SabaShimon: "...and, that as long as there is a sovereign Jewish Nation, there can never be a true peace with Arab Muslims."

Either we change or they change.
Status quo it is.

Right, 60 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776) in Philadelphia, brought the US to 1836 (by which time the US had already made the Louisianna Purchase and fought the Barbary Pirates and the British (War of 1812). Or, if we go from the end of the American Revolutionary Wa...

How could you not realise they are 24/7 high when you read their reports? :wink: Whereas I have had many differences with Amnesty International over the years and have doubted the 'balance' of some of their reports, to claim that they are 'high' all the time is not only counter productive in trying...

People should also be careful when they make inflated claims of the number of killed and injured in a War/Conflict. Perhaps they don't care about their own credibility, or expect people to accept their claims however wild or inaccurate they may be without providing any credible verification. We hav...

How could you not realise they are 24/7 high when you read their reports?

Another funny one: "Sorry to say note that Iraq will face the same problems faced by countries colonised by the British (Nigeria, Isreal/Palestine,etc)" Osita, Lagos, Nigeria I'm becoming bored with hearing everything blamed on 'British Colonisation'. How long have you been 'ruling' yourse...

Amnesty did not apparently notice the heavy use of human shields by Hamas either. I looked at their page but could not find the words Iraq or Afghanistan: seems they are not important enough to be investigated Iraq revenue helps their pay cheques and afghanistan's opium keeps the amnesty guys from ...

"In 10 years from now Iraq will be run by another Saddam."

Steve Lewis

Yeah. I call it Ayatolla Khameyni.

This is a bit from the BBC report about the new report today. in the end it counter the Israeli "war crimes" with the Hamas ones. "...It also says Palestinian militants rocket fire from the Gaza Strip was "indiscriminate and hence unlawful under international law", although ...

"...Well for the Jews, that role is played by Israel.It is the place they know will receive them in case of renewed persecutions." I don't disagree but this bit is where all the fuss is about. This is what one cannot explain clearly. Jewish nationality. If Jews all over the world are a nat...

This is exactly what is happening and exactly why Afghanistan and Iraq are in the state they are in.

This is also why Egypt feels intimidated by famillies of beduins in the Sinai peninsula, enough to allow them to crack down on the smaggling to Gaza.

Now I know this is a little bit late but here's another article about what is coming:

Breakthrough: New evidence points to Hezbollah in Hariri murder
Published: Saturday, 23 May, 2009 @ 8:05 PM in Beirut
By Erich Follath

http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2009/ ... ugh_ne.php

"In fact, in his hysteria, papalagi even makes the point quite clearly that there were no Palestinian institutions - and then, in typical fashion, blames everyone else for that, even though under identical conditions the Jews developed their future government and the institutions of a state.&qu...

This is another lovely jem found through that site. http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/showthread.php?t=920 Please note who is the Martyr of the week.... :wink: Note the slogan at the bottom: "We will knock on the doors of paradise with the skulls of Jews" If this Hamas slogan is not antisemi...

From the Forum: "In Islamabad the survey has shown which i read in newspaper recently that about 15% students said that taliban are correct. If 1% of them get connected to them them what will happened to Pakistan." Hard to understand but it is a harsh percentage that agrees with violance a...

The BBC's Natalia Antelava in Beirut says one particular stumbling block for the new prime minister could be the issue of Hezbollah's arms Natalia knows very little. Stumbling block? That is a hurdle, that Hariri will not dare try to jump. The only option is integration and coordination with Hezbol...

What happens if they carry on smoking a few years down the line?

The wife moves on to the runner up (discount marriage involved...) and the kids move to the nearest GAP factory.

As always the father gets away with it all.

Bernie, "...8 or 9 of the dead were members of the police..." And you know this because? Oh yeah, the all truthfull regime has spoken! The same disgraced one that held US hostages 30 years ago even though they had Diplomatic immunity. The same one is currently doing the same thing with Bri...

I found something is missing.

Do they pay for the bride or don't they....

Free wedding for quitting smoking A charity in the Saudi capital Riyadh has come up with a novel incentive to encourage young men to quit smoking - an all-expenses-paid wedding. Hundreds of men have expressed interest in the anti-smoking drive, including a non-smoker who was ready to start the habi...

iva wrote:I hope you all know that , as usual, it is the Jews with their "dirty tricks "behind it all,

SHHHHHH

"Awuah says that he could do more, but like some other enterprising individuals in Africa I know of, he has been turned away by official aid agencies. Everyone, it seems, was invited to the "Save Africa" campaign of 2005 except for Africans. They starred only as victims: genocide casu...

Jesus. That reminds me of the article showing what an average family ate in a week, ranging from Japan to Germany to the US, and then in one of the refugee camps for those from Darfur. I heard an interesting piece on NPR a while ago on foreign aid to Africa. There was an African woman (I forget whi...

"Abu Ismail is also famous for telling his adherents, “During Islam's first century, there were only four cases of theft – because thieves' hands were chopped off.”" And he knows that in the first one hundred years of Islam there were only 4 cases of theft. And they know this because they ...

Pence is not 1 percent of a dollar, but one percent of a British Pound aka sterling.
One percent of a dollar is the mighty cent (from Latin).

I assume since these muslim preachers don't know basic global facts such as these their opinion regarding other is extremely refutable.

Jewish school admissions unlawful A Jewish school's admissions rules are unlawful because the test of Jewishness amounts to racial discrimination, appeal judges have decided. The state-funded JFS in London rejected a boy because it did not recognise his mother's conversion to Judaism. Faith schools...

This is indeed funny. Why they suddenly woke up now? Why not in 2006? Why not earlier like in 1980 when the British, French and US supported and supplied Iraq which used chimical weapons against Iranian armies and civillians not mentioning their own people? Because it would never stick. Waste of mon...

One of the important yet often overlooked facts of EU-Israel relations is this, "the Common Aviation Area approved by the European parliament in February 2009 (notably in the period since the Gaza conflict). Over the past five years, EU-Israeli cooperation over trade, security, science and tec...

Israelis can vote when outside the country, embassies and consulates are used. No, Israelis' can't vote outside the country.... If they can, I'm going to feel very stupid for not voting this year. I hadn't realized that it changed, Americans and Canadians can though, in fact there are about 100 cou...

We've been called much worse than "evil". The UK got the bulk of the attention this time. The MPs claim for second home allowances has certainly grabbed his attention and he thinks it's a sign of much corruption that is hidden. I wonder whether the whole amount claimed adds up to more tha...

Allow me to suggest some reading about an interesting affair which the IAEA commented upon. Let's start back words by showing what we said we did in 1981: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Iran_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera http://en.wik...

Interesting commentary in today's Washington Post. Granted, the backers of the op-ed include one group that appears on the right wing / conservative spectrum (Has Bill Frist and John McCain on its board). But the other appears to be a standup 'objective one'. JB, What gain would a right wing group ...

Philip-Herzliya wrote:

Margie wrote:Hello Philip can you tell me from your own propagandized angle how many Jews live in Jordan and why that is

I know 2 personally. And they own Amman Airport duty free. Anything else you would like to know?

They don't live in Jordan, they work there...

Israelis can vote when outside the country, embassies and consulates are used. No, Israelis' can't vote outside the country.... If they can, I'm going to feel very stupid for not voting this year. They stopped this 15 years ago. Only consulate family members and govt employees can vote. Shlichut is...

Ahmedinajad won the election.

What he didn't win was a fair and democratic public election.

They never took place.

Good day to you all and hope innocent people will stay safe.

Israel-UN spat over Syria 'bias' The IAEA chief has reacted sharply to an Israeli accusation of bias in his attitude toward Syria, in a rare public controversy at the nuclear watchdog. The body has been examining the case of an alleged Syrian nuclear arms facility that Israeli jets bombed in 2007. I...

Bernie: "However, since he was killed, numerous spy rings have been found and neutralized, in Lebanon."

suspected spies....

Must be election time...

Thanks for this explanation Bernie. I second you to that notion that this should not be possible. Makes me prouder of what Zionism has achieved in Israel in the past 100 years. For example Mein Kampf is being studied and freely available all over Israel so that we understand what are the dangers of ...

Robi, I qoute from your post: "Ignoring the ancient Jewish presence in the Old City's Jewish Quarter, disrupted only by their eviction (ethnic cleansing) and the Jordanian occupation between 1948-67," There were further more evictions from Jerusalem and Palestine going as far back as the B...

That's all fine Iva and I agree with you on all but one point. The question the BBC asked was how should Muslim countries tackle Islamic extremism. Have you any proof that the Lebanese government, if there is such an organisation... no offence meant Bernie :), is behind these kidnapping ideas? Or an...