Set a date for real Middle East talks!
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Topic: Set a date for real Middle East talks!
Posted By: Judge Dredd
Subject: Set a date for real Middle East talks!
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 11:03pm
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http://www.avaaz.org/en/real_middle_east_talks/ - http://www.avaaz.org/en/real_middle_east_talks/ Petition to Israeli, Palestinian & international leaders: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict lies at the heart of a global clash threatening to divide us all. People from every corner of the world want a just and lasting peace in the Middle East - and the international community can and must help bring all sides to the table. Start Real Middle East Talks Now, and stay at the negotiating table until we have peace.
CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO SIGN PETITION
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Posted By: Whisper
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 11:04pm
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What an absolutely beautiful post! Short, precise, to the point and packed with the best of British commonsense. My friend, that's the only way out. Not just that, but I am also willing to be a part of this form of noble jehad. |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 19 May 2007 at 8:30am
I don't think a 2-state proposal will solve anything, or a discussion about borders between such states. Such talks will only make things worse. Before organizing talks, you need to agree on an agenda. What agenda are both sides going to agree on? There is no such agenda... |
Judge Dredd wrote:Posted By: Whisper
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 7:19am
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I feel, we should leave it to brother Crass he alone knows the situation and its reality! And, any attempts of efforts in this regard should cease, forthwith, till he grants us his verdict. (I am sure, his reaction and remarks would have been entirely different had this post been from someone with a Muslim sounding name) ------------- Sasha Khanzadeh |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 9:21am
You know the "problem". It's similar to the one-man-one-vote situation at the time in South Africa. One of both sides has to "capitulate". For either side, that amounts to "treason". And just like in South Africa, we have to wait until one side has so much enough of it, that they give up. Since it won't be the Palestinian side, it basically means, waiting until Israel has enough of it, and agrees to drop the idea of a Jewish state in favour of a Jewish+Muslim state to which all refugees can return from the "Bantustan homelands" in Gaza and the Westbank. That's as good as it could ever get. I doubt that there is realistically anything else in the pipeline. If they manage to settle on a "Palestinian state" in the "Bantustans", the fighting will simply continue, and both sides know it, and the ones who did the deal will simply be considered "traitors", and there we go again, another Peace Nobel Prize for nothing, and probably shot from behind for "treason". |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 11:26am
There is some truth to what you are saying. My personal ambition is to keep this nuclear family going, and I need help in stamping out that gigantic fornication fest, because I don't want the kids to get caught up in that. Who's gonna solve that problem for me? The Muslims, of course. |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 11:38am
So, now you finally get it. There is no other God than Allah, my friend, and Muhammed is his last Messenger. And now I am waiting for the club to do something about the "problem". |
Posted By: Whisper
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 5:58pm
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So, now you finally get it. My friend, for a moment I had genuinely thought that you could understand wht I have said, but, sadly, your pre-occulation with fornication made you fly far past my point. ------------- Sasha Khanzadeh |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 7:53pm
set a date for real Israeli-Arab talks on core issues like 1967 borders Talking about 1948, 1967, 1973 borders? How can I sign that petition and support a "Bantustan" solution? It didn't bring peace in South Africa, and it won't bring peace to the Middle East. The answer is: nay. Why don't we rather sign a petition to talk about disbanding the UN? What they did in 1948, is simply one insidious thing, in a series of insidious things. The UN has to go. |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 8:30pm
Sadly, you don't get it either. Unless you are a fornicatress or a homosexual from that "democratic" majority, they're going to talk your wife into it, so that they can kick you out of your house, repossess your house, your money, confiscate your kids, and the best part of your income till the end of your life, or put you in jail. How much more do they need to do, before you also have enough of it? As I told you, I am now waiting for "the club" to do "something" about it. And I want a "thorough" solution, not something half-baked, if you see what I mean. And we're not going to "vote" about it. Ok? |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 9:04pm
You may have to try to genuinely understand what I am saying. If you remind the guys in Europe what that "democratic" majority is up to, or have done already, it won't be difficult to convince a good proportion of them into supporting an Islamic takeover. I am personally all for it. I am actually eagerly waiting for it to finally happen. Where can I help out? |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 9:28pm
It's double taquilla now. What's the use of that? |
Posted By: Duende
Date Posted: 21 May 2007 at 3:54am
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Crass lives up to his name again!
(What's a double taquilla?) Isn't there some kind of 'netiquette' about forum members repeatedly posting short little response to their own threads? In this way, this member has quickly enhanced his forum status and become a 'senior member' in no time. It's also a shame new members are not required to familiarise themselves with the long-established members who, like revered elders in any community, often enjoy a status earned gradually and through consistently appreciated posts. It seems to me Crass is attempting to establish himself as some kind of authority, like a learned elder who dispenses advice to the rest of us. It's unfortunate his manner is so off putting to Moslems and non-Moslems alike on this forum. Behaviour such as this, akin to 'trolling' can eventually drive away long term members who become dissillusioned with the new tone of 'their' forum. Rather than decently discussing the subject of the thread, Crass is demeaning a long standing member who has built a strong following here, and who (unlike crass) has an exceptional understanding of the Ummah. |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 21 May 2007 at 7:19am
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Posted By: Whisper
Date Posted: 21 May 2007 at 1:33pm
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You may have to try to genuinely understand what I am saying. The day you begin to understand and feel Islam, you will be recover from this phase. ------------- Sasha Khanzadeh |
Posted By: Whisper
Date Posted: 21 May 2007 at 1:42pm
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Unless you are a fornicatress or a homosexual from that "democratic" majority, they're going to talk your wife into it, so that they can kick you out of your house, repossess your house, your money, confiscate your kids, and the best part of your income till the end of your life, or put you in jail. I have a dear friend who is looking for script writers, with over the moon sort of styles. I would be delighted to arrange a priority interview, for you with him - in the best interest of this respectable forum. ------------- Sasha Khanzadeh |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 21 May 2007 at 2:05pm
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Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 21 May 2007 at 2:11pm
One of the things I understand about Islam is that it is a fantastic way to counter that government apparatus that likes to stick its nose there where it has absolutely no business. There's the public sphere and there's the private sphere. Islam manages to protect the private sphere and keep the government away from there. They really have no business talking to my wife about me, to figure out if they can re-arrange things behind my back. If they do that with Muslims, they get a hand grenade in their face. I just love that! Allah Akbar! |
Posted By: Duende
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 3:20am
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"One of the things I understand about Islam is that it is a fantastic way to
counter that government apparatus that likes to stick its nose there where it has absolutely no business." You mean, like when the Iranian government decrees how women should dress? or when the sorely missed Taleban of Afghanistan decreed how long your beard should be? or maybe you mean in Egypt where they recently decreed that a male and female work colleague can not be in the same room together unless he has "suckled from her breast for more than five months?" Or perhaps you were thinking of the Saudi regime which forbids women from driving a car? |
Posted By: mariyah
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 5:56am
Asalaamu alaikum:
------------- "Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile. |
Posted By: mariyah
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 5:58am
------------- "Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile. |
Posted By: Duende
Date Posted: 22 May 2007 at 10:37am
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Oh! TEQUILA!
See, he wrote TAQUILLA which over here means "box office". Anyway, I still don't understand what he was getting at even if he was referring to alcohol |
Posted By: Duende
Date Posted: 05 June 2007 at 3:15am
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The mirage of the two-state solution
40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War. Solution on which all agree impossible to achieve By George Bisharat San Francisco Chronicle 06/04/07 "SFC" --- -- Forty years ago this week, Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip, re-establishing a political system in which one sovereign ruled over all of former Palestine. Unnoticed by the world, this brought about a version of a "single state solution" to the Palestinian- Israeli conflict -- albeit one in which Palestinians and Jews do not have equal rights. Instead, Israel has ruled the West Bank and Gaza Strip through military governments that control the daily lives of millions of Palestinians in every aspect, yet in which they have no say. Although Palestinians now elect representatives to a Palestinian Authority, these officials administer the tiny Gaza Strip, and less than 20 percent of the West Bank. Their powers scarcely exceed those of county supervisors. Meanwhile, international opinion has steadily solidified behind a "two state solution." In this scenario, independent Jewish and Palestinian states would divide the land between the Mediterranean coast and the River Jordan. By the mid-1970s, most states in the U.N. General Assembly supported Palestinian nationhood. In 1988, the PLO explicitly recognized Israel within its pre-1967 borders, agreeing to sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, together comprising just 22 percent of former Palestine. The United States finally joined the bandwagon in 2002, when President Bush called for two democratic states living side by side in his "Roadmap to Peace." Even Israel has signed on, although its conception of what territory and powers a Palestinian state should possess is more constrictive than anyone else's. Ironically, this unanimity, so laboriously assembled over decades, upholds a solution that is now impossible to achieve. Israel's program of colonizing the West Bank has become irreversible, and the land base for a viable Palestinian state has disappeared. Some 450,000 Israeli settlers now occupy more than 140 settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. These Jewish settlements, the security swaths around them, the roads linking them to each other and to Israel, and the "separation wall" that pens Palestinians into discontiguous islands of land, cover more than 40 percent of the West Bank. Much of this is either private Palestinian property, seized without compensation, or state lands in which Palestinians hold traditional use rights that Israel refuses to respect. Meanwhile, Israel's colonizing juggernaut rolls ahead. Recently, plans to build 2,500 new homes for Israeli settlers east of Jerusalem were announced, and orders were given to continue construction of the "separation wall" in the Jordan Valley. There appears to be no political force capable of slowing, let alone halting, this movement. A comforting illusion has been fostered that if Palestinians and Israelis could only be coaxed back into negotiations, the elusive two-state solution would somehow materialize. The interests of leaders on all sides are served by this fiction, although for different reasons. For President Bush, an appearance of progress toward Palestinian-Israeli peace quells hostility toward the United States in the Middle East, and eases policy options elsewhere in the region, including Iraq. The PLO leadership, personified in the hapless Mahmoud Abbas, staked its entire political legitimacy in the Oslo accords and the endless "peace process" it inaugurated. Abandoning negotiations toward a two-state solution would constitute an admission that it had led the Palestinians into a terrible dead-end. Israel mollifies the United States by engaging in the negotiation charade, exploits the continuing indeterminacy to continue colonizing the West Bank, and advances its strategic objective of permanent control over most or all of former Palestine. Like the shimmering waters of a desert mirage, the two-state solution moves just out of reach with every apparent advancing step. The tragedy is that temporizing in the face of this inevitable truth ultimately serves neither Israeli Jews, nor Palestinian Arabs, nor Americans. Continued conflict in the region hurts the direct parties in obvious ways, and also deeply undermines the status of the United States in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Our reflexive support of Israel, even in its self-destructive policies, is a prime cause of hostility against us. The number of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs living within the borders of former Palestine are now roughly equivalent, at just more than 5 million each. The question is: Will political power within this single political system continue to be exercised in what former ANC member and current South African Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils and others have described as an acute form of apartheid? Or will Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews enjoy equal rights and share power fairly in what is already a joint polity? For those who support peace, justice and respect for international law, the choice should be obvious. George Bisharat is a professor of law at Hastings College of the Law, and writes frequently on law and politics in the Middle East. This article appeared on page B - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle � 2007 Hearst Communications Inc |
Posted By: Cassandra
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 1:42pm
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Whisper, Crass, Duende, Stop derailing this thread with non-sequiturs: either sign the ******petition, or come up with a relevant reason why you don't agree. These people at avaaz are trying to do something which I have never seen on this Forum: Make a Difference by engaging public opinion. They ask you to stand up and be counted: literally. Is nothing ever going to change here? Judge Dredd (!) is a Newbie...what must s/he think of your self-serving antics? Thanks to you, this has got lost in obscurity..... For what it is worth, JD, I remind Forum members of where you started before the Egos took over. http://www.avaaz.org/en/real_middle_east_talks/ - http://www.avaaz.org/en/real_middle_east_talks/ C |
Posted By: crasss
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 8:56pm
If Israel is willing to talk about one state for both Muslims and Jews, and about the refugees returning home, I will sign up. Otherwise forget it. The talks will lead nowhere. By the way, Israel clearly indicated that it does not want a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas - hudna Unfortunately, all their arguments against a hudna equally well apply to any peace offer. |
Posted By: Duende
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 1:46am
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Cassandra, I thought the point of making a post was to discuss things,
no? It doesn't stop anyone from signing a petition. Sure the people at Avaaz have got their act together, there's not much point getting angry at us because of that, or were you hoping to gain some international standing? Haranguing us for not getting off our backsides and actually, as you put it, doing something, changes nothing. What did you expect to change here at Islamicity? Have you noticed any fundamental changes outside in the world, which would affect the general tone of things here? On the one hand, Cindy Sheehan says goodbye to activism, declaring that her son did in fact, die for nothing, and on the other, a nice shiney new activist's site promoting yet another petition. Meanwhile, the forces that be, those who could actually get something to change, if they had the political will to do so, are meeting behind reinforced concrete barriers in northern Germany, while activists throw molotov cocktails and paving stones at police. The article I posted talks about the problem in a way I had not thought before: the IMPOSSIBILITY of a two nation solution because of Israel's actions over the past 40 years. If you feel there's no point discussing that viewpoint, that's fine. |
Posted By: Cassandra
Date Posted: 07 June 2007 at 6:54am
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Duende: Your posting of the article made several valid points. It is discussion, not ad hominem attacks I would like to see. Yes, the world's leaders are just as involved in their own self-serving interests and it takes a woman to persuade them to at least try to listen to the earth (???). Perhaps I should have limited my comments to the male egos here? You would know far better than I. e.g. Whisper: "My friend, for a moment I had genuinely thought that you could understand wht I have said, but, sadly, your pre-occulation (sic) with fornication made you fly far past my point.
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