To them, returning the Westbank to Israel is a sacred duty.

There will never be peace in Israel.

Never.

Democracy depends on the free exercise of Reason. It should consist of rational decision-making based on accurate information. Let's just say, as a general rule, religions are not like that. They demand faith and obedience based on belief. Democracies could justifiably exclude or disenfranchise, especially when members of militant movements, all the deeply or fanatically or extremely religious from democratic processes, because religions by their very nature are hostile to them.

Occupation leads
To resistance.
Resistance leads
To oppression.
Oppression leads
To terror
And counter-terror.
Keeping the
Occupied Territories
Will turn us
Into murderers
And murder victims.

( this ad was published
on September 22, 1967
in this paper )

Published in Haaretz, 08/07/16

Source : http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/weekly_ad/1467904888/

Were they settlers 3000 years ago?

ever since...

Where do you think Palestinians come from?

From Politico, July 03, 2016...

Ehud Barak hadn’t given a speech in months, and speculation was rife about what he was going to say when he took the stage at a prestigious policy conference in Herzliya, an affluent suburb of Tel Aviv, two weeks ago. Barak was one of Israel’s leading political figures for two decades, having served as the country's prime minister in the late 1990s and later as defense minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2009 to 2012. Was he about to announce a political comeback?

It turned out that Barak, a former special ops commando officer, had one last mission in mind: To take out his former boss and partner.

In his speech, Barak accused Netanyahu of cowardice, opportunism and fear-mongering. He warned that Israel's current government, arguably the most right wing in its history, was showing “signs of fascism,” and that if Netanyahu wasn’t stopped, Israel was on course to become an apartheid state. “The entire Zionist project is in grave danger,” he proclaimed. And the main source of that danger wasn't Israel’s external enemies, but rather its own democratically elected leader.

Barak hasn’t let up since. “Netanyahu,” he said in a televised interview broadcast a day after his angry speech, “has gone off the rails. He needs to go.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/netanyahu-prime-minister-obama-president-foreign-policy-us-israel-israeli-relations-middle-east-iran-defense-forces-idf-214004

I just finished reading it ....none of this is news for me tho .....see :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134129901

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