Israeli Territory Pull Outs - Page 5

Radagast The Brown · 10-27-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

By the way, about the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, I just read on Wikipedia that the Peel Commission was rejected by both the Arabs and the Zionist Congress.

I don't think it really matters. I was just saying the Arabs didn't want more land - they wanted all the jews out, and I think it proves it. Plus, Wikipedia says "The Arab leadership rejected the plan, while the Jewish opinion remained heatedly divided", which is also important IMO, when the leading party in Israel supported the plan and therefore it could have probably passed whether the congress approved or not.

Lief Erikson · 11-15-2005, 11:49 AM

An important and positive deal has been worked out in Palestine. Good news, for sure

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4437936.stm

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Originally Posted by BBC News

Israeli and Palestinian officials have reached an agreement to reopen Gaza's border crossings with Israel and Egypt, Condoleezza Rice has said.
The US secretary of state said the Rafah crossing should open on 25 November, marking the first time the Palestinians will control a border.

Opening the border is seen as key for Gaza's economy and Palestinian exports, including short-lived foodstuffs.

Ms Rice had extended her Middle East visit to help nail down the agreement.

It will allow Palestinians to travel in bus convoys between Gaza and the West Bank starting in a month, and in lorry convoys a month after that.

Its other provisions include:

Beginning construction of a sea port for Gaza, and further discussions about an airport
Allowing the urgent export from Gaza of all the agricultural produce of the 2005 harvest
The reduction of obstacles to movement in the West Bank, which Israel still controls.
The deal also includes video surveillance of the Rafah crossing to Egypt by a joint EU-Palestinian team.

Israel will have access to the video via the Europeans, but will not have veto power over individuals moving through Rafah, as it had wanted.

inked · 02-08-2006, 01:11 PM

Of interest and related ...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1138622572920

(teaser)
"The former archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday he was "ashamed to be an Anglican" following Monday's vote by the Church of England to disinvest from companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the territories. "

Wonder if they'll do the same to Hamas and Iraq etc.?

Spock · 02-08-2006, 02:27 PM

Wow! Thanks for that...I'd no idea UK was suddenly anti-Israeli.

Lotesse · 02-08-2006, 02:52 PM

Every time I see the title of this thread, I get a visual of Israel and Palestine in bed together, making love, and Israel remembering to "pull out" before accidentally getting Palestine pregnant. Is that bad?

Insidious Rex · 02-08-2006, 03:17 PM

Maybe subconciously you think that the Palastinians are being screwed by Israel.

***Rían*** · 02-08-2006, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Lotesse

Every time I see the title of this thread, I get a visual of Israel and Palestine in bed together, making love, and Israel remembering to "pull out" before accidentally getting Palestine pregnant. Is that bad?

I don't know if it's bad or not, but I get the same picture ....

Spock · 02-08-2006, 03:20 PM

You two REALLY need to take some time off.

inked · 02-08-2006, 06:33 PM

Not statistically worthwhile, either, ladies.

***Rían*** · 02-08-2006, 06:38 PM

I saw you posted here, inked, and I was going to make some comment like that ...

but you beat me to it!
You should know!

ah well ... you guys will never know the joys of pregnancy and childbirth! (I'll never forget that nurse telling me to push - I felt like yelling back at her, "No, I think I'll just stop and have tea instead!" or something like that)

02-08-2006, 01:11 PM	#83
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Of interest and related ... http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1138622572920 (teaser) "The former archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday he was "ashamed to be an Anglican" following Monday's vote by the Church of England to disinvest from companies whose products are used by the Israeli government in the territories. " Wonder if they'll do the same to Hamas and Iraq etc.? __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

02-08-2006, 02:27 PM	#84
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Wow! Thanks for that...I'd no idea UK was suddenly anti-Israeli. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

02-08-2006, 02:52 PM	#85
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Every time I see the title of this thread, I get a visual of Israel and Palestine in bed together, making love, and Israel remembering to "pull out" before accidentally getting Palestine pregnant. Is that bad? __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

02-08-2006, 03:17 PM	#86
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Maybe subconciously you think that the Palastinians are being screwed by Israel. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

02-08-2006, 03:20 PM	#88
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	You two REALLY need to take some time off. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

02-08-2006, 06:33 PM	#89
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Not statistically worthwhile, either, ladies. __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

02-08-2006, 06:38 PM	#90
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I saw you posted here, inked, and I was going to make some comment like that ... but you beat me to it! You should know! ah well ... you guys will never know the joys of pregnancy and childbirth! (I'll never forget that nurse telling me to push - I felt like yelling back at her, "No, I think I'll just stop and have tea instead!" or something like that) __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

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