Comments on: No Road to Jerusalem

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:08:19 +0000

Ha’aretz report that the newly appointed EU Foreign Minister, Baroness Ashton, has spoken out against the Israeli occupation. A totally unexpected remark coming out of Brussels and little reported in the international press and not at all by the British press of course.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135787.html

New EU foreign policy chief lambastes ‘Israeli occupation’
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent

Catherine Ashton on Tuesday leveled scathing criticism at the “Israeli occupation,” in her first speech as the European Union’s first high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.

The British stateswoman, who has also served as the Commissioner for Trade in the European Commission, said that in the EU’s view, “East Jerusalem is occupied territory, together with the West Bank.”

Ashton demanded that Israel immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, and reiterated that the union opposes the existence of the West Bank separation fence, as it opposes evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem.

The stateswoman, whose full title is Baroness Ashton of Upholland, also only defined Israel’s partial freeze of West Bank settlement construction as a “first step,” as opposed to the warmer description of the move by EU foreign ministers, who last week took “positive note” of it.

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By: sid wright

sid wright — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:49:03 +0000

DAVID G
what are you going on about?

By: russell olausen

russell olausen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:47:13 +0000

This checkpoint “manchom’ (misspelled on purpose) is used by authority all over. Degrees, permits, drug testing, booze testing, passports, visa’s, political slush and the list is only limited by the creativity of the oppressor. This distress of the Palestinians is made the worse, by the expert ruthlessness of its application. Sometimes the only solution looks like forty days and forty nights rain with no boats around. One year ago I seen the anguish at three demonstrations against the unholy bombing of Gaza.

By: DavidG.

DavidG. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:28:29 +0000

I wish that entrance to all religious sites, temples, churches, was forbidden. How else is the world going to rid itself of such silly, divisive superstitions?

Religious belief induces derangement as well as the stifling of the intellect. It also guarantees endless war.

Let’s give religion a miss!

Please.

By: David

David — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:49:59 +0000

Please try to watch this recent 5 part address to the UN regarding Jerusalem by Harvard Professor Emeritus Walid Khalidi, a highly respected Middle East historian.

part1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x8BM0ry1nM

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD7SvFARhGI

part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SkUyFsnoX4

part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4bTXu1nFE

part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dTvd0DYC0

By: Ismail Zayid

Ismail Zayid — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:31 +0000

The denial of free access for Palestinians to their religious sites, both Muslim and Christian, is a contiuing manifestation of the brutal Israeli illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and a deliberate program of humiliation and dehumanization. It is in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as the Fourth Geneva Convention. These violations are deemed by international law as war crimes but remain ignored by the international community.

The threats to Al-Aqsa Mosque go well beyond that. The continuing excavations under the Mosque are a genuine physical threat designed by the Zionist program, in defiance of international law and the world Muslim community.