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United Nations Report Says Israel’s Settlements Violate Palestinians’ Human Rights

Jan. 31, 2013 3:38pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Israelis drive past a Palestinian protester holding a banner during a protest against the Israeli occupation on the main road 60 between the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron near the Israeli settlement of Daniel on January 25, 2013. (AP)

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ first report on Israel’s overall settlement policy describes it as a “creeping annexation” of territory that clearly violates the human rights of Palestinians, and calls for Israel to immediately stop further such construction.

The report’s conclusions, revealed Thursday, are not legally binding, but they further inflame tensions between the U.N. Human Rights Council and Israel, and between Israel and the Palestinians. Israeli officials immediately denounced the report, while Palestinians pointed to it as “proof of Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing” and its desire to undermine the possibility of a Palestinian state.

The Palestinians also hinted that they could use the report as a basis for legal action toward a war crimes prosecution.

In its report to the 47-nation council, a panel of investigators said Israel is violating international humanitarian law under the Fourth Geneva Convention, one of the treaties that establish the ground rules for what is considered humane during wartime.

This was the first thematic report on Israel’s settlements with an historical look at the government’s policy since 1967, U.N. officials said. Previous U.N. reports have taken a look at Israeli settlement policy only through the lens of a specific event, such as the 2009 war in the Gaza Strip, when Israel launched an offensive in response to months of rocket fire by the ruling Hamas militant group.

The Israeli government persists in building settlements in occupied territories claimed by Palestinians for a future state, including east Jerusalem and the West Bank, “despite all the pertinent United Nations resolutions declaring that the existence of the settlements is illegal and calling for their cessation,” the report said.

The settlements are “a mesh of construction and infrastructure leading to a creeping annexation that prevents the establishment of a contiguous and viable Palestinian State and undermines the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination,” the report concludes.

More than 500,000 Israelis already live in settlements that dot the West Bank and ring east Jerusalem, the Palestinians’ hoped-for capital. Israel annexed east Jerusalem, with its Palestinian population, immediately after capturing the territory from Jordan in 1967 and has built housing developments for Jews there, but the annexation has not been recognized internationally.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office released a statement saying that he “has repeatedly made his views on Israeli settlements clear. All settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, is illegal under international law. It also runs contrary to Israel’s obligations under the Road Map” for a Middle East peace settlement.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the council of taking a systematically one-sided and biased approach towards Israel, with the report being merely “another unfortunate reminder” of that bias.

“The only way to resolve all pending issues between Israel and the Palestinians, including the settlements issue, is through direct negotiations without pre-conditions,” the ministry said. “Counterproductive measures – such as the report before us – will only hamper efforts to find a sustainable solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.”

French judge Christine Chanet, who led the panel, said Israel never cooperated with the probe, which the council ordered last March.

Because it was not authorized to investigate within Israel, Chanet said, the panel had to travel to Jordan to interview more than 50 people who spoke of the impact of the settlements, such as violence by Jewish settlers, confiscation of land and damage to olive trees that help support Palestinian families. The report also references legal opinions, other reports and a number of articles in the Israeli press.

Another panel member, Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir, said the settlements “seriously impinge on the self-determination of the Palestinian people,” an offense under international humanitarian law.

At a news conference, Chanet called the report “a kind of weapon for the Palestinians” if they want to take their grievances before The Hague-based International Criminal Court.

The Palestine Liberation Organization appeared to suggest it might seek such action, in a statement that called the report’s legal framework a clear indictment of Israeli policy and practice.

“All the Israeli settlement activities are illegal and considered to be war crimes according to the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute as well as the Fourth Geneva Convention. This means that Israel is liable to prosecution,” said PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi. The settlements, she added, are “clearly a form of forced transfer and a proof of Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing.”

In November, the U.N. General Assembly recognized a state of Palestine in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in a vote that was largely symbolic but infuriated Israel. In December, the Palestinians accused Israel of planning more “war crimes” by expanding settlements.

The Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council was set up in 2006 to replace a 60-year-old commission that was widely discredited as a forum dominated by nations with poor rights records. The United States finally joined the council in 2009, and U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said earlier this month that while all countries should appear for their review “we also consistently registered our opposition to the council’s consistent anti-Israel bias.”

Earlier this week, Israel became the first nation to skip a review of its human rights record by the council without giving a reason. Diplomats agreed to postpone their review until later this year based on Israel’s request for a deferral.

The council, which could have proceeded with the review or canceled it, said its agreement to defer would set precedent for how to deal with any future cases of “non-cooperation.”

All 193 U.N.-member nations are required to submit to such a review every four years, and council diplomats said they worried that if a nation were let off the hook that could undermine the process.

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silenthell
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:30pm
Screw the U.N.!

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- KURT1010
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:43pm
  Piss on the UN , get thm out of OUR country , not theirs !
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:52pm
  Screw Israel. Worry about America.
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:35pm
  The Palestinians violate the human rights (by killing them) of women and LBGT.
  
  But, don’t expect the UN to stand up for women or LBGT. At least, not in the middle east. Only when it serves to aid in demonizing Israel and the US.
  
  I guess the UN doesn’t believe in human rights for women or LBGT.
  
  The UN sounds and acts more and more like the KKK every day. I wonder how long before we see photos of UN blue-helmets burning crosses on the front lawns of LBGTs and Jews?
  
  I DO have one positive thing to say about the UN, however.
  
  Those light-blue helmets & uniforms make for a *fantastic* sight-picture! :-)
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:45pm
  @ The_Jerk
  
  Hey genius, without Israel (“Little Satan”), who do you think Israel’s enemies would be attacking?
  
  Hmm?
  
  (“Mr. Rogers” voice) Can you say; “Big Satan”?
  
  I knew ya could! :-)
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:21pm
  The UN is occupying land in New York City, why don’t they get off of our land?
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:06pm
  forget UN and Israel, around 100 million Americans atleast could use more funding and items in their daily lives to support their families and get better jobs,
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 1:40am
  United who???
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 12:15pm
  This again?
  
  NUMERO UNO the West Bank is CONTESTED TERRITORY pending diplomatic negotiations (of which the Palestinians have been surprisingly absent)
  
  Second, Palestinians have just as much right to build schools, hospitals, daycares farms, greenhouses and grocery stores as the Israelis have done. But do they? Again, crickets.
  
  Tertiary, Palestinians have received tens of millions of dollars a year by the U.N. to rebuild their “war torn homeland”…..
  
  ….but do they spend it on schools, hospitals, daycares farms greenhouses and grocery stores like the Israelis do, who are not supported by the U.N.?
  
  No they spend the money they recieve on bombs and rockets to chuck at the Israeli daycares and hospitals, etc.
  
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SilentReader
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:23pm
Well, let’s take a look at the Islamist’s settlements, shall we? You know. All that history that the Islamists don’t want you to know about Islam’s “Golden Age” where in 1200 years they waged over 500 battles of aggression and swept through the Middle East and obliterated everything in their path and cut out the heart of Christianity! In one such battle Khalid, a contemporary of Mohammed, cut off the head of the Zoroastrian captain and raped his wife in his blood right there on the battlefield. He had the best of teachers, Mohammed, at the Battle of Khaibar.

So, when are the greatest of plunders, committers of genocide through terror, and occupiers going to unoccupy the whole of the Middle East, because they took it from the Christians that they mercilessly slaughtered?

And, let’s set the record straight about “Palestine,” shall we? There was never a “Palestine” and there was never a “Palestinian” people. They were citizens of Jordan. Arafat conjured them up as a thorn in the side of Israel so that they could carry on their jihad against the West, and he used the “Palestinians” to do it. The “Palestinians” are their sacrificial lambs, so to speak. All in the name of Islam’s intolerance and jihad. You know. To kill the Jews and all the other “infidels” that they can continue to slaughter through terror. Well, after all, all the politicians in the West are bending over backwards to accomodate the greatest of plunderers, and, as I said, the greatest of

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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:47pm
  Israel needs to define the borders, throw up a 12′ high wall and call it done. Treat any rocket attack or cross border incursion as an act of war and respond with 20x the force. If necessary, set up a 1km DMZ on the far side of the wall. Keep the cavemen barbarians at bay.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:48pm
  “There was never an “America” and there was never an “American” people.”
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:49pm
  SILENTREADER, Sorry but I just have to step on your wonderful post for yet a different reason. You of course make too much sense for the person that I am after.
  JIHAD_JERK On Ice yet another time.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybuKQf9p5jg
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:54pm
  SilentReader, that piece is proof of a whole lot of ignorance.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:56pm
  RJJinGadsden, is there a youtube with you on your knees making an ‘o’ sign for the Israeli insertion?
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:57pm
  No, there never were any Palestinians living in hat is now Israel. The Zionists went there and found the entire area empty.
  
  You’re a moron.
  
  Could you imagine if Canada started building “settlements” in Minnesota and kicked all the Americans living in the area for generations out? And most of the people in the settlements were religious whackos with no jobs who read a 5,000 year old book all day and claim this book says the and in Minnesota was promised to them by an all powerful deity?
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:58pm
  On the contrary Vox, we won our wars and earned our lands through strength and determination. The Palestineans have failed in that regard, and now beg others to fight their battle for them because they lack the strength.
  
  A pity, if they had focused on building themselves up instead of focusing everything on destroying the Israeli’s and relying on their neighbors to do everything for them, they could have a nation that was at parity with Israel. Instead they have wasted all their effort in this foolish war which they have no hope of winning, and in desperation grovel for aid. It’s much like the child that tries to bully someone stronger than him only to get laid out, and then goes crying to teacher.
  
  Your sympathies are better utilized elsewhere than wasted on this cause. It will only give you heartache.
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:07pm
  @ Cavallo – the borders were defined by God many years ago – while God owns the universe – He made only one specifc real estate transaction – the land of Israel….
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:54pm
  DAS_JERK, Of course not, but plenty of you attempting to lead the Third Reich.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:00pm
  JIHAD_JERK. Do you in any way favor Steve Martin, or do you just intend to continue to do his movie a never ending disservice?
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:03pm
  EXACTLY – The Rewriting of History to Suit Islamist LIES Must be Stopped. Over 270 Million have been slaughtered in the name of violent jihad and murderous, rapist Islam supremacy. They are very, Sick, Twisted, Freaks who have been brainwashed with evil intent. The UN from it’s inception has been Communist with it’s goal of world domination and they are now using jihad to further their conquest and the useful idiots are being used with the aid of U.S. PR firms such as C & O Resources. Dictators who do not comply must fall. This began with Saddam in Iraq and continues it’s march across the Middle East. http://www.cyberwarnews.info/reports/a-look-into-the-britam-defense-data-leak-files/ This firm, Britam was/is being hired for a U.S. false flag operation in Syria – to use chemical weapons and then blame Assad to give US and NATO reason to invade Syria.
  
  http://www.debka.com/article/22724/Russia-slams-Israeli-attack-on-Syria-us-forces-in-jordan-on-alert
  
  http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/state-department-recruits-future-diplomats-at-muslim-brotherhood-jihadist-event/
  
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- jnfomo
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:57pm
  @ freedomlover
  
  The West Bank was but a small part of the area designated by the League of Nations for a Jewish homeland under British Mandate. After British occupation ended in 1948, it was OCCUPIED by Jordan until the 1967 Six Day War, and since then by Israel as a result of its victory in that defensive war. Israel has every right to build on their land. It’s about time.
  
  And by the way, I should mention that mocking God never turns out well for the mocker. You might want to open that 5,000 year old book to find out why.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:16pm
Question: Why are Palestinians standing around in Israel with protest signs written in English? When I protest I rarely opt to write my signage in a Semitic based language.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:23pm
  English is the universal language. Ask any international flying pilot.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:28pm
  So they were protesting for Israeli pilots to see? Do pilots control land decisions over there or something? I have a neighbor who is a pilot, I’ll wager he’d love to have the power to zone as he’d wish. I’ll let him know.
  
  French is also one of the major international languages, but I guess if he wrote signs in French it would indicate that he was surrendering or something.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:31pm
  More to the point, English is the second or third official of Israel and is required study for high school students.
  
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- k_smithwick1989
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:33pm
  In regard to GHOSTOFJEFFERSON as in why are the signs are in English? The signs are in English it’s simple a large amount of Israelis understand English (as does a reasonable portion of the world) and in addition they intend the foreign press to publish the photo.Consider the photo ended up on an American website the arguably succeeded.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:34pm
  The entire international Left performs for their internationalLeft media. The Left MEDIA today rules the world…remember the big screen in the Wizard of Oz ?? That movie was way ahead ( bad pun ) of its time.
  
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- ofass
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:46pm
  “FLYING pilots”…..HA HA HA….important definition – guess what happens to Arab pilots when encounter Israeli pilots? Right – they aint fly no more…..
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 12:16pm
  It’s rather obvious, they want to win sympathy with Western audiences.
  
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seer
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:05pm
This is nothing more than ethic cleansing! Ok, remove the 500,000 Jews from the West Bank, then let’s remove the 400,000+ Palestinian from Israel proper. Why isn’t the UN proposing that also? Sounds fair to me…

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:15pm
  Nothing is fair when it comes to Israel…http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/31/report-assad-transferring-chemical-weapons-to-hezbollah/
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:24pm
  Nothing Israel does is fair.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:36pm
  @Jerk
  So Israel granting equal voting rights to Palestinian citizens, equality under the law, and exempting them from military service is unfair.
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:37pm
  @ Jerk, only in your narrow-vision ‘eyesight’
  
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- BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:38pm
  Hatred for the Jewish race is all it is. Watch the movies “The Pianist” and “The Boy in Striped Pajamas” for a little refresher in what happens when hatred for a race and propaganda against them work together to produce a jewell of a civilization.
  
  What a great photo op for the propaganda effort…….
  
  “Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other side, present it according to the theoretical rules of justice; yet it must present only that aspect of the truth which is favourable to its own side. (…) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (…) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end one must always return to the assertion of the same formula.” – Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:49pm
  “So Israel granting equal voting rights to Palestinian citizens, equality under the law, and exempting them from military service is unfair.”
  
  Literally none of these things is granted to Palestinians. Except the exemption from military service, I guess, in the same way we don’t forcibly impress Canadians into the US armed forces.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:59pm
  BLACKDIAMONDSKIER, no. It’s called a dose of reality that you’ve never seen.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:03pm
  Tzion, ain’t so. Arabs are second class citizens in Israel.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel#Civil_rights
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:08pm
  BLACKDIAMONDSKIER: “Hatred for the Jewish race is all it is. Watch the movies “The Pianist” and “The Boy in Striped Pajamas” for a little refresher in what happens.. ”
  
  Now there’s a candidate for full professor; history by Hollywood. Who’s Hollywood? Ask Joel Stein. He gives a fact base answer, something many here have never attempted.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:51pm
  @Jerk
  For one you are still using Wiki as a valid source but more to the point your own source admits that Arabs have equal rights under the law. All your “source” did was point out that there is discrimination within Israeli society. A second class citizen would have restricted rights under the law of the country in question, which is not the case in Israel.
  
  Conclusion: Your use of the term “second class citizen” is nothing more than a propaganda ploy to exaggerate the facts and is therefore highly misleading. Goebbels would be proud of his student.
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:55pm
  This again? The land is Israels. If you dont believe it read the bible
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:05pm
  @Vox
  Clearly you know nothing about the issue and should shut up. Palestinians who are citizens ARE granted voting rights and even have their own political party. A Palestinian is currently serving on Israel’s supreme court and was one of three justices who upheld the conviction of a former President.
  
  Of course it is quite possible you simply didn’t bother to read my comment in its entirety as I clearly specified “citizens”. Palestinians who are not citizens don’t vote for the same reason illegal immigrants aren’t allowed to vote. That IS fair. Unless you think we should let Germany choose our next President.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:11pm
  @Jerk
  Hollywood is nothing more than a collection of private businesses (or perhaps not so private given the tax breaks they were just given). Anyone can seek employment there and anyone can compete with those who are there currently. So if you have a problem with Jews running parts of Hollywood why don’t you do something about it. No one’s stopping you.
  
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newknee
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:05pm
I’ve never figured out why we are even a part of the UN. We should pull out of the UN, kick them out of this country and turn the UN building into something useful.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:09pm
  the u.n is run by muslim oil and needs to go back to mideast and turn buildng into shrine of stupidity
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:09pm
  homeless shelter for illegal aliens?
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:12pm
  The U.N. comes out against Israel. No way! Drop out of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:15pm
  We’d be better served cutting ties with Israel, than leaving the U.N.. And, I think that we should leave the U.N..
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:38pm
  Forget leaving, we cut off funding and the UN dies. If Europe and Asia want it to continue let them pay for it.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:08pm
  Yea having an institution where nations can talk together to try and resolve issues is such a terrible idea.
  
  Most of our allies look at Israel and sees a chronic human rights abuser who is occupying a population they do not give equal rights to and is not working proactively toward peace (which the more powerful party in a conflict should do).
  
  But they’re brown and Muslim, so let’s not worry at all about them
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:09pm
  Tzion: “Forget leaving, we cut off funding and the UN dies. If Europe and Asia want it to continue let them pay for it.”
  
  Ditto our support for Israel.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:53pm
  @freedom lover
  Your description of the UN is completely off. What you described would be closer to a world summit where various leaders meet. UN is a body of representatives who have zero accountability, yet have the audacity to try and impose international laws and treaties upon its members. They are little more than corrupt bureaucrats.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:05pm
Well now, as I know it, Israels space is “…as far as the eye can see….”

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:22pm
  That’s what they think too. What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine too.
  
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Popp40
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:04pm
Yet the UN says nothing about the countless rockets that are launched into Israel by Palastine…

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:07pm
  Narrative….
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:25pm
  And, you ignore the Israeli attacks on sovereign nations.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:42pm
  @Jerk
  Name one country Israel attacked that hadn’t previously attacked Israel, sent troops to assist in attacking Israel, or supplied weapons to be used to attack Israel. Surely one isn’t too much to ask, right? Besides, attacking sovereign nations isn’t illegal, it’s just an internationally recognized act of war.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:45pm
  Doesn’t Syria chair the Human Rights Council… or is it Saudi Arabia?
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:05pm
  A sovereign nation that had 3,000 Iranian Revolutionary guards and several
  Russian ‘NBC’ experts guarding an illegal chemical/biological weapons plant.
  Our own White House warned the Syrian gov’t not to “further destabilize the
  region” by transferring weaponry to Hizbullah.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:10pm
  Maybe Israel’s position that Iran shouldn’t acquire illegal nuclear weapons wouldn’t be as hypocritical if Israel didn’t possess illegal nuclear weapons.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:14pm
  Tzion, you’re giving the WMD and Saddam Husein yellow cake argument all over again. Israel attacked Syria yesterday. You can make up the fiction of preemption, just like all other belligerents throughout history. Israel is very well versed in fiction.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:14pm
  @Jerk
  When did I mention WMDs? It is a fact that Iraqi troops attacked Israel in 1948 and upon losing expelled their entire Jewish population, including communities that predate Christianity. They never signed a peace treaty, never recognized Israel, and in fact had even used WMDs against Israel (unsuccessfully). If you learned that your enemy was using a ceasefire agreement to develop nukes what would you do?
  
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sinner-saint
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:03pm
I’m sick and tired of the palestinians…….bomb them all into an oblivion. nothing but troublemakers,

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- CatB
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:21pm
  The U.N. also … throw them out of the U.S. and the U.S. out of the U.N.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:01pm
  If a foreign force was occupying your neighborhood and restricting your travel, not to mention destroying any chance you have for an independent economy, you’d be a trouble maker too.
  
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angeleyes63
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:01pm
The UN is a corrupt joke that promotes radical islam and violence on a global scale. This is how they stay relevant.. Corruption reigns supreme. The U.S out of the UN.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:58pm
Another sign of the end of time. Everything is backward.
When evil is perceived as good and good perceived as evil.

Seems like the whole world is anti-America, anti-Israel, anti-Jesus, anti-Christian, and anti-Jew.

Israel belongs to the Israeli people. God’s chosen people.
The Muslims need to embrace it, or leave Israel.

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:57pm
get the USA out of the UN and the UN out of the USA. It belongs in Belgium or Constantinople.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:56pm
The U.N. is the only thing standing in the way of World Peace. Think about it. It has never resolved anything. It has instigated, inflamed and then stood back on every ill of the Earth. Look at the middle East, N. Korea, their love of Communist and other oppressive regimes. they loved and defended Khaddaffi only a year or so before the Muslim Brotherhood became a much, much better deal for them. Same with Egypt and Mubarak. Evil is the U.N.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:55pm
Israel you have an infestation of squatters,when are you going to evict them?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:55pm
There we go, this is all Obama and his insane ‘Rights to Protect” excuse will need to strike and strike hard at Israel when he sees the time as right.

I have warned for some time now this matter will come to a head with Obama via the UN over the Palestinians. He wants to appear as the ‘savior’ among the Muslim nations, and ensure the final annihilation of Israel as a nation.

Remember he sees Israel as the oppressor of Arabs and the result of ‘colonialist’ powers America and England. One can only wonder what Israel will do to our land when he hits them and they strike back to try and save themselves.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:58pm
  The flip side to your argument is that Israel really is a belligerent. That’s what the facts say.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:12pm
  Says a nazi. That’s what the facts say Jihad Jerk.
  
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- TEIN
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:46pm
  About 50 years ago Palestinians went and attempted to destroy Israel, and Israel started beat back and to destroy the Palestinians until the UN had them stop…Since then the Palestinians have been nothing but whiny, crying, angry, dangerous brat-children….Israel needs to spank them again, and the UN needs to keep it’s Geneva elitist opinion out of sovereign nations..The UN has been the cause of more conflicts and war than another country or organization….
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:37pm
  If they obliterate DC I will send them a thank you note. That said, don’t.worry about how much Americans love Israel, how much does Israel love America? That is the question my friends. with the way they transfer our donated tech to China, my guess is not very much. The Jews are big boys, they know Obama is building the Caliphate. I will NOT be attending any Obama events. The only people more ruthless than the Muslims is the Jews.
  
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searching for the Truth
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:53pm
U.N., Arab controlled like most newspapers.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:59pm
  No. Our newspapers are Jewish controlled. Start by looking at the New York Times and its holdings.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:20pm
  Jihad Jerk take the times and UN with you to Paleostine. Just go. Lalalalalala on across the pond to your brethren.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:26pm
  Bah those aren’t even real jews. They don’t support Israel at all. They support Obama and his agenda. I’m more pro-Israel than some of my old “Jewish” friends since they adhere more to the liberal cause than their homeland.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:34pm
  @Jerk
  And the Times is a great example of a pro-Israel news source, right? WRONG. The NYT is highly pro-Palestinian and heavily critical of Israel, though I wouldn’t call them anti-Israel since I save that term for you Jerk.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:41pm
  FUBARED, Even the administration and MSM are changing their blame game name calling from Bush to Fox News, DAS JERK remains on topic and everything that has gone wrong on the face of the earth is the fault of Jews and Israel. C’mon Jerk, have the Palestinians ever done anything remotely wrong yet?
  
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Bill Wallace
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:52pm
The UN can suck Chelsea Handler’s @$$.

Worse than the League of Nations ever was.
Most corrupt institution on the planet.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Yeah, because unlike you, they’re not an Israeli sycophant.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:59pm
  THE_JERK, you could do a remake of an old Beatle song, Wake up in the morning and rub your eyes while you hate the Jews. Step into the bathroom and take piss, then brush your teeth and look into the mirror while you hate the Jews. Wonder downstairs and turn on the coffee while you hate the Jews, and let’s not forget those blacks and HIspanics that you have expressed here how much you hate too. Butter your toast while you hate the Jews, and add some jelly too while you hate the Jews even more. Go back upstairs to shower and while you wash your nasty ass hate the Jews. Head to work and while you insert the key the key into your ignition, hate the Jews a little more. Scream at all of the Jews that get in your way in traffic. Then while you spread a little cream cheese on your morning bagel you can just hate the Jews even more.
  Geez, I hope you are getting tired or telling us the same old sh/t over and over and over and over again. You have been monotonous for a very long time now. Yeah, we get it, you hate anything Jewish, and everything Israeli, and occasionally anything black or Hispanic. Get over yourself, we would really like to.
  
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- WANG0
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:26pm
  This is what you must know:
  
  I don’t often go looking for racists, but when I do, I usually find a Jerk.
  
  It is so.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:52pm
  Hey Ms WANGO, it was not difficult to accomplish that result, was it?
  
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OhioRifleman
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:51pm
Oh, so I guess the following things do not count?

1. The state of Israel was a wasteland with little to no inhabitation before it was settled, and the countries that it was parceled out of really didn’t want it to begin with.

2. I dunno, maybe 6 million recent casualties to a population that has been off and on decimated by arsehole governments for going on 3000 years, maybe that doesn’t count for anything anymore?

3. When the ‘Palestinians’ were displaced, NOBODY ELSE WANTED THEM TO BEGIN WITH. Tells you right there the color of their character, when the Quaran has a requirement for hospitality and nobody wants to show it to them.

4. PALESTINE NEVER EXISTED. In sync with point #1, There never was a Palestine state. These people, whose lands were legally expropriated, belonged to four countries that really wanted nothing to do with them to begin with. The name Palestine is an old Roman insult, not a country.

Every time I hear a story like this, I have to LOL. History is always such a b1tch to political agendas.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:06pm
  I’ve got an 1897 Dictionary that says Palestine existed. I’ve got a 1939 encyclopedia that includes a section on Palestine. I see that the Zionist founder, Theodor Herzl, called the area Palestine. I see where the Balfour Declaration called the area Palestine. I see where Jews called for a ‘Holy War’ against Germany in 1933, and then cried when they got what they asked for.
  
  Seems like you hate the facts.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:15pm
  Fact is your buds cannot take an area by force, which they lost by force. Lalalalalalalalala. Wiki said Jihad Jerk is an average nazi. Not even a decent hard working nazi.
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:21pm
  Ahh, a semantic game, Jerk. I’ll answer your call with a double-down, given it is only appropriate.
  
  When I said ‘Palestine is an old Roman insult, not a country’, I forgot to clarify that Palestine as a territory is recognized in the same fashion that the Miami Valley in Ohio describes a geographic plot, but is not a recognized state or county. Palestine is a funny bit of insult with longevity that became the name of a land nobody wanted anything to do with until a convenient target arrived and expropriated it. Then and only then is it a fxcking hot potato, worthy of fighting over, etcetera.
  
  I also note that you completely dodged the first three points and only got me on a technicality on the fourth.
  
  Your move, amigo.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:27pm
  “PALESTINE NEVER EXISTED.”
  
  Neither did the United States, but I bet you don’t support the land being returned to the Native Americans and all the other immigrant peoples being forcibly returned to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Vox every nation on Earth is the result of one form of conquest or another. The Native Tribes conquered their territory from other natives tribes, the Mexicans are descendants from the Spanish conquerors who wiped out the Aztecs and other groups, Russia is a hodge podge of warfare and conquest between ethnic groups that were forced together by the Tsars and later the Premiers. The list is endless, every nation, and all the nations that predated them are the spawn of war and conquest.
  
  When it comes to national borders, might makes right, and to the victor goes the spoils. It isn’t noble by any stretch of the imagination, but who said anything about our perceptions of history being the truth?
  
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- k_smithwick1989
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 5:52pm
  1. Palestine was know know for it’s agriculture,as is modern day Israel.Far as the archaeological record is concern the Israel/Palestine has been continually inhabited prior to the adoption of agriculture in the region over 7,000 years ago.
  
  2. The prosecution of the Jews was sporadic as unfair that may seem.There were periods of mutually cooperation between the Jews and Muslim/Christians.La Convivencia under Caliphate of Córdoba in Cordoba, Spain 929–1031 is popular example.The Persian King Cyrus the Great is another example in the Edict of Restoration (Judaism) he referred to as “the anointed of the Lord”,for freeing the Jews from Babylon.
  
  3. Actually the majority of Palestinian were incorporated into Jordan,Syria, Egypt,Lebanon and to a lesser extent some Latin American nations.The questions why the they were displaced? Read about Plan Dalet and David Ben-Gurion (founder of Modern Israel),Ben-Gurion planed to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population and did so one month prior to a Arab declaration of war.The Israeli War of Independence was preceded by genocide hence the Arab Intervention.
  
  4. The Palestine and Israel are one in the same for the same Land,it’s was know as Peleset in ancient Egypt,Palaistinê in ancient Greece,Philistia/Palaestina in ancient Rome,the Hebrew called it (Peleshet,Eretz Yisrael or Ha’aretz).Even more interesting the Palestine are in fact Mizrahi Jews which coveted to Islam and Orthodox Christianity.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:51pm
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What do I need to do to violate me some PALESTINIANS HUMAN RIGHTS?……

We need to Ban Sand Apes like these…….

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:10pm
  Spank
  Guessing it’s post will evaporate soon…but canon foder? What a rude rube.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:12pm
  LIBERAL ALLERT!! VOTM is loose!
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:53pm
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  Was it something I said?…….
  
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MDECKER
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:48pm
The U.N. can pound sand.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:52pm
  Oh yeah, it’s not me that’s crazy. It’s the rest of the world.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:55pm
  DUMP THE UN, Get out NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  send them packin’ along with OBAMATARDS.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:56pm
  They should yet consider this:
  
  Obama intervened in Libya under his “Right to Protect” insanity; and here he has been handed by the UN the excuse to strike at Israel, its only when and not if, he does so.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:02pm
  As a known Jihad Jerk, you see zero irony with aligning with the UN, Morsi, Achmdoobiejob, Hamas, and the Hezbos? All to support your hate for the Jews. Pretty sick pos all around. Lalalalalalalalala.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:53pm
  “here he has been handed by the UN the excuse to strike at Israel, its only when and not if, he does so.”
  
  Can I buy drugs from you? Because whatever you’re on, it’s some powerful stuff.
  
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naughtycal
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:48pm
Wait Israeli’s building home on land they purchased is violating palenstines human rights……Am I to uderstand that the U.N. JUST DECLARED THAT LIVING NEXT TO JEWS VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS…ANTI-SEMITE MUCH
Time to exit the U.N. and remove them from the USA . I would rather stand by Israel than the rest of the entire bigotted U.N.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:54pm
  Land they stole from people that they placed into walled off ghettos, just like the former Nazis that these Zionists once partnered with. Their contact, Eichmann would be proud.
  
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- Thundergod
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:00pm
  With nations around the world coming under the influence of Islam,and their nations representatives are sworn to uphold Islamic law,its only a matter of time before the UN is part of the jihad.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:38pm
  The U.N. has been in jihad mode for some time.
  Look up the natural disasters which happened shortly after any deals taking away the land given to Israel by God.
  
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VoiceoftheMajority
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:47pm
Finally we are seeing Israel for who they have become. It’s very sad to see them treat these people this way when just fifty years ago they were the victims. Shame on you Israel….

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:54pm
  Send more rocks to your buds. It seems to get the attention they deserve. Who is that pos in you pic?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:54pm
  They learned the trade well.
  
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- VoiceoftheMajority
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:03pm
  That is a picture of our Commander in Chief being saluted by a Marine
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Speaking of your Buds, lets get Jihad Jerk to weigh in on his mortal enemy. None of your business Jihad Jerk. Stay out. Blah blah blah. You support Hamas. You support Iran. You love Paleostine as the oppose Israel. And now you spread your cheeks for the UN just to further your Jew narrative. Classy nazi.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:07pm
  Your CNC and a Marine just doing his job. POS is still a POS. Exibit 1, refer to Jihad Jerk for exibit 2. Voice of the low info voter.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:08pm
  i see a Marine and i see a coward. is that a ‘duality of man’ thing?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:46pm
  Not hard to guess what that marine is thinking each time he has to salute our commie in chief!!!
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:02pm
  Israel won the war.Go watch cnn
  
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:46pm
how many muslims did it take to write this ‘report’?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:55pm
  No where near the number of Jews in our biased media.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:11pm
  Lalalalalalalalalalalalala. Put the hookah down Jihad Jerk.
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:44pm
Is this any surprise coming from the U.N.?

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Fubared
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:43pm
Calling Jihad Jerk and MorsiEngineer69. Silent whistle.

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vox_populi
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:43pm
If Canada started building settlements in the Midwest while bulldozing the houses of Americans, we’d probably call it a violation of our human rights too.

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- ofass
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:48pm
  Ye, right, guess it is the same useful idiot.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:51pm
  You can not make that kind of intelligent remark here among the Israeli-firster sycophants.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:53pm
  Poxy
  We wouldn’t call it jack. We would rectify the issue and not cry and whine.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 3:57pm
  See what I mean. Ofass is a perfect example. No valid substantive point. Just childish name calling.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Jihad Jerk, aligning with the UN, Pox/Troll, and vest blowers all in one post, and no irony is lost on you. Pretty sick and sad. None of your business. Why do you care? Stay out. Belligerent lil reich raiser. Lalalalalalalalalalala you pos.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:00pm
  either palestine should be a country or Israel should kick them out. there is no other way
  
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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:02pm
  If America invaded Canada and the Canadians kicked our butts, taking that territory in the process, it would not be a violation of our rights. It would be just deserts…Arabs attacked Israel and got their rears handed to them, the settlements are on land they lost. Palestinians are not a people, they are vagrant Syrian Arabs.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:09pm
  @vox aka the_jerkoff aka enncinom,
  We Americans would do to the canadians,what the Israelis ought to do to the so called palastinians,blow their bloody brains out……f-n idiot
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:23pm
  “We wouldn’t call it jack. We would rectify the issue and not cry and whine.”
  
  Wow, I didn’t think you’d go so far as to agree with armed resistance against Israel by the Palestinians. So Hamas is totally legitimate in your worldview then, yes?
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 4:29pm
  GRIMM: Agree the Arabs/ Palestinians/ Muslims ( whatever they are call themselves in regard to this conflict ) have caused trouble since the establishment of Israel after the Arabs/ Axis lost WWII. Thus, they invade, they shell, they whatever, and then get upset when the Israelis clean their clocks in battles they caused. These people are just sniffling little trouble -making blamers who are quite similar to our dysfunctional radical Democrats . …who are their friends !
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 6:12pm
  Israel won the war. Next
  
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- jnfomo
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 7:40pm
  @ vox
  
  That is a ridiculous comparison. The West Bank is but a rather small part of the area designated by the League of Nations for a Jewish homeland under the British mandate, and it is part of Israel’s capital. Israel has every right to bulldoze and build to their hearts content on their land.
  
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