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(HELSINKI) - Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is tantamount to apartheid, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said Wednesday, warning time was running out for a two-state solution.
"If you are occupying areas inhabited by... Palestinians who do not have the same rights as the Israelis in Israel, that is apartheid and that is not sustainable," he told reporters.
"I think that the majority in Israel has also realised this but they have been unable to provide a leadership that (can) move forward on the two-state solution," he added.
A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
Today, within Israel, Jews are a majority, but the Arab minority are full citizens who enjoy equal rights. Arabs are represented in the Knesset, and have served in the Cabinet, high-level foreign ministry posts and on the Supreme Court. (e.g., Ambassador to Finland)
Under apartheid, black South Africans could not vote and were not citizens of the country in which they formed the overwhelming majority of the population.
Laws dictated where they could live, work and travel. And, in South Africa, the government killed blacks who protested against its policies. By contrast, Israel allows freedom of movement, assembly and speech. Some of the government's harshest critics are Israeli Arabs who are members of the Knesset.
Originally posted by gravitational
who gives a damn what the Finn think.
by Muslims in Norway.
Originally posted by hmdphantom
reply to post by gravitational
by Muslims in Norway.
Muslims who are so faithful to stay in Norway ( the country which some crazy terrorists kill people to show their hate toward Islam ) are faithful enough to control their anger and lust.
I think you better open your eyes and see the animals who rape people in Afghanistan and Iraq. Are they Muslim ?
You just say something and accuse people , I wonder if you are true Christian or something.
Originally posted by hmdphantom
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
I know , but I have proof some animals rape and murder people ,
US war-machine's production : US 'kill team' soldier convicted of murder,
What else does he have in return ? nothing ? a yellow press link ?
I think it is fair to call those people animal as they just act like them.
Originally posted by hmdphantom
reply to post by SpeachM1litant
Zionist took the lands by force , they won't give it back easily . in fact , they are to stay in Palestine , and they don't accept any border line.
in fact , they are the masterpiece of the NWO.
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The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people.[1] The assault occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine.[2]
Around 107 villagers were killed during and after the battle for the village, including women and children—some were shot, while others died when hand grenades were thrown into their homes.[3] Several villagers were taken prisoner and may have been killed after being paraded through the streets of West Jerusalem, though accounts vary.[4] Four of the attackers died, with around 35 injured.[5] The killings were condemned by the leadership of the Haganah—the Jewish community's main paramilitary force—and by the area's two chief rabbis. The Jewish Agency for Israel sent Jordan's King Abdullah a letter of apology, which he rebuffed.[2]
Sixty years on, the true story of the slaughter of Palestinians at Deir Yassin may finally come out ...
It is an interesting irony that the patients at Kfar Shaul recuperate from such variations on amnesia on the very spot that Israel has sought to erase from its collective memory.
The place is Deir Yassin. An Arab village cleared out in 1948 by Jewish forces in a brutal battle just weeks before Israel was formed, Deir Yassin has come to symbolise perhaps more than anywhere else the Palestinian sense of dispossession.
Sixty-two years on, what really happened at Deir Yassin on 9 April remains obscured by lies, exaggerations and contradictions. Now Ha'aretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, is seeking to crack open the mystery by petitioning Israel's High Court of Justice to release written and photographic evidence buried deep in military archives. Palestinian survivors of Deir Yassin, a village of around 400 inhabitants, claim the Jews committed a wholesale massacre there, spurring Palestinians to flee in the thousands, and undermining the long-held Israeli narrative that they left of their own accord....