Hamas announces truce with Israel

[mawilson 2,133]

If they lob more rockets into Israel after they have their country, then let Israel go in and level everything.

Seems like a huge waste of time, just to eventually level everything.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Seems like a huge waste of time, just to eventually level everything.

We could just level everything there now and start over. I'll bring my deeds and take back what we lost. Fixer uppers are a hobby of mine; a great skill to have, just in case.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Ohhhh so there is no occupation and the settlements aren't really settlements

Why didn't you post the original version, produced by YESHA, an organization that represents and lobbies for the illegal settlers in the West Bank ?

Image for image, almost word for word.

[mawilson 2,133]

Ohhhh so there is no occupation and the settlements aren't really settlements

The "settlements" are not settlements, they are Israeli cities - with factories, high-tech industries, and homes.

And they are not going anywhere.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The "settlements" are not settlements, they are Israeli cities - with factories, high-tech industries, and homes.

And they are not going anywhere.

They don't have to go anywhere. They can just become cities in the new nation of Palestine. They owe us at least that much since they've taken so much more.

[mawilson 2,133]

They don't have to go anywhere. They can just become cities in the new nation of Palestine.

What, like the high-tech Gaza greenhouses before they were handed over to Hamas?

Before:

A few weeks after:

A few months after:

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Let's put an occupation in place and a blockade on your property and see how well you do. You don't want for the Israelis what they're doing to the Palestinians, but you're in denial that the precursor to the Nazi camps is what they're doing to the Palestinians.

What, like the high-tech Gaza greenhouses before they were handed over to Hamas?

Before:

A few weeks after:

A few months after:

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

What, like the high-tech Gaza greenhouses before they were handed over to Hamas?

#1. The greenhouses were handed over to the PA, not Hamas (this was 2005, before Hamas was elected to power.)

#2. These formerly-Israeli greenhouses were not the only greenhouses in Gaza, nor even the majority of them.

#3. The Gaza Strip has always been an agricultural area, and its economy depended on exporting its crops. However, Israel kept the Gaza Strip under ever-increasing closures since 1967. This meant that hundreds of thousands of tons of Gaza's tomatoes, strawberries, fresh-cut flowers and more would often sit in trucks stranded at the border for days - even weeks - rotting while Palestinians waited in vain for Israeli permission to cross. What is the point of operating even more greenhouses when you can't export the product ?

#4. At the time of the "disengagement," Gaza unemployment was over 40% due to decades of Israeli limitations on exports and commercial production. When people are hungry, they will do anything to feed their families - including stealing metal to sell as scrap.

#5. The number of looted formerly-Israeli greenhouses was about two dozen. Israel destroyed nearly 200 Palestinian greenhouses during Cast Lead, but you sure ain't crying about that...

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

And by these greenhouses were no gift from Israel - the Israeli government was paid $14 million cold cash for them - the money raised by various donors including James Wolfenson (former World Bank president.)

Edited September 4, 2011 by wife_of_mahmoud

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Hamas are Islamic terrorists..... and proud of it.

Hamas said NO to veggies!!!

[Dan and Judy 614]

Ohhhh so there is no occupation and the settlements aren't really settlements

Why didn't you post the original version, produced by YESHA, an organization that represents and lobbies for the illegal settlers in the West Bank ?

Image for image, almost word for word.

If the Palistinians can't come up with a single animation to refute these claims, Who are we suposed to believe?

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

If the Palistinians can't come up with a single animation to refute these claims, Who are we suposed to believe?

Cartoons are always much better than actual history.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Hamas said NO to veggies!!!

As has already been noted, Hamas had nothing to do with the greenhouse story. Don't let facts get in the way of your continuing efforts, though....

[The_Dude 1,142]

As has already been noted, Hamas had nothing to do with the greenhouse story. Don't let facts get in the way of your continuing efforts, though....

You can tell quite easily that it was the PA, and not Hamas, the greenhouses weren't used to build or store bombs. So much for a legitimate government.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

You can tell quite easily that it was the PA, and not Hamas, the greenhouses weren't used to build or store bombs. So much for a legitimate government.

The Israeli Army decided to expropriate large areas of Palestinians land in the Bethlehem district in order to expand the Efrat illegal settlement, built on lands illegally annexed from residents of Al Khader District, south of Bethlehem. Al Khader Mayor, Ramzi Salah, stated that one of Al Khader farmers found a military order, placed by the soldiers on his land, informing him that Israel wants to annex large areas of farmlands under the pretext of “providing security” for the nearby Efrat illegal settlement. The military order did not specify how many dunams of land would be expropriated ... Salah added that he, and other farmers from the town, headed to the city council in Al Khader to ask for legal advice. The lands Israel intends to confiscate belong to several families from Al Khader.

In 2009, Israel confiscated more than 1700 dunams of Palestinian lands to expand the northern part of the Efrat settlement.

Damn you, Hamas !

With the end of the building freeze, construction has started up in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) communities. In fact, said the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), building jumped 660% in Judea and Samaria during the first half of 2011, as compared to the previous year.

Damn you, Hamas !

As Israel decided to further arm the settlers by providing them with stun grenades and tear gas bombs, the settlers, supported by extremist right wing factions in Israel, are preparing a plan to “respond to any popular Palestinian move that will likely take place as the Palestinian leadership asks the United Nations this month to recognize a Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as its capital. Extremist right-wing factions in Israel are preparing a plan dubbed “children against children, women and [against?] women”, as part of settlers’ activities and attacks against the unnamed Palestinian population in the West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem. Jewish settlers, illegally living in the occupied territories, are a largely armed population and well trained for combat situations. The settlers currently own more than half a million automatic rifles, and practically unlimited amounts of ammunition.

Damn you, Hamas !

A group of several dozen residents of Al-Walaja village, near Bethlehem, held a march and rally on Saturday calling on Israel to end the takeover of their land for the construction of the Annexation Wall. They were joined by a number of Israeli peace activists, four of whom were abducted by Israeli troops along with one Palestinian.

Damn you, Hamas !

The Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) has condemned the continued incarceration of five Palestinian journalists by Israeli authorities. The five journalists come from across the West Bank and work for a wide variety of Arab media agencies. Their names are: Walid Khalid (‘Palestine’ newspaper), Nawaf Al-Amer (‘Al-Quds’ television), Samer Allawi (‘Al-Jazeera’, a satellite news channel), Osaid Amarneh (‘Al-Aqsa’ television) and Amer Abu Arafeh (‘Shab’ news agency). Two of the men, Khalid and Al-Amer, have been sentenced to administrative detention whilst Allawi, who was the head of Al-Jazeera’s Afghanistan Bureau before his arrest on 9th August, has yet to be charged.

Damn you, Hamas !