West Bank Settlers Send Defiant Message To Obama, "That Arab They Call A President"

nytimes.com:

NERIA, West Bank In this land of endless history and ethereal beauty, several thousand Jewish settlers gathered on a dozen West Bank hills with makeshift huts and Israeli flags over several days this week to mark an invented anniversary and defy the American president, conveying to his aides visiting Jerusalem what they thought of his demand for a settlement freeze.

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Comments

[Thabit]

10:12 PM on 08/01/2009

If thats how they want to play this i am all for completely cutting all aid to Israel both financial and millitary , We cant afford it and if they want to flip us off after all we have done let them make their own way . While we are at it we can stop vetoing every thing in the Un Security council that they dont like too . Independence means you stand on your own feet , no umbrella no big brother standing behind you to cover your back

[DesertDogAlpha]

08:42 PM on 08/01/2009

Disgraceful rhetoric (with Netanyahu reportedly in the verbal lead) by a group of folks who are used to having the US as their lapdog as they break international law over decades. How many of the settlers in these illegal settlements are "Jews posing as Americans" via the miracle of dual citizenship? How about we prosecute them for violation of the law when they come to the USA?

[noudidnt]

07:34 PM on 08/01/2009

We should be watching and possibly restricting those coming into this country with an Israeli visa. Seriously.

[DeniseA]

12:27 AM on 08/01/2009

I support Israel and support these settlers' right to peacefully demonstrate. Accepting US aid should
not take away their right to peacefully demonstrate.

[mamacat]

03:10 AM on 08/01/2009

The issue is not whether those who would continue to expropriate Arab lands have the right to free speech.

[DeniseA]

12:34 PM on 08/01/2009

Israel took that land in a defensive war (1967). They are willing to return the land if the Arabs are willing to work with them to achieve a just and lasting peace.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/settlelaw.html

Jews have lived in Judea/Samaria since ancient times.

Israel's citizens have a right to demonstrate and express their opinions peacefully.

[Taxi]

02:20 AM on 08/17/2009

Land thieves, horse thieves and rapists have zero rights.

[Rog49Thomas]

09:36 PM on 07/31/2009

New life for the birthers.

Not born in Hawaii but ElKhalil, I suppose.

[ChristopherAtom]

08:17 PM on 07/31/2009

Oh religion, you are the greatest divider of humanity, behind the greatest of all dividers; the monetary system.
Liars, terrors and dares, Oh my!

[lynnn]

08:12 PM on 07/31/2009

These people sound like birthers!

[Paula Ann]

06:47 PM on 07/31/2009

I wonder if these h8-mongers realize that President Obama may not consider being called an Arab an insult.

[lynnn]

08:14 PM on 07/31/2009

That probably really bugs them.

[cliffhammond]

10:01 PM on 08/01/2009

He does rather resemble an Egyptian. Quite a compliment, I'd say.

[MrJoyboy]

02:59 PM on 07/31/2009

Another glorious testament to superstition (ie, religious belief).

[raaf]

02:53 PM on 07/31/2009

During the 1990's Israel absorbed close to one million settlers from the former Soviet Union, however Jewish people from Ethiopia are shunned by Israel. If this is not racism, then what is?

[DeniseA]

12:00 AM on 08/01/2009

Can anyone give me a link about this alleged discrimination by Israel toward Ethiopian Jews? I've heard about "Operation Moses" where Israel rescued Ethiopian Jews, and I know Israel still helps Ethiopian Jews from Gondar come to Israel, but I haven't heard about this discrimination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Moses

This is the only time I know of when thousands of blacks were brought out of Africa as free citizens instead of as slaves. I would question the statement that Zionism is racism.

[phute]

07:58 AM on 08/01/2009

Don't be faceitious - do the research yourself - and if you are right in your suppositions than you can come back on here and post your refutations a mile high.

[LincolnParkChicago]

12:49 PM on 08/01/2009

Discrimination Against Ethiopian Jews Goes On
by Batia Eyob
Special To The Jewish Week
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c40_a1452/News/Israel.html

Olmert: Ethiopian Jews are right to feel discriminated against
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/932618.html

Google search on “discrimination against ethiopian jews” returned 26,300 hits.

[TJCole]

10:15 AM on 07/31/2009

"They suffer least, who suffer what they choose..!"

[Samlas]

09:38 AM on 07/31/2009

STOP SENDING MY TAX MONEY TO ISRAEL........!!!

[Pema]

09:20 AM on 07/31/2009

see they think arab is a dirty word. so they treat them as dirt. anyone who thinks otherwise is living in prozac land.
raze the west bank settlements to the ground.

[SFA]

09:56 AM on 07/31/2009

Agree, did not occur to me, how they were using Arab as an insult for Obama.

[KIVPossum]

01:12 PM on 07/31/2009

If the U.S. really wanted to improve relations with the Muslim world, calm things down in the Mid-East, or back up it's rhetoric about Human Rights, it would do everything in it's power, and in the U.N.'s power, to force Israel to do a 180 in their policies toward the Palestinians.

[Paulo1]

08:25 AM on 07/31/2009

Proper response :"those violent religious nuts that they call settlers"

[Wisdo]

08:04 AM on 07/31/2009

"so hamas is not the only crazy/radical/delusional/fanatic lot in middle-east...we have another winner (settlers)..."

I see nothing crazy, delusional or indeed radical about Hamas. Hamas's cause is to liberate the palestinian territory by force of arms - to establish a state for the palestinians.

This is considered a laudable enterprise when done by people we agree with - for instance, American Patriots who liberated the USA from British rule, by force of arms or Irish citizens who formed the IRB / IRA and thereby ended British colonial rule.

The armed insurgent is always a "terrorist" and a "fanatic" according to the occupier. But is seen as a hero and a liberator by the oppressed.

Guerilla warfare is dirty and viscious, and in Israel/Palestine is doubly so because it is fought by two historically opressed people who are closely related. Thus it has elements of a civil war - and they are always the worst.