Why our boycott campaign against Israel makes sense #BDS

[Mecky]

Thery are in contravention of international law, not according to me, but to numerous UN resolutions.

 

Are they? And here's me thinking it's the spoils of war since Egypt, Jordan and Syria ganged up on Israel for the 6 Day war and Yom Kippur wars

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

 

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

[blake]

you could argue that Israel is actually upholding 'international law' by continuing to administer the territories they gained in 1967 under UNSCR 242. It is amazing how people like the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen keep on saying that the settlements are 'illegal', without bothering to inform the audience, just how they are illegal.

[donkey]

Are they? And here's me thinking it's the spoils of war since Egypt, Jordan and Syria ganged up on Israel for the 6 Day war and Yom Kippur wars

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

 

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

 

 

So they defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in wars more than 40 years ago and therefore they are entitled to drive Palestinians from their land in Palestine now?

 

Why don't you try rocking up at a nice little farm in Bavaria with a bulldozer and tell them you are leveling their house and taking their land for a British settlement and they will have to go and live in a refugee camp because it is 'the spoils of war'. See what the legal position is. Dooooooh!

[blake]

But don't want to support it by living there?

 

 

the proportion of Jewish people worldwide, that live in Israel is about 40%.

 

not that would concern me all that much, as I am not Jewish myself, I am not married to a Jew and I have no Jewish family members I know about apart from an auntie my dad's brother married and who I don't particularly like. However my two cousins on that side are both Jews, and have like me visited Israel.

[firemanbob]

So they defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in wars more than 40 years ago and therefore they are entitled to drive Palestinians from their land in Palestine now?

 

Why don't you try rocking up at a nice little farm in Bavaria with a bulldozer and tell them you are leveling their house and taking their land for a British settlement and they will have to go and live in a refugee camp because it is 'the spoils of war'. See what the legal position is. Dooooooh!

 

How many Israelis live in houses and on land that was once owned by someone living in Gaza?

[Mecky]

So they defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in wars more than 40 years ago and therefore they are entitled to drive Palestinians from their land in Palestine now?

 

Why don't you try rocking up at a nice little farm in Bavaria with a bulldozer and tell them you are leveling their house and taking their land for a British settlement and they will have to go and live in a refugee camp because it is 'the spoils of war'. See what the legal position is. Dooooooh!

 

And whilst we're at it what do you think islamists are currently doing in just about every country throughout the world?

[donkey]

you could argue that Israel is actually upholding 'international law' by continuing to administer the territories they gained in 1967 under UNSCR 242. It is amazing how people like the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen keep on saying that the settlements are 'illegal', without bothering to inform the audience, just how they are illegal.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/world/middleeast/un-panel-says-israeli-settlement-policy-violates-law.html

 

No doubt the UN and the people who drew up the Geneva Convention are all a bunch of antisemites too?

 

It is just a shame that there are so many people out there who need legal rulings to demonstrate to them that driving families and communities into refugee camps so you can take their land is just wrong

Edited August 27, 2014 by donkey

[blake]

So they defeated Jordan, Syria and Egypt in wars more than 40 years ago and therefore they are entitled to drive Palestinians from their land in Palestine now?

 

 

perhaps you would care to explain why Arab Israelis privately own more land than Jewish Israelis do? Even though they are less than 25% of the population?

[donkey]

How many Israelis live in houses and on land that was once owned by someone living in Gaza?

 

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/unrwa6.html

 

Almost all of them.

 

There are One million one hundred thousand Palestinian refugees in Gaza according to this UN report published on the website 'Jewish Virtual Library' (antisemites perhaps?). It seems likely the number of them who have been displaced from the West Bank would number in the hundreds of thousands.

 

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perhaps you would care to explain why Arab Israelis privately own more land than Jewish Israelis do? Even though they are less than 25% of the population?

 

The vast majority of West Bank Palestinians do not have Israeli citizenship, and therefore are not protected under Israeli law. A deliberate red herring.

 

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And whilst we're at it what do you think islamists are currently doing in just about every country throughout the world?

 

So your argument is two wrongs make a right?

[blake]

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/unrwa6.html

 

 

 

The vast majority of West Bank Palestinians do not have Israeli citizenship, and therefore are not protected under Israeli law. A deliberate red herring.

 

 

it is not a red herring at all. It is a simple statement of fact. Arab Israeli citizens privately own more land in Israel, than Jewish Israelis do - despite being a minority.

 

the West Bank is not part of Israel. Unlike the Golan Heights and Jerusalem, which Israel did annex after 1967.