Speaking about a visit to Israel's military courts, and
the way Palestinian child detainess are treated, he said «there are three or four things there which completely offend a proper sense of a rule of law....
Umunna spoke about his visit to Israel's military courts, and
the way Palestinian child detainess are treated at a LFPME reception.
I don't like this current Israeli government, I don't like the settlements expansion, I don't like
the way Palestinians are treated, and I don't like Sarah Palin, but I also believe that the state of Israel is a necessity, I believe in its future and in its strength, I believe it's an essential for the survival of the Jewish nation worldwide.
Not exact matches
The three will discuss how to counter the threats posed terrorist groups like ISIS, as well as
ways «to advance a genuine and lasting peace between the Israelis and
Palestinians.»
Of course, the Web also gives voice to those Christians who see the conflict as evidence of a
Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist, or who see the establishment of the state of Israel as a major step on the
way to the Rapture.
Palestinian Christians had found a
way to reach a wide audience with news of their plight.
So the
Palestinians have been protesting about their plight in the only
ways open to them — the throwing of stones and acts of terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists.
Jewish nationalists and
Palestinian nationalists are reluctant to condemn their own fundamentalist extremists, in much the same
way as the mainline churches have been reluctant to condemn Christian fundamentalists.
Why, right now, they could be volunteering to bulldoze a
Palestinian neighborhood in the West Bank to make
way for an Israeli settlement!
On the
way to Nabi - Saleh, we passed the town of Bir Zeit, where a Christian university started by Anglicans in the 1920s thrives as a center for education and radical
Palestinian ideology.
There seems to be little focus on the various
ways Arab states have treated
Palestinians over the years or the internal dynamics among
Palestinian leaders as complicating factors.
(iv) how fvcking ludicrous it is to believe that a Bronze Age sky - fairy invented by
Palestinian goat herders reads your mind and alters what would otherwise be the course of history in small
ways to suit your whims.
What a great
way to transform perfectly ordinary Muslims (the
Palestinian - American who runs your corner grocery, the Iranian - American at the local gas station) into the arms of the extremists.
I interpreted Obama's remarks about Israel and the
Palestinians this
way: Obama insists that every street corner in Israel must have a pork BBQ restaurant and he promised it would happen by this morning.
In passing from pre-Christian Judaism into the New Testament, we cross a boundary line into no strange country; the same
ways of thinking used by
Palestinian Jews to express their future hopes were used also by the first Christians.
Unilateralism obliges Israel to employ force in a variety of
ways, and that in itself motivates the
Palestinians to respond, sometimes with terrorist attacks and sometimes through the ballot box.
We know this drive well because it takes us through an Israeli checkpoint on our
way to Zababdeh, the
Palestinian village where we live.
In the religiosity of Hellenistic culture there was a world - denying, gnostic kind of piety that scholars equate with the so - called «divine man» that was in its own
way just as illusory and immature as the nationalist warrior piety of
Palestinian Judaism.
Jews, both pious and secular, who want to find some
way to live at peace with
Palestinians despair over the zealotry of the Gush Emunim, who believe God has given their people land on which
Palestinians have also dwelt for generations.
I suppose that doesn't include
Palestinian lives, what with the
way the Jews pushed their
way into what was once the «
Palestinian Mandate» under England, forcing legitimate home and land owners from properties that had been in their families for generations, shoving them into refugee camps that exist to this day, and treating them like nothing more than dogs in the ensuing years.
Finally, to my (admittedly limited) knowledge, the Oslo process and the establishment of the PA was not an actual goal and is not perceived as a solution to the
Palestinian problem in a
way which would significantly reduce hostility towards Israel or the US.
Former
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat would have gone a long
way to swap land for peace in the 1990s, but Jerusalem was and is out of the question for the
Palestinian Authority's constituency, parts of which are as armed and as prepared to fight for it as the Jewish settlers.
These peace talks started in a crooked
way because they did not meet the most fundamental
Palestinian requirement: a complete freeze on settlement activity.
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to visit Washington this week, the mix of politics, personalities and historical grievances that has stood in the
way of Israeli -
Palestinian peace is even more combustible than normal.
Nor, by the
way, is there any Israeli presence in any part of Gaza; it is entirely under
Palestinian control.
«That is the only
way we're going to achieve the two goals that are so important to everyone - a secure Israel and justice for
Palestinians,» he added.
The Hamas - led
Palestinian government must realise the only
way to get peace in the middle east is to give up terrorism and recognise the state of Israel, Tony Blair said today.
«But the
Palestinians have a unilateral approach; this is not the
way you reach statehood.»
Planning and urban policy, which normal cities view as this benign tool has been used as a powerful partisan tool to subordinate and control black people in Johannesburg and is still used that
way against
Palestinians in Jerusalem.
Whatever is in Hamas» charter, it seems Israel has more success «wiping out» Palestine and the
Palestinians than the other
way around... I doubt Hamas» goal was ever very realistic.
It's a fact that the
Palestinian side refused the offers made at Camp David and that the implementation of the agreement stalled (as far as I am concerned, it's also a fact that Israel's offers weren't in any
way as «generous» as often claimed and that
Palestinians had no choice but to refuse but that does not invalidate the previous fact).
Political liberals in the west generally like the narrative of poor oppressed
Palestinians - same
way they spin the narrative of poor oppressed any - other - minority.
The persistent
Palestinian terrorism, cumulatively resulting in hundreds of Israeli casualties, lead the Israelis to elect the hard - liner Ariel Sharon, who was in many
ways much more extreme than Netanyahu.
Our policy has always been consistently clear: we support a negotiated two state solution as the only
way to resolve this conflict once and for all and to allow Israelis and
Palestinians to live safely in peace.
A negotiated end to the occupation is the best
way to allow
Palestinian aspirations to be met in reality and on the ground.
It's viewed as a
way to pressure the Israeli government over its treatment of
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Also Thursday, Rep. Eliot Engel (D - Bronx) told «Fox & Friends,» «What Secretary Kerry did was just beat up on Israel in a disproportionate
way, sort of gloss over the terrorism the
Palestinians have used all those years.
Our policy has always been consistently clear: we support a negotiated two - state solution as the only
way to resolve this conflict once and for all and to allow Israelis and
Palestinians to live safely in peace.»
Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers of the 500,000 - strong Women's March on Washington, vowed to support the Yemeni community in any
way she can.
And here, as in last year's I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sandler interestingly attempts to blend genuine social commentary with copious gross - out humor in much the same
way that Mel Brooks did in Blazing Saddles (a movie that, beyond the beans - around - the - campfire gags, wore its heart so firmly on its sleeve in favor of racial brotherhood that it stopped just short of singing «Kumbaya» to its audience); Sandler, who's admirably never been shy about proudly proclaiming his Jewishness, takes on xenophobia, suggests that Israelis and
Palestinians CAN get along and — most controversially of all, perhaps — makes a case that disco music CAN be enjoyable in the right time and place.
Even the decision to have the Israelis speak in accented English (in cabinet meetings, no less) has a
way of making the Germans and
Palestinians seem foreign.
The film immediately begins with German bookseller Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl) and fellow Revolutionary Cells member Brigitte Kuhn (Rosamund Pike) taking over a plane traveling from Tel Aviv to Paris (by
way of Athens), alongside two
Palestinian terrorists, with the intention of securing the release for over 50
Palestinian «freedom fighters» locked up in Israel and four other countries.
Instead, Israel has reshaped Jerusalem in a
way that leaves many
Palestinians struggling to maintain their foothold in the city that is their home.
It's poignant and powerful to consider the
ways in which negotiations between Israelis and
Palestinians reverberated throughout the lives and careers of Rabin and Peres, along with the centuries of conflict in the Middle East.
Almost structurally identical to the earlier versions (probably because there's only one good
way to tell this story), the script, by ’71 writer Gregory Burke, deviates only in its decision to focus on Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike), the two left - wing German terrorists who took part in the hijacking along with members of Wadie Haddad's
Palestinian nationalist PFLP - EO.
While the hostage - takers try to figure out a
way to exchange the plane's passengers and crew for 53 imprisoned
Palestinian militants, the chain - smoking Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) ponders a course of action, with his defense minister, Shimon Peres (a one - note Eddie Marsan), pushing for a tactical solution.
The commander of Israel's elite infantry Givatii Brigade Col. Ofer Winter, that suffered high casualties in the last month, declared holy war on the
Palestinians in a message to his troops at the beginning of the Gaza war that went on to say: «The Lord God of Israel, make our
way successful.
It was not until college where I was able to really dissect my identity as a Lebanese -
Palestinian, Muslim - American speaking Arabic growing up in Texas and all the
ways it shaped my relationship with learning.
Palestinian educator Hanan Al Hroub — winner of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation — found her professional calling in a nontraditional
way.
It makes the Israeli -
Palestinian conflict personal in
ways that news reports don't.