"Israeli archeologist says wall backs Bible" by Associated Press | February 23, 2010
JERUSALEM - While some Holy Land archeologists support that version of history - including the archeologist behind the dig, Eilat Mazar - others posit that David’s monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era.
Yeah, turns out there never was a Jewish Temple there as the Khazar converts claim.
Yeah, no one believes Israel's lies and hoaxes anymore.
Let's take a walk down the road.
"Police, youths clash in Jerusalem" by Associated Press | March 1, 2010
JERUSALEM - Israeli riot police dispersed a crowd of masked Palestinian youths throwing stones in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday, in a violent reminder of tensions at the holiest site in the contested city.
In the past, even seemingly minor incidents at the hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary have ignited clashes and protests throughout the region. A Palestinian official warned that yesterday’s incident could undermine efforts to resume peace talks.
And CUI BONO?
Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said police dispersed some 20 masked protesters who had holed up overnight in the compound’s Al-Aqsa mosque and then pelted tourists with objects and threw rocks at police officers who showed up at the scene.
That doesn't sound like Muslims to me! Sure it wasn't masked zettlers?
The police quickly restored calm and tourists were allowed to continue visiting the compound, one of Jerusalem’s main tourist sites, Rosenfeld said.
Huh.
But sporadic clashes between small groups of masked Palestinians and police continued in the Old City’s back alleys. No serious injuries were reported.
Uh-huh.
The holy compound has been under Israeli security control since the 1967 war, but Israel has left its day-to-day management in the hands of an Islamic administration known as the Waqf.
Yeah, and EVERYONE KNOWS ISRAEL is DIGGING ALL AROUND IT in hopes of bombing or damaging it so they can rebuild the Temple, blah, blah, blah.
As in similar incidents in the past, yesterday’s protests appeared to have erupted because of rumors that Jewish extremists planned to enter the holy compound, according to the Waqf’s director, Abdul Azim Samhadana.
Yeah, one of the few times you will see "extremist" associated with Jews in the Zionist newspaper.
He blamed Israeli police for provoking the youths.
Wouldn't surprise me if they did.
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Further on down the road:
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JERUSALEM — The mayor of Jerusalem is offering 120 Palestinian families in a jumble of houses scheduled for demolition a deal he believes they can’t refuse: new apartments atop shops and restaurants, a day care center, boutique hotels and a huge park.
Israel does it to Palestinian homes all the time.
Tourists and income will flow. It is — as the mayor likes to say — win-win.
But as Ziad Kawar, a lawyer representing the families, likes to say, this is Jerusalem, not Zurich. Here there seems only to be win-lose. “The whole situation is impossible,” Mr. Kawar said. “It is a political problem, and I am being asked to treat it like a legal one. I am walking between the raindrops.”
The negotiations offer a window into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — the mistrust, the missed signals, the clash of cultures, the unequal power balance. The mayor, Nir Barkat, says he has the interests of the Palestinians in mind. They say he is lying. The residents say they have been living there for decades. Mr. Barkat says they are lying. If the two sides reach agreement soon, it will be a miracle. If they do not, tensions will accelerate.
Mr. Barkat, a secular rightist who made a fortune in the high-tech industry, says the proposal for the neighborhood, known as Al Bustan near the walled Old City, is a pilot for what he hopes to do throughout East Jerusalem. “It can be a mini-Tuscany,” he said in an interview.
He added that with or without the cooperation of the residents, the plan would be put into effect. “They think what I say is not what I mean,” Mr. Barkat said. “They are not used to a professional rather than a political approach.”
Welcome to the LIFE of a PALESTINIAN!
But he is DOING IT FOR THEM, huh, the lying f***ing....
In fact, no utterance escapes politics. All labels and names here are contested. The mayor calls the neighborhood not by its Arabic name of Al Bustan but by a Hebrew one — Gan Hamelech, or the King’s Garden, a reference to the spot some believe King David wrote psalms. He speaks of “illegal” housing.
Remember, ANYTHING ISRAEL ACCUSES ANOTHER OF is something THEY are GUILTY of THEMSELVES!
The Palestinians — indeed the rest of the world — do not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over East Jerusalem.
Yes, INDEED!!!!!!!
He wants them to yield their houses.
Yup, EITHER WAY the BULLDOZERS are coming!
They say they own the land.
“For us, the occupiers cannot tell us what is legal and illegal,” protested Jawad Siyam, a community activist.
Mr. Barkat says he has no hidden agenda.
Which means he does.
C'mon, folks, it is the ISRAELI TAKEOVER of JERUSALEM unfolding before your eyes!
But on either side of the Bustan neighborhood there are disputes over recent Jewish settlement, and residents fear a pincers operation.
Al Bustan is a section of Silwan, and in northeast Silwan there is a seven-story settler building that the courts have ordered evacuated. Mr. Barkat wants to allow the settlers to stay and increase the height of Palestinian buildings so that both benefit.
I'm sorry, but I don't see it that way.
To the west, also part of Silwan, is what has been recently called The City of David, an archaeological park with a Jewish theme run by a settler group.
Who are in effect running Israel because this goes on and on and no one stops it.
Mr. Barkat says his plan has nothing to do with the City of David or the settlers. But few Palestinians believe him.
Why would they?
Ahmed Rweidi, a Palestinian Authority official speaking on Palestinian radio, accused Mr. Barkat this week of a plan for “ethnic cleansing” because he wants to demolish houses in Al Bustan.
Yeah, THAT was the TAKE I HAD on it all given the LAST 60 YEARS!!
This Israeli government the MOST EXTREME and RADICAL YET!!
One of the neighborhood’s residents, Abdulkarim Abu Sneineh, accused Mr. Barkat and the Israeli government of wanting to isolate the nearby Aksa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest shrine, to build a Jewish temple.
Related: Netanyahu and the End Times
Yeah, nothing to it all, right?
The threat of demolitions in Al Bustan is part of a larger issue drawing international concern — Palestinians being driven from East Jerusalem and replaced by Jews.
Well, that IS ETHNIC CLEANSING!
After what has happened to them the Zionists of Israel should be ashamed of themselves.
But they are not. It's not in the genetic make-up.
But Mr. Barkat says the trend is actually the opposite.
Then the Palestinians are correct and he confirmed he is a liar. Unreal.
Israeli Jews are leaving Jerusalem for parts of Israel where incomes are higher. By contrast, he says, Palestinians are migrating from the West Bank into Jerusalem for economic reasons. Nonetheless, the Bustan plan, he says, is about improving the city, not the demography.
“The mayor thinks he will come with American ideas and they will hug him,” said Efrat Cohen-Bar, who works for Bimkom, an Israeli group focused on human rights and urban planning. “He chose a spot for his pilot where there is a war going on.”
Since taking office a year ago, Mayor Barkat has vowed to oppose any division of Jerusalem in any deal with the Palestinians. But he said he would be the mayor of all. That includes the city’s quarter million Palestinians, who live with cracked, litter-strewn streets, too few schools and the fear that many of their houses will be taken down.
Can't imagine why they would feel that way.
There are 20,000 illegal Palestinian housing units in East Jerusalem, according to Bimkom.
Illegal according to who? Israel? Ha! Find another judge.
For the past year, the mayor has had architects and urban developers work on a new approach to Al Bustan at an expected cost of between $50 million and $100 million, to be raised partly abroad.
From rich AmeriKan Zionists of course.
He chose Al Bustan, he said, because nearly every house there dates from the past 20 years and was built without a permit, and because it has high tourist potential.
The area was historically an uninhabited greenbelt with annual winter flooding, fixed in the early 1990s. As the other parts of Silwan grew crowded, residents built in Al Bustan. The municipality looked the other way.
Translation: Palestinians were driven to settle there by Israel's annexation policies! And now they are being given the boot again.
Mr. Barkat wants to return at least half of the neighborhood to its original state of parkland.
Oh, and MAKE IT ALL PALESTINE AGAIN, sure!!
He wants a place where visitors can contemplate the kings of Judea, with water flowing along it to the Kidron Valley nearby. There would be small hotels, lovely restaurants. About eight million visitors go to the holy sites every year, he said....
And the Palestinians living there?
Fakhri Abu Diab, an accountant, said that he had three separate municipal demolition orders against his house. He said he was willing to beautify Al Bustan, increase the greenery and build hotels, but not at the expense of losing his house for an apartment.
Would YOU like THAT DEAL, American?
Then WHY WOULD the Palestinians?
In the end, he and the other residents may make a deal with the city. But right now, tensions are high.
“I want my grandchildren to play soccer with the mayor’s grandchildren,” he said. “But when he goes home to sleep at night, he rests calmly knowing no one is going to take his home. I don’t have that comfort. I am not against history, but what is more important, history or my home?”
I know the immediate answer to that one (besides, the houses are a part of history when you think about it).
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I guess the PR flap made the mayor pull back a bit.
"Jerusalem mayor to delay demolition plans" by Bloomberg News | March 3, 2010
JERUSALEM - Mayor Nir Barkat said yesterday that the municipality is putting off a plan to demolish homes built without permits in an Arab neighborhood slated to be the site of a new archeology park.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had asked Barkat yesterday to “allow more time for efforts to reach an understanding with the residents’’ and warned of “elements which are interested in sowing strife and discord’’ over the city’s plan.
That would be Zionist Israelis, yeah!
What an arrogant crowd, I mean really!
“This is a plan that takes into consideration the needs of the residents,’’ Barkat said at a City Hall news conference. “There are extremists who whatever we do will try to twist the plan and accuse us of wrongdoing.’’
Yeah, yeah, we know who they are.
The demolition of unauthorized Arab construction in parts of Jerusalem has been a source of tension between Israel and the international community, including the United States and European Union....
Yeah, but somehow Israel is never held accountable.
Ir Amim, a group that advocates on behalf of Arab property rights in the city, said in an e-mailed statement that demolishing homes in the East Jerusalem Silwan neighborhood “to clear the area for an archeological garden will be a dangerous step, which could ignite one of the most volatile areas and damage the stability and political future of Jerusalem.’’
Isn't that what ISRAEL WANTS?
Gives 'em an EXCUSE to MOVE IN and CRACK DOWN, cui bono!
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war and subsequently annexed it, a move that has not been recognized by the international community.
Gee, that was over 40 years ago. Iraq was rolled out of Kuwait in months!!!
Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
Palestinians never seem to get what they want, ever notice that?
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Of course, the EVICTIONS CONTINUE!
JERUSALEM
TODAY, AS on every Friday for months now, several hundred Israelis gather here in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusalem, to stand in vigil as a protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from homes they have lived in for decades.
If the show were on the other foot the world and its mouthpiece media would be screaming bloody murder!!!
In August, seven families - about 50 people, including 35 children - were forced out of their homes, and immediately replaced by eight families of Jewish Israelis, members of extremist settler groups.
Yeah, it is GOVERNMENT POLICY!
The Palestinians have been living in tents across the street from their house ever since.
Yeah, so is that!!
Some have lived in refugee camps across the Middle East for GENERATIONS!!!
Six other nearby families have received eviction notices.
Is that why we get the park flap?
To take our attention away from the every day disrespect the Palestinians must endure?
I spoke with one of the evicted fathers, Fouad Ghawi, who had lived in the house since 1954, when he was 8. He and his family were Palestinian refugees from Jaffa during the 1948 war, and his father traded in his UN refugee card, which guaranteed him basic support, for the right to move into the house the UN Relief and Works Agency and Jordan were building on vacant land. In return for finishing the house, the Ghwai family would get the legal deed.
Why do I feel a "but" coming?
Three generations of the Ghawi family had lived there ever since - until last August, when an Israeli court ordered them out. They had no deed because, he told me, “the Jordan government would not put it in our name until we had proper plumbing, and then the 1967 war broke out.’’ Jordan’s authority ended.
One of the organizers of the protest vigil, Zvi Benninga, a 24-year-old Israeli medical student and Jerusalemite, told me, “It is so blatant because they were expelled for a second time by Israel - first in 1948, and now again.’’
Don't Palestinians ever organize anything?
The protest engages several critical issues. The government evictions depend on cloudy questions of pre-1948 ownership rights which, in most of Israel, have been simply deleted.
???????
Equivalent enforcement of “absentee property’’ laws elsewhere in Israel would lead to evictions of tens of thousands of Jewish Israelis.
And that will NEVER HAPPEN!
No wonder Palestinians are boiling mad and why the chances for peace are nil.
The evictions also raise the larger question of Israel’s “creeping annexation’’ of East Jerusalem, not only through the expansion of settlements, which Benjamin Netanyahu, defying President Obama, refuses to freeze, but also through legally dubious removal of Palestinians from other Jerusalem neighborhoods like Silwan, just down the slope from the old city.
Yeah, that is WHAT the PLAN is, Jim!
That other key Arab neighborhoods, like Abu Dis, have been cut off from Jerusalem by the so-called “security barrier’’ points to the even larger question - whether, as far as the current Israeli government is concerned, the hard-won consensus that the promised Palestinian state would have its capital in East Jerusalem no longer applies. “This will stop any peace agreement,’’ Benninga told me.
We call it an APARTHEID WALL around here!!
The weekly demonstrations are being led by younger Israelis, although veterans of the Israeli peace camp have shown up, too - including prominent figures like the novelist David Grossman, the philosopher Moshe Halbertal, and the literary critic Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.
Well, maybe there is some hope.
“J Street,’’ the American Jewish lobbying group, has sent a petition of support signed by 10,000 Americans. Today, Avrum Burg, the former speaker of the Israeli Knesset, is here to support the evicted families. When I asked him what the vigil meant, he said, “This is an iconic group. Intellectuals, blue collar people, Jews, Arabs, old, young - representing thousands of people. This is a permanent reality.’’
"J Street" sounds great; however, it is just AIPAC-lite because of the toxicity of that organization.
Are they STOPPING the EVICTIONS and EXPANSION of SETTLEMENTS?
Untie this knot in the nearly hopeless Israeli-Palestinian tangle and many others could be untied as well. The demonstrators are not interested in being valorized as champions of a vibrant Israeli democracy. Instead, they look to be bolstered by the broader world against the once-marginal figures who have more and more power in Israel. (The foreign ministry is headed by the far-right Avigdor Lieberman. This week, his deputy snubbed five US congressmen, including William Delahunt of Massachusetts, while Tzipi Livni, the opposition leader, warned “The Jewish state has been taken hostage by the ultra-orthodox parties.’’)
Related: Israel Dumps on Delahunt
This guy go along did he?
A critical stage has been reached, with the government-encouraged status quo showing up as disaster in the making, as much for Israel as for Palestine.
See, when it starts becoming a problem for Jews then it is a problem for everyone.
Jamalat Ghawi, a mother of four, told me from her place in the ad hoc tent across the street from her house, “I feel frustration and anger, and worry for my children. They dream of their house at night. They are terrified. They have no idea where they are going.’’ Today, they are not alone.
No, they are not.
Muslims throughout the region are suffering under the same assault considering all the refugees our wars have created.
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And WATCH WHERE YOU STEP, Joe!
JERUSALEM --Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday -- a disagreement that tarnished a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.
Related: West Bank Moment of Silence
U.S Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hand with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Biden said there is a "moment of opportunity" for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Yeah, he looks real upset.
Israel's Interior Ministry said late Tuesday that it had approved construction of 1,600 new apartments, an embarrassing setback for Biden after a day of warm meetings with top Israeli officials.
Although ministry officials said the announcement was procedural and unconnected to the visit, a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was blindsided and tried to contain the damage at a late-night dinner with Biden.
PFFFFFFT!
What BULLS***!
He didn't know!!
And quite a MARKED CHANGE in attitude from the DAY BEFORE, 'eh, readers?
Nonetheless, Biden issued a harshly worded statement after the dinner, saying its timing was especially troubling by coming on the eve of a new round of U.S.-mediated peace talks.
Yeah, every time they do something someone says that and yet they keep on doing it.
Think they survived the harsh words, readers?
"The substance and timing of the announcement, particularly with the launching of proximity talks, is precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now," Biden said.
I'm sure that is why they did it.
Israel's doesn't want a peace deal, it wants a piece of Syria, Lebanon, and all of Palestine.
"We must build an atmosphere to support negotiations, not complicate them," he added, warning that "unilateral action taken by either party cannot prejudge the outcome of negotiations."
Unless Israel issues preconditions.
That is what we will take to the Palestinians for "negotiating."
Relations between Israel and the Obama administration have been chilly precisely because of the settlement issue, and one of Biden's main goals had been to try to patch up ties.
I notice the checks keep getting signed.
Biden is the highest-level member of the Obama administration to visit Israel.
And they CRAPPED IN HIS FACE upon arrival!!
The U.S., like the Palestinians and the rest of the international community, believes that Israeli settlements built on lands claimed by the Palestinians, including east Jerusalem, undermine peace prospects.
Then it would seem that ISRAEL is ISOLATED on this, although the Zionist AmeriKan newspapers would never describe it that way.
President Barack Obama has been more outspoken on the issue than his predecessors....
Oh!
Israel captured both areas in the 1967 Mideast war and subsequently annexed east Jerusalem. Israel considers its east Jerusalem neighborhoods to be part of its undivided capital, but the annexation has never been internationally recognized and the neighborhoods are widely seen as settlements.
But hey, is Israel under sanction? Nope.
Nice to be above it all, 'eh, readers?
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach said the new homes would be built in Ramat Shlomo, an existing neighborhood for ultra-Orthodox Jews. She noted that there is a 60-day appeals period, indicating that the decision could yet be changed.
It won't be.
This is who this Israeli government is and serves.
That's what happens when you allow so many terrorist Jews to congregate in one place.
At Tuesday's dinner, Netanyahu told Biden he was caught off guard by the ministry's announcement, a top Israeli official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the dinner was closed.
So not only did he crap in Joe's face, he gave him a fart for a chaser!
While Netanyahu considers east Jerusalem to be part of Israel, he acknowledged the timing of the announcement was poor and said he had no intention of sabotaging Biden's visit.
Yeah, the ACT ITSELF was NO PROBLEM -- as if we believe him on the timing and sabotage.
That is EXACTLY WHY you COLD-BLOODED and CALCULATING -- yet naive -- CREEPS did it.
We are NO LONGER FOOLED by your lies and manipulations, Israel.
Never again.
He stressed that there are no plans to begin construction anytime soon.
Uh-huh.
But Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the move soured the negotiating climate.
Yeah, it SURE DID!!
The two sides agreed this week to begin indirect negotiations under the mediation of U.S. envoy George Mitchell. Peace efforts have been stalled for 14 months, in large part because of Palestinian anger over settlement activity.
Yeah, it is the FAULT of the PALESTINIANS, right, Zionist MSM!!!
Face it, folks, IF ISRAEL WANTED PEACE THERE WOULD BE ONE ALREADY!!!
"With such an announcement, how can you build trust? This is destroying our efforts to work with Mr. Mitchell," Erekat said. "It's a really disastrous situation. I hope that this will be an eye-opener for all in the international community."
Trust? With a Zionist Jew? Out of the question.
As for opening the world's eyes, nice thought, but those remain clenched tight.
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And now, for what my PRINTED PAPER CUT:
Biden was scheduled to remain in the area for two more days, meeting with international Mideast envoy Tony Blair and Palestinian leaders in the West Bank on Wednesday before delivering a policy speech at Tel Aviv University on Thursday.
Biden had spent the day trying to calm Israeli concerns that Obama has been less friendly to the country than past U.S. leaders.
Gee, that SURE WASN'T the TONE I got from the printed paper!!!!
So much for being angry or irritated with Israel, blah, blah, blah.
Yes, the AmeriKan government is OWNED BY ISRAEL, folks!!!!
Earlier in the day, Biden assured Israelis they can count on strong U.S. backing as peace efforts finally resume. The resumption of talks, albeit indirect, is the first concrete achievement for Obama in the Israeli-Palestinian arena.
Oh, this is making me ill, readers!!!
The relationship between the two allies, Biden told reporters as he stood beside Netanyahu, has always been a "centerpiece of American policy."
HOW MUCH MORE CONFIRMATION do you need, readers?
"Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel," Biden said.
Now unzip Bibi's fly and start sucking, Joe!
No wonder EVERYONE over there HATES US!!
"The United States will always stand with those who take risks for peace," Biden said, telling Netanyahu, "you're prepared to do that."
Can we get a mental health evaluation for the VP please?
The insistence on a total settlement freeze is seen by many in the region to have backfired.
Seen by "many in the region?"
Polls show that Israelis have largely come to see Obama as overly sympathetic to Israel's enemies, making it difficult for the administration to get Israeli public opinion behind any difficult peace moves.
Then CUT the MONEY OFF to those UNGRATEFUL and DELUDED ASSHOLES!!!!!
Why are WE so worried about what BACK-STABBING ISRAEL thinks anyway!?
Biden offered assurances that the U.S. remained committed to Israel's security. Iran appeared to loom large in Biden's discussions with Netanyahu....
But NOT according to my PRINTED PAGE!
It is what we fondly refer to as CENSORSHIP around here.
"We are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons," he said.
Yeah, well, GOOD THING they are NOT MAKING ONE, Joe!!!
Israel has been pushing for stricter international sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program, and has refused to rule out a military strike if sanctions fail.
So WHEN is the ATTACK, Joe!?
But we will do WHAT THEY TELL US WHEN THEY TELL US TO in the end, world!
It is up to YOU to STOP US because despite my best efforts WE apparently CAN NOT STOP OURSELVES!!!
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JERUSALEM - Hours after Vice President Joe Biden vowed unyielding American support for Israel’s security yesterday, Israel’s Interior Ministry announced 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, prompting Biden to condemn the move as “precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now.’’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was clearly embarrassed at the move by his interior minister, Eli Yishai, leader of the right-wing Shas Party, who has made Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem one of his central causes.
A statement issued in the name of the Interior Ministry but distributed by the prime minister’s office said that the housing plan was three years in the making and that its announcement was procedural and unrelated to Biden’s visit. It added that Netanyahu had just been informed of it himself....
Actually, I've had enough Zionist bulls*** for one day.
