Comments on: Police prepares in force to meet “activist airlift” Friday (updated)

By: Empress Trudy

Empress Trudy — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:46:33 +0000

But now they have to boycott themselves. Does that mean they won’t allow themselves to leave?

By: talknic

talknic — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:07:16 +0000

max

“more people come to Israel for that than to other countries, because they know that they won’t end their journey in prison but may rather find their names as heroes on a tabloid’s front page”

Hilarious twaddle

By: max

max — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:54:31 +0000

Annie, you may be right had the facts been as you understand them.
However, your understanding is wrong (granted, the post didn’t try to provide clear and correct information).
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Thousands of visitors each year enter Israel with explicit, even written intention to spend their time in the West Bank / Palestine. You can book your tour with a Palestinian travel agency and specify that you’ll stay in any Arab place.
The ones sent back are those that show intentions to seek and create trouble.
That’s the norm around the world, though more people come to Israel for that than to other countries, because they know that they won’t end their journey in prison but may rather find their names as heroes on a tabloid’s front page.
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p.s. If your misinformation is due to this post, you may want to inform Noam that his post may be misleading.

By: annie

annie — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:03:28 +0000

either way it’s a win win for palestine.

lots of people do not believe or understand the tight grip israel has on palestinians and palestine, that is about to change. the idea israel will deny entrance to people desiring to visit palestine is an outrage. why should people have to lie to enter palestine? and why should people have to lie about their visit to palestine when they leave israel (unless they want to go thru hours of unnecessary questions and searches at the airport?

how does visiting palestine constitute underminee Israel’s right to exist? just the mention of palestine undermines israel for some people. if only you could wash away thousands of years of history and create a myth it was land just for you and you alone.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:07:02 +0000

10 activists allowed entry so far.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:56:18 +0000

4 deported so far. Others were allowed to enter, yet others are being questioned.

By: Muslims Must Suffer for their Wicked Policies

Muslims Must Suffer for their Wicked Policies — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:12:55 +0000

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By: marcia lewis

marcia lewis — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:15:33 +0000

i hope e al made a few sheckel on this debaucle. at least b4 they send these misguided fools back.

By: talknic

talknic — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:43:58 +0000

"undermine Israel's right to exist..." OUTSIDE of Israel, in Palestine. Indeed and rightly so. Eventually an Israeli Government will have to start telling the truth. Israel was declared independent of Palestine May 15th 1948. The Jewish People's Council, accepted UNGA Res 181 without reservation. Israel was declared in accordance with UNGA Res 181, still enshrined in the Declaration for the Establishment of the State of Israel. The Israeli Government sought recognition as "an independent republic within frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29, 1947" It was recognized as such and accepted into the UN as such, BEFORE making any claims to any territory acquired by war. The Israeli Government confirmed the extent of Israel' s frontiers on May 22nd 1948 in a statement to the UNSC as being " as defined in the Resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947" Israel has never legally annexed any territory to it's declared sovereign extent. East Jerusalem and the Golan are NOT Israeli It is inadmissible to 'acquire' territory by war. ANY WAR. The territories Israel has never even attempted to annex, acquired by war by 1949, are NOT yet legally Israeli. Israel has dug a big, black, deep,'facts on the ground' hole for it's witting and alas unwitting citizens, in Palestinian territory. One can only hope that after September in the UN, Deuteronomy 20:15 can at last be ripped up and thrown away We will then see 63 years of Israeli lies exposed as it scrambles to legally annex territories it has acquired by war since May 15th 1948 and through illegal annexation and illegal 'facts on the ground'. I say scrambles, because a Palestinian state would have equal rights to annex the same territories

By: Shoded Yam

Shoded Yam — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:05:14 +0000

“…The international brigades were defeated and driven from Spain, but the new ones mounting in support of Palestine are as strobngly motivated as their predecessors and it will take bullets and bombs to defeat them.”
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Unfortunate analogy. The international brigades while brave, were poorly trained and led, and as a result were slaughtered. Toward the end, the brigades suffered an extremely high rate of desertion, and subsequently many executions, purges and assasinations at the hands of the NKVD. The International’s performance in Spain (with a few notable exceptions; Madrid, Jarama, and arguably Bruneiga) was pathetic and they were in the main, stalinist dupes. you would have done well to have read; “Homage To Catalonia” by Orwell before embarking on any misplaced lionizations.