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Related: About this forumAbbas To UN: Israeli Policies Leading To 'New Nakba;' Recognize Palestine Before It's Too Late
By Barak Ravid, Chemi Shalev and Reuters
7:28 P.M. Abbas: I call upon you to prevent a new Nakba in the holy land. Support an independent state of Palestine before it is too late.
7:25 P.M. Abbas: There is no homeland for us but Palestine. We shall not except an alternative land.
7:24 P.M. Abbas says we want the General assembly of the UN to consider recognizing Palestine as a non member state.
7:23 P.M. Abbas: Hasn't the time come to undo this injustice? The Palestinian people is saying - we shall not allow a new Nakba.
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bemildred
(90,061 posts)jpbollma
(552 posts)throwing terms like Nakba out there aren't going to help much.
shira
(30,109 posts)...while he's at it.
It's about as credible a claim.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)and permits the prosperity of the Palestinians.
What is so hard about that?
Obama called for those from both sides who are willing to compromise and who want peace to join him in working for peace.
What is so difficult about that?
I think that Obama's speech was right on target on this issue. It will take a willingness to view peace as the goal, security and prosperity as more important than "winning" or getting what you want.
jpbollma
(552 posts)and speech.
shira
(30,109 posts)...is just pissed that Palestine has taken a big backseat to the Arab Winter going on all around him.
It's so bad, he's peddling theories of Jews doing the ethnic cleansing thing....
Who takes this shit seriously?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)In this situation, and with no option, many Palestinians are compelled to build without a permit. The construction is not a political act or an act of protest. Rather, the construction is the only way left to them to provide housing for themselves and their families.
Rather than change this situation, Israel has adopted a policy of mass demolition of Palestinian houses. In the past ten years, the authorities have demolished more than 2,200 residences, leaving more than 13,000 Palestinians homeless. This policy continues today in Area C.
http://www.btselem.org/topic/planning_and_building