Refuah Shleimah! Get Well Soon!
 | By SupportingOurIsrael
July 19, 2011 | Share |
Original Article Found at +972
It is a very interesting thing, reading the anti-Israel websites. I find them to be...well...absurd. Without thinking about it, they see a situation and automatically it is Israel's fault. It is truly fascinating. Israel can never do anything right in these people's eyes.
For instance:
"Anybody who believes the platitude that the people want peace, it’s just the leaders who want war, should have been at Ben-Gurion Airport today. It’s a good thing those Free Palestine activists got arrested; otherwise, the little mob that formed spontaneously would have punched them up pretty good."
Its sad really. Why should Israeli citizens be angry at people just speaking their mind and practicing free speech? Do you not get it Mr. Derfner? Are you really so blind to the situation as a whole? Why do you think the Israelis are upset? I mean, I have known Israelis to be, for the most part, extremely warm, kind people. Very welcoming. So I guess it just doesn't make sense that they don't want the "Free Palestine" activists in Israel?
Honestly, thank G-d you live in Israel, because if you acted like you did in Iran or Syria, your head would be conveniently misplaced.
"I was there ostensibly as a journalist, and I was scribbling notes, but I felt cowardly not saying anything to these nationalist hooligans, so I started telling them in Hebrew, “What are these people doing?” The woman who wanted them thrown in the garbage said, “They’re hurting us!” I said, “They’re talking,” and the little mob turned on me, a couple of the men raised their fists. The woman told me, “Go back home, get out of here,” I said, “I live here.” The cops mistook me for a demonstrator, put me in the police van, but when I showed them my press card, they let me go."
As a journalist with a conscience, Mr. Derfner, do you not see screaming "Israel Apartheid" and "Free Palestine" is an act of provocation? Would you want to be called an anti-Semite or a biggot when you have actually done nothing wrong? Maybe I'll sit here, with my head in the clouds, and call you a racist. Does it make sense? I've not even met you and have absolutely no proof to support this statement.
Is Israel an apartheid state? You say yes because Desmond Tutu says it is. He MUST know about it because he lived apartheid for so long. You say Desmond Tutu, I'll say Malcom Hedding, who says its not apartheid, but self-defense. How about former President of South Africa during the apartheid era, F.W. de Klerk, who said "I think comparisons are odious. I think it’s dangerous. It’s not a direct parallel, but there are some parallels to be drawn. Why did the old vision of so many separate states in South Africa fail? Because the whites wanted to keep too much land for themselves. Why will it fail, if it fails in Israel and Palestine? Because Palestine is maybe not offered an attractive enough geographical area to say 'this is the country of Palestine'"
My personal favorite is this one:
"In the Durban Review Conference of 2009, the Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh criticized Arab Knesset members for supporting extremism and calling Israel a "state of apartheid" rather than fighting for the rights of Arab citizens of Israel.
And then they come here to tell us that Israel is a state of apartheid? Excuse me. What kind of hypocrisy is this? What then are you doing in the Knesset? If you are living in an apartheid system, why were you allowed, as an Arab, to run in the election? What are you talking about? We do have problems as Arabs with the establishment here. But to come and say that Israel is an apartheid state is a big exaggeration. I am not here to defend Israel, but I think that Knesset members like this gentleman are doing huge damage to the cause of Israeli Arabs. I want to see the Knesset member sitting in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, and fighting for the rights of Arabs over there." Found on Wikipedia.
My point is this, Mr. Derfner. You are judged by the company you keep. Yes, there are crazy people on both sides. I will continue to delegitimize them because they do not speak for me. You, however, agree with these crazy people. They failed at the "Flotilla", which your friend Joseph Dana, was aboard. They blamed sabotage. Does Israel really care about the Flotilla? Not even slightly. Even if you brought building supplies through the right channels, it would be a fraction of what Israel already supplies the Palestinian Authority on a weekly basis. Israel doesn't want the Flotilla because it breaks a legal barrier, set up to keep its citizens safe from the terrorist groups in Gaza...or do you call them "Freedom Fighters?"
When you started yelling at the people protesting the protestors, you chose sides. You should have actually been arrested. You are lucky you actually weren't. And if you honestly think that you are bringing "oxygen to a suffocating nation," I would offer to pay for your plane ticket straight to Tehran, they LOVE free thinking "journalists" like you.
I can beg and plead for you to actually focus on an issue that is actually important, like Iran becoming nuclear, or Syria killings its citizens, but I think because you live in a nation that is being suffocated, the lack of oxygen has severely damaged your brain. I can only pray for you Mr. Derfner. Refuah Shleimah.
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19 July, 2011 - 08:39 Rate this: 0 points |
19 July, 2011 - 10:15 Rate this: 0 points |
19 July, 2011 - 11:09 Rate this: 0 points | 75% discount on drinking water, electricity,utility,communication and transportation - LIE Every Jewish family is offered 70 dunums(sic) of land - LIE Every Jewish settler is offered a free house - LIE Communities located in area C ( ie virtually the whole valley ) have no schools or health centres because Israel refuses to allow them to build such. Any built are demolished. - LIE The rest are lies too but that's what you can expect from this blogger. As to tho other article to which he links to in January 2010 Ma'ariv carried an article that quotes an analysis of the footnotes in the infamous and discredited Goldstone report, , that are negative against the IDF, and finds that 92% of them come from Israeli NGOs who are funded by the New Israel Fund, which spends huge amounts of money - so far over $140 million - from abroad to fund these far-left, often anti-government NGOs. Examples include Adalah, Breaking the Silence, B'Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, HaMoked, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din, and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. |
19 July, 2011 - 13:14 Rate this: 0 points | Confiscated ( stolen ) land re a mere selection of settlements, there are 36 in total SETTLEMENT Mechola VILLAGE(S) WHOSE LAND WAS " CONFISCATED " Ein El Beida, Al Fequa family land AMOUNT 300 dunams of agricultural land, 10000 dunams of hill country. SETTLEMENT Shadmot Mehola VILLAGE(S) WHOSE LAND WAS " CONFISCATED " Ein El Beida AMOUNT 2000 dunams SETTLEMENT Maskiyot VILLAGE(S) WHOSE LAND WAS " CONFISCATED " Khirbet Tabaqa AMOUNT 200 dunams SETTLEMENT Rotem VILLAGE(S) WHOSE LAND WAS " CONFISCATED " Khirbet Sdor Shikha AMOUNT 200 dunams |
19 July, 2011 - 15:08 Rate this: 0 points | Lies lies and more lies! he types a load of unsubstantiated allegations but of course where is the evidence. Rotem is located in a beautiful northern section of the Jordan valley. Over 20 young families created this idyllic community where the religious and secular live in harmony with nature and a message of ecological awareness. Our community is being built with concern for pollution' recycling and a great respect for the environment. The vision Near the building : Character of structure: Yep a bunch of raving zealots!!!!! |
19 July, 2011 - 21:30 Rate this: 0 points | Don't worry, the settlers will be able to do all that stuff when they are moved back to israel, to the Negev, with millions in compensation. |
20 July, 2011 - 15:36 Rate this: 0 points | What a bunch of tree hugging bleeding heart raving lefties |
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Israel does not practice apartheid.....Tell it to the Arabs of the Jordan Valley.
JEWS
75% discount on drinking water, electricity,utility,communication and transportation
ARABS
Many communities still have no access to electricity and other utilities
JEWS
Free education, health care, irrigation water and housing.
ARABS
Communities located in area C ( ie virtually the whole valley ) have no schools or health centres because Israel refuses to allow them to build such. Any built are demolished.
JEWS
Every Jewish settler is offered a free house
ARABS
Building is only allowed only in Jericho and five other locations.Any building outside these small areas is demolished.
JEWS
Every Jewish family is offered 70 dunums of land
ARABS
Land around settlements is confiscated. Any land that has not been cultivated for 3 consecutive years is confiscated. The most common reason for lack of cultivation is closure of the land by military order. ( the absentee , or legalised theft law )The military can offer land under its control to a settlement but it is illegal for it to ever return it to its Arab owner.
JEWS
NGO'S like the JNF provide huge grants to support Jewish strategic projects.
ARABS
Strategic projects are forbidden
JEWS
Any amount of drinking water or irrigation water is available for Jews at any time.
ARABS
Arabs are not allowed to dig or build agricultural wells,, or to build reservoirs or even to recondition their buildings.
JEWS
High quality Jew only roads enable Jews to get their produce to market quickly and easily.
ARABS
Arabs are placed in a position where it may take several days to get to the closest market. Arabs are not allowed to build packing houses in their fields.