There has been a long term war about the Gaza strip. This matter has not been resolved for a very long time. Diplomats and Politicans all over the world has been unable to do anything about it.
Although it is illegal what Israel was doing taking over the Gaza strip, I can understand the reason for doing it. Palestine has shrunk due to the fact Israel has taken over most of the area for so many years. That has upset the Palestinian people a lot.
I suggest that Israel either keep the Gaza strip for reason it is placed geographically within Israel. Israel must surrender the West Bank and north of the former Palestine, and have no right to place restrictions of any kind including barriers etc which must be removed.
Israel and Palestine has got mixed nationalities and are living together.
Another suggestion is that the Gaza Strip like Jerusalem is neither Israel or Palestine.
Another suggestion is that Palestine must take over the land geographically further up north so that it appears it is split in half geographically.
Israel says their motive is to protect Christians. What they failed to do was not to protect Christians in Northern Syria. Israel could do a deal with Syria, and ask if they can agree on Israel to take part of Northern Syria to protect Christians and Alawites. The same to protect Coptic Christians in Egypt.
Although there are not many Christians left living in Syria, a deal could be reached to whether Israel can have part of Northern Syria so that any Christians living there could be protected, and whether there are any Christian refugees wishing to return to their own homes.
Palestinians do have a right to have their own state, and are capable of self rule as long as it is not a militant state, and they can accept all existing nationalities living in Palestine.
It is completely unacceptable to take lives because of a dispute of territories. It is so childish, and so unprofessional for leaders to fight with their fists or use arms to get what they want.
We must have a diplomatic solution to protect each others interests.
We must have a diplomatic solution to protect each others interests.
Israel and Palestine must sign a peace treaty to solve the problem of states geographically.
This is the only way Israel and Palestine can achieve peace, and we must have decommissioning of arms.
Israel, situated in the region of Western Asia, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It shares land borders with Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan the east, the Palestinian territories (or State of Palestine) comprising the West Bank and Gaza Strip on the east and southwest respectively, Egypt and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea to the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. In its Basic Laws, Israel defines itself as a Jewish and Democratic State; it is the world's only Jewish-majority state.
On 29 November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption and implementation of the partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948.
Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and fought the Israeli forces.[ Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arab states, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula (between 1967 and 1982), part of South Lebanon (between 1982 and 2000), Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. It annexed portions of these territories, including East Jerusalem, but the border with the West Bank is disputed. Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, but efforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted in peace.
Israel's financial center is Tel Aviv, while Jerusalem is the region's most populous city and its designated capital, though internationally Jerusalem is neither part of Israel or Palestine.
The population of Israel, as defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, was estimated in 2014 to be 8,146,300 people. 6,110,600 citizens, or 75.3% of Israelis, are Jewish, 61% of whom are of Mizrahi Jewish ancestry. The country's second largest group of citizens are designated as Arabs, with 1,686,000 people (including the Druze and most East Jerusalem Arabs).The great majority of Israeli Arabs are settled Muslims, with smaller but significant numbers of semi-settled Negev Bedouins; the rest are Christians and Druze. Other minorities include Maronites, Samaritans, Dom people, Black Hebrew Israelites, other Sub-Saharan Africans, Armenians, Circassians, Roma and others. Israel also hosts a significant population of non-citizen foreign workers and asylum seekers from Africa and Asia.
Please support our fellow human beings in Palestine being slaughtered by the Zionist Israelis in an open prison with no escape. It seems the world has gone completely mad, in that this brutality and crime against humanity and a war crime has not even been acknowledged.
Israel has been ethnic cleansing for decades, and there is still no sign of that stopping. It is injustice that Israel wants to take over the old Palestine. We feel for the Palestinians being driven from their own homeland, and it is making them so angry and frustrated.
Compare this Inaction with the economic sanctions against Russia regarding the Ukraine situation….and lots of other examples of duplicity and hypocrisy and double standards.
Perhaps this is an indication and supporting evidence of who really controls the world powers.
Each country like Israel should seek authority and permission to use weapons of minor or mass destruction from the UN only. It is an error of judgement and lack of common sense that Israel is making, thinking what they are doing is right when in fact it is so wrong.
Obviously there is a lack of trust from both Israel and Palestinians. They do not know how to stop fighting. They both want demilitarisation, and both want the army to withdraw. The best thing to do for humanitarian reasons is to get someone to observe, and order the armies to withdraw at the same time so there is a proper ceasefire, and that discussions should take place on how to move forward when the time is right.
Hamas needs to have pause to mark Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and is the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar. In Gaza City, people ventured out to stock up on food and essentials for the three-day holiday, which starts on Monday.
"In response to UN intervention and considering the situation of our people and the occasion of Eid, it has been agreed among resistance factions to endorse a 24-hour humanitarian calm, starting from 2pm on Sunday," Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman.
Israel, however, rejected the call, and the country's prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, later said the militants had "violated even their own ceasefire". They are shooting at us as we speak. Under these circumstances, Israel will do what it must do to defend its people." He has been telling white lies and making excuses.
Khalid Meshaal, Hamas's leader in exile, told PBS that Israel must end its occupation. "We are not fanatics. We are not fundamentalists. We are not actually fighting the Jews because they are Jews per se. We do not fight any other races. We fight the occupiers," he said.
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said he does not know whether his organization will ever recognize Israel’s right to exist, but cannot even think about it until there is a Palestinian state.
“When we have a Palestinian state then the Palestinian state will decide on its policies. You cannot actually ask me about the future. He is “ready to coexist” with Jews, but that “I do not want to live with a state of occupiers.”
Meshaal called for the right of return to Israel for all Palestinians, including those who are United States citizens, who Meshaal said “long for their home country.”
Meshaal blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the breakdown in the last round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and laid out his conditions for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
“When Israel practically commits itself to withdraw from Gaza completely and the West Bank without any settlements, and if we have Jerusalem as our capital and the return of the refugees is there, then we will reach peace,” he said.
Meshaal on whether he would be willing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Meshaal answered “no”.
Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour did not hide his disappointment. He said the council should have adopted a strong and legally binding resolution a long time ago demanding an immediate halt to Israel's "aggression," providing the Palestinian people with protection and lifting the siege in the Gaza Strip so goods and people can move freely.
The weekend saw a confusing sequence of unilateral ceasefires.
Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour did not hide his disappointment. He said the council should have adopted a strong and legally binding resolution a long time ago demanding an immediate halt to Israel's "aggression," providing the Palestinian people with protection and lifting the siege in the Gaza Strip so goods and people can move freely.
"You cannot keep 1.8 million Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip in this huge prison," Mansour told reporters. "That is a recipe for disaster. It is inhumane, and it has to be stopped and it has to be lifted."
Some Palestinians said Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza will not help topple Hamas and that an alternative strategy would be a better solution.
"We want an real solution to our misery – we just want to have a decent life," said Gaza City resident, Sadai Ahmad, 57. "We want an airport, a seaport, we do not want to rely on Egyptians or Israelis whenever we want to travel or trade."
"I cannot understand how the on-going Israeli siege is helping Israelis get rid of Hamas," he added, before referring to prior conflicts with Israel. "Collective punishment did not work before."
The weekend saw a confusing sequence of unilateral ceasefires.
An immediate obstacle to an agreed ceasefire centres on dozens of cross-border tunnels that Hamas has constructed. Israel has insisted that its forces must be allowed to continue to search for, and destroy the tunnels during any pauses in the fighting.
Hamas is unlikely to agree to a continued Israeli military presence inside Gaza
There are also wide gaps between each sides' demands concerning a longer-term ceasefire. Israel wants to see the demilitarisation of Gaza, including the destruction of tunnels and measures to prevent Hamas and other militant groups from rearming.
Hamas wants the seven-year siege of Gaza to be lifted, with crossings to both Israel and Egypt opened, plus the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Israel’s destruction of Gaza is a “war crime” which is “brutally disproportionate, and so grossly indiscriminate”. Gaza is a very heavy populated area of strip, and the population is so hemmed in, and trapped making the people vulnerable to unnecessary attacks and violence. They have no where to go.
Israel does have obligations under International Law to take "all feasible precautions" to avoid casualties. There is no justification of taking lives of so many Palestinian people.
The other problem now lies if Israel do start to try and get rid of Hamas, then Hamas will do everything to get rid of Israel.
This is not the way to work if they both fight to total destruction, and they both will not win, and there will be very heavy casualties. There will be no country. Israel and Hamas will both indeed die in vain.
It will be a duplicate of Syria.
The world wants unconditional ceasefire as this war is futile. We all must respect Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, and let Muslims have that in peace. Then we must have talks.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/opinion/29-Jul-2014/method-to-the-gaza-madness
This article is a must read and it exposed Israel's method of madness of wanting Gaza Strip.
The dispute of territories is escalating, and shows no signs of easing. Israel just want to keep playing with rockets like child's toy. Israel is guilty of illegally blockading the Gaza strip and seem to be acting like a mad dog causing astronomical vandalism within the Gaza strip. Israel is certainly guilty of this great criminal offence of causing millions of pounds worth of damage to properties either belonging to UN, and the Palestinians.
It does not help when USA has funded for the Iron Dome, and some arms and armament. USA is willing to fund more arms and armament to Israel to cause more damage, and take more lives. That is aiding and abetting which is criminal by great proportions.
Israel had been "very foolish" to launch its military strikes given it had the "best anti-missile system in the world".
Israel had lost the "support and sympathy of world opinion".
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is not acting like a Prime Minister but a soldier. He can no longer be reasonable and sensible, and filled with insecurities, over protectiveness, paranoia, and could be heading for a mental breakdown. Benyamin Netanyahu must stand down, and if he refused, be committed to a psychiatric evaluation of his present state of mind.
Peace Treaty
To ensure the future of Palestinians, Israelis and Jews who are really Palestinians.
The peace treaty must include that Gazans be Hamas free, and rule the Gaza Strip themselves with free trade and open borders.
There are to be no rockets or unacceptable weapons and arms perceived to be dangerous to the public and must be disposed of.
Decommissioning of arms.
Iron Dome must be destroyed.
No Israelis soldiers present within the Gaza Strip.
There will be two states, Israel and Palestine with Israel in control of the south and Palestine in control of the north with the country split in half.
Hamas will only be an army for all Palestinians in the north.
The Israelis or Jews living in the north have their own devolved councils, and pay taxes to the Palestinian State government.
Israelis or Jews will be protected by their own devolved councils, and have nothing to do with Hamas.
Israel commit itself to withdraw from Gaza completely, and the West Bank without any settlements.
Palestinian prisoners to be released.
Jerusalem to be capital, and the return of the refugees to there.
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, holy places and holy waters to be protected as pilgrimages for everyone all over the world.
This will ensure that all Palestinians, Israelis or Jews can live in peace in the safety of their own homes, and neighborhood to live their own lives, and live together.
Agreements must be reached and signed in the Gaza Peace Treaty without delay.
This is shocking news that the UK government have been accused of failing to regulate arms sales to Israel amid evidence that "weapons containing British-made components are being used in the bombardment of Gaza". The paper says it's seen documents showing that export licences worth £42m have been granted to 130 UK firms to supply Israel since 2010.
We simply cannot let countries sell arms to each other as it is seen to be supporting violence.
If Israel wants to secure lasting safety for its people, it must use political will, not military might, to break the cycle of violence."
Since Israel began its offensive in Gaza on 8 July, more than 1,420 Palestinians have been killed and 8,265 injured, most of them civilians, according to the health ministry.
Neither Israel nor Palestine could "blast their way to victory" and that the only way forward was for them to "sit down and talk to each other".
Winding down the offensive
Winding down the offensive
Amid the fighting, Israel announced it was pulling out of indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas in Cairo, and will not be sending an Israeli delegation.
This leaves me to be peacemaker, mediator and representative of the Palestinians. Israel will not have talks with Hamas or Palestinians.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said: "Hamas cannot be trusted to keep their word. They cannot stop because, for them, a ceasefire at this stage, whether by arrangement or not by arrangement, would mean acknowledging the worst possible defeat."
The UK Government said it was reviewing all its existing arms export licences with Israel following newspaper claims that weapons containing British components could be being used in the bombardment of Gaza.
A UK government spokesman said: "We will not issue a licence if there is a clear risk that the equipment might be used for internal repression, or if there is a clear risk that it would provoke or prolong conflict."
The UK has also announced it will send another £3m of emergency humanitarian aid to Gaza, taking its total to £13m.
I expect other countries to do the same that they do not sell arms or equipment for internal repression, if there is a clear risk that would provoke or prolong conflict.
It has been confirmed that some troops and tanks are withdrawing from Gaza. Israel was "quite close to completing" the destruction of tunnels it claims were used by Hamas to infiltrate the country.
Signs that Israel was winding down its offensive came earlier in the day, when Palestinians who fled fighting in the northern Gaza towns of Beit Lahiya and Al-Atatra were told they could return home.
I strongly appeal for Hamas to release Lt Goldin or help find him to return him to Israel. IDF cannot leave Gaza unless they have him back.
Strike on UN school in Rafah killing ten Palestinians
Rocket attacks continue which is futile and unnecessary. Israel will simply complete its stated goal of destroying Hamas tunnels and then withdraw from Gaza without a long-term agreement.
It is despicable and intolerable. The Palestinians must have heard explosions while the Israelis soldiers were carrying out the demolition of the last few tunnels and reacted with fire.
Israelis knows so much better not to target the UN schools as well as public services.
These public services are lifelines to survival and meeting the Palestinian's needs. There will be widespread disease having no clean water and electricity.
Gaza should never have been deprived of such public services.
Palestinians must keep away from all UN schools and public services in case they get bombed again.
Egypt and Palestinian talks in Cairo
Truce talks would include Hamas's demand that Egypt ease movement across its border with blockaded Gaza. The source said that until Israel arrives, the heads of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Authority, and Frank Lowenstein, a representative from the US State Department, and Khaled Meschaal the exiled leader of Hamas will continue to meet.
Palestinian demands included a cease-fire, a complete withdrawal of IDF soldiers from the Gaza Strip, adoption of conditions agreed upon in 2012, and an end to the blockade of Gaza, including from the buffer zone, and the release of prisoners held by Israel, especially those that were already supposed to be released after the Schalit deal.
Senior Hamas official Izzat a-Rishak said that the organization would not agree to hold its fire while Israeli troops remain in Gaza.
The representatives of various Palestinian factions in Cairo for talks have reportedly agreed on a number of main points for a cease-fire with Israel regarding the fighting in Gaza.
Different Palestinian factions had agreed on a unified list of conditions.
Cease-fire, the pullout of Israeli forces, ending the blockade, releasing the prisoners ... and starting the reconstruction process," .
The document detailing the Palestinian conditions, which was drafted by representatives of Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian groups, called, among other things, for a cease-fire in return for an immediate Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.
The document calls for an end to Israeli “incursions, invasions, assassinations, house shelling and flights over the Gaza Strip,” the sources told the Palestinian news agency Safa.
Palestinian demands include lifting the siege, reopening the border crossings, and allowing construction material into the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians are also demanding free passage between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, freedom of fishing within 12 miles of the coast, reopening the Palestinian airport in the southern Gaza Strip, construction of a seaport and cancellation of buffer zones along the border with Israel.
The document calls for cancelling all measures taken by Israel following the abduction and killing of three Israeli youths in the West Bank in June, including the release of all former prisoners who were rounded up by the IDF since then.
The Palestinians are demanding that the Palestinian “national consensus” government, which was formed following the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas last April, embark on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip in cooperation with the United Nations. The document also calls for donor countries to hold an international conference to discuss providing financial aid for rebuilding the Gaza Strip.
US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also arrived in Cairo to participate in efforts to achieve a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian sources said that Egypt is “flexible towards any details that the Palestinian factions would find appropriate to add to the initiative whether directly or indirectly, “The Egyptian side explained many times in the past few days that the main aim is to put an end to the bloodshed in Gaza and end the severe conditions in which civilians there are living in.”
According to the report, the negotiations that began on Sunday afternoon in Cairo would be held in three phases: reaching an agreement between the Palestinian factions concerning the Egyptian initiative, indirect negotiations with Israel through Egyptian mediators to reach a cease-fire or truce, and negotiating about the remaining matters, including the border crossings with the Gaza Strip.
Taking the first next step to unconditional ceasefire
Taking the first next step to unconditional ceasefire
Israel believes they should continue its battle in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is totally beaten and its infrastructure obliterated, no matter what the cost. They like to re-establish having an Israeli administration there. Also Israel sees Hamas and the warring parties, a great threat to Israel when it comes to the matter of safety for its own civilians. They would like to see all warring parties obliterated, and objects strongly to the Unity Government formed last April. Not only that, they have this great desire and greed to take over the West bank and rid the Palestinians of their homeland. Which is why it seems impossible to Israel to have the Palestinians close by.
It is evident that Israel government has rejected the idea of turning the wheel back to the pre - Oslo situation, even though this idea is supported by some of the cabinet ministers.
What is it that has deterred them? The financial cost? The cost in lives? Unwillingness to get into an open-ended adventure?
Do they really believe that there is a chance that the international community will be willing and capable of acting to ensure that the Gaza Strip is demilitarized in return for its economic rehabilitation?
Gaza's future is so uncertain as it is not clear if it should be independent.
The current situation is as follows: The IDF has apparently successfully destroyed all the known tunnels
As to Hamas, this dissident organisation, which is currently ruler of the Gaza Strip, does not seem to have a clear line of command or decision making process, which precludes the possibility of any sort of negotiations with it, at least at this juncture.
Clearly, there is little coordination between the political and military branches of the organisation, and the leadership in the Gaza Strip seems detached from the leadership abroad.
It is said that the top goal of the Hamas at the moment, besides doing everything in its power to try to convince the world that Israel is an inhuman savage intent on killing innocent civilians, is to bring about a lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip for economic recovery.
Hamas and the warring parties with Palestinian demands, included a cease-fire, a complete withdrawal of IDF soldiers from the Gaza Strip, adoption of conditions agreed upon in 2012, and an end to the blockade of Gaza, including from the buffer zone, and the release of prisoners held by Israel, especially those that were already supposed to be released after the Schalit deal.
This is the first next step to unconditional ceasefire.
The Egypt and Palestinian talks was just the beginning, and it was a great improvement to have all warring parties taking part in the talks, instead of fighting with their hands, and using their heads. That is politics. Palestinian's politics has been born.
We only have got to wait for an Israeli delegation to agree to the Palestinians demands before unconditional ceasefire can go ahead.
It could be a long drawn out war with no victory, if Israel will not meet the Palestinian demands, and they will fight to the death if they have to.
Palestinians will remain defiant and stubborn, until Israel will give in and meet their demands.
The killing of some 1,700 Palestinians in Gaza in the course of four weeks of fighting – even if over half of them were innocent women and children is so unacceptable and unjustificable.
If it had not been for Israel's motive to start a war in the first place for decades, there would be no warring parties.
The Palestinians and the warring parties are not a real threat to Israel. They are fighting for their homeland and are dissidents. Most of their homeland was taken away from them. They are the Lost People of Palestine scattered all over the world.
There are as many Palestinians as there are Israelis or Jews all over the world. Palestinians being Muslims, wants to have their own identity and culture, and be with their own people. It does not matter if their politics are communist etc as long they are together, and can look after each other, and learn along the way.
The Palestinians wanted their voices heard, but went unheeded by Israel, so they have to be armed ready to fight what they call the enemy. But they will not call or regard Israel the enemy if Israel meets their demands for a country mostly filled with Palestinians to live their lives peacefully and enrich their lives having their own economy etc.
That applies to Gaza too, and hope it will not be a war for a very long time.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oslo/negotiations/
Oslo Accord..........
Ongoing problems
There are ongoing problems that needs to be addressed to secure the future and safety of the Gaza Strip civilians and the West Bank.
Hamas has signaled flexibility on ceding some authority to Abbas in Gaza, but insists on having a say on reconstruction and that it will not disarm.
Izzat Rishq, a senior Hamas official, said disarming isn't up for discussion.
Despite such tough talk, Hamas is in a position of relative weakness.
Nearly 1,900 Palestinians have been killed, the vast majority civilians, according to Gaza health officials and U.N. figures. On the Israeli side, 64 soldiers and three civilians were killed.
The truce is to remain in effect for at least three days, with an expectation that it will be extended to allow Cairo talks on a Gaza solution to proceed. Both the United States and the U.N. are sending representatives.
Robert Serry, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process will be attending.
The gaps remain wide, especially between Israel and Hamas.
The three Israeli delegation has already taken part in the talks since Tuesday. One of them is a Defence Minister. They are presently in talks with a few of the Palestinian delegation.
During the last month of fighting, Israel said it destroyed 32 such tunnels.
The war caused at least $6 billion in immediate damage.
The three Israeli delegation started talks on demilitarisation and disarmament.
It is a very big mistake for Hamas and the warring parties to say that it is not up for discussion.
The real obstacle to the Oslo Accord is that Hamas and the warring parties are not going to talk about demilitarisation and disarmament.
They must talk about it because the problem is causing a greater rift for the whole world.
The reason is that ;
After four weeks of intensive fighting, including close to 5,000 Israeli strikes on Gaza targets, the devastation is widespread.
According to initial figures from Gaza's main U.N. aid agency, some 10,000 homes were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. Gaza's only power plant was forced to shut down last week after being shelled by Israel, and repairs will take months.
The Hamas friendly government must comply to the regulations of the Electoral Commission. I do not think there is an Electoral Commission in the West Bank saying that no military factions must not be involved in taking part in the governance of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
We must not have a military government.
Hamas and military factions must disband and dissolve to achieve peace. It is all very well saying they are trying to defend the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the underground tunnels.
Khaled Meshaal still can be a leader of the party, but under another name that has no military connections, and still be involved in helping to run the government.
It is real and proper politics.
Their weaponry is so inferior compared to Israel and useless tool to use. Not because of its own weaponry but a provocation.
If the rivals of Israel wanted to be martyrs, then they must do it properly by dying unarmed making them true martyrs.
Israel has breached human rights killing Palestinians unarmed, illegally destroying tunnels, having a siege, creating a blockade and caused astronomical criminal damage or vandalism.
Israel have breached human rights making civilians in the Gaza Strip prisoners with no right to trade and movement.
It is inhumane and barbaric.
Achieving demiitarisation and disarmament or decommissioning of arms between Israel and Palestinians would be a great first next step towards peace, and would enable Palestinians to have their own state.
The hope is that promises of a better life for Gazans will coax compromise, and avert what had been looking like a fight to the finish.
Israel says it has inflicted a painful blow to Hamas' military capabilities in the month long fighting, and wants to make sure the group cannot re-arm if border restrictions are eased.
"The extent to which we are going to be ready to cooperate with the efforts to have better access and movement in Gaza will deeply depend on the kind of arrangements that would secure our peace and security," said Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior official in Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry.
The other problem is that the West Bank and the Gaza Strip seem to be Policeless and got no real government army. We certainly do need peace keeping troops to keep Israel away from the Gaza Strip.
Like what Khaled Meschaal said in the interview with Stephen Sackur, he said "We must fight against aggression and the siege lifted".
It must be done in the right way, and the right way is to have demilitarisation and disarmament.
Israel is so superior with their rockets and arms, including the Iron Dome (blowing up missiles and causing shrapnels), and other countries are finding Israel a real threat to them.
Please note and keep in mind also that ;
There is an UN Article.6. (3) of Arms Treaty.
Parties shall not transfer arms if knowledge of use in genocide, crimes against humanity as they are breaches of Geneva Convention.
The last of the ceasefire
It will be the last of the ceasefire after talks broke down in Cairo, Egypt.
That is not suprising as Israel has refused to meet the Palestinians demands including opening up borders between them to enable access to the West Bank daily.
Israel and Egypt says they do not want the blame in blockading of the borders. They are both to blame.
Rafah crossing should also be open, as Palestinians would be able to get goods from Egypt cheaper as it is expensive through Israel.
The only way the Palestinians can have their demands being met is to have the Prime Minister and its cabinet removed now that they are accused of "War Crimes".
Sadly it may never happen, and the war will go on until something is done about them.
Palestinians feels so betrayed, and made to feel small because of Israel's bad treatment towards them.
We must stop the incarceration of the Palestinians who live in the world's biggest open air prison among other demands.
Palestinians's demands must be met without delay to avert the war.
Israel is now regarded as divisive, hateful and racist.
Which is why the whole world is so against them, and condemn for what they have done.
We are not against good Islam just as Islam have nothing against good Christians.
Palestinians say they want people living in the West Bank or Gaza to convert to Islam.
Christians are saying the same thing wanting to convert non-believers. It is nothing alarmist.
We are equal as we all believe in God. No one has got to change religion if they do not want to.
Palestinians just want people to be an Islam believer if they want to be part of their country, and do want to be looked after by them. It is a qualifying process of receiving government help etc.
Like Christians who wants to qualify to get help from their Church and get pastoral guidance.
Amended Gaza Peace Treaty amid warnings from Ban Ki Moon and the United Nations
Palestinians have made it clear not to go back to the negotiating table, which only leaves a Gaza Peace Treaty.
Ban Ki Moon said “We must spare no effort to turn the current calm into a durable ceasefire that addresses the underlying issues of the conflict.”
He said that meant ending weapons smuggling into and rocket fire from Gaza, opening its crossings, lifting Israel’s blockade and bringing the Hamas-ruled strip back under a unified Palestinian government.
Ban also called on Hamas to honour past commitments made by Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation, including the right of the state of Israel to exist.
Ban said the UN understood Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas rockets, but “the horror that was unleashed on the people of Gaza” raises questions about international law and distinguishing between civilians and combatants, and proportionality in attacks.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay told the assembly that “any attacks in violation of these principles, on civilians, homes, schools and hospitals, must be condemned, and may amount to war crimes, and every single rocket fired is a war crime”.
She told the assembly that the casualty toll in this conflict – nearly 1 900 Palestinians, the vast majority civilians, and 64 Israeli soldiers and three civilians – tops conflicts in 2008-2009.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, accused Israel of “savagery”.
He said the Palestinians sought a durable ceasefire and an end to the Israeli blockade “which has suffocated and disfigured life in Gaza for the past eight years”.
Amended Gaza Peace Treaty
To recognise the right not to fire rockets, as it constitutes to be war crimes, and putting civilian lives at risk, and even murdering them.
To agree there are guarantees that there will be demilitarisation and decommissioning of arms or disarmament.
To release Palestinian prisoners.
To open borders North and South. It is Egypt and Israel's responsibility to monitor the crossings ,and check customs.
No Israeli soldiers within the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Honour past commitments made by Yasser Arafat's PLO.
State of Palestine to have military free government
Recognise the right for State of Israel to exist.
State of Israel to recognise the right for Palestinians to exist, and have a State of Palestine approved by United Nations.
Freedom of fishing within 12 miles off the coast.
Reopen international airport. Must submit proposals to say how it should be run, and what kind of security will take place.
Have a new seaport. Must submit proposals to say how it should be run, and what kind of security will take place.
There will be two States.
Israel and Palestinians to agree unconditional ceasefire.
Failing to sign the Gaza Peace Treaty means neither parties will agree. And United Nations may not have any part in trying to create a new, free Palestine. Gaza strip may be taken over eventually against the Palestinian Authority's wishes, and will no longer be able to rule it.
Ticking any boxes would help make progress to long term peaceful Gaza Strip.
Shocking history
It is only by ignoring the entire history of the conflict that it can be portrayed as some wearisome ancient ethnic hatred.
Last month’s centenary of the outbreak of the First World War should help. British Prime Minister David Cameron claims it was fought for freedom. In reality, it was a savage industrial slaughter perpetrated by a gang of imperial powers to carve up territories, markets and resources.
Far from defending democracy or the rights of small nations, Britain and France ended the war divvying up the defeated German and Ottoman empires between them, from Iraq to Palestine. A century on, we’re still living with the consequences.
So began its full-scale colonisation by mainly European colonists — something that could have happened only under colonial rule — which three decades later would lead to the establishment of Israel and the dispossession or expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian people.
Four Arab-Israeli wars on, the 44 per cent of Palestine allocated to the Palestinian majority under the 1947 UN partition plan had been entirely occupied by Israel — and the Palestinians were fighting a guerrilla war for self-determination, and the refugees’ right of return.
Israel staged an even larger-scale invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and occupied the south for another 18 years. Since the Oslo agreement of the early 1990s failed to produce the Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza it was supposed to, Israel has colonised, bombed and reinvaded the Palestinian territories it illegally occupies (along with Syria and Lebanon) time and again: in 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2012.
The justification is always the same: the security of the occupier must be upheld against the resistance of the occupied and blockaded population. And at every stage Israel has had the military, financial and diplomatic support of the west, the US above all.
Despite the hand-wringing, that backing has been unwavering throughout the past month’s devastation of Gaza. Not only is Israel’s right of “self-defence” in a territory it illegally controls upheld, while the same right is denied to the Palestinians, but the US, whose military aid to Israel runs to $3 billion (Dh11 billion) a year, has been re-supplying it with weapons as its troops and aircraft pulverised and massacred their way through an impoverished territory from which its captive people are unable to escape.
Europe is in the same game. Britain has licensed the sale of a startling £8 billion (Dh49.4 billion) worth of military or dual-use equipment since 2010, and £42 million of direct arms sales — including parts for drones and tanks used in the destruction of Gaza.
But a month on, Israel has failed to achieve its objectives. . But Hamas has been strengthened by its defiance and military performance; its rate of rocket fire was barely reduced by Israel’s attacks; and the united front with other Palestinian groups Israel is so keen to destroy has been shored up.
If the Palestinians are going to break out of their current subjection, that will have to go further. For the rest of the world it’s the outrageous big-power backing for Israel’s 47-year illegal occupation, colonisation and denial of Palestinian rights — while orchestrating an endless phoney peace process that simply allows the land grab to continue — that has to be challenged and dismantled.
Global public opinion has shifted decisively in favour of justice for the Palestinians. What’s needed is to turn that into unrelenting pressure for an end to support for occupation, an arms embargo and sanctions, from above and below. The horror of Gaza is a crime made in Washington and London, as well as Tel Aviv.
Agreements yet to be confirmed after the 72 hour ceasefire
Israel has agreed to ease conditions in the Gaza Strip during indirect cease-fire talks in Cairo, a senior Israeli official has revealed.
The easing of conditions, if agreed, will not include the construction of a seaport or an airport in Gaza.
The construction of a seaport or an airport in Gaza will not be a problem as Turkey and Norway have offered to run the seaport. Turkey at present, have been delivering aid by boat while talks were going on. It is possible that one of the Airways possibly British Airways could buy the airport, and run it themselves along with the other Airways around the world depending on holding bays etc.
However, they will include the expansion of the fishing zone off Gaza from its current range of three nautical miles to six. If the security situation improves, Israel said it would consider expanding this to 12 nautical miles, the amount that Hamas wants. This would be an improvement for the Palestinians have more access to have more basic needs to live on fish as well as other things.
The official said that Israel is also willing to ease the passage of people from Gaza to both Israel and the West Bank, and to increase the number of permits authorized each month to 5,000.
Furthermore, Israel said it is willing to significantly increase the number of Gazan trucks carrying various goods which can enter Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border.
Furthermore, Israel said it is willing to significantly increase the number of Gazan trucks carrying various goods which can enter Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Gaza Strip-Israel-Egypt border.
This would be a great breakthrough, and have world's approval to have access to the outside world, and restore the economy as well as meeting the needs of Palestinians, and enabling the start of a big construction to build more homes for Palestinians whose homes are destroyed by the war.
We probably have more higher rise blocks, and probably Hong Kong style to accommodate the heavily populated Palestinians.
Finally, the official said that Israel is prepared to allow the transfer of money to Gaza to pay the salaries of Hamas through a third party, provided it is not Qatar or the United Nations. This transfer will have to be monitored to ensure that the funds are not used to finance terror activities. This sounds very good.
According to the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, Israel will also be prepared to release a few dozen Palestinian prisoners held during the latest conflict, "Operation Protective Edge," in return for the remains of Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin. The IDF declared both soldiers dead, based on forensic findings, but believes Hamas is holding Shaul's body and partial remains of Goldin. It is believed that Goldin was blown up by a suicide bomber packed with explosives while in one of the tunnels, and may be difficult to find. It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The world will wait with abated breath to see if there will be a glimmer of peace and order.
Bodies of two soldiers
Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Israel will not agree to any truce with Hamas, unless the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in action in Gaza are returned.
"If the terrorists from the other sides don't get it, don't understand it, they have to understand they will get in return the bodies of Mohammed Deif, [Ismail] Haniyeh and all of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. My colleagues and I will not accept any resolution, any framework, without the return of the soldiers' bodies. Israel should continue its operation in Gaza if a ceasefire collapses, and finish the story. Israel cannot afford a war of attrition. If the current ceasefire is heading towards collapse, we must take the initiative, even if it means a significant escalation. Finish the story in the shortest time possible."
These are harsh words from Israeli Foreign Minister. He has got the map of the tunnels and he should order the Israeli soldiers to look for the deceased bodies of Shaul and Goldin. Israelis can look for the collapsed tunnel which was blown up linking to the other tunnels. They are believed to be buried somewhere underground near the Rafah crossing entrance. Israel should start looking and get the diggers out. As far as we know, no one really knows where they are.
We all do understand why Shaul and Goldin should be returned to their families for proper burial and that they should not be left behind. All soldiers all over the world can never be left behind, and each country will always make sure that is so.
It is no good that the Israeli Foreign Minister is blowing his head off, and letting off steam and saying things that does not make sense.
Besides it is violation of International Law keeping Palestinian prisoners, and encroaching on their territories to take them against their will. Israel has got nothing to do with the Palestinians, and cannot rule over them. Israel cannot just start a war or anything whenever it suits or try and punish the Palestinians anytime. Israel just cannot even fight back when it suits them.
It is a bit too rich from Israel who started the war in the first place.
Palestinian people have had enough
While the deliberate and indiscriminate bombardment of Israeli civilians, and the threat of abductions, and mass killings from the terror tunnels, have been the trigger for this latest war.
There is a longer and underlying proximate cause: the Hamas Terrorist War of Attrition against Israel since 2000.
Simply put, from 2000 to 2004, Hamas suicide bombers murdered over 1,000 Israelis wounding some 3,000 in a horrific and sustained terrorist assault that was defeated in part by the Israeli "Operation Defensive Shield" in 2002, and in part by the building of a security barrier, which dramatically reduced penetration by Hamas suicide bombers.
In 2005, with the Hamas terrorist onslaught defeated, Israel moved to unilaterally disengage from Gaza. Accordingly, Israel withdrew all its soldiers and citizens, uprooted all its settlements and synagogues, but left behind 3,000 operating greenhouses and related agricultural assets, the whole as the basis for industrial and agricultural growth and development
They destroyed the greenhouses, brutalized the Fatah opposition, effectively instituted a theocratic dictatorship in 2007, repressed its own people, and began the launching of more than 14,000 rockets and missiles targeting Israeli population centres.
In effect, then, Hamas squandered the opportunity offered by Israel to live in peace, to utilise the industrial and agricultural assets, to engage in state-building. Hamas preferred to divert resources for the building of a terrorist infrastructure that would punish its own people while threatening Israel.
This is the third Israel-Hamas war since the 2005 disengagement, with each prior truce or ceasefire only providing a basis and incipient trigger for the next war. In this latest conflagration, Hamas has repeatedly repudiated, yet again, a series of ceasefires arrangements and "humanitarian" pauses while launching more than 3,000 rockets and missiles in the last month alone.
But while these unceasing terror attacks and ongoing threats have once again forced Israel to take action in self-defence, and to target the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza the unwillingness of Hamas to recognize Israel's existence within any boundaries. And more: the public call in the Hamas Charter and in its declarations for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they may be.
This genocidal anti-semitism is the root cause, and has fuelled the ongoing Hamas terrorist war of attrition. This anti-semitism stemmed from Israel taking most of the Palestinians's homeland for decades.
What is so necessary now is a ceasefire that is enduring and comprehensive, that will put an end to the Hamas Terrorist War of Attrition that has targeted Israel's population, and engulfed its own, and that will be protective of both Israeli and Palestinian civilians.,
Such a ceasefire will hopefully be the basis for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, anchored in two states for two peoples living side by side in peace and security. agreed upon, and guaranteed, set of international, legal, diplomatic, political, security, economic, and humanitarian undertakings and initiatives.
Simply put, Hamas must cease and desist from its policy and practice of targeting Israeli civilians and terrorising Israeli civilian populations.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist militias must be disarmed, as called for by EU Foreign Ministers, as a sine qua non for the cessation of hostilities. There is a call for prohibition of the transfer or smuggling of weapons by the international communities all over the world.
A robust international stabilisation and protection force on the whole to protect against the targeting of Israeli civilians, and the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. Indeed, while Israel has been forced to use weapons to protect civilians, Hamas has been using its captive civilian population to protect its weapons.
This international protection force must also be empowered to secure a total interdiction of the transfer, import, or smuggling of weapons into Gaza which is what triggered the blockade of Gaza in the first place after Hamas assumed power in 2007.
The dismantling of Hamas' extensive military and terrorist infrastructure which is embedded amongst Gaza's civilian population, and the demilitarisation of Gaza can ultimately lead to a pan for Gaza with the ultimate goal of securing economic growth, development, and a sustainable peace.
With order restored, an international governing authority be taken to a peaceful and democratic Palestinian State.
The direct financing of Hamas which was put to military, and terrorist purposes must end.
Palestinian society in Gaza must be freed from the cynical and oppressive culture of hate and incitement. This not only constitutes a standing threat to Israel, but undermines the development of authentic Palestinian self-determination, as in the cruel deployment of Palestinian child labour in the terror tunnels.
No peaceful solution will be possible if massive resources continue to be poured into state-controlled media, mosques, refugee camps, training camps, and educational systems that serve the sole purpose of demonising Israel and the Jewish people, and inciting to war against them.
Hamas' militant rejectionism of Israel's right to exist, its public call for Israel's destruction and the killing of Jews wherever they may be, have threatened the safety and security not only of Israelis but of Palestinians too. In effect, Israel's rejectionism of Palestinian's right to exist too.
Regrettably, the Gazan people's desire and right to live in peace and security cannot be realised so long as Hamas continues to hold its own people hostage, and to pursue a strategy of terror and incitement.
Indeed, this war in Gaza is not only one of self-defence for the Israeli people, but should lead to the securing of the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, who deserve better than to be held hostage by a terrorist regime.
To realize that if we want to protect the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians, these initiatives and undertakings have to be done.
The Palestinian people more so, than the Israeli people have had a enough, and do not want militants living among them. They do not want any Hamas presence in the Gaza strip just as much as they do not want the Israelis.
The Palestinians have suffered and lost a lot of their loved ones and friends. The war has gone on far too long.
We cannot allow militants to rule the Gaza strip, and the best place for them is to be in the Palestinian Authority acting as Politicians. These militants have caused so much suffering, death, destruction and losses that they could lose the next elections.
For so long Hamas and the militants have been fighting with arms and not words.
The Gaza strip have shrunk by about 40% as Israel have used the 40% as buffer zones. I do not think Israel should go on keeping the 40% of the buffer zones, and Israel must give them back to the Gaza strip, and give up any settlements.
The Palestinians has got rights to be protected from Hamas and other militants as well as from Israel, and is entitled to have a new Airport, Seaport and other things to enable them to live a normal life, and have access to the outside world.
On behalf of the Palestinian people as representative for them, I say to Hamas and other militants, "Please get out and leave us alone to live in peace, order and harmony"
The Middle East is already destablising because of what Israel and the Militants has done.
More assassinations are ongoing
Palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets and Israel responded with airstrikes on Wednesday after Egyptian efforts to mediate a lasting truce in the month long Gaza war collapsed in a hail of fire a day earlier.
One of the Israeli airstrikes appeared to have targeted the home of Mohammed Deif, the Islamic militant group's elusive military chief, who has escaped numerous Israeli assassination attempts in the past. It was not immediately clear whether he was there at the time of the attack.
The fighting resumed Tuesday when Gaza militants fired rockets at Israeli cities just hours before a temporary cease-fire was set to expire, prompting Israel to withdraw its delegation from Cairo and launch retaliatory airstrikes.
Israel's military said it targeted two Palestinian militants after they fired rockets at Israel in the early afternoon.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said they were killed.
The violence left the Egyptian mediation efforts in tatters and raised the likelihood of a new escalation. Palestinian negotiators said the talks were finished.
Three people — two women and a two-year-old girl — were killed in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City, al-Kidra said. In Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader, said the dead included the wife and a child of Deif. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas leaders in Gaza.
Israel has not formally commented on the strike but local media quoted an anonymous official as saying it was meant to hit Deif.
"With the assumption that Israel was behind this, it shows its intelligence capabilities...and it is an important indication that no head of the Hamas military wing is immune to a targeted killing," he said.
Hamas is seeking an end to a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade tightened when it seized power in Gaza in 2007, while Israel wants guarantees that the Islamic militant group will disarm.
On Wednesday the Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed "deep regret" over the breaking of the cease-fire. It said in a statement that it "continues bilateral contacts" with both sides aimed at restoring calm and securing a lasting truce that "serves the interest of the Palestinian people, especially in relation to the opening of the crossings and reconstruction."
Israel says the blockade is needed to prevent Hamas, and other militant groups from getting weapons.
The latest round of Gaza fighting was precipitated by Israel's arrest of hundreds of Hamas members in the West Bank in the aftermath of the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in June. Their deaths were followed by the slaying of a Palestinian youth in Jerusalem in what was a likely revenge attack.
We still cannot have rockets fired intended to maim, kill, and destroy. These have intelligence capabilities too, as Israelis can pinpoint the targets with so much ease.
It was Israel who finished the week long truce by provoking Hamas assassinating people with such relish trying to get rid of the militants.
If Israel wants to get rid of the militants. They must not assassinate anyone as there are ways to solve this problem.
Hamas are moderate Islamists, and we may need them to fight the extremists like the ISIL so it is understandable they cannot give up weaponry and arms.
The only best way is to ask the militants is to leave Gaza, so that the Palestinians's lives can resume normality, and construction to start without delay as demanded by the UN.
The militants can no longer look after its own people and are incompetent to do so. It is time to let go and move forward, and let the International Community take over and rebuild Gaza.
Palestinian people have had a enough and there is so much suffering. We cannot let them suffer further any more.
There is a very firm guarantee that Gaza will have everything it wants, if the militants do leave.
Otherwise, Israel will continue this evil vendetta on killing all the militants starting from the top.
Palestinians have basic human rights to live without the war, without being held hostage, without fear, hate and suffering.
This is a very grave, serious situation that could lead to a full scale blown war if Israel does not stop the killings, injuring Palestinians and destroying buildings. It is also a very grave situation starting to land grab again in the West Bank destroying nine homes to make way for more settlements.
Hostilities have resumed since the ceasefire has stopped, and there has been no truce.
Israel shows no signs in stopping the killings and continues bombing. There have been more civilian deaths including three of the top commanders. They have been going full on collision course in killings, while the Palestinian militants are just popping their rockets harmlessly.
Israel has vowed to pursue its campaign until "full security" is achieved.
Six weeks of fierce fighting have left at least 2,103 people dead, all but 67 of them Palestinians and most of them said to be civilians.
The UN Security Council voiced "grave concern" at the resumption of hostilities and "called upon the parties to resume negotiations to urgently reach a sustainable and lasting ceasefire".
Egypt expressed "profound regret" at the end of a 10-day period of "calm" during the talks, and said it would continue to try to secure a lasting truce.
Benjamin Netanyahu said "I will continue to operate with firmness and insistence".
Well said Benjamin Netanyahu! Your words have fallen on deaf ears. You will have no friends left if you continue like this. The International Community is against you. The whole world is against you.
Israel’s survival and military dominance in the region is not inevitable. We, as a people, must grasp that humbling and harsh fact if Israel is to survive. The next war may be against the Iranian proxy Hezbollah from the north.
With an arsenal of over 100,000 missiles more advanced than those of Hamas, today’s onslaught may look like a popgun in retrospect. Their tunnel networks are probably more complex than the ones in Gaza.
Israel’s survival and military dominance in the region is not inevitable. We, as a people, must grasp that humbling and harsh fact if Israel is to survive. The next war may be against the Iranian proxy Hezbollah from the north.
With an arsenal of over 100,000 missiles more advanced than those of Hamas, today’s onslaught may look like a popgun in retrospect. Their tunnel networks are probably more complex than the ones in Gaza.
Earlier this year someone interviewed the physician head of a NGO in South Lebanon who told me that missiles were embedded in people’s homes in every village he visited in Hezbollah-controlled Southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah is closely watching to see if the international community forces Israel to stop military action before its mission is accomplished. Hezbollah will strategise accordingly.
Hamas will be more dangerous and harder to contain in the next war. We already have evidence that Hamas planned a major ground operation to terrorise and kill thousands of Israeli civilians. The only question is, will they coordinate with Iran, ISIL, or Hezbollah?
Will Hamas start terrorising properly? Will Iran, ISIL and Hezbollah with Hamas and other militants to go full on, leading the charge in wiping out the State of Israel?
I think they will, and so does the whole world. They fear it will happen if Israel does not give in to the full demands of the Palestinians.
Will Hamas start terrorising properly? Will Iran, ISIL and Hezbollah with Hamas and other militants to go full on, leading the charge in wiping out the State of Israel?
I think they will, and so does the whole world. They fear it will happen if Israel does not give in to the full demands of the Palestinians.
It would be nice if Israel publicly offered a 100-year cease-fire for a complete demilitarization of Gaza enforced by NATO.
As Boycott Sanctions and Divestment movement gains steam, Operation Protective Edge is no help against this non-violent legal warfare against Israel. Many in Europe and the progressive far Left correctly believe that BDS is a more effective way to destroy Israel than bullets and missiles.
Hamas will develop new, more sophisticated strategies against Israel. The real problem is that Israel lacks HUMINT (human intelligence) in Gaza.
The future of Europe is that Europe has become a leader in de-legitimising Israel and boycotting its goods. With its growing Muslim population, England, France and other EU nations find it convenient to boycott Israel. They throw Israel under the bus and side with the terrorists, abdicating their moral responsibility to remember their 2,000- year history of pogroms, Crusades, Inquisitions and Holocaust.
Israel, you have had your final warning!
If you do not stop what you are doing. Palestinian deaths, gross injuries and mass destruction of buildings weighs very heavily on you.
Please stop and think carefully before you do any more damage, and not cause any more consequences before the real next war starts to wipe out the State of Israel. Do you understand?
And please meet the Palestinian demands without delay!
New final Gaza peace treaty
This new Gaza Peace treaty is for all countries to show solidarity for an immediate, and sustainable ceasefire that would put an end to the firing of rockets and military operations in the Gaza Strip.
It calls for a lifting of the Israeli blockade and a monitoring mechanism to report on ceasefire violations and verify the flow of goods into the Gaza Strip.
This is aimed at advancing efforts to reach agreement within the 15-member UN Security Council on a resolution.
The so-called "elements" document lays out the parameters for a ceasefire deal that would address Israel's security concerns and meet Palestinian demands.
We have to address the spiralling violence to respond to the needs of Gaza's 1.8 million people as well as in the West Bank.
The initiative would shore up the Egyptian-led peace track, and lead to a lasting ceasefire that would avoid a relapse into war. The New Gaza Peace Treaty calls for the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza, which has been under Hamas control for the past seven years.
It provides the lifting of economic and humanitarian restrictions on the Gaza Strip to allow for a massive reconstruction effort, and for the re-opening of border crossings. An international monitoring and verification mission would be established with a mandate to report on ceasefire violations and check the flow of goods into Gaza. There is no reason why border crossings should not be open all day as long as there are border controls, security checks as well as custom checks.
To ensure the future of Palestinians, Israelis and Jews who are really Palestinians. This will ensure that all Palestinians, Israelis or Jews can live in peace in the safety of their own homes, and neighborhood to live their own lives, and live together.
No Israelis soldiers present within the Gaza Strip or the West Bank.
There will be two states, Israel and Palestine with UN's approval.
Israel commit itself to withdraw from Gaza, and the West Bank completely, give up any settlements, and remove occupiers.
Palestinian prisoners to be released.
Jerusalem to be capital, and the return of the refugees to there.
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, holy places and holy waters to be protected as pilgrimages for everyone all over the world.
To recognise the right not to fire rockets, as it constitutes to be war crimes, and putting civilian lives at risk, and even murdering them.
To open borders North and South.
Palestinians to honour past commitments made by Yasser Arafat's PLO.
State of Palestine to have military free government
Recognise the right for State of Israel to exist.
State of Israel to recognise the right for Palestinians to exist, and have a State of Palestine approved by United Nations.
Freedom of fishing within 12 miles off the coast.
Have a new International airport.
Have a new International airport.
Have a new seaport.
Israel to give up 40% of the Gaza Strip used as buffer zones. There will be a very high wall of unbroken buildings on buffer zones with thick walls.
Palestinian Authority to have control of Gaza from Hamas control.
Israel and Palestinians to agree unconditional ceasefire.
I ask for all countries to give support and free Gaza from oppression, war and poverty to sign in the comment box as a show of solidarity with their signatures and capital letters of their signatures. These signatures will then be forwarded to the UN who can then issue a document of the new Gaza Peace Treaty and a new Resolution.
United Nations have been kept well informed of this blog and is following........................
More breaches of human rights
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.612012
84 Palestinian MPs have either been detained, under investigation or imprisoned. It is breach of human rights enshrined in International Law.
There may be more possible breaches of other Palestinian prisoners who are being held against their will without evidence, and may be deprived of religious instruction, prayers and the reading of the Quran. These prisoners are just prisoners of war who have been on hunger strike.
More than fifteen journalists have died in the Israel-Gaza war who were killed by Israeli bombardment, and some may have been injured.
Another part of the Resolution
This is similar to Resolution 242 and Israel has violated this resolution.
Operative Paragraph One "Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
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- (i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
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- (ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."
Israel and Palestine has got to accept the Security Council resolution for the promotion of agreement on the establishment of a just and lasting peace. They have got to authorise to reaffirm that they are willing to seek agreement with each Arab State on all matters included in that resolution."
In a statement to the General Assembly on 15 October 1968, the PLO rejected Resolution 242, saying "the implementation of said resolution will lead to the loss of every hope for the establishment of peace and security in Palestine and the Middle East region." In September 1993, the PLO agreed that Resolutions 242 and 338 should be the basis for negotiations with Israel when it signed the Declaration of Principles.
Resolution 242 is one of the most widely affirmed resolutions on the Arab–Israeli conflict and formed the basis for later negotiations between the parties. These led to Peace Treaties between Israel and Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994), as well as the 1993 and 1995 agreements with the Palestinians.
It is a negotiated agreement based on the resolution's principles rather than one imposed upon the parties.
"Condemning civilian casualties, and an end to excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians", said Jordan in their rejected resolution. This needs more thought as it is complex, but thought provoking. I would say .......
Condemning civilian casualties, and an end to excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians by war.
To recognise the right not to fire rockets intended to maim, kill and destroy.
To have peace and security by having a very high wall of unbroken buildings with thick walls if Israel gives up 40% of buffer zones for Gaza to build on. Gaza will be able to have flats, offices and apartments with double skinned walls between them side by side. Israel will be able to have flats, offices and shops side by side on the other side of the wall making it look like the buffer zones are shared by both parties with extra thickness in the middle. Having that, neither Israel or Gaza can see over either side, and cannot gain access to either side. Airport, Seaport, other buildings will be protected by any invasion from either sides. Safety, peace and security is guaranteed for all civilians for Gaza and Israel. Lack of light is remedied inside buildings if each apartment, office or shop have a sun tube inserted into the walls as it will have one window each.
Timescale for Israel commit itself to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and West Bank completely and give up any settlements, and remove occupiers.
To recognise human rights for Palestinian prisoners to be released as they are hostages to war.
To recognise human rights for Israeli prisoners if any, to be released as they are hostages to war.
Israel and Palestinans both to give each other any dead bodies belonging to each other for burials.
To recognise human rights for Israeli prisoners if any, to be released as they are hostages to war.
Israel and Palestinans both to give each other any dead bodies belonging to each other for burials.
Israel and Palestinians must not have a policy to kidnap, kill each other's civilians, and hold them as hostages.
Hamas to hand over control of Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority.
No Israeli soldiers to be present in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
To welcome investment from the International Community to have a new airport, seaport, etc to bring employment and strengthen economy.
To have two states, Israel and Palestine recognised and accepted.
Hamas to hand over control of Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority.
No Israeli soldiers to be present in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
To welcome investment from the International Community to have a new airport, seaport, etc to bring employment and strengthen economy.
To have two states, Israel and Palestine recognised and accepted.
To open borders North and South. An international monitoring and verification mission would be established with a mandate to report on ceasefire violations and check the flow of goods into Gaza with border crossings open all day, as long as there are border controls, security checks as well as custom checks.
Palestinians to honour past commitments made by Yasser Arafat's PLO.
State of Palestine to be military free government.
Freedom of fishing within 12 miles off the coast for both Israel and Palestinians.
Jerusalem to be capital, and the return of the refugees to there.
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, holy places and holy waters to be protected as pilgrimages for everyone all over the world.
Unconditional ceasefire.
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The resolution would address Israel's and Palestinian's security concerns and meet Israel and Palestinian demands.
I do sincerely hope that the UN Security Council's problem has been solved if all the other countries agree to it first. I would welcome any changes, amendments or alterations.
As I am representing for the Palestinians and a voice for them, I am helping to speed things up to get the unconditional ceasefire we all want which is imperative.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinian-Authority-slams-Hamas-executions-372095
Palestinian Authority is right to speak up against random killings of suspected traitors for Hamas. We do reject the right for Hamas to kill them, as it is against human rights, and should be tried under the law. It is violation of International Law. It is horrific for the world to see the shootings on video, and will always be imprinted on their minds. It is deeply regrettable that the Palestinians have to witness the shootings personally.
Links for information about what is going on in Gaza, West Bank and Israel regarding human rights
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.612012
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-weighing-deal-war-probe-24997517
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/subtle-voices-dissent-surface-war-torn-gaza-24983497
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/11/374934/sony-helps-israel-in-gaza-offensive/
http://fall-river.wickedlocal.com/article/20140808/NEWS/140807008/12449/LIFESTYLE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2715466/Israeli-official-calls-concentration-camps-Gaza-conquest-entire-Gaza-Strip-annihilation-fighting-forces-supporters.html
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gaza-strip-jews-loathe-israel-130539656.html#kSATPPO
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israels-shin-bet-intelligence-agency-claims-planned-suicide-attack-shows-alqaida-is-taking-root-in-palestine-9078342.html
Long term truce
It is such a very big relief that there is a long term truce ending seven weeks of fighting which has left more than 2,200 people dead.
The truce, was brokered by Egypt and began at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT).
It is a victory.
Israeli government officials said it would ease its blockade of Gaza to allow in aid and building materials.
Indirect talks on more contentious issues, including Israel's call for militant groups in Gaza to disarm, will begin in Cairo within a month.
The breakthrough came as both sides continued to trade fire.
Palestinian officials said Egypt's ceasefire proposal called for an indefinite end to hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's crossings with Israel and Egypt, and an extension of the territory's Mediterranean fishing zone.
Israel was hell bent on destroying everything left of Hamas in the Gaza Strip before any truce could happen. What Israel do not realise is the great damage it has done, and caused so much pain and trauma and suffering of the Palestinians including children who may be scarred for life.
We would be very concerned about what children would pick up having gone through a war, and thinking that war is part of their lives when they grow up. It is a generational thing of being passed down from parents to children.
These Palestinian children are going to need a lot of love and education to see them right to man/womanhood to help them realise that war is a very bad thing, and that their next generation of children deserves better and decent lives.
This war does not solve problems of escalation and a dialogue was needed. So I say "Well done to the Palestinians for perservering and being steadfast and brave" "Well done for taking part in talks".
The International Community and United Nations will do everything they can to rebuild the Palestinian lives and begin reconstruction with immediate effect.
I hope that once is done, these Palestinians can forget the horrors of the war and the scale of it.
Breakthrough - 1st time since 2007, a @WFP humanitarian convoy successfully crossed from Egypt into #Gaza, w/enough food for 150,000 people for 5 days.
31st August 2014
Israel announced Sunday it will expropriate 400 hectares (988 acres) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, angering the Palestinians and alarming Israeli peace campaigners. The move to seize the land, in the Bethlehem area in the south of the territory, is the biggest of its kind in three decades.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/623081
Land grabbing continues to rise by Israel angering Palestinians.
5th September 2014
Ismail Haniyeh told a gathering near Gaza City that "we cannot accept or deal with any international decision to disarm the resistance" - a reference to Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups.
Israel has said it will press for Hamas' disarmament in indirect talks in Cairo aimed at charting a way forward for Gaza in the wake of a 50-day war that killed more than 2,200 people - almost all Palestinian. The fighting ended on August 26.
Hamas is pushing for the opening of an air and sea port in the densely populated coastal strip and the lifting of Israeli border restrictions imposed in 2007.
Israel has long said it must restrict the import of cement, pipes and other construction materials into Gaza because militants use them to build rockets, bunkers and cross-border attack tunnels.
Israel must stop blackmailing Hamas and the Palestianian Authority. Israel cannot force anyone to give up arms as they will not do it themselves anyway.
The Gaza strip can do what it likes regarding Airport and Seaport and, Israel must not destroy or halt the building of them like last time when construction workers commissioned from EU had to flee amidst the bombing.
Israel could do it all again if work on the Airport and Seaport did commence. Which is why it is so unreasonable to ask Hamas to give up arms.
The buffer zones needs to be discussed first as to whether it can be built on as I suggested earlier to have a very high rise wall of flats, offices and shops on both sides. That way, Israel cannot even see what is going on inside the Gaza Strip. It is a very good compromise.
18th September 2014
Last week, Abbas said he would go to the U.N. to "seek international protection" for the Palestinian people.
And that recent Palestinian activity at the United Nations aimed to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, to reinforce the notion of two states living side by side in peace and security
Most Israelis supported the two-state solution.
There is a call for "more cooperation" between Israeli and Palestinian "forces of peace" with a view to kick-starting the moribund peace process.
Israelis and Palestinians would work to enhance the "forces of peace" that support the two-state solution.
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.nsf/5C9CAF890E561FED85257AD400545E5B/5FB672F7A5B9434285257D56006B0315
Mr Robert Serry, Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary General gave this speech at the United Nations. He spoke of his concerns, his horror, hoping for peace and order yesterday. The link is above.
Written by Sir Vincent Fean served as British Consul-General in Jerusalem from 2010 to 2014.
The recent announcement by the Israeli government that it is expropriating another 1,000 acres of the West Bank has only reinforced in the minds of many that the Israel-Palestine conflict is stuck in an impasse. Yet it is at such bleak times that leaders need to find new ways to move forward. That is why I believe the time is right for the United Kingdom to recognise the state of Palestine. The turmoil in Syria and Iraq may overshadow this issue, but it is wrong to neglect it.
Britain is uniquely placed to give a lead by recognising Palestine now, just as we recognised Israel in 1950. Where we lead, Europe will follow – and there is urgency. John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, said in April 2013 that we had two years at most to resolve the conflict. Today’s chronic cycle of violence and violent deterrence will not do that, but will recur if we do nothing. The combination of illegal Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank and the closure of Gaza means that time is not on our side if the two neighbourly states we seek are to be realised.
Why the UK, you may ask? Well, we are party to the history of this conflict – originators of the Balfour Declaration and holders of the Mandate for Palestine between 1920 and 1948. Under the Mandate, we took on a “sacred trust of civilisation” to advance the welfare of the Palestinian people and guide them to independence.
Today, we are major donors to the Palestinian Authority and to UNRWA, the UN agency that strives to meet the needs of Palestinian refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Lebanon and war-torn Syria. For the third time in a decade, we will contribute to rebuilding Gaza after a conflict. When we choose, we can make a difference in the EU and at the UN.
Now, when the two-state solution – the only viable solution – is at risk, we should affirm our commitment to what is right and just for both Israelis and Palestinians. Both deserve security. Both deserve statehood. A one-state outcome is no solution. It means further discrimination in an apartheid-style system, and more violence – but with no way out.
Bilateral recognition of Palestine is in the UK’s gift. The UK recognises states, not governments, so this would not be tied to any Palestinian political party. In 2011, Britain noted at the UN that “the Palestinian Authority has developed successfully the capacity to run a democratic and peaceful state, founded on the rule of law and living in peace and security with Israel… Palestine largely fulfils the legal and technical criteria for UN membership, including statehood, in as far as the Occupation allows.”
Recognising Palestine is a political step, which 134 out of 193 UN member states have taken. Britain waits for “a moment of our choosing and when it can best help bring about peace”. That moment is now. For this veto-bearing permanent member of the Security Council, a further abstention is abdicating responsibility. If we choose to act decisively, we change the dynamic in the EU and at the UN.
Undoubtedly, such a decision will serve as a reaffirmation of current UK policy. We already believe that the Palestinian people have the inalienable right to self-determination; and that the Israeli people have the unquestionable right to live in peace and security, with all Arab/Muslim states recognising the State of Israel, as in Saudi Arabia’s 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. Also, that the two states will determine borders based on 1967 lines, with agreed land swaps of equal size and value; that Gaza will be demilitarised, like the rest of Palestine, and linked with the West Bank; and that Jerusalem will be the shared capital of both states, which will agree a just and fair solution to the refugee question.
Moreover, UK policy is that US/Nato troops will guarantee the security of both states after the full, phased withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestine; and that the negotiations will be on a “no victor, no vanquished” basis to preserve parity of esteem of both parties. America would do well to enshrine this policy in a unanimous UN Security Council Resolution. But with the US mid-term elections looming, will Washington reaffirm the international consensus? If not, it’s back to us.
What do we ask of the Palestinians? Adherence to President Abbas’s policy of non-violence and full security co-operation with Israel, across the territory of Palestine, plus early, free and fair elections. Of Israel, we ask respect for the Geneva Conventions she has signed, human rights and international humanitarian law.
Recognition will renew Palestinian belief that the path of non-violence, not the Hamas path, leads somewhere: to a state coming into being through diplomacy and democratic expression, not destruction. Israelis will see that we regard both peoples as equal in dignity and in rights. Recognition will help safeguard Israel from the folly of a one-state outcome, by validating the second state. Peace negotiations will be on a more equal basis.
It is important to note that recognition is not sufficient to end the Occupation. Negotiations based on equity will end it, along with respect for the international law that the United Kingdom helped to create, and which we are bound to uphold.
24th September 2014
President Obama's speech at UN
Leadership will also be necessary to address the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. As bleak as the landscape appears, America will never give up the pursuit of peace. The situation in Iraq, Syria and Libya should cure anyone of the illusion that this conflict is the main source of problems in the region; for far too long, it has been used in part as a way to distract people from problems at home. And the violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable. We cannot afford to turn away from this effort – not when rockets are fired at innocent Israelis, or the lives of so many Palestinian children are taken from us in Gaza. So long as I am President, we will stand up for the principle that Israelis, Palestinians, the region, and the world will be more just with two states living side by side, in peace and security.
This is what America is prepared to do – taking action against immediate threats, while pursuing a world in which the need for such action is diminished. The United States will never shy away from defending our interests, but nor will we shrink from the promise of this institution and its Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the notion that peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of a better life.
25th September 2014
I am so full of praise for rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, as they have reached an agreement on Thursday by which the Unity Government run by President Mahmoud Abbas would take control of the Gaza Strip, negotiators said in Egypt-mediated reconciliation talks.
"All civil servants will be paid by the unity government because they are all Palestinians and it is the government of all Palestinians," said Azzam Ahmed of Fatah.
It is a great step forward, and I know how hard it is for Hamas to give control over to Palestinian Authority. Israel must be very relieved. No doubt the PA is very delighted.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/hamas-fatah-agree-to-unity-government-headed-by-abbas/article20798562/
http://www.wkrn.com/story/26742095/palestinian-unity-cabinet-to-meet-1st-time-in-gaza
9th October 2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-unity-government-meets-in-gaza-strip/
To Recognise Palestine
British lawmakers on Monday will take part in a non-binding vote to recognise "Palestine," after Sweden made a storm by likewise pledging its commitment to recognise a Palestinian state late last Friday on the Jewish Holiday.
British lawmakers on Monday will take part in a non-binding vote to recognise "Palestine," after Sweden made a storm by likewise pledging its commitment to recognise a Palestinian state late last Friday on the Jewish Holiday.
The symbolic vote, which is being followed closely as a barometer of greater European pressure on the Jewish state, is on a motion put forward by Grahame Morris, an MP of the left-wing Labour opposition party.
The Labour MP added "the UK recognizing Palestine could give decisive momentum to more EU states following suit. Recognition now would be a clear and legitimate message that Britain and others recognise Palestinian rights, and that the illegal settlement enterprise has no validity."
In fact it has been proven in legal committees that Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria is fully legal, and in accordance with international law, despite the MP's protestations.
The "war" includes a request that the UN demand Israel withdraw behind the 1949 Armistice lines by 2016.
Prisoner swaps
Hamas "political wing" official Muhammad Nazal on Thursday, announced his terrorist organization is preparing for the start of a channel of negotiations with Israel, meant to release hundreds of terrorists in exchange for the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul
Nazal said the talks will begin very soon, and apparently will take place in Cairo with Egyptian intermediaries.
According to Nazal, Egypt has officially told Hamas that the channel of communications for the terrorist swap will be held separately from the Cairo truce talks to be resumed in the last week of October, in which Hamas is leveling enormous demands such as a sea and airport as reward for its recent terror war on Israel.
The statement comes after Hamas official Mushir al-Masri last week said "Hamas has a bargaining chip, by forcing Israel to accept Palestinian demands.
Ongoing indirect negotiations, brokered by Egypt, may lead to a new deal for prisoner releases. "We will release as many Palestinian prisoners as possible", Egypt negotiators said.
Hamas has demanded the 63 re-arrested Shalit deal terrorists to be released along with hundreds of others as part of the newest round of swaps.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29596822
MPs in UK have backed for Palestine to be recognised to have a state.
14th October 2014
I agree with Israel and US that a Palestinian state should be created through negotiations with Israel.
British Parliament passed a non-binding resolution Monday offering diplomatic recognition to Palestinian statehood as Sweden did earlier this month.
While we still support the Palestinian statehood, we believe that process needs to be reached through a two-state solution, following revelations that UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon found out about the new underground tunnels, and explored the tunnels. He said there must be more peace talks.
Countries are attending an international donor conference on Gaza's re-construction in Cairo on Sunday, called for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
20th October 2014
Earlier the Palestinian and Egyptian presidents called on Israel to commit to a long-term peace initiative.
Mahmoud Abbas and Abdul Fattah al-Sisi urged Israel to give up land seized in the 1967 Middle East war and accept a fair solution for Palestinian refugees in exchange for full recognition.
The seven-week Gaza conflict, which ended in a truce on 26 August, killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, the UN says, along with 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians in Israel.
Envoys from dozens of countries attended the Cairo conference, which was hosted by Egypt's President Sisi.
The total, announced by the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Boerge Brende, exceeded the $4bn (£2.5bn) the Palestinian Authority had asked for.
Half the sum would be "dedicated" to work in Gaza, he said, without specifying a use for the other half.
This is a major breakthrough, a very important signal of solidarity to the Palestinian people in general and not at least to the people that are suffering so badly in Gaza.
Winter is approaching with so many Palestinians homeless.
27th October 2014
Gaza Power Plant is now operating and has been since last Sunday. The generators went online sooner than expected. This is good news for Palestinians wanting to keep warm for the pending winter.
Egyptian authorities today announced the decision to build buffer zone on its borders with Gaza, with the depth of 500 meters, and a height of 14 Km, to hinder terrorist groups from entering Sinai, that recently resulted in killing 33 Egyptian soldiers.
The buffer zone construction will result in displacing thousands of bedouins in the Sinai desert, that Egypt vowed to relocate and give compensations before beginning the construction.
The Egyptian soldiers were killed during an attack on a checkpoint on Friday in the Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel and Gaza. The assault bore the marks of attacks claimed by Egypt's most active militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis.
Egyptian president, Abdul Fattah Sissi, promised taking "many measures" in the border, that it is likely to be expanded in order to pursue militants, and stop them from entering Egyptian land.
Sissi expected help from the US to stop "terror" in Egypt.
As a result of the attacks on Egyptian soldiers, the indirect negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli delegations, which were decided to take place last Monday, have been postponed until the second half of November.
2nd November 2014
Hamas reacted badly by having fired a missile at the Jewish state a day earlier after Israel closed two of its border crossings Erez and Keren Shalom with Gaza.
The rocket fired into southern Israel on Friday afternoon did not cause any injuries or damage, but marked the first clear violation of a ceasefire that brought to an end the 50-day armed conflict that raged in the area over the summer months.
Egypt has also closed the border crossing between Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula as it creates a new buffer zone to thwart future attacks by those using the Hamas-ruled territory as haven. Dozens of Egyptian soldiers and police have been killed in recent weeks while combatting Islamists in Sinai and along the Gaza border. Creating a new buffer zone was a blessing for Egypt and Israel to destroy any existing underground tunnels at the same time.
The rocket fire and the border crossings raised new fears that full-scale military conflict in and around Gaza could resume.
12th November 2014
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-councillor-arrested-blindfolded-beaten-7814392
In Chronicle Live, shocking news about Israeli Defense Force having arrested, blindfolded and beaten a Newcastle upon Tyne councillor (UK) who was on a peace mission to Palestine with his fellow councillors. Shows how very vicious and agressive the Israeli Defense Force really is. Makes you think that Palestinians were treated badly and provoked to such an extent the way Israeli Defense Force is behaving.
13th November 2014
300 new homes are planned in the part of Jerusalem's old city which Palestinians claim are theirs.
The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their capital, and the international community opposes Israeli construction in the area.
Amnon Arbel, the deputy head of planning in the Jerusalem municipality, said a planning committee approved the project today in the Ramot area.
He said the project needs to clear other hurdles and construction is years away.
An attack against a mosque in a West Bank village earlier today ignited a fire that destroyed its first floor, an assault the village's mayor blamed on Jewish settlers. The attack came against the background of competing claims to a holy site in Jerusalem's Old City.
There have been some violence and vandalism as Israeli and Palestinians both wants to pray on Temple Mount.
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=27012#.VGSVeDSsWSo
This is a very important read as Jordan fully supports the Palestinians. Jordan has a role in the peace process and very involved.
18th November 2014
http://www.imemc.org/article/6973
Shocking treatment of Palestinians. They are shot at on a daily basis, they are imprisoned in appalling conditions. Palestinians have either been hanged from a bus or killed etc. Children have been kidnapped and killed. They also have been treated badly by Israelis either in Jerusalem, West Bank or Gaza Strip.
The Israelis are so evil, and they would stoop so low as to try and destroy Palestine for their own gains.
I feel so angry that I could just cut the old Palestine in half so the Palestinians could have what they were entitled to in the first place taking in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem among other places.
Then have Nato troops along across the half of old Palestine.
18th November 2014
Copy from United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned today’s attack on a synagogue in West Jerusalem that claimed four lives and injured several persons, calling for political leadership and courage on both sides to address the “very tense” situation in the region.
In a statement attributed to his spokesperson, the Secretary-General noted that beyond today’s “reprehensible” incident, clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces continue on a near daily basis in many parts of East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
“The steadily worsening situation on the ground only reinforces the imperative for leaders on both sides to make the difficult decisions that will promote stability and ensure long-term security for both Israelis and Palestinians,” the Secretary-General said.
Extending his condolences to the families of the victims and wishing the injured a speedy recovery, Mr. Ban emphasized that attacks against religious sites in Jerusalem and the West Bank point to an additional dangerous dimension to the conflict which reverberates far beyond the region.
Welcoming the condemnation of today’s attack by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Secretary-General stressed that all sides must “avoid using provocative rhetoric which only encourages extremist elements.”
Earlier today, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, also strongly condemned the attack, calling on all sides to do everything possible to avoid further escalation.
“There can be no justification whatsoever for these deliberate killings,” Mr. Serry stressed in a statement published by his Office today.
Noting that he “abhorred” the attack and that his thoughts are with the families of the victims, the Special Envoy reiterated the UN’s “urgent call on all sides to do everything they can possibly do to avoid further escalation in the already very tense situation in Jerusalem.”
In related news, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) voiced alarm today at the recent series of violent incidents in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
“We condemn all acts of violence, which have resulted in deaths and injuries,” OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville emphasized in a briefing to reporters in Geneva earlier today.
While Israel has a duty to ensure law and order, including by bringing to justice those responsible for the attacks, any response must be in accordance with international law, the spokesperson said.
“We urge Israeli authorities to refrain from taking measures, such as punitive demolitions, which violate international law and may further inflame the situation,” he added.
Mr. Colville said that in addition to the attack in the synagogue, on Sunday a Palestinian bus driver was found hanged in his bus in Jerusalem in “unclear circumstances.”
At least six other people – including five Israelis and one Ecuadorean – have been killed in the past month in alleged attacks involving cars driven at people and knife attacks, and at least three Palestinian suspects were killed when Israeli security forces reacted to those incidents, the spokesperson said. In response, he said that Israel has reportedly announced that it will demolish or seal six homes of Palestinians allegedly involved in previous attacks.
Meanwhile, OHCHR also continues to follow with concern the “extremely tense and volatile situation” across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Mr. Colville said. There are near-daily clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces that have resulted in deaths and injuries, including as a result of the use of live ammunition by Israeli security forces, he noted.
“We call on Israelis and Palestinians to exercise restraint, and for all responses to the escalating situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory to be grounded in respect for human rights,” Mr. Colville said.
As representative for the Palestinians, I also condemn these attacks on the Synagogue.
Please keep away from Jerusalem and the Israelis to try and defuse the escalating situation in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Strip. You will get your own State if you keep calm. If you are worried about the attacks on your people, please get in touch with United Nations, and ask them to protect your children.
The children are the priority.
I will inform the United Nations to tell them that Israelis Security troops should not be in Gaza Strip, and should not set foot on Gaza Strip and the same for West Bank. Security must be tightened on the refugee camps, and other vulnerable places.
We must respect human rights. We must promote long term stability and security for Palestine.
22nd November 2014
22nd November 2014
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/PA-chief-warns-against-resorting-to-religious-war-382499
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/israel-begins-controversial-demolitions-palestinian-suspects-homes-n253506
Israel is inflaming tensions with hate and fury, and being racist. Israel deeds are still not justified. Islam is peace.
24th November 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/israeli-cabinet-approves-bill-defining-nation-state-jewish-people
Israel cannot really define, and what they say is partly racist in a way. It is up to UN to recognise Israel as a nation or a state. Israel at present cannot keep all the land that has been taken from Palestine, and must be given back.
30th November 2014
Following the "Jewish State" bill, Israel now intends to build a water barrier to expand its political hegemony.
PNN reporter said on Sunday that Israeli sources declared Israeli intentions to build a security water barrier along the borders with Jordan and Egypt in the Red Sea. The barrier will be 2.8 miles high.
The Israeli Sources pointed that the troubled security conditions in Egypt forced 'Israel' to make this decision to abort any attempt from outsiders to sneak into "Israeli beaches".
Walla Israeli Website mentioned that 'Israel' has already started a construction process to build a water barrier along the borders with Jordan in Aqaba.
An Israeli senior Officer in the Navy said, "Due to the closed land borders between 'Israel' and Jordan, and the coordination between land and see arms, the necessity to build a barrier along the water borders with Jordan was conducted to put an end to sneak in attempts".
Earlier today Mahmood Abbas have said that Palestine will never recognise a Jewish State.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last Saturday accused the United States of preventing the establishment of a State of Palestine, urging the Obama administration in an interview aired on Egyptian television to support the Palestinian bid at the United Nations Security Council – or at the very least, to refrain from vetoing it. He regrets US lawmaker's recommendation to cut aid, also says Egyptian help will be essential for security in future State of Palestine.
http://www.ibtimes.com/president-abbas-renews-effort-push-palestinian-statehood-un-1730923
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2858296/Jordan-push-UN-Palestine-resolution.html
