Well the page is trying to promote a revisionist view of history, also I extremely doubt it’s claims about Hafia, as Hafia has always had the largest Arab population in Israel, so it’s claims that 98% of it’s Arab population (4000 - 2000 out 62,000) left in 1948 is more than slightly suspect.
Sorry that should be: “all but 2000-4000 out of 62000”
Sorry got the number wrong 4000-6000.
Sure the page has a bias (what page on this issue doesn’t), but that number is cited from The Economist, which is why I felt confident reporting it.
Here is a little bit about the flight from Hafia from a less partizan organisation:
I’d still like to say-what is the difference between the Israelies kicking the Palestinians off of their land, and taking control of it, and the English going into Ireland and taking Irish land from the Irish?
Not much, except the English don’t have the French directly on their borders, with weapons aimed.
I think your facts are screwey God.
http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/special-edition/terrorism50/unresolu.htm
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html
65 Resolutions condemning Israel have been passed, 35 were vetoed by the US.
Israel is already in violation of 30+ resolution, turkey in violation of 20+.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the US realizes Israel is ganged up on in the UN and offers its assistance & protection from politically motivated attac?
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/UN/unisrael.html
Among other things, 26% of the UNHCR resolutions involve Israel. in a world filled with countries like Burma, Iraq, North Korea, etc. that speaks for the credibility of the UN in regards to Israel.
There’s a difference, Calc, between resolutions passed by the Security Council and by the … forget the word. UN as a whole. Only the first kind have real weight.
Guess which kind pass and get promptly ignored?
Very good, you have provided better substance than my initial post. Quite true, my initial statement in re regularly vetoing all resolutions was an overstatement. Impressionistic error
Now, I would note a pattern among the Sec Counc. resolutions. Notes and calling upon Israel pass, those requiring do not. The US vetos.
My point in re Mace’s silly question was not to argue whether the US policy of largley preventing UN measures imposing anything on Israel was right or wrong - sometimes it is in my view, sometimes not, but rather to emphasize that the UN is not some supra national entity that can operate independent of the US or other major powers.
The US, for distinct policy reasons, has largley chosen to sideline the UN in dealing with occupation and Palestinian issues. That is the point. Snide questions about what the UN “Leadership” has been doing reflect a rather profound misunderstanding of the situation. The UN is a venue and a tool for legitimating in the international community national efforts. Questions as if the UN has some independent actionable capacity are simply ignorant.
Ther Palestinians think, probably rightly, that the settlers are there to wipe them out. God forbid they are not allowed to defend themselves with what little they got.
Well, for one, no Irishman ever proposed kicking the English out of England.
For that matter, no Tibetan ever threatened Beijing, and no Algerian ever claimed that France was Muslim territory.
Also, the UK isn’t surrounded by 3 billion angry Celts.