en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/538791 Comments by gerardantoine http://original.antiwar.com/frykberg/2009/11/06/abbas-produces-a-dubious-twist/#IDComment42426559 A unitary state would upset the demographic balance and be the end of the Jewish state. Only Jews have voting rights, which make it an undemocatic state. Having said that; it is the only viable solution. That was the reason why the minority Jewish immigrants from the world wide diaspora expelled the majority Arab indiginous population from ther homeland. These terrorists (they were in fact described by the world press at the time as terrorists; as they also targetted the British) campaigns by the Haganah, Irgun and Stern gangs with smuggled weapons from abroad mainly eastern Europe was already ongoing long before the Zionists proclaimed their Jewish state in 1948. Prior to "48 the Arab population was about one milion (now living and their offspring in huge refugee camps in the West Bank and neighboring countries); the Jewish immigrants appr. 20% . For more information read for instance: Ilan Pappe's "The ethnic cleansing of Palestine" or Philip C Winslow: "Victory to us is see you suffer" There are many other good books on the ME. Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:12:46 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/frykberg/2009/11/06/abbas-produces-a-dubious-twist/#IDComment42426559 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/27/worst-month-ever-for-us-in-afghanistan-8-more-killed/#IDComment40926681  IntenseDebate Notification <DIV>Thanks for your comments. Don't take them too seriously; they were just off the cuff. I agree with most of your remarks.</DIV> <DIV>However I do think that there is a high percentage of open and veiled propaganda. Fox News in a way could be compared toGoebel's Nazi propaganda machine, although its far more sophisticated. It propagates a sort of pseudo- patriotism, which is dangerous especiallywith regardsthe young, vulnerable, naive and gulliblepeople. It has recently increased it's viewing audience by some 13 %. It's a worryingtrend. It's most probably also financed by the Zionist lobby. Zionist propaganda is active, highly organised and widespread; theworld Press, at any rate in the democracies of the West, is largely amenable to it; it commands many of the available channels for the dissemination of news, and more particularly those of the English speaking world. Arab propaganda for example is in comparison, primitive and infintely less successfull: Arabs have little of the skill, polyglottic ubiquity ofr financial resources which makes Jewish propaganda so affective. The result isthat forseveral decadesnow, the world has been looking mainly through Zionists spectacles and has, witting or unwittingly, aquired the habit of reasoning on Zionist premises.</DIV> <DIV>With kind regards,</DIV> <DIV>Tom</DIV> <DIV>New Zealand</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV style=\"FONT: 10pt arial\"> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:58:08 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/27/worst-month-ever-for-us-in-afghanistan-8-more-killed/#IDComment40926681 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/27/worst-month-ever-for-us-in-afghanistan-8-more-killed/#IDComment40882596 And you can be assured there will be many more to follow and Fox News will also be responsible for the carnage by telling you "to stay the course" and hence responsible for more killings of naive young American men and women. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:29:27 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/27/worst-month-ever-for-us-in-afghanistan-8-more-killed/#IDComment40882596 http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/10/22/gabriel-kolko-2/#IDComment40373026 British statesmen like Ernest Bevin and Churchill warned at the time that splitting up Palestine into two states would lead to permanent war in the Middle East. To-day we know how right they were. The only ealistic viable solution to peace in the ME can only be a UNITARY state as was envisage by the Britsish at the time. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:59:56 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/10/22/gabriel-kolko-2/#IDComment40373026 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/08/obama-open-to-taliban-involvement-in-afghan-politics/#IDComment37913413 If you can't win, join them. Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:23:01 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/08/obama-open-to-taliban-involvement-in-afghan-politics/#IDComment37913413 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/19/israel-rejects-us-call-will-expand-east-jerusalem-settlement/#IDComment27744552 Obama should call on the marines to dislodge the Zionists from occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:41:41 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/19/israel-rejects-us-call-will-expand-east-jerusalem-settlement/#IDComment27744552 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/19/us-troops-worry-iraqis-wont-keep-up-patrols-after-june/#IDComment24926032 This was predictable. Iraq has a huge unemployment problem, so in order to feed their families these young Iraqi guys join the "military", not out of patriotism, but solely because of the money they bring in. That is the wrong motivation. They are paid to be colaborators and without the protection of US soldiers they feel vulnerable. They are no match for the stronly motivated, patriotic resistance and many will even become turn coats once they no longer have the protection of the US military. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:31:37 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/19/us-troops-worry-iraqis-wont-keep-up-patrols-after-june/#IDComment24926032 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/16/israeli-officials-us-flexible-on-settlement-freeze-demand/#IDComment24635923 If the whole of the West Bank were to become the proposed Palestinian "State" then the Jewish settlers in their hitherto illegal settlements will have to have Palestinian citizenship and no longer have the protection of the IDF. They also will have to be disarmed. A very interesting situation emerges. The settlers have the choice to return to Israel or stay and become Palestinian citizens, which they will not accept. Personal I think that a Palestinian "State" s a sheer pipedream, it will never happen and this war of artrition will continue for decades to come. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:08:36 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/16/israeli-officials-us-flexible-on-settlement-freeze-demand/#IDComment24635923 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/02/obama-iran-may-have-rights-to-civilian-nuclear-power/#IDComment23235020 The same as during the cold war years a balance of nuclear power in th e ME may well be the best way to preserve peace and prevent war in the ME. Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:17:13 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/02/obama-iran-may-have-rights-to-civilian-nuclear-power/#IDComment23235020 http://original.antiwar.com/frykberg/2009/05/31/bloody-new-battles-suit-israel/#IDComment22957608 With regards the Nakba and the heinous crimes perpetrated by the Jews during the forcibly expulsion of some one million Palestinians I would strongly recommend reading "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Ilan Pappe, an historian and senior lecturer of Political science at Haifa University. Mon, 1 Jun 2009 05:20:30 +0000 http://original.antiwar.com/frykberg/2009/05/31/bloody-new-battles-suit-israel/#IDComment22957608 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/21/netanyahu-rules-out-returning-east-jerusalem-to-palestinian-control/#IDComment22028027 A "two state solution" in its present concept will prove to be a pipe-dream. It's certainly not going to happen. If Obama was really genuinely trying to resolve the ME crisis and liberate the West Bank and Jerusalem from Israeli's brutal illegal occupation of the West Bank, including Jerusalem and bring peace to the ME, than the only way to do so is to engage the United Nations and support a military follow-up of Resolution 242 by sending in an armed internationally composed UN task force to take control of the entire West Bank; demolish the Separation Wall and illegal Jewish settlements and restore human rights for the by Israel oppressed Palestinian population. I don't think Israel would have the nerve to tackle a UN military task force. Fri, 22 May 2009 05:10:08 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/21/netanyahu-rules-out-returning-east-jerusalem-to-palestinian-control/#IDComment22028027 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/20/reports-say-obama-will-call-for-demilitarized-palestine/#IDComment22017089 The Obama Netanyahu "talks" are not more than a P.R. stunt. An independent Palestinian "State" ? it's just too rediculous for words and it will not and in fact cannot ever happen. Israel is heading for it's own demise which will be accelerated by its planned pre-emptive (nuclear ?) strike against Iran, which I predict wll happen within the next year or so. The same as the Soviet Union and the South African apartheids regime were carrying "genes" of their own destruction, so will Israel be wiped from the pages of history before the end of the 21st century. (some reckon within three decades). Fri, 22 May 2009 00:10:29 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/20/reports-say-obama-will-call-for-demilitarized-palestine/#IDComment22017089 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/17/republicans-laud-obamas-hawkish-tack/#IDComment21785467 American Presidents are merely strawmen. They do what the invisible government tells them to do. The invisible government is the CIA and Pentagon, they are "calling the shots". There is a book entitled "The invisible Government" published during the Vietnam War years by David Wise of the NY Herald Tribune and Thomas B. Ross of the Chicago Sun Times. The book was reviewed in our local newspaper. Mon, 18 May 2009 22:36:45 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/17/republicans-laud-obamas-hawkish-tack/#IDComment21785467