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SITTING IN EAST Jerusalem I can hear the near-constant sound of helicopters overhead. The piercing sound of police sirens race by, which makes me fear there has been yet another attack and further loss of both Palestinian and Israeli civilian life.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been ongoing for decades, and this region is no stranger to horrifying human rights abuses.
But the last few weeks have been marked by an appalling wave of violence that has shocked both Israeli and Palestinian societies, and brought the conflict back to the attention of world media.
Israeli civilians have been stabbed by Palestinians, with attacks now happening on an almost daily basis. Palestinians have been victims of shootings by Israeli forces, as well as attacks by violent settlers. Children have been killed on both sides.
Not seen this level of unrest in some time
It may be premature to talk of third Intifada (Palestinian uprising), but certainly there hasn’t been this level of unrest in Jerusalem and the West Bank for a long time.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the second week of October saw the highest number of Palestinian deaths and injuries in the West Bank and Israel recorded in a single week since 2005.
The Israeli government has introduced tough new measures to respond to the unrest, which seem short-sighted and infringe upon the basic rights of Palestinians.
Entire Palestinian neighbourhoods have been closed off in East Jerusalem, live ammunition has been fired on demonstrators, including children, while the families of attackers have been threatened with deportation and house demolition. These measures constitute collective punishment and they seem destined to only fuel further resentment.
An Israeli organisation, Hamoked, is challenging through the courts the planned demolitions of homes of the families of accused attackers. Often houses of neighbours are also demolished in the process.
Shoot to kill
Other organisations have raised concerns about Israeli police operating a ‘shoot to kill’ policy on accused assailants. B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organisation supported by Trócaire, has said that “video footage published by the media raises grave concern that the security forces shot to kill even when it was clear that the Palestinians no longer posed a threat and could be apprehended in other ways”.
They are demanding investigations be opened into these cases.
Nine Israeli human rights organisations, including Hamoked, B’Tselem and Gisha, have called for an alternative approach to collective punishment based on addressing the root causes of the prolonged occupation of Palestine.
They have called on the Israeli government to “end the reality of ongoing and daily oppression faced by some four million people who live without hope of any change in the situation, without any horizon for the end of occupation, and without prospects for a life of liberty and dignity”.
Credible peace process
This current wave of violence has its roots in a Palestinian youth deprived of rights and economic development, and frustrated by a lack of a credible peace process.
Ireland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, has quite rightly highlighted some of the root causes in “policies on the ground intended to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem in favour of settlers, the absence of any political process or perspective which might promise an end to this situation, and among Palestinians the consequent loss of authority by political leaders and belief in a political path”.
Over two decades of failed peace negotiations have left the Palestinian population without hope.
The non-violent approach of diplomacy no longer appeals to this youth as an effective means of claiming their rights.
What drives a 13-year old Palestinian boy to try and stab an Israeli soldier, knowing with almost certainty that he will be killed in the attempt? The social media pages of these young Palestinians have often included farewell messages posted before the attack.
These attacks are a form of suicide. The absence of peace, the absence of dignity and the absence of hope is a dangerous place, and it feels as if some Palestinian youth want to walk into the abyss.
To restore hope we need to demonstrate that non-violent approaches can work. We need a meaningful peace process. We need the international community to step up pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestine, which is ongoing for nearly half a century.
Ireland should champion human rights, step up the pressure, and galvanize other EU member states to take concerted action. International pressure is a non-violent tactic that has helped create change in places like South Africa, Iran and Myanmar. We need to demonstrate that it can work for the people of Palestine and Israel.
Garry Walsh is Trócaire’s Programme Officer for Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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keep kicking the palestinians. this would be dealt with by now it the usa stopped using their veto. Disgusting policies by Netanyahu. he is a criminal and an evil man. a modern day Hitler.
At least the NAZIS were man enough to face up to their war crimes.
John do you think Israel is the same as Nazis Germany a genosidal raciest state
Not on the same scale but they certainly show the same level of hatred
The state of israel is a cancer on the ar.se or humanity.
On a smaller proportion Israel is no different than former Nazis Germany as a genocidal raciest state.
yes I agree the lever of hatred from the other Arab countries and Hamas and Hezbollah towards the Jews is terrible A miracle they have lasted 70 years in their tiny country
Yes. No difference at this stage, the abused has well and truly become the abuser.
Frank. You seem a little confused. On the one hand you complain about Islamic extremists in Syria and in the next breath you support them in Israel and the Palestinian regions. Are Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade not Islamic extremists? Which is it.
Is it not as You quoted Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister last week. “If looks like a terrorist and acts like a terrorist”. Are according to you “All Islamists are the same”.
Mick Jordan_ The diffidence here is that Palestinians are being systematically ethnic cleansed by the Zi0nist regime. Their lands are have been stolen, their children murder families wiped out in par with what the NAZIS did to the Jews during the War. Its sticks and stones compared to the 4th largest military force on the face of this planet.
On the other hand in Syria you have American Backed terrorist organisations fighting Israels corporate wars.
Nail on Head: Vladimir Putin accuses US of backing terrorism in Middle East
But according to you Frank ” one Head Hacker is the same as another”.
And isn’t the Syrian Army and the Russian Air Force doing the exact same thing in Syrian cities as the Israelis did in Gaza?
And in the Palestinian areas you have terrorists with through backing of Iran and Hezbollah
Mick Jordan_Israel is a rogue murderous state that has 100% backing by the United states.
Palestinians militants and Hezbollah are purely defensive.
They do not have the resources to even consider taking on Israel.
Israel is using this myth along with the rest of their lies as a pretext to wipe them off the map just as the NAZIS would have done
Yeah, Palestinians do not have hatred for Israel…. They all want Israel wiped from history, yet they compare Israel with Nazi’s….. Ireland truly has some really stupid people.
And isn’t Syria murderous state 100% supported by Russia?
So what you are now telling us is there are “Good Islamists” and “Bad Islamists” in total contradiction to what you were claiming last week, that they were all the same.
Mick Jordan_At least Russia is “getting the job done” wiping US back vermin off the map of Syria.
I see the Yanks are again pushing their silly Hollywood fear mongering ISIS videos again.
This encoded story appeared today…”WATCH: ISIS Executes Man by Running Him Over With Tank”
Video is 2:34 minutes long. >234 = 6x6x6+6+6+6 …”Wilayat Homs” = “11″ “State of Homs: = “11″
John abbs – Frank.
But you could also say the same about the US backed Israelis Frank.
But you never answered by question. Do you now think that there are Good Islamists and Bad Islamists or do you still think all Islamists are the same.
And last didn’t you say you were a Christian. And that you agreed that the Old Testament was no longer relevant. Now correct me if I am wrong here. But isn’t Christianity all about “Turning the other cheek” and “Forgiving those that trespass against you”?
Scarce 9 Jutro_ your slow.
Hope he is tried for war crimes in the not too distant future.
Mick Jordan_ The numbers give a good idea of who is true Islamist and who is Western manufactured Islamist. ..”Islamic State” = >17 Hebrew ISIS founder: “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “= 188>17 and 17 characters (>11 Hebrew)..
ISIS = 56>11
http://www.gematrix.org/?word=isis
ISIL = 49>13
http://www.gematrix.org/?word=isil
Frank, Frank, Frank. So you Are saying that there are now Two types of Islamic Extremists.
The “Good Type” that are against the West and the “Bad Type” that are supported by the West. But yet last week you were showing everyone the “Numbers” that told you that all Islamists were the exact same.
Are the Numbers last week wrong now?
Bottom line here, people are happy to see people on one side dying, happy to see children being hacked to death on one side… These are people who happened to be born in Israel, born into this life without choice. If you celebrate that you are worse than ISIS….. The are no winners in this. Even if Palestine got what it wanted, it would still be run by power people while those who suffer would continue to suffer… US, Russia, Islam, Jew….. Its nothing…. Its power….. It just happens to change hands while the status quo continues….
Netanyahu blames the Palestinians for the Holocaust and absolves Hitlet & the Nazi’s
Well if someone takes over half of Ireland and they say it’s the promised land by God to them and the UN says a two state is the only solution and it happens I m sure the Irish will do anything they can to prevent this. Same story in Israel. Israel was created by the US and the UN in the middle of Palestine and it has taken over nearly the whole Palestine. So what does the world expect peace?
The rest of his followers like Mick J would have agreed with Netanyahu on that one.. any excuse for mass execution of the ordinary Palestinian people. (Terrorists as he would call them)
But it is”Your Numbers” Frank that say that “All Islamists” be they Palestinian or Syrian are Terrorists. It was You that said “All Islamists” were “Head Hackers”. It was You that quoted Sergy Lavrov “If it looks like a terrorist and acts like a terrorist, it must be a terrorist” while talking about Islamists.
Now I asked you already but you haven’t answered so I will ask you again.
Do you think Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are Islamic Extremists?
Hamas and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade are genuine Islamic militant organisations and I would consider them as defensive protecting the interests of Palestinian people who HAVE NO LEGITIMATE ARMY because they would not be permitted by the Zi0nist regime.
Zi0nist backed American “Head Hacking” terrorist organisations,( ISIS, ISIL, IS Islamic State, Al Nusra, Al Queda Moderate Rebels, they are all the F***king Same) have an offensive agenda fighting America’s proxy wars,
You cannot compare them.
Frank. You do realise that Hamas are recognised even by other Palestinians as Islamic Fundamentalists. That they are enforcing “Sharia Law” in Gaza. That they have butchered any Palestinian that opposed them in Gaza. And contained in the Hamas charter is to create an “Islamic State”. Sound familer Frank?
An extremist Islamic organization swearing to create an Islamic State.
And as for Al Aqsa according to the NGO “Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers” they have used up to 17 children as Suicide Bombers.
@Mark Damme. Gt. Br. took over Palastine as a UN mandate after the defeat of The Ottoman Empire that ruled Palestine for oave 400 yrs. 77% this UN mandated territory was given to Jordan as Trans-joirdan leaving 23% to be divided between Jews and Arabs. The Arabs rejected then, and every time since then, to accept a two state solution. They, as the Hamas Charter admits, want the annihilation of the Jews. The genocide of the Jews.
From a PALESTINIAN writer who lives there see to-day’s report posted in Gatestone.
—”It is time for us to open our eyes and see the reality as it is: this is yet another phase of the worldwide jihad against all the “infidels” and “enemies of Islam.” Those who are murdering Jews today do not hesitate to murder other non-Muslims tomorrow, especially those who are seen as Israel’s friends such as the U.S. and most nations in the West. So let us put things in context and start calling the wave of terrorism by its real name, not an “intifada” or a “peaceful popular resistance.” It is a jihad.—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6754/palestinian-jihad-lies
@Joe Travers. You mean disgusting actions by terrorists,riled up by hate-mongering Imams and following Hamas’s genocidal plans to murder Jews wherever they find them.
—””The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him..” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).—-”
And from Muslim Palestinian writer Bassam Tawil in Palestine writing in to-day’s Gatestone,-
◾This jihad is not aimed at “ending occupation” or protesting against misery and checkpoints. The terrorists do not see a difference between a “left wing Jew” and a “right wing Jew.” They do not ask their victims about their political affiliation before knifing them.—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6754/palestinian-jihad-lies
◾This jihad is not aimed at “ending occupation” or protesting against misery and checkpoints. The terrorists do not see a difference between a “left wing Jew” and a “right wing Jew.” They do not ask their victims about their political affiliation before knifing them.
your fellow jewish extremists have subjugated and brought a people to their knees and repeatedly stood on them. you dish out medieval punishments to them and steel their lands and you call them extremists. Israel is the one problem to peace in the middle east. Russia have seen the control the usa have on the middle east and will put a stop to it. I just hope Israelis change their leaders before more mass murders of palestinians happens
“Russia have seen the control the US have on the Middle East and will put a stop to it”. And how are they going to do that Joe? Considering that the only two countries that support Russia are Syria and Iran.
@John Abbs. So Hezebollah is purely defensive, almost innocent-like you say.Let’s take a look at just one of Hezebollah’s operatives, Imad Mughniyeh, who murder-bombed 85 Jews and injured another 300 in far away Argentina .
—”Terror attacks attributed to Imad Mughniyeh include the 1983 Beirut bombings of the U.S. embassy, killing 63 people, and the U.S. Marine barracks, killing 241, as well as the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, in which U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was tortured and killed. Mughniyeh was also credited with numerous kidnap-murders in Lebanon, most notoriously the kidnapping, prolonged torture and murder in 1985 of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley.
Read more: http://forward.com/opinion/213075/whats-behind-mystery-suicide-of-argentina-prosecut/#ixzz3pbRJKFQx
@Joe Travers. Absolute nonsense Joe.You just ain’t standing on firm ground when you spout off. Unlike Bassam Tawil, a Muslim writer who lives in the thick of the action….see his report to-day in Goldstone.
—”◾This is a wave of terrorism based on lies. Palestinian leaders, including Abbas his officials in the Palestinian Authority and his Fatah faction, have been lying to us for months. They told Palestinians that the Jews are “invading” and “desecrating” Islamic holy sites with the purpose of destroying them. Abbas and his officials are urging Muslims to join the jihad against the Jews.
◾The leaders are now telling us that most of the terrorists were, in fact, innocent civilians who were shot dead by Israelis while on their way to buy food or going to work. Lying has become an integral part of the jihad against Jews. The campaign of lies, distortion and fabrications is not less serious than the terror attacks—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6754/palestinian-jihad-lies.
@Freebetcitycom Mike. But if you get a difficult to diagnose and cure cancer in the ar.se you’ll most like be using an Israeli-made diagnostic camera to investigate and treat while undergoing procedure.
—”Wireless capsule endoscopy is another recent technology intended initially for imaging the small bowel. The PillCam (Given Imaging, Israel) is an 11 mm × 26 mm capsule containing a battery-powered camera that tumbles through the small bowel taking nearly 60,000 pictures that are later analyzed using a platform run from a personal computer—”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657972/
the difference is one side is preaching it, the other is actually doing it. don’t let that fact get.in the way of your continued defence of everything israel patrick. you really are unbelievable.
@Marc Walsh. Nonsense! Crazy Imams and Hamas/ISIS terror leaders have no equal when it comes to stoking up hate. Take it from Muslim writer who lives there Bassam Tawil in a Gatestone report to-day.
—”What we are seeing are pure terrorist attacks carried out mostly by impressionable young men and women whose hearts and minds have been poisoned by the inflammatory rhetoric and incitement of Palestinian leaders, mosques, the media, Facebook and other social media. The terrorists who carry knives or firearms to murder Jews are usually, it seems, disturbed youngsters, who have been fired up by the pervasive atmosphere of hate poured over them daily by their leaders and these leaders’ media outlets. The current terrorists are not part of an armed group such as the Tanzim or the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, nor a “popular resistance,” a street gang, or any organized movement.—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6754/palestinian-jihad-lies
someone already did.
@Blathnaid. No he didn’t! He brought up to the fore the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Al-Husseini who was in the forefront of advising the Nazis on the extermination of Jews esp. the Jewish children who the Nazis were quite content initially to let them go to Palestine. Hussini didn’t want any to go to Palestine and had them redirected to Poland meaning Auswitz..
Altogether he’s responsible for about 500,00 exterminated in the gas chambers.
Link to above on Palestinian Grand Mufti Hajj Al-Husseini’s efforts to exterminate Jewish children during the Nazi era.
—”Indeed, perhaps the most shocking finding of Gensicke’s research concerns the repeated efforts of the mufti after 1943 to ensure that no European Jews should elude the camps: this during a period when it was becoming increasingly obvious even to the Nazi leadership that Germany would lose the war. Thus, for example, Bulgarian plans to permit some 4,000 Jewish children and 500 adult companions to immigrate to Palestine provoked a letter from the mufti to the Bulgarian foreign minister, pleading for the operation to be stopped. In the letter, dated May 6, 1943, Husseini invoked a “Jewish danger for the whole world and especially for the countries where Jews live.” “If I may be permitted,” the mufti continued,
“I would like to call your attention to the fact that it would be very appropriate and more advantageous to prevent the Jews from emigrating from your country and instead to send them where they will be placed under strict control: e.g. to Poland. Thus one can avoid the danger they represent and do a good deed vis-à-vis the Arab peoples that will be appreciated.”
http://www.hoover.org/research/mufti-and-holocaust
And just to conclude the evidence on the Mufti why not mention his successors in Palestine,etc.
—”Click to Enlarge
Evidence of Haj Amin al-Husseini
Before the Royal Commission, January 12, 1937
The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini was a Nazi who mixed Nazi propaganda and Islam and was wanted for war crimes in Yugoslavia. His mix of militant Islam was an inspiration for both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. He was also a close relative of Yasser Arafat: Arafat’s real name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. (Arafat was born, raised, and educated in Egypt and was a paid terrorist for Egypt.) Arafat himself tries to keep this a secret while Saddam Hussein was raised in the house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, leader in the Mufti’s pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in May 1941—”
http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/1937.htm.
Arab Israeli conflicts have killed 35,000 civilians since 1949, the Iran/Iraq war killed 18 million civilians Unless you’re a Jew hating Nazi I don’t see what’s the big deal!
The sooner pressure is put on Israel to end this insanity the better
well it won’t be the ‘UN’ anytime soon.
@ Mark .
Have to agree but you can buy a large knife or small hatchet any hardware shop and almost everyone drives a car it’s almost impossible to stop.
But when you have Imams waving huge knives from the pulpit exortinting people to stab Jews that makes it difficult to combat!
@Bill
I couldn’t really blame them after reading this article.
We are most certainly on the cusp of the third Intifada and I hope Israel crushes it once and for all.
With the help of he United States constantly exonerating their war crimes and feathering their war criminal nests I am sure this rogue state is capable of anything.
By crushing it I assume you mean send in the troops and just murder everyone
Most Catholics who fund Troicre think the money goes to help Catholics and Christians not to help Hamas Palestinians have the UN EU and Gulf states giving them billions every year There are lots of countries where Christians need help Troicre could take some interest and publicize their plight For interest Christians suffering persecution in Muslim countries like Pakistan
What are you on about?
John is still on the sauce from last night, keep her lit lad!
Richard Cheney_Shill comment.
Very true RoN I hope Israel destroy the Hamas terrorists once and for all!
Israel will not stop till the have taken over all Palestinian land. Then its on to Phase 2 with Greater Israel.
Time for the Arab world to lick their wounds and admit that Israel is here to stay.
Long live Israel.
IrishGravyTrain_They have been working overtime “towards that Greater Israel” since 9/11 with the help of US backed terrorist organisations fighting their proxy wars.
In the year of 2000 there were seven countries without a Rothschild owned Central Bank:
Afghanistan
Iraq
Sudan
Libya
Cuba
North Korea
Iran
Now I believe it’s down to three.
# America doing the dirty work fighting Israel’s wars.
So Frank, with Russia having a Rothchild Bank the man you so fervently support “Putin” must be part of the “One World Government” conspiracy because he allows it to remain.
Mick Jordan_Putin has been working to dump Rothschild for a long time now. The less dependency Russia and its allies have on America’s FILTHY Blood and oil soaked dollar dills the better,
Putin has been in charge of Russia for 16 Years, Frank. He could order the Rothchild Bank to leave Russia with a signature. But nothing. He seems happy to have them there. Why do you think that is Frank?
@John Abbs. Why then has Israel been getting smaller and smaller while the Palestinians population has been getting bigger.
Here’s why,-
—”The Jews abandoned the Sinai to the jihadists and a wonderful Jewish town, Yamit, was bulldozed to death.
The Jews abandoned the south of Lebanon’s security zone to Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies.
The Jews abandoned the Jewish Gush Katif to Hamas.
The Jews abandoned the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf. Let’s be honest: “The Temple Mount is – not – in our hands”. At least as of today..
Jerusalem holy sites, such as the ancient Mount of Olives cemetery, have been turned into sites of terror attacks on bereaved Jews.
The Jews already abandoned the Arab parts of the Wadi Ara Area. Have you heard of Jewish politicians or policemen entering Umm el Fahm?
The Jews abandoned 30 per cent of Judea and Samaria to the Arabs under the name of the “Palestinian Authority—”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15593#.Vi0K45tdFy1
Action – Reaction. If you don’t like being shot, then stop stabbing people & throwing rocks at innocent drivers.
the stranglehold that israel has on politics throughout the western world i astounding.
the adl and apac are easily the most powerful and influential lobbies in america, there are friends of israel groups in the dail here and in wastminister in the uk. they lobby for pro zionist legislation. their influence in the eu parliament is unreal. no one will dare criticise them or pro zionist elements in the media will tear them apart.
the wars in the middle east are in line with israels foreign policy and regional ambitions for a greater israel, some of the biggest warhawks calling for the wars of aggression were israelli dual citizens.
oddly enough isis will not touch israel despite being its border doe anyone else find this odd. .
no I don’t find it odd at all!
Just back from the second of 2 separate weeks in Tel Aviv since mid August , Both Trips were work Related, The sense of Israeli entitlement combined with the lack of any respect/humanity for the Arabs is breathtaking,
In the office one morning a “Lady” quipped that the Arabs have the same rights as her, The Israelis are a law onto themselves and only care how this revolting state is viewed by the west.
Bizzarely There are huge amounts of French who now live there to “Escape” the Muslim Element is France as they claim they are “Not Safe”, One evening We went to a resort called Netanya which is 30 mins form Tel Aviv and we may as well have been in Paris.Yet all these people can live here as they are Jewish with absolutely no connection to Israel yet the Palestinians have no right to live where they want in their own land. Disgusting
We drove to the Dead Sea resort of Ein Bokek on Friday and passed through scenes that reminded me of Shanty Towns in Cape Town only worse.
Apartheid is a alive and well in the State Of Israel and we are turning a blind eye and this needs to change,
Wow. . I live in Israel and I don’t see it like that at all…. Think you need to take off the Palestinian tainted glasses… Truly despicable comment without any merit…Shameful.
Ok so please dispute what I said Factually.
of course you don’t because you don’t want to.
@Midland Celt. Give us more details of your assignment. Was it an anti-Israel NGO propaganda assignment or whatever.
Very curious.
Do you have a different angle than the old ‘every critic of Israel is either an anti Semite or a self hating Jew line Patrick? It got old about forty years ago, along with the rest of your mud slinging that never addresses the point.
@G D. State your case with supporting links as I invariably do and it will be respected if not agreed with.
Declan you’re talking ballox
This is what I saw and experienced over 14 days in this place , Do you have any recent first hand experience or are YOU just talking ballox.
@Patrick J O’CONNOR , Was there with an open mind working on an IT project for work ,
BTW The Israeli people are rude at every turn , I have driven all over the world and they are the worst , At Traffic Lights they beep before the Light goes green FFS,
The simple fact that I came away with was that Jewish People from anywhere on Earth who have no connection to Israel can arrive tomorrow and get automatic citizenship while Palestinian people are not allowed to live in peace in their own land , This is Apartheid , Can you explain that simple point to me ..
@Mid.Celt. I haven’t been to Israel and on checking Google Israel doesn’t appear in any of the searches as being in any top 10 unfriendly countries,etc. One comment noted that Israelis are direct and to-the-point. Also recently a returnee from Is. gave a very fav. comment here re Israel.
On driving they are in the top 10 for safety:
—-”According to the Road Safety Authority’s 2010 statistics, Israel was ranked 11th worldwide in terms of fatalities per billion kilometers traveled with an average of 7.1. Sweden, Britain, Holland, Norway, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Australia, and the United States outranked Israel in those year’s statistics.—”
As far as Israel let me post an excerpt from Uzau Bulet,a Muslim writer on Israel publishd in Gatestone. And this sums it up for me too.Please read the link.
—”In other words, while millions of people worldwide are suffering real and extreme persecution at the hands of Islamists, it is Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy — where no one is above the law, where citizens all have equal rights and no one is murdered for expressing his political views — that is targeted and bullied by these so-called “human rights activists” and academics. Deaf and blind to the real sufferers all around the world, these Jew-haters seem in reality just brainwashed, misinformed neo-anti-Semites—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5425/apartheid-week
And maybe below might explain any discomfort you may have felt during your short working trips to Israel.
.’Ireland most hostile country in Europe’
Foreign Ministry accuses Irish government of inciting against Israel. Dublin City Council sponsors display presenting IDF soldiers as ‘Nazi troops’ abusing Palestinians
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4149059,00.html
And going by your other comments above I would put you in the incurable Israeli-bashing class and my advise is to avoid Israel goin forward.
You are deluded
Why can’t Israel do the decent thing and let the terrorists blow them up whenever they want to without fear of retaliation? Would this keep the mob at bay? I do not think so. Clowns on here would be moaning about Israelis hiding and not making it easy for Palestinians to kill them.
another one sided accout that fails to deal with the terrorist actions of the bunch stabbing and bombing Jews in the only democracy in the area. scant mention of who is backing Palestinian terrorists but just the usually raw jew ams israel hatred. some of the comments on here are so misguided it would make a person sick
I used to support Trocaire with a monthly donation, gave it up thanks to Gerry Walsh, of the IPSC and his part in Trocaire.
@Scarce 9Jutro. Congratulations.A person of principle.
—Did you know that a former National Coordinator of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Garry Walsh, is the Israel/Palestine Officer at Trócaire? Well, I suppose its no madder than a former Chairman of Dublin Sinn Fein and left-wing activist being the Communications Co-ordinator at Amnesty Ireland.—’
—”Trócaire has also worked with a vile little entity called ‘Zochrot‘, which promotes the destruction of Israel and is dominated by communists. Its a tiny organisation with a handful of members, but they have plush offices in the most expensive neighborhood in Tel Aviv, paid for by Oxfam and other EU-based organisations. ‘Zochrot’ also claims to challenge what it sees as “the masculine historical narrative by focusing on compassion and inclusion”. This has Cultural Marxism written all over it, so why are the supposedly Christian Trócaire working with such people?
http://crankynotions.com/2012/10/03/is-it-right-for-an-ipsc-man-to-be-the-israelpalestine-officer-at-trocaire/
I’m well aware of the part Gerry Walsh has played into turning a once christian charitable organisation into an anti Israel/Jewish enclave.
I didnt read any words of sympathy for the Israeli men, women and children killed, wounded and left distraught by the killing and wounding if their loved ones. I strongly object to an Irish organistion showing not only a one-sided and ultra biased view of a situation, but demonstrating no understanding of history. Trocaire, you dont get another cent from me.
Some not all of the Palestine land was bought by the Jewish settlers before Israel was established Arabs were happy to shell the land as it was desert then Jews made the desert bloom with hard work and dedication
Fiona go back to Israel and stay there.
Rubbish
# Not all. Just 90% was bought from Arabs who couldn’t make a go of it.
The rest was strategic territory rightfully confiscated from the 6 bully Arab armies who tried to obliterate Israel the day after it became a UN recognized state.
@Fiona Brown. In the minds of ardent Jew-haters no Jew ,not even a baby-Jew ,is worthy of sympathy. Take it from one who knows what’s really happening there Muslim writer Bassam Tawil in a Gatestone report to-day.
—”This jihad is not aimed at “ending occupation” or protesting against misery and checkpoints. Rather, it is a jihad designed to drive the Jews out of the region. Period. The terrorists and their sponsors do not see a difference between an Israeli soldier and an Israeli baby. They do not see a difference between a “left wing Jew” and a “right wing Jew.” The terrorists do not ask their victims about their political affiliation before sticking a knife into them.—”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6754/palestinian-jihad-lies
Garrys work with IPSC torpedos any chance of a balanced report. Didn’t realise he was now with trocaire. One less charity to give money to.
@Clumhain O Braonain. Well said Clumhain. I wish more people would check the details of these tax free orgs. whose executives live high of the hog while hate-mongering productive people-ikthe Jews.
—”1. Dr. Mark Dooley, Catholic philosopher, slams Trócaire in yesterday’s Irish Daily Mail. Dooley says that as the official overseas development agency of the Catholic Church, Trócaire has no business waging ideological battles, particularly in such a selective manner. He also says the Trocaire position is far away from that of most practicing Catholics he knows in Ireland, which is encouraging.—’
http://crankynotions.com/2012/10/04/more-on-my-least-favorite-charity-trocaire/
@Clumhain 0′Braonain. Thanks for that Clumhain. It’a great website. Very informative on this Trocaire Scam.
Also Trocaire salaries are referred to on link below for anyone who wants to know about their money is going.
Ex.”How many “just 2€/per month can save a child from starvation” donations does it take to pay Eamonn Meehan’s €125k / €10,000 per month wages in Trocaire,.. or do the kids get fed first ?
http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=203999
All the criticism in the world is useless against this rogue state. They are immune to any type of censure by the civilised world.
The most effective way to show our disgust is by BDS.- BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS- (check out this excellent site on Google). Their tactics are the ones that worked so effectively against Apartheid South Africa.
So long as the disproportionate Jewish Lobby in the USA is dictating that country’s foreign policy, Israel will act with impunity against the indigenous people of Palestine
@Peter Higgins. BUYER BEWARE.
—WHAT IS BDS? The global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it gives up all the land that rightfully belongs to the state of Israel was initiated by Arabs of Palestine in 2005, and is coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), established in 2007. BDS is a strategy that allows Jew-haters from every walk of life to play a role in destroying the Jewish state and giving its land to a people who have only been known as Palestinians since 1967—”
Those who sign up,and have the courage of their convictions, will have a great opportunity to turn down Israeli-made life-saving products when ill or on their death beds…..RIP
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2012/04/08/hey-all-you-bds-boycott-israel-muslim-and-leftist-jew-haters/
Peter start with your computer put it in the bin today if it has an Intel chip Made in Kildare and its sister plant in Israel
An average of six Palestinians are killed every week in the occupied West Bank by both the Israeli occupation forces and heavily armed extremist ‘settlers’. Palestinians are subject to martial law while the ‘settlers ‘ are subject to the civil laws of a foreign country, namely Israel, Palestinians receive lower water allowances than the colonists and occupation forces and are routinely refused building permits for new homes and wells while the ‘settlers ‘ are given subsidised houses by the Israeli government . They are also subjected to constant terrorist attacks by both the Israeli occupation forces and extremist colonists, imprisonment without trial of both adults and children, torture(legalised by the Israeli courts), and of course a creeping ethnic cleansing that has managed to plant hundreds of thousands of illegal colonists on land taken by aggressive war. This has been worse of all in and around Arab East Jerusalem and has to lead to the desperation pointed out in this article. Isralei government policy has always been to make life as difficult as possible for Palestinians in the hope that they will go away and leave their homes and lands for the ‘settlers’ to steal.
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Such poetic rhetoric! is best suited to a creative writing outlet, not a supposed news journal.
Especially if it’s accompanied by such bad English.
When I read the headline I thought it was Belfast
Could somebody please give me some good advice here I want contribute to this debate, but I don’t know which side to take
How far back in history should I go, who should I listen to etc etc
What is the best way to arrive at a one sided view point. Is it who kills the most.
Wait maybe people like me would be best placed to mediate a peaceful solution. I know none of you would, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing
Long live Israel.
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