so where are the ancient records do***enting an ancient Palestinian nation?
if none are found, upon what does the claim for owner****p of the land
rest?
BTW lack of evidence does not prove anything except lack of evidence,
e.g.,
if I say your great-great-great-grandfather was a bastard (son born out of
wedlock) and you cannot provide records to prove otherwise, that does not
prove you ancestor was a bastard!
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>I feel somewhat sorry for dmreed...
>
> To see him thra****ng about trying to find evidence of the alleged
> Israelite nation and coming up with a romantic "mention" here or there.
> It would appear he's in hyper-active mode right now, but very
frustrated.
>
> No evidence, eh? Don't feel bad. Many have been trying for centuries.
> --
>
> Rothschildlania is a racist state to its very core.
> ADL should pack up and move there. That's where Christian-hater Foxman
> belongs.
>
> Ø
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>
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinians-barred-from-dead-sea-beaches-to-appease-israeli-settlers-846948.html
>
> Palestinians barred from Dead Sea beaches to 'appease Israeli settlers'
>
> By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
> Saturday, 14 June 2008
>
>
> Palestinians are being regularly and illegally barred from reaching Dead
> Sea beaches in the occupied West Bank, according to a Supreme Court
> petition filed by Israel's leading civil rights organisation.
>
> The Association of Civil Rights (Acri) in Israel is challenging what it
> says is the frequently imposed ban by the military on Palestinians
> seeking to swim or relax at beaches in the northern Dead Sea. The salt-
> saturated sea is the only open water accessible to Palestinians from the
> otherwise landlocked West Bank.
>
> The petition says that the Israeli military is using the Beit Ha'arava
> checkpoint on Route 90 - the only open access route in the occupied West
> Bank for travel to the Dead Sea - to turn back Palestinians, mainly but
> not exclusively on weekends and Jewish holidays.
>
> Acri says that the ban is to appease Israeli settlers operating
> concessions along the Dead Sea's northern shore. They fear losing Jewish
> customers if there are large numbers of Arabs using the beaches in
> territory seized by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
>
> A Palestinian bus driver, Mohammed Ahmed Nuaga'a, described how he was
> turned back by the military with a party of children, aged between six
> and 12, on a school trip from the Hebron district to the Dead Sea last
> month. The outing had been officially co-ordinated with the Palestinian
> Authority education ministry and included 10 teachers and 15 parents. He
> returned a few hours later in the hope that the soldiers would relent
> but they did not do so. "I tried to explain to them that these are young
> pupils who came from very far to fulfil a big dream - to see the sea,"
> he said.
>
> "But the soldiers were aggressive, and started shouting at us that
> Palestinian passage is forbidden, whether children or adults. The pupils
> begged the soldiers to let them go for even 10 minutes just to see the
> sea and return, but nothing happened."
>
> In the petition a senior Acri lawyer, Limor Yehuda, says: "We are
> dealing here with travel bans and entry prohibitions to public places in
> occupied territory which are tainted with discrimination and
> characteristic of colonial regimes. We have here prohibitions preventing
> the protected population of the occupied territory from using its own
> resources, while the very same resources are put at the disposal and
> enjoyment of the citizens of the occupying power."
>
> The ban came to light after the testimony of two Israeli army reservists
> who said that at the beginning of their tour of duty in May they were
> told that the purpose of the checkpoint was to "prevent Palestinians
> coming from the Jordan Valley to the Dead Sea beaches".
>
> One of the reservists, Doron Karbel, testified that as a "side note",
> the Jordan Valley Brigade Commander, Colonel Yigal Slovik, had said the
> reason for the checkpoint was that "when Jews and Palestinian
> vacationers were sitting on the beaches side by side it hurt the
> business of the surrounding yishuvim [Jewish communities]."
>
> Mr Karbel added: "In a conversation I later had with the Brigade
> Commander, he told me that he could come up with or find a security
> justification if he needed to."
>
> From Ein Gedi southwards, the beaches on the Dead Sea's western side are
> in sovereign Israeli territory. But the popular beaches of the northern
> Dead Sea are Israeli-run and visitors could easily - but erroneously -
> imagine they are also in Israel rather than in occupied territory. In
> April this year, the British Advertising Standards Authority required
> the Israel Ministry of Tourism to alter the wording of an advertisement
> suggesting that Qumran, close to the northern shore, and the site of the
> discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, was in Israel.
>
> In the Acri petition, Ms Yehuda says: "The illegality of the actions and
> orders of the army cries out to the heavens. This is a clear case of
> misusing security considerations as camouflage for achieving other goals
> which are unrelated to security matters and unacceptable."
>
> Israel has also been criticised for segregating roads used by Israeli
> motorists in the West Bank for stated reasons of security. Israeli
> officials reject claims that this is racial discrimination, partly
> because Arabs with Israeli citizen****p are permitted to use the roads.
> They also frequent the Dead Sea beaches.
>
> The Israeli military declined to comment in detail while judicial
> proceedings are under way, but said in a statement that "the network of
> security crossings in the West Bank was erected in response to the
> extreme terrorist threat and violence during the second intifada." Since
> the violence had "ebbed" crossings were "under review".
>
> ©independent.co.uk
>
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