BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 06:22 AM

"Instead I have quoted senior, long established and prominent Labour people"

You have quoted a long-standing pro-Israeli regime Islamophobe who justified an assassination. Why not look at the excellent article in today's Guardian by Sarah Helm instead. Find out what it's really like in Gaza these days. Get those blinkers off.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:04 AM

What it is really like in Gaza these days is the direct result of choices made and actions taken by those who "govern" Gaza (And I use the word "govern" in it's loosest possible meaning).

What it is really like in Gaza these days is the people live with the fact that they live in a one party "state" - anyone wishing to provide a political alternative may find themselves taking a flying lesson without the benefit of an aeroplane from the roof of a seven storey building.

What it is really like in Gaza these days is the people, even in this one-party paradise, have not had the chance to exercise their right to vote since 2006.

What it is really like in Gaza these days is that while the Hamas government, throughout this "blockade", can smuggle in weapons, explosives, in fact anything they want. But they cannot for some strange reason do anything to alleviate the shortages that the people they are supposed to be governing are experiencing.

What it is really like in Gaza these days Shaw is that cement, wiring and steel can be smuggled in to build shelters for Hamas "fighters", yet Hamas have not built one shelter for the people they are supposed to be governing while ordering them to remain in locations that the IDF have clearly issued warnings that they are about to attack.

They have been on the losing side of this conflict, entirely of their own making, for 70 years - that by anyone's measurement is a bloody slow learning curve - high time they started learning from history - their fault - entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:09 AM

Yes, let Hamas show you what it's really like in Gaza these days. Get those blinkers off. As the sign says: Thank you Hamas

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:13 AM

Turn the record over, Teribus. Your unsupported anti-Hamas propaganda serves absolutely no useful purpose. We are talking about two million fellow human beings here who are living under siege. We need to find ways out of the situation. Read the article.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:22 AM

Yep, boobs, and just read the comments under the video. I'm guessing that you wrote them all in a fit of hatefest.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:43 AM

"We are talking about two million fellow human beings here who are living under siege."

Self-imposed.

"We need to find ways out of the situation."

No Shaw - THEY need to realise that they have absolutely no right whatsoever to deny the right of Israel to exist. They need to realise that they must find a way of making peaceful co-existence work to the mutual benefit of all - They need to do that - NOBODY ELSE CAN MAKE IT WORK - a solution cannot be imposed.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:49 AM

just read the comments under the video.

So, nothing to say about the video just another attempt at diversion because the video shows you to be once again full of shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:02 AM

I haven't said anything to either contradict or applaud that bloody video. It's a piece of propagandistic silliness. I've tried to tell you a hundred times that I have no truck with Hamas. What do you think of the vituperous nastiness from Islamophobes that it engendered in the comments underneath? Tell me which ones you agree with!

So, two million civilians who you claim are powerless to do anything about Hamas have brought that siege on themselves, eh, Teribus? I mean, what kind of man ARE you?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:16 AM

Trying to link me to the comments below the video is despicable but that's you Shaw. Also your use of the word "siege" for what is a LEGAL blockade is despicable, it is a deliberate lie the purpose of which is to demonize Israel - there's a word for people who deliberately single out Israel for demonization - look it up. BTW, Israel delivers 1000 truckloads of goods to Gaza daily - some siege eh - liar.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:21 AM

Very amusing. Now tell me which of the comments from pro-Israeli regime supporters you agree with. Watch it folks if you scroll down them - there are plenty of little bobads down there! They make the video itself look positively saintly (which it isn't, of course).   A word in your shell-like, boobs: if you don't wish to be associated with stuff you link to in your posts, don't post it. Easy!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:24 AM

Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle Shaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:42 AM

Come on, sunshine - your link! Which of those comments under the video would you like to endorse? Not nice, some of them, are they? How about the one that referred to rapefugees?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:45 AM

You are truly despicable Shaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 19 May 17 - 11:12 AM

"So, two million civilians who you claim are powerless to do anything about Hamas have brought that siege on themselves, eh, Teribus?"

Basically yes Shaw. Since 1948 they are and have been conditioned to be professional "victims" firstly by the Egyptians and Jordanians who by force of arms stole and annexed Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from the former mandated territory of Palestine then shut the "Palestinians" up in Refugee Camps - Not a squeak out of any of you about that (Wonder why?). Later when they withdrew the "Palestinians" under Arafat still kept those other "Palestinians" confined to those camps - now why was that Shaw - Meanwhile over in Israel they took in over 800,000 refugees and guess what? Not a single refugee in sight in the entire country.

The "Leadership" of the "Palestinians" found that by parading these poor unfortunates they could through guilt extract money from the non-frontline Arab states and the international community and a concerted campaign of provocation and management they have set out to paint the democratically elected government of Israel as black as possible. This task is made easier by gullible fools such as yourself and Carroll.

I mean, what kind of man ARE you?

You are asking the wrong person. You should be asking the "Palestinians" what sort of people they are. So far according to their track record they are the sort of people who simply cannot learn from their past mistakes. In 1948 they were sold the lie that the armies of five Arab nations would annihilate the Jews and drive them into the sea and that the land, businesses, farms and homes built up by the Jews would be theirs for the taking. They have been fed that cloud cuckoo-land fantasy ever since. By now after God knows how many attempts they should have resigned themselves to the fact that it is just not going to happen. Those two million people living in Gaza and the 2.1 million living in the West Bank have received more in international aid since 1948 than was made available to Europe under the Marshall Plan (Compare what was accomplished with that to what the "Palestinian Leaders" have done with the money that has been paid to them).

The solution is simple:

1: Stop all attacks against Israel and Israeli citizens immediately
2: Officially recognise the internationally recognised sovereign state of Israel.
3: Affirm that the State of Israel and all its citizens have the right to exist free from attack or the threat of attack.

Do that and the "blockade" stops
Do that and there will be no further armed responses by Israel to Arab provocation.

Ask the Egyptians and the Jordanians if Israel keeps their side of the bargain. As far as I know they have.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 19 May 17 - 01:12 PM

You have quoted a long-standing pro-Israeli regime Islamophobe who justified an assassination.

She is just the latest, and only quoted because it is current.

I have quoted many senior, long established and prominent Labour people, including McDonnell the Shadow Chancellor and Corbyn's closest ally, Abbott who is very close to Corbyn, Watson the Deputy Leader, and prominent people like Khan and Thornberry.

Against all those, why should anyone listen to you Steve?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 19 May 17 - 01:19 PM

Ah Keith, everybody must listen to Shaw because he used to be a teacher and here he behaves as though we are all in his classroom.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 19 May 17 - 01:34 PM

From Steve's Guardian article.

"Both the US and Britain have made clear they believe that nothing significant has altered in Hamas's position. A Foreign Office spokesman said: "They must renounce violence, recognise Israel and accept previously signed agreements."
True, what Hamas means by its new "General Principles and Policies Document" is still murky, particularly as it still holds out the possibility of a Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine. And it has published the changes now as a strategic move to secure its own survival.
After 10 years of a crippling economic siege Hamas is struggling to govern. It desperately needs money – not least to pay for fuel – and it needs Egypt to open its crossing into the Sinai. In return, both Egypt and Arab paymasters demand that Hamas show moderation."

What she gets wrong,
"The uncomfortable fact is that the west is only too happy to leave the people of Gaza inside their prison; it suits us to do so. We don't care about blighted lives, or about whether the electricity is on six hours or four hours or if there is none at all. "

No. We can do nothing while Hamas pursues its insane war against its neighbour!

"By accepting that Hamas has met at least some of the west's conditions,.."

It has not!

"On the Gaza streets there is no expectation of any change, only predictions of a new war."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/hamas-peace-gaza-stalemate

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 03:56 PM

Well cherrypicked, Keith.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 04:04 PM

"Against all those, why should anyone listen to you Steve?"

You keep saying that but you keep reading my posts. Are you insane?

And no, you won't pay me to give you six of the best across your eager, naked buttocks, Teribus.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 19 May 17 - 04:54 PM

The person who wrote that Guardian piece is clearly a dupe of Hamas propaganda. The "new" document still calls for the liberation of all of historical Palestine (ie Israel), says armed resistance is the means to achieve that goal and does not recognize Israel's right to exist.

We have reaffirmed the unchanging constant principles that we do not recognize Israel; we do not recognize the land occupied in 1948 as belonging to Israel and we do not recognize that the people who came here [Jews] own this land

- Hamas senior official Mahmoud al-Zahar

"The uncomfortable fact is that the west is only too happy to leave the people of Gaza inside their prison; it suits us to do so. We don't care about blighted lives, or about whether the electricity is on six hours or four hours or if there is none at all."

The PA pays Israel for the power it provides to Gaza. Abbas is withholding payment as a power play against Hamas after they refused to purchase fuel from the PA for their only power plant. The PA also wants Hamas to either take full responsibility for the territory it governs, or to relinquish control back to it.

The author of this piece has bought into the blatantly false narrative of victimology as propagated by the fakestinians which has enriched their leaders to obscene levels. She demonstrates the soft bigotry of low expectations toward these people. Jew haters lap it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 05:24 PM

Yep, and I'm the Queen of Sheba. 😂

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:45 PM

Israel doesn't have to worry about Egypt and Jordan because those two shabbily-governed non-democracies are propped up, conditionally of course, by the west. Of course, Israel is unconditionally propped up by the west, but hey.

The question "what kind of man are you" was a reference to your disgusting assertion that TWO MILLION Gazans, including over a million women and children, are living under a siege that they brought on themselves. I suppose you believe in original sin too. You have claimed so many times that Hamas don't allow elections and rule Gaza with an iron fist, etc., then you blame all two million for a self-imposed blockade, even though, according to you, they have no say. Well I think that isn't too far removed from the blanket attitude to the Jews that eventually led to the Holocaust. Shame on you.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:46 PM

"1: Stop all attacks against Israel and Israeli citizens immediately"
Utter and (as usual) unqualified by a shred of proof bullshit
Israel is demanding total surrender and offering nothing in return
The main cuses of the violencxe is and always has been the land-grabbing policy of Israel aimed at ethnically cleansing the area
https://www.globalpolicy.org/security-council/index-of-countries-on-the-security-council-agenda/israel-palestine-and-the-occupied-territories/land-and-settlement-issues.html
Israel has no intention of halting this, on the contrary, THEY ARE NOW IRREVERSIBLE
Israel has now written into law
THE GRABBING OF PALESTINIAN LAND
Even Israeli politiicians are describing Israel's policy as "EVIL and DANGEROUS"
If you bunch of comedians have any evidence that this is not happening, produce it insted of trying to bully and bluster it through, just like your political right wing heroes
Were's your evidence for all this bullshit?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 May 17 - 07:52 PM

That's the nail hit exactly on the head, Jim. Israel never has to give anything in return. Why would they when they have the world's biggest poodle in tow who keeps the military money rolling in and who never offers any more than the mildest scolding for even the worst of the Israeli regime's outrages?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Greg F.
Date: 19 May 17 - 08:06 PM

And its gonna get worse - just give Twitler and Mad Dog Mattis a chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 20 May 17 - 01:44 AM

Ah so Jom it would appear that it is perfectly OK for the Arabs of Palestine to openly declare their intention to grab land and annihilate a race but it is totally reprehensible for the Jews of Palestine to defend themselves. Tell me the rationale behind that thinking.

It was the Arabs of Palestine who chose war over peaceful negotiation Shaw. So yes they all must live with the consequences of falling in behind that decision. They are being asked to totally surrender, it was they, under Arafat, who declared war on every single Jew in the world. The same rules applied to Germany, Italy and Japan - if memory serves me correctly, unconditional surrender didn't work out too badly for them.

After 70 years of failure what other choice have the Arabs of Palestine got? Another 70 years of the same? There is no realistic belief in any Two-State solution by anyone, the Palestinian State was always going to be totally dependent economically on Israel. So next time the Arabs of Palestine in Gaza "kick-off" just let them get on with it, no UN brokered ceasefire for Hamas to ignore and defy.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 20 May 17 - 04:49 AM

Jim and Steve
Israel never has to give anything in return.

Huh?
In return for what??

In return for not being attacked, Israel would stop defending itself from those attacks and peace and prosperity would prevail.

Israel had occupied Gaza.
It was actually quite prosperous then.
Israel withdrew. Gaza started attacking them, so Israel defended itself with a blockade, and incursions when the rocketing gets extreme.

Steve,
You keep saying that but you keep reading my posts. Are you insane?


Huh?? It is not "insane" to read the views of others even when they are easily proved wrong by quoting people who know better.
It is fun actually.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 20 May 17 - 08:14 AM

"Ah so Jom it would appear that it is perfectly OK for the Arabs of Palestine to openly declare their intention to grab land and annihilate a race but it is totally reprehensible for the Jews of Palestine to defend themselves. Tell me the rationale behind that thinking.
"
You've had a full answer to that one - your selective dyslexia appears to be becoming a problem to your understanding anything
Go find someone who can explain it to you
"Huh?
In return for what??
Huh ?
In return to being allowed to settle as refugees from the RIGHT-WING NAZI Holocaust as refugees of course
The cast majority of today's Israelis are settlers who were given land by the British - they went on to steal more, as Ben Gurion admitted
"In return for not being attacked, Israel would stop defending itself from those attacks and peace and prosperity would prevail."
An oft repeted lie to defend terrorist war crimes
Israel will never stop its persecution and murder until all the Arabs havce been driven out and Israeel is a monotheistic state
"Israel withdrew. Gaza started attacking them,"
You've been given the maps - compare them to even the land the Brits gave
The "people who know better" are the land thieves and killers who you have admitted you are defending
Respond to the articles or put up some that prove them wrong
Even the Israeli Jews are disturbed at what is happening
-you choose to defend Israeli fascism - you have never shown a shred of interest in what the Jews have to say - fully in line with your owen politics
Jim carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 20 May 17 - 08:37 AM

Israel never has to give anything in return.

They gave Gaza to the Arabs and what did they get in return - thousands of rockets fired at them.

They are also willing to give Judea and Samaria to the Arabs for a homeland but they will not do so until the security of their citizens is assured.

Israel giving over large tracts of the land that was assigned to them for their homeland by the League of Nations in return for peace and security is overly generous by any standard so saying that they never have to give anything in return is a blatant lie but to be expected from haters like you.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 20 May 17 - 09:38 AM

"They gave Gaza to the Arabs and what did they get in return - thousands of rockets fired at them"
The most of them were "blow ins" who came to the area as refugees
They were not in the position to give people who had occupied the land for many centuries anything
You are doing your mates' trick of ignoring the facts Bobad - you have the maps, you have the statements from Jews and non-jews alike, you have the fact that Israeli seizure of land has been internationally recognised as A CRIMINAL ACT
It's like praising a rapist by saying "at least he gave me my knickers back"
"but to be expected from haters like you."
Fuck you you cowardly antisemitic prick
Yoou are the ones accusing the Jews of Israeli regime war crimes and atrocities - not me.
I don't think I have ever come across anybody who as ever attempted to denigrate the Jewish People to the extent you have
If you are Jewish, you live up perfectly to the accusation of being a "self-hater"
Your preference appears to be for those who instigated the holocaust - a "kapo" mentality
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 20 May 17 - 10:08 AM

Jim,
The most of them were "blow ins" who came to the area as refugees
The cast majority of today's Israelis are settlers

So you deny the right of Jews to exist in Israel.
That is considered to be ant-Semitic Jim. That view would not be tolerated by any political party here or in Ireland, except the extreme Left or Right.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 20 May 17 - 10:45 AM

you have the fact that Israeli seizure of land has been internationally recognised as A CRIMINAL ACT

OK, but why single out Israel?
What about the Chinese in Tibet, the Turks in Cyprus, etc.?

you have the maps
Tthey show that Israel only took land while beating off attacks from it, and have taken not a square centimetre since 1973 while giving away vast swathes including half of Egypt and all of Gaza.

Yoou are the ones accusing the Jews of Israeli regime war crimes and atrocities - not me.

No. That is just you and Steve.

I don't think I have ever come across anybody who as ever attempted to denigrate the Jewish People to the extent you have

We have not.

In return to being allowed to settle as refugees from the RIGHT-WING NAZI Holocaust as refugees of course

Another recognised anti-Semitic statement Jim.

The cast majority of today's Israelis are settlers who were given land by the British - they went on to steal more, as Ben Gurion admitted

He did not. As you know that quote was faked.

"In return for not being attacked, Israel would stop defending itself from those attacks and peace and prosperity would prevail."
An oft repeted lie to defend terrorist war crimes

It is a simple fact. Explain what you think wrong about it.

Israel will never stop its persecution and murder until all the Arabs havce been driven out and Israeel is a monotheistic state


No Arabs have been driven out of Israel. Their community prospers and grows and will soon outnumber the Jews.

"Israel withdrew. Gaza started attacking them,"
You've been given the maps - compare them to even the land the Brits gave

The only extra land is the West Bank.

The "people who know better" are the land thieves and killers who you have admitted you are defending

No. Just putting Israel's side of the story. What is wrong with that?

Respond to the articles or put up some that prove them wrong

it was one article and I did.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 20 May 17 - 10:59 AM

"The cast majority of today's Israelis are settlers who were given land by the British" - Says Jom

Apart from the Jews that had remained in the area and had been happily living there for over 800 years, Jews from the diaspora had been returning to BUY land from 1847 until 1920 when the League of Nations Mandate was created and given to Great Britain to administer. In 1923 77% of the mandated territory was hived off and reserved solely for the Arab population of Palestine. The remaining 23% represents the area we now refer to as Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and in that area anyone of any religion, or any ethnic group could settle. This was a deliberate move on the part of the League of Nations an organisation that Jom seems to have completely forgotten about

Now then Jom care to tell us what land was given by the British to the Jews. As far as I am aware no land was given to anybody - more Jim "made-up-shit".

What was taken over from the Ottomans was territory where land was owned by the Ottoman government and much of the rest belonged to absentee landlords who lived in Cairo and Damascus. In the first period of Jewish settlement (1847 - 1920) the Ottomans made a point of deliberately selling the Jews land that they considered to be useless. In the second period 1920 to 1948 the Jews bought land either from the absentee landlords or from the British Administrators. The largest influx of Jewish settlers arrived AFTER the mandate period

1800 "Palestine":
Jews - 7,000
Christians - 22,000
Muslims - 246,000

1890 "Palestine":
Jews - 43,000
Christians - 57,000
Muslims - 432,000

1914 "Palestine":
Jews - 94,000
Christians - 70,000
Muslims - 525,000

1922 "Palestine":
Jews - 84,000
Christians - 71,000
Muslims - 589,000

1931 "Palestine":
Jews - 175,000
Christians - 89,000
Muslims - 760,000

1947 "Palestine":
Jews - 630,000
Christians - 143,000
Muslims - 1,181,000

So Jom in the 57 years from 1890 to 1947 the Jewish population of "Palestine" went from 43,000 to 630,000 an increase of 587,000 the majority of that increase would not be settlers but children born to Jewish families already there.

In the 70 years since the end of the mandate and the departure of the British the population of Israel has grown from 630,000 to roughly 8,310,000. Now we know where at least 830,000 of those came from - they were Jews forcibly robbed of all their possessions and deported from Arab countries where they had lived for centuries - no "right of return" for them Jom. But as with the previous increase most of the increase in population will be accounted for by the children born to Israelis already settled there.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 20 May 17 - 10:59 AM

Keep on spouting your filth Carroll - you are creating quite the impressive record.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: bobad
Date: 20 May 17 - 11:25 AM

As for the myth of thousands years of Arab presence in what is today Israel see Palaestina, ex monumentis veteribus illustrata written by the Dutch scholar and orientalist Adrian Reland. In 1695 Reland undertook a tour of Israel, known as Palestina at the time, and surveyed 2,500 places where people lived at that time.

His most prominent conclusions:

1. Not one settlement in the Land of Israel has a name that is of Arabic origin.

2. Most of the land was empty, desolate.
   Most of the inhabitants were Jews, the rest Christians. The very few Muslims were nomad Bedouins who arrived in the area as construction and agriculture labor reinforcement, seasonal workers. In Gaza for example, lived approximately 550 people, fifty percent Jews and the rest mostly Christians.

3. No Palestinian heritage or Palestinian nation.
The book totally contradicts any post-modern theory claiming a "Palestinian heritage," or Palestinian nation. The book strengthens the connection, relevance, pertinence, kinship of the Land of Israel to the Jews and the absolute lack of belonging to the Arabs, who robbed the Latin name Palestina and took it as their own.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 20 May 17 - 11:28 AM

"Keep on spouting your filth Carroll - "Keep cowering behind your anonymity and blaming the Jewish People for Israeli war crimes and you'll continue to be regarded as an antisemitic troll
"
OK, but why single out Israel?"B=ecause they aare the one we are talking about and those are the ones you choose to defend
The fact that Israel is not alone in commuting war crimes and human rights atrocities does not alter the fact one iota
Stop being stupid
I would be equally condemnatory if we were discussion American or Former Yugoslavian war crimes
Pointing at others is no defence, you silly little man
" As far as I am aware no land was given to anybody - more Jim "made-up-shit"."
No?
According to Ben Gurion, it was stolen
"The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة‎‎, "al-Nakbah", literally "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"),[1] occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war.[2] Between 400 and 600 Palestinian villages were sacked during the war, while urban Palestine was almost entirely extinguished.[3] The term "nakba" also refers to the period of war itself and events affecting Palestinians from December 1947 to January 1949.
The precise number of refugees, many of whom settled in refugee camps in neighboring states, is a matter of dispute[4] but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (50 percent of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes.[5][6] Approximately 250,000-300,000 Palestinians had fled or been expelled prior to the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948; a fact which was named as a causus belli for the entry of the Arab League into the country, sparking the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The causes are also a subject of fundamental disagreement between historians. Factors involved in the exodus include Jewish military advances, destruction of Arab villages, psychological warfare and fears of another massacre by Zionist militias after the Deir Yassin massacre,[7]:239–240 which caused many to leave out of panic; direct expulsion orders by Israeli authorities; the voluntary self-removal of the wealthier classes;[8] collapse in Palestinian leadership and Arab evacuation orders.[9][10] and an unwillingness to live under Jewish control.[11][dubious – discuss][12]
Later, a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented them from returning to their homes, or claiming their property. They and many of their descendants remain refugees.[13][14] The expulsion of the Palestinians has since been described by some historians as ethnic cleansing,[15][16][17] while others dispute this charge.[18][19][20]
The status of the refugees, and in particular whether Israel will grant them their claimed right to return to their homes or be compensated, are key issues in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The events of 1948 are commemorated by Palestinians both in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere on 15 May, a date now known as Nakba Day."
Wiki
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 20 May 17 - 11:46 AM

You continue to ignore the information you are given and simply make up your own and you dare to call facts "made up shit"
You are a friggin' bullying megalomanic Teribus
Jim Carroll
More to ignore
Declaration of intent by Ben Gurion
"When the idea of partition was first raised years earlier, for instance, Ben-Gurion had written that "after we become a strong force, as the result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine". Partition should be accepted, he argued, "to prepare the ground for our expansion into the whole of Palestine". The Jewish State would then "have to preserve order", if the Arabs would not acquiesce, "by machine guns, if necessary."
FOREIGN POLICY JOURNAL
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 20 May 17 - 12:02 PM

Where and when have I ever made up information Jom. Got any examples of me doing that? If I did it would be the easiest thing in the world to refute what information I have given. Yet you and your pals have never once been able to do that. Now why is that Jom? Answer of course is simple and obvious, the information, facts and detail I provide are correct.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 20 May 17 - 12:15 PM

OK, but why single out Israel?"B=ecause they aare the one we are talking about and those are the ones you choose to defend
The fact that Israel is not alone in commuting war crimes and human rights atrocities does not alter the fact one iota

It is not a war crime. Israel has never been shown guilty of one.
You always and only refer to Jewish settlers, and never the illegal Chinese settlers in Tibet, illegal Turkish settlers in Cyprus, illegal Russian settlers in the Baltic states, etc.

According to Ben Gurion, it was stolen

Not true Jim, and what was the point of your paste in from Wiki?

Your "Foreign Policy Journal" article describes Israel's right to exist as a myth.
That outrageous claim demands that the whole piece be dismissed.

I do not believe that Ben Gurian "wrote" any such thing. Where did he?

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 20 May 17 - 12:50 PM

"It is not a war crime. Israel has never been shown guilty of one."
If it had not been committing war crimes America wouldn't have had to prevent it from being tried by using so many vetoes
Don't insult outr intelligence by denying documented facts Keith
You have been given them - now where are yours?
""Not true Jim,"
You've been given the actual quorte a dozen times - denying facts is your metier
What was the point of your paste in from Wiki?"
Not for your benefit Keith - but if you want to know, get someone to explain it for you
"I do not believe that Ben Gurian "wrote" any such thing. Where did he?"
Fuck off Keith - you've been given the article - take it up with them - you might try spelling the name corectly before you search for it.
You and your bullshitting mate produce nothing but denials - at least your counterpart, David Irving, makes an effort
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 20 May 17 - 02:41 PM

Don't insult outr intelligence by denying documented facts Keith

Not them again!
Perhaps this time you will actually tell us what they are!!
I can't wait!

You've been given the actual quorte a dozen times - denying facts is your metier

Ben Gurion never said it. The only evidence is one person who claimed to have heard it, in private, kept quiet about it for twenty years, then wrote a book!
Ben Gurion never said it, never mind wrote it as just claimed.
If he did, give us the reference liar.

You and your bullshitting mate produce nothing but claims that you can not substantiate. Made up claims.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 20 May 17 - 08:16 PM

Perhaps this time you will actually tell us what they are!!"
You sick, stupid litle man
You offer nothing yourself and lie about not being given anything
Typical of what the State of Israel has become in the hands of the extreme right, but, just lieke David Iriving, they make an effort at pretense
Any moron can just deny, but it takes a special breed tp persistently lie in public
Before you ask for an example - how about - "Perhaps this time you will actually tell us what they are!!"
You really do have no self respect, do you?
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 21 May 17 - 10:55 AM

You have claimed before to have "documented facts," but when asked for them all we got was bluster and vacuous, infantile abuse.
Just like now.

What have I claimed that was not verified Jim?
Specify, and I will oblige.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 21 May 17 - 11:31 AM

"What have I claimed that was not verified Jim?"
What have you verified Keith?
You've stopped putting up "real historians and experts" since they were all shot down in flames, you never respond to what has been put up other than to deny it outright, you claim that linked articles have been invented by me
"I do not believe that Ben Gurian "wrote" any such thing. Where did he?"
as does Teribus, constantly and you offer nothing in return
You are now the worst kind of bore - a self-important individual who appears to believe himself to be interesting and certainly authoritative enough to believe he has the right to manipulate and censor discussion
You offer nothing - your presence here seems to be attention seeking and your honest, what little there was of it - went on holiday a long tome ago.
I an co and count the brick if I want to be bored so if you have notheing constructive to say - I'm off
Jim arroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 21 May 17 - 01:22 PM

Jim,
"I do not believe that Ben Gurian "wrote" any such thing. Where did he?"
as does Teribus, constantly and you offer nothing in return

I do not believe it because I am well read on this, and it contradicts everything he really said.

You claim it but you can't verify it because it is not true.
Will you verify it now? Ha ha ha!

You said, "Don't insult outr intelligence by denying documented facts Keith

So tell us what "documented facts" I have denied!

Will you?
Ha ha ha ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Teribus
Date: 22 May 17 - 01:43 AM

Hi Jom which "real historians and experts" have you, or your pals ever been able to "shoot down in flames"? The total arrogance of that statement defies description. That you, armed with all your intolerance and bigotry cloaked in ignorance that in someone of your years is remarkable can argue that you know more about history than those who have made it their lives work studying the subject. But there again I am not surprised. It was you wasn't it who claimed that you knew more about the negotiations related to the Anglo-Irish Treaty than those who actually took part in the discussions themselves.

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 22 May 17 - 03:11 AM

"have you, or your pals ever been able to "shoot down in flames2
Not them - Keith's deliberate misrepresentation of what they said
Unlike you pair of half-wits, I have never challenged experts in their field other than to put contrary arguments by other experts
You, on the other hand, put up virtually nothing and dismiss everything that doesn't fit your agenda as "made up shit"
"It was you wasn't it who claimed that you knew more about the negotiations related to the Anglo-Irish Treaty"
Liar - I have never made such a claim
On the contrary - your entire case on Ireland has been based on ignorance of and hate for the Irish people - brainwashed children, celebrations for mass murder, the gullibility of a nation who really didn't want independence but were conned into it by foreigners....
At the time the whole of Ireland was commemorating the event that virually ended Britain's dominance over the country you weer depicting them as bloodthirsty morons - you are a pair of racist idiots, and like all racists you are both as thick as pig-shit about the people you attempt to invoke hatred against
Your intranegent refusal to accept documented facts was spectacularly demonstrated with your total refusal to accept what had been written about Bin Laden's business dealings - didn't fit so it wasn't true
Sabra Stadium couldn't be used as it was a wreck, Falagists being moved in from the airport, bulldozers being used to bury bodies...... all backed up with written evidence, all dismissed as "made up Carroll shit".
I certainly know more than you pair of comedians, but who doesn't
You think you can put this over by talking down to people - you are totally unable to stop yourself from doing it "Jom"
Know nothings tend to be like that
You want an example of your team idiocy
"I do not believe it because I am well read on this,"
I very much doubt if Keith has ever read a book from cover to cover in his like - his is a world of hastily cgathered and selective cut-'n-pastes (you are so arrogant, you can't even be bothered to do that - you just pontificate in a bullying manner and hope nobody checks)
No quotes contradicting the statement in question, not a single shred of evidence he has read anything (thought all out arguments - he even admitted he was "just putting Israel's case"
Arguing on the basis of just one side's point of view and failing to put things in context is not being "well read"
Keith appears to be coming down with a nasty bout of the giggles - perhaps he should lay off the sauce
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 22 May 17 - 04:04 AM

Not them - Keith's deliberate misrepresentation of what they said

Lie. I always provided linked quotes.

Don't insult outr intelligence by denying documented facts Keith

If that is not just another lie, QUOTE ME DOING IT!!

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 May 17 - 06:36 AM

a conservative councillor[,MariaGatland] for croydon is a fomer IRA MEMBER

Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 22 May 17 - 06:57 AM

I believe she stood down because of her past, but was re-elected.
Unlike Corbyn and McDonnell, she now denounces the IRA for what they did.