Re: Re: The Charter also says that the UN lacks jurisdiction over internal matters.
The internal matter is the location of Israel's capital in Jerusalem. Whether or not a separate Palestinian state is created has nothing to do with whether Jerusalem is Israel's capital. Your inferences are therefore unfounded.
In any case, Israel is not the barrier to the creation of a second Palestinian Arab state. (Jordan is of course the first as it encompasses 2/3 of Palestine and the majority of its population is Palestinian.) The Arabs rejected the creation of a Palestinian state in 1948. They could easily have created one prior to 1967 when Gaza, Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem were under their control. They have been offered a state several times since 1967, but have always rejected it. Their own policy statements indicate that what they actually want is the destruction of Israel. They are opposed to the two-state solution.
Re: Re: They've turned down multiple offers of a state ...
Judea and Samaria are not, as a matter of law or ethics, exclusive Arab territory. Indeed, the League of Nations Mandate, the Balfour Declaration, the agreement with King Faisal, and the UN partition resolution all anticipated that Jews would live in Judea and Samaria. The current proposal for apartheid, with only Arabs in the "Palestinian state", has no basis in law. Nor are the settlements illegal. But, to answer your question, the UN partition plan, which Israel accepted but the Arabs rejected, gave the Arabs more than they had after the 1949 Armistice and internationalized Jerusalem. Subsequent Israeli offers have been for almost all of Judea and Samaria, with small swaps of territory, and in one case even included East Jerusalem.
Re: Re: Trump merely reiterated the existing policy of the United States ...
The Palestinians are not interested in peace. They've turned down multiple offers of a state and have repeatedly stated that their real purpose is the destruction of Israel. They pointlessly demand Jerusalem as their capital. They haven't satisfied their obligations under the Oslo Accords; why expect them to live up to a peace treaty? The peace process is a farce - it has produce nothing other than the release of terrorists. It makes sense to have a neutral broker when there are two sides to a dispute and both would like to resolve it. There is no point when one side does not want to resolve the dispute and has no case.
It would be interesting to see exactly what Israel has requested be taken down. What Israel usually calls "incitement" is not news but explicit calls for terrorism and/or rioting, such as those frequently issued by the Palestinian Authority, the various terrorist groups (Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad), and the preachers at Al-Aqsa mosque. Such calls for violence are not protected by the First Amendment in the United States, but requests to take them down as inappropriate are routinely rejected by Facebook in the United States. Indeed, the Palestinian Authority is required by the Oslo Accords to suppress "incitement", an obligation which it frequently violates.
I don't like censorship, but this article does not convince me that Israel is censoring news or legal political expression.
No, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. The Knesset, the Supreme Court, the President's office, and the various Ministries are all in Jerusalem. When the representatives of a country whose embassy is in Tel Aviv want to meet with the Israel government, they have to go to Jerusalem. The location of a country's capital is not up to other countries. What you mean is that many other countries are opposed to Jerusalem being the capital of Israel.
Furthermore, the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was not due to Trump. Congress recognized Jerusalem as the capital in 1995 by a large, bipartisan margin. Trump merely reiterated the existing policy of the United States and went ahead with the long delayed decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
If the problem is that the system doesn't support complex queries, they can simply release the entire data set in some standard form and let other people load it into their more capable query systems. It is hard to imagine that they don't have such an export capability, and as far as I can see there is nothing confidential about such data, so they would need to do little or no redaction.
$600b is far out of the normal range of transactions. That's the Gross Domestic Product of South Africa, 25th in the world. The software could easily flag transactions considerably smaller than that and require confirmation.
Actually, "stupider" is perfectly acceptable. Many fluent and highly educated speakers of English use it. I myself am a native speaker of English with a Ph.D. in Linguistics and I strongly prefer "stupider" to "more stupid". Virtually all speakers of English accept -er comparatives of monosyllabic adjectives and reject them for most adjectives of more than two syllables. There is considerable variation with regard to disyllabic adjectives like "stupid".
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
Re: Re: The Charter also says that the UN lacks jurisdiction over internal matters.
In any case, Israel is not the barrier to the creation of a second Palestinian Arab state. (Jordan is of course the first as it encompasses 2/3 of Palestine and the majority of its population is Palestinian.) The Arabs rejected the creation of a Palestinian state in 1948. They could easily have created one prior to 1967 when Gaza, Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem were under their control. They have been offered a state several times since 1967, but have always rejected it. Their own policy statements indicate that what they actually want is the destruction of Israel. They are opposed to the two-state solution.
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
Re: Re: The Security Council is a purely political organization.
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
Re: Re: Nor are the settlements illegal
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
Re: Re: They've turned down multiple offers of a state ...
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
Re: Re: Trump merely reiterated the existing policy of the United States ...
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
incitement
I don't like censorship, but this article does not convince me that Israel is censoring news or legal political expression.
On the post: Facebook Allowing Israeli Security Forces To Shape The News Palestineans See
Re: Re: Minor correction...
Furthermore, the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was not due to Trump. Congress recognized Jerusalem as the capital in 1995 by a large, bipartisan margin. Trump merely reiterated the existing policy of the United States and went ahead with the long delayed decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
On the post: Macedonia Copyright Collection Group Forces All Macedonian Music Off Of All Macedonian Broadcasts
macedonian radio music
On the post: NYPD Says Software Built To Track Seized Property Can't Actually Do The One Thing It's Supposed To Do
nypd seizure database
On the post: UK Court Blocks Author From Publishing A Book About His Own Sexual Abuse, At Ex-Wife's Request
Re: Re:
On the post: Court Tells DOJ To Stop Stalling And Figure Out If People Suing Over No Fly List Can Get Off
Re: Re: Don't need a magic ball to see where this will head...
On the post: $600 Billion 'Fat Finger' Causes Deals Worth More Than Sweden's Economy To Be Cancelled
Re: Don't Question Normal Activity
On the post: The Worst Legal Advice Ever, Presented By A Clueless Blogger For An Insurance Company
"stupider"
Next >>