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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (8287)	5/10/2005 9:10:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

No, even the one who commited suicide was an evil schemer. But don't forget, it wasn't just Enron, it was all the Texas energy companies at once. Enron was just the engine pulling the train of thieves, and they started their ripping off the day after Bush-Cheney were nominated, only stopping for awhile the day after jeffords switched parties and temporarily have Democrats subpoena powers. In other words, no accident gas prices are a buck higher under Bush than they were before. All part of the plan.

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (8287)	5/11/2005 11:59:22 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 22250

WHAT WOULD ONE SAY, IF… by Hans Lebrecht What would one say, if any country in the world would outlaw that married spouses and their offspring of originally different native countries, of different national or religious background may settle down together on its territory and to live a normal family life together? Violation of human rights, or simple inhuman legislation, may-be aiming “to keep clean the integrity of the national character of the country in question”, or simply racism…? The reader may choose whatever he finds fit. Such legislation was passed into law last Thursday (July 31) by a majority vote of 53 against 25 in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, just before dispersing for the summer recess. In fact, the matter is about an amended addition to one article of the 1953 citizenship law, which has anyway some ingredients of racist character. For example, the fact that according to this 1953 law, any Jewish person, born by a Jewish mother, or having been converted to Jewish religion by an orthodox Rabbinical procedure, by entering the State of Israel and declaring his intention to settle down there, is bestowed from the very first moment of his entering the country with full Israeli citizenship, with all duties and rights involved (including voting rights at elections). On the other side, a so-defined “Non-Jew” can receive at the best a temporary or in some circumstance a permanent residency in the Jewish State. If he or she is of indigenous Palestinian Arab origin, even born in the land prior to the establishment of the State of Israel during the Turkish or British rule, or born already in Israel, he (she) is entitled to apply for Israeli citizenship at the age of between 18 and 23 only. Usually, if the secret services are not interfering, the citizenship is granted. This is the original law. Now, one article of it was amended by the Knesset government majority to rule that a married couple, one of it being a Palestinian from the occupied territories (in official Israeli lingo “Judea, Samaria and Gaza”), the Israeli citizen marriage partner may remain residing in Israel, but his or her spouse cannot live together with him or her in Israel. Even already such married couples, with or without children, have from now on to live either separated, or move to the occupied Palestinian areas. The wall, which Sharon is desperate to complete, represents one of the most insidious measures undertaken by Israel as it usurps yet more Palestinian land from the ever-shrinking patch of post-partition Palestinian territory. The wall will extend for more than 1,000 kilometers. The Green Line marking the 1967 borders was no longer than 360 kilometers, which confirms Israel’s plan to incorporate Palestinian towns and villages beyond the Green Line. These are the areas in which Israel has implanted large numbers of settlements which it has no intention of dismantling