UN chief urges Palestinian cabinet to meet world demands

[CDNBear]

Did any of your ancestors sign any of these treaties?

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/trts/hti/site/trindex_e.html

http://www.kahonwes.com/iroquois/iroquois.html

Yes, and they have not fully been honoured either. Or did you miss Oka, Caledonia?
Our missing money, stolen by gov't agents.

CB, are you self employed bow hunter or subsistence farmer?

Self employed and I bow hunt and fly and drift fish.

Have you benefitted from European contact in any way?

Depends on what you see as benefitial, would I rather be living in off the land? Yep. Is that practical in this day and age? Nope.

Palestinians would be much better off if they had the same rights as the people of Canada's First Nations.

They could likely get some of the same rights and treaties if they tossed out the professional aggitators and stopped launching rockets into Israel. D'uh.

 

[earth_as_one]

You may be right... but that's an issue between Queen Elizabeth of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations. Mind you she could delegate it down to the Governor General...

Meanwhile what do you think about tranferring Palestinians out of the occupied territories?

More Israeli Jews favor transfer of Palestinians, Israeli Arabs - poll finds

By Amnon Barzilai

Some 46 percent of Israel's Jewish citizens favor transferring Palestinians out of the territories, while 31 percent favor transferring Israeli Arabs out of the country, according to the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies' annual national security public opinion poll.

In 1991, 38 percent of Israel's Jewish population was in favor of transferring the Palestinians out of the territories while 24 percent supported transferring Israeli Arabs.

When the question of transfer was posed in a more roundabout way, 60 percent of respondents said that they were in favor of encouraging Israeli Arabs to leave the country. The results of the survey also reveal that 24 percent of Israel's Jewish citizens believe that Israeli Arabs are not loyal to the state, compared to 38 percent who think the Arabs were loyal to the state at the beginning of the intifada.

The poll, overseen by Prof. Asher Arian, also finds that Jewish public opinion is Israel has become more extreme on issues of foreign affairs and defense as well as on possible concessions by Israel during peace talks in particular.

A representative sample of 1,264 Jewish residents of Israel were polled for the survey last month in face-to-face interviews.

Israeli-Arabs pose a threat to Israel's security, according to 61 percent of the Jewish population, while around 80 percent are opposed to Israeli-Arabs being involved in important decisions, such as delineating the country's borders, up from 75 percent last year and 67 percent in 2000.

Some 72 percent of Jewish Israelis are opposed to Arab parties being part of a coalition government, compared to 67 percent last year and 50 percent in 1999...

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/page...ontrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0

Transfer Whom?

Boris Shusteff July 13, 2004

Few will argue with the assertion that today we live in an age of political correctness. Nevertheless, let us try to free ourselves from this preconceived notion and soberly observe the situation. Whether we like it or not, among all the different solutions available for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, we must consider the option of Arab transfer. It is quite possible that transferring the Arabs out of the West Bank, Gaza and Israel proper can cut the Gordian knot of the unending conflict once and for all.
Why transfer? From Israel’s standpoint, the answer is simple. It is a very realistic way to separate the Jews from the Arabs. It is an extremely painful and at the same time very pragmatic method by which the Arabs themselves will bear the consequences of their wild hatred of Jews and their non-acceptance of Israel. It is an excellent way to preserve Israel as a Jewish state. And perhaps most importantly, it is the only solution that can have a long-lasting effect, thus enabling peace. ....

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2004/july/b1.htm

Is this a good idea?

Why or why not?