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Freep this Poll - In defense of 'settlements' (half way down the page)
Los Angeles Times ^ | 6/28/09 | Yisrael Medad

Posted on 06/30/2009 9:06:24 PM PDT by dervish

No one, including a president of the United States of America, can presume to tell me, a Jew, that I cannot live in the area of my national homeland. That's one of the main reasons my wife and I chose in 1981 to move to Shiloh, a so-called settlement less than 30 miles north of Jerusalem.

After Shiloh was founded in 1978, then-President Carter demanded of Prime Minister Menachem Begin that the village of eight families be removed. Carter, from his first meeting with Begin, pressed him to "freeze" the activity of Jews rebuilding a presence in their historic home. As his former information aide, Shmuel Katz, related, Begin said: "You, Mr. President, have in the United States a number of places with names like Bethlehem, Shiloh and Hebron, and you haven't the right to tell prospective residents in those places that they are forbidden to live there. Just like you, I have no such right in my country. Every Jew is entitled to reside wherever he pleases."

We now fast-forward to President Obama, who declared on June 15 in remarks at a news conference with Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, that Jewish communities beyond the Green Line "in past agreements have been categorized as illegal."

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: apartheidagainstjews; israel; palestinians; settlements
please vote in the poll:

Should the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights be dismantled?

1 posted on 06/30/2009 9:06:25 PM PDT by dervish
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To: dervish

Voting No gets “The webpage cannot be found”


2 posted on 06/30/2009 9:09:18 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: dervish

Americans should expect this from a democrat president. Hillary made similary comments as first lady.


3 posted on 06/30/2009 9:10:50 PM PDT by television is just wrong (one bad ass mistake America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: sr4402

That’s strange. I just voted and got this result

53.2 %
Yes
46.8 %
No


4 posted on 06/30/2009 9:11:37 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: sr4402
Voting No gets “The webpage cannot be found”

Same here

5 posted on 06/30/2009 9:39:48 PM PDT by Larry381 ("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
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To: Larry381
I just did a refresh after my vote and found the current poll results.

Should the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Golan Heights be dismantled?

35.7 % Yes
64.3 % No

6 posted on 06/30/2009 9:48:25 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon drama at a time!)
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To: sr4402

Go back and select the link yourself...that will take you to the page.


7 posted on 06/30/2009 9:55:47 PM PDT by ChiEs
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To: dervish

64.8% NO as of now.


8 posted on 06/30/2009 10:19:55 PM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: FlashBack

65.2% NO as of now.


9 posted on 06/30/2009 10:31:26 PM PDT by coincheck (My son is home, safe. My brother is in Afghanistan, My brother-in-law is in Iraq Pray for them all.)
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To: dervish

Looking good so far about 67% voting no.


10 posted on 06/30/2009 11:24:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (_res__ent of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: dervish; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks dervish.


11 posted on 07/01/2009 2:19:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.)
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66.3 % No, 1079 total responses


12 posted on 07/01/2009 2:32:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: dervish

This land’s the Jews’ land
This land’s the Jews’ land
From the Mediterranean,
To the great Euphrates -
This land’s the Jews’ land
This land is yous’ land
God gave it to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!
Halellujah!
Sing it again in Arabic!


13 posted on 07/01/2009 5:59:24 AM PDT by RoadTest (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - John 14:6)
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To: All

Thanks all. 67% NO!


14 posted on 07/01/2009 7:37:11 AM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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