Israeli environmental vandalism highlighted at the U.N. climate signings.

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Abbas Signs Climate Accord, Accuses Israeli Settlements of Destroying the Environment

Speaking at signing of Paris Agreement at UN headquarters, Palestinian president calls on international community to help end Israeli occupation. Israel's UN ambassador accuses Abbas of 'spreading hatred at UN.'

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.715925
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Abbas is correct. Israeli activities in Occupied Palestine are severely detrimental to the region.

Why is the ' West ' paying them to continue ?


Abbas' presence at the signing ceremony had symbolic importance in the wake of Palestine's de facto recognition of statehood by the United Nations, which since 2012 has considered Palestine a non-member observer state.

It was the first time a Palestinian president sat in the General Assembly hall as a state party to a treaty at a signing ceremony.
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The United States has never adopted the position that West Bank settlements are illegal and indeed legal scholars have noted that a country acting in self-defense may seize and occupy territory when deemed necessary to protect itself. In addition, the occupying power may require, as a condition for its withdrawal, security measures designed to ensure its citizens are not menaced again from that territory. In that regard I can't see Israel ever giving back the Golan Heights.
 
Milagro said:
The United States has never adopted the position that West Bank settlements are illegal
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Your propaganda pump has misinformed you, little charmer- either that or you choose to, troll-like, mislead the forum intentionally.

An opinion by a legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State found the settlements contrary to international law in 1978, though no Administration has officially stated so since the Carter Administration. On April 21, 1978, Legal Adviser of the Department of State Herbert J. Hansel issued an opinion, on request from Congress, that creating the settlements "is inconsistent with international law", and against Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.[45] Hansell found that "[w]hile Israel may undertake, in the occupied territories, actions necessary to meet its military needs and to provide for orderly government during the occupation, for the reasons indicated above the establishment of the civilian settlements in those territories is inconsistent with international law."[46][47] This opinion, "has neither been revoked or revised",[45] and remains the policy of the United States according to Hansel, The Washington Post, and the Rand Corporation's Palestinian State Study Project.[48] The Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations all publicly characterized the settlements as illegal.[49]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law_and_Israeli_settlements#United_States
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and indeed legal scholars have noted that a country acting in self-defense may seize and occupy territory when deemed necessary to protect itself.
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Oooooh ! ' Legal scholars ' eh ? Let's see you you post any relevant international law which supports the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.


In addition, the occupying power may require, as a condition for its withdrawal, security measures designed to ensure its citizens are not menaced again from that territory. In that regard I can't see Israel ever giving back the Golan Heights.
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You mean ' in addition ' to your previous guff. Israel actually initiated the 1967 war and it is Palestine , Syria and Lebanon which are ' menaced ' by its continuing, illegal, occupation.

Come back with authoritative support, little charmer, because your spurious and fallacious propaganda pumping has long since been discredited . This serves as another example.
 
moon2012 said:
Your propaganda pump has misinformed you, little charmer- either that or you choose to, troll-like, mislead the forum intentionally.






Oooooh ! ' Legal scholars ' eh ? Let's see you you post any relevant international law which supports the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.




You mean ' in addition ' to your previous guff. Israel actually initiated the 1967 war and it is Palestine , Syria and Lebanon which are ' menaced ' by its continuing, illegal, occupation.

Come back with authoritative support, little charmer, because your spurious and fallacious propaganda pumping has long since been discredited . This serves as another example.
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So if you believe that to be the case then you should also call upon Putin to give back Kaliningrad, after all it was illegally occupied by the Russians in the aftermath of WW2. I mean if you are going to rail about the Nakba then why not about the forced ethnic cleansing which resulted in virtually the entire indigenous population being shipped off and replaced with Russians?

Out of Königsberg’s prewar population of approximately 350,000 Germans 42,000 died during the war while many had fled elsewhere to escape the fighting. Precise numbers are hard to come by, but perhaps as many as 100,000 survived the aerial onslaught of 1944, only to be held as virtual prisoners within their own city by the Red Army while enduring tremendous suffering until they were expelled 500 km westward across Poland to Germany between 1949 and 1950 as part of Stalin’s ethnic cleansing project to remove every ethnic German from former Nazi territory that was now part of the Soviet communist empire. This resulted in the largely hushed over fact that a staggering number of approximately 13 million Germans were to be repatriated to the remaining German territory west of the Neisse river, the new Eastern border of German as agreed to by the Allied Forces at the 1945 Potsdam agreement on policy for the occupation and reconstruction of Germany.

The City of Königsberg is part of history now, its fate largely forgotten if not outright ignored. Yet today, and every year since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, many German expellees originally from that ill-fated city and surrounding area undertake a trek back to their former homeland to look for that which was forever taken from them: their place of birth and the communities they grew up in. These are the things by which most of us are able to define ourselves, e.g., "where are you from?". Often referred to as “homesickness-tourism”, it finds now mostly aging people or their descendants looking for their cultural and ancestral roots so cruelly ripped out from underneath them after hundreds of years of settlement in East Prussia. Here, the worst kind nostalgia reigns: to find yourself in a present with little or no continuity with the past to latch on to, and putting into question the very memories you have of it and yourself being nurtured by it.
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http://canitz.org/
 
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Milagro said:
So if you believe that to be the case then you should also call upon Putin to give back Kaliningrad, after all it was illegally occupied by the Russians in the aftermath of WW2. I mean if you are going to rail about the Nakba then why not about the forced ethnic cleansing which resulted in virtually the entire indigenous population being shipped off and replaced with Russians?
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Chalk and cheese, Fool. Kaliningrad is Russian under international law.
At the end of World War II in 1945, the city became part of the Soviet Union pending the final determination of territorial questions at the peace settlement (as part of the Russian SFSR) as agreed upon by the Allies at the Potsdam Conference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad
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Palestine is, unquestionably, illegally occupied by neoZionist forces and is a discrete, UN-recognised state . Even the Israeli courts describe the situation as 'belligerent occupation

I told you some time back that you'd hitched your hoss to the wrong wagon, you daft twat. Now you can't unhitch it. You're going down.
 
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