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Both Palestinians and Israelis celebrate prisoner swap
The release of more than 400 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one detained Israeli soldier elicited waves of celebration Tuesday, both from relatives of Palestinian prisoners and Israelis anticipating the famed soldier's homecoming.
But the situation remains dicey for Israelis opposing the deal.
Hundreds of Palestinian family members turned out in Gaza and the West Bank to welcome their relatives, with some waving flags of the Islamist group Hamas.
Ahmed Qawasmi, 80, is awaiting the release of his son Amer, who was arrested when he was 17 and has been in jail 24 years.
"I am very, very happy for the release of my son Amer," he said, but added: "The celebrations and happiness won't be complete until all Palestinian prisoners are free from Israeli prisons."
Israel agreed to free a total of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners - 477 on Tuesday, and 550 later this year - in exchange for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held captive by Hamas for five years.
Chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erakat described "an overwhelming feeling of humanity" Tuesday amid the Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap - and acknowledged that Hamas was able to achieve a deal when the Palestinian Authority could not.
"I have been talking to the Israelis for many, many years about prisoners - the need to release prisoners - and we could not convince," Erakat said.
"It's a good day, and we welcome it (in) the strongest possible terms, and we hope one day we will have nothing but peace on the two sides," he said.
Hassan Mousa, a Hamas leader in the West Bank, echoed Erakat's sentiment.
"This is a great day that (has) brought happiness to all Palestinian people," he said. "It has unified the Palestinian people together. It will free people who have been in Israeli jails more than 34 years and more than 30 years, and many more with high sentences, and will free the women and children alike."
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note: imagine how outraged you would be if all of these accusations were made at Iran or Venezuela
1955-1992:
* Resolution 106: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid".
* Resolution 111: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".
* Resolution 127: " . . . 'recommends' Israel suspends it's 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".
* Resolution 162: " . . . 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".
* Resolution 171: " . . . determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".
* Resolution 228: " . . . 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control".
* Resolution 237: " . . . 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".
* Resolution 248: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".
* Resolution 250: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".
* Resolution 251: " . . . 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250".
* Resolution 252: " . . . 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".
* Resolution 256: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".
* Resolution 259: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".
* Resolution 262: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".
* Resolution 265: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".
* Resolution 267: " . . . 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem".
*Resolution 270: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".
* Resolution 271: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".
* Resolution 279: " . . . 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 280: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 285: " . . . 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".
* Resolution 298: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".
* Resolution 313: " . . . 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 316: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".
* Resolution 317: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".
* Resolution 332: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".
* Resolution 337: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".
* Resolution 347: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".
* Resolution 425: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 427: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
* Resolution 444: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".
* Resolution 446: " . . . 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious
obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
* Resolution 450: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".
* Resolution 452: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories".
* Resolution 465: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member
states not to assist Israel's settlements program".
* Resolution 467: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".
* Resolution 468: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of
two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return".
* Resolution 469: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the
council's order not to deport Palestinians".
* Resolution 471: " . . . 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide
by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
* Resolution 476: " . . . 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".
* Resolution 478: " . . . 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its
claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'".
* Resolution 484: " . . . 'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported
Palestinian mayors".
* Resolution 487: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's
nuclear facility".
* Resolution 497: " . . . 'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan
Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith".
* Resolution 498: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".
* Resolution 501: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".
* Resolution 509: " . . . 'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon".
* Resolution 515: " . . . 'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and
allow food supplies to be brought in".
* Resolution 517: " . . . 'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions
and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* Resolution 518: " . . . 'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".
* Resolution 520: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut".
* Resolution 573: " . . . 'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia
in attack on PLO headquarters.
* Resolution 587: " . . . 'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw
its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".
* Resolution 592: " . . . 'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students
at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops".
* Resolution 605: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices
denying the human rights of Palestinians.
* Resolution 607: " . . . 'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly
requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.
* Resolution 608: " . . . 'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians".
* Resolution 636: " . . . 'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.
* Resolution 641: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 672: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians
at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
* Resolution 673: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United
Nations.
* Resolution 681: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of
Palestinians.
* Resolution 694: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and
calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.
* Resolution 726: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.
* Resolution 799: ". . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians
and calls for there immediate return.
1993 to 1995
UNGA Res 50/21 – The Middle East Peace Process (Dec 12, 1995)
UNGA Res 50/22 – The Situation in the Middle East (Dec 12, 1995)
UNGA Res 49/35 – Assistance to Palestinian Refugees (Jan 30 1995) l
UNGA Res 49/36 – Human Rights of Palestinian Refugees (Jan 30 1995)
UNGA Res 49/62 – Question of Palestine (Feb 3 1995)
UNGA Res 49/78 – Nuclear Proliferation in Mideast (Jan 11 1995)
UNGA Res 49/87 – Situation in the Middle East (Feb 7 1995)
UNGA Res 49/88 – The Middle East Peace Process (Feb 7 1995)
UNGA Res 49/149- Palestinian Right- Self-Determination (Feb 7 1995)
UNGA Res 48/213 – Assistance to Palestinian Refugees (Mar 15, 1994)
UNGA Res 48/40 – UNRWA for Palestinian Refugees (Dec 13, 1993)
UNGA Res 48/41 – Human Rights in the Territories (Dec 10 1993)
UNGA Res 48/58 – The Middle East Peace Process (Dec 14 1993)
UNGA Res 48/59 – The Situation in the Middle East (Dec 14 1993)
UNGA Res 48/71 – Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Mideast (Dec 16 1993)
UNGA Res 48/78 – Israeli Nuclear Armanent (Dec 16 1993)
UNGA Res 48/94 – Self-Determination & Independence (Dec 20 1993)
UNGA Res 48/124- Non-interference in Elections (Dec 20 1993)
UNGA Res 48/158- Question of Palestine (Dec 20 1993)
UNGA Res 48/212- Repercussions of Israeli Settlements (Dec 21 1993)
There simply is not enough room on this entire blogsite to post every UN resolution against Israel from 1995-present. now, honestly. What would you think if this many resolutions had been made against Iran, and NOTHING had been done about them?
It is illegal for Israel to have nuclear weapons, duh. Yet:
“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. . . . Our armed forces . . . are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under.”
Interview with Dutch-Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld, January 30, 2003: http://www.de.indymedia.org/2003/01/39170.shtml
"I am the God who created heaven and earth. I shall increase you, and multiply you exceedingly; and kings shall come from you and shall rule wherever the foot of the sons of man has trodden. I shall give to your seed all the earth which is under heaven, and they shall rule over all the nations according to their desire; and afterwards they shall draw the whole earth to themselves and shall inherit it forever"-The Jews Book of Jubilees
Can you give us all of the US resolutions against other countries also, otherwise I'll think your a little bit anti-semitic. Thank you.
@David...why don't you do that for US? You could post the numerous resolutions against Israel that were erased by our own government if you wanted to RATHER than trying to make it seem as if the crimes against humanity and the international laws Isreal continues to violate are simple cases of anti-semitism when exposed. Not to mention God himself turned the Roman Empire loose on Jerusalem in the years 66-70 CE...if you believe in the bible President Obama swore on when he took oath of office. Watch as the US turns on Israel and does to her exactly what the Roman Empire did. According to jewish historian Josephus, jewish women were eating their own babies during the four year long siege of Jerusalem. Only those ignorant of scripture believe that Israel remains as "God's chosen nation". Even agnostics see Israel for what she really is.
Read some of your other stuff. Your anti-semitic. That comes through loud and clear.
If God weren't anti-semetic himself, Israel wouldn't be having all these troubles. That's what you get when you murder the Son of God. You get God's vengeance, and how.
According to the stories written down and passed from generation to generation IT WAS THE GUYS IN CHARGE, THE ROMANS (ITALIAN FOREFATHERS), WHO DID IN JESUS....JEWS JUST HAPPENED TO BE LIVING IN THE AREA.....KINDA LIKE MIDDLE CLASS IN AMERICA!
UN resolutions against Israel ©
It is illegal for Israel to have nuclear weapons, duh. Yet:
“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. . . . Our armed forces . . . are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under.”
Interview with Dutch-Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld, January 30, 2003: http://www.de.indymedia.org/2003/01/39170.shtml
"I am the God who created heaven and earth. I shall increase you, and multiply you exceedingly; and kings shall come from you and shall rule wherever the foot of the sons of man has trodden. I shall give to your seed all the earth which is under heaven, and they shall rule over all the nations according to their desire; and afterwards they shall draw the whole earth to themselves and shall inherit it forever"-The Jews Book of Jubilees
October 18, 2011 at 10:24 am | Report abuse | Reply
You should be banned from posting hate, duh.
You just don't get it, do you?
You're an anti- semite using the bible to hide behind, all the while spreading even more hatred of Israel. Palestinian propaganda. You are a joke.
Did you just say that God was anti-semitic himself?? Oh boy, that's so way out of my scoope of understanding that I am just going to go and pray for you. You have completley twisted what god is all about to suit your idea of revenge on Israel. What is wrong with you, that you should harbor such hatred for the Jewish people?
Yes David/Donna
Philip:
Again? Really? I don't know enough about this subject to comment on the threads about it, which is why I haven't.
I'm not David; I've seen him around on all the threads today-but if it makes you feel better, go ahead and think/blame me anyway.
I just don't care *what* you think anymore.
Oh, btw, thanks for the links you provided today.
They were useful.
And to think I gave away a perfectly good ~
*Facepalm*™
I'm ever the optimist, I guess. More fool, me.
Good night.