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US accuses Syria of inciting violence on Nakba Day

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The White House is blaming Syria for inciting deadly protests across its border and into the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday such behavior on the part of Syria is unacceptable. He said it was intended to draw attention from the Syrian government’s violent crackdown on its own people who are pushing for reforms.

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s security forces have tried to crush an uprising against his regime with gunfire, sieges and shelling.

Carney’s comments come after Palestinian mass marches toward Israeli borders that led to armed clashes and multiple deaths on Sunday. Carney said Israel has the right to defend its borders and that its neighbors have a responsibility not to prompt such clashes. He called for restraint on all sides.

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48 responses to “US accuses Syria of inciting violence on Nakba Day”

  1. muhocaw Avatar
    muhocaw

     My hope is that the arab awakening stirs the ethnically cleansed 60 year old women to peacefully walk into Israel. Such woman shot or beaten will do more than ten thousand suicide bombers. An ML King or Ghandi is what the Palestinians need.

  2. muhocaw Avatar
    muhocaw

     My hope is that the arab awakening stirs the ethnically cleansed 60 year old women to peacefully walk into Israel. Such woman shot or beaten will do more than ten thousand suicide bombers. An ML King or Ghandi is what the Palestinians need.

  3. Avatar
    Anonymous

     My hope is that the arab awakening stirs the ethnically cleansed 60 year old women to peacefully walk into Israel. Such woman shot or beaten will do more than ten thousand suicide bombers. An ML King or Ghandi is what the Palestinians need.

  4. muhocaw Avatar
    muhocaw

    A) Ethnic cleansing is a war crime… for which Nazis & Serb  nationalists have been tried
    B) The right of return is a civil right,  taking a persons home without compensation is a void taking

    Obama is my man.  But he will wake up & join the civil rights struggle of the dispossessed 

  5. Avatar
    Anonymous

    A) Ethnic cleansing is a war crime… for which Nazis & Serb  nationalists have been tried
    B) The right of return is a civil right,  taking a persons home without compensation is a void taking

    Obama is my man.  But he will wake up & join the civil rights struggle of the dispossessed 

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      Anonymous

      Does that go for Jews from Arab countries (60 percent of Israel) for their ‘nakba’ muhocaw?? or is you Arab awakening a one way street where peace does not prevail and the goal is to eliminate Israel….Nakba day was pathetic and proves that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

      1. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        I am with you… Arab Jews should go back to their native Arab countries and European Jews to Europe and Palestinians to Palestine. Palestinian Jews are welcome to stay. Palestine is their home.

        1. Avatar
          Anonymous

          Every Jew who lives in Israel (and any Jew who lives anywhere) is a Palestinian Jew. 

        2. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @eblashko:disqus 
          I do not agree with you… Last I checked Judaism is a religion and not a race… If I were to convert to Judaism, I want to keep my Lebanese identity and ancestry… There are scores of families in Europe who just believed in and converted to Judaism that does not make them Palestinians. If we go by your logic, we should send the Armenians back to Armenia and the Arabs back to Arabia (I wish). The root of the problem is not your ancestry but the religion feudal isolationism and Islamic fundamentalism and that goes for the entire area. Look at Syria, how a minority is suppressing their own brothers and slaughtering them cold blooded JUST because they follow a different religion. I bet you that if you were to study the make up of the Israeli Jews you will find the same ratio of J1 (Arabs), J2 (Canaan/Hebrew/Phoenician) and R2b (European) haplotype present in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. That makes us all one nation sharing a rich and a beautiful history. To label oneself as purely Arab, or Jew, or Phoenician or whatever denies that history and hides one behind a slim finger.

        3. Avatar
          Anonymous

          Hannibal, thanks for your response.

          Let me first say that I am an atheist, but am very proud of my Hebrew nationality, language, and history. You’re right about Judaism being nothing more than a religion, but to be fair, it’s a religion that has discouraged conversion and intermarriage and has kept itself very insular over the generations. It also didn’t help that both in Christian Europe or the Muslim Middle East, conversion to Judaism was punishable by death. If you check they history, you’ll find very little evidence of conversion into Judaism in the past 2,000 years (with the obvious exception of the Khazars, which today constitute 10-15% of Ashkenazi genetics).

          I also agree that simply converting to Judaism doesn’t give you a right to even one inch of this land. If I didn’t think that my ancestors, the Hebrews, used to actually live here, then I would be on the first plane to America. Zionism is a secular movement, or at least it used to be before it was hijacked by the religious settler movement. Hopefully a peace settlement, whenever it is achieved, will bring them back to earth.

          As far as the genetics, I’ve had my haplogroup tested and for most members of my family. My y-chromosome, which spent the diaspora in Poland, is R1b, however I have no
          European matches and my specific haplotype (which is known at ht35) is
          the most common of all haplotypes of any haplogroup in Turkey and is
          also present in about 10% of Palestinians (probably Hittite or
          Philistine/Sea People admixture). My mother’s father, who’s y-chromosome spent the diaspora in Hungary,
          has the same haplotype as me.

          My father’s grandfather, who was born in Poland, is J2. My grandmother’s brother,
          who is from Morocco, did the test too, and he is E1b1b1c, and he’s also
          an exact match of a Buhkarian (Uzbekistani) Jew, which means that the Y-chromosome was “Jewish” before the Diaspora started 2,000 years ago.

          And my family’s mitochondrial haplogroups (J, T, and H) are all very common in the Levant also, and almost all of my matches are Jewish from everywhere in the diaspora.

          And someone as knowledgeable as yourself into population genetics must have heard of the Cohen Modal haplogroup, which states that 70% of the Jews (Ashkenazi and Sephardi) with the last name Cohen all share the haplogroup J1.

          So you’re right, there’s mixture, but as you said yourself, my clades of R1b, J2, and E1b1b1c are all common haplogroups in this part of the world, and not common in the parts of the world my family lived (Poland, Hungary, and Morocco) during the diaspora.

          And you’re right about us (Jews,Lebanese,Syrians, Palestinians) all being one Canaanite nation. Almost all of your politicians (Jumblatt, Chamoun, Gamayel, Mikati, Hariri) would not even get a second glance if they walked around Jerusalem or Tel Aviv and claim that they were Jews.

          But you can’t argue that before the Arabs came and invaded our (yours and mine) land, there was a flourishing language and culture here, spanning from Ugarit to Be’er Sheva. Hebrew and Pheonician kingdoms were friendly. Queen Jezebel was a Tyrian princess married to an Israelian King, Ahav, and our temple was built with your cedars.

          Your username’s namesake, “Hanibal” or Hani Ba’al meaning grace of Ba’al, (Ba’al being your people’s god) is a direct foil to the ancient Jewish names Hani’el or Haniyah (El or Yahueh, being our people’s god), and the modern Israeli name “Hen” or “grace”. Carthage, his ancient capital, comes from the Pheonician “Kirya Hadasha” or new town, which is EXACTLY how you would say new town in Modern Hebrew today. At least linguistically, Israel is the closest link to what the glory that was that civilization in Canaan.

          Have you heard of the Israeli intellectual movement “Canaanism”. Wikipedia it. I think you’ll like what you read.

          P.S. I like your website by the way.

        4. Hannibal Avatar
          Hannibal

          @eblashko:disqus  I am not an atheist but areligious. I do agree with all what you said and as you said being myself an R1b that probably makes us distant cousins sea people / canaanites. Of course you will find J1 amongst the Christians and Jews as with the advent of Islam many from Egypt to South Arabia were expelled from the “holly Arab land” and were given the dhimmi status which baffles me as how can one believe in the same God yet be given the status of an unbeliever. When moslems attacked African Nubians they demanded 360 slaves a year which was against their prophet dictate to free all slaves and brought back also African genes albeit insignificantly low but present amongst Middle Eastern’s.

        5. Avatar
          Anonymous

          I guess in that regard I’m not an atheist either and just areligious as well. And it’s good to meet someone who’s interested in population genetics also 🙂

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          Anonymous

          Reply: most jews are Israeli Jews ,they  were born in Israel..Secondly you are not with me because I am no longer a refugee and my country is Israel and I am not going anywhere especially to an Arab country that stole our houses and kicked us out in 1948!!!You must be kidding !!!Palestine does not exist!!

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          Anonymous

          Reply: most jews are Israeli Jews ,they  were born in Israel..Secondly you are not with me because I am no longer a refugee and my country is Israel and I am not going anywhere especially to an Arab country that stole our houses and kicked us out in 1948!!!You must be kidding !!!Palestine does not exist!!

  6. PROPHET.T Avatar
    PROPHET.T

    I second Hannibal’s suggestion; All Jews should, and must be allowed to return to their native countries, where it be Arab or European country, and all Palestinians should be allowed to return to Palestine.
    Right of return ought to be applied for everyone who was forced to leave his /her home, or was displaced as a result of
    any conflict, including WW2.

    1. antar2011 Avatar
      antar2011

      perhaps in the hereafter will see such thing happening. 

    2. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      In returning to Israel, all Jews are exercising their “right of return”.

      1. PROPHET.T Avatar
        PROPHET.T

        eblashko,Says  who? 

    3. eblashko Avatar
      eblashko

      In returning to Israel, all Jews are exercising their “right of return”.

  7. PROPHET.T Avatar
    PROPHET.T

    I second Hannibal’s suggestion; All Jews should, and must be allowed to return to their native countries, where it be Arab or European country, and all Palestinians should be allowed to return to Palestine.
    Right of return ought to be applied for everyone who was forced to leave his /her home, or was displaced as a result of
    any conflict, including WW2.

    1. Avatar
      Anonymous

      perhaps in the hereafter will see such thing happening. 

    2. Avatar
      Anonymous

      perhaps in the hereafter will see such thing happening. 

    3. Avatar
      Anonymous

      In returning to Israel, all Jews are exercising their “right of return”.  their “right of return”. 

      1. PROPHET.T Avatar
        PROPHET.T

        eblashko,Says  who? 

  8. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    okay so Obama accuses syria…so what is he goign to do about it?

    geeez man all you do is lip service. 

  9. Avatar
    Anonymous

    okay so Obama accuses syria…so what is he goign to do about it?

    geeez man all you do is lip service. 

  10. Avnerouchlemanouch Avatar
    Avnerouchlemanouch

    The jewish state is Israel Hannibal …How many wars before you understand that the Jewish people are a people called Israelis!!!

  11. Avatar
    Anonymous

    The jewish state is Israel Hannibal …How many wars before you understand that the Jewish people are a people called Israelis!!!

  12. Avnerouchlemanouch Avatar
    Avnerouchlemanouch

    Eblashko ….there is no Palestinian Jew ,only Israelites!!!!Palestine is not my name.My name is Israel even in the coran it is mentioned …the correct term is the state of Israel…..We are not Palestine,we are also not an Arab country and we never will be.

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      Whether you like it or not there are a lot of J1 haplogroups (Arabs) within the Jewish population who lived in Arabia prior to Islam (600 AD). Go test your blood I bet it is J1 judging from your temper… LOL

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    Anonymous

    Eblashko ….there is no Palestinian Jew ,only Israelites!!!!Palestine is not my name.My name is Israel even in the coran it is mentioned …the correct term is the state of Israel…..We are not Palestine,we are also not an Arab country and we never will be.

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      Whether you like it or not there are a lot of J1 haplogroups (Arabs) within the Jewish population who lived in Arabia prior to Islam (600 AD). Go test your blood I bet it is J1 judging from your temper… LOL

  14. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Eblashko ….there is no Palestinian Jew ,only Israelites!!!!Palestine is not my name.My name is Israel even in the coran it is mentioned …the correct term is the state of Israel…..We are not Palestine,we are also not an Arab country and we never will be.

  15. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Eblashko ….there is no Palestinian Jew ,only Israelites!!!!Palestine is not my name.My name is Israel even in the coran it is mentioned …the correct term is the state of Israel…..We are not Palestine,we are also not an Arab country and we never will be.

  16. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Eblashko ….there is no Palestinian Jew ,only Israelites!!!!Palestine is not my name.My name is Israel even in the coran it is mentioned …the correct term is the state of Israel…..We are not Palestine,we are also not an Arab country and we never will be.

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