Why has Israel ignored the International Court of Justice's decision ordering removal of the  Apartheid Wall?
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Because International Court of Justice is toothless and cannot impose any sanctions on Israel. \nSo Israel does not feel compelled to follow this decision unless some military or economic sanctions will be imposed in Israel.
471119
well some countries do help but not enough,and other countries are developing there own countries,and also Israeli army is always destroying roads buildings,house and everything else\nand you have countries that want to suck up to western countries government and put the blame on the Palestinians and do not care except for themselves
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Well, Israel doesn't meet many theoretical criteria for being a state:\n- no actual natives to the land\n- built on occupied land\n- not recognized by its neighbours or a relevant majority of the international community (yes the world powers acknowledge Israel but what about other countries?)\n- furthers borders through invasion\n- the declaration of idependence violates Palestine's mandate (at that time).
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When Isreal was formed as a country in the late 1940's the area was uninhabited.  The people had every right to be there.  They took no one's land and did not bother anyone.\n\nUnfortunately, Islamic Law does not tolerate non-muslims.  In fact the Koran is very clear that the ultimate goal is for Muslims to take over the world.  Because of this, the people of Palestine and other Muslim countries have been trying to push out the Jewish people since they settled in modern day Isreal.  \n\nIsreal is the only source of sanity in the middle east.  It is the only free people. Despite what most news outlets say, the Muslims in Isreal have more freedom than they do in thier native countries.\n\nThe western world should support Isreal as the only bastion of freedom in the middle east.
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Nuclear activity is only peaceful in Israel and other countries opposed to the Islamic world.\nIn rest of the world it is "terrorism" and you know War on terror is already on.\nthe word 'Justice' needs to be redefined.
533128
Israel had many ties with South Africa well before the UN sanctions against apartheid were put into effect, but it did continue to trade with South Africa in violation of the embargoes. They do oppose UN embargoes in general however and also eventually reduced their military support of South Africa at the request of the US.
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in a w ay yes but Israel has gone far more than south Africa. just last two days they have made  crimes and mascara   in Gaza against the poor Palestinian people. but one day Israel will be gone.
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Wow, bit of a controversial question, right? \n\nFrom what I've heard, most Middle Eastern nations protest the existence of Israel because its creation took away land from the Palestinians who had been living there. Yes, the land was originally given to Israel, but in the minds of Arabics, all that was 3000 years ago or so, and it shouldn't be valid any longer. \n\nPlus, many Palestinians are now living in refugee camps or have fled to other nations, and now those nations are having to help them/feed them, etc. The way the nations see it, if Israel had never been created, the nations wouldn't have this problem.
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This is a thorny question one that no one has found an acceptable compromise to. The begining or Israeli and Palestinian strife came around the end of World War 2. Before then the state of Israel was not even in existance but through lobbying by prominent jews in America and due to a British promise to set up a homeland for displaced European Jews, the state of Israel was founded in Palestine in the British Mandate. Isreal has based this on the pretext that Isreal is the promised land that Moses led the Jewish tribes to after the Exodus and during the time of Babylon and Rome the people were once again exiled by the new conqurers and this the Jews have been a displaced people within Europe ever since. One argument that Israel was founded illegally on land that has already been inhabited by Arabs and thus they are the occupying force and displacing the Arabs. Israelis content that it is their right to have a homeland in the promised land and thus justified for occupation. The animosity intensified after Israel declared independance and thus 6 adjacent Arab states declared war to prevent the formalization of a Zionist state in the Midst of an Arab sea. Isreal prevaled and even captured larger tracts of territory which included the Sinai Peninsular from Egypt, Golan Heights from Syria and small tracts from lebanon. The Yom Kippur War later was proven to be a Israeli victory. Finally Egypt sign a peace treaty through the Camp David Accord whereby Sinai was returned to Egypt and formal recognization of Isreal was acknowledge. At present Palestine consists of the Gaza strip and the West Bank, Jerusalem is still a contested site whereby both states claim it as their capital. Years of infighting from the Hezbollah led by Yasser Arrafat which uses guerilla tactics and suicide bombers targetting US and Israeli sites have seen retaliation by Israel through forced demolition and targeted killing of 'terrorists/freedom fighters'. Also zealots and ultra orthodox jews erecting squatters within clearly marked territories belonging to the Palestine has caused frictions. To date both sides are still at war and peace accords don't last as seen by the last roadmap to peace initiative. It would seem only a miracle would unite these two foes together in peace.
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Well- guess your knowledge of history is ehavily influenced by those propaganda sites you read- up until 1973 the USA provided Israel with VERY FEW arms, in fact most of Israel's arsenal was bought from Europe or self built.  Even today with weaponry they purchase- they often strip the elctronics out and replace them with their own, superior versions.  A case in point was with the bombing of the Iranian nuclear reactor in the eighties- American airforce generals were flabbergasted at the performance of the Israeli F16s since the American ones were not capable of the same level of performance.\n\nAnd guess what- the drive for a state in the are started in the late 19th century- it was just that it was finally succesful after WWII.  And hey- guess what,Jews liberated from the concentration camps, and trying to return to their homes- were often attacked by their former neighbors.\n\nSo wehere would you have put a Jewsih state?  In Africa where it would have started a whole colnial issue?  In South America where they would not have been welcomed/  IN Europe where they had just seen their friends and family murdered?  In the end- Israel with their millenia long connection to it was the only option.\n\nAs for the UN partition plan- it gave countries to both Israel and the Palestinans.  Israel accepted the plan, but the Arab league decided to make sure their would be no Jewish state- and five countries attacked Israel as the state was proclaimed.  And Israel was victorous- the ARabs lost, and the Palestinians were the big losers- with their Arab brethren stealing their land- and forcing them into refugee camps.  And lets not forget- the estimate of Palestinan refugees was 400-600 thousand- the estinated number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries 800 thousand-1 million.\n\nWhat happened to the Jewish refugees- they were absorbed by the state, made full citizens and helped to establish themselv es after having all their money and possessions stolen by the Arab governments- unlike the Palestinian refugees who were deprived of their rights, denied citizenship in the countreies of those occupying them (Egypt of Jordan), and left to starve - until the UN started a special agency just to deal with their problem!
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The UN doesn't rule the world.  The UN doesn't condemn terrorist attacks against Israel.  The UN blew it's job in Africa, whatever their conditions for war doesn't mean ANYTHING.
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Israel has been trying to "mend fences" (no relation to the current security fence being built between Israel and the disputed territories) for many years but unfortunately does not have a partner for peace with the Palestinians. The USA is Israel's only ally because like Israel, the US is: \n- a democratic state.\n- a state that has been attacked by terrorism.\n- a leader in medical and scientific research.\n- a state where the people value freedom, capitalism and equal rights for women.\n\nIran's comment are nothing more that propaganda. If there is any justice in this world (and the UN) then the world will never allow Iran (a rogue state) to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
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this statement is factually incorrect. israel like any other country has a right to defend itself from terrorists. if the terrorists attack via rockets or bombs and then retreat, like cowards into crowds of civilians then Israel has no choice but to come after them and either kill them (hopefully) or take them prisoner to be tried in front of a democtratic court. the logic of your question would deny the right of the US to attempt to track down osama bin laden in afghanistan, pakistan or whatever stan he may be hiding in.
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No resolution by year end.  Kadima will move forward and draw the Israeli border if Hamas does not start negotiating with Israel on the border issue.
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Of course...nothing new for Israel...\nSo many times Israel got away with murder because US has vetoed every single sanctions against it...So it is because of the support of US and the silence of UN...This is their idea of justice...\nWhile Israel's crimes are called "self defense",the Palestinians fighting for liberty will be called "terrorists"...because they don't have the full support of the most powerful country in the world:USA...\nNo one will ever accuse Israel of deliberately killing civilians.even if they do... Actually the excuse was "technical error".but of course Mr Olmert already told us that those kinds of errors "may happen " in the future...
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Resolution 242 was adopted by the United Nation Security Council on November 22, 1967. While the Israeli side accepted the resolution, the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected the deal entirely because, among other reasons, it did not recognize Israel's existence. \n\nThe resolution called for the "Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict... termination of all claims or states of belligerency...” and the recognition that "every State in the area... [has the] right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."  \n\nThe British and Americans who authored the resolution had worded it in such a way as to allow Israel to retain some of the territory acquired.  \n\nThe British Ambassador who drafted the resolution, Lord Caradon, stated, “It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial.”
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Nelson Mandela. Ignore the guy right below me (apartheid was in Africa, not Israel)