The fact that the pro-israel apologists are out in force on this blog mean that Senator Kerry is on the right track. Go Kerry GO.

Pay no attention to them.

Israel has had years to resolve its differences, and the group with the self-proclaimed highest IQs in the world can't figure it out? The Vietnamese did better than this.

I cannot believe that this buffoon is involving himself in something so delicate. He is so out of touch with the real world.

Having spent the last 20+ years in the (substantial) shadow of Teddy Kennedy, he has not seen the light of truth in years.

As a lifetime resident of MA, I am EMBARRASSED for my whole state, even though I did NOT vote for this idiot.

John Kerry should take the multimillion dollar yacht he just bought and DONATE it to the cause. Let the homeless "settlers" - i.e. Palestinians - live THERE. The thing is big enough to accommodate many of them. Then he can turn over his palatial estates all over the world and let the remaining Palestinians move into those too.

Then, and ONLY THEN, can he have the RIGHT to tell other people and other countries, how to manage what THEY have.

Ignorant and Arrogant: The sign of John Kerry

Again, I'm sorry, I AM from Massachusetts

This is their land. It was gained during the East's failed Jihad against Israel. Israel would not have taken that land if not attacked. On a related note: there never was a Palestinian land, government, or money. This was a land of nomads until the Brits divided it up. These nomads (the Palestinians) are stuck in the middle because their neighbor "friends" told them to leave before they bury Israel. Well...guess who won? And guess who did not help out the Palestinians: their own blood! They left them hang high and dry and Israel cannot trust them because they are owned by thugs. Ask yourself: where woudl you want to live? And speaking of tolerance, where are the Jewish communities in the Arab states? And finally, who's charter is it to destroy a country and it's people? You would not do anything different. Why don't you educate yourself with the truth.

In reply to good post. Israel needs no apologists, anti-semites do. Israel to its great harm has refused to implement the only solution to the problem. The expulsion of all Arabs from the land of ancient Israel. While they are at it demolish the Dome of the Rock It has no business on the site of Salomon's Temple. Once Israelis are inside defensible borders they should answer all attacks at the ratio of 1000 to 1.

In reply to good post. Israel needs no apologists, anti-semites do. Israel to its great harm has refused to implement the only solution to the problem. The expulsion of all Arabs from the land of ancient Israel. While they are at it demolish the Dome of the Rock It has no business on the site of Salomon's Temple. Once Israelis are inside defensible borders they should answer all attacks at the ratio of 1000 to 1.

If the Arab world loved these people as they claim then why can NONE of the Palestinian people leave Israel. Thats right , they are stuck there because they are being used as a tool to eliminate Israel. LOOK IT UP PEOPLE - why are the borders surrounding GAZA all clamped down,, the only place they can go is to Israel. Egyptians, Syrians, Saudis and other countries do not want them,, so they are forced to stay and are used as pawns to hate the only state that will allow them movement. This is sad ,, I feel sorry for the way Palestinian people are being treated by the Islamic World. This is not occupied land, this land that was lost when major peace loving Islamic countries attempted to overthrow Israel,, sore loosers and pathetic protectors of basic human rights. The Arab countries scream about the plight of the Palestinians but cast them into the fire for fuel against Israel,,,,,,,,

You say Israel should have been able in all these years to resolve their issues with the Palestinians, right? You then go on to blame Israel.

Where have you been for all those years, sleeping?

I am 63 and I'll tell you that it is not Israels fault. The Palestinians are raised to hate the Jews.

Obviously, you don't know that. You can't trust people that are out to kill you and believe you have no right to live ANYWHERE in the world.

Ask around, if you don't believe me.

RM8:

Let's face it John Kerry is an idiot as you said. The fact is he runs his mouth at the expense of, not just the people of Massachusetts, but the U.S. as well. Sadly, it is no secret to anyone that we do have a number of people in the hierarchy of U.S. government thinking they can run around the world speaking to whomever they feel inclined, making statements that fail to represent the people of Massachusetts or the U.S., but it gets them face time.

Apology excepted, but unnecessary.

As a geographic term, Palestine can refer to "ancient Palestine," an area that today includes Israel and the [2] Palestinian territories, as well as parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria..

why will Syria not allow the Palestinians into there land, as well as Jordan .....

has anyone on this page even looked at a map and seen thru the trees,, The Palestinians are being used !

How can Israel occupy the Middle East,,, oooh wait its not that they are the smallest country in the region it is the fact that there is one JEW still breathing,,,,

Liberals, that is. What a liberal thinks in America is not important. They have been successful in systematically destroying the US over the last 45 years, but their reign if ignorance and terror is coming to an end. In just two more years, liberals will be marginalized to the point of insignificance forever in our country. Real Americans love and support Israel. The God fearing Christians who built our country and made it the envy of the world. You losers go ahead and praise communist America-haters like Kerry and liberals like him. We will not just be laughing at you soon. We will all be POINTING and laughing. Never forget: Isaiah 45:17 "I, the Lord, will always keep you safe and free from shame." And, regarding the FOOL Kerry: Proverbs 26:3 Horses and Donkeys must be beaten and bridled-and so must FOOLS. Don't make a fool of yourself by answering a fool." Stupid liberals.

The North Vietnamese slaughtered the South Vietnamese after the US left. We have many of the refugees here in the US as a result.

Likely that is what you meant since that slaughter is well known. The fact that the Arabs wish to drive the Jews into the Mediterranean is also well known. Thye say so every day.

So I'll put you down as pro slaughter the Jews.

From the memo you cite "Senator Joh Kerry (D-MA), the Chairman of the Senate Foreig Relations Committee(SFRC), joined by Ambassador,P/E Chief, and SFRC staff member Dr. Jonah Blank met February 14 with the Amir of Qatar, Hamad bn Khalifa Al Thani."

"The Chairman added that Netanyahu also needs to compromise and work the return of the Golan Heights into a formula for peace."

What do you think that means?

All of this is nothing more than the moronic muttering by demented people on both sides of the issue. Here’s what’s really going to happen: in the near term, 18 – 36 months, Israel will be forced to stand alone with no partners for peace, and no friends in the world.

Israel, as in the past, will be forced to pre-emptive military strikes against all her immediate surrounding belligerent neighbors, and will defeat, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria (w/ the Golan), Egypt (w/ Gaza, the West Bank) militarily. Damascus, Syria will be just like Gaza – a complete heap of ruin, and will never be occupied again as a city.

In the next 10 plus years, Israel will face down all the remaining Islamic forces on the Arabian Peninsula, defeat them militarily, and occupy all the land from the Nile River to the Euphrates River. Then there will be peace in the Middle East.

Until then, it’s nothing but war and global morons filling their pockets with US and European money.

You and betz55 are as stupid as they come. I bet you have never been to the muslim world. Karenpc why don't you check out how muslims and shariah law treat women? I have been there and I KNOW OF WHAT I SPEAK. It will never be enough whatever Israel does. The muslims will not rest until Israel and the Jewish people do not exist period. If they did suceed, just how long do you think it would be before they come after America and our freedoms? Their goal is world domination. Hitler is their idol. If I had my way, you and your liberal brothers/sisters (including the infamous John "I served in Viet Nam" Kerry) would be air dropped into the mooslim world and see how long you would survive. This type of ignorance is tantamount to treason. If you continue in your ignorance, you and your families will not last long should the mooslims overcome our government system.

First of all, the Bible may be your holy book, it's not everyone's. If people would stop injecting religion into everything, the Middle East might be a different place. The land is not Israel's land. It does not belong to them. You can argue 'til you're blue in the face, but European Jews do not, and should not have a claim to Palestinian land. Israel is committing a holocaust against Arabs in Palestine and anyone who speaks out is called an anti-Semite. The US blind support of a totalitarian Israel is why we have the state of affairs we have today.

Yes, the land IS Israel's land. It was given to them by God about 3,000 years ago when Moses lead them out of Egypt. Way before Mohammad even existed. And there has never been a land of Palistine. In fact, the Palistenian people of today didn't exist before ~1990.

Whatever else the Bible, it contains a deed-of-trust - for the Land of Israel, and establishes the oldest claim of which I know. The Arabs are Johnny-young-latelies and/or usurpers.

Israel is land given to the JEWS by God. Read the book.

I read your comment. You stated:""First of all, the Bible may be your holy book, it's not everyone's"" You are incorrect. In fact the Bible is a Holy book and it is my Holy Book as it is yours. It is everyone s Holy Book. It is meant for those who have eyes to read. If your not a TRUE Christian then you will not understand that sentence. You stated: ""The US blind support of a totalitarian Israel is why we have the state of affairs we have today."" Not so fast. NOT TRUE... You who have ears to hear, listen.

A nation forever
A land forever
A King forever
A throne forever
A kingdom forever
And Blessings forever

The Scriptures are clear that these covenants were given to Israel alone and that the nation of Israel will exist forever and that God will never forsake Israel.

If you are so sure of yourself , watch what happens every time Israel comes to the table and offers concessions to the Palestinians at the request of the US. Every single time, stop what your doing and think. Look in history. Every time a concession is given The U.S. is struck a major blow. Look at the last one. Look what happened 1 month before Katrina. Katrina was the answer.

Find Jesus and find him quickly. He is all around you, but I forgot you do not believe. Can you locate the Narrow Path?

Joe 3:2 then I shall gather all gentiles, and bring them down to the Valley of Yehoshaphat. And I shall enter into judgment with them there for My people, My inheritance Yisra’?l, whom they have scattered among the gentiles, and they have divided up My land.

Does it matter where the Jews come from? Sure doesn't look that way from what I read.

The old testament is not a mortgage deed.

Your willful ignorance on this subject is astounding. You keep repeating completely debunked myths that smart Zionists don’t dare repeat any more. Palestine was one of the most developed and cultivated countries in the Middle East when Zionists decided to “return” and started spinning their mythology about “a land without people for a people without land”.

Of course even if Palestine was a “backwater”, that doesn’t give the Zionists the “right to return” and colonize the land and ethnically cleanse the native Palestinians. This “civilizing mission” is one of the most outrageous and evil colonial inventions.

Get some education; here is a link to images from Palestine in the late 1880s and early 19002. Yes, it may not have been a spanking mirror image of the “civilized” west at that time, but it’s no backwater. The link uses photos from the famous Matson Collection with running text from the writings of the Zionist writer Ahad Ha’Am to highlight the contrast between propaganda and reality:

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2009/01/a-land-without-a-people.html

For more pictures and explanation, check out this book by Walid Khalidi:

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians 1876-1948

http://www.palestine-studies.org/books.aspx?href=subcategory&id=8

Finally, perhaps you should be reading more about this topic, though I don’t expect you to change your mind:

http://inventionofthejewishpeople.com/reviews/

10-15% of Jews in the world are actually of Semitic blood—the rest being European or Eastern European converts for the most part. Arab and other indigenous peoples of the Middle East, and Palestine in particular, are of Semitic blood being descended from the tribe of Abraham.

E. European Jews are a Slavo-Turkic population, whose connection to Palestine is completely mythological.

80 percent of all Jews are Ashkenazim and have no personal ancestry in Judaea, whatsoever. Arabs are Semites, but the Ashkenazim are not. But thanks for asking.

The biggest lie today that Israel doesnt want people to know is that Ashkenazi elite that dominate Israeli society are of European descent and have no historical claim to Palestine. Thats like a Canadian converting to Judaism and believing he has historical claim to Palestine, this has caused natives of Palestine that have lived their thousands of years to lose their home and property.

If being Jewish is a religion, no modern Jew practices the same religion as the ancient Jews. So there is no religious basis for Israel.

If being Jewish is an ethnicity, European Jews have no genetic relationship to the ancient Jews, Israelites, Judeans or Hebrews.

The European (Askenazi) Jews are descended from a Turkish group called the Kazars that adopted a form of Talmudic Judaism sometime in the 7th or 8th centuries for political and economic purposes. So there is no Jewish ethnic legitimacy for Israel.

The fact is that there is no legitimate argument for "Israel".

The fact is that the European Jews are not Semitic. Ironically, gene tests taken in Israel have proven that. The only true validity for Israel is "might makes right" just like apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany.

http://www.thenation.com/article/banquos-ghost-israeli-foreign-policy

Most Israelis are Ashkanzi Jews who are converts to Judaism from Eastern Europe, the Kingdom of the Khazars vs. Mizrahis who are from the Middle East. The claim to say they were there before Muslims is false.

Ha ha! Try reading the Bible? Really? That's really your argument? And "how 'bout you give them some of your land for their capital?" That's perhaps the most ironic sentence ever written. How about YOU give some of your land for ISRAEL to expand into? Please keep posting, Cliff--you reveal the absolute lack of logic and outrageous entitlement that many Zionists have been brainwashed from birth to clutch to.

I didn't know God was in the real estate business. 1990??? Look at any globe or map pre-1948 (prior to the Zionist ethnic cleansing began). It says "Palestine".

If the Jew’s don’t deserve that land, then almost all current Arab states should return the land to it’s former owners before it was given back by the Brits. That land was allocated along with the other Middle Eastern states. There never was a Palestinian state or government. Teach me if I am wrong. In fact, the Palestinians had land allocated to them but it was stolen by Jordan. Many Arabs lived peacefully with the Israelis, and still do today, but many chose to leave when Israel was attacked. Who’s charter is it to destroy a country and its people? Would you be peaceful with a neighboring state who wanted you dead? Israel’s actions are far from angelic but they are not the demons here. It is the Jihad, as described in the book of Sarah (Koran), that instructs to not take the Jew or Christians as your friends. Seek them out where they lie and kill them. Get a grip on reality. Oh…and why did the Arabs also cooperate with Hitler during WWII? Same ilk! Learn your history.

Mark Twain in the Holy Land
"Mark Twain visited Israel in 1867, and published his impressions in "Innocents Abroad". He described a desolate country – devoid of both vegetation and human population:

“….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”

Maybe you should check your source of information, Much different from what Mr. Twain saw first hand. Perhaps, even read, "Innocents Abroad."

Nuisance. The Jewish people have continuously occupied the land since biblical times the historical evidence is there. You are ignorant in not recognizing it. There were never any Arabs in Israel and since the "prophet" was not till centuries after the Fall of Rome. As a matter of fact Israel has a better claim to Medina than Muslims do. The prophet recounts that after he took over Medina he massacred the Jews there. The first Muslim genocide?

Betz55 makes the claim that Ashkenazim are not Semitic and that they are Turkish khazars. He cites genetic research. Instead of taking up the 50 paragraphs he did to spread lies, I would urge you to google the most recent genetic studies. Not only are Ashkenazim Semitic, but their closest neighbors genetically are Palestinians and Syrians, in addition to Sephardic Jews from Spain. Betz55 should also know that more than half of Israelis have great-grandparents who spoke Arabic or Farsi in their diasporas. So stop the nonsense of pretending that Jews aren't Jews. Some Palestinians may be the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Islam, but they gave up the Jewish right to their homeland when they did so. If your point is that people like the Jews are not allowed to reclaim their ancestral homeland that was forcibly taken from them, what exactly is your justification for saying that the conquerers (represented by the Palestinians) have any such right? Is Betz55 one of those who says that there was never a Temple in Jerusalem or that the whole of historic Judea, Samaria and Israel was not defined by Jewish experience? Or that the tomb of the Jewish matriarch Rachel shouldn't be a Jewish cultural site?

LMAO Have the Palestine sympathizers seen the luxury cars the Palis drive? How about that brand new shopping mall? Did you know that the Palestinian population has INCREASED by more than double in the last few years?

Really do some research.

Well, it's never been advantageous to argue with someone who knows everything. I'll tell you what: lets watch what happens in the next 1-2 years, then we'll see who's right.

Well, it's never been advantageous to argue with someone who knows everything. I'll tell you what: lets watch what happens in the next 1-2 years, then we'll see who's right.

Oh, and I was referring to John Kerry giving up some of his (untaxed) property.

It does not matter whose holy book the Book is. It contains an account of what will be, and it will be whether or not John Kerry or any other intellectual buffoon decides it is so or not. I find it comical that people feel the need to defend or to attack Israel. They are who they are, and it is not, nor has it ever been, on account of their own merit or demerit, and has nothing to do with what they do, what they don't do, or what they should do. God made a unilateral promise to Abraham, and HE will fulfill it, whether or not there is a single person on the planet that agrees with Him. I do, there are others that do, but that is irrelevant, we will not fulfill His promise, He will. And there is nothing you can do about it.

Spot on. Giving back the Golan Heights would be suicide for Israel.

Israel is destroying itself without anyones help. Leave th US out of this, its 2010 not 1710.

Israel wants 'peace' with Syria, but they won‘t give up the Golan. In spite of this problem they keep trying, as if hoping that one day Syria will forget about the Golan and give them all they want anyway.

Zionist Israel is a revolutionary micro-state whose existence has permeated the world with detrimental universal immorality.

Military blockade, economic strangulation, wholesale land and water theft, racial subjugation, demolition of homes, war on civilians, etc, etc. is what passes for morality in the Zionist world.

What is Zionism based on? We have already seen the lawless tactics it employs to achieve its aims.

Israel will destroy itself, if not demographically, then through idiotic people like yourself who think they are on a messianic mission but who will fail. You will fail, and you will fail badly.

I totally agree with you NATASHABLUE. How would he feel if China cane and said we need to cede back MA to the Native Americans from which it was stolen. But then again he is so anti-American he probably would!

Mr Natashablue, I would like to come with some thugs and put you in the basement of your house, claiming some ancient claim to your property. All you movement, water, toilet facilities will be controlled. Any resistance will be met by force, as we have the right to defend ourself.

Hey, Ramir. It's not your house!

Before the 1967 war, the West Bank was administered by the Kingdom of Jourdan. Before that, it was administered by the British under a League of Nations Mandate. Beforethe mandate, the British had a Military Government there. Before the British, Palestine was part of a Province of the Ottoman Empire (except for a 10 year period of Egyptian rule - 1831 to 1841) from 1516 to 1917. Before Ottoman rule, Palestine was ruled from 1270 to 1516 by the Mamluk Sultanate based in Egypt. From 1099 to 1187 European Crusaders ruled Palestine, and continued to occupy the land under treaty until expelled in 1270. Not to belabor the point, a complete history of Palestine is one of this group or other taking possession from some other group, all from outside the area.

The point is that there has never been a native Palestinian state, only political subdivisions of some outside power. When the UN declared a 2-state solution, the Jews accepted and the Arabs did not. On May 14, 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, the Jewish Agency proclaimed independence, naming the country Israel. The following day, the armies of four Arab countries—Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq—attacked Israel, launching the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. After a year of fighting, a ceasefire was declared and temporary borders, known as the Green Line, were established.[85] Jordan annexed what became known as the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Egypt took control of the Gaza Strip.

Go ahead and keep committing atrocities against Arabs in the name of your Lord. Wait a sec...who are the terrorists again?

Could not have said it better!!!

who believes talking through his teeth makes him intelligent... WRT the Golan Heights, since when would you ever ceed hi ground to a bunch of a-holes who fire missiles from school yards.

The Israelis were given a piece of land that no one wanted until the Jewish people started growing oranges the size of cantalopes. They offered a full partnership to the people who lived there. Instead they listened (and bought in to) to all of the other countries who told them how downtrodden and put upon they were. That lead them to become a nation of insignificant serial whiners.

I have never seen any reports of Israelis strapping on bombs and blowing up busses full of school kids. I'm sick to death of seeing the USA suck up to these morons. Other than oil nothing of any significance has come out of the middle east for a thousand years. Their most resent "art" would earn your average 4th grader a "C". Their music soulds like someone in the process of strangling a cat. Science, math did I saw one thousand years? I was too generous. Screw them.

Well, you're obviously a liar and a racist, so maybe you should keep posting to, as you show the true sentiments behind a lot of zionism.

Ha ha! "The Israelis were given a piece of land that no one wanted until the Jewish people started growing oranges the size of cantalopes." You could not possibly believe that nonsense! Look at the words of Israel's founding fathers, such as Ben Gurion. The land was stolen! Jews were lured there with the outrageous slogan: "A land without people for a people without a land." Which many early zionists were shocked to discover was a blantant lie.

And you actually brag about the fruits of stolen water. Wow, you're something else.

As for terrorism being an Arab proclivity, I know you don't honestly believe that. Israel OFFICIALLY CELEBRATES the bombing of the King David Hotel, and countless other acts of terorrism commmited by Zionists. And please don't bring a concern for children into it--after the atrocities committed in Gazal, it's clear that the state of Israel could care less about children.

And our security pain points at today's airports are only required because we need to stop the Israelis from blowing us up. Oh wait... that would be the Arabs Muslims. And why did the cooperate with Hitler during WWII? Oh, same reason: they are hatemongering idiots who shadow their radical murderous prophet Mohammad. Why don’t you read what he did to the Jews? Don’t let a some real history scare you. This problem goes way back and the problem is premised on a particular idiology.

Can't hide the truth fuzznuts, it's all out there on the web. Great Citrus, look it up.

Hamas attacks from populated areas and snivels when the Israelis shoot back. You got me on this one and we agree, the Irgun were A-holes. Having said that, they blew up the King David Hotel 65 years ago... and they called the hotel 15 minutes before the bomb exploded and told them to evacuate.

"The land was stolen!" All land is stolen sooner or later but historically the Jews had first claim, so the correct statement would be "the land was stolen BACK".

As for being a racist, well I just don't like people who sell their kids for $20K so that some other azhole can strap a bomb onto them and send them off to blow up other kids.