Infrastructure Minister Landau: Arabs are the occupiers

There has been more than 2000 years of continuous Arab rule. There never has been a jewish kingdom of even 100 years. Your most recent archeological dig and the discovery of the 26ft Canaanite wall built circa 17 Century proves the Canaanites/Phoenicians were there long before the coming of the jews. Now the Iranians are the original Phoenicians and can now return from exile to claim their land.ROFLMAO

The nation of "Israel" is described in Egyptian hieroglyphics (King Merneptah`s Stela, 1200 BCE.) A stone inscription in Aramaic referring to battles with the "House of David" was uncovered in Israel's northern border at Tel Dan. Never in history has there been an independent Palestinian nation. During the Arab Caliphates and Ottoman rule, Palestine was a sparsely populated and neglected province of a distant empire. Scratch the surface of the land of Israel and you will uncover Jewish life under Roman rule, not centuries of Arab civilization. We have returned from exile to settle in our land where astonishing archeological discoveries of our heritage are now commonplace. No nation on this planet has a greater right to their territory, than the Jewish people have to the Land of Israel. The Arabs are indeed occupiers of our land.

I'm quite sure one could find Germans with equally good credentials who were tried for war crimes after WWII. Clownish behavior demands appropriate nomenclature.

It is quite predictable that when one brings up a problem with Israel to a zionist, the response is to change the subject.Regardless of whatever miscarriages of justice there are anywhere else in the world, it is appropriate to call Israel to account when it subjects gentiles to ill treatment. Tell me; if another country were discriminating against Jews, would you accept someone saying it isn't worth mentioning because in many places people were treated worse? What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.

These men have made it crystal clear that the causes of strife and war are shared equally between Arabs and Jews, and that just as Western countries outlaw Hamas and its members as terrorist, so they must they do so with many Israeli politicians and movements. This "containment of hatred and belligerence" policy (my term) by the West is going to the only sane future course of action. I believe that when (not if) another war happens none but the US and Btitain will be concerned with Israel's welfare because you are in the process of losing your support, even from many Jews.

Dr. Uzi Landau was an elite officer in the paratroops before receiving his PhD at MIT in Civil Engineering. He reads the parashot on shabbat and was a leader in hiking clubs such as the Society for the Protection of Nature and Eretz Nehedert. He combines his scientific backgound with a tremendous knowledge of the history and geography of the Land of Israel which shapes his political outlook. He warned us about unilateral evacuation from Gaza, when the rest of us were euphoric. Knowledgable leftists who diasgree with his politics also know that he is a serious and honest politician that places country before personal ambition.

that`s why Israel only appeared in 1940`s ... makes sense. Jokers.

Surely by your statement, "No rights for these terror-filled bums. There can never be peace with murderers." you meant the Israelis, right? Someone who is as smart as you has heard about Deir Yassin, Plan Dalit, and the latest offensive in Gaza? If not, check the history books (not Israeli books). It makes for some very disturbing and enlightening reading!

As I have stated previously the Anti-Semites, AKA Anti-Zionists, are screaming hysterically at every move being made by Israel to protect its Soverengty. First, when Obama made his Cairo speech they were all gung ho for the US to hand Israel on a platter to the Palestinians. Still remember the comments "wait till obama gets hold of Netanyahu, Israels stealing of the land will be over. No USD support and the UN will sanction Israel out of this world. No more money and weapon support. Israel down the drain. Lets see now the building in the suburbs cintinue unabated 6 months into Obamas Presidency. Americas 3 billion dollar Military Aid goes on for this year. America thinking about putting is advamced Missel defense on Israel Territory. Obama has so much problems on his plate in the US do you think he's going to Use up what little Political capital on making Israel stop building? He will spend all of his Capital on Health Care which will probably sink his prsidency to one term.LOL

It's interesting that you have the effrontery to make that argument after the world told the Serbs in Kosovo that it is completely invalid. If you move out and others move in, after a few hundred years it becomes theirs.

First of all Arab is hardly an ethnicity, most of us belonged to other cultures and languages before the Arabization of the Middle-East uo to 800 years ago. This is why you have black arabs, brown arabs, and white arabs. So you can't just say that Moroccans, Mauritanians, Kuwaitis etc. etc should let Palestinians be in their country, especially not since most Palestinians want to be in Palestine/Israel. WITH EQUAL RIGHTS. The greedy ones here are white Jews like you, who've been living in Europe for centuries, and who have lots of non-Jewish white ancestors but somehow still think they got more right to Middle-Eastern land than dark skinned, semitic, palestnians and beduins who,ve ben there for centuries if not millenias. Israel was never Jewish until your Kings OCCUPIED IT. Before that the Canaanites lived there...remember?

Like many Israeli posters, your response is "well, someone else is worse than us". Whoops! It seems I've been making the mistake of expecting a high standard of behaviour from Israel. Stupid of me. I should have realised that Israel must be judged relative to China, the old South Africa, etc, not relative to modern enlightened societies. Thanks for the education.

" For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right." - Isaiah 32:6-7 "These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.- Zechariah 8:16-17 Those who find it necessary to obfuscate and palter in order to justify their actions are inevitably wrong.

Howdy Issa; The one-state solution has been rejected as being impractical ever since the Churchill Whitepaper of 1922 split off Transjordan from the Mandate of Palestine and forbade Jews to immigrate there. The ensuing hostilities between Jews and Arabs in what remained of the Mandate west of the Jordan River for the past 87 years should be enough to convince anybody that an one-state solution is out of the question because the political, religious, social, and cultural ideologies of the two peoples are mutually incompatable. What do you want? A bloodbath unprecedented since the breakup of the British Raj in 1947? I'll tell you what; you can get India, Pakistan, and Bangledesh to reunite into a single country again with "a secular democratic federal state based on equality, liberty, and justice for all people that live in the region" first, and then, we'll see about how that might work in the Holy Land.

the idea that immigrants from all over the Europe, America and the rest of the middle east can all come to one country and brand the already settled native people in that land occupiers and then subsequently justify their taking of that land by some ancient fictional book really boggles the mind- Israel is becoming a theocracy, dangerously similiar to those Islamic states they so often trash where women and men a segregated and women have a certain place in society and where racism is openly tolerated- where did the dream of Israel go?

it seems as if the one state solution looks more and more likely with Israel's far right- or should i just say Israel in general as there is no longer a distinction between left and right- won't give up any land to the Pals- they refuse to let the Pals form a defacto state so all they will have on their hands in the next few decades is NO Israel, a country where there are more Arabs than Jews and if what they say about being the only democracy in the middle east is true there will be no Jewish state- extremely Ironic is it not!

than anywhere in the world! A nation who threw away their faith, tradition and past like no nation on earth!

no matter what you say and how many Israeli land you give them because the land you see as "Palestinians" is simply stolen from Jewish ancestral land. Don't take yourself for Santa Claus and don't give others land to someone with the roots in Arab peninsula.The land is Jewish and I praise Mr.Landau to say what we all know.That the Palestinians are in fact Arabs without any connection to the land and the name occupiers suit them well.

This is why it is puzzling that the world focuses all its attention and resources to a puny problem, when you have land the size of 1000 west banks occupied illegally by chine, 3 million civilians have been murdered in Tibet, 12 million Chinese were settled there and the army absolutely controls everything to such extent that if you breath incorrectly you life is at risk. Imagine an emergency team of doctors looking after a man with a little scratch while they don`t lift a finger to treat 20 fatally wounded people who need their help. You hit the moral nail on the head without even meaning to do so dude.

...to tell jews where they should live in Israel. further the arabs who conquered israel from the gentiles were the recivers of stolen property. all of them have relinquished any moral right to tell jews where to live. I say arabs return to arabia and europeans return to europe. The africans kicked out the european colonisers of their lands and so israel needs to kick out the european and arab colonisers of israel. The rightful owners are return to take back their lands.

... Israel sometimes can sound not that mad. Certainly they sound reasonable comparing to the verbiage coming from series of bouncers that made to Israel's top political posts. Perhaps Landau's father, if he's alive, still remembers who were the "occupiers" in the end of thirties, Germany? Things are going unmistakably brown and browner in this wonderland. To hear this hair-raising statement coming out publicly of Minister's mouth - in ruthless deference to the rulings of the Israeli Supreme Court and the official borders of the State - this is a slap to face of anyone suspecting Israel of ranking anywhere above rogue states. How such person defying basic tenets of the State, found himself in this post is another question, but would be promptly led straight to the court bench for this statement alone. And guess what: Our FM staged an international storm about an article in a Swedish tabloid.

That line is a complete abrogation of responsibility. Unlike Tibet, the West Bank is being settled in our name. People are having their land, homes and water supplies stolen from under them in our name. Instead of showing a single bit of remorse about such illegal and immoral acts by extremists of the worst kind, you try to deflect attention. And I notice from your address you don't even have the guts to go live in a repulsive settlement yourself - simply crow from the comfort of Haifa. Shame on you.

Just in the last few years. Disquised as muslim Islamic extremist terrorist. Who are the AGGRESSORS ? Who is stealing land and governments?

anyway dont give up you day job cause you ain't no sienfeld

Remove the illegal Arab settlements. Stop the colonial Palestinian occupation of the Land of Israel. Finally! Landau says the truth! This land is our land, and the Arabs can have their other 22 huge countries, and not be so selfish and greedy.

... now he has gone-round-the-bend completely... ... as for the clownish speaker, it is difficult to follow his reasoning in this controversial case...

The fact that someone else is a criminal does not excuses your crime.

Calling wrong right and right wrong. Calling whote black and black white. The biblical prophets knew all about it.

There already is a Palestinian State. Its name is J O R D A N. How's that for a big belly laugh. No rights for these terror-filled bums. There can never be peace with murderers. Bibi and Landau know it.

Accept the One State Solution as the only solution. You can keep it all from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a secular democratic federal state based on equality, liberty, and justice for all people that live in the region. One Country for all Jews and Palestinians everywhere. The United States of America did it and you too can make it happen. It will be a hard road to take and a rough start; however, the new generations of Palestinians and Israelis will learn to live together as ONE NATION UNDER GOD. Start the healing now...Choose Coexistence! Issa Dadoush

I really cannot believe my ears anymore. Is this for real? What is the GOI doing? How can Palestinians be the occupiers? Occupiers have weapons and control. Palestinians do not. We do. We have nuclear weapons and the second most powerful military in the world. We are digging our own Jewish grave. We will soon be just like Iran, controlled by a few religious extremists, sending our kids to Hasedic schools, not driving on the weekend, on and on and on. What a shame. What happened to the dream? Peace NOW!

'National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau on Monday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan for a partial construction freeze in the West Bank, deeming the Palestinians "occupiers" ' The Palestinians, far more so than the 'Jews,' are primarily descended from the inhabitants of Biblical Israel. This fantasy that the Palestinians are 'invaders' is a patent lie designed to justify what in the light of the facts would be a manifestly unjust policy. What's more, it is a lie that implicitly concedes this point. After all, why would it have been concocted if it wasn't seen as necessary?

My God ! look who's talking now ! Uzi Landau pretending the palestinians are "the occupiers"...ahahahahahahhaha !!!! Please take the clown off the scene, that's hilarious !! Hopefully there are people in Israel who do know what's going on ?

The more they build, the more they occupy,the more they demolish, the more they confiscate, then the more likely it is that the only option they will be left with is a one-state solution. How ironic it will be that the policies of the far right will lead to a non-Jewish state with more PALS than Jews. THAT will be a real belly laugh!! :-)))

The ravings of these rightwing Knesset members have turned as incoherent as the ravings of one of the countless homeless lunatics who live on America's sidewalks. Their comments about whom is the occupier and whom receives a violation of their rights is utterly nonsensical.

Give me a call when the do, and then we will talk about the west bank.

This will be Bibi's real legacy. He has brought the extremists from the margins of Israeli society into its very midst. He has a foreign minister who threatens to bomb the Aswan Dam. He has a housing minister who's suspicious of Jews and Arabs living together. He has an infrastructure minister who calls Arabs, whose families have been in the region for hundreds and hundreds of years 'occupiers' and says 'This land is ours,' the Jews' 'and ours alone.' How are we supposed to believe that this government will treat the Arab Israelis and the Palestinians under its power fairly? How much worse does Bibi's government have to get before western governments simply say 'we don't want anything to do with these extremists.'

No onee should feel compelled to pay attention to him....

A pirate with one ship is a terrorist. A pirate with a fleet of ships is called an emperor. Terrorism takes may forms. Israeli leadership persists in a terrorist campaign against the Palestinians through home demolitions, land confiscation, settlement building, travel restrictions, etc. Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak actions surely resemble those of terrorism.

The Palestinians deserves lots of credit for not giving up on their state.Israel over the years has annexed several pieces of Palestinians land,with the world watching with little critcism.The stragetegies by Israel is no different as to how a Aparthied state behave. Israel can no longer use the apartheid wall as a security excuse,while quietly gobbling up more Palestinians land. The world need s to stop feeling sorry for Israel,and condem as they are breaking international law and creating a aparthied state. The Palestinians needs to move forward and create a single state, this means Israel will have to give them the same rights as Jews have,so much for your Jewish state.

When there was a closely contested vote for the leadership of the Labor Party, Gideon Levy wrote an article called "Only Barak," urging people to vote for Barak rather than for Ami Ayalon. Those who followed Gideon Levy's advice made a serious mistake. Ami Ayalon would have been a more devoted advocate of a compromise peace deal with the Palestinians.

If the Left and Right think that freezing the building of settlements and expansion into parts of Judea and Samaria will bring peace, it won't happen. I understand the concerns of the MK's that have criticized the actions of PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak, but this is for the greater good of Israel and its citizens.

Indeed, Barak and Bibi are essentially variations of the same pathetic leadership mode Israelis seem suckers for: military men with a demagogic flair, self serving, brash, insulting to minorities and world opinion. they say you get what you deserve, do we indeed deserve two clones who will ruin Israel's chances for peace, yet again?