Meriem_DZ

Let me tell you what happened to my family. My great-grandparents and grandparents lived in Haifa and had for more than a half century. My dad grew up there. The Jews wanted our neighborhood so they could control the port to bring in ships full of foreign Jews. They also wanted our homes and businesses for the benefit of the foreign Jews. In April 1948, the Haganah and some other forces showed up and routed the remaining Arabs out of their homes at gun point, forced them into trucks and took them away. This is much like what was done to them in Europe, so they learned from the Nazis well.
All of our property was confiscated, never to be returned. In fact, despite having proof of ownership, the government refuses restitution. Our property is part of a mass parcel holding by the Israeli government, which controls 93% of all the land. They made a deal with a Jewish group that buys land for Jews only and planned to turn this parcel holding over to this group to sell to Jews only, even though it is in dispute. Fortunately, an Arab rights group took the deal to court and had it stopped, but the land is still being held by the government.
Land is a hot commodity in Israel. It's considered to be property of the Jews, and is much harder for Arabs to get. I belong to a family trust that buys and sells land in Israel for investment purposes. Part of the reason why we do this is because we want to have standing in cases involving anti-Arab discriminatory practices and laws, such as the situation above.
Our managing officer often has to use Jewish beards to front for the company heads to obtain property from Jews who refuse to lease or sell to Arabs because prominent rabbis ruled that Jews should not sell to Arabs or patronize Arab businesses.
Israel is teaching its population to hate.
I don't have equal rights. You have top tier Jewish rights, and I have third tier Arab rights.

Palestinians are already 20% of Israel's population. I'm one of them. Israel is it's own worst enemy. It was born in terrorism, turned its terrorists into national heroes, yet cries and whines about terrorism being used against it like a hypocrite's b!tch. It needs to get past its colonialist roots and join the 21st century. If it wanted to be majority Jewish, it should have founded a nation in NYC or Florida. Two-thirds of the Jews in the world won't even live there full time. They prefer the US and Europe to "the homeland".

Did they ever pay to fix that big hole in the USS Liberty or for the funerals of our military dead?

Israel is firing missiles into one of the most densely populated areas on the planet populated by people it does not like, so why exactly would it need to start pin pointing arab children. Throw a rock in a field and you'll likely hit grass at some point.

So what? The Israels kill Palestinian kids all the time and I don't see you posting about it on visa journey.

Fixed it for you.

Wow, imagine the death toll if Israel was actually trying to kill Palestinians
Oops, we killed another bus load of kids, oops we just flattened a school full of kids, oops we never thoughts our thousand pound bombs wouldn't actually hurt anybody...

Well according to you it's ok to fire rockets in heavily populated areas that have been surrounded on all sides while all access to water and arable land have been restricted, just so long as you get the slightest pretext before attacking.\
Blame the Palestinians or Arabs all you like, I don't because I know better, but even if you do, just remember that todays Palestinians weren't around when Israel came into being and therefore shouldn't be continually lectured about rejecting peace. The Israelis have rejected their fair share of peace plans, but for some reason that's ok. Just blame the Arabs and everything will be okay. It is funny how for someone who continually bemoans the liberal media, will swallow hook, line and sinker the one sided Israeli narrative being forced fed to the world.

I see. Once the bully takes your milk money, you are not allowed to try and take it back, and if he pummels your face for trying, that is okay too, because he already has your milk money.

The people of Gaza are refugees who were ran out of Palestine in the 1940s...are you saying Hezbollah is better than Hamas, since you know Hezbollah runs Lebanon but thats a different story I assume. Let me hit you with a little bit of an article I just read on CNN.
"Current Hamas president Khaled Meshaal has previously said the group would support a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders (prior to the Six-Day War, during which Israeli troops occupied Gaza) , with East Jerusalem as its capital."
So what was that again? The president and leader of Hamas said he will go back to pre-1967 orders and recognize Israel as a state...but Israel declines!!!! Yasser Arafat said the same thing....and Israel declines!!!!! Why?! Because a 2 state solution is impossible and wont be done ever. Israel wont recognize a Palestinian state and Palestine wont recognize a Israeli state. This is going to keep on until the day of judgement when it comes. Its just how life is and life will always be like this in the holy land. I was just making a point about civilians being killed. You think they had a choice to vote Hamas in? I think you forget Hamas going into Gaza and overthrowing the Fatah govt.

I am against Israels aggression on the Gaza strip...but I am also against Hamas's rockets being fired to Israel. There is no total way to avoid civilian death in Gaza...everything in the Gaza strip is Hamas. The government is ran by Hamas, the health departments and hospitals are ran by hamas, the media is ran by hamas, the schools are ran by hamas, everything in the Gaza strip is controlled by Hamas. In Israel there is the Iron Dome who protects the civilians.
You wanna end this conflict? One simple solution...
END THE BLOCKADE ON GAZA! I promise you there would be rare violence in the region if the blockade was lifted.
That is all...now bash me

So, you are preaching continued Apartheid. Israel's former allies and business partners in South Africa managed to join the modern world. When will Israel?

<shakes head>

When humans, die, it is a way to recognize their humannity.
Here is three more for the dead Israelis.
X 3

What part of
did you not understand ?

So, short story:
After dwindling rockets from Gaza for the past 5 years - directly due to the truce with Hamas - and a full year of NO ISRAELI DEATHS from Hamas rocket fire, Israel decides to get things going again by assassinating Hamas commander Ahmed al-Jabaari - the same guy who was enforcing the Hamas truce and preventing attacks on Israelis for the past 5 years - along with more than a dozen civilians including children. The assassination prompts a resumption of Hamas rocket fire, resulting in the deaths of 3 Israelis, which is all then used retro-actively to justify Israel's provocation in the first place.
Obviously, Israel decided it would be advantageous to break the truce and escalate the violence at this point in time. Anyone care to guess why ?

Yes, our religion (as well as other religions) has been here since the beginning and it (Islam) and we (Muslims) are here to stay... Ma'a Salama

Yes right now i would like for him to be able to visit me, just like i have been able to visit him. Nothing confusing about that. And nothing illegal...im not into that? Obviously, because i am going about it the legal way to try to get him to be able to come visit. Im saying that him coming here would be easier if we could get the visa, because i can still work and i would like for him to be able to meet my family just like i have his.

I would have your fiance email you a scanned copy...then you can print it out to have at the interview, rather than changing the day. The consulate might ask you to return with the original, but I don't believe that moving the interview is your best option. If you are approved based on all other things, they would just give you a form and ask you to return with the original.
Good luck with the interview.
Jackie

Hi Big Deal OP-
I don't believe your relationship is real. You haven't even bothered to claim that you love her so much, can't live without her, etc.
Dude, I know Egypt sucks right now and you wanna get out. Find a woman your own age, or pray that your "hun" doesn't have kids, because if some 24 year old punk was pushin up on my mama for a greencard, I can assure you he would WISH he'd stayed his @ss at home.
That is all, good day, folks

This was in the United States...

They don't like foreigners occupying their country. Who knew.

Yes, death is deserved for expressions of free speech, so long as it's them, not you.
Good grief.

In the gun control debates the logic always follows with, "Gun don't kill people. People kill people." While others say, "No bullets kill people because they make the wounds."
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
In this case Nikula not only made the ammo in collaboration he gave it to them with intent to kill and do damage.

What's even more tantalizing, for me anyway, is the two culprits are Egyptian immigrants.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-filmmaker-20120914,0,6397127.story
One ran a low-profile Christian charity from a sleepy suburb east of Los Angeles. The other was a financially strapped gas station operator just out of federal prison.
In the last year, these men, both Egyptian immigrants, became unlikely collaborators in an endeavor that has shaken the stability of the Middle East.
Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, the president of the Duarte-based charity Media for Christ, and Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a convicted felon from Cerritos, emerged Thursday as forces behind "Innocence of Muslims."
And, to add yet another layer to the turmoil:
http://mideastsoccer.blogspot.com/2012/09/middle-east-protests-ultras-settle.html
The anti-American protests spreading across the Middle East and North Africa may be fuelled by an obscure anti-Muslim American film but are really about domestic score settling and political maneuvering.