Say NO to a Palestinian State

[DannyM]

I'm for Palestinian state the one which could peacefully coexist with Israel and all it's neighbours.

Another dreamer... please explain your strategy to achieve this...

[DannyM]

Palestine supporters might wish to look closer to home, and pay attention to their own monumental deficiencies:

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/201 ... ictim.html

One of the most egregious signs of western irrationality and bigotry over the issue of Israel is the way in which its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is routinely scapegoated for causing the breakdown of the so-called peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

This charge is based on the widespread fallacy that the ‘peace process’ has stalled because Israel keeps building more Jewish ‘settlements’ on ‘Palestinian land’. This reasoning is not only totally wrong but utterly perverse on the following grounds:

1) The actual reason for the collapse of the ‘peace process’ is that Mahmoud Abbas repeatedly maintains that he will never accept that Israel is entitled to be a Jewish state, hails Palestinian terrorists as heroes for murdering Israelis and does nothing to end the incitement to murder Jews disseminated in schools, mosques and media under his control. In other words, Abbas is not a legitimate interlocutor in any civilised ‘peace process’ since he remains committed to the eradication of Israel. Yet Netanyahu is blamed for the impasse.

2) It is only Israel that has made concessions in this ‘peace process’ (as noted here). The Palestinians not only failed to deliver what was expected of them under the Road Map but now, with their UN gambit, have unilaterally reneged on their previous treaty obligations. Yet Abbas is given a free pass while Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

3) The claim that the ‘settlements’ are the key to resolving the dispute is ridiculous. First, they take up no more than one or two per cent of West Bank territory. Second, even when Netanyahu froze such new building for ten months as a sign of good will, Abbas still refused to negotiate. Yet this is all ignored, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

4) The claim that the establishment of a Palestine state would end the dispute is also ridiculous. Such a state was on offer in 1948; Israel offered to give up more than 90 per cent of the West Bank for such a state in 2000; and an even more generous offer was subsequently made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The Palestinian response was in every case war and terror. Yet all this is ignored, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

5) Whatever land Israel may choose to give up in its own interests, under international law Jews are entitled to settle anywhere in the West Bank. There is no such thing as Palestinian land and never was. The West Bank and Gaza never belonged to any sovereign ruler after the British withdrew from Mandatory Palestine; before that it was part of the Ottoman empire. Israel’s ‘borders’ are in fact merely the cease-fire lines from its victory in 1948 against the Arab armies that tried unsuccessfully to exterminate it at birth. It is therefore more correct to call the West Bank and Gaza disputed territory. Yet this history and law are denied and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

6) The Jews alone have the legal – as well as the moral and historical -- right to settle within the West Bank and Gaza, a right given to them by the Great Powers after the First World War on account of the unique historical claim by the Jews to the land then called Palestine. This Jewish right to settle anywhere in that land was entrusted to Britain to deliver under the terms of the Mandate for Palestine – an obligation which it proceeded to break. Yet this history and law are denied, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.

G, get into that link and look at the disgraceful attitudes of Sarkozy and Obama towards Netanyahu - as far as I'm concerned this is tantamount to treachery.

[Gman]

G, get into that link and look at the disgraceful attitudes of Sarkozy and Obama towards Netanyahu - as far as I'm concerned this is tantamount to treachery.

Exactly Danny...

[Gman]

I'm for Palestinian state the one which could peacefully coexist with Israel and all it's neighbours.

In fact the number one supporters of Gaza are none other than the Israelis....

"Despite attacks by Hamas, Israel maintains an ongoing humanitarian corridor for the transfer of perishable and staple food items to Gaza. This conduit is used by internationally recognized organizations including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months equaling nearly a ton of aid for every man, woman and child in Gaza. Millions of dollars worth of international food aid continually flows through the Israeli humanitarian apparatus, ensuring that there is no food shortage in Gaza.

Since the end of the IDF operation in Gaza (18 Jan 2009) until 5 June 2010, 1,025,686 tons of aid, 49,610 tons of cooking gas and 136,097,330 liters of fuel have been delivered to the Gaza Strip.

Food and supplies are shipped from Israel to Gaza six days a week. These items were channeled through aid organizations or via Gaza's private sector."

Electricity

"According to the UN report of May 2010, 120 megawatts (over 70%) of the Strip's electricity supply comes from the Israeli electric grid, while 17 MWs come from Egypt and 30 MWs are produced by the Gaza city power station. Since January 2010, there has been deterioration in the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip since the Hamas regime is unwilling to purchase the fuel to run the Gaza City power station.

Throughout 2009 Israel transferred 41 trucks of equipment for the maintenance of Gaza's electricity grid.

Israel facilitates the transfer of fuel through the border, and maintains that the diversion of fuel from domestic power generators to other uses is wholly a Hamas decision. Over 133 million liters of fuel entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months."

Source: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Min ... y-2010.htm

[DannyM]

I'm for Palestinian state the one which could peacefully coexist with Israel and all it's neighbours.

In fact the number one supporters of Gaza are none other than the Israelis....

"Despite attacks by Hamas, Israel maintains an ongoing humanitarian corridor for the transfer of perishable and staple food items to Gaza. This conduit is used by internationally recognized organizations including the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Well over a million tons of humanitarian supplies entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months equaling nearly a ton of aid for every man, woman and child in Gaza. Millions of dollars worth of international food aid continually flows through the Israeli humanitarian apparatus, ensuring that there is no food shortage in Gaza.

Since the end of the IDF operation in Gaza (18 Jan 2009) until 5 June 2010, 1,025,686 tons of aid, 49,610 tons of cooking gas and 136,097,330 liters of fuel have been delivered to the Gaza Strip.

Food and supplies are shipped from Israel to Gaza six days a week. These items were channeled through aid organizations or via Gaza's private sector."

Electricity

"According to the UN report of May 2010, 120 megawatts (over 70%) of the Strip's electricity supply comes from the Israeli electric grid, while 17 MWs come from Egypt and 30 MWs are produced by the Gaza city power station. Since January 2010, there has been deterioration in the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip since the Hamas regime is unwilling to purchase the fuel to run the Gaza City power station.

Throughout 2009 Israel transferred 41 trucks of equipment for the maintenance of Gaza's electricity grid.

Israel facilitates the transfer of fuel through the border, and maintains that the diversion of fuel from domestic power generators to other uses is wholly a Hamas decision. Over 133 million liters of fuel entered Gaza from Israel over the last 18 months."

Source: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Min ... y-2010.htm

Gman, this is the kind of information some people would rather not see up in black and white...

[Gman]

Gman, this is the kind of information some people would rather not see up in black and white...

Yes... Or even want to look at the Jewish refugees.. Thousands of these Jews lost their lives and property and came from Arab countries even before the State of Israel was created.. Never hear about this either..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exo ... _countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_refugees

[DannyM]

Gman, this is the kind of information some people would rather not see up in black and white...

Yes... Or even want to look at the Jewish refugees.. Thousands of these Jews lost their lives and property and came from Arab countries even before the State of Israel was created.. Never hear about this either..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exo ... _countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_refugees

No, no... this just won't do, Mister! These are just facts you are slinging out there, willy nilly

[Gman]

No, no... this just won't do, Mister! These are just facts you are slinging out there, willy nilly

Now why is it always the English and the Canadians that always understand this? I have the hardest times convincing the Americans. It's all greek to them..

[Gman]

Shema Israel...

[DannyM]

No, no... this just won't do, Mister! These are just facts you are slinging out there, willy nilly

Now why is it always the English and the Canadians that always understand this? I have the hardest times convincing the Americans. It's all greek to them..

You mean like this:

Τώρα γιατί είναι πάντα η αγγλική και οι Καναδοί που καταλαβαίνουν πάντα αυτό; Έχω το σκληρότερο φορές πειστικά οι Αμερικανοί



There is too much misinformation out there, Gman, and it is agenda-driven from the Left. The simple fact of the matter is, there are those for us, and those against us. There are those for Israel, and those against her. This was abundantly evident with the selective and skewed argument of one recent ‘Christian’ in support of Palestine.

[DannyM]

Hey, stop this dangerous candidate! He's told the truth!

Melanie Phillips is blue:

US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich (whose Lazarus-like trajectory to the Republican nomination I flagged up here a month ago) has recently demonstrated yet again Melanie’s First Rule of Modern Political Discourse – the more obvious the truth that you utter, the more explosive and abusive the reaction.

For Gingrich said the Palestinian Arabs were ‘an invented people’ – and the world promptly started hurling execrations at him, as if such a statement proved beyond doubt that Gingrich was indeed a dangerously extreme individual who, when it came to political positioning, was just off the graph altogether.

So what did Newt Gingrich say?

Remember, there was no Palestine as a state — (it was) part of the Ottoman Empire. I think we have an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and historically part of the Arab community and they had the chance to go many places...

But of course, he is absolutely correct. As Elder of Ziyon pointed out,

[ Elder of Ziyon's article here: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... ntury.html ]

the Arabs who lived in Palestine were a disconnected bunch of tribes who had nothing in common with each other except that they were Arabs. They never were, are not and never will be a Palestinian people (the claim that they are now just because they say they are is risible and would be dismissed out of hand if applied to any other self-defined grouping). There is not and never has been any ‘Palestinian’ Arab culture, language, religion or national identity separate from that of the wider Arab nation. ‘Palestinianism’ was invented solely to destroy Israel. The one and only characteristic of this spurious ‘national’ identity is the aim of destroying another -- authentic -- national identity.

The Arabs have themselves repeatedly admitted this over the years.Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, the Syrian Arab leader told the British Peel Commission in 1937:

There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it.

At the United Nations in 1956, the Saudi representative stated:

It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.

And after the 1967 war Zuheir Muhsin, then military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council, said helpfully:

There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.

Yeah, you read that right:

The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.

More here: http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/

[Gman]

Exactly Danny,

Unfortunately many many people fail to study the middle east and get blown around with every wind of doctrine. The claim is true that there was never a Palestinian state... The Ottoman Empire was simply a large stretch of land that encompassed Turkey all the way down to Arabia.

Here is the catch to this... This Ottoman boundary ALSO was composed of Arab Jews.. Therefore when the state of Israel was born, many of these Jews simply moved from places within the Ottoman Empire into Israel.. So to say that Jews took over this land by force or it's not due to them is completely inaccurate. Jews have ALWAYS been present in Israel and it's surrounding areas.. Maybe in small pockets, but they have ALWAYS been there. I mean, you have to be really blind not to see this...

This is not rocket science.. Even an idiot like me can understand this.



Arab Yemenite Jews.



Source: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands