Posted on 10/17/2003 8:59:04 PM PDT by yonif
Edited on 10/17/2003 9:06:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
If I were to ask what the year 1964 symbolized in terms of the Israeli-Arab conflict, what would you have said? Would you have known what happened during that year? Probably not. Let me enlighten you...
In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization was founded as a terrorist network, with the goal of destroying Israel by organizing the various Arab terrorist groups under it. This was launched from Cairo, Egypt, with Ahmed Shukairy as its first leader. Soon after, Yasser Arafat, who had founded the Fatah terrorist group in 1959, became the leader of the PLO. One of the most notorious terrorist attacks committed by the PLO was the Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli Athletes in 1972. Other incidents of terror against Israel, which began in 1952, can be viewed on this website: (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0ldc0)
What does this mean? The answer lies within the premise of the current Palestinian Arab propaganda machine, spread by the PLO which governs through the Palestinian Authority, who says they are currently fighting the Israeli "OCCUPATION." When they mention that word, the media and the world say it refers to the West Bank and Gaza. They say that these are the areas which the Palestinian Arabs are “resisting.” The Palestinian Authority always mentions that on CNN.
The fact of the matter is that is a total lie. Total disinformation. Total terrorist propaganda. The reason? The year 1964. If the PLO, that same organization Arafat and his cronies lead today in Ramallah, are really fighting for the removal of the Israeli "Occupation" which they say begun in 1967, why was the PLO established THREE YEARS before that "occupation" actually began? What were they fighting for then? What was the Fatah, headed by Arafat today as well, fighting for in the 1950s? The "occupation" that would start a decade later? Of course not.
They were fighting for the same goal as they are fighting for today, a PLO state "from the river to the sea."
I am also sick and tired of hearing news reports calling Israel's defensive actions against terrorists "incursions" or "raids" into Palestinian Arab cities. PLO spokesmen go on TV and babble about how Israel is invading their territory. Then, when they talk about it, they show a map of the region with the territories highlighted as "Occupied Territories."
Here's my question to those PLO propagandists: How can you claim that the Israelis (or "Zionist Enemy") are invading your cities, land, and areas if you are already supposed to be "occupied" by the "brutal and repressive" Israeli army in the first place? How can the Israeli Army be invading an area they are supposed to be in? How can the Israeli Army be invading an area they are already supposed to be "occupying"?
One must remember this as well: Between 1948 and 1967 the areas which they claim they want for a state (the West Bank and Gaza) were in the possession of the Arabs themselves. They had the West Bank and Gaza, including East Jerusalem, in their possession. But during those decades, no effort whatsoever was made by them to create a state. Even the establishment of their organization for creating "Palestine" in 1964, stipulated that they were aiming for Israel's destruction, and not merely a state in the West Bank and Gaza.
I have never heard any questioning of this by anyone in the mainstream media, which is supposed to "inform" the public about what is going on in the world. A world we were supposed to be watching more closely after 9/11/01.
The facts are clearly in front of us. We have a PLO headed by Arafat and other terror groups with a long history of committing terrorism stretching out to the 50s, long before the "occupation" even began. We have a PLO and other terrorist goons continue to lie to our face (in English) that their groups and their "constituents" are really talking about the West Bank and Gaza as being the "occupation" and that their “resistance” will end once Israel leaves those territories. In addition, you have the world lecture Israel that their "presence" in the territories is the reason the terrorists are committing attacks (better known as "freedom fighters" who “bravely” murder 5 year old kids, among other innocents).
The truth is, these same individuals, same groups, expounding these same ideas, were committing terrorist acts in Israel, long before 1967. And they will continue to do so, at an easier and higher rate, if Israel surrenders its means of defense within the disputed territories.
It is imperative that we see through the facade of the terrorist propaganda, and expose it for the sake of Israel's existence and for the sake of our returning to a world where peace and justice prevails.
Until next time,
YF
Find me a sample of Palestinian langauge.
Cite the lineage of their Kings and queens.
Show me a giff of an ancient Palestinian coin.
Show me ancient Palestinan documents.
If you can then - I'll beleive in occupation.
That would be called Reuters, BBC, AP, and CNN, in that order. Hell, the BBC might be the worst now.
They don't want them! Next to Jews, Arabs hate palistinians more than anyone else. Transjordan was supposed to be the "palestinian state," but they got mostly run out of there... How many were killed? And of course, let's not forget what they did to Lebanon, in the civil war....
Mark
I can't help wondering, however, why the concept of "occupation" wasn't rejected outright.
Acquisition by war is as old as history. Once a war is concluded, there can be no an occupation, it is assimilation. Anyone noticed that "occupied France" existed only until the surrender of Germany?
Another element is missing: "palestine" is a fictional country. A fictional country cannot be occupied.
As far as I'm concerned, there is a massive invasion of illegal immigrants presently waging terrorism on Israeli soil. All of it: from the Jordan to the Mediterranean.
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