Posted on 11/25/2003 9:19:49 PM PST by stradivarius
One has to wonder why, if the Palestinian Arabs want their own country so much, they have repeatedly turned down opportunities to have one. The reasons they give for not accepting statehood always has something to do with the statehood being offered is not as much as they want, even when it is 99% of what they have requested. Therefore, one may reasonably assume that Arafat & Co. really don’t want a sovereign nation.
So one must ask why being in limbo is of benefit to Arafat and then figure out a way to deprive him of this. Basically, the advantages come down to impunity, lack of responsibility, a parasitic existence, and money.
Because the Palestinian Arabs are not a sovereign nation, they cannot be signatories to any international law and are thus exempt. This means that their jihad training camps for five-year-olds is untouchably outside the International Law on Abuse of the Child. As is teaching hatred of Jews. As is encouraging children to go into areas of military operations and throw rocks. As is using children, and even babies’ strollers and cribs, to hide explosives.
Because the Palestinian Arabs are not a sovereign nation, they are parasitically dependent upon the largesse and good will of others for their existence. They do not have to promote a viable economy, public services, or jobs. All they have to do is riot and murder enough and the world comes rushing in with food, billions of dollars, housing, and health assistance. Meanwhile, the world puts pressure on Israel, the Palestinian Arabs’ sworn enemy, to provide them with job opportunities and electricity.
This in and of itself is an absurdity. Did anyone require the Allies of WWII to provide the German people with job opportunities and electricity? Is the US required to open its borders to Mexicans, tear down its fences, and provide Mexico with utilities? Of course not. And the US is not the Mexicans’ declared target of annihilation, as Israel is to the Palestinian Arabs.
The Palestinian Arabs also have impunity when it comes to murder and war. Nowhere in the annals of history has any country borne such a sustained and prolonged attack as Israel and not fought back with extreme prejudice. The reason? Because the world consensus is that a group of people without an official country cannot possibly have an army and for Israel to attack them full-scale would be considered a crime against humanity. Arafat is wily enough to know that tens of thousands of well-trained, well-paid, well-equipped terrorists can operate as an army, yet with impunity, as long as he doesn’t have an official country.
Even when there is an ‘official’ truce, the Palestinians can and do continue their attacks with impunity from international sanctions. They use their lack of sovereignty as an excuse. It has become a mantra. "It’s not our fault. We cannot control everyone if we don’t have a country and, therefore, an official police force."
So here is my suggestion. Israel declares the Palestinian Arabs a sovereign nation on all of the land they now occupy. But, Israel also declares that these are not necessarily the final borders or agreements; they can be negotiated. However, the Palestinian Arabs have now gained their own country and have lost nothing. They can have a national anthem, issue currency and stamps and apply for a seat at the UN.
Once the Palestinians have their own country, Israel will no longer be responsible for them. And, at the same time, the Palestinian Arabs will suddenly become wholly responsible for their economy, their utilities, their public assistance, their housing, and, especially, their behavior.
This means that when the next Kassam rocket, homicide bomber or shooting attack comes from the new country of Palestinian Arabs and is directed at Israeli territory or citizens, Israel will be able to consider it an official act of war and will thus have a green light to wipe them out.
The concept has a certain appeal, does it not?
The Palestinian state will be a national socialist state, a top-heavy socialist directorate.
There is not now, nor will there be "an economy," because the people will live as the Cubans do, under their masters, as subjects at least, possibly even as slaves.
They follow Arafat because he controls the purse strings, whether there is or there is not a "Palestinian State."
What liberties are permitted, are for the benefit of the viewing audience.
The Palestinians will get the peace and freedom that they claim to want, when they bear down upon the injustice served them by the P.L.O. (a.k.a. P.A.).
The P.L.O. will achieve "Cuban Statehood," and they could not ask for more, in order to find evermore support in the American "liberal media."
The problem is that the land area is too small and has almost no resource wealth. Without a tremendous amount of financial support from the U.S., Israel today would be in terrible economic shape. It wouldn't be any better with a Palestinian state, either.
I'm a cynic, but I doubt statehood for Palestine would improve Israel's position in the UN. It would only encourage demands for more concessions. Complaints about the PA's atrocities would still be ignored.
Without the IDF to monitor borders in the West Bank and Gaza, Arafat could import all the modern arms he wanted from his arab neighbors. Homicide bombing might decrease, but only because it was replaced by mortar and rocket attacks. Artillery would once again thunder from the Golan Heights. Israel would be forced to either give up land for buffer zones or re-invade to silence the guns. As a sovereign nation, Arafat would be free to form alliances with arab countries for mutual defense; he could even invite foreign troops in to help defend against Israeli "invasion". If Israel tried to retake the West Bank under these conditions, a hot war is very likely.
The Palestinian state will be a national socialist state, a top-heavy socialist directorate.
There is not now, nor will there be "an economy," because the people will live as the Cubans do, under their masters, as subjects at least, possibly even as slaves.
They follow Arafat because he controls the purse strings, whether there is or there is not a "Palestinian State."
What liberties are permitted, are for the benefit of the viewing audience.
The Palestinians will get the peace and freedom that they claim to want, when they bear down upon the injustice served them by the P.L.O. (a.k.a. P.A.).
The P.L.O. will achieve "Cuban Statehood," and they could not ask for more, in order to find evermore support in the American "liberal media."
All of your post deserves a ‘repost’.
Perhaps the most revolting thing about talk of a ‘Palestinian State’ and the ‘Palestinian Liberation Organization’ and the ‘Palestinian Authority’ is that there is not, and never has been, a people known as ‘Palestinians’. They are a fictional people – a conglomeration of Arabs -- concocted for purely political reasons. To be depicted as a people routed from their homeland, so as to uproot the people of Israel and remove their presence from the Middle East.
God bless and keep Israel and her people.
Before 1967, when the "Palestinians" of the "West Bank" were citizens of Jordan, there was remarkably little interest in their so-called national identity.
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