"Moshe Ya’alon, a former Israel Defense Forces general who now serves as Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategic affairs minister, posed the following query in an interview published in the Jerusalem Post:
“If we are talking about coexistence and peace, why the [Palestinian] insistence that the territory they receive be ethnically cleansed of Jews? Why do those areas have to be Judenrein? Don’t Arabs live here, in the Negev and the Galilee? Why isn’t that part of our public discussion? Why doesn’t that scream to the heavens?”"
As Jonathan Tobin points out, the official goal of the Middle East "peace process" is a "two-state solution", in one of which Muslims live alongside Jews and have voting rights and representation in the legislature, while in the other there are no Jews at all and, as in "moderate" Jordan, to sell your house to a Jew is a crime punishable by death. There goes the neighborhood, right? When the western campus left holds its annual "Israeli Apartheid Week", presumably it's in philosophical support of the notion that you don't need to run an "apartheid" system if you just get rid of everyone who's not like you.
If Muslims are so revolted by Jews that they cannot tolerate any living among them, well, they're free to believe what they want. What is less understandable is the present position of the United States government. The President and his Secretary of State have made it very clear that they regard a few dozen housing units in Jerusalem as a far greater threat to Middle East peace than the Iranian nuclear program. Why is it in the interest of the United States to validate, enthusiastically, the most explicit and crudest bigotry of the Palestinian "cause"?
Steyn quotes this article by Jonathan Tobin:
Why No Jews in a Palestinian State?
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/tobin/279091
The reason why Palestinians insist that all Jews must leave their future state is because they do not recognize the legitimacy of Israel or the Jewish presence anywhere in the land. And Palestinian political culture is so steeped in violence and hatred of Jews and Israel that it is literally impossible to believe that Jews, even if they behaved like Quakers, could live in a Palestinian state.
It’s perfectly acceptable for Arabs to have a state with no Jews, and the liberals will work hard towards that goal. But if the Jewish state were to expel all the Arabs...well, that would be apartheid.
Liberal justice.
I think a Palestinian, if you could actually get one to engage in reasonable conversation, would give the excuse that Jews are oppressors. It’s unreasonable to ask Palestinians to share land with oppressors.
But of course we know the real reason why they won’t share land with the Jews, don’t we. It’s about Islam and hate.
Jews expelled from Arab countries accuse Arab regimes of ethnic cleansing
Jerusalem Post ^ | Jun. 25, 2003 | JENNY HAZAN AND GREER FAY CASHMAN
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:16:43 AM by yonif
EXCERPT:
Menuchum is one of over 850,000 Jews who have been displaced from Arab countries since 1948, according to the JJAC report which states that 97% of Jews from Arab lands have left their countries of origin, leaving a mere 8,000-member population behind.
“This report presents a damning indictment of the Arab world for the mass violations of human rights and for the coordinated, repressive measures to drive out their Jewish populations or to hold them as political hostages,” said Executive Director of JJAC, Stanley Urman, who listed intimidation, beating, persecution, pogroms and the enactment of Nuremberg-type laws among the State-sanctioned tactics perpetrated by the governments of Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen, Aden, Syria and Lebanon.
“It presents a damning indictment of the international community, for its disproportionate and favorable treatment towards Palestinian refugees and their failure to respond to the plight of Jewish refugees,” he said, referring to the fact that Israel has become a safe-haven for over 600,000 Jewish refugees.
“The time has come to restore the plight and the truth and the justice of Jewish refugees from Arab lands to the Middle East narrative from which they have been expunged and eclipsed,” added Member of Parliament of Canada and Honorary JJAC Chairman, Professor Irwin Cotler, who charged that Arab regimes were guilty of “a pattern of ethnic cleansing” and “criminal conspiracy in dealing with their native Jewish populations.
“Any narrative of the Middle East including the Roadmap that does not include justice for Jewish refugees from Arab lands, is a case study in Middle East revisionism. It’s an assault on truth and memory and justice,” said Cotler, who accused the United Nations of singling out Israel for differential and discriminatory treatment in the international arena.
“Since 1947, there have been some 687 resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, which have dealt with the Arab-Israeli conflict,” explained Cotler. “101 of those resolutions dealt with the question of refugees. All 101 dealt with Palestinian refugees only. Not one resolution dealt with the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab lands.”
There would not be an Arab refugee problem if the Arabs had not rejected the UN partition plan, he said.
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