Posted on 03/08/2016 8:54:55 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Indirectly invoking the left-wing and Islamic narrative of Israel’s existence as the cause of political dysfunction in the Middle East, Senator Bernie Sanders implied to supporters at a campaign rally on Monday in Dearborn, Michigan - home of one of the nation’s largest Arab and Muslim communities - that “hatred and warfare” in the Middle east region were the fault of Israel.
Praising former Democrat presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton for their presumably good faith-endeavors to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict, Sanders implied that America unjustifiably treated the various parties unequally.
In other words, allegedly favorable treatment of Israel at the expense of its Arab enemies needed to change. Moral relativism was also deployed via implication, declaring all sides as entitled to equal treatment.
“For decades now, there has been hatred and warfare in the Middle East,” Sander said. “All I can tell you is I will make every single effort to bring rational people on both sides [of the Israel/Arab conflict] together, so that hopefully we can have through a level playing field - the United States treating everybody in that region equally - hopefully, and I know that there are people of goodwill in Israel and the Arab communities,”
Attributing regional conflict to Israel’s existence by conflating Israel with the entirety of the Middle East, Sanders neglected to comment on the roles of Muslim and Arab social and cultural pathologies driving the “hatred and warfare” of the region.
Approximating the modern state of Israel’s age - sixty-seven years - Sanders pushed via implication the narrative framing peace between Jews and Arabs in and around Israel as the master key to regional utopia, asserting, "We cannot continue to have for another sixty years the kind of hatred and conflict that exists in the Middle East.”
Earlier in his address, Sanders described Muslims in America as being “scapegoated” by Donald Trump, framing them as an at-risk minority group in need of benevolent Democrat protection while simultaneously casting the Republican front-runner as a modern iteration of Adolf Hitler, as per the weekly left-wing media narrative.
Sanders was introduced by Representative Keith Ellison, whose endorsement he procured months earlier.
Meant Libs are morons.
Bernie appears to suffer from Jewish Suicide Syndrome. This is not surprising given his leftist politics. The two often go together, the politics taking the place of genuine religious faith (regardless of what the individual may think of this one way or the other)
so now BOTH D party candidates are anti-Semitic
all the more reason for us to settle on the best R candidate we can find... and get on with the real campaigning (stop attacking other R’s and start a really meaningful, vigorous public discussion about the AWFUL D party candidates the D’s are coming up with this year. MY LORD, can’t America’s biggest political party come up with anyone more credible, more ... well, morally decent... than these two!??????? What does this say about the D party bosses? How can good, honest, loyal, decent Democratic voters get the corrupt, immoral D party ruling elite OFF their backs?
The below link to the video ties into the Krauthammer piece also noted. The video does a good job of putting the efforts for peace into perspective and expands on the Krauthammer piece. Krauthammer makes the best case with the fewest words that the Palestinians do not ever want peace with Israel.
I already knew some of the history and went to my past letters and a lot of other sources to verify the information in the first two pieces listed did make sense. I started making notes and ended up with a 2,000 plus word narrative before feeling comfortable with what seemed two excellent sources. Now a lot of the sources I retained the links for are Wikipedia, but I ended up listing them instead of many others I looked at that were narrower in their focus. The narrative is of value to me and the links of more help to other folks.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Palestinians do not want peace with Israel— ever
http://www.registerguard.com/web/opinion/26960788-47/peace-israel-state-palestinian-abbas.html.csp
The Middle East ProblemThe
http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Middle-East-Problem.html#.U6ocJBbe71r
Problem
The British received the Mandate for Palestine after WW I and issued the Balfour Declaration promising a homeland for the Jews that did not prejudice the civil or religious liberties of non-Jews living in the area. The British encouraged Jewish immigration thereby initiating unending Arab violent opposition to the presence of Jews. After suppressing Arab attacks within the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, the British created the Emirate of Transjordan east of the Jordan River for the Arabs. A Jewish state would then need to reside within the remaining one third of the Mandate. The violent agitation continued unabated in the Middle East and in Europe, especially with the rise of Hitler. Finally in 1937 the Peel Commission proposed a Jewish state occupying about 20% of present day Israel. The Grand Mufti, who became an ally of Hitler, opposed the proposal. However, the Jews seeing an increasingly brutal or disinterested Europe accepted this truncated safe haven for their people. The final result was continued Arab armed revolt against the Mandate and severe limitations on Jewish immigration.
Next came the Holocaust, which murdered two of every three Jews residing in Europe including the European portion of the Soviet Union. An equivalent event in the U.S. would consign 200,000,000 people to gas chambers, incinerators, and landfills. However, when Abba Eban served as a U.N. observer for Israel before the partition of Palestine, another diplomat noted that 6,000,000 dead Jews had purchased no more than two years of tolerance. The comment confirmed for Jewish leaders that the slaughter was a source of international embarrassment and not of grief.
After WW II the British relinquished the Mandate to the United Nations, which recommended a two state solution. The proposal divided the remaining territory about equally between the Arabs and Jews. The proposal was accepted by the Jews and President Truman immediately recognized the new Jewish state on May 14, 1948. Even the Soviet Union voted for the resolution.
The 20 member Arab League rejected the U.N. solution and immediately attacked the Jewish state with their Arab Liberation Army composed of regular forces from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. Their objective can be synthesized in words, attributed to Abdul Raham Azzam their Secretary, which proclaimed, “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mogul massacres and the Crusades”.
They reasonably expected to eradicate the Jewish people and their nascent country, because their Arab Legion had defeated a European army during WW II when they were instrumental in overcoming the Vichy French in Syria. The Arab League encouraged the Arabs living in Palestine to temporarily seek refuge in places like Gaza and the West Bank, while the Arab armies destroyed Israel. However after a year of fighting, armistice saw the Jews winning a decisive victory expanding their territory 40% beyond indefensible enclaves.
Egyptian and Jordanian troops occupied the Gaza and the West Bank respectively and 650,000 Arabs from Palestine became permanent refugees. At no time did leaders like Yasser Arafat protest occupation of these territories, nor did the occupiers and the Arab League propose forming a Palestinian state within these boundaries. The refugees instead served as political props for Arab unsuccessful wars of aggression to eliminate Israel in 1967 and 1973.
The U.N. response to these wars were the provisions and principles found in resolutions 242 and 338. Israel would return to its pre-1967 borders. The Arabs would terminate all claims and states of belligerency. The refugee problem created by the surrounding Arab states would find a just settlement.
Anwar Sadat brought an end to conventional wars, set the stage for implementation of 242 and 338, and prevented a looming catastrophe for his own country with his historic trip to Jerusalem on November 7, 1977. He formalized the peace process with the Camp David Accords the following September, and with the peace treaty of 1979.
Through three wars, elements in the Arab world had used Egyptian blood for vicarious satisfaction of their hatred of Israeli Jews. By conclusion of the 1973 war, Sadat was certain Egypt's price for an Arab victory would not only include the copious effusion of Egyptian blood, but also destruction of the Aswan Dam leading to an unparalleled economic and human disaster. For his extraordinary statesmanship, the Arab League suspended Egyptian membership, and Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by an amalgam of Islamic radicals including Ayman al-Zawahiri who came from the Muslim Brotherhood and became the leader of al-Qaeda.
Islamic and secular Arab terrorism then became the centerpiece for a continued war against Israel. In the midst of terrorist attacks the Oslo Accords attempted to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict with the first direct, face-to-face agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Secret negotiations resulted in a public ceremony in Washington, DC on 13 September 1993, in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and US President Bill Clinton. The documents themselves were signed by Mahmoud Abbas for the PLO, foreign Minister Shimon Peres for Israel, Secretary of State Warren Christopher for the United States and foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev for Russia.
This arrangement would last for a five-year interim period during which negotiations for a permanent agreement would begin no later than May 1996. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was formed in 1994, pursuant to the Oslo Accords, to have control over much of the area that would become the Palestinian state. Permanent issues such as positions on Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements, security and borders were deliberately left to be decided for a later stage.
In 2000 President Clinton brought the parties together at Camp David in a failed attempt to provide fresh energy to the stalled process. Most criticism for the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit has been leveled at Yasser Arafat.
Ehud Barak agreed with Clinton to offer Arafat an eventual 91% of the West Bank, and all of the Gaza Strip, with Eastern Jerusalem as a capital of the new Palestinian state. In addition, all refugees could apply for compensation of property from an international fund to which Israel would contribute along with other countries. Arafat’s initial position demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Israelis from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, and only subsequently would the PLO dismantle its terror organizations.
Clinton blamed Arafat for failure noting he missed the opportunity to give his people a state promising a better life and a lasting peace. Yasser Arafat walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer. He returned home to launch the second Intifada targeting gatherings of Jewish civilians for suicide bombings.
This three year brutal campaign ignored the Saudi-inspired 2002 peace proposal adopted by the Arab summit in Beirut. It followed closely the Camp David discussions by stating Israel must withdraw to its 1967 borders, requiring resolutions 242 and 338 be fully implemented, establishing an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and requiring a comprehensive peace with Israel. The one result for these years of brutal chaos was Israel departure from Gaza in 2005, when Premier Ariel Sharon decided it was against the country’s security interests to govern the 1.1 million Arabs in Gaza.
In defending against these attacks, Israel was repeatedly castigated by the U.N. for killing civilians, while Articles 28 and 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention say terrorists operating through organizations such as the PLO and Hamas are exclusively responsible for those deaths. These civilians qualify as Protected Persons within terrorist control, and civilian presence cannot be used to render certain points and areas immune from military operations. Once again the Arabs in Palestine served as biodegradable sandbags and political props.
Perpetual Arab intransigence was next exacerbated by disastrous differences within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO is recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestine people by the United Nations and over 100 countries with which it holds diplomatic relations. The PLO has been granted U.N. observer status, and diplomatic recognition despite never changing its charter to remove provisions calling for the eradication of Israel. In late 2004 when its longtime leader Yasser Arafat died, tensions between the two main parties of Fatah (secular) and Hamas (Islamic) rose until culminating is civil war following the 2006 parliamentary election won by Hamas.
Frictions became intolerable when Hamas renounced all agreements made by the PLO with Israel. The Hamas charter calls for an Islamic Palestinian state to replace Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Hamas offers a long term truce but not peace, and demands over one million Arabs be granted the right to uproot Jews from any land they contend was abandoned in 1948. In response the United States and the European Union directed PNA aid into the offices of Mahmoud Abbas, who is president of the PNA and aliened with Fatah. During the 2007 civil war Fatah was driven out of Gaza, but retains control of the West Bank. Presumably, Hamas and Fatah reached reconcilement in Cairo in 2011, and yet all practical evidence confirms two mini-states moving in different directions. Hamas prospers without Western aid by accepting private Arab sources of funding and Iranian aid.
Even though there was no recognized legitimate Palestinian representative to sign a peace agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried once more in 2008. He offered Mahmoud Abbas a proposal closely following that from the Arab summit in 2002. A Palestinian state would include after land swaps nearly 100% of the West Bank and Gaza, and Jerusalem would be divided to allow the Eastern half for the new capital. Some refugees would be allowed to return to Israel, and the others would be generously compensated. Olmert formalized his proposal into a map given to Abbas. Promising to return the next day, Abbas took this map to his office in Ramallah a few miles outside Jerusalem. He did not return and that was the last time Israeli and Palestinians leaders met.
The only Palestinian initiative in 63 years was the blundered attempt in September 2011 to bypass the Oslo Accords, Camp David Summit, 2002 Arab Summit, and U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 by having the U.N. Security Council declare Palestinian statehood. The British during their Mandate, the international community, and Israel have repeatedly offered the Arabs of Palestine their own state. In each case the offer has been refused, and subsequent violent attacks have been directed against Jewish civilians.
To settle the issue of Middle East peace an important theory has always been for Israel to leave the occupied territories as a precursor to negotiations with the peace maintained by international troops. Supposedly, such a move would result in strengthening Arab moderates and marginalizing radicals.
That approach was tried by Israel in 2000 in Lebanon and in 2005 when it left Gaza. When leaving Gaza it uprooted settlements, bulldozed synagogues and left a thriving flower export business to jump start the local economy. In response the Arabs in Gaza burned the donated green houses. In Gaza and Lebanon Hamas and Hezbollah launched thousands of rockets and missiles against Israeli civilians. Radicals devoured the moderates, land for peace failed, the international troops of UNIFIL and UBAM (ph) stood aside, and the settlements proved irrelevant.
Another point diligently ignored reminds why Israel demands true peace in exchange for accepting the 1967 borders. At minimum distance Israel is the width of San Francisco Bay. At its widest the country is the length of the bay. At its present size or at 1967 borders, Israel fits easily inside Lake Michigan and can be flown across in 1.5 to 10 minutes. In terms of population, the five countries that attacked Israel in 1948 have a combined total of 145.5 million and Israel has 7.5 million or 1/20th the human resources. If literally defined by 1967 borders, Israel would inhabit what should be an indefensible enclave. If you consider European wars, the region resembles much more Belgium than Switzerland.
These facts point to the reason Israel maintains that Resolution 242 and 338 must be understood in light of overarching precedent found in the U.N. Charter. Article 51 asserts nothing shall impair a country’s inherent right of self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations. Therefore, a just and lasting peace terminating all Arab states of belligerency and acknowledging Israeli sovereignty must proceed from secure and recognized boundaries free from threats of force. Given the Jewish experience over the last ninety years, secure and defensible boundaries against these endless threats require long-term Israeli military presence in critical areas of the West Bank.
The international community has arrayed itself against Israel. Twenty one out of twenty seven U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemn Israel – the one true democracy in the Middle East. The U.N. not only finds Israel evil, but often exalts evil as when it chose Gadhafi’s Libya to chair the Commission on Human Rights, and Saddam’s Iraq to head the Committee on Disarmament. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon has presided over the U.N. Security Council.
Further confirmation that the Arabs do not ever want peace can be found in the charters of the current principal Arab factions surrounding Israel. For the PLO the Jewish state has no historical relevancy or recent legitimate legal existence. For Hamas its eradication is inextricably linked to living out the Muslim religion. For Hezbollah eradicating the state of Israel is a primary goal which includes each and every Jewish civilian who lives in Israel. Therefore a two state solution would be no solution. As Golda Meir said, “We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Otherwise any formula only validates Charles Krauthammer’s assertion and renders the Middle East peace process is just a make work program for over educates political scientists.
Israel desperately hopes for and needs peace, because any military defeat brings to fruition the vision of a new Holocaust. Even as Mahmoud Abbas tried his end run at the U.N. around 63 years of diplomacy, Benjamin Netanyahu offered to meet with him again in New York. “I cannot make peace without you. President Abbas, I extend my hand – the hand of Israel – in peace. I hope that you will grasp that hand. We are both the sons of Abraham. My people call him Avraham. Your people call him Ibraham. We share the same patriarch. We dwell in the same land. Our destinies are intertwined. Let us realize the vision of Isaiah. ‘The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.’ Let that be the light of peace.”
Hamas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
Debunking the Palestinian Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/
Council on Foreign Relations: Hamas
http://www.cfr.org/israel/hamas/p8968
Palestinian National Authority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority
2000 Camp David Summit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit
Fatah–Hamas conflict
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict
Palestinians Don’t Want Peace with Israel— Ever
http://www.registerguard.com/web/opinion/26960788-47/peace-israel-state-palestinian-abbas.html.csp
The Palestinian Blunder
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18685
The Arab Peace Initiative, 2002
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/league/peace02.htm
Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/netanyahus-un-speech_594122.html
Palestine liberation Organization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
Charter of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter7.shtml
U.N. Resolution 242
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/UN+Security+Council+Resolution+242.htm
U.N. Resolution 338
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/UN+Security+Council+Resolution+338.htm
Prime Minister's Speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University
http://middle-east-analysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/prime-ministers-speech-at-begin-sadat.html
Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs Crusades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
Full text of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee 2015
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/02/full-text-of-benjamin-netanyahus-speech-to-the-american-israel-public-affairs-committee/
The complete transcript of Netanyahu’s address to Congress 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/03/03/full-text-netanyahus-address-to-congress/
The PLO Charter
http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm
Hamas Charter (1988)
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html?chocaid=397
Ideology of Hezbollah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_Hezbollah
Golda Meir Quotes
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we_will_have_peace_with_the_arabs_when_they_love/163272.html
I would normally agree with you that Bernie is moving the D party to the left, but Hillary’s politics on most major issues are very very similar to Bernie’s....
insofar as dragging Hillary goes, Bernie doesn’t have to move her very far
if at all
Filthbag Sanders needs to be castrated...the pos he is.
Bernie, they started killing muslims for few reasons back in the 7th century already. It is how Morroco came to be.... Arabs running away from the slaughter until they could not go further at the Atlantic Ocean.
Exactly and I'll bet that back in their tents the Muslims in Dearborn are already discussing the cutting off of Sanders head and giving it to their kids to play kick ball.
Sanders is a jewish Kapo. Already making out with Sharpton who was partially reaponsible for the Crownheight pogroms.
Sanders is an f-ing moron.
An absolute superb analogy. Sanders is a modern day Kapo! Wouldn't surprise me if his relatives worked in the nazi gas chambers back then. An absolute heartless bast*rd scumbag Sanders is!!
We are still cleaning up Carters Middle East lunacy. Actual Americans have paid with their lives, limbs and their blood.
Both more nazis to me.
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Thanks MarvinStinson.
At the end of WWII all of them committed suicide.
Dearborn?
Dearborn Jihad: Muslim Plots Church Shooting, Beheading, etc. NOT CHARGED WITH TERRORISM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3407221/posts
” An absolute heartless bast*rd scumbag Sanders is!! “
He can’t be all bad. After all, he got his first real full time job at age 40.
OK, he’s a sociopath,and dumber than dirt, but we knew that going in : )
I saw Bernie speak for 30 minutes with Bret Baier/Fox News and he had a calm reassuring manner like a favorite uncle.`Now I understand why he is popular. But his self-hating Jew nonsense in Dearborn shows what a major lefty loon he is. Some cheap sucking up to Dearborn Muslims for some votes.
Power drunk hag Hillary is more evil because she can actually get elected. Rush jokingly came up with something the other day. Was delivered as a joke. That if Obama allows Hillary to be indicted on her classified emaails then the Clintons will release some major dirt on him. Chicago foam parties? Who knows but I believe it.
” if Obama allows Hillary to be indicted on her classified emaails then the Clintons will release some major dirt on him. Chicago foam parties? Who knows but I believe it.”
She can afford the finest private detectives in D.C.
Sanders was also filmed meeting with the Race Pimp Sharpton I presume the object was to get more of the black vote. Sanders is an utter scumbag.
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