Posted on 06/11/2003 12:44:39 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Talk of ‘Palestinian people’ is comparable to talk of ‘Lilliputians.’ They are a fictional people, just as Palestine is a fictional country. And their fictional existence as a people began (quite coincidentally) in 1948. Before that fateful year, no one had ever heard of them.
And what we generally refer to as Palestine was a land that nobody (except maybe a handful of Bedouins) really wanted .... until the Jews who emigrated there brought prosperity in the form of agriculture and industry. All of a sudden an arid, non-productive land became a desirable ‘homeland’ for a diverse group of opportunistic Arabs.
Israel made a big mistake when she embraced the Oslo Accord, and she will be traveling down that same deadly road if she takes seriously the new Roadmap. In ’93 she turned over large portions of her land to thugs who, in return, simply had to agree to live in peace with the Israeli people. Unfortunately ‘peace’ (at least as regards their co-existence with Israel) is not a part of the Arab vocabulary. For Israel, accepting the Roadmap now, a decade later, would amount to being burned twice. And this time the burn would prove fatal.
The Muslim world begrudges (and always will) Israel her sovereignty, and her desire to live in peace. To carve a ‘Palestinian state’ out of Israel, when Arabs have more than twenty Arab states (with nearly three hundred million Arab inhabitants) in which to choose to live, is ludicrous.
In truth, the purpose of the creation of a Palestinian state is twofold: (1) to rob the Jews of what little land they already possess as their own, and (2) to cut Israel in half, and thereby provide a catalyst for the final, deadly assault that will render the state (and people) of Israel extinct. Minus the West Bank, Israel’s increased vulnerability would prove fatal.
In the late ‘70s, a PLO executive committee member said, ‘Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.’
Twenty years later, Yassar Arafat said, ‘Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.’
Could their intentions be more explicit? And could the current ‘Roadmap’ play into their hands any more than it does?
God bless and keep the state of Israel. America surely isn’t.
This gives them a chance to do it themsleves with the prospect of the peace loving and hoinorable amongst them having something to gain for it.
Stalin would have starved or simply had them all killed...which history tells us is what he did.
A plan or odea (which would admittedly need to be fleshed out significantly) gives the Palestinians a chance, repeating it with each attack from amongst them, to resolve the problem of Palestinian terror themselves and puts the owness on them to do so (where it belongs)...with a prospect of earning a stable state of their own. If they refuse to do so, and continue to harbor and/or abett terror amongst themselves, then ultimately they are treated as the allies of terror they would reveal themselves to be.
Agreed. I believe the day is upon them now.
Such a plan or thought as this, puts the oweness where it belongs IMHO, without all the duplicity and politics of current circumstances...and that oweness is squarely on the Palestinian people themselves. I believe they will never face up to it without something as direct and compelling as this.
But that's just my own opinion, nothing more.
Can I ask just what might this "drastic action" entail?
As to the type of action might be entailed if the Palestinianian terrorism directed against Israel continues...that is what this thread is about. As I have said, and as this thread speaks to, the owness for stopping that terror lies with the Palestinian people directly. Sooner or later the pressure for them to do so and prove that they are not "with the terrorists" will increase significantly. It should have happened some time ago IMHO.
BUMP.
The Palestinian people have to be brought (IMHO) to the position where they make a clear decision to either reject those terrorist organizations, or continue to abet, harbor and support them. Once that decision is clear, action can be taken to either assist them so they can destroy the terrorist from amongst them, or to drive them all outside of Israel's borders. Israel's security and integrity can not be secured by anything less.
A plan like this forces that basic Palestinian decision into the open.
I agree.
In that sense I agree. But he certainly considered anyone in the Soviet Union his own. That was the perspective from which my statement was made.
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