The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Why No Peace?

Jewish Press ^ | January 21, 2018 | Colonel Richard Kemp

[SJackson]

{Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website}

The critical question of why the Middle East seems unable to achieve peace has just been rigorously considered again, this time by Michael Calvo, an international lawyer, in an important new book, The Middle East and World War III: Why No Peace? It is worth being read by all political leaders, academics, journalists, students and anyone who wants to understand why there is no peace and what may happen.

The book analyzes why the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab/Muslim conflict has not been resolved, in spite of the Oslo Accords and many years of active involvement by the European Union, individual European states, the U.S., Russia and the United Nations.

The long-term Palestinian use of terror, for instance, looked at chronologically:

“to achieve Palestinian political goals, to influence Israeli politics, to favor a given Israeli candidate for the post of Prime Minister, to compel the Israeli government to conceal more land, to prevent a final peace settlement by maintaining a state of conflict that could eventually lead to total war, to erode Israeli and American resolve and to demonstrate to Arab population that peace is not an option and that the existence of the Jews on their land cannot be recognized”.

Some of the attacks occurred just when foreign representatives landed in Israel, “to prevent the revival of the peace talks.” Mr. Jason Greenblatt should take that into consideration.

There is, according to Calvo, also a psychological and religious preparation for armed conflict with Israel, the manipulation of the media and of minds, the practical preparation of the armed conflict and its planned outbreak, as well as its control by the Palestinian leadership. The terrorists are elevated to heroes and role models. Palestinian policeman, armed individuals, adolescents and adults, sometimes a father or even a mother of young children, are ready to kill Jews by any means and even to blow themselves to pieces for their cause to reach paradise. But they were not born jihadists. They were, and are still, being incited to become jihadists.

The terrorists simply “did what the Palestinian Authority ordered them to do,” said Mahmoud Abbas.

(Image source: Palestinian Media Watch) Muhammad Dahlan has said that, “Forty percent of the Martyrs in this Intifada belonged to the Palestinian security forces… and the Palestinian Authority has hidden Hamas members against Israeli counter-actions”.

In the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip and the role played by Hamas’s terrorism to increase the pressure on Israel: “Abbas has an ally in Hamas to multiply jihads”.

According to a legal analysis under International Criminal Law and the Rome Statute, to “deliberately attack and kill civilians constitute a crime against humanity.” It is also a crime of genocide, “since the intention is to deliberately destroy, in whole or in part, a religious group, since only Jews were targeted, including Jews visiting of studying in Israel.” If there is an international criminal responsibility, there is also a lack of prosecution.

The internationalization of the conflict is made clear — especially the role played by Arab and Muslim countries, including Jordan and Egypt which signed a peace treaty with Israel — to prepare the world to accept the destruction of the Jewish State.

The legal propaganda in war against Israel is analyzed. It covers many fields and how to answer. Are the territories of Judea Samaria (West Bank) occupied, disputed or liberated? To whom do they legally belong?

The jihadist aim, as convincingly described in the book, is to isolate Israel politically; to influence political leaders, public opinion, international institutions and international organizations so that on the day their planned offensive begins, no one will be there to support Israel and the Jews. The Palestinian Authority (PA), the PLO and the Arab/Muslim states will be unhampered to do what Hitler was unable to do in historic Palestine — make it Judenrein (free of Jews).

The propaganda war, to achieve this aim, warns Calvo, consists largely of: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Israel apartheid weeks, the delegitimization, demonization and dehumanization of Israeli Jews; and the actions before UNESCO, the World Health Organization, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

The strategy to destroy Israel is implemented through both governments and non-governmental organizations, funded mainly by the European Union and its member states, primarily Norway and Switzerland. It includes a malignant alliance of anti-Semitic individuals, anti-Jewish Christian churches, questionable Catholic societies, radical Leftists and radical Muslims of all countries. This alliance has one aim: to discredit, damage, demonize and eventually destroy Israel.

This conflict has been considered a territorial conflict by all states and dealt with as such, even by Israel: everyone had reasonable hope that a compromise over land would bring peace. The author’s wider perspective, however, leads to the provocative conclusion that because of misguided ideology and theology, there is and will, for the medium term, be no peace in the Middle East.

At the moment, Arabs and Muslims are in a jihadist religious conflict, a theological/metaphysical conflict with Israel’s Jews, however much the West may refuse to see it. Understanding the problem must begin at its roots.

Leading experts and Pope Francis have said that the world has already entered World War III, but no world leader other than Israel’s has dared to share their analysis. Are they afraid?

If one looks at ISIS and the world through Palestinian/Arab/Muslim eyes, Jews in Israel and abroad are not their only enemies to be destroyed, he stresses. The same jihadist war is also underway against the Americans and all “infidels”: Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Hindus, Buddhists, and in a general manner all those who do not believe in the “religion of truth”, namely Islam; and against those Muslims who compromise with such so-called infidels.

The Palestinian leaders, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabis, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, most of the Muslim states, the Iranian mullahs and government, all from whichever Islamic persuasion, share the same jihadist ideology, encapsulated in one sentence, the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood:

“Allah is our goal, the prophet is our ideal, the Qur’an is our constitution, jihad is our way, and death for the sake of Allah is our aspiration”.

This ideology is used to justify killing Jews and infidels whoever they are and wherever they are found, from New York to Mumbai, Paris, Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Berlin, Manchester and London; and as far away as China, Buenos Aires, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and the Philippines.

The dilemma of confronting Iran and its proxies, such as Hezbollah, is compounded by what may yet happen in Lebanon and Russia’s role in all this. Whatever happens, America, Europe, Israel, the Muslim states, Russia, India, China, and all other states will still face World War III from within.

Of the familiar collusion between Iran and North Korea regarding their nuclear programs, Calvo concludes: “Their endgame plan to intimidate and paralyze America is simple.” The distance from Pyongyang to Los Angeles is the same as between Tehran and New York.

Unless a forthright strategy against radical Islamic terrorism, whether by Sunni or Shia, whether from the “fertile crescent” or from the Iranian Empire, is engaged by all states and primarily by the United States, the author lays bare, World War III will soon get even worse; a war with devastating, perhaps nuclear, consequences.

[SJackson]

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[Pollster1]

Why is there no peace between the only civilized democracy in the Middle-East and terrorists who want every Jew on earth dead, in spite of the Oslo Accords, the European Union, the U.S., Russia, and the United Nations? That is a question that may never be answered. I’m stumped. Clueless. Dumbfounded.

[ClearCase_guy]

Islam is a cancer. It’s a political system of conquest. It is not a religion.

Co-existence is not a reasonable goal. The Muslims don’t want that. So we aren’t going to have that.

[Blueflag]

Simple: Good (God) versus Evil (Satan), and Satan will never quit until he is ultimately defeated.

This isn’t hard.

Principalities and Powers.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“...to compel the Israeli government to conceal more land,...”

Who edited this?

Why no peace? Why has the conflict gone on so long? It is very simple, because due to international pressure and public opinion Israel has adopted a “tit for tat” strategy. This leads to no victory for either side and a state of continuous war. The way to end a conflict is DECISIVELY DEFEAT your enemy. This is done by inflicting so much damage and horror on them that they beg for peace. There must be no doubt in their mind that they are defeated. You can not do this with “smart bombs” or concerns about collateral damage. Look at pictures of German cities after WWII, there is total devastation. That is how you win wars.

[elcid1970]

Because Islam.

[originalbuckeye]

Golda Meir: ‘We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for making us kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.’

[Thibodeaux]

To this day, the Arabs living in Palestine do not accept the fact the Brits gave their land to Jews

The Arabs in question do not accept the Balfour declaration. The rest of the Arabs are mostly in acceptance, effectively throwing the Palis under the bus.

[Yosemitest]

Jesus TOLD US HOW to solve this problem.
Here's WHY.

You want to see the "End of the Matter" ?

" ... And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them...
... AFTER the end of seven months shall they search.
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone,
then shall he set up a sign by it,
till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog ... "

That's a VERY long time burying dead Muslims, ... burying a lot of DEAD Muslims!

‘NEVER’ EVER Call Judea and Samaria the ‘West Bank’


... “Does anybody know why they call it the West Bank?
Technically, what is the West Bank?
I don’t think anybody in America knows.

….

The term West Bank dates from the establishment of the kingdom of Jordan on the east bank of the Jordan in 1922.
It refers to Judea and Samaria by their location on the west bank of the Jordan River
and is an attempt by the Arab world to link them to Jordan,
although they were originally slated to be part of the state of Israel.
Jordan has given up all demands for Judea and Samaria, which it occupied from 1949-1967, when they were united with Israel after Jordan attacked the Jewish state in the Six Day War.

….

“They [the Arabs] are really really brilliant,” added Beck.
“This is really being played very well…
There’s no history of Palestinians [in that area].
You know what Palestine is named after? The Philistines. There were the Philistines.
That’s WHY they came up with the name Palestine later.”

The Philistines were a warlike, sea people
whose origins may have been Minoa, an island off Greece,
and who lived on the southern coast of Israel, far from Judea and Samaria, during the time of the Bible after their attack on Egypt failed.
They were the Jews’ worst enemy during the time of the Judges and Kings,
but were absorbed into conquering empires and disappeared as a distinct people by the 5th century B.C.E.

Sources:

In Search of the Origins of the Philistines - Part 1



In Search of the Origins of the Philistines – Part 2

[TallahasseeConservative]

Most of the “Palestinians” are not really native born residents. They are refugees tossed out of places like Jordan, Egypt and Syria after being involved or their families being involved in the Islamist movements of the 60’s and 70’s. Arafat was born in Cairo.

[super7man]

The way to end a conflict is DECISIVELY DEFEAT your enemy.

Agreed. Now war was ever won using a defensive strategy. Current tactics are designed to remove the Muslim means to engage in war. This will never work as they still have the will to wage war. The conflict must result destroying their will to wage war. Ragarding terrorist acts by individuals. Somebody is training them, encouraging them and sending them. The only way to stop it is to find who is pulling their strings and make the prospect of a terrorist act too horrible to contemplate. The Muslim leaders are men of the "world" not men of God. We must destroy their world and make it very personal.

[originalbuckeye]

I hate the BCE moniker. I had to ask my British husband what it meant. Just another sectarian way of rewriting/ignoring our history.

[Windflier]

Why no peace?

One side subscribes to a ‘religion’, whose scriptures command them to kill or subjugate all non-believers.

It’s that simple.

[TalBlack]

When one side is motivated by pure hate there can be no peace.

[Pietro]

Why no peace?

Ishmael, the bastard son of Abraham.

Don't expect peace.

[Yosemitest]

History is important, and it's best to find the original sources, if you can.
If you have a few dollars to spend on it, search E-Bay for old history books.
You'll be shocked at all the old and original source books on the market that our libraries are dumping.

[umgud]

Ditto what you said.

[originalbuckeye]

Why don’t you just tell me who said that quote first?

[SkyDancer]

Why no peace? Because Israel exists.