Posted on 04/27/2002 5:25:11 PM PDT by Pokey78
And suspected by whom? You?
I won't dispute that. Israel is prepared to permit a limited autonomy to the West Bank Palestinians. But, right or wrong, they still expect to be able to buy, and develop, land there. And they expect those Israelis settled there to be allowed to commute to and from their jobs, and to live in peace.
That isn't the question. The question is whether or not the Pals are willing to live alongside them in peace. If the answer is yes, fine. Something can be worked out. If not, they will eventually be expelled. If not by Sharon, then by one of his successors. That is their decision to make and the answer to that is their destiny.
Somthing to ponder.....
In the Six-Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. But they didn't capture these territories from Yasser Arafat. They captured them from Jordan's King Hussein. I can't help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Israel won the war.
The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be known as Palestine. The name was derived from the Philistines, a Goliathian people conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, but that had even less staying power.
Palestine has never existed -- before or since -- as an autonomous entity. It was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
Pali's are arabs! They are not distinguishable from Jordanians or Syrians or Iraquis. Why do you think none of the other so called "arab brothers" want them?
America would be a far better, morally advanced, and safer place if our Government would insist on America's welfare first over Israel's as these goals are clearly, no matter what the Jewish controlled media says, mutually exclusive.
There is absolutely no sane imperative or advantage in helping Israel endanger the world, or ignite WWIII, or to continue the subjugation of the Arabs through land aquisition that does not belong to them.
Hate and mutual attrocities commited by both sides are the fruit of this insane Jewish strategy.
The Arab world has been a friend of America long before "The Corpulent one" of Israel poisoned the well and before non-semitic Jews invaded and hi-jacked the Holy Land to initiate the problem.
Well, if he has studied the history of Israel he knows about the movement of that number of people. If he has studied the movement of refugees after WWII and during the partition of India, he knows about the movement of up to 100 million people.
As for how likely it is to happen, I don't own a crystal ball, nor can I read Sharon's mind.
As for the result, it would also mean the end of the 'Palestinian state', and the end of any state which intervened against Israel. Frankly, if it occurs while we are making war against Iraq, the world will hardly notice it.
I am so glad you brought that up. India was a definite region before conquered by the British. Pakistanis are ethnically Indian. So, the Muslims were given a homeland. And it isn't good enough! They're fighting over Kashmir. They will never be satisfied. Even if it's a postage stamp of land. If it's "Islamic" land, they will fight to the death for it. There is no amount of west bank land that will satisfy the Palestinians but they will be completely satisfied if there is no Israel but they are under the despotic rule of an "Islamic" dictator.
What are we going to do about it? Stamp our feet? All of our available troops will be involved in Iraq. During the 8 days it would take Israel to finish the job, no non-military intervention could have an effect.
Do you seriously suggest that the US would exterminate the Jewish state with nuclear weapons? After the Palestinian state no longer exists, people will cry crocodile tears, but will not risk anything for a people who are no longer in existence.
The Jews did not destroy the World Trade Center, Osama. It was you and your Arab buddies who did that.
My argument is more pointed toward why, if the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands, and Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass, do the arabs refuse to accept the Pali's?
The Arabs want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
Did you know that it was Arafat's uncle who served as the grand mufti of Jerusalem in the 1920s and 1930s. It was his uncle who concluded, for the first time, that Mohammed had ascended into heaven from the site known as the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. And it was his uncle who, in an unholy alliance with Adolf Hitler, condemned the Jews and their designs on their eternal capital city.
So what's the solution to the Middle East mayhem? Well, frankly, I don't think there is a man-made solution to the violence. But, if there is one, it needs to begin with truth. Pretending will only lead to more chaos. Treating a 5,000-year-old birthright backed by overwhelming historical and archaeological evidence equally with illegitimate claims, wishes and wants gives diplomacy and peacekeeping a bad name. (J.F.)
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