Time To Threaten Arabs With Mass Eviction

Jewish Press ^ | 1/29/2003 | JACKIE MASON and RAOUL FELDER

[dennisw]

Another population transfer. Lebanon's Christian population has dropped from over 50% to around 30% the last 30-40 years, Jordan from around 20% to about 3%, Egypt, Sudan, same think since 95 even Bethlehem and Nazareth are on their way to becoming Christianrein. Lots of transfers going on.

Totally true. The Cath. church never says a thing about this crime.

[Unassuaged]

I hope that is sarcasm.

[The Irishman]

"Time to threaten Arabs with mass expulsion"
Hasn't this been Sharon's prefered plan all along?

[SJackson]

"Time to threaten Arabs with mass expulsion"
Hasn't this been Sharon's prefered plan all along?

I've not seen him say that.

[anotherview]

Which part of Ariel Sharon's career is part ofthe problem? Was it when he forced the settlers out of Yamit (in the Sinai) at gunpoint so that the Camp David treaty with Egypt could go forward, or was it when he was Israel's chief negotiator for the Wye River Accord?

The Arabs always bring up the refugee camps in Lebanon. Ariel Sharon wasn't there. What he was guilt of was not giving expressed orders to keep the Phlangist Christian militia out, and they are the ones who massacred Palestinians. Where are those militia leaders today? Why, they are Lebanese government officials, of course. Let's put blame where it rightly belongs.

[anotherview]

Of course that did not happen with Croatia, but it likely would happen with Israel. There is always a double standard when it comes to Israel. I fear the United States, the Europeans, and anyone else who is just waiting to stick it to Israel would, at best, condemn the act and impose sanctions, and, at worst, would intervene on behalf of the Palestinians.

[anotherview]

Fortunately Israel is more civilized than that. So are most Americans and the American government, for that matter. Transfer is not the answer. They won't go. They will fight. How many Israelis would die trying to remove them? Who would intervene on the Palestinian side? I don't care to think about what would happen to Israel if this was tried. Fortunately most Israelis support no such thing.

[anotherview]

Another population transfer. Lebanon's Christian population has dropped from over 50% to around 30% the last 30-40 years, Jordan from around 20% to about 3%, Egypt, Sudan, same think since 95 even Bethlehem and Nazareth are on their way to becoming Christianrein.

Let's not forget the Jewish populations of the 22 Arab countries. For every Palestinian who became a refugee as a result of fleeing in 1948 or 1967 there is at least one Jew from an Arab country who lost their home. The number was 770,000 compared to 650,000 Arabs. Where are those Jews now? Resettled, of course, mainly in Israel, but also in the U.S. and Europe. Why haven't the Palestinian refugees been resettled in the Arab world? Of course, by keeping them in squalid conditions for 55 years they can be used as political pawns against the Israeli "occupier".

Also, what about Jews whom the Israeli army had to evacuate from Judea and Samaria in 1948?

[anotherview]

"Time to threaten Arabs with mass expulsion" Hasn't this been Sharon's prefered plan all along?

You are pretty ignorant about Israeli politics and the Prime Minister's stated positions. Ariel Sharon repeatedly has supported the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Avigdor Lieberman and the National Union are the only party supporting transfer. They have a grand total of seven seats in the 16th Knesset. Michael Kleiner's Herut faction, which also supports transfer, did not even meet the 1.5% threshhold in the recent election and has no seats at all.

Those who criticize Israel with no knowledge of the history and politics of the region love to villify Sharon. Please see my other post about his career.

[Republic of Texas]

Israel would survive Europe's fit, and come bck stronger than ever. If they don't expel the Arabs, Israel will one day cease to exist and it won't matter what Europe thinks.

[RaceBannon]

Read up on "The 7 Years War',
the French and Indian Wars,
and the wars against the Pequots in Connecticut,
the wars in Virginia, Kentucky, and you will see:

it is no sarcasm, the American Indians tried to wipe out the white settlers many times,
even at Plymouth Rock Miles Standish had to go hand to hand with a Chief over the lives of the settlers.
Standish won.

[Republic of Texas]

You MAKE them leave the same way the Jordanians did when they evicted them from their original homeland, Jordan.

[Republic of Texas]

I'll jump on that one. The illegal Mexicans are what you are referring to? YES, expel them all.

[SJackson]

Read it, good email.

[RaceBannon]

Who said Injun?

Plus, we moved here 300 years ago, there was plenty of land for White men and Natives. It was not US that started to wipe out villages filled with wigwams and teepees of women and children, it was the Indians that attacked individual farms killing entire families and selling others off as slaves to the French in Canada. I am from New England, and in the antique book stores it is almost easy to find ancient history books that tell the tales.

My analogy goes back to the Palistinians. Israel came in peace, and the people living there (this century) have done nothing but try to kill them. The comparison fits this part of the analogy.

[Republic of Texas]

" Why haven't the Palestinian refugees been resettled in the Arab world? Of course, by keeping them in squalid conditions for 55 years they can be used as political pawns against the Israeli "occupier". "

THIS, is the crux of the whole matter. By expelling the Palistenians, Israel ends this farce.

[SJackson]

I'm not sure the Indian comparison is fair.

The Oasis Casino in Jericho was
the Palestinian Authority's
main economic interest.

The Indians wouldn't open a casino, then be shocked that customers wouldn't come, just because they shoot at them on the access road. Go figure.

[Non-Sequitur]

You MAKE them leave the same way the Jordanians did when they evicted them from their original homeland, Jordan.

How did they do that?

[Republic of Texas]

By force. Many were killed and wounded, all were expelled. Israel took them for humanitarian reasons.

[knighthawk]

I agree. Who cares if Europe cuts ties with Israel. A lot of European politicians already wanted those ties to be cut.
Some even don't want to examine if Arafat uses EU money for terrorism.

The anti-Israel attitude over here in Europe is disgusting.

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During the Yom Kippur war of 1973, when Israel was fighting off a surprise attack by Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, European nations not only refused to help, they closed their airports to American planes resupplying Israel. Golda Meir felt betrayed. After the war she told Willy Brandt, the socialist chancellor of Germany: "I need to know what possible meaning socialism can have when not a single Socialist country in all of Europe was prepared to come to the aid of the only democratic nation in the Middle East."