When the totalitarian Left accuses Israel of being an "apartheid" or "racist" state," it not only defames Israel, it devalues the suffering of people who have been victims of real racism and persecution, like Sudanese Christian ex-slave Simon Deng:
The third one would be more effective without the traffic noise and especially without the background music. It sounds like two radio stations on the same wavelength. Otherwise it has a valuable message.
The facts of the matter are that 85%-90% of the Israeli Arabs prefer to live under the Israeli “apartheid” than the Palestinian “paradise”.
In the Camp David discussions in 2000 (just before the 2nd intifada) there was a suggestion that Israel would cede e some areas of Israel proper (within the Green line) with high concentration of (Israeli) Arab population near the green line in exchange for the large blocks of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
An outcry to high heaven erupted by the Israeli Arabs (and the Israeli Left) accusing Israel of, firstly, not asking the Arabs what they want which developed into accusation of “ethnic cleansing” although no-one talked about moving people forcibly from their homes but simply moving the border to the other side of their towns
Similar proposal have appeared since from time to time, one of is dubbed “Lieberman Plan”.
There have been quite a few poles of Israeli Arabs all returned similar results against the proposal; just when everybody thought that that proposal is dead and buried, as it should be, President Obama revived the corps with his “1967 borders with agreed swaps” except that this time it did not come from Israel but from the Israel hate brigade as another “proof” that Israel is an “apartheid state”
There are quite a few references to this proposal, here is the earliest that I can find:
The third one would be more effective without the traffic noise and especially without the background music. It sounds like two radio stations on the same wavelength. Otherwise it has a valuable message.
ReplyDeleteYes, that sort of thing can be distracting and couterproductive, Sally!
ReplyDeleteThe facts of the matter are that 85%-90% of the Israeli Arabs prefer to live under the Israeli “apartheid” than the Palestinian “paradise”.
ReplyDeleteIn the Camp David discussions in 2000 (just before the 2nd intifada) there was a suggestion that Israel would cede e some areas of Israel proper (within the Green line) with high concentration of (Israeli) Arab population near the green line in exchange for the large blocks of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
An outcry to high heaven erupted by the Israeli Arabs (and the Israeli Left) accusing Israel of, firstly, not asking the Arabs what they want which developed into accusation of “ethnic cleansing” although no-one talked about moving people forcibly from their homes but simply moving the border to the other side of their towns
Similar proposal have appeared since from time to time, one of is dubbed “Lieberman Plan”.
There have been quite a few poles of Israeli Arabs all returned similar results against the proposal; just when everybody thought that that proposal is dead and buried, as it should be, President Obama revived the corps with his “1967 borders with agreed swaps” except that this time it did not come from Israel but from the Israel hate brigade as another “proof” that Israel is an “apartheid state”
There are quite a few references to this proposal, here is the earliest that I can find:
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/358.htm
Many thanks as always, Jacob.
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