He writes:
President Trump has been given the clearest notice that his deal of the century will be stillborn if he designates any role for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in its implementation.
In a remarkable outburst that can best be described as his “suicide note”– PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared on 25 July:
Yet for the last 25 years the PLO – aided and abetted by Jordan – has refused to yield its claim to sovereignty over every square meter of West Bank real estate – when compromise could possibly have resolved the 100 years-old Arab-Jewish conflict.“I reiterate that we will not surrender, we will not coexist with the occupation and we will not deal with the deal of deal of the century, or the slap of the century or the deal of shame - all names for one title. Palestine and Jerusalem are not for sale and bargain. They are not a real estate deal in a real estate company.”
Two days prior to Abbas’ suicide note , the US Congress in a rare show of bipartisanship had offered the PLO a lifeline to enable it to negotiate with Israel on Trump’s yet-to-be-released proposals – overwhelmingly passing House Resolution 246 by a vote of 398-17 with 5 voting ‘present’.
Resolution 246:
- Urged: Israelis and Palestinians to return to direct negotiations as the only way to achieve an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- ...Reaffirmed: its strong support for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resulting in two states – a democratic Jewish State of Israel, and a viable, democratic Palestinian state – living side-by-side in peace, security, and mutual recognition.
So where to from here?
First some indisputable facts:
- Jews have the legal right to settle in the West Bank under Article 6 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (Mandate) and article 80 of the United Nations Charter.
- Jordan and Israel are the two successor States to the Mandate: Jordan being sovereign in 78% of the Mandate territory and Israel sovereign in 17%....
- 4% of the Mandate’s remaining real estate – Judea and Samaria – was unified with Transjordan between 1950 and 1967 and renamed Jordan – whilst Judea and Samaria were renamed the West Bank….
- The 1964 PLO Charter made no claim to territorial sovereignty “over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan”...
- The revised 1968 PLO Charter declared the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the Mandate and everything based on them null and void....
- West Bank Arabs were Jordanian citizens between 1950 and 1988.
- Abbas and Arafat have acknowledged Jordanians and Palestinians are one people.
Reunifying parts of the West Bank with Jordan in direct negotiations
between Jordan and Israel should now be Trump’s objective, recognising
the following resolution passed at the 8th meeting of the Palestinian
National Council in February-March 1971:
Author’s note:...The cartoon—commissioned exclusively for this article—is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”—one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators—whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades. His cartoons can be viewed at…Drybonesblog
...“Jordan is linked to Palestine by a national relationship and a national unity forged by history and culture from the earliest times. The creation of one political entity in Transjordan and another in Palestine would have no basis either in legality or as to the elements universally accepted as fundamental to a political entity.... In raising the slogan of the liberation of Palestine and presenting the problem of the Palestine revolution, it was not the intention of the Palestine revolution to separate the east of the River from the West, nor did it believe the struggle of the Palestinian people can be separated from the struggle of the masses in Jordan…”Abbas has written his suicide note .... Trump shouldn’t demean himself begging Abbas to reconsider.
Author’s note:...The cartoon—commissioned exclusively for this article—is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”—one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators—whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades. His cartoons can be viewed at…Drybonesblog
QUESTION:
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Israeli-Arab conflict really about?
ANSWER 1:
The Koran teaches that Jews are
the worst enemies of Muslims.
The Koran’s 5th chapter, verse 82 says:
“You will find that the people most
hostile towards the believers [Muslims]
are the Jews and the polytheists...”
ANSWER 2:
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 56:
Narrated by Abu Huraira:
Allah's Messenger [Mohammed] said,
"The [Final] Hour will not be established
until you fight with the Jews,
and the stone behind which a Jew
will be hiding will [miraculously] say:
"O Muslim!
There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him!"
SOURCE: Sahih al-Bukhari 2924, Book 56,
Hadith 137, Volume 4, Book 52, Hadith 175
NOTES:
Hadith are sacred Islamic stories about Mohammed.
This story appears in the Hadith seven (7) times!
ANSWER 3:
The Koran requires the "abasement and poverty" of Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Islam
ANSWER 4:
At a [year] 1937 [CE] lecture to the British
Foreign Ministry, the King of Saudi Arabia said:
“Verily, the word of Allah teaches us,
and we implicitly believe this...
for a Muslim to kill a Jew...
ensures him immediate entry into Heaven...”
SOURCE:
The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Killers
by Edwin Black, The Jewish Press,
2011/1/21, pages 1 and 91.
ANSWER 5:
Mr. John Rossomando said:
“[IUMS Trustee Sheikh Hassan Ould] Aldo
and the [Muslim] Brotherhood use language
similar to what Hamas used in its original
charter, which rejected any peaceful coexistence.
To them, Palestine is part of
a waqf, a holy Islamic trust,
that no person can negotiate away.”
SOURCE: Muslim Brotherhood,
Hamas: No Peace as Long as Israel Exists
by Mr. John Rossomando, 2019 July 1
www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/01/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-no-peace-as-long-as-israel-exists/
ANSWER 6:
Louis René Beres said:
“For Hamas, the Israeli enemy is more
than just a geo-strategic opponent.
It is, rather, a delegated religious target
slated for annihilation, one whose obligatory
and violent elimination will confer blessedly
eternal life upon the Islamic sacrificer”.
SOURCE: Radical Islam:
Terrorism as Power Over Death
by Louis René Beres, 2019 January 3
www.algemeiner.com/2019/01/03/radical-islam-terrorism-as-power-over-death/
ANSWER 7:
“If one or more of the parties knows that peace
implies the end of its existence, it has no motive
to return to peace. That is how the radical Islamists
of Hamas view the future of Muslim society.
A wealthy and successful Jewish state next to
a poor and dysfunctional Palestinian state
may imply the end of the moral authority of Islam,
and some Palestinians would rather fight to
the death than embrace such an outcome.
Rather than consign their children to the
Western milieu of personal freedom and sexual
license, radical Muslims will fight to the death.”
SOURCE: How Civilizations Die
(chapter Introduction, page xiv) by David P. Goldman,
year 2011 CE, Regnery Publishing, ISBN 978-1-59698-273-4
ANSWER 8:
Sarah Idan [Former Miss Iraq] said:
“The issue between Arabs and Israelis goes
beyond policy disagreements. It’s deeply
rooted in the belief systems taught in
Muslim countries, which are anti-Semitic.”
SOURCE: In UNHRC Speech
Ex-Miss Iraq Sarah Idan Blasts Anti-Semitism
Biased Media Coverage Against Israel
by Shiryn Ghermezian 2019 July 3
www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/03/in-unhrc-speech-ex-miss-iraq-sarah-idan-blasts-antisemitism-biased-media-coverage-against-israel/
CONCLUSION:
The Israeli-Arab conflict is NOT ABOUT LAND.
It is about Islam’s most sacred books and
Arab schools teaching hate against Jews.
Why the Far-Left hates Israel:
ReplyDelete[1] Mr. Jonathan S. Tobin
[Editor in Chief of JNS dot org] said:
“In the progressive [Leftist] milieu,
the Jewish state is viewed as racist
by definition, and the belief in
Intersectional Theory, which falsely
claims the Palestinian war on Israel’s
existence to be morally equivalent to
the struggle for civil rights in
the United States, is widespread.”
SOURCE:
It’s more than just a parade for Israel
by Jonathan S. Tobin, 2019 June 3
www.jns.org/opinion/its-more-than-just-a-parade-for-israel/
[2] from Mosaic Magazine:
“If the occupation [of the West Bank] ended
tomorrow, Israel would still have a nationalist
and religious identity at odds with the Left’s
broadly post-nationalist and post-religious vision.”
SOURCE:
The American Left’s Abandonment of
Both Israel and the Jews 2019 March 12
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2019/03/the-american-lefts-abandonment-of-both-israel-and-the-jews/
[3] Eric Rozenman said:
“The Bolsheviks and their heirs
[the Far Left] despised small European
nationalities, as well as religion.
So Jews as a people are a double target.
SOURCE: Fair Criticism of Israel?
What About the Palestinians? by Eric Rozenman
www.algemeiner.com/2019/04/14/fair-criticism-of-israel-what-about-the-palestinians/
[4] Mr. Charlie Kirk
(a Conservative activist) said:
“They [the political Leftists] hate
the idea that certain countries can be
better than others, and Israel is
one of the greatest success stories
in history of the world.
The [political] Left does not want
those success stories to exist.”
SOURCE:
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk
speaks of ‘eye-opening’ stint in Israel:
by Josh Hasten, 2019 March 20
www.jns.org/conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-speaks-of-eye-opening-stint-in-israel/
[5] Zach Goldberg said:
“As Jews have become [symbols] of
Whiteness in the Liberal political
imagination — to the point that Israel
is considered a White state, despite
having a slight nonwhite majority —
they have come to be associated
with an oppressor class.”
SOURCE:
White Liberals Are Turning against
the Jews and Israel, 2019 June 11
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2019/06/white-liberals-are-turning-against-the-jews-and-israel/
[6] Rafaella Gunz said:
“The thing is, too many [non-Jewish]
Western Leftists want to see everything as
black and White, oppressed vs. oppressor.
Many do not understand the nuance of
the Israel/Palestine conflict.
And what’s worse, many don’t care
to understand the full story.
I was actually blocked by a feminist page
for trying to explain why comparing
Israel’s military tactics to full-on
genocide is a slippery slope.
Despite saying numerous times that
I’m critical of the Israeli government’s
policies, I was banned and had all
my comments deleted.
When other Jews on the thread asked
why I was banned, the admin entirely
misconstrued everything I said.”
SOURCE:
How I Dealt with Anti-Semites after the Embassy
Opening in Jerusalem by Rafaella Gunz, 2018 May 30
https://jewessmag.com/2018/05/30/how-i-dealt-with-anti-semites-after-the-embassy-opening-in-jerusalem/
[7] Jonathan S. Tobin [Editor in Chief of
JNS dot org, Jewish News Syndicate] said:
“Much of that animus stems from the fact
that many Liberals have never forgiven
the Israeli people for embracing the
Israeli Right-wing coalition that
[Prime Minister] Netanyahu now heads,
while the Labor Zionist movement that
Ben-Gurion once led became marginalized.”
SOURCE:
What Will History Say About Netanyahu?
by Jonathan S. Tobin, Editor of JNS dot org, 2019/7/21
www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/21/what-will-history-say-about-netanyahu/
Jonathan S. Tobin [Editor in Chief of
ReplyDeleteJNS dot org, Jewish News Syndicate] said:
“... [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortes, [Ilhan] Omar, [Rashida] Tlaib, and others making egregious comparisons of Israel with Nazi Germany are still being treated as the “future of the Democratic party” — in the words of the Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez...”
SOURCE: A blow to BDS in the House
by Jonathan S. Tobin, 2019/7/24 www.jns.org/opinion/a-blow-to-bds-in-the-house/
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Rabbi Harry Maryles said:
“These four freshmen congresswomen have been
granted far more attention, influence, and power
than any other first-term congressmen in US history!”
SOURCE: A Word to My Readers
by Harry Maryles, 2019 July 17
http://haemtza.blogspot.com/2019/07/a-word-to-my-readers.html
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Melanie Phillips said:
“Yet the Democratic Party, which still attracts unquestioning support from some three-quarters of Jewish voters, has failed to discipline these women [Ilhan Omar (Democrat-Minnesota), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat-New York), Rashida Tlaib (Democrat-Michigan) and Ayanna Pressley (Democrat-Massachusetts)] — not just for their Jew-baiting, but also for their deep-dyed anti-Americanism and anti-White racism.”
SOURCE: In Trump vs. 'the Squad,'
American Jews have picked the wrong target
by Melanie Phillips, 2019/7/18
www.jns.org/opinion/in-trump-vs-the-squad-american-jews-have-picked-the-wrong-target/
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The most senior Democrat in the USA government,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has also condemned
“[Ilhan] Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters” as “deeply offensive.”
SOURCE: Ilhan Omar’s Pro-BDS Resolution
Isn’t About Free Speech — It’s About Hating
Israel and Jews by Adelle Nazarian, 2019/7/19
www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/19/ilhan-omars-pro-bds-resolution-isnt-about-free-speech-its-about-hating-israel-and-jews/
===================================
Ilhan Omar’s Contempt for the Law:
Trespassing, multiple traffic violations – and she married her brother.
www.jihadwatch.org/2019/07/ilhan-omars-contempt-for-the-law
www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274444/ilhan-omars-contempt-law-robert-spencer
Saudi journalist Fahad al-Shammari
ReplyDeletedeclared [in a television interview] that:
“the Palestinians are beggars,” and “have no honor”.
SOURCE:
PA and Jordanian incitement against Saudi Arabia
by Yoni Ben Menachem of JCPA, 2019/7/28
www.jns.org/opinion/pa-and-jordanian-incitement-against-saudi-arabia/
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from the Jewish Virtual Library:
“Leading up to Israel's independence in [year] 1948,
it was common for the international press to label Jews,
not Arabs, living in the [British] mandate as Palestinians.
It was not until years after Israeli independence
that the Arabs living in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip were called Palestinians.”
SOURCE: Origin of "Palestine"
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/origin-of-quot-palestine-quot/