tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post3519877708362781423..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: David Singer On A Tantalising Prospect For NegotiationsDaphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-80270061927233515682014-05-28T23:58:12.635+10:002014-05-28T23:58:12.635+10:00My sense of it is that lunacy is liberating. The A...My sense of it is that lunacy is liberating. The Arabs and their boosters are free to ruminate however they like because the subtext is that none of this matters in the least. We could talk or not talk for the next 800 years and it won't make the least difference. <br /><br />And in fact all we're really on about is agreeing what our definition of 'peace' looks like. 150 people killed in the Ukraine in the last three days and barely a blip on the news. Whereas a goat in Gaza keels over and western liberals rise up by the millions and ask rhetorically whether it's time for another Holocaust. <br /><br />In a normal world, 'peace' is more or less an absence of mayhem and violence. But as regards Israel, 'peace' is that blessed state of there being no more Jews to slaughter, or at the least, that state where whatever happens, we can all smugly roll our eyes and tell each other that antisemitism is the Jews' fault too. <br /><br />I said years ago that all that would happen is a process of resetting the water level for what Israelis themselves would deem is an acceptable level of periodic violence and atrocities. That has happened. And as a result, our moral betters in the west have reset their own threshold for what Jews around the world should be happy to tolerate vis a vis occasional assaults, attacks and demi-pogroms. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-32243493481188214102014-05-28T09:45:49.292+10:002014-05-28T09:45:49.292+10:00Empress Trudy
Well then if you are correct - they...Empress Trudy<br /><br />Well then if you are correct - they will have lost yet another opportunity to resolve the 130 years old Arab-Jewish conflict to add to the myriad previous lost opportunities that have presented themselves during the course of this conflict.<br /><br />The publication of Ettinger's article in Gaza by the Palestine Telegraph and the failure by Hamas and the PLO to acknowledge the correctness and accuracy of its contents will be viewed in hindsight as an opportunity gone begging to match those in 1922, 1937, 1947, between 1948-1967, 1993, 2000/20001, 2008, 2010/2011, 2013-2014.<br /><br />The Palestinian Arabs should erect a memorial to lost opportunities and commemorate them annually as a reminder of their unyielding rejectionism and foolhardiness that has brought them nothing but suffering and misery.<br /><br />The memorial should have inscribed on it : "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink."<br />david singernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-67431385756249169632014-05-28T09:31:34.193+10:002014-05-28T09:31:34.193+10:00David
The headline "A Palestinian State - No...David<br /><br />The headline "A Palestinian State - Not A Priority" was the author Yoram Ettinger's creation - and not that of the Palestine Telegraph.<br /><br />What led Ettinger to use that headline is the result of the following extract that appeared in his article - which space in my article did not allow me the freedom to include:<br /><br />"The Arab League and the U.N. did not raise the issue of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza until 1967, when the issue was raised as a means to undermine the survival of the Jewish state.<br /><br />In fact, the Palestinian issue has never been a chief axis of U.S.-Israel relations. While the two administrations have never agreed on the Palestinian issue, their strategic cooperation has surged dramatically due to joint interests, mutual threats and shared values, which significantly transcend the Palestinian issue and the Arab-Israeli conflict.<br /><br />However, ignoring reality, Western policy makers consider the Palestinian issue the crown jewel of Arab policy-making, the core cause of Middle Eastern developments and the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict. An erroneous underlying, Palestinian-driven assumption has produced an erroneous policy, radicalizing Arab and Palestinian expectations, fueling terrorism and inherent Middle Eastern instability, distancing the parties from peace and bringing them closer to war, and undermining Western national security and vital economic interests."<br /><br />In other words - this whole "Palestinian State" beat up is artificial and only had its roots in 1967. It hides the deliberate attempt to eliminate the State of Israel.<br /><br />The EU and UN have been well and truly duped by a clever but very dishonest propaganda campaign.<br /><br />When will they wake up? Maybe after the next war - which they will have played a major part in bringing about by failing to stand up and defend article 80 of the UN Charter.<br /><br />Ettinger says it all in his article - which makes its publication in Gaza so remarkable.david singernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-37102583055683392562014-05-28T00:06:26.525+10:002014-05-28T00:06:26.525+10:00They do this because they realize at this point it...They do this because they realize at this point it doesn't matter what they or anyone else says. The Jews will always be blamed. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-72049980119652657742014-05-26T22:09:32.920+10:002014-05-26T22:09:32.920+10:00The Gaza address is the give-away. Hamas has never...The Gaza address is the give-away. Hamas has never seen a Palestinian State as a priority and pointedly refused to accept any agreement that includes a Jewish State. Hamas's goals are Islamic rather than national. They want to reestablish the Caliphate over all Muslim lands. Independence is irrelevant as palestibne would become a province. Sharia Law, strictly applied, will be the solution for any and all problems without requiring local input.David Guyhttp://5mfi.comnoreply@blogger.com