Arabs Against Israel…And ‘Democracy’ In The Mideast
By Gordon Bishop (09/23/03)
The root cause of violence in the Mideast is Palestinian terrorism and their collaborators throughout the Arab speaking region.
That’s the Reality – and has been since Israel was established as an independent nation-state in 1948.
The media-political spin has become fantasy and fallacy.
The fabricated issue is “settlements.”
Palestinians and their supporters use “settlements as the operative word for “peace.”
Simply, remove Jews from the “settlements” and there will be “peace.”
For Palestinians, there can be no peace until the State of Israel no longer exists.
Yassar Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was fraudulently awarded the Nobel “Peace” Prize for pretending to seek peace with the Israelis.
Whatever credibility the Nobel Peace Prize was vanquished when Arafat and, later, former President Jimmy Carter, who received that tarnished award for his” peaceful, humanitarian” efforts.
Coincidentally, Carter won the award around the same time President George W. Bush was dealing with the terrorist Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and the murderous dictatorship of Iraq’s “President” Sadam Hussein. The Nobel Peace Prize for Carter was obviously a slap at President Bush for his war on terrors in the Arab world.
So much for the Nobel distinction of “peace,” which has become another political pawn in the vicious game of liberalism versus the free world.
There will be no peace in the Mideast as long as the Palestinians want to seize the “settlements” in Judea/Samaria (Israel’s “West Bank”) as the home for their Palestinian state.
Israelis have the historical claim on this land long before there were a “people” who called themselves “Palestinians.”
Historical fact:
The Ottoman Empire was the “sovereign” in the entire area after World War I. The British were then awarded the “Mandate” following WWI over what was then called “Palestine.” This region was composed of present-day Israel, including Judea/Samaria – and present-day Jordan.
Article 6 of the “Mandate” encouraged close settlement by the Jews on that land, including the lands of Judea/Samaria and Gaza, now known as the Gaza Strip.
That was later confirmed by the Britain Balfour Declaration for Britain’s own imperial reasons.
That Declaration separated 76 percent of the land – that lying beyond the Jordan River – to create the Kingdom of Trans Jordan (now Jordan), and made it inaccessible to Jews.
In 1947, tired of the constant blood-letting between Arab and Jews, the British finally gave up on the warring political factions and abandoned the post WWI “Mandate.”
The United Nations took it over – and it has been all downhill since, creating more than a half-century of bloody conflict with no real resolutions or any real hope for lasting peace.
The United Nations devised a plan by which the land West of the Jordan River would be split between the Jews and the Arabs.
The Jews, with “peace in their heart,” accepted the plan doomed from the start.
For Arabs and Jews, it was like mixing oil and water.
The Arabs virulently rejected the United Nations plan, and invaded the newly-born Jewish state with the arms of five countries, seeking to destroy it at its birth.
Arabs systemically destroyed all Jewish holy places and all vestiges of Jewish presence.
In the Six-Day War of 1967, the Jews reconquered the territories snatched from them by their Arab neighbors.
And what about the “Palestinians?”
There is no such “people.” They are Arabs – the same people as in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond.
Most of them had migrated into the territories and to “Israel proper,” attracted by Jewish prosperity and industry.
The concept of “Palestinians” as applied to Arabs and as a distinct “nationality urgently in need of their own 23rd Arab state, is a fairly new one. It was not invented until after 1948, when the State of Israel was founded.
Today, President George Bush is trying to do what previous Presidents before him all tried to do – and failed.
And that is, bring “peace” to the Holy Land after more than 2,000 years of conflict and misery in this place now known as Israel.
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