Sunday, May 31, 2009

Why are settlements "an obstacle to peace"???

My opinion:

To assert that settlements are "an obstacle to peace", is to accept as a premise that the Arabs cannot live with Jews.

Actually that's a reasonable assumption in view of the fact that the 22 Arab nations have persecuted Jews since the 1920s and expelled virtually all their Jewish citizens (over 850,000 of them).

That's the real obstacle to peace.

Now they're saying that they can't possibly create a 23rd Arab state until that territory is also ethnically cleansed of Jews. It would be analogous to Israel saying that its 1.5 million Arab citizens are an "obstacle to peace" and should stop having children because they aren't allowed to build more accomodation.

However, the Arabs controlled the West bank and Gaza from 1948-1967. Did they try to create a state there then?


Is it possible that the real agenda is not to create a 23rd Arab state, but to destroy the only Jewish one?

Supporting the call to stop "all settlement activity" in the West Bank is telling Jews there that they can't have children. It's a call for a judenrein West Bank, in preparation for the next move ...a judenrein Middle East ...

The real issue here is the Arab failure to accept peaceful co-existence with Jews ...that's the obstacle to peace, not "settlements".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just want to advise you not continue this ugly injustice towards the Palestinians who are the original inhibitance of the land and Jews were collected from every corner of the earth by the western leaders who hate the Jews and want to get rid of them from their countries.Then the Palestinians were throun out of their homes and made refugees and replaced with those imported Jews. The western powers also hate the Arabs and they want to keep them in continued strugle with the Jews. My suggestion to you is to read the Holy Quran and read the history of your forfathers
how they were punished by God because of their bad deeds. Always remember that God is grater than any thing on Earth or in the Skies including the Jews. So, again I advise you to stop telling lies and distort the the facts and you know the real trueth before God's punishment.

Please accept my advice and tell it to your people.
Moslem

Steve Lieblich said...

Dear "Anonymous Moslem"

The State of Israel was not created out of "Palestinian lands". There were no people claiming to be "Palestinians" then. There were Arabs who lived in the region and considered themselves Syrians, Egyptians etc etc.

Arab leaders persecuted their Jewish population from the 1920s, and launched a relentless campaign, against the interests of the nhabitants of the region, to obliterate the Jewish national revival ….before any “occupation” and even before the establishment of the State of Israel.

They flatly rejected the restoration of the Jewish homeland as mandated by the League of Nations. Even after Jordan was created from 80% of the British Mandate of Palestine, they rejected the 1937 Peel Commission proposal to partition the remaining 20%.

In 1947, the UN partition would have created an even larger Arab state. But for the Arabs' violent attempt to abort the partition there would have been no war and no dislocation in the first place

…and the rejection continues to this day… In 1949, Israel offered to return captured land as part of a formal peace agreement. Arab rulers refused.

From 1948 to 1967, Israel did not control the West Bank and Gaza. The refugees could have demanded an independent state from Jordan and Egypt, but did not. Had they sought peace and reconciliation, instead of rejection and global terrorism, a Palestinian state could have been established from the 1960’s.

They rejected the offer of Palestinian autonomy in the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace negotiations. They scuttled the Oslo process that began in 1993 leading toward the creation of a Palestinian state, by violating their commitments. In 2000, they also rejected the offer at Camp David to create a Palestinian state.

For sixty years since their self-inflicted, violent and catastrophic rejection of the UN partition, misguided, self-serving Arab leaders have kept the refugees of 1948 and their descendants in squalid camps as cannon fodder, fed on hatred and false hope, and squandered repeated opportunities for statehood and economic progress.

Yet here we are, six decades later, and they continue the futile policies of vilifying and de-legitimising Israel.

Similarly your conspiracy theories and rekligious interpretations support Arab despots and terrorists by vilifying Israel and agitating for its political isolation. Instead you should be clamouring for a new and fundamentally different Arab leadership, and abandoning your dream of destroying Israel.

Israel is not the enemy of the Arab refugees. Their own leaders are.