VICTOR SHARPE: THE TWO STATE SOLUTION….HISTORY’S NEGATION
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I remember an article some few years ago in the Wall Street Journal titled, The Ugly Premise of Settlement Opponents, in which James Woolsey, former director of Central Intelligence under President Clinton, pointed out that the charter of the Fatah party – which is that of the Palestinian Authority’s putative president, Mahmoud Abbas – foresees a “Palestine free of Jews.” He referred to the Fatah demand that:
Israel must give up all of Jerusalem before it would begin negotiations on a two-state solution.
Mr. Woolsey also referred to President Obama’s embrace of the Palestinian Arab’s judenrein policy in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as well as in the eastern half of Jerusalem. The judenrein policy employed by the German Nazis was designed to ethnically cleanse areas of Jews throughout Europe, which the Wehrmacht had invaded and occupied. The chilling words, “Juden raus,” Jews out! barked in German by Hitler’s brutish soldiers, attended all such terrifying aktions.
In Obama’s now notorious Cairo speech, his first major address on becoming president, he essentially embraced the PA’s anti-Semitic policy by announcing that Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem are “settlements.” In fact many of the Jewish neighborhoods that were on Obama’s proscribed list are, in actuality, in southern or northern areas of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, but facts don’t seem to matter to so many.
In Jerusalem, according to Israel National News:
300,000 Jews live in the neighborhoods of Gilo, French Hill, Talpiot, Ramot and Pisgat Ze’ev, among others.
I have long urged Israelis and pro-Israelis alike to stop using the term, “settlements,” in English when describing Jewish communities in Israel and, instead, begin calling them by what they are; villages, towns or cities. After all, Arab communities are always referred to as villages, not settlements, even though many have existed for fewer years than many Jewish villages. This is a double standard as you will see later in this article.
This word in English has now become a pejorative term indicating that the Jewish communities are an alien and colonial presence imposed upon another people’s land. This is a blatant falsehood and puts fact upon its head for it is the Arabs who are largely an alien presence within the biblical and ancestral Jewish homeland and particularly in its very heartland known as Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).
During the British Mandate of Palestine, Arab immigration, mostly illegal, was condoned by London. From 1922, over 100,000 foreign Arabs entered the Mandatory territory from neighboring Syria, Egypt and Transjordan – even from as far away as Sudan – with the connivance of British officials. Indeed, if we look back at what the British Governor of Sinai from 1922-36 wryly noted in his contribution to the Palestine Commission Report, we find the following:
“This illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a case out for the ‘misery’ of the Arabs if at the same time their compatriots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to share that misery.”
During the preceding 400 year old Ottoman Turkish occupation, Arabs and Africans had also been brought into the geographical territory; the Africans as slaves from throughout the vast Ottoman Empire. Sadly, Arab propaganda has been so effective that it has succeeded in framing the Arab imposed conflict in erroneous terms of Jewish settlement displacing Arabs.
The thousands of Arabs who illegally flooded into British Mandatory Palestine effectively destroyed the opportunities for continuing Jewish legal immigration. According to Ambassador (Res), Yoram Ettinger, these Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians are descendants of the 1845-1947 Muslim immigration from the Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Bosnia, the Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kurdistan, India, Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
Ever appeasing the Arab world, Britain, on the very eve of the Second World War, imposed the infamous 1939 White Paper, which severely limited Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine and led to millions of Jews finding no refuge in Palestine, whose gates were now closed to them, or elsewhere in a hostile world. They thus fell under the fearsome Nazi extermination machine which resulted in the horrible deaths of six million Jews, including one and half million children: One third of the world’s Jewish population.
The Palestinian people does not exist
Remember, there has never in all of recorded history existed an independent, sovereign state called Palestine. And remember the so-called Palestinians are an Arab invention. No such people by that name have existed in centuries past. Here is an Arab leader and PLO executive committee member, Zuheir Mohsen, admitting this fact himself on March 31, 1977 in the Dutch newspaper, Trouw:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese… Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism…”
The PA claims that there are 2.5 million Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank but, according to Israeli Ambassador (Ret) Yoram Ettinger, in an article dated October 16, 2009 titled, The Case For Demographic Optimism, there are in reality 1.55 million Arabs. He writes:
“An audit of Palestinian and Israeli documentation of births, deaths, school and voter registration and migration certifies a solid 67% Jewish majority over 98.5% of the land west of the Jordan River (without Gaza).
“The audit exposes a 66% distortion in the current number of Judea & Samaria Arabs – 1.55 million and not 2.5 million, as claimed by the Palestinian Authority. In 2006, the World Bank exposed a 32% bend in the number of Palestinian births. Bloated numbers have provided the Palestinians with extravagant international foreign aid and in inflated water supplies provided to them by Israel.”
Today there are still scores of Jewish properties, illegally occupied by Arabs, scattered throughout areas of east Jerusalem. They have remained in legal limbo because of international pressures against successive Israeli governments. This has led to endless delays in the return of the land and properties to their rightful Jewish owners.
Remember, Jews living in the Old City of Jerusalem and in surrounding Jewish villages were driven out of their homes and land by the British officered Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 Arab-Israel War. That territory – biblical and ancestral Jewish Judea and Samaria now known by its Jordanian name, the West Bank – was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1948 until its liberation by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. Only two countries ever recognized Jordan’s illegal occupation: Pakistan and Great Britain.
But an unholy chorus around the world delights in describing Jewish villages and homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem as “illegitimate.” This while turning a blind eye to the massive illegal Arab settlement expansion, which is continuing apace.
Be assured, if Israel made the catastrophic error of abandoning its biblical heartland, it would not be long before the same unholy world chorus began referring to Jewish villages, towns and cities within the so-called 1949-1967 green line as illegitimate. James Woolsey then continued:
“The Obama administration seems committed to stopping growth of any kind in all Jewish “settlements” in the West Bank. This policy implies acquiescence in the banning of Jews from a future Palestinian state.” In other words, blatant Palestinian Arab and Muslim Apartheid.
He then went on to ask that if 20% of Israel’s population is Arab, why is it so unacceptable for Jews to live within a proposed Arab state called Palestine? Why should such a Jewish minority be forbidden in Palestine?
Mr. Woolsey answered his own question by pointing out:
“The Obama administration essentially urges us to accept that, because Palestinians will kill unprotected Jews, Jews cannot be permitted in a Palestinian state.”
Any child will tell you that the Arabs, who call themselves Palestinians, are not interested in living side by side in true and lasting peace with a Jewish state. All territory they gain from Israeli concessions immediately become launching pads for ever more terror and aggression against what is left of Israel.
In 1929, the Arabs massacred the ancient Jewish community in Hebron while Britain occupied Mandatory Palestine. Hebron is one of the four holy Jewish cities, the others being, Safed, Tiberias and, the jewel in the crown: Jerusalem.
There was no Israel in 1929 or the existence of any so-called Israeli occupied territories, yet the Muslim hatred of non-Muslims existed then as it exists today, and will tomorrow.
The Muslim Arabs have said repeatedly that they do not want to have a state side by side with a Jewish state but instead of Israel. That is why they have rejected breathtakingly generous offers of “land for peace,” which carry with them enormous and near suicidal risks for Israel’s security and existence. They don’t want peace because they would have to give up their demands for all of the land from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea – which anyway is a mere 40 miles wide. In other words they want the whole enchilada and nothing less. Only those without ears to hear or eyes to see can continue to negotiate with representatives of an entity reeking of such implacable and genocidal hatred.
I am reminded of the following words from my earlier published article in the March 2009 edition of American Thinker magazine titled, The Two State Solution is 87 Years Old.
It referred to the earlier British dismemberment of Mandatory Palestine in 1922 and the loss to the Jewish people of land east of the River Jordan. I wrote:
“It is instructive to remember that upon the granting of the Palestine Mandate to Great Britain, an eminent British celebrity and Christian supporter of Zionism, Josiah Wedgwood, addressed a Jewish audience of thousands at the Royal Albert Hall in London in which he urged them to stand up for Jewish rights in its homeland.”
According to the late Shmuel Katz in his groundbreaking biography of the great Zionist leader, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, titled The Lone Wolf, Wedgwood said:
“… This lesson I want the new Jewish nation to learn and to get by heart: Stand up for your rights. Let us have more of the spirit in the Jewish movement of my good and gallant friend, Jabotinsky.”
I then went on to write about the delusional two state solution:
“Sadly, Israeli governments have become notoriously fearful of rejecting outright the deadly trap inherent in the so called two-state solution. Their muted responses have merely encouraged world leaders to repeatedly breathe new life into the discredited plan. The searing tragedy is that the two-state solution may presage for the Jewish people another Final Solution: The Nazi’s euphemism for the Holocaust.”
And now, lo and behold, the latest Secretary of State, John Kerry, is currently visiting Israel to push, predictably and yet again, for the two-state-solution.
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of the trilogy, Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish State. http://www.lulu.com and www.amazon.com
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