A people are not “settlers” in their own land. By Victor Sharpe *****
Sometimes it becomes necessary to look back at the not so recent history of a nation’s leader when evaluating successes and failures. The very fact that one of the first decisions that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made during his initial term as Israel’s prime minister. which began on June 18th, 1996, was to surrender the first capital of the Jewish faith to the fraudulent Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.
Ruth King, once justifiably lamented in her blog, Ruthfullyours, about Netanyahu’s capitulation at the Wye Plantation to then Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, (aka Madeline Halfbright) who pressured him into betraying the ancestral Jewish holy city of Hebron.
It was Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who had given away Jericho after the fateful signing of the Oslo Accords, which of course became the Oslo War. Jericho was the first city in the Promised Land that Joshua liberated some 3,500 years earlier after the ancient Jewish tribes had crossed the River Jordan.
Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a Temple Mount activist and former Member of Knesset once said, “Jericho was the beginning of that process of building up the Land of Israel, it also was the beginning of the Oslo Process that cut Israel into sections.
“The first stage of the 1993 Oslo Accords was a partial Israeli withdrawal from Jericho and the transfer of some powers and responsibilities on civil matters to the interim Palestinian Authority. After this step was implemented, the negotiations stalled and the process ended.
“Since the Accords, redemption has made a U-turn and the nations now recognize Jerusalem as the heart of the Jewish People.” Rabbi Glick also said. “Now is the beginning when the world can recognize our sovereignty over all of Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel), especially the places that the Bible took place. This has to be true of Jericho, which is specifically described as the first place we conquered after the Exodus and as the entrance into the land.”
Netanyahu in his first term had brought the left leaning foe of the Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria and the Golan, none other than Tzippi Livni, into his coalition which was in itself a tacit admission that his government entertained the thought of giving away parts of the ancestral and Biblical Jewish homeland.
Even more astounding was that Ms. Livni, of all people, was responsible for negotiating with the fraudulent Arabs who call themselves Palestinians and in particular with the cunning and corrupt Saeb Erakat. Indeed, the negotiations had always one purpose and one purpose alone – to tear away yet more of the Jewish heartland in return for a delusional peace.
If that had occurred it would have been treachery most base; treachery to the living Torah; treachery to Jewish history; treachery to Zion; and last, but not least, treachery to the eternal Holy Covenant made between God and the Jewish people. Liberals and leftists will not like being told this, but it is a truth that cannot shrivel away.
When did it become an accepted truism that a so-called peace between Israel and the predominately Muslim Palestinian Arabs requires that Israel give to them it’s very Biblical and ancestral birthright for a mess of potage? It became more and more apparent that the Oslo Accords, the Wye Agreement, the Roadmap, ad nauseum, all began to supersede the liberation of the eternal possession of the Jewish people to their God given homeland?
With the new shared government in power of Prime Minister Netanyahu, followed in 18 months by Prime Minister Gantz, it will be a monstrous tragedy if either leader succumbs to a hostile world and yet another postponement of Judea and Samaria’s annexation – even if only a partial one – takes place. It will spit in the face of the Almighty and make the very angels in heaven weep.
During the American presidency of the notorious Barack Hussein Obama, Bibi Netanyahu succeeded in keeping at bay most of Obama’s pro-Muslim and anti-Israel policies, but they remain as a clear and present danger to the very existence of Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, if Joe Biden and the Left defeat President Trump in the upcoming general election. Let us not forget how Obama had sent his malignant Secretary of State, John Kerry, numerous times to pressure and threaten Netanyahu, which ushered in a baleful time for the Jewish state. But to his credit Netanyahu managed to stand his ground.
The so-called Palestinian Authority is always encouraged to harden its demands to insufferable and arrogant levels that would require Israel to essentially commit national suicide. They are again encouraged by Joe Biden and the left leaning Democrat Party, aided and abetted by the perennial anti-Israel U.N. and the equally malevolent EU. who threaten severe boycotts against the Jewish state if it reclaims and finally liberates the Jordan Valley and even the a small 30% of Judea and Samaria.
Kerry had spewed his poison by stating, as he stood shoulder to shoulder with the Holocaust denying Mahmoud Abbas, that Israeli “settlements” are illegal. The PA and the PLO hearing that sensed that the time was right to instigate yet another period of criminal violence and murder against Israelis.
All these notions of “land for peace” and a “two state solution” erode the millennial and inalienable rights of one people alone to the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea – the Jewish people
As Caroline Glick recently wrote, “The state of Israel has sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria by force of its declaration of independence issued 72 years ago, on May 14, 1948. With its declaration of independence, together with Britain’s surrender of the Mandate it had been granted by the League of Nations to reconstitute the ancient Jewish national home, Israel became the one and only state that acquired sovereignty over all the Mandate’s territory.
“When Israel applies its civilian law, it will be exercising sovereign rights that it has held for decades.”
Indeed, my own opinion is that there should be demands made upon the artificial Arab entity known as the Kingdom of Jordan (which sits upon four fifths of the geographical territory which was known as the Palestine Mandate) for the return of Biblical Gilead in north west Jordan, which is the ancestral home of the Biblical Jewish tribes of Gad and Manasseh.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government and previous governments, stretching back to those of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, have all betrayed in one way or another Jewish patrimony throughout the entire Land of Israel.
Too many Israeli politicians have tragically conceded to the Arabs the lie that Israel “occupies” Arab territory – specifically territory within Judea and Samaria now occupied by a fraudulent Arab people who have come to call themselves Palestinians. This absurdity has given birth to a grievous, self-inflicted wound which afflicts Jews within Israel and the Diaspora.
Jewish communities, (villages and towns) do not consist of “settlers.” The Jewish populations consist of the descendants of the native and indigenous Jewish people in their own ancient land. A people who have no need to “settle” what is already theirs. By virtue of millennial physical and spiritual attachment it is theirs and theirs alone.
Notice that as of this time of writing, Judea and Samaria have still not been annexed, at least not yet and the time to do so is well overdue – 2,000 years overdue. Will it happen this July, 2020 under Bibi Netanyahu’s watch or will there be another fabricated delay. These lands are the very warp and woof, the very fabric and fiber of Jewish history, both during and after Biblical times.
In 2003, Professor Talia Einhorn wrote about Judea, Samaria and Gaza, or as it is known by its Hebrew acronym, Yesha: meaning Yehuda, Shomron and Azza.
She was commenting on the ‘slip of the tongue” by then Prime Minister Sharon who used the word “occupation” in reference to Israel’s presence in Yesha. In 2003, Yesha still included Gaza. It was abandoned in 2005 for the sake of peace! And what a monumental disaster for the Jewish state that delusional abandonment became.
She stated clearly then that Israel, the Jewish state, is not an “occupying force” in Yesha. This is what she said:
‘‘Up until 1948, Judea, Samaria and Gaza were a part of the British Mandate. In the 1948 War of Independence, Egypt illegally grabbed the Gaza Strip and Jordan took Judea and Samaria, the so called ‘West Bank’.
“Egypt did not claim sovereignty in Gaza but Jordan, in 1950, illegally annexed Judea and Samaria. This annexation was not recognized by international law. The Arab nations objected to it, and only Britain and Pakistan recognized it – and Britain did not recognize the annexation of eastern Jerusalem.
“In 1967, after the Six Day War, these territories – which were originally meant for the Jewish Nation’s National Home according to the Mandate Charter – were liberated and returned to Israeli control.”
Professor Einhorn added that, “according to international law, Israel has full right to populate the entire Land of Israel with dense settlement and thus actualize the principles set by the League of Nations in the original Mandate Charter of San Remo in 1920.
“At that time, the mandate to the Land of Israel was granted to the British and an introduction to the Mandate Charter states clearly that it is based on the international recognition of the historic ties between the Jewish People and the Land of Israel. Clause II of that mandate charges Britain with ‘ensuring the existence of political, administrative, and economic conditions that will guarantee the establishment of the Jewish national home in the Land of Israel.’”
We, of course, know how that turned out. Britain reneged on its promises and undertakings. Britain tore away 80% of the mandate territory east of the Jordan River in 1922 and gave it to the Emir Abdullah. There is nothing, therefore, in international law that requires the creation of a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Jordan is, in all reality, Palestine.
Professor Einhorn pointed out that the UN Partition Resolution of November 29, 1947 merely recommended that a Jewish and Arab state in what was the geographical territory known as Palestine “shall come into existence.”
Though the Jewish leadership reluctantly accepted the partition plan, it was, as we all know, rejected utterly by the Arab states, which thus voided the UN’s recommendation of any legal basis.
The decision by the Jewish leadership to accept the UN Partition Plan was deeply painful for them. After all, the armistice lines where the invading Arab armies had been stopped left the Jewish state a mere nine miles wide at its most populous region and with Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank) and half of Jerusalem occupied illegally by hostile Jordanian Arab Legion troops.
Israel’s acceptance was also motivated by the desperate need to give sanctuary to the 800,000 Jewish refugees driven out of their ancient homes throughout the Arab world, and to provide a home for the remnants of the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.
So the fact that Israel, forced to fight yet another war of survival against Arab genocidal aggression in the June, 1967 Six Day War, liberated Yesha – Judea and Samaria – it must be understood that this precious territory is empirically the very heart of the Land of Israel by all that is holy. And if that’s a dirty word to some, so be it.
Simply put: The Jewish people do not “settle” land that already belongs to them. And the Jewish people cannot be called “settlers” in their very own ancestral, Biblical and native homeland.
Now if those facts are understood and hammered home again and again by every Israeli and every Jew in the Diaspora, think of the power and the glory that will illuminate the world as the veil of deception is finally torn from its eyes.
But it all will become meaningless if Israel’s leaders and politicians succumb yet again to a hostile world, betray President Trump’s best chance for Jewish annexation in at least part of its ancestral heartland, and instead transform themselves again into the “trembling Israelites.”
Victor Sharpe is a prolific freelance writer and author of the acclaimed four volume work, Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.
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