GREEN LINED: ONE MORE QUICK STUDY FOR THE TWO STATERS….
http://blogs.jpost.com/content/cohen-i-can-quote-and-cohen-i-cannot
Green-Lined
The Cohen I can quote and the Cohen I cannot
This line from Roger Cohen’s latest op-ed on his views on how to save Israel (and we recall how he tried to save Iranian Jewry) and his put-down of US President Barack Obama is worth highlighting:
“The rapid White House-to-wipe-out course of Middle Eastern diplomacy…”
That is a geast quotation. He continues, however, and returns to form, asserting:
“Palestine can’t get born if the land for it keeps eroding…”
Wait just a second, there. Wasn’t that the process Israel was forced to undergo? Wasn’t losing land the path to Israel’s independence, unfortunately? What’s good for Israel is not good enough for Arabs? Let’s recall:-
First, the 1919 borders of the propsed Jewish National Home were truncated.
The in 1922, we lost TransJordan.
In 1937, there was this partition plan. By the Peel Commision.
In 1938, another partition plan. Woodhead. (and here and here). And another.
In 1944, Churchill was mulling another.
And in 1947, the UN recommended another.
None of which the Arabs accepted. Not one. For them, land wasn’t a factor unless we Jews got nothing.
During 90 years of conflict, territorial compromise has always been proposed as a solution but it has never worked. No compromise was amenable to the Arabs. Territorial compromise still isn’t the essence of this disingenuous nationalism called “Palestinianism.”
And Cohen continues with examples of questionable punditry:
“Netanyahu’s push for up-front Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” is a non-starter. The Palestine Liberation Organization has recognized Israel; it’s not going to get into the state’s nature. In reality the “Jewish state” opening gambit is an attempt to settle the Palestinian refugee issue ahead of discussion of other final-status questions like borders. That can’t work.”
Mr. Cohen, but that’s the whole point. If Israel doesn’t make that a condition, there will be no Israel. That’s a Pal. gambit to eradicate Israel demographically. You favor that?
He then states:
“If there is enough momentum by the second half of next year to suggest Palestinian statehood is a train leaving the station, a majority of Palestinians in Gaza will board it. Then peace becomes a political dilemma for Hamas.”
That, Mr. Cohen, is wrong. Gaza is Iranian, basically. They will not go along. It will not be a political dilemma because politics doesn’t interest them. Religion does. In fact, they think they have a state already and now want to enlarge it for otherwise, why can’t Hamas and Fatah make up and be friends, if not “Palestinians”?
And finally, he says:
“There will be no Palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital.”
To echo Mahmoud Abbas, they can call what they want, but Jerusalem will not be divided and no Arab missile team will get to sit on the hills surrounding Israel’s capital.
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