A look back at the first disastrous ‘two-state solution’ Victor Sharpe
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/sharpe/210512
“It is not from 1947 or 1967 that the relentless aggression against Israel by the Arab and Muslim world and the so-called Palestinians began. To fully understand its origins, we must go back to the early years of the 20th century.” Rashida Tlaib, Democrat Congresswoman
In the 11th hour and 59th minute of his last term in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama struck his knife deep into the heart of Israel. With the appalling anti-Israel passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, engineered by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry on December 23, 2016, the blame for the Israel-Palestinian conflict was falsely imparted upon the easy target: Israel.
In June, 1967 Six-Day War, the Jewish state survived yet another Arab war of genocide launched against it and freed the embattled nation from the existing 1947 nine – to – fifteen – mile – wide armistice lines, which Israel’s earlier minister of foreign affairs, Abba Eban, appropriately called the Auschwitz lines. Those were the lines that existed after the fledgling Israeli forces in 1948 had pushed back the invading Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese armies. Israel declared its independence in May, 1948 and immediately the Arabs launched a war of genocide.
But let us go back to 1920 when Great Britain was given the responsibility by the League of Nations to oversee the Palestine Mandate after the defeat of the 400 year old Ottoman Turkish Empire’s occupation of much of the Middle East. Britain was to uphold the League’s express intention of reconstituting within the Mandatory territory a reborn Jewish national home.
The League of Nations created a number of articles in line with the original intent of the Balfour Declaration of November 29, 1917. At the last minute, however, a new article was introduced by the British Colonial Office: Article 25.
It became apparent that its inclusion directly enabled Great Britain in 1921-22 to arbitrarily tear away all the vast Mandatory territory east of the River Jordan and give it to the Arab Hashemite tribe: The territory to become Trans-Jordan and led by the emir Abdullah.
British officials claimed that the gift of Mandatory Palestine east of the Jordan River was in gratitude to the Hashemites for their contribution in helping defeat the Turks. However, T.S. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) described in derisory terms the Hashemite role as “a side show of a side show.”
Ironically, Britain was aided far more by the Nili Jewish underground movement in defeating the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had ruled geographical Palestine from 1517 to 1917.
This was the first partition of the non-state geographical territory known as Palestine and the first two-state solution. It created a new Arab entity some 100 years ago called Trans-Jordan, covering some 35,000 square miles, or nearly four fifths of the erstwhile Palestine Mandate. Immediately, Jewish residence in this new Arab territory was forbidden in an act of Islamic apartheid and it is thus historically correct to state that Jordan is Palestine.
Thus a state – Jordan – that dwarfs tiny Israel in size and formed the largest part of the original Palestine Mandate already exists for the Palestinians and has done so for 100 years. Note too that Jordan’s population is comprised of over 75% Palestinian Arabs who are ruled by the minority Hashemites.
The British Mandate of geographical Palestine
So why do the so-called Palestinian Arabs continue their war of extermination against the reborn Jewish state? Because the fact is that this is not a dispute over borders. This is a religious war, and the Arabs, so long as the overwhelming majority remain Muslim, will never accept the existence of a non-Muslim state in territory previously conquered by them in the name of Allah, even if that Jewish state predated Islam by millennia. Its all in the Bible!
During its administration of the remaining Palestine Mandate’s tiny territory, between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, (a mere forty miles in its largest width) Britain severely restricted Jewish immigration and purchases of land while turning a blind eye to massive illegal Arab immigration into the territory from neighboring stagnant Arab territories. These Arab infiltrators are primarily the relatively recent forebears of the Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians. This had been Britain’s policy since it was given the Mandate from 1921/22 up until 1947 and Israel’s subsequent independence in 1948.
Britain’s sorry record of appeasement of the Arabs, at the expense of Jewish destiny in the remaining tiny territory, culminated in the infamous 1939 White Paper, which limited Jewish immigration to just 75,000 souls over the next five years. This draconian policy, coming as it did on the eve of the outbreak of World War 2, was a deathblow to millions of Jews attempting to flee extermination by Nazi Germany and find refuge in the British controlled Palestine Mandate.
Britain’s mismanagement of the Mandate finally led to the United Nations’ Partition Plan of 1947. The Jewish Agency reluctantly accepted this additional dismemberment of what was left to them of the promised Jewish national home in Mandatory Palestine.
They did this to provide a refuge for the surviving Jewish remnants of the Holocaust and for the over 800,000 Jewish refugees driven out of their homes throughout the Arab world. In contrast, the Arab regimes rejected the Partition Plan. Then, as now, they worked against the existence of an independent Jewish state. Only since President Trump’s espousal of the Abraham Accords have several Arab states embraced diplomatic relations with Israel in addition to Egypt and Jordan.
However under the new Biden- Harris regime, the Accords may not survive the Democrat/Socialist Administration’s evolving policies and already these new ‘Arab friends’ in the Gulf have falsely blamed Israel for the Arab rioting in Israel’s capital city, Jerusalem. The bloody Arab riots were perpetrated at the urging of Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the terrorist Palestinian Authority, now aided by its Islamist rivals, Hamas and Islamic Jihad which occupies the Gaza Strip.
Both these Gaza based terrorist gangs have, at this time of writing, launched over 3,500 deadly missiles into Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and many other Israeli villages and towns. The tiny town of S’derot which is close to the Gaza border, was also struck with yet more civilians killed and wounded. S’derot alone has endured over 10,000 missiles from Hamas occupied Gaza during the last ten years. Both Hamas in Gaza and Hizb’allah in Lebanon are funded by the Islamic Republic of Iran which provides the terrorists with massive military aid.
In 1948, Trans-Jordan, now renamed the Kingdom of Jordan, joined the other Arab nations in invading the Jewish state. Its British led Arab Legion drove out the Jewish inhabitants from east Jerusalem and the Old City. They burned the ancient synagogues while desecrating the Jewish gravestones on the Mount of Olives, using them for the Arab Legion’s latrines. At the same time the Jordanians annexed the Biblical and ancestral Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria, renaming it the ‘West Bank.’ Only Britain and Pakistan recognized that illegal annexation.
Nineteen years later, the Arab states declared again their imminent intention to destroy Israel. In the subsequent June 1967 Six-Day War, Israel liberated Jewish and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and throughout Judea and Samaria from Jordan’s illegal occupation.
Israel, however, foolishly gave away to the Hashemite regime in Jordan the newly liberated ancestral and Biblical Jewish territory of Judea and Samaria along with the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site. This was done in the tragic and delusional hope of receiving a full and lasting peace with the Arab world. But the Arab League, meeting in Khartoum in August 1967, delivered their notorious three nos: no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel.
It is within the narrow territory remaining for the Jewish state, which includes the more than 3,500 year old ancestral and Biblical Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria, that much of the world now demands the establishment of a fraudulent Arab state to be called Palestine – a state that has never existed in all of recorded history.
Here then would be the next so-called two-state solution, which would dismember what is left of Israel and drive hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents from their homes, villages, and farms – what a hostile world pejoratively calls, “settlements.” Because just as in Jordan, Jews will not be permitted to live within Muslim claimed territory, while Muslim Arabs can remain free to live anywhere within Israel. This is the real apartheid and it exists not in Israel but within the Arab world.
Nearly 100 years ago, the original two-state solution was enacted in infamy. Certainly, the Obama-Biden administration, consumed as it was by Obama’s anti-Israel animus, was equally infamous during its baleful two terms in office. Now it is increasingly concerning that the present Biden-Harris regime may act towards embattled Israel in yet another act of ignominy.
*Victor Sharpe is a prolific freelance writer with articles and essays published in many conservative websites He has published some seven books including two containing his many acclaimed short stories, all with surprise endings.
See here his four volume work, titled Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state, which also details the 1,400 year old Islamist threat to Judeo-Christian civilization. Politicide
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