Fishlore
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- Aug 25, 2011
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Statehood is not a prize for good behavior. At issue is the disposition of the territory turned over to the UN at the expiration of the British Mandate in Palestine. The UN voted the establishment of two states with shared authority over the international city of Jerusalem. Israel is one of twins.It is illogical and unfair to equate violent attacks by Israelis and Palestinians. The Israelis are citizens of a sovereign state which is using its armed might (paid for by the USA, btw) to illegally occupy and illegally annex foreign territory, suppressing the local population in the process.
The Palestinians are stateless people without any military or police force to protect them whose land has been invaded and occupied by a colonizing Western power claiming the land belongs to the world's Jews because God handed it out three thousand years ago. Not a peep out of God to support the claim since the Romans chased the Jews out almost two thousand years ago.
It wasn't the Palestinians who attacked the Jews in 1967. The Palestinians have never had an army. The whole world has condemned Israel for its violations of human rights and international law. Only by hiding behind Uncle Sam has Israel avoided the sanctions which will eventually bring the pariah state to its knees.
It's not illogical or fair to compare the two. The Ramallah lynch, the murder of Shalhevet pass, the Itamar Massacre, the Netanya Hotel Massacre, The slaying of Helena Rapp, the attack on road 12.... (just you name it)
In each and every one of those acts the Palestinians have showed to have no morals, sympathy, or humanity, whatsoever. Occupation my ass. Look those things up, tell me then that those who do such things deserve to have a state of their own where they can LEGALLY butcher Jews.
Arab resistance to UN creation of Israel had some legal legitimacy as the action was taken without the consent of the local inhabitants as required by the UN Charter. In the ensuing vacuum, the USA declared itself the "honest broker" who would arrange the details of the Palestinian state in concurrence with Israel. The idea that Palestine would come into existence as a result of US-Israel negotiations rather than UN vote was finally rejected in UN 242. Like Israel, Palestine will be a creation of the UN. With US enthusiasm for Likud fading, the day is fast approaching. You'll see.
Denying the rights of the Palestinians because of the acts of a few is no more logical than revoking the state of Israel because of its war crimes in Gaza. The fantasy that the Jews will give the Palestinians a little country of their own if they are good and play nice is just Jewish propaganda. Nobody else takes it seriously.