georgephillip
Diamond Member
If Israel elites have the slightest fear of Persian aggression, the solution to that "problem" has been in plain sight for decades:
"August 11, 2013
Haaretz
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus very public confrontation with President Barack Obama over his reluctance to go to war with Iran to halt its nuclear program brings to mind a confrontation that occurred nearly 25 years ago between President George H. W. Bush and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir over the settlements that Israels government was establishing in the occupied Palestinian territories.
At the time, the government of Israel and American Jewish organizations were seeking U.S. housing loan guarantees to help finance Israels absorption of Jewish refugees who were leaving the Soviet Union in large numbers.
"President Bush agreed to provide the guarantees, but asked Israel to cease its illegal settlement construction. He pointed out that given the fungibility of money, U.S. financial assistance would be going to fund an activity the U.S. and the entire international community deemed illegal and intended to preempt negotiations over the disposition of the occupied territories by creating irreversible 'facts on the ground.'
"Shamir refused to end settlement construction, and American Jewish organizations sponsored a large rally in Washington D.C. on September 12, 1991 in opposition to President Bushs stand, demanding that the issue of the settlements not be allowed to overshadow the critical humanitarian need of providing assistance for Russian Jews arriving in Israel.
"Apparently it did not occur to Shamir, or to the American Jewish leaders, that the dispossession of the Palestinian people caused by the settlements might be creating as serious a humanitarian problem as the one they were seeking to resolve for Soviet Jews."
To Eliminate the Iranian Threat, Israel Must Relinquish the Settlements « U.S. / Middle East Project
Apparently it still doesn't occur to many Jews that the dispossession of the indigenous population in 1948 is where the problem began.
"August 11, 2013
Haaretz
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus very public confrontation with President Barack Obama over his reluctance to go to war with Iran to halt its nuclear program brings to mind a confrontation that occurred nearly 25 years ago between President George H. W. Bush and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir over the settlements that Israels government was establishing in the occupied Palestinian territories.
At the time, the government of Israel and American Jewish organizations were seeking U.S. housing loan guarantees to help finance Israels absorption of Jewish refugees who were leaving the Soviet Union in large numbers.
"President Bush agreed to provide the guarantees, but asked Israel to cease its illegal settlement construction. He pointed out that given the fungibility of money, U.S. financial assistance would be going to fund an activity the U.S. and the entire international community deemed illegal and intended to preempt negotiations over the disposition of the occupied territories by creating irreversible 'facts on the ground.'
"Shamir refused to end settlement construction, and American Jewish organizations sponsored a large rally in Washington D.C. on September 12, 1991 in opposition to President Bushs stand, demanding that the issue of the settlements not be allowed to overshadow the critical humanitarian need of providing assistance for Russian Jews arriving in Israel.
"Apparently it did not occur to Shamir, or to the American Jewish leaders, that the dispossession of the Palestinian people caused by the settlements might be creating as serious a humanitarian problem as the one they were seeking to resolve for Soviet Jews."
To Eliminate the Iranian Threat, Israel Must Relinquish the Settlements « U.S. / Middle East Project
Apparently it still doesn't occur to many Jews that the dispossession of the indigenous population in 1948 is where the problem began.
- top p.l.o member responsible for damur massacre.
