|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Progressive News & Views (since 1982)
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In a message dated 2/8/2006 12:14:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Progressive News & Views (since 1982)
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 'occupied' territories are NOT the property of Israel. Had Israel
annexed the
territories....it would be a different story. Of course that would have
been impossible - because it would have meant giving all the
Palestinians the vote..... yeah, right.
Israel has occupied... not owned the territories it conquered.
Conquered lands must be turned back to the people who inhabited it. That
is INTERNATIONAL LAW to which Israel is a signatory.
Let's not whitewash Israel's faults. The settlers, claiming that God
gave them the right to all of 'greater Israel' have displaced millions
of people. They have all the rights of citizens of Israel while
Palestinians are humiliated, denied travel rights even within the
territories, and have their homes and land taken at will and have no
rights to the waters of the Jordan... a MAJOR point here. Remember. that
when a Palestinian child dies as a result of rocket attacks by Israel on
'militants' - it is collateral damage. When an Israeli child is killed,
he or she is the victim of a terrorist. Twice as many Palestinian
children have been killed since the Sharon-instigated Intifada than
Israeli children. Bloodshed is bloodshed. Both sides suffer.
Palestinian mothers grieve the same way Israeli mothers do....
Reggie, hi. I lived in Israel on two different occasions. On the first, I
made Aliyah. I got homesick for my entire family and returned here. Then I
missed Israel and moved over there a second time. This second time, I became
friends with a neighbor, a woman who lost her arm when a package blew up a
bus she was riding. She went on to marry and have kids, but her life was
never the same. She was one of the survivors of that explosion. We all bleed
red. However, that's NOT the point I wanted to make.
The point I want to make is that prior to 1947, the managers, owners, and
directors of Israel were not the Jews, and not the Arabs. It was the British.
That's something many wish to forget. Prior to that, there had been
migrations of Arabs and Jews at different points in time. But the owners
(call them
mandators if you wish) of Israel in 1947, were the British. Prior to that,
there had been the Ottoman Empire, prior to that, there had been nomads, the
Jews had been the owners for a great deal of time (archeological digs prove
it), etc. But the owners, if anyone could've been called owner of Israel, in
1947, were the British.
The British opted to terminate their mandate by 1948, and asked the UN to
partition the land between Jews and Arabs. If you look at the map of that
division, you can clearly see it favors the Arabs.
The Jews agreed wholeheartedly.
The Arabs rejected it. They wanted the whole pie. They wanted the Jews
gone or dead. They threw the offer in the toilet, in lieu of WAR, which they
declared upon Israel. They asked other Arab nations to use their military f
orce to kill off the Israeli Jews, and these nations did attack Israel. The
Jews of Israel knew that from that moment on, they'd have to defend themselves
or die. The rest is history. From 1948 to the present the Arabs have said no
to any attempt to have peace.
-----
/ o o \
====OO=====OO=========================
Hank Roth's Place - http://pnews.org/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (on the InterNUT since 1982)
============================================
Fightback - notification news and views list
Subscribe/Unsub at: http://pnews.org/dada/
================================================
Fightback - (pnews "progressive news and views")
OPEN discussion - subscribe or unsubscribe in
subject line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
================================================
