This is not about "occupation" or territory; it is about meaningful coexistence. --- Israel is a jewish nation ... that's coexistence?
On Mar 29, 4:24 pm, Bruce Majors <[email protected]> wrote: > Israel and the Occupation Myth > > The hatred and violence that killed five members of the Fogel family existed > before the Jewish state did. > > By DANNY AYALON > > The recent murder of a family of five in Itamar shocked Israelis to their > core. A terrorist broke into the Fogels' home before stabbing and garroting > to death the two parents, Udi and Ruth, and their children Yoav, 11 years > old, Elad, 4, and almost decapitating Hadas, who was only three months old. > > There has since been very little outcry from the international community. > Many nations who are so used to condemning the building of apartment units > beyond the Green Line remained silent on this sadistic murder. Meanwhile, > the few international correspondents to have covered the massacre have > placed it in the context of ongoing settlement-building and Israel's > so-called "occupation." > > However, regardless of one's views on which people have greater title to > Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, it is a historically inaccurate > distortion to claim that the occupation that breeds this type of violence. > If this mantra were true, then it must be the case that before the > occupation there was no violence. This defies the historical record. > > In 1929, the Jewish community of Hebron—which stretches back millennia, long > before the creation of Islam and the Arab conquest and subsequent occupation > of the area—was brutally attacked. The Jews who had been living peacefully > with their Muslim neighbors were set upon in a bloody rampage, inspired by > Palestinian Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later became notorious as > Hitler's genocidal acolyte during the Holocaust. In two days, 67 Jews were > hacked or bludgeoned to death. Jewish infants were beheaded and Jewish women > were disemboweled. Limbs were hacked off the dead as well as those who > managed to survive. > > On visiting the scene shortly after the massacre, Britain's High > Commissioner for Palestine John Chancellor wrote to his son "I do not think > that history records many worse horrors in the last few hundred years." > > This and other similar pogroms happened, not only before the "occupation" of > Judea and Samaria, but even two decades before the state of Israel was > reestablished. From 1948 to 1967, Judea and Samaria were illegally occupied > by Jordan, which renamed the area the West Bank, in reference to the East > Bank of the Kingdom of Jordan that fell beyond the Jordan River. Not one > Israeli was allowed into this area, yet nor did Israel know one day of peace > in that time, during which it saw brutal attacks launched from the West Bank > against Israeli civilians. > > Further evidence against the mantra that the occupation breeds violence can > be culled from Palestinian sources. Take Hamas's founding charter, for > instance, which does not mention occupation or settlements. What is does > contain are calls for the complete destruction of Israel, down to its last > inch, such as: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam > will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." The charter > goes even further, aspiring to a point in time when there will be no Jews > left anywhere in the world. > > Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organization, currently headed by > President Mahmoud Abbas, notes in its founding charter that "this > organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank," > while still calling for a "liberation of its homeland." This was written in > 1964, fully three years before Israel conquered the West Bank during the Six > Day War. > > It's safe to say that the violence and terror visited upon Israelis has > little connection to "occupation" or settlements. This myth has no > historical foundation, but is easy to proclaim for those who have little > understanding of the conflict. > > Yet these fatuous canards only make our conflict harder to solve. The recent > massacre in Itamar highlighted the Palestinian Authority's ongoing > incitement to violence through its media, mosques and educational system. At > this point, the basic parameters of the peace process need an overhaul. If > our aim is to reach a peaceful resolution, then merely ending the > "occupation" would far from guarantee that, as history has shown. > > Israel was assured in the past by the international community that if it > just retreated from Gaza and Lebanon, peace would flourish and violence > would come to an end. In both cases, this hope proved deadly wrong, and > millions of Israelis have been subjected to incessant attacks from these > territories since the retreat. > > This is not about "occupation" or territory; it is about meaningful > coexistence. 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