Applause For Abbas, Cheers For Terrorism
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Finding The Truth
Applause For Abbas,
Cheers For Terrorism
By Ira A Feinberg
December 4, 2012
Hurray, Hurrah for the success of President Abbas in
securing for the Palestinean cause a resounding success. So the United Nations
who by number and name have always shown a bias to the beleaguered Palestinians,
had another opportunity to show their partiality. After all why should any
of them have behaved differently since the Arab Nation has
meant to them trade, investment, oil, a
great distraction of their own internal problems, and a growing Islamic population
to answer to ? What did anyone expect
from a European continent still living in the shadows of fifteen hundred and
more years of Anti-Semitism, an inquisition that burned Jews at the stake, and
a Holocaust that took six million lives without a significant Mea Culpa, except
however for Germany; an Anti-Semitism, that is alive and kicking, and to which no
nation has addressed to their constituency a condemnation and purging of their
national shame.
How easy it is to bash Israel, and raise the flag of
Palestine to demonstrate their solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinians. So,
by God, what have they done? Have they advanced the cause of the residents in
Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank, which as a territory has now evolved
into a recognized state in the making? How much have they advanced the cause of
peace and understanding? Abbas’s speech to the UN was filled with anger,
derision, and contempt for his peace partner. Is this the man who represents the
Palestinians with their aim to be independent and unoccupied? Where were his
words of thanks to the world body? Where in his speech as the recognized leader
of his country, did he in that exalted position, state that he would now become
empowered because of their recognition to come to terms with Israel for a
lasting peace. Now he was able to negotiate a just and fair arrangement for the
two states, Israel & Palestine,
living side by side living in peace and happiness by helping each other to thrive
in a global economy. Zero! Just the
opposite.
His speech reflects a
realist interpretation, that he, nor the Palestinians want a real peace. What
they want is the dismemberment of Israel. An Islamic pause as justified in the
Koran, a Hudnah, to be able to gain a footing, and by so doing be able to take
it all back one day. Time and time again,
Israel’s leaders, who believed by conceding land they would
secure peace. Not so. Conceding land without a change of heart would never
work. We have the first example in Lebanon. When Israel unilaterally decided to
evacuate the area they controlled because of terrorist attacks that had
terrorized Northern Israel, and what they got was Hezbollah who threatened to
wipe Israel off the map! Or the Gaza evacuation, a unilateral departure, and
what did they get from that withdrawal with all that Israel built and
cultivated there, Hamas! Now does one
believe if Israel gave President Abbas all he wanted, to stop building on the
West Bank, stop expanding the settlements, stop building in a united Jerusalem
that he would say thanks and Israel would be left in peace forever? Never, and
it is a hoped for dream by peaceniks who refuse to face reality.
Because of the PLO’s real wish is to get back all of Israel
they sow the seeds of hate at an early age in all the schools on the West Bank
for their youth of today, who for tomorrow are instructed to
kill Israelis, and take back the stolen land they accuse Israel of stealing from
them. ? In this the respect the PLO and the Palestinian Authority deserve at
the United Nations in becoming a non-member member? Are they any better than
the Hamas who do not suppress openly their goal of total destruction of a
Jewish State?
The world and the
Palestinians still live with the lie that the land they are claiming is land
that is occupied, and which land Israel is illegally building on. History tells
another story. Jews have lived on this disputed soil for over 4,000 years.
Until the beginning of the 20th century all the land in the Middle-East
was Turkish, and part of the Turkish Empire. After World War I, all the land in the Middle-East was
artificially cut up to meet the objectives of the colonial powers, England and
France. Palestine was nonexistent, and
it too was broken up into two parts arbitrarily. One, The Kingdom of Jordan, that gave the
Hashemite Royalty a foothold, and the other a mandate under British control,
Palestine, neither Jewish or Arab control. After the United Nations voted on
the partition plan in 1947 Israel accepted it, and the Arabs not only
rejected it, but threatened war and the extinction of all the Jews living in Palestine.
Now 65 years later they claim the land was theirs after they rejected the
partition plan, and were defeated in 1948 when five Arab armies invaded this
unclaimed land and threatened to drive the Jews into the sea. As a result of
the 1948 war Trans-Jordan seized all the disputed land, and annexed it to its
kingdom. The 1967 war, The Six Day War that the
Arabs lost, and where Jordan who sided with Egypt and Syria
lost control of the West Bank of this
disputed territory (Samaria & Judea), and which Israel has been in control
of it since then. (Parenthetically the standard for those living on the west
bank under Israel control have made more progress than any Arab country in
their standard of living, education, and medicine.)
The land belongs to those who live on it. It is not stolen
since historically, and by fact. Jews have lived there for thousands of years,
and have returned to restore it, and that
it is Israel’s inherent right to be
there. Sixty five years ago it was barely rocks and sand. Now that it is
thriving, and shown the world an example of one of the greatest turnarounds in
history there are those because of envy, jealousy, and pure hostility wanted to
reverse an irretrievable fact. It was,
and is today the homeland of the Jewish people, and will be so until the day “When
nations shall not lift up a sword against others”, and borders will be nonexistent,
since all men shall live in peace with their neighbor, and none will fear the
other.
As to Abbas’s speech, and the voting for recognition by the
United Nations, does he really represent a partner for peace? When the applause
dies down,and all the cheering ceases, and the Palestinian leaders have to
answer why they did what they did at the UN, Israel and the world, will
have to realize that there isn’t any peace process at present, but just
a game, a political one to demonstrate that effort is being made every day.
Every day to gain time, and more support, more financial support from donor
nations, and not because of Netanyahu’s actions, but because there doesn’t
exist a a true partner who wishes peace. Where the Palestinians for 65 years
who have been fighting Israel, and who rejected at this very United Nations a
just partition plan, and who have to this day never recognized Israel as a Jewish State, and have never been interested
in making a final settlement. They have had four real opportunities where
Israel was ready to make many of the concessions they sought, only to be
rejected after each attempt. First Rabin, then Barak and Olmert, and even
Netanyahu.
