Before June 1967, an Arab Muslim polity (Egypt) held Gaza, an Arab Muslim polity (Syria) held the Golan Heights, and an Arab Muslim polity (Jordan) held Judea and Samaria (misnomered the “West Bank”). Yet in 1964, three years before June 1967, the Arab world created the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (PLO). Which “Palestine” did that “organization” set about to “liberate” in 1964? Not Gaza, Golan, and Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”). Jordanian Olympic athletes were not attacked for “occupying the West Bank.” Nor were Egyptian school children for “occupying Gaza.” Nor Syrian civilians for “occupying the Golan.” Rather, all PLO terror attacks, from the PLO’s 1964 founding through June 1967, aimed within pre-June 1967 Israel. That is what the PLO was organized to liberate: the “Palestine” that is Israel. Not Gaza, Golan, nor Judea and Samaria.
(By the way, how fascinating is the term “West Bank”! The Arab world could not assert with a straight face that “Judea and Samaria” belong to the PLO. So they gave it a different name. Only… they had no other name for it because Judea and Samaria never were part of their universe. Read the Torah. Read the Christian Gospels. Read the Encyclopedia Britannica before the 1960s. So, since Judea and Samaria lands are west of the Jordan River, they denominated it the “West Bank.” Anyone who has been there, to cities up and down Judea and Samaria, knows that the region is no river “bank,” not remotely close to the Jordan River. The term is a joke — akin to labeling Jersey City, Bayonne, Secaucus, and Hoboken the “West Bank” because of its immensely closer proximity to the Hudson River or calling the states of Arkansas or Iowa the “West Bank” because of proximity to the Mississippi.
The “Middle East Peace Process” is nothing but a cottage industry where useless, inbred establishment types get to virtue-signal and to play-act as humanitarians while they raid the public treasury and real people die.
Excellent article. I actually have a much better understanding of the so-called peace process after reading it.
All these fake terms and useless negotiating only perpetuate the generational hatred that just keeps both sides killing each other.
It is not a peace process it is an annexation and subjugation process by the Israeli’s.
But then, the Israeli’s have the weapons and the political friends.
Does might make right? That is what is at play here.
I ask every Israeli: If Israel continues to occupy and settle Palestinian lands outside Israel’s border - why not just annex that land, as Israel did in E Jerusalem, and..... then make those Palestinian occupants, full (and voting) Israeli citizens?
Call it Israel.
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It’s time we stopping kidding ourselves since nothing but a piece process . Time to stop funding the murderers .
Israelis: We can work something out.
Palis: ESAD!! Or just die; whatever.