Posted on 02/25/2004 6:07:56 PM PST by SJackson
While I have been horrified at the idea of Jews being expelled from their homeland by their own people, there may yet be a positive side to Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. To see this, one must look at it in the long term, in the implications for international laws, and in relation to proven Arab behavior patterns.
The first and most gratifying result of Mr. Sharon's disengagement plan is the obvious hysteria it is causing the Arabs. Nothing gratifies me more than to see Israel's enemies in a tizzy. It distracts them from plotting more genocidal attacks against Jews. It raises the level of their rhetoric, as well as their spin, to the ridiculous. If one must have an enemy, a worried, scared and hysterical one is the best kind to have.
How do I know they are foaming at the mouth at the idea of disengagement? From an ill-thought-out statement by Ahmed Qurei recently threatening a one-state solution and turning all of Arafat's Arabs into Israelis. Only a knee-jerk, panic-stricken response to the idea of disengagement could make him put forth such a foolish idea. Obviously, he didn't think of the implications of becoming an Israeli citizen. Serving in the Israeli army is one of them. I relish the thought of Arafat's henchmen being forced to protect Jewish lives against attacks by their fellow Arabs, while having to serve under a Jewish symbol (the Israeli flag contains a Jewish star).
The next positive result from disengagement is that no Arab from the Arafat gang of illegal squatters* would be allowed into Israel (if at all) unless they passed through checkpoints. Part of the disengagement plan includes a security barrier, much like the security barrier employed by the US and numerous EU countries, and now even Saudi Arabia, to keep out illegals. No more scurrying through the back alleys like rats invading a building. This would greatly reduce the number of genocidal bombers attempting to enter Israel.
Another aspect of Sharon's disengagement is his stated goal of getting Jordan and Egypt more involved in sustaining the economy of the Arab entity now occupying Israeli land. According to Mr. Sharon, the disengagement plan includes creating economic benefits for those occupying Arabs, "in coordination with Jordan and Egypt." Talk about overdue! Israel should never have let itself become responsible for the fiscal health of a group of mostly Jordanian and Egyptian rejects, whose own countries refuse to allow them back in. Did any Arab country assume the burden of responsibility for the over 800,00 Jewish refugees from Arab lands who were driven out in a massive ethno-religious cleansing? It is almost 40 years overdue for Jordan and Egypt to deal with their own people, instead of foisting it upon Israel.
The implications of this new economic responsibility for Egypt and Jordan may mean less floods of non-Israelis with hostile intentions** invading the country. It means less jobs going to non-Israelis. It means less Israeli money going to fund a war of terror being waged by the wage-earners, who overwhelming support (by their own polls) genocide/homicide bombings.
Another upside to the disengagement plan is that Israel will be 'out of the loop.' Rather than Arab society facing their own problems, they use Israel to deflect their own internal unrest away from their leaders. Israel has always been the Arab/Muslim whipping boy, to deflect their own societies from their boundless hatred and abysmal ignorance. History has shown time and time again that Arabs, left to their own devices, make war on each other. Even that loud-mouthed ignoramus, Dr. Mahathir, the former head of the OIC – the one who said that "Jews rule the world by proxy" – agrees with me. In his speech to the Organization of Islamic Countries in the Autumn of 2003, he stated "...we often fight and kill each other."***
However, contrary to Mr. Sharon's scheming, disengagement does not have to mean Jewish ethnic cleansing. This idea is an abomination and would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It would be giving concessions to terror and depriving Jews world-wide of their holy land. Mr. Sharon, or any other elected official, does not have the right to do that.
What he can and should do is to simply shut out the Arab entity occupying Israeli land and let them have all their dealings with their Arab brethren. This kind of disengagement can mean that the next rocket or bomb being sent by the pseudo-Palestinian-Arab entity* may be considered an act of war. At that point, Israel will have a green light to wipe them out, and reclaim, yet again, her rightful land, as guaranteed by international law.****
Footnotes * "Illegal squatter": That land is Israeli, having been legally won in a war of Arab aggression and overwhelming odds against the tiny State of Israel. It is an 'entity' because it has no legal status. ** "Hostile intentions": To those who say that most Palestinian-Arabs are not bent on murder, may I remind them of the Palestinian-Arabs' own polls. According to these polls, nearly 80% approve of the genocide/homicide bombings. *** http://thestar.com **** http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/econ/int11.htm and http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/econ/intmenu.htm and http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/lawwar.htm and http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/Inhofe-2002-03-04.asp.
What are you talking about? Slavs cleansed Germans from Eastern Europe and nobody had any problems with that in 1945-1947, however, we are living in the post-Geneva-1949 world. So the only available option is to annex the Golan Heights, Jerusalem and a tiny area around the Green Line. And considering the fact that this post-Geneva-1949 world was built with enthusiastic support of Jewish community, including Israel, Jews even have nobody to blame for the outcome.
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