Posted on 04/01/2019 5:16:02 AM PDT by SJackson
The Palestinian leader spoke in advance of the anticipated roll out of what US President Donald Trump is calling the “Plan of the Century” to resolve the Israeli-Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Trump Administration will allow Israel to annex portions of the West Bank and split the Gaza Strip from the West Bank so that it can be a state of its own, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday.
Speaking at the Arab League summit in Tunisia, "What is coming from the US is more dangerous and serious,” he said. “The US will tell Israel, annex part of the Palestinian lands and grant self-rule to what's left of the land, and give the Gaza Strip a state so that Hamas can play there.
“The US administration's decision is to destroy the Arab Peace Plan and constitutes a dramatic change from the positions of previous US administrations,” Abbas continued.
The Palestinian leader spoke in advance of the anticipated roll out of what US President Donald Trump is calling the “Plan of the Century” to resolve the Israeli-Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
His comments, however, also came one week after the historic decision by Trump to officially recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel annexed from Syria in 1981. Israel captured that territory during the defensive Six-Day War in 1967.
The Arab League on Sunday condemned the US for its recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan and said it planned to seek a UN Security Council resolution against the move.
The US declaration on the Golan has sparked speculation that the Trump administration’s next move would be to support Israel in annexing at least portions of Area C of the West Bank, where all of the Israeli settlements are located.
Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk tweeted on Sunday, “So by recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan, Trump is helping [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] Bibi get re-elected, which will help the right-wing annex the West Bank, which will lead to pressure from his base to recognize that too, which will doom his peace plan and Israel.”
The UN charter, the United Nations Security Council and international law in general has held that territory to be illegal occupied.
In written testimony to Congress last year, legal expert Eugene Kontorovich of the Northwestern University School of Law explained that there were exceptions to that principle. He listed the cases of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s sovereignty over north and south Vietnam after an aggressive war and India’s annexation of the Portuguese territory of Goa.
But the UN and its Security Council have made no such exception for Israel. After the Six-Day War, the UNSC passed resolution 242 that affirmed the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war” as it related to territory Israel captured in that war. The resolution called for the withdrawal of the IDF “from territories occupied in the recent conflict.”
Israel has since withdrawn from Gaza and the Sinai desert, has annexed eastern Jerusalem and the Golan, and has maintained military control over the West Bank.
The Trump administration’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan pushes back at UNSC’s resolution 242 and 497, which deemed Israel’s annexation of the Golan to be illegal. The administration argued that Israeli sovereignty in the Golan was necessary for the country’s security, particularly given Iran’s military presence in Syria.
Just one day later at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, US Ambassador to the Israel David Friedman hinted at the link between the Golan Heights security argument to the West Bank. In speaking of the importance of pushing forward with a peace plan, Friedman said, “Can we leave this to an administration that might not understand the existential risk to Israel if Judea and Samaria are overcome by terrorists in the manner that befell the Gaza Strip, after the IDF withdrew from this territory.”
Settler leaders and right-wing politicians in the last four years have pushed forward numerous annexation initiatives, including for the Gush Etzion Region and the Ma’aleh Adumim bloc. But if the argument is security, then Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Elhayani said he believe that the application of sovereignty to his region, situated between Jerusalem and Jordan, would be the logical first step for Israel’s next government.
West Pakistan was organized largely on the principle of trying to wrest full control of Kashmir from India, and this remains their primary reason for existence even today, otherwise they are just part of - Afghanistan.
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Exactly. Isn’t Afghanistan one of the areas from which the Muslim Mughals invaded India. Aren’t Pakistani and Afghan’s brand of Islam the same.
“In July 1922, the League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine. Recognizing “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine,” Great Britain was called upon to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine-Eretz Israel (Land of Israel). Shortly afterwards, in September 1922, the League of Nations and Great Britain decided that the provisions for setting up a Jewish national home would not apply to the area east of the Jordan River, which constituted three-fourths of the territory included in the Mandate and which eventually became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.”
So under Muslim pressure three-fourths of what was to be the Jewish national homeland was given to a Saudi Prince and the Emirate of Transjordan was created.
The British kept control of the area west of the Jordan River, but again under Muslim pressure reneged on it mandate and dragged its feet on creating a Jewish homeland.
Two states were created out of the Palestinian Mandate. Three-fourths given to a Saudi Prince and the rest has been in contention since. Israel settled in 1948, but the Muslim countries around it have attacked continually since. These forces lost the remainder of what was left of the Palestinian Mandate in 1967, along with large portions of Egyptian territory, and the Golon heights.
Only by pressure in the UN and the forced recognition of the PLO as the representative of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza has the conflict continued.
Mahmoud Abbas and Arafat were, and Abbas is still a terrorist at heart, and still seek the destruction of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state that includes all of Jordan, Israel, and Gaza.
Any area Islam has conquered in the past is considered “the territory of Islam”, and any area not conquered or regained from Islam is considered by them as “the territory of war”.
With that mindset, all of Spain, parts of France, large sections of Eastern Europe, Israel, and large sections of India are considered Muslim, and areas to be regained.
The Arab League on Sunday condemned the US for its recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan and said it planned to seek a UN Security Council resolution against the move. The US declaration on the Golan has sparked speculation that the Trump administration’s next move would be to support Israel in annexing at least portions of Area C of the West Bank, where all of the Israeli settlements are located.
Since the Arab League has given no formal recognition of Israel, either as a Jewish state or as a state of any kind, **** what they say, and WTH did they expect would happen? #TimesUp. :^) Thanks SJackson.
How come Israel never gets to be on that Security Council? We’re a constant subject of resolution this and resolution that, but we get no say. The UN blows. Time to go.
For decades, Israel was (illegally) denied membership in the Regional Group, and membership in a Regional Group is a (rather odd and arbitrary) requirement to be on the SC and some other important committees of the UN.
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