Posted on 03/28/2002 8:19:03 AM PST by dennisw
Thanks Rush Limbaugh for opening up your show today with good comments on Israel that are 100% pro-Israel. I know who the real friends of Israel are during these trying times. They are the good right wing people and the good Christians. And American Jews of course
All you have to is go to DU to see how the left hates Israel.
Thanks Rush and thanks GWBush who I pray will stay the course!
In the 1993 Oslo Agreement, by recognizing Israel’s right to exist, Palestinians already gave up 78 percent of their land and accepted the formula “land for peace” within the context of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for the withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories.
THEIR land? Oh the author must mean the land they were to get in the UN partition plan (the plan the Jews accepted) had the Arab world accepted it in 1947. Seems to me that in that case, the Palestinians gave up ALL their land when their Arab brothers rejected the UN's plan and attacked Israel.
This meant Palestinians were willing to settle for 22 percent of originally mandated Palestine. To put it bluntly: You take $100 from me and later offer to repay $22. I cut my losses and give up $78. Still later you want more of my remaining $22.
Pardon me, but that's crap. Use of the word "mandate" is misleading. The ORIGINAL MANDATE for Palestine consisted of all of what is now Jordan and all of what is now Israel. East of the Jordan River was given to the Arabs, West of the Jordan was given to the Jews. Of course, this was simply unacceptable and the British caved to the Arab demands. If the author is referring to the UN Partition Plan, we've already established that they rejected the land given and chose instead to try to take all of it.
Which brings me to one of the best questions of all in this conflict. Why is it that it is demanded that Israel return land acquired as a result of defense? I would love the author to name just one other historical incident where a country that gained ground by defeating an attacker was made to return the land.
In short, Arafat felt Palestinians had made real concessions in settling for the territories occupied since the 1967 war. Sheer ineptness and internal squabbling among Palestinian negotiators confounded the Palestinian presentations.
Oh please. Those "territories occupied as a result of the 1967 war" were "occupied" by Jordan for 20 years - technically Jordan took it a step further for they had NO intention of EVER returning the West Bank (they made it permanently part of Jordan in 1950 over the objections of the rest of the Arab League) but of course it only became "occupied territory" when Israel captured it in 67.
Land for peace is a one-sided cheat and such is proven by the fact that when there is violence, Israel is chastized for encrouching upon the land she's already given up for peace. If it were an honest agreement (although how could it be - land for peace??? Think about it, it's absurd on its face), Israel would be allowed to snatch back, in defense, what was already given up for the sake of peace. But instead the world community moans and groans about escalation of violence as if there is actually any moral equivalance with hotel bombers who kill babies on Passover.
Arafat is a lying, cheating terrorist thug and everyone knows it. He will settle for nothing less than all and has made it his life's work. Israel's first mistake was ever engaging him in the first place.
There was some Arab owned land and some Jewish owned land in the arable areas. Jews bought a lot of the swampy and marginal land and had the technology to drain the swamps and/or bring water and irrigation to it. But the bulk of the land (80%) was always owned by the "state" and Israel continued this tradition. All one needs is some common sense to know that this land of Israel is mostly dry and tending toward desert. No one wants to own sand so the state does.
Nomadic Bedouins know how to graze the dry areas
TAKE A DEEP BREATH BABE! It'll do you good!
The simple fact is that the Jews were there, and worked towards their independence. The nomadic and semi-nomadic Palestinians had no interest in either allowing the Jews their self-determination, or in setting up their own state. They didn't even know what to do in order to get their own state -- which is one reason why the creation of state of Israel was postponed several times.
No - 1 million Israeli Arabs. They never identified themselves as Palestinians in any way till after 1967 and the vast majority still don't although there has been an effort by Arafat to get them to do so.
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