Posted on 07/15/2002 7:06:11 AM PDT by 1bigdictator
It's Time for Israel to Annex the Territories
July 15, 2002 by Chuck Morse
The murder campaign against Israelis has been stymied now that direct sovereignty over Judea and Samaria has been accomplished and Gaza has been hemmed in. It should also be noted that the murder of innocent Arabs has been curtailed since Israel has restored law and order. Terrorists, however, continue to conspire to murder as nineteen attempted bombings have been stopped since Israel re-asserted control including a most recent car laden with four bombs, gas canisters, and nails on its way into Israel from the Arab city of Qalqilya.
Israel must now take the next bold step of establishing its sovereignty in Judea, Samaria and Gaza once and for all by formally annexing these territories. The fact of the matter is that the world community, including the Arab world, already legally recognized Jewish sovereignty west of the Jordan back in 1919 when, during the Paris Peace Conference, the nations in attendance, including the Arab delegation headed by Emir Faisal of Hejaz, recognized a Jewish national homeland in Palestine as called for by the Balfour Declaration. The world community back then viewed Jewish claims to Palestine as modest and appropriate and so they remain today.
In 1919, Emir Faisal ibn Hussein, who would later become King of Iraq, signed an agreement with Chaim Weitzmann, head of the Zionist delegation, who would later become the first President of Israel, which affirmed the Balfour Declaration and called for Jewish immigration into Palestine in exchange for guarantees of Arab sovereignty in the rest of the Middle East and future Israeli economic cooperation. The Arabs would proceed to achieve sovereignty in over 20 vast and, in most cases, oil-rich States while spurning the offer of economic cooperation by Israel to the detriment of Arab peoples who mostly continue to live in squalor while chafing under brutal authoritarian regimes.
The Arabs reneged on the internationally recognized Balfour Declaration and the Faisal-Weitzmann agreement primarily because of the profound influence of one man, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Nazi Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. One of the biggest Jew-haters of all time, the Mufti was a Nazi agent who spent the war years in Hitler’s Berlin as head of an Arab/Nazi puppet government in exile. The Mufti’s enduring legacy is one of a toxic mixture of imperial Islamic fatherland notions and modern psuedo-scientific Nazi socialism.
The world community, including the US State Department, influenced by oil rich Islamic nations and their international leftist allies, is now tuning the screws on Israel with demands for yet another partition of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab sector in the name of peace. This was tried once before, in 1921, when Palestine was partitioned into an Arab sector, today known as Jordan, and a Jewish sector, today known as Israel. The propaganda line is that another Palestinian Arab State, west of the Jordan River, will co-exist in peace with Israel. The Arabs think otherwise as history and evidence demonstrates.
Israel really has no choice but to act in the affirmative and the window of opportunity for such action won’t be open for long. Is there any question that Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza will result in a murder campaign against Jews more ferocious than the one Israel has already endured? Will the Arabs ever give up on the insistence that Jerusalem be established as the capital of a Judenrein Arab Palestine?
President George W. Bush has called for the realization of the national aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs. This national aspiration can only be realized in the form of several semi-autonomous Arab cantons with Israel maintaining over-all security control. The alternative is perpetual war and carnage.
Chuck Morse is author of Thunder out of Boston and Why I'm a Right-Wing Extremist and is a nationally syndicated talk show host heard on the American Freedom Network. In addition to being a regular contributor to OpinioNet, Chuck is a contributing writer for Enter Stage Right, Sierra Times and the Etherzone.
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While recognizing the suffering of Palistinians, the historical facts concerning thier sorry state of affairs uncovers two undeniable truths: (1) But for the systemic and repeated violations of international law governing neighboring states by Israel's Arab neighbors between 1948 and 1967, the Palistinians would have thier homeland. International Law seeks to promote harmony over chaos among neighboring states and the Arab countries who attacked Israel four times within an 18 year period assumed certain risks for violating international law. Precedent in this arena is clear, agressor nations are not rewarded for attacking thier neighbors should they lose the conflict which their beligerent actions started. Hence, it is erroneous to label the West Bank as "occupied" as it was lawfully settled to provide both a buffer zone for Israel and a deterent from future attack. A proper analogy would be pre-war Nazi Germany, whose borders encompassed far more territory prior to the Nazis expansion into most of Europe. As the Agressor, once Germany was defeated, they lost much of the soveriegn territory which they held prior to thier unlawful expansion. To be consistant, European scholars must consider much of Poland and Austria to be "illegaly occupied" territory because it belonged to Germany prior to thier instigating WWII. (2)Israel has been unfairly scapegoated as the root-cause of Palistinian suffering. Israel's military is under a duty to protect its citizens from homicide bombers. But for the almost daily terrorist attacks on innocent Israelis the military would not need to re-enter the West Bank. It is instructive to note that the homicide bombings seem to cease when there is an Israeli military presence in the West Bank. It is counter intuitive to mandate under the Geneva Convention that a soveriegn nation both fulfill its duty to protect its citizens, yet find any action which sucessfully fulfills this mandate inherently immoral. This is precisely what this boycott of Israel represents, unless it is the contention of these european intellectuals that Israeli citizens fall outside this mandate which every member nation of the U.N. undertakes-- perhaps my european friends classify the value of an Israeli's life as something less than that of any citizen from other nations?
"Annexation" would require some inclusive status for the Palestinians; they would eventually have to becaome Israeli citizens, an unacceptable result. The Palestinians must be pacified and their real estate "acquired" without them having any status in Israel.
The Palestinians and Israeli Arabs breed so much faster than the Jews that there is real concern for the continued existance of a Jewish state is democracy in Israel is permitted.
In fact, the military conflict with the Palestinians makes the situation easy but the conflict can't continue. So, there will either be a Palestinan state where the non-Israelis will live but not cause trouble or an all inclusive Israel where Palestinians will eventually get to vote. It is difficult to see how this will all turn out.
No. The "palestinians" belong in Jordan. Not that Jordan in its present form is much more than another Arab/UN swindle, though.
Citizens? Non-voting nationals? Guest arbeiters [workers] holding passports of other nations [Jordan, Egypt, etc.] who can be deported thither if they cause trouble or become active politically?
If some nation out there in Araby, really cared about the plight of these Muslims then, it could offer some land or cities as special refuges and accept them into its territory, possibly giving them autonomy or even independence THERE! Why must any Palestinian state, if there is to be one, come at ISRAEL's expense? Let those who favor such a state, put up the land for it.
So long as Israel continues to build settlements annexation remains a viable solution.
Assuming the nation which issues them passports doesn't want them (a foregone conclusion), they would be citizens of the new Palestinian entity which would consist of Gaza (few suggest annexing that pit) and possibly a remnant of the West Bank.
Peaceful residents could continue to live and work in Israel, as they do throughout the Arab world, but would not be citizens. Terrorists would be imprisioned or deported.
Israel stop the madness, take control of your territory and move the muslims across the Jordan river. Plenty of sand there for them to eat.
Prior to the 1967 war, the Palestinians never differentiated themselves from the other Arabs of the region. Before 1967, the term Palestinians generally refered to the JEWS living in what became Israel. The original name of the Jerusalem Post, a Jewish newspaper, was the Palestinians Post, and the Jewish brigade that fought in the British Army in WWII was known as His Majesty's Palestinian Brigade.
A better analogy would be The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed between the United States and Mexico to end the war and resolve the disputed territories.
The Treaty ended the war, set up the peace process, renumerated Mexico for the land, granted citizenship, restored property rights, etc. You can't just "annex" the conquered land based on a 1919 Declaration that nobody recognizes and expect peace.
"Annexation" would require some inclusive status for the Palestinians; they would eventually have to becaome Israeli citizens, an unacceptable result. The Palestinians must be pacified and their real estate "acquired" without them having any status in Israel.
I don't see such a problem. Certainly in 1948 the Jordanians definitely "annexed" the same West Bank, declared it was a proper part of Jordan, sent their garrisons in, taxed the residents (but didn't let them have local elections, colleges, or newspapers), .... oh, and chased out ALL the Jews and confiscated whatever property they left behind.
Does anyone recall the UN or the US referring to the West Bank as "occupied" while the Jordanians were there? Does anyone recall any UN condemnation of the Jordanians driving out all the Jewish inhabitants, seizing their land, trashing Jewish shrines, etc.?
I'm just asking.
President George W. Bush has called for the realization of the national aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs. This national aspiration can only be realized in the form of several semi-autonomous Arab cantons with Israel maintaining over-all security control. The alternative is perpetual war and carnage.The sensible alternative is the above with Jordan maintaining oversight. This was called the "Reagan Plan" in 1982 and makes even more sense now that Jordan and Israel are on friendly terms.
The West Bank and Gaza were recognized as Muslim lands by the 1947 Mandate division, which was accepted by the putative Israeli government, and the 1949 Armstice between Israel and Jordan.
Annexation now would render them a pariah state and greatly increase the potential for terrorism. Annexation and expulsion would bring down what moderate states exist in the Moslem nations, and result in war sooner rather than later.
-Eric
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