Abbas Aide: We Are Better than Kosovo

nobody@vox.com(theway2k) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:35:42 -0600

Yasser Abed Rabbo (urging Iraqi Suicide bombers on America & Israel)

Yasser Abed Rabbo is a top aide of Palestine Authority terrorist President Mahmoud Abbas. He has recently quipped that Palestinians are better than the Muslims of Kosovo which just became a recognized sovereign nation in the Balkans area of Europe. Rabbo is reported as saying the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians should unilaterally declare their independence as well.

The BBC News story I read this at made sure to use all the pro-Arab/Palestine words such as “occupied.” The story is also slanted to promote sympathy for the ~~cough~~ victimized Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.

In case anyone was wondering there was no such thing as a land called Palestine after 1948. That year Israel declared independence and various Arab nations (notably Egypt, Syria and (then) Transjordan (now) Jordan) invaded the new independent nation of Israel. The land that was supposed to be a Palestinian State for Arabs became a part of the sovereign Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

In 1967 Jordan was part of a greater Arab plan preparing to invade and dismantle Israel. The obvious troop movements indicated the imminent invasion was on the way. Israel chose not to be a victim and simply preemptively attacked Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan. What became known as the Six Day War became a complete victory for Israel occupying the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria and most importantly the uniting of a divided Jerusalem and what the West calls the West Bank and Israel calls Judea and Samaria.

The land won from aggressor Jordan has been considered part of traditional Jewish land from their historical perspective. It was land acquired by right of victory of Jordan. The land was not taken from Palestinians, it was taken from Jordan. The holy city Jerusalem was finally united under Jewish sovereignty.

Now here is the thing: Rabbo says the Palestine Authority should unilaterally declare a sovereign nation and call it Palestine just as Kosovo did. Kosovo was a province of Serbia of which 90% of the primary ethnic group is Albanians and over 70% of the Kosovo population is Muslim. Serbia did not want to allow Kosovo independence; however American support became the leading factor toward Kosovo independence.

Rabbo has the view if Muslim Kosovo gained sovereign independence from a nation which did not wish to allow it to happen, then the global powers of America and the EU should guarantee a similar sovereignty to a Palestine State.

You know what? I don’t think that is such a bad idea. Probably not in the same way as the PA/PLO leadership views it; however I think Palestine declaring itself a nation unilaterally with the land the currently possess is not a bad idea.

Here is my scenario. Israel has all of Jerusalem. A unilateral declaration of independence will not change that. Unless Israel and Palestine work out an economic and resource package, Palestine would be on their own to figure that out. Their Arab neighbors should step up to the plate for that anyway.

Here is my thinking of a probable outcome of Palestinian independence. The Palestinians would acquire weapons from Russia or China or worse – from North Korea. The thugs that are leaders in Palestine will inspire their constituency to have animosity toward Israel. I suspect a combined Palestine, Syria and Hezbollah (nation within a nation) will do something foolish because of the results of the last Israel VS Hezbollah war in Lebanon. Then Israel dismantles the new Palestinian State, maybe even chasing the ding dongs that supported the thug Palestinian government into Jordan or Syria.

Time will tell.

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Little Kosovo Becomes Independent Nation

nobody@vox.com(theway2k) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:06:46 -0600

Kosovo map

Kosovo is a little spec of dust that has been a Province most recently controlled by Serbia. Under the former Serbian regime Slobodan Milosevic, an ethnic cleansing of Albanian Muslin Kosovars was undertaken.

Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans is nothing new. The Ottoman Turks did this very same thing to Orthodox Christians in Serbia. During World War II, Germany made allies of the Muslim populations in the Balkans who in turn exacted an ethnic cleansing (primarily directed toward Jews) against non-Muslims.

It is no excuse but it is no surprise that when Serbia achieved sovereign independence that new nationalist tendencies flamed into attempting to establish a Serbian hegemonic Balkan state. This resulted in the time honored practice of ethnic cleansing, this time the ugly practice was initiated by Serbs of an Eastern Orthodox back ground against Muslims. It was not pretty.

Milosevic first went after the Muslims in Bosnia and Croatia. Then later Milosevic went after Kosovo Muslims. As I mentioned before, ethnic cleansing is nothing new in the Balkans. The Muslims did their own version of ethnic cleansing against the minority Christians in Kosovo while Milosevic was committing his atrocities against Muslim Kosovars.

So now it has come down as part of American Foreign Policy (utilizing the United Nations to an extant) to recognize an independent sovereign Kosovo. This is a move which Serbia and Serbia’s traditional Slavic champion Russia are highly against.

Too late! TODAY President Bush recognized Kosovo’s declaration of Independence as a sovereign nation separate from Serbia.

JRH

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