55 posts tagged “palestine”
I just read an essay by Ari Bussel that I was pleasantly surprised to read. I really don’t know much about Mr. Bussel except from the occasional essays he sends to SlantRight.com for posting. I have to admit I don’t post all of Mr. Bussel’s sent essays.
I have kind of had the impression Ari Bussel is a Center Left kind of guy who is very pro-Israel. Once in awhile his hawkish nature shines through. That is not a complaint! The world needs more outspoken individuals willing to say the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians are full of bologna.
Most Leftists (AMAZINGLY among Israeli Leftists as well) are willing to fall into the delusion that a separate Muslim Arab State consisting of Jew-hating Arabs will bring peace to the Middle East. Hence there is a push in the West for a separate sovereign Palestine.
The so-called Palestinians sole goal in existence is to either deport Jews from their own homeland or to exterminate them in order to eliminate the existence of Israel.
My very un-Left-like and definitely politically incorrect stand is to deport the Arabs into the surrounding Arab nations that created the Arab refugees in the first place.
Ari Bussel does not sound off like that but he implies it by saying Israel needs to make some tough choices to survive. Bussel fails to provide choices and rather simply suggests Israel needs to make some rough decisions concerning the Arab minority within Israel.
You know what I think about those rough choices or decisions. I wonder what Bussel had in mind?
JRH 11/9/09
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Tough Choices
By Ari Bussel
Sent: Sun 11/8/2009 3:46 PM
Many are worried that, if left on its own, the Jewish state will at one point have a non-Jewish majority. Thus, they claim, by democratic process alone, Israel will become a country of all its citizens, i.e. cease to be a Jewish state. Recognizing what they call “the inevitable,” some call for the creation of two separate states.
I call them those of little faith. They surrender in advance, yielding to an idea that will bring only one solution: The Destruction of the Israeli (Jewish) State. Regrettably, many “centrists” in Israel have accepted the supposition and persuaded themselves this is the right course of action. They, it seems, have lost faith in themselves and in their right to exist.
The majority of Muslims in the area have a very high birth rate. Coupled with a supply of fresh water, availability of proper sewage, state-of-the-art medical attention and other provisions by the Jewish State, including monetary support, and an increasing life span, the Muslim-Arab population in Israel seems to have the upper hand in the race to populate the country.
In contrast, most Israeli families are similar to those in the United States. The single exception is the religious Jews who resemble, in that respect, the birth rate of the Muslims. They, however, are just a minority (for instance, the 300,000 residents of Judea and Samaria) and constraints – such as lack of physical dwelling places that applies only to them and not to their Muslim Arab neighbors – have an effect as well.
One solution to the race to populate the country is to encourage Jewish Israelis to have more children. On a parallel plane, support by the Jewish State to Muslim Arabs (such as monthly child support and free healthcare) can be limited, making a family less comfortable than just having a new child every year. As long as someone else is paying, why not continue, worry-free?
I am also not worried about requiring every citizen an equal burden, equal responsibility under the law. Enforcing such expectation (for instance, dismantling illegal settlements, destroying structures built without permits, enforcing mandatory national service, etc.) should be applied equally, whatever the short-term price – including to Israeli Arabs.
Arabs may be up in arms, for they enjoy all the privileges of a citizen with few if any obligations. Israel is already a country of all its citizens, with members of the Muslim and other minorities becoming Supreme Court Justices, Members of the Knesset or Ministers in the Government. These minorities enjoy equal rights and opportunities, albeit not always equal obligations.
In this respect, the threat of an international outcry against Israel is less than significant; Israel is already accused of being an Apartheid State (e.g. President Carter, Judge Goldstone).
There are numerous court decisions requiring the demolition of balconies, additions to existing houses and other structures built without permit, all by Arabs. To put it bluntly, the authorities are afraid. None of the court decisions is therefore enforced for it is expected the IDF will be required to assist in order to do so. Thus, the IDF is used for other noble purposes.
Did I mention that Israel is first and before all a Jewish State?
It is time to make hard choices – a minority with national aspirations must have its wings cut, for it presents a clear and present danger to the entity-state. A minority recognizing it is part of an existing state, respecting its obligations as members of the state and enjoying the many benefits associated with such an “entitlement” or privilege, continues to be a viable and vibrant part of society.
Israel’s minority citizens would prefer always to be a minority in the Jewish State than part of a majority of an Arab State. They must decide and act accordingly.
It is thus up to Israel to make up its mind on the appropriate course of action. Lacking a clear course of progress by Israel, is there any wonder that others are dictating their Israel’s destiny? Without a pilot at the helm, how are we to arrive to our destination? How is the Jewish Homeland to survive?
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Say NO to Palestinian State
John R. Houk
© November 9, 2009
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Tough Choices
In the series “Postcards from Israel,” Ari Bussel and Norma Zager invite readers throughout the world to join them as they present reports from Israel as seen by two sets of eyes: Bussel’s on the ground, Zager’s counter-point from home. Israel and the United States are inter-related - the two countries we hold dearest to our hearts - and so is this “point - counter-point” presentation that has, since 2008, become part of our lives.
© Postcards from Home, November, 2009
Contact: aribussel@gmail.com
Israpundit provides a historical perspective of the founding of the modern State of Israel. I believe it is doubtful you have read this perspective in Leftist influenced text books in High School or the collegiate level. The text book perspective is probably loaded with accusations of Jewish atrocities as the Zionist State of Israel emerged.
I am certain there are acts of violence perpetrated by the independent Jewish militias that eventually merged into the Israel Defense Force (IDF). The fight for independence and Israel’s desire for a sovereign State for Jews to live in which the government’s policy does not even have a hint of anti-Semitism undoubtedly led to some bad decisions. One has to wonder: How did the Jewish desire for a Jewish State for Jews differ from the Islamic hatred spread in propaganda by Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini calling for the extermination of Jews in the British Palestine Mandate. Jewish militias only began to utilize violence when it became obvious the Brits were determined to leave the Palestine Mandate. The Brit determination to leave was matched by the desire for the British Empire to have good standing with Middle Eastern Muslims. The Arab violence began as a result of al-Husseini Jew-hatred and the belief the Brits and America would befriend Arab nations to counter Soviet expansionist dreams at the end of WWII.
Anyway … further your Israeli historical education which Israpundit insinuates is the American plan for the Middle East – at the expense of Jews.
JRH 9/27/09
The Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a Twelver Shi’ite sermon to the U.N. General Assembly. The sermon praised the oneness of God (no doubt Allah before the translator gave the English version), the human prophets from Adam to Mohammed (including Jesus as a mere human), truth, democracy, and every other principle that a kafir would laugh concerning the Iranian hypocrisy.
The next day President Barack Hussein Obama gave his America can do better and siding with Arabs that Palestine has a right to exist as a sovereign nation. The pro-Palestine speech effectively is the first time an American President has called Israel an occupier of foreign land. BHO’s ignorance is displayed by the fact that the land had Jewish settlers before 1948, it is Biblically Jewish and the land was won as a result of a failed invasion of Israel by multiple Arab nations in 1967. The other Arab State was supposed to be Transjordan (Jordan) until the British set up the Hashemite Kingdom up as a sovereign nation before a Palestine Two-State creation was implemented in the British Mandate. The Jordanian effort in invading Israel in 1948 and 1967 was not to repatriate Arabs by destroying Israel. The Jordanian design was to get its piece of the pie in dividing destroyed Israel. Jordan partially achieved their goal in 1948 by stalemating Israel Defense Forces outside of what became known to Westerners as the West Bank. At this time Arabs left over from the old Palestine Mandate could have declared a separate Arab State in that West Bank. That did not happen! Jordan asserted sovereignty over the acquired Palestine Mandate land which included what became known as East Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his U.N. speech on September 24. Netanyahu’s speech was not a reprisal of President BHO’s speech encouraging the usurpation of Jewish land under the appeasement delusion a Palestinian State will bring peace to the Middle East. Rather the Israeli Prime Minister used the world stage of the U.N. General Assembly to castigate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial with photos and documents demonstrating that Ahmadinejad is an anti-Semite Shi’ite liar.
Read the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) e-newsletter of Netanyahu verbally slapping Ahmadinejad like a red-headed stepchild.
JRH 9/26/09
I found a couple of essays on the geopolitical reality of the mythical rights of Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. Both are posted by Ted Belman of Israpundit yet the latter is a post of a reaction by Rev. Fumio Taku to Belman’s previous post.
The only reason refugees called Palestinians exist in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza (Gazastan or Hamastan) is because those poor generations of poor Arab refugees were actually created by Arab invaders who needed a perpetual reason to stay in conflict with Israel.
If President Obama had any real concern about Justice he force the descendants of Arab invaders to matriculate the Arab refugees left behind back into those various nations of today’s Arab generations.
JRH 9/25/09
Herbert London writes about the Obama Administrations undying support to create a sovereign Palestinian State under a Fatah (Chief among princes in the PLO) with Mahmoud Abbas in control. BHO is sticking to this craziness despite the early August 2009 Fatah meeting which reaffirmed it will not recognize a Jewish Israel. The implication being even after Obama gets his way; a Fatah dominated Palestinian State will continue an armed struggle to obliterate Jewish Israel.
JRH 8/31/09
One Jerusalem has sources that indicate President Barack Hussein Obama is going to join the anti-Israel bloc in the United Nations to pressure Israel about Jerusalem and a return to pre-1967 borders. This is an insidious backing of nations and peoples that HATE Jewish Israel. The very concept will again make Israel vulnerable to Arab nations sympathetic to Arabs calling themselves Palestinians to aid them in the destruction of Israel.
JRH 8/24/09
The Western Left and Mohammedans in general have gone to great lengths to equate Israel’s political system to the former racial Apartheid State of White South Africa.
South Africa’s Apartheid was a racial policy in which Whites by law were a superior race and non-whites (mostly indigenous Black Africans) were inferior second class citizens with little to zero civil rights. The Africans (as opposed to the Afrikaners) were the huge majority of the population whose lives were exploited for labor and segregated from the White-Afrikaner populations that enjoyed the primary perks that the Apartheid system provided them.
To accuse the Zionist State of Israel of Apartheid is simply moronic. Within the borders of Israel non-Jewish (Arab) citizens have full rights as citizens even though there is Jewish discrimination against Arab citizens. Arab citizens of Israel have full rights to vote, use mass transportation, and receive medical care and so forth. Arabs and Jews are not prohibited from the same public buildings such as restaurants or water fountains. The discrimination Arab-Israeli citizens’ experience has more to do with individuals not offering rent to Arabs (although a large element of Arabs do rent in predominantly Jewish areas). A loan may be turned down to an Arab-Israeli. Certainly racial profiling is involved by government police forces and the Israeli military in law enforcement and National Security.
It may sound deplorable but I find it understandable there is a large amount of distrust for Arab-Israeli citizens. Can you say, “Islamic terrorism?” Jewish businesses, men, women and children are often the target of Islamic terrorist homicidal attacks. There is the maiming of Jews and foreign tourists. Under the circumstances the state of civil siege Jews receive in Israel I am frankly surprised that Apartheid or repressive actions are not prevalent inside Israel.
The lands conquered as a result of the self-defense from Arab invasions should not be considered occupied as much as repayment for reparations for winning wars of Arab aggression. After all, the 1947 partition plan of the British Mandate of Palestine was to create a Jewish State and an Arab State side-by-side. Multiple Muslim supremacist and Arab nationalist nations could not stand to have Jews return to their homeland in which Muslims conquered in the 700’s AD hence their invasion. The land that was to be the Arab State was gobbled primarily by Jordan (then Transjordan). The Arabs of the former British Palestinian Mandate hence were treated as foreigners by the Hashemite Jordanian Kingdom (Bedouin governing elite) in the land that was designed for their existence in a sovereign nation. Eventually the Arab populace created to be Palestinians by the Arab invaders of 1948 - 67 became a threat to the Hashemite Kingdom and a brief civil war had the Bedouin army expel the PLO terrorist army of Yasser Arafat from Jordan.
Now there was an Apartheid system even before the word came into the existence in the 20th century. The Muslim system of conquest for the chunk of land called Palestine by Romans who evicted a majority of Jews (but not all), was convert to Islam, become an extremely taxed for protection second class citizen not having the same rights as a Muslim OR die.
Life has improved a little in the Muslim Middle East for non-Muslims (kafir), but not much. Most of that improvement is due to Western scrutiny or the symbiotic relationship of receiving Western wealth for oil.
Today’s Arab-Israeli citizenship is treated way better than ANY non-Muslim living in Muslim dominated land!
Steven Plaut wrote an essay about President Barack Hussein Obama’s little published hypocrisy about Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem. It is entitled, “Obama’s Apartheid Plan For Jerusalem.” That plan includes not allowing Jews to rent, own or build in the Old City part of Jerusalem (aka East Jerusalem). That is a prime indication that BHO intends to force Israel to divide Jerusalem giving the eastern part to the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians.
Obama intends to make the Jews who are living in their own Capital City either to move or become the second class citizen that Mohammedan ideology enforces on non-Muslims. In the case of the Arabs that call themselves Palestinians imagine how that second class citizenship will pan out. KEEP IN MIND the Arab media continuously writes and broadcasts lies and hatred about Jews (There are many YouTube links that may have been yanked).
Do you see the irony that a son of an African Muslim who represents the full circle of rights for Afro-Americans in the USA who have a history of slavery in America is promoting class discrimination?
JRH 8/14/09
President Barack Hussein Obama has learned a practice from Palestinian terrorists who control the media of PA and Hamastan. That practice is telling the West one thing while telling their terror supporting constituents another. The former is smooth talking of peace and the latter is vile hatred toward Jews and America followed by promises of the destruction of Israel.
In BHO’s case he tells the American voters that America stands behind Israel out one side of his mouth and tells Israel it must aid in creating a Palestinian State that is devoted to the destruction of Israel from the other side of his mouth.
One of the great tragedies of America is that even American Jews buy into the crooked speech patterns of BHO concerning Israel.
As I write this the West Bank is having its Sixth Fatah General Conference. Look for the Western Media to cherry pick news that portrays Palestinian terrorists as making significant steps of peace and any delay of such is Israel’s fault.
The part the Western Media will ignore or at least be less privy to is the internal agenda that will encourage the destruction of Israel and no doubt make an attempt to address the corrupted rift between Fatah’s terrorists and Hamas’ terrorists.
Read an excellent analysis of the Sixth Fatah General Congress by Pinhas Inbari. The analysis points out this hypocrisy that is maintained by Islamic terrorists which is a kind of a taqiyya strategy of deceiving the kafir while pumping up the Muslim cadres.
JRH 8/6/09
I suspect Iran’s recent voting crisis coupled with a government crackdown on protesters reminiscent of former Shah Reza Pahlavi’s brutal repression has given Western nations and Arab nations another perspective on confronting Iran’s nuclear program. Even amidst Iranian government denials, it is obvious the Iranian nuclear program is functioning way beyond peaceful energy. The nuke program is in reality an armed nuclear proliferation program.
One indication of this new global perspective is the recent movement of Israeli naval vessels through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Yes the very Suez Canal managed by Arab-Islamic Egypt.
There is talk that Arab nations are willing to look the other way if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear capabilities with a deal in mind. Apparently that deal is Israel becoming more amenable to the creation of a Palestinian State even in the face of Islamic terrorism which includes the belief that Israel should be destroyed.
If you have read any of my writing on the so-called Two-State Solution, you are aware my stand is radical to the politically correct industry. There is no historical basis for the creation of a Palestinian State for that provision in 1947 was to be invested in Transjordan which is today’s Jordan. If any expansion occurred by the Jewish State past the formation of its modern incarnation, that expansion was the result of winning wars of self-defense in the face of overwhelming odds. As far as I am concerned this does not mean an occupation, it means land as payment for the war debt of invading Arab armies.
But I passionately digress.
If this behind the geopolitical door deal ever goes beyond rumor, I think Israel should flow with it. Here is why: If Israel has Arab support for a controversial attack that has the potential of starting a Middle Eastern war that even may conflate to a global war, then the usual European Leftist animosity toward Israel will have to be reassessed.
Iran international black mail will have less affect limiting the Mullah-State to gamble that Russia and China will support Iranian military reprisals. The threat of American retribution via forces in Iraq and Afghanistan would not need an invasion force. Massive air and missile strikes to respond to an Iranian counter-attack could ruin the economy of an isolated Iran (U.N. valueless sanctions may gain some actual value).
Then there is the deal: Israel actively working to establish a sovereign Palestinian State. The reason I don’t have a problem with such a deal is my belief that the ruling elite of the Arabs calling themselves Palestinians are geopolitical morons in managing an actual sovereign nation. The Arab terrorists managing Hamastan (Gaza strip) and the West Bank have displayed an inability to manage the existing infrastructure without graft, murder and engaging Israel as a national State.
A sovereign Palestine would be responsible for its actions. Shooting missiles into Israel would be an act of war from one sovereign State to another. A sovereign Palestinian State could not hide behind Islamic terrorists fighting to end occupation. Regardless of the multiple Palestinian charters that imply a Palestine map encompassing land that nullifies the existence of Israel, the nation of Israel is a recognized State and a member of the United Nations.
Israel would be forced by an act of war to protect itself. The resolution would be to attack Palestine. I would hope that would mean the end of a Palestinian State. The reality is that the first act of defense would probably be a harsh message to the corrupt government of Palestine. That would be something like messing up a viable military infrastructure and/or totally cutting off economic support the world will expect Israel to donate as its part to create a Palestinian State.
The sovereign Palestinian State would face the choice of becoming the typical repressive Muslim regime dealing politically with Israel or continue to stick by their terrorist charters to challenge Israel. History shows that continued attacks could lead to the possession of more land that legitimately belongs to Israel anyway.
With these thoughts in mind I believe there is no better than the present to do the Arab Middle East and the West a huge favor; i.e. do as much damage to the Iranian nuclear program as possible.
JRH 7/17/09
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman states at a U.N. meeting that Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (i.e. the West Bank) are not an obstacle to peace and the negotiations for Palestinian Statehood.
Lieberman is the guy who Arabs that call themselves Palestinians love to hate because of his right wing views of how Israel should handle Arabs within the Land of Israel and because of Lieberman views on Jewish Settlements in Judea and Samaria.
JRH 6/22/09
http://wejew.com/media/4780/Lieberman_at_UN_Settlements_Are_Not_Peace_Obstacle/
