Israel, however, was ready to give back land it had conquered—but not all of it, and only in return for peace. In November 1967 that position was ratified in UN Security Council Resolution 242, which became the agreed basis for Arab-Israeli negotiations and spoke of Israel withdrawing from “territories”—but not “the territories” or “all territories”—in return for “termination of all claims or states of belligerency” and “secure and recognized boundaries.”
The present Palestinian preconditions for negotiations with Israel, then, which they have been ritually pronouncing since abandoning the path of negotiations almost three years ago, directly flout elementary moral logic of not rewarding the side of the aggressor, and make a mockery of Resolution 242. The fact that European political actors parrot similar claims about the supposed “illegality” of all Jewish life over the 1967 lines, and that last May President Obama, too, broke precedent with all previous U.S. policy and called for an Israeli return to those lines, is a sobering lesson for Israel about how much stock to put in international commitments and documents.
The Palestinians, though, add stunning hypocrisy to the perversity. On Wednesday Palestinian Media Watch reported that Palestinian Authority TV had for the seventh time broadcast a song that lays claim not only to all the post-1967 lands but to Israel within the 1967 borders as well (“Jaffa, Acre, Haifa, and Nazareth are ours…Tiberias and Ashkelon are Palestinian”)—a message in which the PA indoctrinates all Palestinian youngsters from the cradle.
Clearly, then, Palestinian intolerance for any Israeli presence over the 1967 lines is Palestinian intolerance for any Israeli presence at all. Is the Quartet—comprised of the U.S., the EU, the UN, and Russia—really blind to something so obvious?
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"Israel, however, was ready to give back land it had conquered—but not all of it, and only in return for peace."
That is in my opinion the biggest strategic blunder Israel has done. They should have done like Stalin did in Eastern Prussia. Chase the hostile civilians away in the chaos of war – and annex everything. That is the proper way of rewarding aggressors.
I think you are right. Take the North American example. White European colonists and settlers did not reward aggression. They were the aggressors. Today's Americans are the beneficiaries. Who is complaining today? No one in the criminal United Nations is complaining. Americans pay their salaries.
"Chase the hostile civilians away in the chaos of war – and annex everything."
Exactly. But you needn't bring the genocidal madman Stalin to make that point. The Torah calls for expelling the entire hostile population, and it says that is to be done without genocide.
In fact, where multiple nations compete for a single plot of land and hate each other's guts, ethnic cleansing is just about the only way to prevent genocide. It's not nice, but neither is dental treatment that is done for the sake of preventing much greater toothache.
The Egyptians got the Sinai in a land for peace treaty. The US is suppose to enforce this. However, the Arab Spring leaders want all Jews killed, not peace. So, my question is this: If the treaty is nulllified, shouldn't the Sinai go back to Israel? And if this treaty is nullified by the new Egyptian government, won't the so-called Palestinian's, who want the same agreement, do the same?
Of course. Every Moslem gain is ultimately met with more demands. Truce is only a means of regrouping for the next wave of jihad. Appeasement makes matters worse. Israel has been to generous. It's time to get tough.
Right on, my point exactly..
receiving a reward seems to be so easy these days especially if you are working hard. For me, it feels great that there is someone recognizes my effort and etc.. what is the best beef for steak
Muslim Arabs and their proxy terrorists have chosen the rules of the game. Jews should let them know in no uncertain terms what "Never Again" means. As for the Palestinian Muslim terrorists, it is a matter of record that Palestinians strap munitions on their own women and children and send them out on homicide-suicide missions to murder other innocent Jewish women and children in markets, restuarants, on school buses, and in their homes. The Palestinians in their own words and by their actions are committed to the genocide of the Jewish people therefore, have foreited their rights to even exist at all let alone be given a UN and US sanctioned terrorist state.
The quartet is not blind because it is what it wants.
As Newt Gingrich pointed out in his TV interview, when he said that the Palestinians are an invented people, that the sad thing is that the US has been helping sustain the war, since the 1940s, against Israel.
The enemies surrounding Israel should be forced to march back to Jordan or
Egypt and Israel then should expand it's borders with the advertised intent of
moving further into their ancestal lands. Playing lame duck and hoping for a few
crumbs from the plates of the rotten world leaders while being more powerful
and able to protect Israel, the Israel Government needs to quit the false face
of inferiority, it provokes intense stupidity in the enemy leadership……William
Newt Gingrich was right – Arabs as "Palestinians" are an invented people, invented by Gamal Nasser, ruler of Egypt, and the Soviet Union in Cairo in 1974, when they invented the "Palestine Liberation Organization" (P.L.O), with all the phony history and propaganda that followed. The name "Palestine" had been synonymous with "land of the Jews" or "the Holy Land" since Jesus was a Jew, and "Palestinian" was synonymous with "Jew," from the time the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 135 A.D., after having defeated the last Jewish rebellion under Bar Kochba. That is why Great Britain was awarded the "Palestine Mandate" after World War I to be the "homeland of the Jews."
Our foregin policy is doing a great job of Islamasizing the world.
Which is actrally the strategy.
NWO needs a New World Religion,