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No doubt Ben Gurion and his Zionist brethren knew of Leopold’s Christian fervor to bring to the dark Continent the teachings of Jesus. Perhaps that intent gave him intellectual liberty to believe that he could use the historical right of a covenant made 4000 years ago to erase from his land the people that lived on it for two thousand. But does that manufactured reasoning that negates history and International Law satisfy today? Are we willing to destroy the belief that nations exist to protect the citizens through the implementation of laws that are equitable to all and replace that enlightened concept with rule by dictatorial mandate, imprisoning and assassinating individuals at will? Do we not fear that what we do to others can become the measure of actions done against us? And by that measure, what would justify the community of nations from having a moral responsibility to Jews should they become victims once again?
Had the early Jewish residents in Palestine succeeded in their cooperative efforts with the Arabs both in Palestine and the surrounding countries, agreements negated by the Zionists that gained control over the Jewish community, the need for nuclear “protection” and assembling the fourth greatest military on the planet to protect 6 million people, would never have arisen. The root problem of the conflict resides in the erection by the Zionist Organization, identified by the Mandate authorities as the controlling force in Palestine, of an exclusively Jewish State that would have to “expel” the natives as soon as the numbers of the “race” (Jews) in Palestine made that possible. The reality of the insoluble and conflicting goals that existed then, exist now. Britain realized it could not solve the conflict, did not agree to the UN partition plan because they saw that the Jewish forces would crush the Palestinians, and, for lack of resources and will, handed the problem over to the UN. After 19 attempts to resolve the problem with 19 different committees, the UNGA accepted the proposal for a partition. Before the assigned date for implementation, the Zionists acting on behalf of the Jewish community, declared the existence of the Jewish State, and continued its ethnic cleansing of Palestine as recorded by Dr. Ilan Pappe in his recent book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Today, at Annapolis, the very same Zionist intransigence to exclude the Palestinians from their homeland exists in Olmert’s government since it depends, to stay in power, on the racist party Yisrael Beiteinu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, who advocates expelling them. Fortunately there are many, in Israel and elsewhere, that defy the Zionists that control the actions of the Israeli government and call for peace in Palestine. B’Tselem, the Jewish Human Rights Organization, the Committee against Home Demolitions led by Jeff Halper, Jews for Peace in Palestine, European Jews for a Just Peace, Union Juive Francaise pour la Paix, Joint Action for Israeli-Palestine Peace in the UK, Jewish Voice for Peace in America, the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel, these and many others in virtually every country in the world add their voices to that of Abbas as he pleas before the world for justice for the Palestinians. But there is no justice. Why not return the problem to the UN that caused the conflict in 1947? Every year since 1948, the UN has passed resolution after resolution declaring that Israel return the land it has stolen to its proper owners and to abide by International Law including Right of Return. In many countries of the world, for example in Bosnia, the UN sends in peace keeping forces to bring about a cessation of conflict. Why not in Palestine? Why not hold Israel to the resolutions mandated by the UN? Both Israel and the US want Iran to be held to these resolutions; what makes Israel different? If the actions undertaken by the Zionists from 1948 to the present have made Israel’s actions as a state illegal and anathema to International Law and International Agreements that the rest of the world abides by, then either the world imposes its laws on this rogue state or it takes the dictates Israel will impose by sheer force on the will of the international community, and we enter a new century victims of those who have the might to control having knowingly and willingly abandoned rule by law as a hallmark of our civilization. If Justice becomes the beacon that guides the UN toward peace, it would have to begin at resolution 181, the partition of Palestine. Assumptions were made at that point, assumptions that had both positive and negative effects: a moral determination was made that the Jews deserved a homeland as a consequence of the horrific slaughter that had decimated their people – the world accepted a moral responsibility to right that atrocity; in so doing they, perhaps unwittingly, assumed that they could grant to the Jews a portion of another people’s land – that assumption was not shared by the natives of that area. Yet the reality remains that the division and its assumptions became the basis for the existence of Israel as a state, and the area apportioned for the Palestinians remains identified as theirs as the on-going resolutions attest. Justice dictates that the rights of both be addressed. For Israel to obtain by force 86% of Palestine using laws they instituted for their own people and impose those laws on the occupied people means that the Palestinians are virtual slaves to the occupying force since they had no say in the laws that govern them. This is analogous to the thieves and murderers who have occupied a family’s home determining how much of that home the owners can have. This is why the Palestinians cannot recognize the existence of the State of Israel for Jews only. To accept that as reality would justify what the Zionists have done and legally exclude Palestinians from living as citizens in their own land. It’s up to the UN to right that wrong. This is not a responsibility that the United States can assume; it is not an objective judge. Nothing the United States says will be or should be accepted by the Palestinians as honest or sincere. Only an acceptable, objective party, preferably one created by the UN to bring about a final status in Palestine, can accomplish this goal. Ironically, the conditions that exist “on the ground” now, brought about by Israel’s confiscation of land and its establishment of the settlements, makes the division of the area exceedingly difficult. As a matter of fact, one could argue that Israel, by its incorporation of settlements and its network of Israeli only roads, has forced on itself a one state solution. The original partition plan created a contiguous Israeli state and a contiguous Palestinian one. Israel’s planting of its settlements throughout the West Bank and its confiscation and annexation of Palestinian land now lived on by Israelis, makes it virtually impossible to create either a contiguous Israel or Palestine. This can only be resolved by the agency that created the original design for two states. Perhaps the two state option has to be abandoned and a one state solution implemented? Under those conditions, persons born in Palestine/Israel would be eligible to run for President/Prime Minister while all others granted citizenship in Israel and those born in the West Bank and Gaza would receive citizenship. Should that be done, Palestrael (?) would exist as other nations do based on citizens birth and laws that permit others to receive citizenship not on acceptance and admission to a religion which by its very definition is exclusive and non-democratic. The Zionists’ zeal to aggressively confiscate as much Palestinian land as possible, to use its control of the US Congress to acquire vast sums of money and military equipment to enforce its will and to create a constant stream of Jewish immigrants to ensure its dominance, to control the flow of information in and out of Palestine, and to establish in the public’s mind a compassion for this “victim state” that others want to destroy can become the albatross that will hang about the neck of Israel as its ruthless actions become known in time and the world reacts against a state that shows no concern, no pity, not the least recognition of the suffering of the Palestinians. Today, there are those in Israel who understand that the Zionists influence through its lobbies on the American Congress can be seen as pushing the US into war on behalf of Israel. That same influence appears to be pushing this administration toward yet another war, against what Israel has determined as its major enemy in the mid-east, Iran. As Americans awake to the power of those who support without question the desires of the Israeli State, and understand that they do not mean security for America, that indeed they are detrimental to America’s security, there could well be a backlash that would leave Israel to fend for itself, isolated in a sea of Arab states, states it has treated with arrogance and violence. It is in Israel’s best interest to find a just and equitable solution to the crisis if it is to become a major player in the world community and not be seen as a destructive force that must use power to attain its ends. Justice demands that Israel and the United Nations address the enormous inequities that exist in Palestine. There is no justice if the division of the land remains 86% to 14% when both populations are of approximately equal size, especially if the Right of Return is acted upon according to International Law. There is no justice if Israel remains the controlling power over a faux state that cannot manage its own affairs and control its own destiny. There is no justice if Israel does not compensate those from whom they have stolen land and return to Palestine the natural resources it has commandeered. There is no justice if a reconfiguration of the land is not achieved so that both peoples can move freely from one sector of their country to another. There is no justice if the Wall continues to imprison the Palestinians with its constant reminder that Israelis defied International Law to impose their own and made visible the unacceptable attitude that one people has a right to psychologically and physically isolate others from communication with their neighbors or the world, a collective punishment that denies the very humanity of the people. There is no justice if the status quo remains the day to day reality of the Palestinians because that way is a slow torturous route to sickness, psychological torture, deprivation, starvation and death; it is the Israeli government’s heinous action of a slow genocide acted out on the world stage as the European Union, the Asian nations, and America look on indifferently. There is no justice if the United States blocks the UNSC from enforcing the means to bring about justice in Palestine, an action that may require the UN to stand against the US or lose its credibility as an international body that protects the weak as well as the strong. And, conversely, there is no justice if the Palestinians do not accept the people of Israel to live in peace and security, in separate states or in one, so that all may thrive and enjoy the fruits of their labor. “Do not disappoint those who cry to you in desperation;
They seek only their share of the earth’s fruit,
What we must provide out of the kindness of our hearts
That all may live in peace and happiness.”
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