Jewish right to live in peace throughout the Land of Israel must be enforced - YJ Draiman
Why as a Jew does the world think it has a right to torture me? Israel was created to prevent this. Yet on my home soil someone thinks that he has a right to torture me because I am a Jew. Israel of all places in the world should be my sanctuary especially because it’s the Jewish official state for all Jews. Is it because I am a Jew that I deserve missiles to be thrown upon me? Is it because I am a Jew that another Jew has the right to prevent me from praying to my God on the Temple Mount?
Many Jewish souls died in the Diaspora and continue to die including in Israel for the sole reason that they are Jews. Their fate was in the hand of their leaders. They deserved so much more then being murdered just because they were Jewish. We do no want to repeat the Holocaust again. Nor the expulsion of over a million Jewish families from the Arab countries while confiscating all their assets and they were resettled in Israel.
Israel must learn to secure the safety of every citizen under its roof. Enough of trying to be the advocate for these extremists’ evil barbaric people within the Arab-Palestinians. Israel is the home of the Jewish people. It is written in all of the holy books, the bible and history books, including archaeological excavations in Israel, International treaties and laws.
Enough of trying to accommodate the Arab-Palestinian people that thrive on hate and destruction towards me as a Jew. Israel must be strong and extremely strict in enforcing its laws and sovereignty. Hamas should have been destroyed, just like any other enemy of Israel who wants to destroy her. Order must be restored in the Gaza.
The Arab-Palestinians in the west bank (Judea and Samaria) thinks they can torture me because I am a Jew. They commit daily terror and violence in Israel in the name of Islam. Enough is enough. The time is not for revenge but for law and order with a clear message to Mahmmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen the convicted murderer, and his Arab P.A. that these terror and violence acts are his responsibility. If he cannot stop it, Israel will have no alternative, but to take appropriate action to stop terror and violence. Moreover, Hamas the terrorist organization must be eradicated completely once and for all.
I am a Jew and I deserve to live in peace in my own country without threat and intimidation. I expect the respect and protection that is due to me especially by my Jewish leaders. All Jews must learn to respect each other no matter their religious practice, affiliation or opinion. A unified Israel is a strong Israel.
Among others, I blame the government of Israel for not taking a far, far stronger and extreme stand. There is no alternative but denial of citizenship, and deportation, of everyone who is an avowed enemy of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. People will say this is extreme. I say, the situation is extreme. Living with one million plus potential and actual murderers of our men, women and children is extreme.
How do we know who is an enemy of the State? Anyone who has participated in any act of aggression against Israeli Jews (stone throwing, rioting, vandalizing Jewish cemeteries and holy places, attacks on Jews, inciting to violence) is an enemy of the State. Furthermore, the families of these enemies of the State; the schools that teach hate and the destruction of Israel; and anyone who engages in anti-Israel hatred and violence in words or acts, must be treated as enemies of the State.
I also blame, of course, the anti-Semitism of the rest of the world, including the US government (the State Dept), and certainly the EU (which also has trillions of dollars of Jewish assets which were not paid for) and the UN (non-binding resolutions), whose extremely biased condemnation and pressures have restrained Israel from taking the necessary and appropriate steps to protect itself. These are Steps which any other State/Country of the world would be duty-bound and obligated to take and has taken without criticism and condemnation. Not taking these extreme steps in protecting your citizens is a dereliction of duty.
The never ending and continuance of violence by the Arabs against Israel and its’ citizens must come to an end. How many more of our beautiful people, young and old, must be sacrificed on the altar of the world’s anti-Semitism and our own fear of appearing too self-interested?
If ever there was a time for self-interest, it is now.
The Israeli government needs to learn from previous mistakes that ingratiating itself to the biased international media, the world and to the Arabs only strengthens the Arab resolve and brings more bloodshed and bullying. No one has said a word about Egypt bombing Gazan houses and building a wall because Egypt doesn’t give a damn and everyone knows it. Israel needs to have the same attitude and do what is good for its people for a change. This will garner more respect, not less. Bullies prey on the weak.
As for Gaza (the terrorist entity) which is Israel’s problem and the government will probably be dumb enough to accept the problem as their own. Israel in hope for peace created the Arab-Palestinian people and an idea of a possible second Arab-Palestinian state west of the Jordan River and now they will probably take some responsibility for the people of Gaza to please the biased world. Makes you sick, does it not!
The Arabs keep demanding the Judea and Samaria aka West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem as their new State. But nowhere in any treaties of post WWI, there is no such an agreement. They also fail to inform the world that the Arab states terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries, confiscated all their assets personal, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Real estate (6 times the size of Israel valued in the trillions of dollars) most Jewish refugees families from Arab countries were resettled in Greater Israel.
The Arab-Palestinians have a state, it is called Jordan, which about 75% of its citizens is Arab-Palestinians citizens and possess a Jordanian citizenship. While the British as trustee for the Jewish people managed the Mandate for Palestine, the British violated the trust and created The State of Jordan for the Arabs in the early 1920’s. The British took about 80% of Jewish allocated land which included all the territory east of the Jordan River. Under the San Remo Treaty of April 1920 which adopted the Balfour Declaration of 1917 as international law with no restrictions on boundary; the British violated agreements and treaties, took over 77% of Jewish territory and gave it to the Arabs, in violation of the treaty and the January 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement. Additionally the British gave away Jewish land west of the Jordan River to the Arabs without authority.
The Arab-Palestinians do not want a state; they have shown to date in deed and practice that they are only interested in the destruction of Israel. Their Charters, Schooling and Media (brainwash) educates and promotes hate, terror and violence towards the Jewish State. An Arab-Palestinian State would have to act responsibly and abide by world criteria of a responsible state, which they cannot adhere to. The Arabs cannot make peace among themselves for centuries, do you expect them to make peace with Israel.
It is time for Israel to fully take over all its liberated territory west of the Jordan River and expel all the Arab trouble makers and their families. No violence must be tolerated.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
How many holidays do the Arabs celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel. The Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of and the goal and aspiration to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem – where it was before it was destroyed and desecrated by the enemies of the Jews. Many of the Jewish prayers for thousands of years recite the love of Israel and the Jewish aspirations to return to their ancestral land and bring back its glory and holiness.
Government of Israel first duty is to protect the people at all costs, not run their lives.
October 31, 2013 | Eli E. Hertz
ReplyDelete"Neither customary international law nor the United Nations Charter acknowledges that every group of people [Arab Palestinians included] claiming to be a nation has the right to a state of its own." [1]
The Mandate for Palestine, a legally binding document under international law, clearly differentiates between political rights – referring to Jewish self-determination as an emerging polity – and civil and religious rights, referring to guarantees of equal personal freedoms to non-Jewish residents as individuals and within select communities. Not once are Arabs as a people mentioned in the Mandate for Palestine. At no point in the entire document is there any granting of political rights to non-Jewish entities (i.e., Arabs). Article 2 of the Mandate for Palestine explicitly states that the Mandatory should:
“Be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.”
Political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of Nations in four other mandates – in Lebanon and Syria [The French Mandate], Iraq - which amounted to millions of sq. km. of land with a wealth of oil reserves and later Trans-Jordan [The British Mandate]. Political rights in Palestine were granted to Jews only.
International law expert Professor Eugene V. Rostow, examining the claim for Arab Palestinian self-determination on the basis of law, concluded:
“The mandate implicitly denies Arab claims to national political rights in the area in favor of the Jews; the mandated territory was in effect reserved to the Jewish people for their self-determination and political development, in acknowledgment of the historic connection of the Jewish people to the land. Lord Curzon, who was then the British Foreign Minister, made this reading of the mandate explicit. There remains simply the theory that the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have an inherent ‘natural law’ claim to the area.”
[1] See Eugene V. Rostow, The Future of Palestine, and Institute for National Strategic Studies, November 1993. Professor Rostow was Sterling Professor of Law and Public Affairs Emeritus at Yale University and served as the Dean of Yale Law School (1955-66); Distinguished Research Professor of Law and Diplomacy, National Defense University; Adjunct Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. In 1967, as U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, he became a key draftee of UN Resolution 242. See also his article: “Are Israel’s Settlements Legal?” The New Republic, October 21, 1991.
Face it - No Arab-Palestinian state west of the Jordan River
ReplyDeleteIf you read the 1917 Balfour Declaration (Which emulated Napoleons 1799 letter to the Jewish community in Palestine promising that The National Home for The Jewish people will be reestablished in Palestine, as the Jews are the rightful owners). Nowhere does it state an Arab entity west of The Jordan River. The San Remo Conference of April 1920 which incorporated The Balfour Declaration into International Law with no boundary restrictions it does not state an Arab entity west of The Jordan River, confirmed by Article 95 in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne. The Mandate for Palestine terms does not state an Arab entity west of the Jordan River. It specifically states a Jewish National Home in Palestine without limiting or restricting the Jewish territory in Palestine. It also states that the British should work with the Jewish Agency as the official representative of the Jews in Palestine to implement the National Home of the Jewish people in Palestine. I stress again; nowhere does it state that an Arab entity should be implemented west of the Jordan River.
As a matter of historical record, The British reallocated illegally over 77% of Jewish Palestine to the Arab-Palestinians in 1922 with specific borders and Jordan took over additional territory like the Gulf of Aqaba which was not part of the allocation to Jordan. The United Nations resolutions are non binding with no legal standing it does not create an Arab Palestinian state and it has no authority to change the April 1920 San Remo treaty or modify the terms of the Mandate for Palestine which has the force of international law in perpetuity.
No where in any of the above stated agreements does it provides for an Arab entity west of the Jordan River. The U.N. and General Assembly resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing, same applies to the ICJ. The Oslo Accords are null and void as state by Mahmmoud Abbas at the U.N.
Israel must disband the Arab-PA and take back full control and sovereignty of all the territory west of the Jordan River – All of Judea and Samaria without delay. Time for talk is over. Now is the time for action to restore our Jewish sovereignty in all the Land of Israel and stop terror and violence.
It is time to relocate the Arabs in Israel to Jordan and to the homes and the 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish land the Arab countries confiscated from the over a million Jewish families that they terrorized and expelled and those expelled Jews were resettled in Israel. They can use the trillions of dollars in reparations for the Jewish assets to finance the relocation of the Arabs and help set-up an economy and industry instead of living on the world charity. The Arab countries were allocated over 13 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves.
YJ Draiman
P.S. Possession is nine tenths of the law – Israel has it.
Political Rights in Palestine aka The Land of Israel were granted only and exclusively to the Jews in all of Palestine and the right to settle in all of Palestine with no exclusions.
Mandate for Palestine* – crucial terms
ReplyDelete*Was part of an international agreement at the April 1920 San Remo Conference of the Supreme Allied Forces which also incorporated The Balfour Declaration as International Law – reconstituting the Jewish National Home in Palestine without boundary restrictions.
(b) that the terms of the Mandates Article should be as follows:
The High Contracting Parties agree that Syria and Mesopotamia shall, in accordance with the fourth paragraph of Article 22, Part I (Covenant of the League of Nations), be provisionally recognized as independent States, subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a mandatory as trustee until such time as they are able to stand alone. The boundaries of the said States will be determined, and the selection of the Mandatories made, by the Principal Allied Powers only and non-other.
The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust, by application of the provisions of Article 22, the administration of Palestine as trustee, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers only and no other (the British or the League of Nations had no authority to excise and remove over three quarters of Palestine, all the territory east of the Jordan River and handed it over to the Arabs as the new Arab state of Jordan, the Mandatory trustee, to be selected by the said Powers. The Mandatory as trustee (not as a ruler occupier) will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 8, 1917 (The Balfour Declaration), by the British Government, and adopted by the all the other Allied Powers, in favor of the re-establishment in Palestine (without any boundary restrictions) of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights only, of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other countries (this particular term about the Jewish rights in other countries has been violated to the extreme over and over without any objections whatsoever by the Allied powers and others). Thus the Arab countries forcefully terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets (including in Jordan) which included personal items, businesses, homes and over 47,000 square miles of Jewish owned Real estate for over 2,600 years (valued in the trillions of dollars). Most of those expelled Jews from Arab lands were resettled in Israel and today comprise over half the population.
At the same time the Arabs were allocated over 6 million square miles of territory with a wealth of oil reserves. After applying the terms stated herewith; if you are to question the territory and the sovereignty of Israel it also puts to question and maybe rescind and annul the territory and sovereignty of the 22 Arab states. There is also the January 1919 Feisal Weizmann Peace Treaty – The Arabs do not abide by any agreements.
YJ Draiman
The Arabs are trans-passers and illegal occupiers on Jewish land it is time to transfer them to Jordan which is Jewish land and or to the homes and over 46,000 sq. mi. of Real estate the Arabs confiscated when they expelled over a million Jewish families. If your logic is that the Arabs are the owners by conquest. Israel regained its territory by conquest while defending itself from Arab aggression.
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Site Of The Temple Mount In The Future Jewish Capital Of Jerusalem
The choosing of the site came when G d punished Israel because King David ordered a census of the Jewish people after he defeated of the Philistines in a great battle. The sin was King David's presumption that the salvation of the people came from their sheer numbers and not the Hand of G d. A pestilence followed which only ceased when the prophet Gad advised King David to erect an altar on the stone threshing floor on Mt. Moriah that belonged to Araunah, the Jebusite. So King David purchased the site for 600 silver shekels, for which he assessed 50 silver shekels from each tribe.
King David built the altar and the plague ceased. The site was on Mount Moriah where Abraham had prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac in obedience to G d's Command as this final test of Abraham's faith. This then was the place where the future Jerusalem was to be built and the site of the First and Second Temples. As a man of war, King David was not allowed to build the Temple, so the task fell to his son King Solomon, who built the First Temple on the Temple Mount
Resolution 181 And The Internationalization Of Jerusalem - An Attempt That Was Never Implemented
ReplyDeleteThe 1947 UN resolution to internationalize Jerusalem as a "separate body"(corpus separatum) in Resolution 181 of the UN General Assembly only enjoyed the status of a nonbinding recommendation. After 10 years a vote was to have been conducted among the city's residents on the issue of sovereignty. When the Jewish residents of the city were besieged by the invading Arab armies in 1948, the United Nations made no response whatsoever and Israel therefore regarded the internationalization proposal as lacking moral basis and as "null and void," in the words of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
There are many Israelis who are insufficiently aware of their rights according to international law. Below are 10 points that are important to know with regard to the struggle over Jerusalem.
A Jewish Majority Resided in Jerusalem Long Before the Reunification of the City
A Jewish majority existed in Jerusalem during the hundred-year period that preceded the establishment of the State of Israel. All the sources confirm that prior to the 1880’s the Jews constituted the majority in the city. Data from the British Mandatory era, between the two world wars, demonstrates that the Jews were nearly 60% of the general population of the city, while the balance of the population was evenly divided between Christians and Muslims. According to the population censuses conducted separately by Jordan and Israel, each one in the area that it controlled in 1961, the city's overall population constituted 72% Jews, 22% Muslims, and 5% Christians.
The Arabs are trans-passers and illegal occupiers on Jewish land it is time to transfer them to Jordan which is Jewish land and or to the homes and over 46,000 sq. mi. of Real estate the Arabs confiscated when they expelled over a million Jewish families. If your logic is that the Arabs are the owners by conquest. Israel regained its territory by conquest while defending itself from Arab aggression.
The announcement made by our President Donald Trump, in an official statement recognizes Jerusalem as The Capital of Israel.
ReplyDeleteIt reiterates an existing U.S. Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 and meets the U.N. resolution below.
The consequence of the 1947 U.N. Resolution 181 to Jerusalem’s status in our time.
If you believe that the 1947 U.N. resolution 181 is valid, which it is not valid; since the U.N. can only recommend; which is non-binding with no legal standing?
The United Nations Partition Plan of 1947
Resolution 181 (II). Future government of Palestine
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181(II).
Jerusalem
D. DURATION OF THE SPECIAL REGIME of Jerusalem - The Statute elaborated by the Trusteeship Council on the aforementioned principles shall come into force not later than 1 October 1948. It shall remain in force in the first instance for a period of ten years, unless the Trusteeship Council finds it necessary to undertake a re-examination of these provisions at an earlier date. After the expiration of this ten year period the whole scheme shall be subject to re-examination by the Trusteeship Council in the light of the experience acquired with its functioning.
The residents of the City of Jerusalem shall be then free to express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible modifications of the regime of the City.
Since majority of the population of Jerusalem is Jewish as has been since the early 1800’s, the vote of a referendum is for The Jewish people to take over the full control and sovereignty of Jerusalem. These terms are now in place and the U.N. or any other entity cannot change those terms. Therefore, any vote or statement by the U.N. or any of its administrative bodies that proposes to change those terms and facts are illegal and have no bearing or legal standing.
It might be asked if the acceptance by the pre-state Jewish Agency of U.N. Resolution 181 constituted a conscious renunciation of Jewish claims to Jerusalem back in 1947. However, according to the resolution, the duration of the special international regime for Jerusalem would be "in the first instance for a period of ten years." The resolution envisioned a referendum of the residents of the city at that point in which they would express "their wishes as to possible modifications of the regime of the city."10 The Jewish leadership interpreted the corpus separatum as an interim arrangement that could be replaced. They believed that Jewish residents could opt for citizenship in the Jewish state in the meantime. Moreover, they hoped that the referendum would lead to the corpus seperatum being joined to the State of Israel after ten years. 11
As far as the Arabs are concerned, there never was a peace process. It was only a facade to gain control of Jewish territory, since the Arabs could not win in war against Israel. Arafat had stated numerous times that the Arab goal of the peace process is a means to take over all of Israel. The Current Arab Palestinian Charter states these objective and terms by the Arab Palestinians, be it the Arab PA - Fattah or Hamas. Thus, the Arab behavior and actions verify these terms. It is time to face reality. The Arabs do not want peace. All the territory west of the Jordan River is Jewish territory. The Arab-Palestinians have Jordan.
ReplyDeleteIsrael can't make peace with the Arab world, until they make peace with themselves, G-d knows we have tried. We in Israel are not interested in peace with the hostile Arab world. Why, because you the Arabs can’t give something you/they don’t have. The Arab world does not know what peace is or its meaning. Since the 7th century the Arabs/Muslims are in conflict with themselves with no respite. Look at what is happening between the Sunnis and Shiites, and between the Kurds and the Arabs; between the tribes of Libya and Yemen. See what’s happening in Iran and the Arab countries. Iran is collecting them like eggs from the floor. While the Arab world remains silent. There is no peace in, or outside, the Arab world. We would love to have peace with the Arabs it would be a tremendous economic benefit to all sides, but first broker peace between the Arab/Muslim groups, tribes, ethnicities, and religions. Only than we in Israel will join in the Arab peace. But right now the Arab world is a swamp of fire, tears and blood. Who would want to get close to you? Who would want to talk to you? The Arab world is a failure! The Arab nation is a failure! Who would want you? We in Israel are a progressive country, we are a Democratic State. We are a developing country with advanced technology and state of the art Medical innovations which the Arabs and the rest of the world benefits.
ReplyDeleteIsrael has to notify the Arabs who reside west of the Jordan River, and that they the Arabs are there because Israel’s generosity and they have no right to complain. Hebron is the second holiest city in Judaism after Jerusalem. Mecca and Medina is the holy city for the Arabs which are in Arabia aka Saudi Arabia. Hebron is the holy city to the Jews going back to the days of Abraham which is located in Judea which the Jewish people derive their name.
ReplyDeleteThe UN resolutions are non-binding and have no legal standing the UN has no authority to assign territory or modify international treaties like the April 1920 San Remo Conference that incorporated the Balfour Declaration without boundary restrictions as international law and Jewish sovereignty must be applied, you do not need to annexed your own liberated territory. At the Same time they allocated over 6 million sq. km. of territory to the Arabs with a wealth of oil reserves including Jordan as the new Arab state on Jewish land, which is the Arab-Palestinian state. The Oslo Accords are null and void as stated by Abbas at the U.N. Any peace agreement must be approved by the people of Israel.
P.S. Jordan and the Arab countries will have to cooperate. It will be in their best economic interest. Part of the relocation process of the Arabs is funding for the relocation including housing and industry. There is billions of dollars allocated for such transfer. After WWII over 100 million people were resettled. Any Arab who wants to stay under Israel's sovereignty must abide by the laws of Israel and any action whatsoever will result of the immediate expulsion. It is better than spending billions on defense and for the Arabs utilizing their funding for building an economy instead of funding terror and violence.
YJ Draiman
When you can’t make the Arab/Palestinians see the light, make the Arab/Palestinians feel the heat. That is the only method they understand and respond to its demands.
ReplyDeleteWe must maintain peace through our strength, weakness and concession invites violence and aggression.
European countries and other countries in the world must pay the Jews for all the assets including homes, real estate and personal property that they took and or destroyed without compensation including Jewish community property, cemeteries, work of art, etc of which is valued in the trillions of dollars. The Arab countries must compensate the million Jewish families for the personal property, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Real Estate property owned by the Jewish people for over 2,600 years valued in the trillions of dollars.
ReplyDeleteYJ Draiman
Napoleon said, "if you start to take Vienna, take Vienna."
ReplyDeleteIsrael must take over our Jewish land west of the Jordan River no delay, just do it. Wake up and face reality once and for all, stop dreaming and deluding yourselves, the Arab-Palestinians do not want peace, their action to date verify their intention and their Charter states the same and they publicly admit it. You are dealing with an Arab that imbued with barbarian mentality that knows only hate, terror and violence. They educate and train their children from infancy to commit terror and violence. Mahmmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen is a terrorist and a convicted murderer. Abbas stated at the U.N. that he will not abide by the Oslo accord. Its time to dismantle the Arab Palestinian Authority, it is nothing but a terrorist organization with its leaders dressed in a suit.
The Arab-Palestinians have Jordan which is on Jewish land.
YJ Draiman
There never has been a country called 'Palestine' anyway so it cannot be occupied. The Russians are still holding territory they occupied belonging to Finland and Japan. They rushed to grab what they could of Japan in 1945 having had a non aggression treaty for the length of the war. If the Japanese had been fighting Russia all along it would have given the Germans an advantage. Of course it would have been an extra burden for Japan as well. The European countries are occupying other countries, UK occupy other countries.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs have been actually occupying Israel's land for many centuries under different Muslim occupiers and different nations and nationality.
Yisrael Medad has it exactly right: The Israeli government has to declare sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, according to the April 1920 San Remo Treaty and the 'Mandate for Palestine' by the League of Nations. Actually, according to these International agreements, the entire territory of Palestine, ought to be the Jewish homeland, according tot he declaration by Lord Balfour, speaking for "His Majesty's government" of Great Britain. Not so great Mr. Churchill, in his glaring arrogance,
ReplyDelete'gave away' (what was not his to give - in the private sector he would have gone to jail for defrauding a trust) 78% of that territory to the Hashemite Abdullah to curry favor with the Arabs and named it 'Transjordan,' today's Jordan. That is today's Arab-Palestinian state. And any Arabs, living in Israel and not liking it, are welcome to go to the one and only new Arab-Palestinian state that ever existed and ever will exist.
The Netanyahu administration was presented with the Levy report, an exhaustive historical survey of Israel's legitimate legal claim to Judea and Samaria. He was urged to adopt the report. He did not do so. Why are we afraid of success? Are we grasshoppers in our own eyes?
ReplyDeleteI lived in Israel when the Israeli government brought in the Yemeni Jews (Salah Shabati- the movie) on the "Magic Carpet" program. They looked and acted like Arabs, came with multiple wives who had tattooed faces. They wore Arab garb, spoke Arabic and ate Arab food. As opposed to the Ashkenazi Israelis. We came from Poland after the Germans were driven out. My parents and I were survivors of the HOLOCAUST. Was living in Israel and was present for the first YOM HATZMAUT parade in Tel Aviv. We arrived in Israel in early 1949 and lived in a MAABARA (tent city) in Haifa for months before we were able to move into a newly built SHIKUN between Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan (Ramat Itzhak).
Golda Meir Israel’s November 26, 1974--For all those people that think Israel should just go back to pre-1967 borders to appease the Arab-Palestinians and the Middle East, Golda Meir has a good question for you: "If Hussein hadn’t gone to war in 67, when Eshkol asked him not to go to war, the West Bank would have been in his hands. If Assad hadn’t gone to war, the Golan Heights would have been in Syria. If Nasser hadn’t gone to war in 67 the Sinai desert and the Gaza Strip would have been in his hands. Where were the Arab-Palestinians then. And, why do people good people tell us, if you had only gone back to the 67 borders after the war? Then I always ask a foolish question, to which I haven’t heard one single wise answer. If the 67 borders are so holy, why was there a war in 67?"
ReplyDeleteResponse to President Donald Trump implementing the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act and recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and initiating the process of relocating the American Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. Answer: we are the United States, we don't follow the rest of the world like sheep, we are going to support our greatest ally, and we're not going to take guidance from those who are allowing terrorists to run amok in their countries including the U.N. and many of its members. If the rest of the world wants to cater to terrorists and allow them to manipulate, they can go ahead. The U.S. WON'T!
ReplyDeleteLike the Balfour Declaration 100 years ago this emulated Napoleon letter in 1799 to the Jewish community in Israel. The statement made today by President Donald Trump does not grant the Jewish people right to what was always ours–it reaffirms the international understanding of the historic bond between the Nation of Israel and Jerusalem and the natural right of the Jewish people for self determination in our ancestral homeland which had continuous Jewish habitation for over 3,600 years. The President is only implementing American Embassy Act of 1995 which other American presidents pledged but never carried out. This statement sets the standard for all other nations on earth. It is time to stand up for Jerusalem, for historical truth and for a peaceful future. The bond between the Nation of Israel and Jerusalem is unbreakable and instituted by divine providence it cannot be changed by any external force. This is the oldest divine love story ever documented. All others are fleeting.
ReplyDeleteLike the Balfour Declaration 100 years ago this emulated Napoleon letter in 1799 to the Jewish community in Israel.
The statement made today by President Donald Trump does not grant the Jewish people right to what was always ours–it reaffirms the international understanding of the historic bond between the Nation of Israel and Jerusalem and the natural right of the Jewish people for self determination in our ancestral homeland which had continuous Jewish habitation for over 3,600 years.
The President is only implementing American Embassy Act of 1995 which other American presidents pledged but never carried out.
This statement sets the standard for all other nations on earth. It is time to stand up for Jerusalem, for historical truth and for a peaceful future for all.
The bond between the Nation of Israel and Jerusalem is unbreakable and instituted by divine providence it cannot be changed by any external force.
This is the oldest divine love story ever documented. All others are fleeting.
The people of Israel speak the same language that was spoken in the Land of Israel 3000 years ago, and their children have the same names!
Anti-Israel activists oppose Israel’s right to exist and deny the Jewish people’s over 3,000-year-old connection to the Land of Israel.
Archaeological discoveries are made continually, pointing to the deep Jewish historical ties going back thousands of years.
King David, in fact, ruled over what was known as the Kingdom of Judea, from where the word “Jew” originates.
Naftali Bennett, Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs, in an entertaining address, clearly explain the indisputable facts.
The message is clear: The Jewish people need to remain forever in its ancestral homeland!
THE 1917 BALFOUR DECLARATION
ReplyDeleteThe Balfour Declaration was unreservedly endorsed by the other Powers. Italy, The Vatican, Japan, Russia, Spain. On June 4, 1917 the French Government, through its Minister, M. Cambon, formally committed itself to "the renaissance of the Jewish nationality in that Land from which the people of Israel were exiled so many centuries ago." Even in faraway China, Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, assured the Zionists that "the Nationalist Government is in full sympathy with the Jewish people in their desire to reestablish a country for themselves."
In America, echoed by practically every official of public importance, President Wilson wrote that "the Allied nations, with the fullest concurrence of our own Government and people, are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth." In gratitude the American Jewish Congress cabled H. M. Government, on November 2, 1917, its desire that Great Britain should be given the trusteeship, "acting on behalf of such League of Nations, as may be formed, to assure the development of Palestine into a Jewish Commonwealth. . ." In the United States Congress, members expressed general accord with "the British Declaration in favor of a Jewish State in the Holy Land." The minutes of its sessions show that this understanding had not altered by an iota five years later, when the American Congress was induced to put its seal of approval, by resolution, on the selection of Great Britain as the Mandatory for Palestine.
The utterances of the British Cabinet ministers who framed the Balfour Declaration were no less emphatic. General Smuts asserted that "in generations to come you will see a great Jewish State rising there once more." Declared Lloyd George grandly: ". . . Great Britain extended its mighty hand in friendship to the Jewish people to help it to regain its ancient national home and to realize its age-long aspirations" Said Lord Robert Cecil: "Our wish is that Arabian countries shall be for Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians and Judea for the Jews." And in another occasion he lumped the whole
matter in a nutshell, telling the excited Zionists: "We have renewed and given you national existence. In your hands lies your national future." Lord Balfour was no less
clear. "The destruction of Judea 1900 years ago," he asserted, "was one of the greatest historical crimes, which the Allies now endeavor to remedy."
British newspapers were as one in their mighty paean of approval. Without exception they spoke of "the renewed Jewish State which is to be formed under the suzerainty of a Christian Power." Across the water, the American newspapers echoed these remarks in the same expansive detail. A representative editorial of the time explains: "The Zionists are that group of Jews who wish to found and reconstitute the Jewish Republic in Palestine with Jerusalem as the capital as it has its Jewish history. . . The British cabinet has pronounced in favor of Zionism."
"His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
THE 1917 BALFOUR DECLARATION
ReplyDeleteThe Balfour Declaration was unreservedly endorsed by the other Powers. Italy, The Vatican, Japan, Russia, Spain. On June 4, 1917 the French Government, through its Minister, M. Cambon, formally committed itself to "the renaissance of the Jewish nationality in that Land from which the people of Israel were exiled so many centuries ago." Even in faraway China, Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, assured the Zionists that "the Nationalist Government is in full sympathy with the Jewish people in their desire to reestablish a country for themselves."
In America, echoed by practically every official of public importance, President Wilson wrote that "the Allied nations, with the fullest concurrence of our own Government and people, are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth." In gratitude the American Jewish Congress cabled H. M. Government, on November 2, 1917, its desire that Great Britain should be given the trusteeship, "acting on behalf of such League of Nations, as may be formed, to assure the development of Palestine into a Jewish Commonwealth. . ." In the United States Congress, members expressed general accord with "the British Declaration in favor of a Jewish State in the Holy Land." The minutes of its sessions show that this understanding had not altered by an iota five years later, when the American Congress was induced to put its seal of approval, by resolution, on the selection of Great Britain as the Mandatory for Palestine.
The utterances of the British Cabinet ministers who framed the Balfour Declaration were no less emphatic. General Smuts asserted that "in generations to come you will see a great Jewish State rising there once more." Declared Lloyd George grandly: ". . . Great Britain extended its mighty hand in friendship to the Jewish people to help it to regain its ancient national home and to realize its age-long aspirations" Said Lord Robert Cecil: "Our wish is that Arabian countries shall be for Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians and Judea for the Jews." And in another occasion he lumped the whole
matter in a nutshell, telling the excited Zionists: "We have renewed and given you national existence. In your hands lies your national future." Lord Balfour was no less
clear. "The destruction of Judea 1900 years ago," he asserted, "was one of the greatest historical crimes, which the Allies now endeavor to remedy."
British newspapers were as one in their mighty paean of approval. Without exception they spoke of "the renewed Jewish State which is to be formed under the suzerainty of a Christian Power." Across the water, the American newspapers echoed these remarks in the same expansive detail. A representative editorial of the time explains: "The Zionists are that group of Jews who wish to found and reconstitute the Jewish Republic in Palestine with Jerusalem as the capital as it has its Jewish history. . . The British cabinet has pronounced in favor of Zionism."
"His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
The truth – not the fantasy – is that there was never an independent, sovereign Arab state called Palestine.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is “the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago.”
Jerusalem was never the capital of any Arab polity in all of recorded history. Only one people has ever made Jerusalem its capital and only one people ever established their indigenous ancestral and biblical homeland between East of the River Jordan and West to the Mediterranean Sea: the Jews.
Israel was reconstituted in 1920 by the April 1920 San Remo Treaty which was confirmed by the August 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, also by the January 1919 Faisal Weitzmann Agreement. The Arabs received at the same time over 6 million sq. miles of territory with a wealth of oil reserves and the Jewish State was to receive 46,300 sq. miles which is Palestine. In the years before Israel was formally reconstituted and declared sovereign in 1948, the world referred to its Jewish residents as Palestinians. Indeed, the Palestinian military units fighting with the British Army in World War Two were Jewish to the man and woman. Few, if any, Arabs or Muslims fought against the Axis powers during that war and indeed many Arabs served in SS units; often willing collaborators with the Germans in murdering Jewish communities in the Balkans and elsewhere.
Remember, the word Palestine was the name the Romans renamed Israel and also named Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina. The Mandate for Palestine over the territory was granted under international law and treaty by the League of Nations in 1920 to Great Britain as trustee with the express duty and obligation of re-establishing within it a Jewish homeland as agreed to in international treaties executed after WWI.
At that time, the Palestine Mandate covered all of what is Israel – including Judea and Samaria, or what is erroneously called the West Bank – and present day Jordan.
What so many in the media forget, if they ever knew, is that after the Ottoman Empire was dismantled by the victorious Allies, France and Britain, at the end of World War One, many new Arab states were created with Palestine reserved exclusively for a Jewish homeland under international law and treaty.
But Britain violated international treaties, thus, it reneged on its duty and obligation to the Jews and tore away four fifths of the Mandate territory in 1922 – that is all the land east of the Jordan River – and arbitrarily gave it away as a new Arab State to the Hashemite Bedouin tribe. Immediately Jews were forbidden to live in what became Trans-Jordan and eventually the Kingdom of Jordan: An early example of ethnic cleansing and Arab apartheid. All Jewish property East of the Jordan River was confiscated and any Jews expelled.
The borders of the Mandate for Palestine as eventually determined; Jordan East of the Jordan River as the new Arab state taking away over 77% of Jewish territory and Israel everything West of the Jordan River including Jerusalem.
Interestingly, Arabs and their leaders had rejected any notion of a separate Arab Palestinian identity. For them, Palestine was merely a part of Greater Syria and the Arabs were indistinct from their neighbors. Indeed, the Syrian dictator, Assad, still plots for the return of Jordan, Israel and the disputed territories.
As far as Palestine was concerned to those Arab absentee landlords of the early years of the 20th century, living in the fleshpots of Cairo, Damascus and Beirut, the land was worthless: desolate, barren and malarial infested.
Then the Jewish pioneers returning in the late 19th century began to purchase the wasted and barren land at exorbitant prices – much higher than fertile land in Iowa and Idaho – drained the swamps and redeem again the ancestral ancient beloved Jewish homeland.
The Land of Israel were granted only and exclusively to the Jews in all of Palestine
ReplyDeleteThe letter became the basis of international law in following years which expanded on the principle of a Jewish homeland.
In April 1920, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan met in San Remo, Italy to consider what to do with the collapsed Ottoman Empire after its defeat in World War I. On April 24, the powers decided to adopt the key essence of the Balfour Declaration (being in favor of a Jewish homeland in Palestine) as a basis for the disposition of Palestine. The language of the San Remo Convention expanded on the theme with several additional declarations:
• Historical basis for the Balfour Declaration: “Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country;“ with no boundary restrictions.
• Provide safety for the Jews: “The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.” (Article 2)
• Jews to have autonomy (possibly an independent state or something short of it): “The Mandatory shall, so far as circumstances permit, encourage local autonomy.” (Article 3)
• Facilitate Jewish immigration and land ownership: “The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.” (Article 6)
• Citizenship. “The Administration of Palestine shall be responsible for enacting a nationality law. There shall be included in this law provisions framed so as to facilitate the acquisition of Palestinian citizenship by Jews who take up their permanent residence in Palestine.” (Article 7)
ReplyDelete• Access to Holy Places. “All responsibility in connexion with the Holy Places and religious buildings or sites in Palestine, including that of preserving existing rights and of securing free access to the Holy Places, religious buildings and sites and the free exercise of worship, while ensuring the requirements of public order and decorum, is assumed by the Mandatory, who shall be responsible solely to the League of Nations in all matters connected herewith, provided that nothing in this article shall prevent the Mandatory from entering into such arrangements as he may deem reasonable with the Administration for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this article into effect; and provided also that nothing in this Mandate shall be construed as conferring upon the Mandatory authority to interfere with the fabric or the management of purely Moslem sacred shrines, the immunities of which are guaranteed.” (Article 13) “A special Commission shall be appointed by the Mandatory to study, define and determine the rights and claims in connection with the Holy Places and the rights and claims relating to the different religious communities in Palestine. The method of nomination, the composition and the functions of this Commission shall be submitted to the Council of the League for its approval, and the Commission shall not be appointed or enter upon its functions without the approval of the Council.” (Article 14)
• Freedom to Worship and Live throughout the land: “The Mandatory shall see that complete freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals are ensured to all. No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of Palestine on the ground of race, religion or language. No person shall be excluded from Palestine on the sole ground of his religious belief.” (Article 15)
• Hebrew an official language. “English, Arabic and Hebrew shall be the official languages of Palestine. Any statement or inscription in Arabic on stamps or money in Palestine shall be repeated in Hebrew and any statement or inscription in Hebrew shall be repeated in Arabic.” (Article 22)
As detailed above, the San Remo Conference took many more exhaustive steps in broadening the rights of Jews to a homeland beyond the simple statement of support in the brief Balfour Declaration.
October 31, 2013 | Eli E. Hertz
ReplyDelete"Neither customary international law nor the United Nations Charter acknowledges that every group of people [Arab Palestinians included] claiming to be a nation has the right to a state of its own." [1]
The Mandate for Palestine, a legally binding document under international law, clearly differentiates between political rights – referring to Jewish self-determination as an emerging polity – and civil and religious rights, referring to guarantees of equal personal freedoms to non-Jewish residents as individuals and within select communities. Not once are Arabs as a people mentioned in the Mandate for Palestine. At no point in the entire document is there any granting of political rights to non-Jewish entities (i.e., Arabs). Article 2 of the Mandate for Palestine explicitly states that the Mandatory should:
“Be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.”
Political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of Nations in four other mandates – in Lebanon and Syria [The French Mandate], Iraq - which amounted to millions of sq. km. of land with a wealth of oil reserves and later Trans-Jordan [The British Mandate]. Political rights in Palestine were granted to Jews only.
International law expert Professor Eugene V. Rostow, examining the claim for Arab Palestinian self-determination on the basis of law, concluded:
“The mandate implicitly denies Arab claims to national political rights in the area in favor of the Jews; the mandated territory was in effect reserved to the Jewish people for their self-determination and political development, in acknowledgment of the historic connection of the Jewish people to the land. Lord Curzon, who was then the British Foreign Minister, made this reading of the mandate explicit. There remains simply the theory that the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have an inherent ‘natural law’ claim to the area.”
[1] See Eugene V. Rostow, The Future of Palestine, and Institute for National Strategic Studies, November 1993. Professor Rostow was Sterling Professor of Law and Public Affairs Emeritus at Yale University and served as the Dean of Yale Law School (1955-66); Distinguished Research Professor of Law and Diplomacy, National Defense University; Adjunct Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. In 1967, as U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, he became a key draftee of UN Resolution 242. See also his article: “Are Israel’s Settlements Legal?” The New Republic, October 21, 1991.
One reason the Jewish peoples survived for thousands of years is because many Jews adhered to our traditions religiously without looking for avenues to modernize The Jewish faith and its traditions. The minute some Jewish people stray from our traditions and try to modernize Judaism and emulate the other religions of the world, that is when we abandon our faith and assimilate with the world at large which is detrimental to our existence and continuity. It is imperative that if the Jewish people are to survive, we must follow our traditions and maintain our Jewish ethics. Any deviation to stray and modernize Judaism will bring about the demise of the Jewish people.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people have one Bible that addresses all facets of life including modern times. Do not try to change our Jewish Bible and our Jewish laws and ethics.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
Jewish assimilation today is at an all time record and rising. Let us Jewish people who observe our laws, tradition and ethics, continue to follow those precepts, for they will be the remnants of the Jewish people who will help retain the Jewish people in the world as the world is deteriorating towards immorality, loss of values, anarchy and destruction.
Government of Israel first duty is to protect the people at all costs, not run their lives.
ReplyDeleteMahmmoud Abbas Aka Abu Mazen the terrorist; is the convicted murderer and inciter of terror and violence, The Mastermind of the Munich Massacre.
Israel has a responsibility to defend its people at all costs no holds barred and zero tolerance. If all else fails, Israel may have no choice but to transfer the Arabs out of Israel from all the territory west of the Jordan River, level Gaza and the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel will have to respond just like Britain and the Americans did to Germany in WWII when Hitler sent missiles the v2 rockets to London.
Free Israel from Arab/Muslim terror and Arab occupiers.
It is the Arab Conflict, not Israel. The Arabs want what Israel has; which they built with blood sweat and tears; well they cannot have it.
Israel is on its own historical territory of over 3,800 years, that with hard work and toil have turned the desert into green pastures with a first class technology and innovation that is helping all the people and nations in the world. The Arabs have over 13 million sq. km. of which 70% is vacant with a wealth of oil reserves and they also have Jordan which is Jewish territory.
Anyone who thinks about putting another terrorist entity in Judea and Samaria aka West Bank, needs to have his head examined, this type of thinking is an insidious delusion and any government considering such a proposal must be replaced. Such a move is suicidal to Israel especially in view of the results from Gaza, with thousands of rockets attacking Israel. Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory no concession of this territory is permitted. Israel is a sovereign country and Israel does not need anybody’s consent to apply its sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and to repatriate all the liberated territory from June 1967. Israel must expedite building housing, industry and roads in Judea and Samaria. No country has the right to interfere and or dictate to Israel how to conduct its internal affairs and or its safety and security. All Archaeological in Israel confirm the history of the Jewish people in the land of Israel and there are no such archaeological findings and evidence about the Arab Palestinians. The Arab Palestinians have no coinage, pottery and any history that validates their fictitious claims.
ReplyDeleteYJ Draiman
Israel is a sovereign country which also serves as a land based Super-Large Aircraft carrier for the U.S. (with no risk to U.S. personnel) with much more amenities and a sophisticated intelligence apparatus. Israel is one of the worlds leading countries in sophisticated and innovative weapons technology and development of which the U.S. benefits greatly. Furthermore, it is Israel’s Medical innovation and other technology which the whole world benefits from.
Israel Liberated Judea and Samaria – Just like U.S. and its allies liberated Kuwait
Iraq conquered and occupied Kuwait a sovereign Nation and was liberated by the U.S. and its allies.
Israel without outside help liberated Judea and Samaria after it was attacked by Jordan and removed Jordanian occupation, just like the allies liberated Kuwait. It also had a war with Egypt and Syria at the same time – June 5-10, 1967.
Historically Gaza was a Jewish City and the Golan Heights was always Jewish territory.
YJ Draiman
Face it, once and for all with no delusions or illusions. There never was and never will be a second Arab-Palestinian State West of the Jordan River; they have Jordan which is Jewish territory.
ReplyDeleteJust because The European and other countries are willing to surrender their countries to the Arabs/Muslims; Does not mean that Israel has to do the same and face the horrific violence and mayhem those countries are experiencing due to the mass entry of Arabs/Muslims into their countries.
Anyone who thinks about putting another terrorist entity in Judea and Samaria aka West Bank, needs to have his head examined, this type of thinking is an insidious delusion and illusion, any government considering such a proposal must be replaced. Such a move is suicidal to Israel especially in view of the results from Gaza, with thousands of rockets attacking Israel. Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory no concession of this territory is permitted. Israel is a sovereign country and Israel does not need anybody’s consent to apply its sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and to repatriate all the liberated territory from June 1967. Israel must expedite building housing, industry and roads in Judea and Samaria. No country has the right to interfere and or dictate to Israel how to conduct its internal affairs and or its safety and security. All Archaeological in Israel confirm the history of the Jewish people in the land of Israel and there are no such archaeological findings and evidence about the Arab Palestinians, but there are numerous findings about the Jewish history in The Land of Israel. The Arab Palestinians have no coinage, pottery and any history that validates their fictitious and deceptive claims. In 1925 The Arab Wakf in Jerusalem issued a brochure that stated that there were remnants of King Solomon Temple in Temple Mount.
Let the Arab-Palestinians in Judea and Samaria relocate to Jordan or the homes and territory of over 120,000 sq. km the Arab countries confiscated from the over a million Jewish families they terrorized and expelled from the Arab countries and assets confiscated in the trillions of dollars.
The Arab-Palestinian Authority with its leader Mahmmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen the convicted murderer is a terrorist organization, just like Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Arabs were allocated over 13 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves and the Jews were allocated Palestine aka the Land of Israel 120,000 sq. km. but currently has only 21,000 sq. km. since Jordan took over 77% of the Jewish land allocation.
YJ Draiman
Historically “The Land of Israel” is Jewish Land for about four thousand years and any foreign power that was there, was an occupier and treated the land as occupied territory abused its resources and turned it into a desolate land. The Jewish people who were there for thousands of years were joined by the Jewish people from the Diaspora and turned the Land of Israel into green pastures and a marvel of innovations in Agriculture, technology and medicine. The Arab/Muslims after WWI received over 13 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves and no-one is questioning their territorial borders. The Jewish people were allocated all the territory known as Palestine by the same Allied Supreme power in 1920 San Remo Conference and you also have the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement.
ReplyDeleteThe only solution is a population transfer. If the Arabs cannot live with us in peace they must leave.
The Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families who lived there for over 2,000 years and now were resettled in Israel and comprise today over half the population in Israel. The Arabs confiscated all their assets personal property, businesses, homes including over 120,000 sq. km of real property valued in the trillions of dollars. Let the Arabs in Israel move to those territories and live us alone. How many more scenes of terror, violence, suicide bombing and mayhem like this can we tolerate? Enough is Enough. Let us see some real action and not just talk.
The Arabs expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km of Jewish owned Real Estate valued in the trillions of dollars plus Jordan which is Jewish territory. Most of the Jewish families expelled from Arab/Muslim countries were resettled in the Land of Israel and today comprise over half the population in Israel. It is time to transfer the Arabs out of The Jewish territory everything west of the Jordan River to the property the Arabs confiscated which is valued in the trillions of dollars and to Jordan which is also Jewish territory. The world is unhappy no matter what Israel does, now is the time to exercise our rights to the land with no equivocation. It is about time for Israel to build over 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years and more.
THE ARAB VIEW OF ZIONISM -1900-1920
ReplyDeleteDuring all the period that the Zionists had been without benefit of Balfour Declaration or Mandatory 'assistance the attitude of the Arabs toward the Jewish National Movement had been one of almost unanimous approval. In 1906, Farid Kassab, famous Syrian author, had expressed the view uniformly held by Arabs: "The Jews of the Orient are at home. This land is their only fatherland. They don't know any other." 28 A year later Dr. Gaster reported that he had "held conversations with some of the leading sheikhs, and they all expressed themselves as very pleased with the advent of the Jews, for they considered that with them had come barakat, i.e., blessing, since the rain came in due season." 29 – Read the full article in the link below.
http://yjdraimanarticles.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-arab-view-of-zionism-1900-posted-by.html
(Excerpt from – The Rape of Palestine by William Ziff)
The British Steals The Legal Jewish Territory in Jordan
ReplyDeleteTRANSJORDAN THE JUDENREIN – Practicing Apartheid
No part of this discourages Whitehall from broadcasting the usual paean in 1936 to the beauties of existence in this "peaceful and contented country, blessed with an Arab Emir and Government, and being without a Jewish problem" 9 Calmly shifting gears a few short months later, it acknowledges that "the Emirate of Abdullah is poor, miserably poor, but it does not want the wealth of the Zionists." 10 This in itself was flatly-contradicted by the British statesman, Herbert Morrison, who on returning from a visit to Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1936, told the House that Jews were being kept out of Transjordan "by the wish of the British Government. ,, 11
The fact is that Trans-Jordan is a colony which Great Britain got on the excuse that it was to be part of the Jewish Homeland. The Commander of the Arab Legion is a blue-eyed Englishman named Peake Pasha. The most prominent agent of the all-important British Intelligence Service, Major J. B. Glubb, is stationed there permanently in charge of the desert patrol which keeps the turbulent tribesmen under control. Here in itself is proof of the importance London attaches to ownership of this area. British officials rule as in any other colony, and the word of the British High Commissioner is final. Says the Encyclopedia Britannica: "A considerable increase in the number of British officials and the transfer of the Palestine gendarmerie en bloc to Trans-Jordan resulted in fact in the carrying on of the Administration on Crown Colony lines; and the local Government existing as a façade, exercised little or no independent authority." 12
Read the full article in the link below.
http://yjdraimanarticles.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-british-steals-legal-jewish.html
(excerpt from – The Rape of Palestine by William Ziff)
The 'treaty' between Great Britain and Abdullah covers all of this nicely. "His Highness the Emir agrees to be guided by the advice of His Britannic Majesty in all matters concerning the granting of concessions, the exploitation of natural resources, the construction and operation of railways, and the operation of loans." The Emir may not "raise or maintain in Trans-Jordan or allow be raising or maintaining, any military forces without the consent of His Britannic Majesty." The 'independent
ReplyDeleteEmirate' agrees "to the employment of British officials." England may keep a foreign army on its soil, and has its power of attorney in all matters of international relationship. Laws affecting the State budget, currency, land grants, succession to the throne and changes in the 'Constitution' are to be referred to the advice of Great Britain. Signed March 20, 1928, this 'treaty* completed the Strategical moves by which Transjordan was to be purloined from the Jewish National Home and stuffed in the pocket of Great Britain. Today the Emir Abdullah is a dummy who sits on the knee of a ventriloquist known as the British Resident. It is Abdullah's lips which move, but it is the voice of Downing Street which comes forth.
Calling a spade a spade, the London Times, in its issue of March 29, 1928, declares: "Transjordan therefore has the status equivalent to a protectorate, the only difference being the status of Great Britain, because whereas a Mandate is provisional, the present relationship is permanent"
(Excerpt from – The Rape of Palestine by William Ziff)
To further compound this, the Jews never had a chance of reaching a majority because of the restrictive immigration policy of the British. By contrast, Palestine’s Arab population, which had been declining prior to the Mandate in 1922, grew exponentially as hundreds of thousands of Arabs from all the surrounding countries flocked into the land to advantage of the rapid economic development created by Zionist enterprise.
A Memorandum to the Protestant Monarchs of Europe on the Subject of the Restoration of the Jewish People to the Land of Palestine - Israel." From this date onwards a pro-Jewish Palestinian discussion ran parallel in the London Times with the agitation over the Eastern question.
Jordan is The Arab-Palestine State r5
ReplyDeleteAn Arab Palestinian State was implemented in 1922, when the British took away over three quarters of Jewish allocated territory and gave it to the Arabs as the new State of Jordan and they expelled the Jewish population and confiscated their assets..
Jordan is a country that never existed in history before WWI and nobody is contesting its legitimacy or territorial sovereignty and control. Jordan's territory was taken from land allocated to the Jewish people under international law and treaties and signed by the January 1919 Faisal Weitzmann Agreement. The amount of land taken away from the Jewish people for Jordan is about 78% from the total original allocation under the San Remo treaty of 46,332 sq. miles or 120,000 sq. km. The Arabs received over 6 million sq. miles. The same powers that established 22 Arab States after WWI with over 6 million sq. mi. of territory, which nobody is contesting either, The Supreme Allied powers had re-established the State of Israel in 1920 based on the 1917 Balfour Declaration as international law which emulated Napoleon’s 1799 letter to the Jewish Community in Palestine. The Arabs were allocated over 13 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves. On the other hand, Israel and its Jewish people have over 3700 year history. Many Nations and people are questioning Israel's control of its liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families from their lands; where many of the Jews have lived for over 2,900 years, the Arabs confiscated all their assets, personal assets, businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of real property which is valued in the trillions of dollars. (That includes property and land east of the Jordan River which is now the State of Jordan and no Jews are permitted to live in Jordan. Most of these expelled Jewish families and their children are resettled in Greater Israel and they constitute today over half the population of Israel.
If this is not discrimination against Israel, I do not know what is.
It seems like nobody cares about land violations in other countries in the world, but when it comes to Israel, everyone has a say. Israel's rights in the treaty of San Remo of April 1920 are in affect in perpetuity, it clearly states that the Jewish people are the only ones with political rights in the British Mandate of Palestine and that the Jewish people can live anywhere in the British Mandate for Palestine aka Israel. The UN has no authority to redraw and or recreate countries, it can only recommend (resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing) and if the recommendation is not accepted by all parties, it has no binding affect and no validity or meaning whatsoever.
If the U.S., Europe and other countries will stop meddling, and stop its criticism and involvement in the politics of Israel and the Arabs, than there will be a chance for peace.
We know the great powers are only interested in the OIL and nothing else, which is the bottom line.
In fact sovereignty of the Jews over Palestine aka The Land of Israel West of the Jordan is supported five ways:
1. By the grant of the WWI Allies of exclusive political rights in all of Palestine in trust to World Jewry on April 25, 1920, (see minutes of the conference) intended to vest and implement its sovereignty when the Jews in Palestine had attained a population majority. Prior to that time, England abandoned its trusteeship as the mandatory power, and de jure sovereignty devolved to the Jews who attained a majority not long afterwards in 1950 from the immigration of all the Jews in the Middle East who were forcefully dispossessed by the Arabs of their homes and property where they and their ancestors had lived for over 2,900 years.
2. In the opinion of world acclaimed International Lawyers Julius Stone and Steven Schwebel based on Jordan's conquest of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem in an aggressive war and their liberation by Israel in a defensive war.
ReplyDelete3. Under US and UK treaty law based on the Anglo American Convention of 1924.
4. In the historic way sovereignty was gained, by asserting Israeli sovereignty in 1948 and defending its territory with its blood and treasure, establishing control and stability over its claimed territory and its possession by the Jewish people of Israel.
4a. The Arab Jewish agreement of January 1919 Faisal Weizmann Treaty which acknowledged Palestine as The Re-established Land of Israel.
5. Under Canon law by a gift from God, as shown in the Old Testament.
YJ Draiman
International law is akin to an ongoing discussion about rights. And in this context, well should we challenge loudly those trying to dominate the conversation with strident "legal" condemnations of Israel.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot to be said for the absolute legitimacy and lawfulness of the Jewish presence from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River (and it should of included the land east of the Jordan River up to the Railroad).
The Jewish People's right to its aboriginal homeland is cut from the same cloth as the right of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada to their tribal lands or the right of the Greek People to their historic homeland in Greece.
In addition to such aboriginal rights to Eretz Israel – The Land of Israel; the Jewish People also has treaty rights stemming from a series of declarations, resolutions and treaties from 1917-1923 and The 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement. Furthermore, to be sure, there are also the self-determination rights of the Jewish People, which now apply to all those places where Jews are currently residing as the local population. And, beyond such rights of the Jewish People, the Shamir article is correct in referring to some additional rights that pertain to Israel as a sovereign State on its historical Land of Israel.
When it comes to the many legal disputes touching Israel, Mao's advice is the best -- "Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend!"
Additionally, possession is nine tenths of the law. Israel possesses the territory.
Moreover, the Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children who now reside in Israel and comprise over half the population. The Arab countries terrorized and expelled the million Jewish families, confiscated all their assets; personal, businesses, homes including land of about 120,000 sq. km. which was owned by the Jews for over 2,500 years and is valued in the trillions of dollars.
After WWI the Arabs were allocated and received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves and the Jewish people were allocated the historical Land of Israel aka Palestine which is about 120,000 sq. km. on both sides of the Jordan River.
The British illegally took away over 77% of territory from the land allocated to the Jewish people as their reconstituted Jewish National Home.
Adding to this argument is the fact that the U.N. has no authority to make countries or take away territory from an existing country. The U.N. can only recommend (a non-binding resolution with no legal standing); and if not accepted by all parties it has no affect whatsoever. The U.N. has no right to declare or designate Jewish holy sites as anything else.
If you question the legitimacy and sovereignty of Israel, you must question the legitimacy and sovereignty of Jordan, a new Arab-Palestinian State that never existed before in history, and the other 21 Arab countries on over 12 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves established by the Supreme Allied Powers after WWI, which also reconstituted the historical Land of Israel.
YJ Draiman
"No Jew is entitled to give up the right of establishing [i.e. settling] the Jewish Nation in all of the Land of Israel. No Jewish body has such power. Not even all the Jews alive today [i.e. the entire Jewish People] have the power to cede any part of the country or homeland whatsoever. This is a right vouchsafed or reserved for the Jewish Nation throughout all generations. This right cannot be lost or expropriated under any condition or circumstance. Even if at some particular time, there are those who declare that they are relinquishing this right, they have no power or competence to deprive coming generations of this right. The Jewish nation is neither bound nor governed by such a waiver or renunciation. Our right to the whole of this country is valid, in force and endures forever. And until the Final Redemption has come, we will not budge from this historic right."
ReplyDeleteBEN-GURION'S DECLARATION ON THE EXCLUSIVE AND
INALIENABLE JEWISH RIGHT TO THE WHOLE OF
THE LAND OF ISRAEL:
at the Basle Session of the 20th Zionist Congress at Zurich(1937)
“Jerusalem is the heart and soul of the Jewish people and the capital of Israel for eternity.”
ReplyDeleteFACT IS: Ever since the Jews entered the land of Israel in 1300 BCE and King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel more than 3,000 years ago; then King Solomon built the Jewish Temple, the city has played a central role in Jewish existence. The Western Wall in the Old City is the object of Jewish veneration and the focus of Jewish prayer. Three times a day and in daily blessings, for thousands of years, Jews have prayed “To Jerusalem, thy city, shall we return with joy,” and have repeated the Psalmist’s oath: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” Jerusalem “has known only two periods of true greatness, and these have been separated by 2,000 years. Greatness has only happened under Jewish rule,” a famous writer wrote in Jerusalem. “This is so because the Jews have loved her the most, and have remained constant in that love and devotion throughout the centuries of their dispersion. . . . It is the longest, deepest spiritual love affair in history.” “It is for three thousand years, Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish hope and longing. No other city has played such a dominant role in the history, culture, religion and consciousness of a people as has Jerusalem in the life of Jewry and Judaism. Throughout centuries of exile, Jerusalem remained alive in the hearts of Jews everywhere as the focal point of Jewish history, the symbol of ancient glory, spiritual fulfillment and modern renewal. The Jews for the past 2,000 years have celebrated holidays and observed fast days in memory of Jerusalem, the hope and aspiration to return to Jerusalem and rebuilt the Jewish Temple. At Jewish wedding ceremonies a dish is broken in memory of Jerusalem. This heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be ‘Jerusalem.’ ” “The Jewish people without Jerusalem; is like a human body without a soul”.
YJ Draiman
Arab-Muslims admit Temple Mount and Jerusalem is Jewish Land
ReplyDeleteThis is a small sample of the Islamic literature attesting to the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. Innumerable other writings from other faiths attest to this fact, as well.
Link to 1925 Waqf Temple Mount Guide noting that the First and Second Jewish Temples were located on the Temple Mount
http://www.templeinstitute.org/1925-wakf-temple-mount-guide.pdf
Over a million Jewish families and their children were terrorized and expelled from Arab countries and all their assets confiscated, including homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned land.
It is interesting to note, that Jordan is a country that never existed in history before WWI and nobody is contesting its legitimacy or territorial sovereignty and control. The same powers that established 22 Arab States on over 13 million sq. km. with a wealth of oil reserves, plus Jordan after WWI and re-established the State of Israel based on the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Treaty of 1920 which was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, including the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement.
On the other hand, Israel and its Jewish people have over 4,000 years of history in the Land of Israel aka Palestine.
Many nations and people are questioning Israel's control of its liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families and their children from their countries, confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate, over 790,00 Jewish families and their children of these expelled Jewish people were resettled in Greater Israel and today comprise over half the population in Israel. The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people is over 120,000 sq. km. or 46,333 sq. miles, which is over 6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is in the trillions of dollars.
Transfer the Arab-Palestinians to the confiscated Jewish owned land and homes in Arab countries is a good solution.
Let the 21 Arab countries resettle the Arab Palestinians in the land they confiscated from the Jews which is 6 times the size of Israel (120,000 sq. km.). Provide them with funds they confiscated from the million Jewish people they expelled and let them build an economy, This will benefit both the Arab-Palestinians and the hosting countries, The other alternative is relocate the Arab-Palestinians to Jordan, (originally land allocated for the Jewish people) which is already 80% Arab-Palestinians, and give them funds to relocate and build an economy. This will solve the Arab-Palestinians refugee problem once and for all. It will also reduce hostility and strife in the region.
YJ Draiman
***Authoritative experts who have declared Israel’s presence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan to be legal, include inter alia
ReplyDelete• Judge Schwebel, a former President of the ICJ, who pronounced “As between Israel, acting defensively in 1948 and 1967, on the one hand, and her Arab neighbors, acting aggressively, in 1948 and 1967, on the other, Israel has the better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem.” (See Appendix A andhttp://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id248.html )
• Professor Julius Stone, one of the twentieth century’s leading authorities on the Law of Nations. See http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id160.html
• Eugene W. Rostow, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs between 1966 and 1969 who played a leading role in producing the famous Resolution 242.
See http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id45.html
• Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish Canadian lawyer who spent 20 years researching the legal status of Jerusalem leading to the conclusion on purely legal grounds, ignoring religious claims that Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, by international law. Seehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28qwcVPNy3E
and http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125049…
• William M. Brinton, who appealed against a US district court’s withholding of State Department documents concerning US policy on issues involving Israel and the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip. He showed that none of these areas fall within the definition of “occupied territories” and that any claim that the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, or both, is a Palestinian homeland to which the Palestinians have a ‘legitimate right’ lacks substance and does not survive legal analysis. According to Mr. Brinton no state, other than Israel, can show a better title to the West Bank.
• Sir Elihu Lauterpacht CBE QC., the British specialist in international law, who concludes inter alia that sovereignty over Jerusalem already vested in Israel when the 1947 partition proposals were rejected and aborted by Arab armed aggression.
• Simon H. Rifkind, Judge of the United States District Court, New York who wrote an in depth analysis “The basic equities of the Palestine problem” (Ayer Publishing, 1977) that was signed by Jerome N. Frank, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Second Circuit; Stanley H. Fuld, Judge of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York; Abrahan Tulin, member of the New York Bar; Milton Handler, Professor of law, Columbia University; Murray L. Gurfein, member of the New York Bar; Abe Fortas, former Undersecretary of Interior of the United States and Lawrence R. Eno, member of the New York Bar. They jointly stated that justice and equity are on the side of the Jews in this document that they described as set out in the form of a lawyer’s brief.
United States is "occupied" territory - Not Jerusalem
Washington, D.C. is far more of an "occupied" capital than Jerusalem (Jerusalem has thousands of years of Jewish history and habitation). Europeans after creating new settlements, conquered an entire continent of North America, annihilated the natives, extracted its natural resources, kicked out the Mexicans and called it "America," claiming Washington as its capital. Over six hundred thousand people died in a war that prevented the South from seceding. As regards the rest of the world, Jerusalem is the oldest capital in the world, and it belongs to the Jewish people. The world does not recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish capital, because the world does not recognize the right of Jews to exist. Those liberal Jews in USA and Europe and elsewhere who pander to the non-Jews by endorsing views that deny or compromise the Jewish sovereignty over Greater Israel and hoping that they would be "acceptable" are deluding themselves. It did not help with Nazi Germany or in the past 2,500 years in the Diaspora and it will not help today.
YJ Draiman
“The Jewish community should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on the sufferance. That is the reason why it is necessary that the existence of a Jewish National Home in Palestine should be internationally guaranteed, and that it should be formally recognized to rest upon ancient historic connection.”
ReplyDeletePalestine Facts states that: “The area of the Mandate was originally 118,000 square kilometers (about 46,332 square miles). In 1921, Britain without legal authority took the 91,000 square kilometers of the Palestine Mandate east of the Jordan River, and in violation of Agreements created Trans-Jordan (later the new Arab Palestinian country of Jordan) as a new Arab protectorate. Jews were expelled and barred by law from living or owning property east of the Jordan river, even though that land was over three-fourths of the original Mandate which was allocated to the Jewish homeland.”
ReplyDeleteThe Arab official line before the new “two state solution” became stated policy of Israel and the West, was that the people in Trans-Jordan cum Jordan were indivisible from those Arabs inside Israel proper, Judea and Samaria. In fact there are statements by leading Arabs buttressing the notion that indeed: Jordan is Arab-Palestine and Arab-Palestine is Jordan.
This is the royal decree and sentiments of two of the kings of Jordan.
Arab “Palestine and Jordan are one…” said King Abdullah in 1948.
“The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan,” said King Hussein of Jordan, in 1981.
“Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate,” Prince Hassan of the Jordanian National Assembly was quoted as saying on February 2, 1970.
Abdul Hamid Sharif, Prime Minister of Jordan declared, in 1980, “The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture.”
What are we to conclude from this other than the historical perspective at the time, that being, they (the Arabs) saw themselves as being part of Arab-Palestinian. Around 80% of the Jordanian population today, still see themselves as Arab-Palestinians. Even Yasser Arafat and his Arab PLO thugs looked to Jordan as being a part of their homeland.
Lets face facts, the three state solution has become an intractable mess, there is no room for budging on the Israeli side, every square centimeter given to these Arabs as a permanent part of a second Arab-Palestinian state, spells trouble for the Jewish state as it’s used as a launching pad for further aggression against it. Just like Gaza.
The Arab-Palestinians (which used to mean Jews in Palestine before Israel became a state) are not able to form a state for themselves, because they refuse to accept the responsibility for actually running it. They have proven themselves to be more comfortable in accepting massive amounts of foreign aid, while they continually try to chip away at Israeli legitimacy on the world stage.
Time to end the pretending that these Arab-Palestinians are really serious about wanting a state of their own, and accept the fact that it’s the massive amounts of foreign aid that really interests them most, as well as the hope of one day getting rid of the highly successful Jewish one.
In the main, a well back grounded story of Britain’s colonial intrigues: Give 77% of land that does not belong to them to foreign Hashemite leader and include in the package a military officer, Glubb Pasha, and brigade of ex-British Army mercenaries, supply them with tanks, munitions and give them a free hand in securing the area. Securing also means passing laws that forbid Jews from residing within the territory east of the Jordan River, and from owning land east of the Jordan River (why is it no one condemns Jordan as racist and apartheid, nor condemns Britain for supporting racist /apartheid laws?)
ReplyDeleteAs to Marilyn’s comments: The claims on the Land of Israel inherited in the Old Testaments hold little water, and like assertions by Arab politicians that the Jews were given their piece of Palestine because of the Holocaust, make little difference in the United Nations, nor among the nations of the world. What matters is that Israel was founded by Jews dedicated to building and defending their own country, and legally recognized by the 1920 San Remo Conference, The Faisal Weizmann Agreement of 1919 and the United Nations (of which its resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing), the same organization that consistently, and baseless, condemns them for defending their borders and their right to exist (this is easily explained by examining the list of members in the UN Security Council). Marilyn also errs in claiming that Israel included Jordan – what was included was land east of the Jordan River, but not all of Jordan, which was inhabited by neighboring tribes, such as the Edomites.
The rational solution to the situation today is a 2 states solution: Israel and Palestine (the majority of Palestine consisting of what is Presently the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (interesting that the liberals condemn Israel for wanting to preserve their identity as a Jewish State, while never mentioning that Jordan is a Hashemite kingdom, or that Iran is an Islamic republic – a contradiction in terms!). Arab-Palestine would maintain their capital in Rabat Amman, and work out a joint governance of what is presently called the West Bank/Judea and Samaria, allowing Arab/Palestinians and Jews (Israelis) to reside in the sector (claims from Arab/Palestinians that Jews have no rights to land in Judea and Samaria are fallacious, given the long history of Jewish residence in Havron, which had Arab violence against the Jews since the 1500, and more recent stories of ethnic cleansing of the Gush Emunim settlements during the 1948 War. Arab/Palestinian claims on Gaza are unilateral, as the territory is not desired by Israel or Egypt (Gaza was part of a Jewish region regarding partition, but Israel wants nothing to do with ruling the area. But historically Gaza was Jewish territory.
When everything went astray, and even Israelis abandoned Golda Meir’s definition of a 2 state solution, I do not know, but somehow, we must go back to that definition if we are to attain a resolution in Palestine (Israel, Palestine and Transjordan).
Jews hold title to the Land of Greater Israel even if outnumbered a million to one.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that more foreigners than Jews occupied the Land of Israel during certain periods of time does not diminish true ownership. If my house is invaded by a family ten times larger that mine does that obviates my true ownership?
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem. r9
The Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel.
The Jewish hope and aspiration to return to Jerusalem; and the goal and aspiration to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem – where it was before it was destroyed and desecrated by the enemies of the Jews. Many of the Jewish prayers for thousands of years recite the love of Israel and the Jewish expectation to return to their ancestral land and bring back its glory and holiness. There are fast days and holidays in memory of Jerusalem and the Jewish temples. The Jewish people face Jerusalem when they pray.
At Jewish weddings they break a glass in memory of Jerusalem and the aspiration to return and build the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Every day at the end of the meal the Jews recite a blessing and thank G-d for providing sustenance and beseech G-d to return and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Most Jewish prayers mention our pleadings a beseeching G-d to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
YJ Draiman
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory – No Annexation is required
ReplyDeleteIf anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated and sovereignty applied and treated like any other territory in Israel.
Let me pose an interesting scenario. If you had a country and it was conquered by foreign powers over a period of time. After many years you have taken back you country and land in various defensive wars. Do you have to officially annex those territories? It was always your territory and by retaking control and possession of your territory it is again your original property and there is no need to annex it. The title to your property is valid today as it was many years before.
Annexation only applies when you are taking over territory that was never yours to begin with, just like some European countries annexed territories of other countries.
YJ Draiman
Jews hold title to the Land of Greater Israel even if outnumbered a million to one.
The fact that more foreigners than Jews occupied the Land of Israel during certain periods of time does not diminish true ownership. If my house is invaded by a family
Which is ten times larger that mine does that obviate my true ownership? The Jewish people have a continuous habitation of the Land of Israel for over 3,500 years.
Jewish roots and rights to all the land of Greater Israel are stronger than ever!
“If I am turned out of hearth and home and remain outside one night, I am legally entitled to return the following day. If I suffer for ten, twenty, five thousand or fifty thousand nights, does my right of return stand in inverse relationship to the length of my exile? Quite the contrary; my right to return and recover my freedom becomes stronger in direct proportion to what I have endured, not by virtue of some abstract arithmetic, but because of the nights spent in exile, and because I want my children, to be spared a similar experience.”
YJ Draiman
Alsace-Lorraine
ReplyDeleteTERRITORY, FRANCE
WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
See Article History
Alternative Title: Elsass-Lothringen
Alsace-Lorraine, German Elsass-Lothringen, area comprising the present French départements of Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin, and Moselle. Alsace-Lorraine was the name given to the 5,067 square miles (13,123 square km) of territory that was ceded by France to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-German War. This territory was retroceded to France in 1919 after World War I, was ceded again to Germany in 1940 during World War II, and was again retroceded to France in 1945.
Alsace-Lorraine
Alsace-Lorraine
Alsace-Lorraine.
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Historically, the area was at the centre of Charlemagne’s Frankish empire in the 9th century and later became part of the Germanys of the Holy Roman Empire, remaining a German territory under various sovereignties up to the Thirty Years’ War. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) concluding that war gave control of Alsace-Lorraine to France.
Because of its ancient German associations and because of its large German-speaking population, Alsace-Lorraine was incorporated into the German Empire after France’s defeat in the Franco-German War (1870–71). The loss of Alsace-Lorraine was a major cause of anti-German feeling in France in the period from 1871 to 1914. France also suffered economically from the loss of Alsace-Lorraine’s valuable iron ore deposits, iron- and steelmaking plants, and other industries to Germany.
Under German rule, Alsace-Lorraine was classified as a Reichsland (imperial state) and was denied effective self-government until 1902. Moreover, its population was initially enthusiastic over the new French republic, and German rule remained unpopular for some years among the inhabitants, who continued to protest the German annexation. Thousands of residents who considered themselves French emigrated during this period. By 1905, however, many of Alsace-Lorraine’s Roman Catholics had been alienated by the French republic’s anticlerical policies, and so they shifted their aspirations toward an autonomous Alsace-Lorraine within the German Empire. Thereafter, especially with the grant of a constitution in 1911, some progress was made toward Germanization in the region.
Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France in 1919 after World War I. The French government’s attempts to rapidly assimilate Alsace-Lorraine met with problems, however, especially in France’s plans to substitute state-run schools for the region’s traditional church schools and in its attempts to suppress German newspapers (German being the written language of 75 percent of the inhabitants). As a consequence, Alsace-Lorraine developed a strong “home rule” movement in the 1920s and unsuccessfully sought autonomy within the French Republic.
Early in World War II, the collapse of France in 1940 was followed by the second German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, which was again returned to France in 1945. Since then many of the French prewar governmental policies that had clashed with the region’s particularism have been modified, and the autonomist movement has largely disappeared. Linguistically, the German dialect known as Alsatian remains the lingua franca of the region, and both French and German are taught in the schools.
Here is some information that you need to know about the Arab/Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteThere never has been, there is not now and there never will be a country called Arab “Palestine.”
The Arab/Palestinians/Muslims squatting on Jewish historical land in and around Israel are overwhelmingly either descendants of invaders, illegal immigrants or trespassers.
The term “Palestinian” was popularized after the Six Day War in ’67 in an attempt to delegitimize Israel and deceive and confuse the world at large that they are the legitimate people who belong in the Land of Israel.
There are already 22 Arab/Muslim dominated countries spread out over 6 millions square miles of territory with a wealth of oil reserves, including most of Jordan which was part of the Jewish allocated land by the Supreme Allied Powers and confirmed by the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, thus implemented under the League of Nations in 1922. It also stated that the Jewish people are to set up their own government and none other. The Arabs also terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries and confiscated all their assets; businesses, homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned Real Estate for over 2,700 years, many of the Jewish people died while forced to leave the Arab countries with only the clothes on their backs.
The two State solution; was implemented in violation of international Agreements and Treaties in 1922 by the British, when they illegally reallocated over three quarters of Jewish allocated Land mandated by The Supreme Allied Powers to the Arabs as the new Arab-Palestinian State, east of the Jordan River. They expelled all the Jews and confiscated their assets and forbid Jews to reside or own property in Jordan.
The Arabs/Muslims, who were allocated and received over 12 million sq. km. of territory with a wealth of oil reserves after WWI by The Supreme Allied Power, are not interested in creating a 22nd Arab controlled country.
Their only desire is to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.
It state in the Muslim Quran:
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel “Dwell securely in the land (of … (Holy Quran 17:104).
(Surah Al-Ma’ida, verse 21), and the other (Surah Al-Shara’a, verse 59) says that the land was bequeathed to the Jews.
Under International Law and Treaties – An Arab/Palestinian State cannot be established in Israel on Jewish land allocated to the Jewish people under the 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement, the San Remo international agreement of 1920 which allocated about 120,000 sq. km. which is Palestine aka The Land of Israel and implemented by the League of Nations and signed by 51 member states, but Israel today has only about 21,000 sq. km..
Jordan is the Arab-Palestinian State – The land originally allocated to the Jewish people,
The British violated the agreement and gave it to the Arabs.
YJ Draiman
Arabs expelled over a million Jewish families from all their countries and confiscated all their assets.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Middle Eastern background, from Arab and Islamic countries. The forced migration started in the late 19th century, but accelerated after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. According to official Arab statistics, over 995,000 Jewish families were forced out of their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970’s. Some 750,000 Jewish families resettled in Israel, forced to leave behind personal property, businesses, homes and Jewish-owned real-estate forced to leave behind in Arab lands has been estimated at 120,000 square kilometers (six times the size of the State of Israel). Valued today in the trillions dollars.
Not abused? I feel like swearing here. You can bet your rear end they were abused.
Patricia Metzger’s campaign to achieve justice sheds light on a little-discussed aspect of the Israeli-Arab conflict: In the wake of the War of Independence and the establishment of Israel, two major population movements took place in the Middle East. The one that is frequently mentioned is the Arab/Palestinian exodus, but at the same time over one million Jewish families were forced to leave Arab countries where they had lived for hundreds of years. According to official Arab statistics, due to persecution, some 995,000 Jewish families were forced to leave those countries from 1948 to the beginning of the 1970’s, and about 750,000 of them were absorbed and resettled in Israel. For the sake of comparison, the United Nations data estimate the original population of Arab-Palestinian refugees at 585,000.
Because we had no home for nearly two thousand years, Israel made itself independent of its Arab-British oppressors in 1948. In that year, another great Jewish Exodus occurred, leading to a large increase in the population of Israel and the decimation of some of the oldest Jewish communities on earth.
1947 Text of Law drafted by Political Committee of Arab League
ReplyDelete1. Beginning with November 28, 1947, all Jewish citizens of (Name of Arab Country) will be considered as members of the Jewish minority State of Palestine and will have to register with the authorities of the region wherein they reside, giving their names, the exact number of members in their families, their addresses, the names of their banks and the amounts of their deposits in these banks. This formality is to be accomplished within seven days.
2. Beginning with (November 28, 1947), bank accounts of Jews will be frozen. These funds will be utilized in part or in full to finance the movement of resistance to Zionist ambitions in Palestine.
3. Beginning with (November 28, 1947), only Jews who are subjects of foreign countries will be considered as “neutrals”. These will be compelled either to return to their countries, with a minimum of delay, or be considered as Arabs and obliged to accept active service with the Arab army.
4. Jews who accept active service in Arab armies or place themselves at the disposal of those armies, will be considered as “Arabs”.
5. Every Jew whose activities reveal that he is an active Zionist will be considered as a political prisoner and will be interned in places specifically designated for that purpose by police authorities or by the Government. His financial resources, instead of being frozen, will be confiscated.
6. Any Jew who will be able to prove that his activities are anti-Zionist will be free to act as he likes, provided that he declares his readiness to join the Arab armies.
7. The foregoing (para.6) does not mean that those Jews will not be submitted to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this law.
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