Levy Report on whether settlements in Judea , Samaria and East Jerusalem
are illegal
This is the conclusion that World Jewry has had as of 1920,
a Jewish National Home in all of Palestine ,
or since 1922 at least in that part of Palestine
west of the Jordan River . That National Home was always
intended to be a prelude to a reconstituted Jewish State in Palestine .
It was a part of the mandate system provided for in the League of Nations
Covenant or charter, Article 22. These mandated areas were areas ruled from
afar for many years and were intended to be helped by more 9 established states
to become self--‐governing
states when they were found to be ready for it.
Recent Levy Report on whether settlements in Judea , Samaria and East Jerusalem are illegal I started my own inquiry and analysis several years ago. It was commenced before the recent publication of the report of the Levy Commission [1] finding that Jewish Settlements in Judea and Samaria were not illegal as Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention [2] prohibiting the "deportation or transfer" of its citizens was not applicable to decisions of individual Israeli citizens to move their place of residence. Permitting them to do so or even facilitating the relocation was not the proscribed exercise of State Power. The Levy Report held that the 4th Geneva Convention was directed solely at prohibiting the exercise of state power. The report also held that the claim by Israel to the ownership of the political rights to this territory was a good claim based on the 1920 San Remo Resolution and on the British Mandate for Palestine as of 1922 [3] because The San Remo decision, a treaty among the Principal Allied War Powers, had adopted the 1917 Balfour Declaration of 10 British Policy [4] with the result that it had now become International Law. The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine , providing detail for administering the content of the Balfour Declaration [5] confirmed the San Remo agreement as the source of Jewish political or national rights to Palestine , with a new Article 25 intended to limit Jewish settlement East of the Jordan River . Other opinions reaching the same conclusion In the course of my own inquiry, I learned that before I had started, Dr. Jacques Gauthier had compiled a monumental 1400 page doctoral thesis, [6] Dr. Gauthier's work was followed by a legal tome of 732 pages written by Howard Grief, Esq. a Canadian lawyer now residing in Israel.[7] Grief's book was followed by that of a non--‐lawyer, Mr. Salomon Benzimra of Toronto, who stated in a much shorter and more readable work — with helpful maps — the factual premises leading to the legal conclusions of Gauthier and Grief. His book was published in Kindle by Amazon in November, 2011. [8] My own view was initially published on--‐line in a blog — Think--‐Israel.org — but thereafter, with greater documentation, in a two part op ed in a conservative newspaper in Israel known as Arutz Sheva. [9] My legal opinion was followed by the opinion of Dr. Cynthia Wallace,[10] who had been retained by a Christian Evangelical group. Finally, a recent report by the Levy Commission authorized by the current Prime 11 Minister of Israel [English translation of the legal arguments in the Levy Report (updated) [11] contained the legal opinions of three distinguished Israeli jurists. One was Justice Edmund Levy, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. These jurists, for the first time, delivered an opinion on the status of Judea , Samaria and East Jerusalem that was not dominated by an Israeli left wing Labour Government. All these opinions have only minor differences and reach the same conclusion — that World Jewry owns the political or national rights to all of Palestine West of the Jordan , and possibly some of that east of the Jordan as well. Legal opinions reaching the same conclusion, to my knowledge, go back at least to 1993 [12] so it cannot be said to be a recent politically inspired fabrication as some of its critics have charged. See especially, "Israel's Rights to Samaria" [13] and excellent articles by Douglas Feith and Elliott A. Green.[14] Feith was later the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy under Rumsfeld in the George W Bush Administration; Elliott Green is an Israeli researcher. The critics with this view have responded ad hominem but few have raised issues of fact or law. More recently I have encountered the opinion of the acclaimed international lawyer, the late Julius Stone of Australia , the author of Israel and Palestine : Assault on the Law of Nations. The major points of the Levy Report 12 In the Levy Report, the first issue was whether Jewish settlements in Judea , Samaria , and East Jerusalem , three areas invaded by the Arab Legion in 1948 and illegally occupied until 1967, were unlawful. The Israeli Labour Government lawyer, Theodor Meron [15] had suggested the proper law to apply was the law of "belligerent occupation." Belligerent occupation occurs when a belligerent state invades the territory of another sovereign state with the intention of holding the territory at least temporarily. That law is based on Article 43 of the 4th Hague Convention of 1907 that assumes that land being occupied has a legitimate sovereign. It is not applicable because Jordan was illegally occupying it after an aggressive invasion in 1948. Another Labour Party lawyer, Talia Sasson, [16] also claimed the occupation was illegal, also assumed belligerent occupation, and strongly criticized the settlements. But even if belligerent occupation were found applicable, there would have to be shown that under the Geneva Convention the state of Israel had "deported or transferred" the "settlers". These "settlers" [17] were individuals who had decided on their own for economic or religious reasons to move to a new place to live outside the 1949 Armistice "Green Line". Some of them were re--‐settlers, who just wanted to return to their homes — after the area had been liberated. Their homes were in a place that had been illegally occupied by Jordan and they had been expelled by Jordan in 1948 or thereafter. They clearly were not "deported" by Israel and if they relocated under their own motivation 13 for patriotic reasons, religious reasons or just to go back to the home from which they were expelled in 1948, no state had "transferred" them. They simply moved for their own reasons. The term "transfer" must be distorted to be applied to situations it simply was not intended to cover such as a movement of that kind. The 4th Geneva Convention is directed at state action, not the action of individuals. The earlier opinions of Labour Government lawyers took a Convention that was directed at states and attempted to apply it to individuals by holding that it meant that the State of Israel was required to prevent its Jewish citizens from moving where they wanted to even though preventing them from doing so would violate the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 13 and 15(2).[18] One of the authors of the Levy Report had in 2011 written about the interpretation that distorted the word "transfer".[19] After finding that the Geneva Convention did not apply, the Levy Commission looked to determine the state that did have sovereignty over the area conquered by the Arab Legion in 1948.[20] In 1948, the Arab Legion, acting as the army of transJordan that later became the Nation State of Jordan, invaded the area that had been ruled by the British Mandatory government for Palestine as the trustee under the Mandate for Palestine. It was soon after the Mandate or trust had been abandoned by its trustee, Great Britain . Israel had announced its independence and was ruling as the reconstituted State of Israel as 14 had been recommended by the UN General Assembly Resolution 181.[21] The Arab Legion was an Army consisting in the main of Arab transJordanian soldiers but they were supplied with arms by the British and led by British Officers under the command of British General Glubb, (Glubb Pasha) even though Britain the US and many other countries had embargoed arms to Israel. For some 19 years, from 1948 to 1967, Jordan illegally occupied what had been Judea , Samaria and East Jerusalem . Under its rule all the 58 synagogues in the area but one were destroyed; some 38,000 tombstones from the Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives were broken or defaced; all Jews were expelled from the area it acquired. Jordan 's promises in the 1948 Armistice Agreement to permit visits by Christians and Jews to their holy places were not kept. In 1967, when the IDF reached the Western Wall of the Temple Mount , they found a latrine had been built against it. While the former leftist Labour Government lawyers had held after 1967 that Israeli was holding the territory under the Law of Belligerent Occupation, it is hard to see how they arrived at that conclusion. That doctrine only applies to belligerent occupation against a lawful sovereign in an area. Only two countries in the whole world, Britain and Pakistan had recognized Jordan 's sovereignty over what they renamed the "West Bank ". All of Jordan 's territory dating back to before 1948 was on the East Bank of the River Jordan. Perhaps they renamed the area the Israelis had liberated — 15 called Judea , Samaria and East Jerusalem since historic times — "The West Bank" because they would look silly claiming that the Jews were illegally occupying Judea . (Hats off to Professor Steven Plaut) The San Remo Resolution Israel 's roots in International Law start in the San Remo Resolution of 1920 and not as most assume, in the UN General Assembly Resolution of 1947. It was the latter that recommended Partition of Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state. In that resolution Jerusalem and the nearby holy places were to be held separately as a corpus separatum at least temporarily under control of the UN. It was a recommendation that had no force and no effect because one of the parties it was addressed to, the Arabs, rejected it and went to war. What is International Law International Law is created by treaties (also called "conventions) between and among states or by long standing custom. International Law cannot be created by the UN. The UN General Assembly does not have that authority; nor does any international entity. The International Court of Justice has no authority to create International law. This is particularly true where International Law recognizes sovereignty over areas such as Palestine . That is because the UN Charter in Article 80 says in pertinent part, "...nothing in this 16 Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties. [22] Its being saved is also the consequence of the legal doctrines of "acquired legal rights" and of "estoppel. As explained by Howard Grief "the principle of 'acquired legal rights' which, as applied to the Jewish people, means that the rights they acquired or were recognized as belonging to them when Palestine was legally recognized by 52 nations as the Jewish National Home [as a prelude to a reconstituted Jewish State] are not affected by the termination of the treaty or the acts of international law which were the source of those rights. This principle already existed when the Anglo--‐American Convention came to an end simultaneously with the termination of the Mandate for Palestine on May 14--‐15, 1948. It has since been codified in Article 70(1)(b) of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. This principle of international law would apply even if one of the parties to the treaty failed to perform the obligations imposed on it, as was the case with the British government in regard to the Mandate for Palestine . The reverse side of the principle of acquired legal rights is the doctrine of estoppel which is also of great importance in preserving Jewish national rights. This doctrine prohibits any state from denying what it previously admitted or recognized in a treaty or other 17 international agreement. In the Convention of 1924, the United States recognized all the rights recognized as belonging to the Jewish people under the Mandate, in particular the right of Jewish settlement anywhere in Palestine or the Land of Israel . Therefore the US government is legally estopped today from denying the right of Jews in Israel to establish settlements in Judea , Samaria and Gaza , which have been approved by the government of Israel ." [23] Article 80 is in UN Chapter XII that gives the UN the authority to establish and administer trust territories. That is pertinent because Israel once was a "mandate". The UN calls them "trusteeships". "Mandate" is what the League of Nations , the UN's predecessor in world government called an area placed in trust until it was capable of self government. Recognition of this political or national right was saved by Jews concerned about the rights under the British Mandate for Palestine when the UN was given authority to deal with trusteeships as the Mandate was a trusteeship under the League of Nations name. [24] The Paris Peace Talks and the decision at San Remo To understand the San Remo Agreement we must go back in time to WWI when the Turkish Ottoman Empire entered the War on the side of Germany . Germany and Turkey lost that war. They entered into an Armistice Agreement on November 11, 1918 . As the holder of territory after being the winner of a defensive war the 18 Principal Allied War Powers — The British Commonwealth, France, the US, Italy and Japan — were entitled under International Law of long standing custom to occupy the Ottoman Empire until a peace treaty was signed that delineated boundaries agreed on by the parties. After the Paris Peace talks that were held commencing January 4th, 1919 the Principals determined to establish a world government to maintain peace to be entitled The League of Nations . Its Covenant or charter was Part One of the Treaty of Versailles. The participants to the Paris Peace talks included the Principal War Powers and European claimants primarily interested in territories in Europe . Even before the end of the war, in November, 1917 the Lord Balfour Policy had been established as British policy that World Jewry would be the beneficiary of the trust of the “political” or “national rights” to Palestine . These are the rights that entitle political self--‐ determination. Both Arabs and Jews interested in territories in the Middle East were also present at the Peace Talks in Paris and submitted their claims there. The Arabs claims were made under the auspices of King Ibn Hussayn, however they were presented by Lawrence of Arabia and also through George Antonius. Antonius brought up Arab and French claims conflicting with the Balfour Declaration, notably claims based on the Hussayn--‐McMahon correspondence and the secret Sykes--‐Picot Agreement. Antonius had made a careful study of these and his arguments initially seemed quite 19 convincing that the British had sold the same horse three times. The Zionist Organization made the following claim for a two--‐step process in which the territory would first become a Jewish National Home and then would become a reconstituted Jewish state. "Palestine shall be placed under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment there of the Jewish National Home and ultimately render possible the creation of an autonomous Commonwealth, 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. [emphasis added] To this end the Mandatory Power shall inter alia: Promote Jewish immigration and close settlement on the land, the established rights of the present non--‐ Jewish population being equitably safeguarded. Accept the cooperation in such measures of a Council representative of the Jews of Palestine and of the world that may be established for the development of the Jewish National Home in Palestine and entrust the organization of Jewish education to such Council On being satisfied that the constitution of such Council precludes the making of private profit, offer to the Council in priority any concession for public works or for the development of natural resources that it may be 20 found desirable to grant. The Mandatory Power shall encourage the widest measure of self--‐government for localities practicable in the conditions of the country There shall be forever the fullest freedom of religious worship for all creeds in Palestine . There shall be no discrimination among the inhabitants with regard to citizenship and civil rights, on the grounds of religion, or of race" [25] What the Zionist organization was asking for in Paris in 1919 was essentially the already decided British policy in the 1917 Balfour Declaration that the Principal War Powers later adopted at San Remo in 1920: That the Jews wanted essentially a protectorate that would ultimately transition into a reconstituted state was well known as even the small Jewish population in Palestine did not believe it was ready to exercise sovereignty. As reported in the Voltaire Network, a somewhat anti--‐ semitic news network, of the three things the Jewish People wanted, one was "the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine as a prelude to a reconstituted Jewish state". [emphasis added] [26] The Principal War Powers were able to complete their review and implement its action on the claims over European territories in the Paris Peace Talks. The written decision is within part II of the Treaty of Versailles. They needed to extend their deliberations to decide on the claims on what had been Ottoman territory in the Middle East . To do just that, they met 21 again in San Remo , Italy in April, 1920 and dealt with the Arab and Jewish claims on April 24th and 25th. At the end of that meeting, the claims were res judicata. The WWI Principal War Powers decided to recognize the then current Arab inhabitants of Syria and Mesopotamia as the beneficial owners of the political powers for those countries but adopt the British Balfour policy and recognize World Jewry as the beneficial owner of the political rights to Palestine . Three documents recorded the decision of the Principal War Powers on Palestine : the Treaty of Sevres, the Treaty of Lausanne, and the San Remo Resolution. Article 95 of the Treaty of Sevres was confirmed by the later Treaty of Lausanne as by that time the cession — transfer of sovereignty to the mandatory power, a formal giving up of rights, especially by a state — in Asia was a fait accompli and Articles 16 and 30 of the latter treaty left Turkey's relinquishment of its sovereignty over territories in Asia unchanged. The San Remo Resolution was also a writing that incorporated the decision of the Principal War Powers on those competing claims to Palestine adopting the Balfour Declaration in terms that were left to be further spelled out in the Mandate for Palestine . But the British Balfour Policy, while recognizing the Jews ownership of the political rights to Palestine , did not want them to exercise sovereignty immediately. Nor did the Jews want to do so. That is because as of 1917 when the Balfour Policy was being considered by the British, the 22 Jews in all of Palestine were only 60,000 population out of a total population of 600,000 as estimated by the British Foreign Office (BFO). As long ago as 1845, the Jews had had a plurality of the population of Jerusalem and in 1863 a majority of the population there. But in all of Palestine , as of 1917, the BFO estimated Jewish population at only 10% of the total. Critics of the Balfour Policy had argued that a government ruled by a "people" that was only a 10% minority would be "antidemocratic". The British Foreign Ooffice (“BFO”) countered this argument by saying that even though Britain agreed with the "antidemocratic" argument in principle, as applied to the proposed Balfour policy the argument was "imaginary". In a memorandum of September 19, 1917 , Arnold Toynbee and Lewis Namier, speaking for the BFO, said that the political rights would initially be placed in trust — the trustee likely being England or the United States . The trustee would have legal dominion over the political rights and although the Jews would have a beneficial interest, the legal interest would not vest until such time as the Jews had attained a majority population in Palestine and were as fully capable of exercising sovereignty as a modern European state. Their decision was later incorporated in article 95 of the treaty of Sevres by a cession of Ottoman sovereignty over Palestine to that trustee, incorporated in the San Remo Resolution and to be defined in greater detail in the Mandate for Palestine.[27] 23 This same recommendation for a two step process was incorporated in the discussion in the Briefing Document of the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, in 1919. "3. It is recommended that the Jews be invited to return to Palestine and settle there, being assured by the Conference of all proper assistance in so doing that may be consistent with the protection of the personal (especially the religious) and the property rights of the non--‐Jewish population, and being further assured that it will be the policy of the League of Nations to recognize Palestine as a Jewish state as soon as it is a Jewish state in fact. "It is right that Palestine should become a Jewish state, if the Jews, being given the full opportunity, make it such. It was the cradle and home of their vital race, which has made large spiritual contribution to mankind, and is the only land in which they can hope to find a home of their own; they being in this last respect unique among significant peoples. "At present, however, the Jews form barely a sixth of the total population of 700,000 in Palestine , and whether they are to form a majority, or even a plurality, of the population in the future state remains uncertain. Palestine , in short, is far from being a Jewish country now. England , as mandatory, can be relied on to give the Jews the privileged position they should have without sacrificing the rights of non--‐Jews." [Note #12, p. 113.] 24 Woodrow Wilson had stated in 1919 "I am persuaded 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." A Mandate is a trust The term "Mandate" applied in this context is confusing. It seems to mean an "order". But construed in the light of Article 22 of the Covenant or Charter of the League of Nations, it is clear that in the case of Mandates created as envisioned by Article 22 of the League Covenant or charter, such as the Mandates for Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia, it means a device which was created under the British legal concepts of trusts and guardianships.
This was the conclusion in May of 1921, about one year after San Remo , by a British barrister and member of the NY bar Duncan Campbell Lee in his lecture at University College , London University entitled "The Mandate for Mespotamia and the Principle of Trusteeship in English Law." [Note #24] If the Mandate is a trust, what is the trust res, the thing placed in trust? It must be the political or national rights to Palestine . The most important question is "Who is the beneficiary of the trust? All who have looked at the trust and compared it with trusts for Syria and Mesopotamia have concluded that it is World Jewry. Compare it yourself with the Mandate for Syria and the Mandate for Mesopotamia . For the latter, "This Organic 25 law shall be formed in
agreement with the native authorities and shall take into
account the rights, interests and wishes of all the Population inhabiting the
mandated territory,
(Article 1 of the Mandate for Syria
and The Lebanon )
For Mesopotamia , now Iraq ,
the mandate provided:
This Organic law shall be framed
in consultation with the native authorities and shall take
into account the rights, interests and wishes of all the population of the
mandated territory.
(Article 1 of the Mespotamia [Iraq ]
Mandate. [emphasis added}
However in the Palestine
Mandate,
Article 2 says "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 establishment of self governing institutions"
[emphasis added].
And the preamble states
"Whereas the Principle Allied Powers have also agreed
that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration
originally made on November 2, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty
[The Balfour Declaration] and adopted by the said Powers in favor of the
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being
clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice
the civil and religious rights of the non--‐Jewish communities in Palestine
... and Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection
of the Jewish people
26
with Palestine
and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country;
..."
Compare the Mandates
It seems clear that in the other mandates, the rights, interests
and wishes of the then current inhabitants are to be taken into account but in
Palestine Mandate they were ignored in favor of a Jewish National Home in which
solely the advice of the Zionist Organization was to be taken into account
(Mandate Article 4).
In the Palestine Mandate only Jewish immigration was
expressly required to be facilitated with the result that eventually a Jewish population
majority would have been attained.
(Mandate article 6)
It therefore appears that the Jewish National Home was a
beneficial interest in the political rights to Palestine ,
to mature into a later legal interest in those rights and sovereignty for them.
However for the non Jews in the existing population, it
provided only protection for their civil and religious rights after Jewish sovereignty
was achieved.
It is Jewish immigration alone that must be facilitated.
It is the Zionist Organization alone reflecting the rights,
interests and wishes of World Jewry that was the appointed advisor to the Administration
set up by the trustee to administer the Mandate.
Balfour resigned as foreign secretary following the Paris
Conference in 1919, but continued in the Cabinet as lord president of the
council.
In a memorandum of August
11, 1919
27
addressed to new Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, he stated ..."All
of the other engagements contained pledges that the Arab or Muslim populations
could establish national governments of their own choosing according to the
principle of self--‐determination.
Balfour explained:
"...in Palestine
we do not propose to even go through the form of consulting the wishes of the
present (majority) inhabitants of the country ..."Balfour stated
explicitly to Curzon:
"The Four Great Powers [Britain ,
France, Italy
and the United States ]
are committed to Zionism.
And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in
age--‐long
traditions, in present needs, and future hopes, of far profounder import than
the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient
land.
In my opinion that is right."
*****
He continued:
"I do not think that Zionism will hurt the Arabs, but
they will never say they want it.
Whatever be the future of Palestine
it is not now an 'independent nation', nor is it yet on the way to become one.
Whatever deference should be paid to the views of those
living there, the Powers in their selection of a mandatory do not propose, as I
understand the matter, to consult them."..."If Zionism is to
influence the Jewish problem throughout the world, Palestine
must be made available for the largest number of Jewish immigrants"[28]
Was the League of Nations creator or
settler of the trust?
No it was the Principal Allied Powers who met at 28
It is they who by winning the war had the authority to
dispose of the territories as they saw fit.
It is also those Powers, not the League who accepted Britain 's offer to serve as Mandatory Power or Trustee at San Remo . A Trustee has fiduciary obligations Britain 's offer and the Principal Allied Power's acceptance of Britain as Trustee on April 25, 1920 created a fiduciary relationship between the beneficiary, World Jewry, and the Trustee. This principle is so well recognized in British and American law it needs no citation. It created a duty that required Britain to give priority to the beneficiary's interest over its own economic and political interests. The agreement between the Grantor and the Trustee was effective in April, 1920 not 1922, the date when the parties agreed the Mandate would become effective. This raises a question on whether Britain violated its fiduciary responsibilities when it eliminated from the political rights being placed in trust those pertaining to Eastern Palestine . What was the role of the League of Nations ? Balfour saw it only as the instrument to carry out this policy. Balfour, on presenting the Mandate to the League of Nations stated: "Remember that a mandate is a self--‐imposed limitation by the conquerors on the sovereignty which they obtained over conquered territories. It is imposed by 29 the Allied and Associated Powers on themselves in the interests of what they conceived to be the general welfare of mankind...." "The League of Nations is not the author of the policy, but its instrument.... ". Britain 's role was that of the Mandatory or trustee. But the conquerors, the Principal Allied Powers, did not give the political rights to World Jewry as a gift. The political rights were recognized as belonging to the Jews because of the long "historical connection of the Jewish People with Palestine " a history extending over some 3,700 years with a continuous presence of Jews during all that time. Article 95, Treaty of Sevres —was it legally effective? The Turks had regrouped and fought the Allies again over territories in Europe . So the Treaty of Sevres which also covered those areas was never ratified by Turkey but was superseded by the Treaty of Lausanne. By that time the decisions pertaining to the Middle East were a fait accompli. By not changing things the Treaty of Lausanne, in Article 16 and 30 ratified Article 95 of the treaty of Sevres that was the ruling of the Principal War Powers on the competing claims of the Arabs and Jews. That ended any claim of the Ottomans and left its status up to the other parties concerned. Article 95 had ceded Ottoman sovereignty over Palestine to the Mandatory Power in trust for the Jews. Nota bene that the Mandates for Syria and Mesopotamia were also established in that treaty. The Syrian Mandate was subsequently divided 30 into two, a Syrian Mandate into which the Muslims were to be located, and Lebanon for the Christians. The British truncated the Jewish Political Rights But an interesting thing happened between the time of the meeting in San Remo and the confirmation of the League Mandate for Palestine . The language of the Mandate was changed to deal differently with Palestine east of the Jordan River known as "transJordan' in contrast to cisJordan that referred to Palestine west of the Jordan , between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea . An Article 25 had been inserted in paragraph 25 of the later 1922 draft, as it was presented to the League by Britain . Britain had on April 25, 1920 agreed to assume the responsibilities of a fiduciary. The later draft provided for temporarily suspending Jewish settlement in transJordan. How did this come about? King Hussayn who was then ruler in the Hedjaz in the Arabian Peninsula had four sons. Believing that his agreement with the British resulting from his correspondence with McMahon would give him a wide area covering Syria and Mesopotamia (now Iraq ) as well as the Arabian peninsula , he told his son Feisal that he would rule in Syria and Abdullah to my recollection in Iraq . The third son would inherit Hussayn's throne and the fourth one was not interested in positions of power. In the secret Sykes--‐Picot agreement, the Governments of Europe split 31 up the former Ottoman territory into spheres of influence. England was to get Palestine and Mesopotamia (now Iraq ), and France would get Syria . Immediately after the war, England had placed Feisal on the throne in Syria . When he asserted independence, France was offended and after the Battle of Maysalun, it deposed Feisal. Abdullah, who was very warlike, marched his army into transJordan and made ready to attack Damascus . Churchill did not want the Arabs to war against the French so he gave the throne of Iraq to Feisal. The story can be filled in from the Diary of Sir Alec Kirkbride, one of three British officers who were told after WWI to set up governments in transJordan. After he had set up a government Kirkbride was warned that Abdullah was marching his army toward his area and wired the British headquarters in Jerusalem . They wired back telling Kirkbride to ignore the warning as Abdullah would never invade a territory being ruled by His Majesty's government. When Abdullah did, in fact, show up, Kirkbride had only a few policeman to help him and wisely decided not to fight. He wired Jerusalem once again and this time His Majesty's government, decided that it was a fait accompli. At a meeting in Cairo on March 21, 1921 Churchill decided the best way out of this problem was to limit the political rights of the Jews to Palestine west of the Jordan . Kirkbride then chuckles over the "remarkable discovery" made by the government that the framers of the Balfour policy never really wanted to give all of Palestine to World Jewry for its Jewish National Home. Why then did the Toynbee--‐ 32 Namier memorandum predating the Balfour Declaration assume that the 600,000 total population of all of Palestine would be under Jewish rule but for putting the political rights in trust? [29] As for the Hussayn--‐McMahon correspondence, George Antonius claimed that the British had promised King Ibn Hussayn the rule of Syria , and Palestine as well as the Arabian Peninsula if he got the Arab tribesmen to revolt against the Ottomans. But as shown by Isaiah Friedman, Hussayn had told McMahon that he would get some 258,000 fighters to fight on behalf of the British and at the most came up with about 5,000.[30] It appears there was a failure of consideration for any promise McMahon had made. There was a question on whether Hussayn was promised any territory that his own fighters had not conquered. And in fact in Syria and Palestine none of the Arabs fought on the side of the British and many fought for the Ottomans. Finally assuming these were not a problem there was a dispute over the territory that Hussayn was promised even though his fighters had conquered it. A line was drawn that would eliminate territory to the west and south of the line as being an area that should be under the control of others and Palestine was excluded and according to the British, Hussayn understood that Palestine was excluded. Moreover the British also contended that the Hussayn--‐McMahon Correspondence had never matured into a final agreement. 33 The change in the Mandate decided after San Remo in March, 1921 was worded only to be a temporary suspension of Jewish settlement in transJordan but transJordan eventually matured into the country of Jordan and was eventually ceded to Abdullah and his Hashemite tribe even though Abdullah and his Tribe was a "foreign power" from the Hedjaz of the Arabian Peninsula, expressly prohibited from receiving any of the political rights in trust. This, the 1922 White Paper was the first example of England breaking its obligations to the Jews. It would do so again and again in the White Papers of 1930 and 1939 even after the confirmation of the Mandate by the League of Nations in July, 1922. Britain had volunteered at San Remo in April to be the mandatory power or trustee of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine . As a trustee it owed the beneficial owner of the trust res the obligations of a fiduciary. A fiduciary's obligation is to prefer its beneficiary's interests over those of its own. Yet England in July, 1922 had persuaded the League to change the terms of the trust the Principals had agreed to at San Remo , to solve Britain 's own political difficulties with France . This cost the beneficiary, World Jewry. some 40% of the territory extending east to the Hejaz Railway that had initially been recognized by the Principal Allied Powers as the area they wanted recognized as Jewish. Britain 's retreat from the Balfour policy. 34 Through the meeting at San Remo , all the Principal War Powers were very protective of the rights of World Jewry. When at San Remo , the French wanted to amend the "savings clause" saving the "civil and religious rights" of non Jewish communities when the Jews ultimately exercised sovereignty in Palestine , to add "political rights" the British and the other Principal War Powers declined to accept the amendment. France was satisfied with a "process verbal" a side agreement noted in the minutes explaining that the savings clause meant that the non--‐Jews would not have to surrender any of their rights. That was acceptable to the others because all knew that the Arabs in Palestine had never exercised sovereignty there. The only "people" in Palestine that had exercised self government in Palestine was the Jews. After the Churchill White Paper of 1922 diminished Jewish rights East of the Jordan River , Perfidious Albion continued to abuse its position as Mandatory Power or trustee in the British Passfield White Paper of 1930 and the MacDonald White Paper of 1939. In 1939 it adopted a British White paper blocking further Jewish immigration into Palestine West of the Jordan at the request of the Arabs. It did this despite an express requirement of the Mandate or trust that the trustee should "facilitate" Jewish immigration" into Palestine so that the Jews would ultimately become the majority population and the Jewish National Home could change into a reconstituted Jewish state. The 1939 White Paper would freeze Jewish population at about a one third minority. It contemplated a grant of self government to 35 the population of Palestine in 1949 but with Jewish immigration blocked, there would still be an Arab majority. Many of those who had participated in the original deliberations on the Balfour policy that had been adopted at San Remo strongly objected. David Lloyd--‐ George who had been the Prime Minister of England then, characterized this action as "an act of national perfidy which will bring dishonor to the British name." Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons, condemned the Paper as "plainly a breach and repudiation of the Balfour Declaration" and he referred to it as "another Munich " (Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister in 1939). Harry Truman, then a U.S. Senator also criticized the 1939 White Paper as a "repudiation of British obligations" and President Franklin Roosevelt expressed his "dismay [at] the decisions of the British Government regarding its Palestine Policy". That 1939 White Paper even blocked the sale of property in Palestine to the Jews. The MacDonald 1939 White Paper was Illegal But even more importantly, the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission whose duty it was to oversee the Mandatories appointed by the League, was unanimous that the interpretation on which the 1939 36 White Paper was based was inconsistent with the interpretation previously placed on it by the Mandatory. That Commission, by a majority, ruled that the interpretation was inconsistent with the express obligations of the Mandate, i.e. to facilitate Jewish immigration into Palestine so that the Jews would become a majority and could become a reconstituted Jewish State. Under the terms of the 1939 White Paper a single Arab majority state was contemplated by 1949, completely abandoning the objective of the Balfour Agreement. This was a unilateral measure without the prior consent of the Council of the League of Nations , therefore violating Article 27 of the Mandate that required its approval before any modification. A meeting of that Council was scheduled for September 8, 1939 but was never held because of the outbreak of WWII. Nevertheless the British, for the next ten years from 1939 until May, 1948 viciously enforced an illegal blockade preventing Jews from fleeing death in Nazi extermination camps and later blocking Holocaust survivors from reaching sanctuary in Israel even though the blockade had been determined to be illegal by the Permanent Mandates Commission authorized to make that determination. Its enforcement contributed to the death of some six million Jews who were trying to flee from the European Holocaust. It lasted, because of the obsessed Ernest Bevin, even after the war, blocking Holocaust survivors from entering a place where they 37 could received help from others of their people.[31] [32] In 1947 the British after seeking monetary and military aid from the United States that was denied, announced its proposed abandonment in 1948 of its trusteeship that it said it could no longer afford. The UN, had replaced the League of Nations as world government, and this new world government included the United States as a member. It had as Article 80 of its Charter, preserved the recognition by its 51--‐state membership of the Jews ownership of the political rights to Palestine , now reduced to Palestine west of the Jordan River . The UN formed a special committee to determine what should be done, because of the threatened violence of the Arabs. [33] The UN Partition Recommendation The UN General Assembly, after the Special Committee completed its deliberations, enacted a resolution, Resolution 181 [34] recommending that Palestine West of the Jordan should be divided into Arab and Jewish states and a Corpus Separatum encompassing Jerusalem and surrounding religious holy sites. Such a recommendation is of no continuing force and effect unless both parties to it accept the recommendation. One party, the Jews, did. They were willing to give up much of their political rights in exchange for an end to 38 the threats of violence and so they could aid in the immigration of Holocaust survivors. The Secretary General of the Arab League had threatened war. He said: "This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacre and the Crusades." The Arabs declined to accept the compromise and went to war. The Arab warfare was initially conducted by Arabs local to Palestine but was soon joined by seven armies of surrounding Arab States. Some 450,000 to 700,000 Arabs fled without seeing a single Jewish soldier although a few at Ramle and Lydda were removed by the Jewish forces because after agreeing to an armistice they had resumed fighting and the Jews did not want them in back of their lines. As to almost all the rest, the rich left first, followed by many more at the urging of the Arab Higher Committee who asked them to get out of the way of the invading armies. It predicted the defeat of the Jews in some two weeks and assured them that the Arabs could then return. Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) wrote an article in the official organ of the PLO, "Filastin", complaining of this, and that when the Arab armies lost, the refugees were imprisoned in camps in the neighboring Arab states [35]. Hazam Nusseibeh, who worked for the Palestine Broadcasting Service in 1948, admitted being told by Hussein Khalidi, a Palestinian Arab leader, to fabricate the atrocity claims. Abu Mahmud, a Deir Yassin resident in 1948 told Khalidi "there was no rape," but Khalidi replied, "We have to say this, so the Arab armies will 39 come to liberate Palestine from the Jews." Nusseibeh told the BBC 50 years later, "This was our biggest mistake. We did not realize how our people would react. As soon as they heard that women had been raped at Deir Yassin, Palestinians fled in terror." [36] This massacre rumor was also a major contributing factor in the exodus of Arabs from Palestine . Those who fled were not invited back by the Jews who won. No peace treaty was signed until many years later and the Jews did not want to have a Fifth Column in their midst. The treaties that were signed with Egypt did not reestablish normal relations. It has been a cold peace. The peace with Jordan has perhaps been a little better. In the 1948 War the Jews weren't 100% successful in repelling the invasion of the surrounding Arab armies. Jordan , at the time, had for its armed forces The Arab Legion, supplied by the British and led by British Officers. At the same time the Jews were subject to an arms embargo. The Arab Legion was therefore successful in invading westward from Jordan , to and including East Jerusalem . The Egyptian forces moved north and got as far as the Gaza strip. Under International Law this territory, having been won in an aggressive war, the capture of this land did not gain the invaders the political rights to it. Only Britain and Pakistan recognized Jordan as holding sovereignty over it. 40 Israeli
liberation of Judea , Samaria
and East
Jerusalem In 1967, once again Arabs threatened to annihilate the Jews. Egypt blocked Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran and massed tanks and troops on its border with Israel . It ordered the UN buffer force, established in 1956, to leave and the UN buffer forces left without even seeking UN approval. Nasser threatened annihilation of the Jews or driving them into the sea. Israel struck back at Egypt but even after being shelled by Jordanian artillery, sent a note to King of Jordan saying that if they stopped the shelling they need not be a part of the war. Jordan declined and its army in Judea , Samaria and East Jerusalem was driven back to the Jordan River by the Jews.
CONCLUSION The Mandate system was designed to help states that had been subject to Ottoman occupation for 400 years, to become independent after they learned democratic principles, formed political parties and were able to self govern. An exception was the Mandate for Israel where the Jewish People who had been driven out of Palestine and dispersed by the Romans, were recognized as the owners of the political rights. There the tacit standard for ending the Mandate was the attainment of a Jewish population majority in the area they were to govern and their capability to exercise sovereignty. [41 --‐ 43] Before 41 enacting the Partition Resolution of 1947, the UN in effect found the Jews were capable of exercising sovereignty. The resolution itself was only a failed recommendation and the partition had no continuing force and effect. When the trustee, Britain, abandoned its trust in May, 1948, the beneficiary of the trust, World Jewry, was the logical entity to get legal dominion of the political rights that theretofore had been held in trust. Had the UN thought the Jews were still incapable of the exercise of sovereignty, in 1948 they would have appointed another trustee. In any event, just three years later, by 1950 the Jews had attained a majority of the population of the area within the Armistice line. Politics
and the Jewish political rights to Palestine Under the left wing Labour government, Israel has never directly made a claim under the political or national rights that its principal, World Jewry, had under International Law that had been recognized, first by the Principal War Powers, and then by states. Even with the change of Paragraph 25 suspending the right to settle East Palestine, there remained for World Jewry a right to Palestine west of the Jordan approved by the 51 countries in the League of Nations and by the US, who had declined membership — a total of 52 countries. But the thrust of the Labour Government claim was not the San Remo Agreement but under facts occurring in 1948 and thereafter. The Israeli Government said that Jordan's aggression in 1948 resulted in Jordan never 42 obtaining sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. So when in 1967 in a defensive war, it drove the Jordanians out of that area, it was thereafter not engaged in a belligerent occupation. Jordan was not a legitimate sovereign but was illegally occupying an area that was disputed and in which the Jews had the better claim. The Government of Israel never directly made the claim based on the competing Arab and Jewish claims made at the Paris Peace talks and the disposition of them in the Treaty of Sevres, the San Remo Resolution and the Mandate for Palestine. It only hinted at it. Now, Douglas Feith, Jacques Gauthier, Howard Grief, Salomon Benzimra, Cynthia Wallace, former Israel Supreme Court Justice Levy and his two distinguished colleagues, Alan Baker, Tshia Shapira, the late Julius Sone and I are directly making that claim. By now it should be perfectly clear that the claim is not based on the UN General Assembly partition resolution of 1947, nor is it based only on facts occurring in 1948 and thereafter. It is based on facts commencing as early as 1917 when the British adopted its Balfour policy and it became International Law on the agreement of the Principal War Powers at San Remo in 1920 after consideration of both the claims of the Arabs and that of the Jews to the political or national rights to Palestine. It was confirmed by the League's action on at least Palestine West of the Jordan River by the 51 nations that were its members. It is based on the presentation of the competing claims of the Arabs and Jews submitted to the Principal War Powers at the Paris 43 Peace Conference and the adjudication and ruling on those claims at San Remo in detail in the order that was called the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. It is based on the legal doctrines of "acquired rights" and "estoppel" that prohibits any state from denying what it previously admitted or recognized in a treaty or other international agreement. It is based on Article 80 of the UN Charter that preserves political rights that had been recognized by the United States and Principal Allied Powers in the 1920s. While Chaim Weizmann and some of the Zionist Organization had been willing to give up those rights, many had never agreed to it and split off into another organization headed by Jabotinsky. Even despite accepting the later loss of transJordan, Chaim Weizmann, instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration, was delighted with what was left. Gauthier has paraphrased[37] Weizmann's reactions to the San Remo decision, which gave Jews their rights under international law: "This is the most momentous political event in the whole history of the Zionist movement, and it's no exaggeration to say, in the whole history of our people since the Exile." What importance do the Arabs place on the Balfour Declaration? A reviewer of "The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood" [38] a book by Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi who formerly was a spokesman for the PLO, says "Khalidi has his own set of external culprits, beyond the blame he is willing to accept for the Arabs for the nabka or catastrophe as they call it." The very first of the three listed is "British colonial 44 masters like Lord Balfour, who refused to recognize the national [political] rights of non--‐Jews; ..." [39] What then is the rule under International Law? It is "There is no legal claim to national self--‐determination for Palestinian Arabs west of the Jordan River other than as peaceful citizens in a democratic structure covering the area as a whole." [40] Israel 's Legitimacy in Law and History, note #12 supra, pp. 55,56.
The 1920 San Remo Conference
On the question of boundaries, (French diplomat) Philippe Berthelot outlined the French position for the northern, eastern and southern frontiers of Syria. As regards Palestine, he said her frontiers would conform to the definition advocated by (British Prime Minister) Lloyd George, who favoured the ancient boundaries of Dan and Beersheba, as previously discussed at the first London Conference of February 1920. This Biblical formula was based on the historical connection of the Jewish People with the entire Land of Israel and was not to be construed literally from Dan to Beersheba, but rather referred in effect to those areas of the Promise Land that had been conquered, settled and ruled by the Twelve Tribes of Israel and their descendants, in both the First and Second Temple periods.1.
…In his remarks, Lloyd George recalled that former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, when he was in London on December 1, 1918, had agreed to his suggestion that the limits of Palestine should be fixed by the ancient towns of Dan and Beersheba…Lloyd George relied on a book written by the Scottish Biblical scholar Rev. George Adam Smith, which he regarded as the ablest book on Palestine ever written..2.
…In his remarks, Lloyd George recalled that former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, when he was in London on December 1, 1918, had agreed to his suggestion that the limits of Palestine should be fixed by the ancient towns of Dan and Beersheba…Lloyd George relied on a book written by the Scottish Biblical scholar Rev. George Adam Smith, which he regarded as the ablest book on Palestine ever written..2.
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1. The minutes of the San Remo Peace Conference drawn up at the session held on April 25, 1920 make it clear that this is what Lloyd George actually meant when he defined Palestine according to the biblical formula "Dan to Beersheba, as appears from his documented reliance on George Adam Smith’s scholarly works to determine the exact territorial extent of ancient Israelite habitation and rule. He included in Palestine all the land historically settled or occupied by Jews in the First and Second Temple Periods. This is confirmed by the third recital in the Preamble of the Mandate, which refers to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and is further evidenced by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen who recalled, in his book, the statement made by Lloyd George in Paris in 1919 regarding the true meaning of "Palestine": "The area occupied by the twelve tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba. Middle east Diary, Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, New York, p.355
2. George Adam Smith was an ordained Scottish minister and scholar of the Bible, as well as the principal of the University of Aberdeen (1909-35). He wrote a book about the topography, economics and history of Jerusalem from the earliest times to 70 A.D.(CE) and several commentaries on books of the Bible. His main works which the British consulted for determining Palestine’s borders and which won high praise from Lloyd George were The Historical Geography of the Holy Land which appeared in 25 editions beginning in 1894, followed by the publication of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land in 1915. These books were the outcome of detailed observation and investigation made in Palestine. They also proved invaluable to General Edwin Allenby in the Palestine campaign in World War I
1. The minutes of the San Remo Peace Conference drawn up at the session held on April 25, 1920 make it clear that this is what Lloyd George actually meant when he defined Palestine according to the biblical formula "Dan to Beersheba, as appears from his documented reliance on George Adam Smith’s scholarly works to determine the exact territorial extent of ancient Israelite habitation and rule. He included in Palestine all the land historically settled or occupied by Jews in the First and Second Temple Periods. This is confirmed by the third recital in the Preamble of the Mandate, which refers to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and is further evidenced by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen who recalled, in his book, the statement made by Lloyd George in Paris in 1919 regarding the true meaning of "Palestine": "The area occupied by the twelve tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba. Middle east Diary, Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, New York, p.355
2. George Adam Smith was an ordained Scottish minister and scholar of the Bible, as well as the principal of the University of Aberdeen (1909-35). He wrote a book about the topography, economics and history of Jerusalem from the earliest times to 70 A.D.(CE) and several commentaries on books of the Bible. His main works which the British consulted for determining Palestine’s borders and which won high praise from Lloyd George were The Historical Geography of the Holy Land which appeared in 25 editions beginning in 1894, followed by the publication of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land in 1915. These books were the outcome of detailed observation and investigation made in Palestine. They also proved invaluable to General Edwin Allenby in the Palestine campaign in World War I
The 1920 San Remo Conference
ReplyDeleteOn the question of boundaries, (French diplomat) Philippe Berthelot outlined the French position for the northern, eastern and southern frontiers of Syria. As regards Palestine, he said her frontiers would conform to the definition advocated by (British Prime Minister) Lloyd George, who favoured the ancient boundaries of Dan and Beersheba, as previously discussed at the first London Conference of February 1920. This Biblical formula was based on the historical connection of the Jewish People with the entire Land of Israel and was not to be construed literally from Dan to Beersheba, but rather referred in effect to those areas of the Promise Land that had been conquered, settled and ruled by the Twelve Tribes of Israel and their descendants, in both the First and Second Temple periods.1.
…In his remarks, Lloyd George recalled that former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, when he was in London on December 1, 1918, had agreed to his suggestion that the limits of Palestine should be fixed by the ancient towns of Dan and Beersheba…Lloyd George relied on a book written by the Scottish Biblical scholar Rev. George Adam Smith, which he regarded as the ablest book on Palestine ever written..2.
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1. The minutes of the San Remo Peace Conference drawn up at the session held on April 25, 1920 make it clear that this is what Lloyd George actually meant when he defined Palestine according to the biblical formula "Dan to Beersheba, as appears from his documented reliance on George Adam Smith’s scholarly works to determine the exact territorial extent of ancient Israelite habitation and rule. He included in Palestine all the land historically settled or occupied by Jews in the First and Second Temple Periods. This is confirmed by the third recital in the Preamble of the Mandate, which refers to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and is further evidenced by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen who recalled, in his book, the statement made by Lloyd George in Paris in 1919 regarding the true meaning of "Palestine": "The area occupied by the twelve tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba. Middle east Diary, Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, New York, p.355
2. George Adam Smith was an ordained Scottish minister and scholar of the Bible, as well as the principal of the University of Aberdeen (1909-35). He wrote a book about the topography, economics and history of Jerusalem from the earliest times to 70 A.D.(CE) and several commentaries on books of the Bible. His main works which the British consulted for determining Palestine’s borders and which won high praise from Lloyd George were The Historical Geography of the Holy Land which appeared in 25 editions beginning in 1894, followed by the publication of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land in 1915. These books were the outcome of detailed observation and investigation made in Palestine. They also proved invaluable to General Edwin Allenby in the Palestine campaign in World War I
Jewish terror will decrease or stop when Israel fights Arab terror with full force no holds barred and ignoring world pressure. We have to defend Israel against all enemies, internally and externally.
ReplyDeleteIf I am not for me (Israel) who is. The world has proven in past history that they stood idle while over 6 million Jews were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps (The british in Palestine-Israel sent back Holocaust escapees-refugees to German concentration camps and went as far as blowing up Jewish Holocaust refugee ships bound for Israel under "Operation Embarrass") and while Arab countries persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets valued in the trillions of dollars, Majority of the Jewish families expelled from Arab countries are living in Israel and their population consists over half the population in Israel today and growing. To date concessions and appeasement has decreased the safety and security of Israel's population. It is time to change direction.
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Zero tollerance against the Arabs who interfere with Jewish life, incite to violence and terror is first and foremost. If Israel does not control Arab violence, matters will only get worse. Stop appeasing the Arabs and the World, they do not care. They are delusional and choose to believe the false Arab propaganda. The world at large stood silent while 6 million Jews were exterminated during WWII and they stood silent when the Arabs persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families from Arab countries and confiscated all their assets.
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The Eurotrash aided the Nazis in their final solution against the Jewish people. Europe is soaked in centuries of Jeiwsh blood spilled there.
What chutzpah to demand anything from Israel by these filthy uncircumcised swines.
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YJ Israel Draiman ·
3rd Term elected official at Los Angeles City Hall
During WWII the British as trustee for the Jewish people in the Mandate for Palestine, violated the International treaty by restricting Jewish immigration and turned back Jewish refugee ships who were escaping from German extermination camps, thereby sending many Jews back to be exterminated. The British went as far as blowing-up Jewish refugee ships destined for Palestine-Israel under "Operation Embarrass".
In essence, when Israel entered and liberated the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Jerusalem in 1967 it did not occupy territory to which any other party had title. While Jerusalem and the West Bank, (Judea and Samaria), were illegally occupied by Jordan in 1948 they remained in effect part of the Jewish National Home that had been created at 1920 San Remo and confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, thus, in the 1967 6-Day War Israel, in effect, recovered and liberated territory that legally belonged to Israel. To quote Judge Schwebel, a former President of the ICJ (International Court of Justice), “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 absolute title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem. Any resolutions past by the U.N. are only a recommendation and cannot supersede international treaties.
The Arabs have Jordan, which was Jewish territory. The Arabs persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel - 120,440 sq. km. and valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the expelled Jewish families from Arab countries were resettled in Israel, today over half the population in Israel are the families of the million Jewish families expelled from Arab countries. Let the Arab-Palestinians relocate to those lands and solve the Arab Israel conflict and the Arab-Palestinian refugee problem.
YJ Draiman
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Jewish terror will decrease or stop when Israel fights Arab terror with full force no holds barred and ignoring world pressure. We have to defend Israel against all enemies, internally and externally.
ReplyDeleteIf I am not for me (Israel) who is. The world has proven in past history that they stood idle while over 6 million Jews were exterminated in Nazi concentration camps (The british in Palestine-Israel sent back Holocaust escapees-refugees to German concentration camps and went as far as blowing up Jewish Holocaust refugee ships bound for Israel under "Operation Embarrass") and while Arab countries persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets valued in the trillions of dollars, Majority of the Jewish families expelled from Arab countries are living in Israel and their population consists over half the population in Israel today and growing. To date concessions and appeasement has decreased the safety and security of Israel's population. It is time to change direction.
Do you want prevent nuclear terror? Do you care about you children and your family’s future? Vote for nuclear free Iran.
ReplyDeleteA terrorist state must not be permitted to possess nuclear capability.
Iran already controls; Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza, etc. how much more before we stop them from devouring the Middle East and more.
When Israel takes defensive action for its survival. Israel would rather be condemned for its actions as a live Israel than eulogized as a dead Israel.
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As long as Israel capitulates to Arab demands and world pressure, instead of defending its citizens at all costs, no matter what, extrimism will increase.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to stop all the infughting and backstabing.
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The 1920 San Remo Conference
On the question of boundaries, (French diplomat) Philippe Berthelot outlined the French position for the northern, eastern and southern frontiers of Syria. As regards Palestine, he said her frontiers would conform to the definition advocated by (British Prime Minister) Lloyd George, who favoured the ancient boundaries of Dan and Beersheba, as previously discussed at the first London Conference of February 1920. This Biblical formula was based on the historical connection of the Jewish People with the entire Land of Israel and was not to be construed literally from Dan to Beersheba, but rather referred in effect to those areas of the Promise Land that had been conquered, settled and ruled by the Twelve Tribes of Israel and their descendants, in both the First and Second Temple periods.1.
…In his remarks, Lloyd George recalled that former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, when he was in London on December 1, 1918, had agreed to his suggestion that the limits of Palestine should be fixed by the ancient towns of Dan and Beersheba…Lloyd George relied on a book written by the Scottish Biblical scholar Rev. George Adam Smith, which he regarded as the ablest book on Palestine ever written..2.
Today over half the population in Israel are: The majority of the million Jewish families expelled from Arab countries, while many of these Jewish families go back to 70 AD and beyond, those are the Jews who were forced to leave Israel after the Destruction of the Jewish Temples in Jerusalem. During the years of Diaspora in the Arab countries, they were persecuted, molested, raped and beheaded. In the past 70 years the Arab states expelled them and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and 120,440 sq. km. of real estate property which is valued in the trillions of dollars and is 6 times the size of Israel.
ReplyDeleteStop obfuscating history and face factual reality of what transpired.
Text of Law drafted by Political Committee of Arab League
1. 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.
During WWII the British as trustee for the Jewish people in the Mandate for Palestine, violated the International treaty by restricting Jewish immigration and turned back Jewish refugee ships who were escaping from German extermination camps, thereby sending many Jews back to be exterminated. The British went as far as blowing-up Jewish refugee ships destined for Palestine-Israel under "Operation Embarrass".
ReplyDeleteIn essence, when Israel entered and liberated the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Jerusalem in 1967 it did not occupy territory to which any other party had title. While Jerusalem and the West Bank, (Judea and Samaria), were illegally occupied by Jordan in 1948 they remained in effect part of the Jewish National Home that had been created at 1920 San Remo and confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, thus, in the 1967 6-Day War Israel, in effect, recovered and liberated territory that legally belonged to Israel. To quote Judge Schwebel, a former President of the ICJ (International Court of Justice), “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 absolute title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem. Any resolutions past by the U.N. are only a recommendation and cannot supersede international treaties.
The Arabs have Jordan, which was Jewish territory. The Arabs persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel - 120,440 sq. km. and valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the expelled Jewish families from Arab countries were resettled in Israel, today over half the population in Israel are the families of the million Jewish families expelled from Arab countries. Let the Arab-Palestinians relocate to those lands and solve the Arab Israel conflict and the Arab-Palestinian refugee problem.
YJ Draiman
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. The First Jewish Temple was built there by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God’s shechina or “presence” dwelt. All Jewish holidays centered on worship at the Temple. The Jewish Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place for the Jewish people.
In recent years, Jordan quietly has been purchasing real estate surrounding the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in hopes of gaining more control over the area accessing the holy site, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials speaking to The Media.
ReplyDeleteThe officials disclosed the Jordanian kingdom in 2006 and 2007 used shell companies to purchase several apartments and shops located at key peripheral sections of the Temple Mount. The shell companies at times presented themselves as acting on behalf of the Waqf custodians of the Temple Mount, according to in formation
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The officials said Jordan also set up a commission to use the shell companies to petition mostly Arab landowners adjacent to eastern sections of the Temple Mount to sell their properties. They said profits from sales at any purchased shops would be reinvested to buy more real estate near the Mount and in eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods.
The report the PA is looking to purchase real estate near the Mount follows a Media exclusive article in January quoting informed sources stating the PA recently established an intelligence apparatus in Jerusalem to clamp down on Israeli Arabs selling property to Jews in strategic areas of the city.
A contingent of Jewish groups, including an organization called Ateret Kohanim, work to strengthen the Jewish presence in Jerusalem by purchasing properties from Arabs, primarily in eastern neighborhoods, including in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. The First Jewish Temple was built there by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries.
The Jewish Temple was the center of religious Jewish worship. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God’s shechina or “presence” dwelt. All Jewish holidays centered on worship at the Temple. The Jewish Temple served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and was the main gathering place for the Jewish people.
The Jewish people war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with far more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. Plus we are easy to find now.
ReplyDeleteThe West Bank (Judea and Samaria) was re-taken and liberated from Jordan by Israel in 1967 after another failed Arab attempt at destroying the young Jewish state and has been under Israel control ever since. In the Oslo accords (which are now null and void), Israel tried to give the PA limited supervision on a part of the area but it obviously did not work as the Arab goal here is not the creation of a Arab-Palestinian state but simply the destruction of the Jewish state. If they wanted a Arab-Palestinian state, they would have asked Jordan before 1967 for the territories. They never bothered (because they knew it was occupied Jewish territory) until Israel took over.
Israel must stop all Arab violence at all costs and restore security and safety to its citizens.
YJ Draiman
That is a wodeful idea. The international community has no business meddling in Israel's internal matter. Under International law and treaties, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory and no-one has the right to stop Israel from settleling in Judea and Samaria.
ReplyDeleteAs Ben Gurion Stated in 1937
"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel.
No Jew has the authority to do so.
No Jewish body has the authority to do so.
Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.
It is the right of the Jewish People over the generations, a right that under
no conditions can be cancelled.
Even if Jews during a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny it to future generations.
No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish People. Our right to the country - the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and we shall not yield this historic right until its full and complete redemption is realized."
The Jewish people war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with far more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. Plus we are easy to find now.
Ben Gurion at the 1937 Zionist Convention in Basel, Switzerland
Germany unified Berlin and Israel Unified Jerusalem.
Israel also liberated Its territories defending itself against Jordan attacks and shelling of Israel in June 1967.
"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel.
ReplyDeleteNo Jew has the authority to do so.
No Jewish body has the authority to do so.
Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.
It is the right of the Jewish People over the generations, a right that under
no conditions can be cancelled.
Even if Jews during a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny it to future generations.
No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish People. Our right to the country - the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and we shall not yield this historic right until its full and complete redemption is realized."
The Jewish people war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with far more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. Plus we are easy to find now.
Ben Gurion at the 1937 Zionist Convention in Basel, Switzerland
Jerusalem is a religious city primarily to Jews, but also to other religions.
ReplyDeleteSome Arabs, local people and outsiders have a habit of sticking it in your face and intentionally demonstrate and voicing their position and behavior to instigate and cause dissension and violence.
There is a line drawn as to how far you can push the freedom of speech and expression.
When an Arab member of the Israeli Parliament or a leftist Israeli speaks and commits treason and supports the enemies of the state in any fashion, the punishment must be meted out immediately. This is not free speech and expression.
Whether people choose to recognize it or not, Israel is a Jewish State and as such it should live up-to Jewish values. The people in Israel must learn to respect each other and not intentionally offend each other.
In the past week there were numerous incidents where some individuals used the terminology about Muslim Muhammed the word is a Pig, they were arrested and charged for that incident. Where is free speech and expression? There is a limit to how far the freedom of speech and expression goes. What one forgets is that many Arabs on Temple Mount intentionally harass the Jews and go as far as saying kill the Jews which is far worse. When one incites to murder, this is more than free speech it incitement to murder and must be arrested immediately.
Contrary to Muslim false propaganda and the worlds delusion and fantasy who wish to ignore history and believe the false Arab propaganda. Temple Mount is the location of the Jewish Temple. In a 1925 guide by the Muslim Wakf in Temple Mount it specifically states, that the Jewish temple was there and King Solomon's history. Now it must be understood that any disturbance and or violence on Temple Mount (which is a place of worship) will cause for the vacating Temple Mount of any people and entry will be forbidden to everybody for one week, no exception. Thereafter if it continues, it will be closed for a month. Anyone wearing a mask to cover his identity while causing unrest and violence must be arrested.
When a person yells fire, when there is no fire in a crowded theatre that can cause a terrified crowed to trample on each other, while running out, it is a crime.
Many Jewish settlers have stated that:
ReplyDeleteWhoever tries to uproot Jews from the Land of Israel or surrenders parts of the land is a traitor who is endangering Jewish lives. In a normal society traitors are dealt with appropriately. According to Jewish law that is correct.
Whether people like to admit it or not. Israel has over 50% observant Jewish people and under Judaic law what the settlers claim is true.
The Arabs who cannot live in peace with the Jews can move to Jordan or th the 120,440 sq. km. of land the Arabs confiscated from the million persecuted and expelled Jewish families from the Arab countries.
Ben Gurion at the 1937 Zionist Convention in Basel, Switzerland
"No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel.
No Jew has the authority to do so.
No Jewish body has the authority to do so.
Not even the entire Jewish People alive today has the right to yield any part of Israel.
It is the right of the Jewish People over the generations, a right that under
no conditions can be cancelled.
Even if Jews during a specific period proclaim they are relinquishing this right, they have neither the power nor the authority to deny it to future generations.
No concession of this type is binding or obligates the Jewish People. Our right to the country - the entire country - exists as an eternal right, and we shall not yield this historic right until its full and complete redemption is realized."
The Jewish people war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with far more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. Plus we are easy to find now.
There is no such thing as Arab-Palestinian land in Greater Israel.
ReplyDeleteIn 1947, the Political Committee of the Arab League (League of Arab States) drafted a law which was to govern the legal status of Jewish residents in all Arab League countries. This law had already been approved by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, provided that, “beginning with a specified date, all Jews – with the exception of citizens of non-Arab countries – were to be considered members of the Jewish ‘minority state of Palestine,’ and that their bank account be frozen and used to finance resistance to ‘Zionist ambitions in Palestine.’ Jews believed to be active Zionists would be interned as political prisoners and their assets confiscated. Only Jews who accept active service in Arab armies or place themselves at the disposal of these armies would be considered ‘Arabs.’” 1
Excerpts of Direct Quotes of the Law drafted by the Political Committee of the Arab League
• “All Jewish citizens…will be considered as members of the Jewish minority of the State of Palestine and will have to register [“within 7 days”] 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…”2
• “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
• “Only Jews who are subjects of foreign countries will be considered ‘neutrals.’ These will be compelled either to return to their countries, with a minimum of delay, or be considered Arabs and obliged to accept active service in the Arab army.”4
• “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.”5
• “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.”6
• “The foregoing…does not mean that those Jews will not be submitted to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this law.”7
1 Memorandum Submitted to the U.N. Economic and Social Council by the World Jewish Congress. (Jan. 19, 1948) Section I. (2) a. June 2, 1948. [ZIIC - This reference is in the document prepared by JJAC and is probably incorrect]
2 Text of the Law drafted by the Political Committee of the Arab League. Paragraph 1.
3 ibid. Paragraph 2.
4 ibid. Paragraph 3.
5 ibid. Paragraph 5.
6 ibid. Paragraph 6.
7 ibid. Paragraph 7. (Paragraph 1 & 2 indicate all Jews must register and disclose personal and banking information and
that bank accounts will be frozen and utilized for anti-Zionist resistance.)
1947: Draft Arab League Law Against Jews (Excerpts) - Following the partition resolution of the United Nations, the Arab League drafted a proposed law that would force all Jewish citizens of member countries to register, and that would lead to freezing and confiscation of their assets, reminiscent of draconic Nazi-era legislation,
In 1947, the Political Committee of the Arab League (League of Arab States) drafted a law which was to govern the legal status of Jewish residents in all Arab League countries. This law had already been approved by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, provided that, “beginning with a specified date, all Jews – with the exception of citizens of non-Arab countries – were to be considered members of the Jewish ‘minority state of Palestine,’ and that their bank account be frozen and used to finance resistance to ‘Zionist ambitions in Palestine.’ Jews believed to be active Zionists would be interned as political prisoners and their assets confiscated. Only Jews who accept active service in Arab armies or place themselves at the disposal of these armies would be considered ‘Arabs.’” 1
ReplyDeleteExcerpts of Direct Quotes of the Law drafted by the Political Committee of the Arab League
• “All Jewish citizens…will be considered as members of the Jewish minority of the State of Palestine and will have to register [“within 7 days”] 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…”2
• “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
• “Only Jews who are subjects of foreign countries will be considered ‘neutrals.’ These will be compelled either to return to their countries, with a minimum of delay, or be considered Arabs and obliged to accept active service in the Arab army.”4
• “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.”5
• “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.”6
• “The foregoing…does not mean that those Jews will not be submitted to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this law.”7
1 Memorandum Submitted to the U.N. Economic and Social Council by the World Jewish Congress. (Jan. 19, 1948) Section I. (2) a. June 2, 1948. [ZIIC - This reference is in the document prepared by JJAC and is probably incorrect]
2 Text of the Law drafted by the Political Committee of the Arab League. Paragraph 1.
3 ibid. Paragraph 2.
4 ibid. Paragraph 3.
5 ibid. Paragraph 5.
6 ibid. Paragraph 6.
7 ibid. Paragraph 7. (Paragraph 1 & 2 indicate all Jews must register and disclose personal and banking information and
that bank accounts will be frozen and utilized for anti-Zionist resistance.)
1947: Draft Arab League Law Against Jews (Excerpts) - Following the partition resolution of the United Nations, the Arab League drafted a proposed law that would force all Jewish citizens of member countries to register, and that would lead to freezing and confiscation of their assets, reminiscent of draconic Nazi-era legislation,
The Supreme Court of Israel is composed of a leftist Judges and has always been slanted to the lefts ideology.
ReplyDeleteIt is long overdue to replace some of the Judges in order to get a more balanced and objective rulling.
The Israeli Supreme court has more authority than the U.S. Supreme court and its decisions have affected Israeli society adversely.
The proposed law in Israel's Parliament to overide certain Supreme Court ruling shpuld be voted on and approved.
Considering what the Jewish people have suffered in the Diaspora, having their assets and land confiscated all over the world f thousands of years.
It is a travesty to throw off a Jewish settler on Jewish land. The Arabs have no rights to any land in Greater Israel It is enough that
The Arab-Palestinians should move to the Million plus Jewish homes and land confiscated by the Arab countries from the million persecuted and expelled Jewish families and the 120,440 sq. km. of Real estate property the Arabs confiscated from the million plus Jewish families and their children expelled from Arab countries. That is the only viable alternative.
No territory in Greater Israel belongs to the Arabs. The Arabs are known historically to come into a country, occupy a territory and claim it as theirs.
ReplyDeleteThe Ottoman Empire land registratiom in Palestine Israel shows that over 92% of the land in Palestine-Israel is government land, The balance was owned by wealthy Arabs from Lebanon and some of the local Arab leaders. Some of the land was leased to the Arabs as sharecroppers and not owners of the land.
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required
If anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated.
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 ten times larger that mine does that obviate my true ownership?
Islamic theology and what you say is certainly true. Muslims believe that Muhammed "visited" in some miraculous manner, Jerusalem in one night and returned back to Mecca. This night journey is called "Miraaj". They also believe that his soul ascended to heaven from Jerusalem. Clearly both these claims can at most be articles of faith.
ReplyDeleteTo a student of history and Abrahamic religions it is clear what Muhammed was trying to do - strengthen his claim to being in the same line of prophets as Moses, Jesus etc. by tying himself to the city of these prophets.
And Islam, wherever it has expanded, has ALWAYS used destruction of original shrines and building mosques on these sites as a symbol of Islam's superiority. Whether it be the desecration of the Hagia Sophia and conversion into a mosque in Constantinople, or destruction of thousands of Hindu temples and making mosques over them in India. This is a consistent pattern, and indeed seems to be sanctioned by the Koran itself when it says that "fight to make only the worship of Allah on the earth."
The double standards of course stand out - in India, where Hindus want to reconstruct a temple on the site where they believe Lord Ram was born, and which was destroyed by invading Muslim armies and a mosque erected in its place as a symbol of the subjugation of Hindus. Muslims typically retort by saying "there is no evidence that such an event happened." That is, of course, besides the point. Religious shrines cannot be destroyed just because the article of faith that they symbolize is suspected by another religious group. By that same logic, the Al Aqsa mosque must also be destroyed since it is purely a Muslim article of faith that their prophet visited there in a night journey, accompanied by angels. Indeed, since Al Aqsa was built on a previous site, its right to exist is even weaker. The temple of Lord Ram had existed on the site for centuries before Islam even came to India and to this day is considered one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
The fact is that Islam's CENTRAL claim is that it abrogates all other religions, and therefore destroying the holy sites of other religions is not only condoned, but recommended, since that means displacing an older, "false" faith with the final revelation of Allah
It is important to realize the reason why Muslims over the ages have felt to compelled to destroy other faith's religious sites and erect their own on top of that rubble.
United States is "occupied" territory - Not Jerusalem
ReplyDeleteWashington, 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.
THE BRITISH MANDATE OVER PALESTINE and its violations
ReplyDeleteAs stated above, the 1920 San Remo Conference decided to place Palestine under British Mandatory rule making Britain responsible for giving effect to the 1917 Balfour declaration that had been adopted by the other Allied Powers and ratified under International treaty as International law.. The resulting “Mandate for Palestine,” was an historical League of Nations document that laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in Palestine and the San Remo Resolution which was confirmed by the Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, together with Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations became the basic documents on which the Mandate for Palestine was established. The Mandate’s declaration of July 24, 1922 states unambiguously that Britain became responsible for putting the Balfour Declaration, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, into effect and it confirmed that recognition had 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. It is highly relevant that at that time the West Bank and parts of what today is Jordan were included as a Jewish Homeland. However, on September 16, 1922, the British in violation of the Treaty divided the Mandate territory of Palestine, west of the Jordan became Transjordan, east of the Jordan River was for the Jewish State, in accordance with the McMahon Correspondence of 1915 which was not approved by the British Parliament. Transjordan became exempt from the Mandate provisions concerning the Jewish National Home, effectively removing about 78% of the original territory of the area in which a Jewish National home was to be established in terms of the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo resolution as well as the British Mandate.
This action violated not only Article 5 of the Mandate which required the Mandatory to be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power but also article 20 of the Covenant of the League of Nations in which the Members of the League solemnly undertook that they would not enter into any engagements inconsistent with the terms thereof.
Article 6 of the Mandate stated that 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. Political rights were exclusively granted only to the Jewish people.
Nevertheless in blatant violation of article 6, in a 1939 White Paper Britain changed its position so as to limit Jewish immigration from Europe, a move that was blatant violation by Zionists as betrayal of the terms of the mandate, especially in light of the increasing persecution of Jews in Europe. This caused the death of millions of Jews trying to escape Nazi extermination. In response, Zionists organized Aliyah Bet, a program of illegal immigration into Palestine.
CONCLUSION
ReplyDeleteThe frequently voiced complaint that the state being offered to the Palestinians comprises only 22 percent of Palestine is obviously invalid. The truth is exactly the reverse. From the above history and international treaties, it is obvious that the territory on both sides of the Jordan was legally designated for the Jewish homeland by the 1920 San Remo Conference, mandated to Britain as trustee, endorsed by the League of Nations in 1922, affirmed in the Anglo-American Convention on Palestine in 1925 and confirmed in 1945 by article 80 of the UN. Yet, approximately 80% of this territory was excised from the territory in May 1923 when, in violation of the mandate and the San Remo resolution, Britain gave autonomy to Transjordan (now known as Jordan) under as-Sharif Abdullah bin al-Husayn. Further-more, as the San Remo resolution has never been abrogated, it was and continues to be legally binding between the several parties who signed it. It is therefore obvious that the legitimacy of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and a Jewish state in Palestine all derive from the same international agreement at San Remo.
During WWII the British as trustee for the Jewish people in the Mandate for Palestine, violated the International treaty by restricting Jewish immigration and turned back Jewish refugee ships who were escaping from German extermination camps. The British went as far as blowing-up Jewish refugee ships destined for Palestine-Israel under "Operation Embarrass".
In essence, when Israel entered the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Jerusalem in 1967 it did not occupy territory to which any other party had title. While Jerusalem and the West Bank, (Judea and Samaria), were illegally occupied by Jordan in 1948 they remained in effect part of the Jewish National Home that had been created at 1920 San Remo and confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, thus, in the 1967 6-Day War Israel, in effect, recovered and liberated territory that legally belonged to Israel. To quote Judge Schwebel, a former President of the ICJ (International Court of Justice), “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 absolute title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem. Any resolutions past by the U.N. are only a recommendation and cannot supersede international treaties.
The Arabs have Jordan, which was Jewish territory. The Arabs persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families from their countries and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel - 120,440 sq. km. and valued in the trillions of dollars. Most of the expelled Jewish families from Arab countries were resettled in Israel, today over half the population in Israel are the families of the million Jewish families expelled from Arab countries. Let the Arab-Palestinians relocate to those lands and solve the Arab Israel conflict and the Arab-Palestinian refugee problem.
YJ Draiman
It is time to elect a new Supreme Court Justices in Israel.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to Annex Judea and Samaria and adopt the Levy report.
It is time for Israel to take serious action against terror and violence and restore the safety and security of its people without fear of violence, riots, stone throwing and intentional vehicular usage to kill and injure Israelis.
Remind the Arabs that they expelled over a million Jewish families and their children from their counties and confiscated all their assets including land 5-6 times the size of Israel. That the Arabs must balance the books and pay for the assets and the relocation of the Jews.
Israel needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Arab Denial of Jewish History and Justice
ReplyDeleteThe Arab denial of Jewish history has become an important tool in the Arab-Palestinian narrative. The obfuscation of the forced Jewish exodus from Arab countries is part of a larger revisionist endeavor. For instance, the official Arab-Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida quotes Muslim writer Safi naz Kallan's statement that: "there is no people or land named Israel, only Zionist thieves unfit to establish a nation or have their own language and religion." These Jews are "Shylocks of the land, busy emptying Arab-Palestinian pockets." At the Camp David talks in July 2000, Yasser Arafat denied any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, thereby contradicting the Koran and 1920 literature distributed by the Wakf at Temple Mount, the hadith, and other Islamic sources. His representative Saeb Erekat said the very idea of the Temple is a Jewish invention with no historical basis. President Clinton replied: "it is not just all the Jews around the world who believe that the Temple was there but the majority of Christians as well."
The Arabs' claim of a right of return for the Arab-Palestinian refugees relies on false premises: that there is such a right under international law, that it was granted to the Arab-Palestinians in UN resolutions, and that Israel is responsible for creating the refugee problem. The case of the million Jewish refugees from Arab countries highlights the Arabs' unwillingness to recognize the Jewish right to their homeland and calculated policy of exploiting the conflict to pursue their goal of an "ethnic cleansing" of Israel. This policy has long and consistently been practiced by the Arabs. Today almost no Jews live in the Arab world, and Christian communities have dwindled sharply there.
In launching their war against the Jewish state in 1948, the Arab countries were directly responsible for both the Jewish and Arab refugee problems. During this eighteen-month confrontation, in which Arab armies invaded Israel and battles raged in almost every city and settlement, there were instances in which Israeli troops asked the local Arab population not to leave their homes. These were acts of self-defense in a war that killed six thousand of the six hundred thousand Jews then in the country, and it is clear that Israel did not, as alleged, mastermind a large-scale expulsion of Arab-Palestinians. According to their own testimonies, most of the Arab-Palestinians left because of the threats and fear-mongering of Arab leaders.
In his memoirs the former prime minister of Syria, Khalid Al-Azm, placed the entire blame for the refugee problem on the Arabs:
ReplyDeleteSince 1948 it is we the Arab who demanded the return of the refugees...while it is we the Arab armies who made them leave....We brought disaster upon...Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave....We have rendered them dispossessed....Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon...men, women and children - all this in the service of political purposes.
In March 1976, in the official PLO journal in Beirut, Falastin Al- Thawra, current Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas wrote:
The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Arab-Palestinians from Zionist tyranny, but instead they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homes in Palestine, imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews were forced to live in Eastern Europe....
The Arab demand for a right of return is a formula for destroying Israel as a Jewish state and reflects the unwillingness of the Arab-Palestinians to seek a realistic settlement. Open discussion of the million Jews' forced flight from Arab countries will encourage a more objective scrutiny of the myths about the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Arab nations and Arab-Palestinian responsibility for the population exchange that occurred weakens their argument for a "return" and highlights the double standard the UN has consistently applied to the conflict.
The case of the million Jewish refugees from Arab countries and their harsh expulsion and confiscation of all their assets including land 6 times the size of Israel is a critical element in transforming the refugee question from a political-military tool to a humanitarian issue and helping to set the Middle East narrative straight.
No Jew should be ejected from his home in Greater Israel. All of Israel is Jewish land.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs who live in Greater Israel are occupying Jewish land.
Is it not enough that the Arab states confiscated 120,440 sq. km. of land from the million Jewish families persecuted and expelled from Arab-Muslim countries, furthermore, many of those Jewish families have lived in those Arab countries over 2,500 years.
YJ Draiman
The cause of the Arab Israeli conflict in the Middle East; is, indeed, the "occupation": the Arab occupation of Judea and Samaria etc.
ReplyDeleteThe “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) is unclaimed land. Contrary to popular opinion, Israeli re-settlements are entirely legal as long as they are within the parameters of the 1922 Mandate of Palestine. This is the same mandate that legalized and encouraged the immigration of Jews to all parts of historic Israel.
Israel’s critics may be surprised to know that the 1922 Mandate has never been superseded in international law, not even by the United Nation’s 1947 partition plan. Because the Arabs refused to recognize the partition of “Palestine,” the legal status of Judea and Samaria reverted back to the 1922 law . The liberation and capture of Judea and Samaria from Jordan in 1967 was the first step in the restoration of the territory’s true legal status. It also means that Israel’s recent “land settlement” is actually the fulfillment of the original 1922 Mandate.
(Quoting the Fourth Geneva Convention to argue that the settlements are in fact illegal is nonsensical. The Fourth Geneva Convention pertains only to cases of occupation of a sovereign entity. Because of the Arab refusal to reach an agreement between 1947 and 1949, the area popularly referred to as the West Bank never became the legal territory of any sovereign entity – not even Jordan, despite its occupation of the territory until 1967. Only Israel has a legal entitlement to Judea and Samaria.)
If anyone is in any doubt, they would do well to consult a document boasting the signatures of over 1,000 respected diplomats and legal experts from around the world, ranging from South Africa and Canada to Norway and Brazil. The file was delivered to the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the form of a petition just over a year ago.
According to these legal experts, it is factually incorrect to refer to the settlements as illegal for the simple reason that the term “1967 lines” does not exist in international law. The pre-1967 lines are in fact 1949 armistice lines, and are not recognized lines or security lines. Moreover, the issue of borders is on the agenda of the peace talks and is subject to final status negotiations.
All of which means that the Palestinian-Arabs claim that statehood is an unassailable right should not be taken at face value. Arab hatred of Israel has never been about the settlements or even about land. The primary obstacle is an ideological refusal to recognize the Jewish people’s deep-rooted historic, cultural and legal connections to the entire land of Israel. Until the Arabs and the rest of the world accept that the Jews have an inalienable and legal right to live in Judea and Samaria, there will never be peace. The Arabs have Jordan as an Arab state and they also have 120,44 sq. km. of land confiscated by the neighboring Arab-Muslim countries from the million Jewish families expelled from Arab countries.
YJ Draiman
Article 119 of the 1945 British Mandate Emergency Regulations, enacted by the High Commissioner of the Palestine Mandate, as justification for demolitions. Article 119 states:
ReplyDelete“(1) A Military Commander may by order direct the forfeiture to the Government of Palestine of any house, structure, or land from which he has reason to suspect that any firearm has been illegally discharged, or any bomb, grenade or explosive or incendiary article illegally thrown, or of any house, structure or land situated in any area, town, village, quarter or street the inhabitants or some of the inhabitants of which he is satisfied have committed, or attempted to commit, or abetted the commission of, or been accessories after the fact to the commission of, any offense against these Regulations involving violence or intimidation or any Military Court offense; and when any house, structure or land is forfeited as aforesaid, the Military Commander may destroy the house or the structure or anything growing on the land. (2) Members of His Majesty’s forces or of the Police Force, acting under the authority of the Military Commander may seize and occupy, without compensation, any property in any such area, town, village, quarter or street as is referred to in subregulation (1), after eviction without compensation, of the previous occupiers, if any.”*
Even earlier than 1945, however, the British were implementing the policy. Demolition was widely used during the 1936-39 Arab Revolt, when it was carried out under the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937. This order authorised the High Commissionerto enact any regulations “as appear to him in his unfettered discretion to be necessary or expedient for securing public safety, the defence of Palestine, the maintenance of public order and the suppression of mutiny, rebellion, and riot and for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community.” With the 1937 order and the 1945 Emergency Regulation, the British could take action against Arab and Jewish militants in Palestine.
The Mandate Palestine press from that period is replete with reports of demolition by British troops. For example, during the month of November, 1938 the Palestine Post reported that 29 houses and two “Arab-owned groves” were razed. The demolitions took place between 23rd October and 13th November, and were located in villages in today’s West Bank, in Gaza and also in Jaffa.
Demolition of Jewish homes and eviction of Jews from our own ancestral Jewish land is a travesty.
ReplyDeleteIf you bother to read various international treaties which took affect after WWI, you will find out that according to those treaties The Land of Israel extends to most of Palestine and it clearly states that Jewish people can settle anywhere in Palestine. Any restrictions to the contrary is a violation of Isternational treaties.
The Arab-Palestinian have the option to relocate to Jordan and or to the 120,440 sq. km. of land confiscated by the Arab countries when they expelled over a million Jewish families after WWII.
YJ Draiman
The hatred and incitement are so ingrained in the Arab-Palestinians’ very being, that everything is permissible, including butchering innocent children. Everything is justified, including using one’s own children and civilians as live shields. It is the duty of each believing Muslim to engage in a holy war against the Zionists who defile the Arab land called Palestine.
ReplyDeleteThis culture of death is so infected that there is only one pill to rid the affected body of it. What is done to administer that pill? Who will administer it?
One would expect Israel, whose body is ailing, to attempt to take care of itself. Alas, Israel and the Jewish communities around the world are embroiled in a culture of constant debate on behalf of the Arab-Palestinians, completely oblivious to any damage they thus cause to themselves.
Expecting the world to be aware of their position on the Arab-Palestinian problems has been, and will continue to be, a costly mistake. The Arab-Palestinians are not interested to engage in a peace process, nor will they recognize the Jewish State’s right to exist. The world ignores this reality and Israel fails to present its case.
Israel behaves like a woman and the world is a man. A woman who expects a man to read her thoughts and anticipate her every need without clearly and directing stating it aloud, is in a constant state of frustration and loss. The world able to read Israel’s mind, are you kidding me?
The fact there is no cohesive plan and message with regard to the United Nations fiasco that occur from time to time against Israel is a disgrace to diplomacy and a deadly mistake. The best defense is a good offense. It is time for Israel to go on the offensive in a big way.
There should already be a long and sustained outcry from Prime Minister Netanyahu regularly against the danger of usurping Israeli lands and their rightful capital. He should make quite clear to the world what will happen if any such attempts to take such lands proceed.
Standing by and waiting for the world to chime in and read Israel’s mind about this egregious plan has never worked in the past, and with the advent of a pro Arab-Palestinian government in Washington it is a deadly miscalculation.
ReplyDeleteThe world has never stood up for the Jewish people until it affected them directly. The U.S. refused to enter World War II until it was no longer possible to refrain from combat.
Where was the worlds when over 6 million Jewish people, men, women and children, were exterminated in German concentration camp and where was the world when the Arab states persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families and confiscated all their assets including 75,000 sq. mi. of land, valued in the trillions of dollars. Majority of those expelled Jewish families from Arab countries were resettled in Israel and many of the survivors of the Holocaust were also resettled in Israel. Now the world is contesting when Israel defends itself against thousands of rockets and daily terror attacks against its population.
What makes Israel believe it will be any different this time?
Israel’s enemies know the value of repeating lies and untruths over and over until the world accepts them as true. Yet, Jewish leaders stand idly by watching as the world’s opinion turns against the Jewish State.
There must be a continual response to these lies. Our enemy’s words only resonate because we allow them to do so.
The words No, No, No, that is a lie and here is why, should be Israel’s battle cry going forward. No propaganda can go unanswered. No historical rewrites can be allowed to stand in for the truth. I know many will turn deaf ears to any response by Israel and its supporters, but we must respond with a clear concise and a unified voice.
Until Israel gets its message together and stops worrying about what the world thinks, it will be seen as a weak and tiresome country. No one will defend someone who will not defend himself. No one respects a wimp, and as we are all told continually, “the world loves a winner.” Until Israel acts like a winner, it continues to be the loser. Israel has what it takes to stop the rockets, terror and violence. It is time to use it without restraint.
Lack of communication is creating untold problems for the State of Israel and Jews worldwide..
We need strong voices in unison to combat the lies and agenda of destruction or we are doomed. It is time the Jewish people spoke in one long and loud voice to save their country and their homeland.
NEVER AGAIN must be action, not just words.
"A unified Israel is a strong Israel"
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required
ReplyDeleteIf anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated.
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 ten times larger that mine does that obviate my true ownership?
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel.
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.
At Jewish weddings they break a glass in memory of Jerusalem and the aspiration to return and build the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
YJ Draiman
It is time for Israel to take serious action against terror and violence and restore the safety and security of its people without fear of violence, riots, stone throwing and intentional vehicular usage to kill and injure Israelis.
ReplyDeleteRemind the Arabs that they expelled over a million Jewish families and their children from their counties and confiscated all their assets including land 5-6 times the size of Israel. That the Arabs must balance the books and pay for the assets and the relocation of the Jews.
Israel needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
Do you want prevent nuclear terror? Do you care about you children and your family’s future? Vote for nuclear free Iran.
ReplyDeleteA terrorist state must not be permitted to possess nuclear capability.
Iran already controls; Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza, etc. how much more before we stop them from devouring the Middle East and more.
When Israel takes defensive action for its survival. Israel would rather be condemned for its actions as a live Israel than eulogized as a dead Israel.
YJ Draiman
A Jewish prayer for peace
ReplyDeletehttp://jewishprayerforpeace.blogspot.com/…/jewish-prayer-fo…
Arabs-Muslims declare ‘Death to the Jews’ in their Facebook profiles.
ReplyDeleteThis is not anti-Zionism. This is extreme racist anti-Semitism. If you replace “Death to the Jews” with “Death to the Buddhists”, or “Death to the Catholics”, or “Death to the Pagan worshipers” or “Death to the Kenyans or the Japanese”, what would these words mean other than menacing hate based in evil? This is a macabre, pure Nazi statement that these people gladly promote with the moronic mob mentality that they embrace. This brings only promises of chaos and fear and not respect, or a possible evolution toward a solution of coexistence.
If the world destroys the Jews, which will never happen with the help of the almighty, the impact of losing the Jewish contributions to the world will be significant and catastrophic.
The advances made in medicine, science, technology, law, philosophy and every corner of higher learning and progressive humanity as a direct result of Jewish contributions are etched in history and cannot be denied.
Worldwide advances and progress will always be a reminder of what the Jews did and accomplished, unlike any other group in history. Non-Jews always have and continue to wonder how we did all that advancement.
We the Jews being such a minute percentage of world population have been successful, and will continue so because we do not allow words, feelings or attitudes of hate in our children. Our children, and the generations to follow always come first. We raise our children with love of our traditions and cultures, and respect toward others who may differ. Our women mold the souls of our children and educate them in love and compassion, not hatred.
Another factor of our success is we promote education as essential in the upbringing of our children. In addition, we lift ourselves up by hard work, dedication and innovation, not by taking others down.
The Jewish people have survived and prospered even after thousands of years of unwarranted hate and persecutions throughout history. The world at large over the centuries has forced the Jewish people time and time again to liberate themselves from constant discrimination, hate and persecution in the Diaspora. We rose and responded by bringing about the rebirth of modern Israel in its ancestral land in order to survive, strive, thrive and control our own future and destiny.
Remember, when the Jews and minorities were persecuted, killed and violated in the Arab and Islamic lands, (over a million Jewish families and their children expelled and all their assets confiscated), those countries never recovered from the loss.
Differences in human composition and dedication are what make the Jewish people stronger. George Washington stated during his comments to the American people about appreciating how Haym Solomon, a Jew, helped in financing the American revolution, that the cultural differences are what make a nation stronger. Israel is the thriving America of Jews worldwide.
After over 2500 years of persecution in the Diaspora, Israel through hard work, determination to succeed, and dedication to survive with control of its own destiny was reborn by the Jewish people against all odds. It took extreme faith, dedication, hardship and consistent toil to rebuild Israel one grain of sand at a time, inch by inch, foot by foot, and mile by mile. The Jews of Israel never quit until all the swamps were gone and the land flourished; until the infrastructure and housing was built. Most importantly, all of these accomplishments by the Jewish people were achieved with limited resources, a hostile environment and Arab and British impediment to our freedom and independence. Nevertheless, we have succeeded in making the desert bloom and flowing with green valleys; we have turned the desert into a land of milk and honey.
Furthermore, Jewish innovations and advances in all fields keep coming on a consistent basis. We built educational institutions and research facilities that are the envy of the world. Furthermore, overcoming the harsh treatment by the nations of the world, and to ensure we, or any other people are never again led as sheep to the slaughter of the Nazi gas chamber, Israel has morphed into a world military might to rightfully defend its people. Contrary to the efforts of many nations of the world, the State of Israel is alive and thriving! (“the nation of Israel lives”).
ReplyDeleteHistory has proven hate begets hate, and nations built upon a premise of hate have all failed. If all the Jews were gone (not likely), the anti-Semitic promoters and facilitators would need to feed their hate, and would turn on each other. History has proven as such to always be the end result of hate.
I challenge you. Try love and understanding, compassion and kindness, embrace and respect the differences, it will make living a celebration of life, it’s all very beautiful and content, furthermore, you will find the real true success and accomplishment. It will be hard to change the narrative, but go ahead, accept the challenge to heal instead of hate, to tolerate instead of intolerance, to endure instead of abhor.
If you follow these ideals, narratives and behavior, you may finally see some success like many of the JEWS and forego your jealousy and intolerance!
This will bring about a harmonious and thriving coexistence that will benefit society and humanity for generations to come.
YJ Draiman
Arabs-Muslims declare ‘Death to the Jews’ in their Facebook profiles.
ReplyDeleteThis is not anti-Zionism. This is extreme racist anti-Semitism. If you replace “Death to the Jews” with “Death to the Buddhists”, or “Death to the Catholics”, or “Death to the Pagan worshipers” or “Death to the Kenyans or the Japanese”, what would these words mean other than menacing hate based in evil? This is a macabre, pure Nazi statement that these people gladly promote with the moronic mob mentality that they embrace. This brings only promises of chaos and fear and not respect, or a possible evolution toward a solution of coexistence.
If the world destroys the Jews, which will never happen with the help of the almighty, the impact of losing the Jewish contributions to the world will be significant and catastrophic.
The advances made in medicine, science, technology, law, philosophy and every corner of higher learning and progressive humanity as a direct result of Jewish contributions are etched in history and cannot be denied.
Worldwide advances and progress will always be a reminder of what the Jews did and accomplished, unlike any other group in history. Non-Jews always have and continue to wonder how we did all that advancement.
We the Jews being such a minute percentage of world population have been successful, and will continue so because we do not allow words, feelings or attitudes of hate in our children. Our children, and the generations to follow always come first. We raise our children with love of our traditions and cultures, and respect toward others who may differ. Our women mold the souls of our children and educate them in love and compassion, not hatred.
Another factor of our success is we promote education as essential in the upbringing of our children. In addition, we lift ourselves up by hard work, dedication and innovation, not by taking others down.
The Jewish people have survived and prospered even after thousands of years of unwarranted hate and persecutions throughout history. The world at large over the centuries has forced the Jewish people time and time again to liberate themselves from constant discrimination, hate and persecution in the Diaspora. We rose and responded by bringing about the rebirth of modern Israel in its ancestral land in order to survive, strive, thrive and control our own future and destiny.
Remember, when the Jews and minorities were persecuted, killed and violated in the Arab and Islamic lands, (over a million Jewish families and their children expelled and all their assets confiscated), those countries never recovered from the loss.
Differences in human composition and dedication are what make the Jewish people stronger. George Washington stated during his comments to the American people about appreciating how Haym Solomon, a Jew, helped in financing the American revolution, that the cultural differences are what make a nation stronger. Israel is the thriving America of Jews worldwide.
After over 2500 years of persecution in the Diaspora, Israel through hard work, determination to succeed, and dedication to survive with control of its own destiny was reborn by the Jewish people against all odds. It took extreme faith, dedication, hardship and consistent toil to rebuild Israel one grain of sand at a time, inch by inch, foot by foot, and mile by mile. The Jews of Israel never quit until all the swamps were gone and the land flourished; until the infrastructure and housing was built. Most importantly, all of these accomplishments by the Jewish people were achieved with limited resources, a hostile environment and Arab and British impediment to our freedom and independence. Nevertheless, we have succeeded in making the desert bloom and flowing with green valleys; we have turned the desert into a land of milk and honey.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, Jewish innovations and advances in all fields keep coming on a consistent basis. We built educational institutions and research facilities that are the envy of the world. Furthermore, overcoming the harsh treatment by the nations of the world, and to ensure we, or any other people are never again led as sheep to the slaughter of the Nazi gas chamber, Israel has morphed into a world military might to rightfully defend its people. Contrary to the efforts of many nations of the world, the State of Israel is alive and thriving! (“the nation of Israel lives”).
History has proven hate begets hate, and nations built upon a premise of hate have all failed. If all the Jews were gone (not likely), the anti-Semitic promoters and facilitators would need to feed their hate, and would turn on each other. History has proven as such to always be the end result of hate.
I challenge you. Try love and understanding, compassion and kindness, embrace and respect the differences, it will make living a celebration of life, it’s all very beautiful and content, furthermore, you will find the real true success and accomplishment. It will be hard to change the narrative, but go ahead, accept the challenge to heal instead of hate, to tolerate instead of intolerance, to endure instead of abhor.
If you follow these ideals, narratives and behavior, you may finally see some success like many of the JEWS and forego your jealousy and intolerance!
This will bring about a harmonious and thriving coexistence that will benefit society and humanity for generations to come.
YJ Draiman
Any Israeli leader promoting the uprooting of Jewish Towns, Villages or Settlements is a traitor to the people of Israel. Any Jewish leader authorizing the uprooting Jews from their homes in Greater Israel should be prosecuted for crimes against the Jewish people and ejected from office permanently.
ReplyDeleteUnder all the Treaties and agreements after WWI and the 1920's. It states: Jewish people have the right to settle and live anywhere in the Mandate for Palestine.
Throughout history, Jewish people have been persecuted and uprooted from their homes and lands in the world at large.
Now that the Jewish people have returned to their ancestral lands and are resettling it. Thus it is the ultimate crime against the Jewish people to uproot them from their own homes in the Jewish homeland by a Jewish government.
YJ Draiman.
What we call the State of Israel, along with her “legal” borders, was established in April 1920 with the San Remo Resolution of 1920 confirmed by the Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne, which terms are in affect in perpetuity. Only Israel can amend the terms if they sign a treaty with its Arab neighbors. Palestine was created for the first time in history as a country. It was created as the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home. The Partition Plan in 1947 was the result of a 1/4 century of illegal British policy (The English were a trustee for the Jewish people, but they violated that trust. the British wanted to control the Oil in the Middle East, for that they betrayed the Jewish people) that ripped internationally protected Jewish rights from the Jewish People, as the British allowed hundreds of thousands of Arabs to pour across the border from Syria and Egypt into Palestine.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish State’s reconstitution was a fact 25 years before the UN existed. The Mandate was there to protect its survival, and it was terminated, not because the terms were completed, but because the British fled with their tails between their legs, and there was no
one there to administer the Mandate. But the terms of the San Remo Treaty have not been abrogated, it is applicable today and the future, only Israel has the right to modify the terms via a treaty with the Arabs,
Does anyone think that after the Ottoman Empire surrendered and relinquished its rights title and ownership to Palestine and other territories to the Allied powers after WWI and the Allied powers set up and established 21 Arab States and one Jewish State. The 21 Arab State do not want to relinquish or redraw its boundaries and Israel does not want to concede any of its original boundaries set up in 1920 which included the Palestine Mandate. Non of the Palestinian Mandate was allocated to the Arabs in the 1920 San Remo Treaty.
The U.N. and the other countries must take into account and address the persecution and expulsion of over a million Jewish families from the Arab countries and the confiscation of personal assets, homes, businesses land owned by Jewish people in the Arab countries, totaling 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles (5-6 times the size of Israel) valued in the trillions of dollars.
The Jewish people resettled the million Jewish refugees from the Arab countries. It is about time the Arab countries who expelled the million Jewish people and confiscated their land and assets, must stop the delusion that Israel will go away. The Arab states should be obliged to settle the Arab-Palestinian refugees in their countries and or Jordan once and for all without compromising Israel and bring about peace and tranquility to the region.
Neither the U.N. nor any Country in the world has the authority to create a state or dissolve a state, (check the U.N. charter and international law.)
YJ Draiman
The Jews’ war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. And we’re easy to find now.
The Law of Return is for The Jews and reciprocating equity by the Arabs
ReplyDeleteThe Law of Return is for The Jews, the option to return to Greater Israel and The Arab-Palestinians to leave Greater Israel and return to the Arab countries they originated from. The Arab-Palestinians should move to the Million plus Jewish homes confiscated by the Arab countries from the persecuted and expelled Jewish people and the 120,440 sq. km. of Real property the Arabs confiscated from the million plus Jewish families and their children expelled from Arab countries. That is the only viable alternative.
Face it and stop hallucinating, once and for all. There will never be an Arab-Palestinian State in Greater Israel West of the Jordan River (Judea and Samaria). Jerusalem the United Eternal Capital of the Jewish people.
Responding to arguments that million Jews expelled from Arab countries has no bearing on the Arabs who left Palestine or Arabs displaced from Jewish land and or formerly Ottoman government land has nothing to do with each other. The law of equity in not a one way street, it works both ways. The Arab nations that expelled the million Jewish families (who lived in the Arab countries for over 2500 years and owned 120,440 sq. km. of land, homes, businesses and personal assets valued in the trillions of dollars) are the ones supporting the Arab-Palestinians in demanding law of return and compensation. Those Arab countries are financing the Arab-Palestinians in their quest to eject the Jews a second time from their own ancestral homeland. The best and only solution is a population transfer.
YJ Draiman
Israel must build 50,000 housing Units per year for the next 10 years in Judea and Samaria including roads and highways. This area - Judea and Samaria is no different than Tel-Aviv or any other Israeli city. Any delay or capitulation to world pressure will only make things worse. Appeasement and concessions are costing Jewish lives.
ReplyDeleteI hope you wake-up before it is too late. Stop deluding yourself that the Arabs want peace, it is only a fantasy.
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required.
If anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated.
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
P.S.
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 ten times larger that mine does that obviate my true ownership?
The San Remo Conference and the Palestine Mandate are not outdated and superseded documents but are as alive in 2015 as they were in 1920 by virtue of article 80 of the UN Charter which preserves the legal right vested in the Jewish people by the League of Nations to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in former Palestine.
ReplyDeleteThis imprimatur remains binding on all member nations of the UN. That they seek to ignore their legal obligation to support this noble objective is a blot on their collective consciences.
Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required.
ReplyDeleteIf anything it may need to be re-incorporated or re-patriated.
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
P.S.
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 ten times larger that mine does that obviate my true ownership?
Jerusalem the Eternal Capital of the Jewish People
ReplyDeleteThe Jews have only Jerusalem, and only the Jews have made it their capital.
That is why it has so much deeper a meaning for them (the Jews) than for anybody else.
Jerusalem throughout its long and turbulent history, Jerusalem, more than any other city, has evoked the emotions, aspirations, yearnings and religious fervor of civilized Jewish mankind. Yet this homage of the world cannot overshadow the consuming and single-minded passion of one particular attachment: that of the Jewish people. For that people, as no other, Jerusalem is not just its one and only religious centre and source of spiritual life; from time immemorial it has been and, still is, the very heart and core of the people – the tangible embodiment of its nationhood, the lodestar in its wanderings, the theme of its prayers each day, the fulfillment of its dreams for the Return unto Zion and indeed the cornerstone of its continuity.
Many thousand of years ago, it was in Jerusalem that the priests would offer up daily sacrifices in the Temple on Mount Moriah. It was there in the Temple that the Sanhedrin, the great court of 71 Jewish sages, would sit in judgment. And three times a year on the harvest holy-days of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles, the entire Jewish nation would make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. It is in the direction of Jerusalem that Jews face when they pray three times daily.
The Jewish prayers themselves contain numerous references to Jerusalem and Zion. In the Amidah, the Silent Devotion, God is praised as the Builder of Jerusalem. In many other places the prayers echo the messianic belief that God will restore the Jewish people to His holy city. On Passover and the Day of Atonement Jews conclude services with the fervent hope: “Next year may we be in Jerusalem!”
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem harks back to Biblical times. Jacob, encountering the site where the Temple would stand centuries later said: “How awe-inspiring is this place! It is the House of God! It is the gate to heaven!” (Gen. 28:17). Jerusalem was “the site that the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes, as a place established in His name. It is there that you shall go to seek His presence” (Deut. 12:3).
Jerusalem began to fulfill the function of a spiritual and national capital when King David conquered the city in the 10th century BCE. King David made it his seat of judgment and brought the Ark of the Covenant to rest there. It was also David who conceived the idea of building a permanent house of God, a Temple, a plan eventually fulfilled by his son Solomon. DESTRUCTION & REBIRTH The story of the Jewish people and Jerusalem has been one of exile, destruction and rebirth.
Jerusalem in its 3000 years of history the city was destroyed 17 times and 18 times reborn.
There always remained a Jewish presence in the city of Jerusalem, and the Jewish people as a whole always dreamt of returning en mass to Jerusalem and rebuilding their city.
When the Babylonians destroyed the city in 586 BCE, the Jewish exiles pledged that they would never forget their beloved Jerusalem: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, and we wept, when we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in its midst we hanged up our harps. For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us in mirth: ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy” (Psalms 137:1-6).
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish exiles did not forget their beloved city of Jerusalem. They were to return there and rebuild the Temple under the guidance of Ezra and Nehemiah. When the Seleucids took control over the Land of Israel and placed Greek idols in the Temple, the Jewish Maccabees revolted. They succeeded in recapturing Jerusalem and re-dedicating the Temple in 165 BCE.
The Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 CE. When the Emperor Hadrian began planning to replace it with a shrine to Jupiter, a Jewish revolt known as the Bar Kochba Rebellion broke out.
For the last 2000 years, on the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av, Jews everywhere have commemorated the destruction of their city and Temple with a 25-hour fast. They sit on low stools in their synagogues and recite Jeremiah’s Lamentations. They recite elegies for the city which is “scorned without her glory”.
During the periods of exile Jews throughout the world would be linked as they prayed together in their Hebrew tongue all facing in the same direction, maintaining their affinity with their eternal Jerusalem. Today Jerusalem flourishes once again as the heart and soul of Judaism. It boasts a full range of rebuilt and new synagogues, Talmudic academies and institutes of Jewish research. It is home to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel which administers the life cycle events of the nation’s Jewish citizens. All varieties of Judaism are represented there. Nowhere else is the spiritual element of the Jewish people so visible as in this “place that the Lord has chosen”.
Jerusalem the Jewish NATIONAL CAPITAL for eternity; Jerusalem was never the capital city of any of its conquerors.
Re Israel's irrevocable ownership of Israel, Golan, Samaria, Judea and Gaza:
ReplyDeleteThe 1920 Treaty of San Remo the Jewish Magna Carts. "Nothing that Israel's legal system says can change the facts that: (1) the legal binding document is the Mandate of the League of Nations and (2) the obligations of the Mandate are valid in
perpetuity." (Professor Julius Stone)
"By 1920 the Ottoman Empire had exercised undisputed sovereignty over Palestine for 400 years. In Article 95 of the treaty of Sevres, that sovereignty was transferred to England in trust for a national homeland for the Jewish people.
The local Arabs had never exercised sovereignty over Palestine and so they lost nothing. Their rights were fully protected by a provisio in the grant: '...it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...' The proviso has been fully observed by the Israelis. Since 1950 the Arabs have built some 261 new settlements in Judea and Samaria — more than twice as many as the Jews, but you never hear of them. They fill them with Arabs from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan and by the grace of God they become Palestinians.
Allah hu Akbar! The Arabs call Judea "the West Bank' because they would look silly claiming that Jews are illegally living in Judea." (Comment by Wallace Brand on Martin Peretz "Narrative
Any Jewish person in Greater Israel has the right to visit and or pray anywhere within the boundary of Greater Israel according to International law and the Jewish law of the Bible.
ReplyDeleteIn June 1967 After 3 days of war with Egypt and Syria. The Arabs told Jordan that they are advancing on Tel-Aviv and that they should join the war.
Jordan started firing artillery, cannons at Israel and the Jordanian Army fired on Israel from the old city of Jerusalem and other locations.
Israel contacted Jordan and informed them that if they stop military actions against Israel nothing will happen to them and Israel will not attack them to defend themselves.
Jordan ignored the numerous warning and continued offensive military actions against Israel and its populations.
Israel in defense of its country and its people responded in a defensive war and defeated the Jordanian army with heavy losses and liberated Judea and Samaria aka The West Bank and in a stunning victory Israel liberated its 3000 year old ancestral capital Jerusalem.
Where now every religion can worship in peace without restrictions.
It is a know fact in International law that in a defensive war - to the conqueror goes the spoils.
The situation today is of the Arabs own doing.
In 1987 Jordan officially relinquished all territorial claims to Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. Just like the Ottoman empire after WW1 officially relinquished all claims to Palestine and other territories conquered by the allied powers.
Israel - the victors sued for peace and the vanquished Arabs called for unconditional surrender.
YJ Draiman.
You are fogetting a very important peace of information.
ReplyDeleteIn June 1967 After 3 days of war with Egypt and Syria. The Arabs told Jordan that they are advancing on Tel-Aviv and that they should join the war.
Jordan started firing artilary, cannons at Israel and the Jordanian Army fired on Israel from the old city of Jerusalem and other locations.
Israel contacted Jordan and informed them that if they stop millitary actions against Israel nothing will happen to them and Israel will not attack them to defend themselves.
Jordan ignored the numerous warning and continued arfensive millitary actions against Israel and its populations.
Israel in defense of its country and its people responded in a defensive war and defeated the Jordanian army with heavy losses and liberated Judea and Samaria aka The West Bank and in a stunning victory Israel liberated its 3000 year old ancestral capital Jerusalem.
Where now evert religion can worship in peace without restrictions.
It is a know fact in International law that in a defensive war - to the conquerer goes the spoils.
The situation today is of the Arabs own doing.
In 1987 Jordan officially relinquished all territorial claims to Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. Just like the Ottoman empire after WW1 officially reliquished all claimms to Palestine and other territories conquered by the allied powers.
Israel - the victors sued for peace and the vanquished Arabs called for unconditional surrender.
YJ Draiman.
No restraint. Israel must respond with extreme force for any hostile act or attack against its population. Let them and any enemy of Israel know that no threat or attack will go unpunished Israel will defend with full force counter and response, no holds barred.
ReplyDeleteOnly a quick and harsh response by Israel to any hostile action has the potential of quashing and minimizing further escalation.
The days of restraint and limited response are over.
The same applies to any violence within Greater Israel.
Two States - Greater Israel for the Jewish people as guaranteed by International law and treaties after WW1 and Jordan that was originally part of the territory allocated to the Jewish people under 1920 international treaties and Jordan has 75% of its people are Arab-Palestinians and the 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi. (5-6 times the size of Israel) the Arab countries confiscated from the million plus Jewish families they persecuted and expelled from Arab countries and confiscated all their assets valued in the trillions of dollars.
That should settle the refugee problem once and for all.
But the Arabs will not be satisfied until they get all of Israel without the Jews and they do not hide their intention.
YJ Draiman
If IDF wants it could turn all the roads and infrastructure in Gaza to rubble, so count your blessing and be aware that pushing the envelope too far will have dire consequences for Gaza.
If you check history, you will find that Gaza was Jewish territory.
Israel - It is your duty and obligation, you must defend your family and citizens against Hamas rockets without constraints or limitations, no-holds-barred, anything less is a dereliction of duty. This applies also to any acts of terror and violence by anyone. No response is strong enough. Anybody who thinks otherwise is committing desertion of family and friends to the atrocities of evil and terror.
It is up to Israel to defend its people. In the past, history has shown the world stood idle while Jewish people, men, women and children were slaughtered.
YJ Draiman
No restraint. Israel must respond with extreme force for any hostile act or attack against its population. Let them know that no threat or attack will go unpunished defend with full force response, no holds barred.
ReplyDeleteThe days of restraint and limited response are over.
The same applies to any violence within Greater Israel.
Two States - Greater Israel for the Jewish people as guaranteed by International law and treaties after WW1 and Jordan that was originally part of the territory allocated to the Jewish people under 1920 international treaties and Jordan has 75% of its people are Arab-Palestinians and the 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi. (5-6 times the size of Israel) the Arab countries confiscated from the million plus Jewish families they persecuted and expelled from Arab countries and confiscated all their assets valued in the trillions of dollars.
That should settle the refugee problem once and for all.
But the Arabs will not be satisfied until they get all of Israel without the Jews and they do not hide their intention.
YJ Draiman
If IDF wants it could turn all the roads and infrastructure in Gaza to rubble, so count your blessing and be aware that pushing the envelope too far will have dire consequences for Gaza.
If you check history, you will find that Gaza was Jewish territory.
Israel - It is your duty and obligation, you must defend your family and citizens against Hamas rockets without constraints or limitations, no-holds-barred, anything less is a dereliction of duty. This applies also to any acts of terror and violence by anyone. No response is strong enough. Anybody who thinks otherwise is committing desertion of family and friends to the atrocities of evil and terror.
It is up to Israel to defend its people. In the past, history has shown the world stood idle while Jewish people, men, women and children were slaughtered.
YJ Draiman
The lesson from history showed how the world stood idle while over 6 million Jews, men, women and children were exterminated in German concentration camps and while the Arab countries terrorized and expelled over a million Jewish families, who have lived in those Arab countries over 2400 years. Majority of those Expelled Jewish families live in Greater Israel today, Now the Arabs want to continue terrorize and expel them again from their own ancestral land for over 3500 years.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish Ghetto mentality of must be eradicated, it is this kind of practice that caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and many other Persecutions and violence against Jews throughout history. The best defense is offense, stop being delusional that pacification will lead to tranquility, history has proven otherwise, terror and evil must be fought with vigor at inception or it will grow until it will consume you.
The Arab atrocities go back to 627 in Medina, when Muhammed beheaded over 700 Jews and raped the women and took them as slaves.
Israel has to defend itself with everything it has, no capitulation, concessions or appeasement, the Arabs see it as a sign of weakness. The Jews in Israel must stop deluding themselves that the Arabs want peace. They have attacked Israel in 4 wars and lost.
The Jewish people have earned the right to live in peace and tranquility in their own country. Anyone who impedes and violate that right in any shape or form deserves to be eliminated, enough is enough. Any governmental official who wants to capitulate to Arab and world pressure must resign, for that person is abandoning the Jewish people to continued terror and violence, as past actions have proven.
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can not be treated just where it is visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
Israel - the victors sued for peace and the vanquished Arabs called for unconditional surrender.
NEVER AGAIN.
YJ Draiman
Minister of Hasbara - Israel advocacy
ReplyDeleteIsrael needs to set up: Minister of Hasbara - Israel advocacy - Public Relations.
It should have strong financial support. A staff that is knowledgeable about history and legalities. A review board to proof read anything before it goes out.
The credibility, sources and resources must be impeccable.
YJ Draiman.
The British as trustee for the Jewish people, in violation of 1920 international treaties and the Mandate for Palestine, violated those treaties by restricting Jewish immigration and permitting hundreds of thousands of Arabs to come in.
Restricting immigration into Palestine-Israel during WW2 caused the death of millions of Jews. Much of the conflicts in the Middle East today is due to British complicity and the economic benefit of England controlling the oil reserves of the Middle East.
Read how the British violated the Mandate for Iraq - all for 30 barrels of oil. The conflict today is much the fault of the British. The British also blew-up Holocaust survivors refugee Ships (Under Operation Embarrass).
YJ Draiman.
There should be no such theory of limited response. The only way to respond to consistent terror is by utilizing security forces with no restrictions whatsoever, with no letup, The Hague and Geneva convention do not apply to terrorists and their supporters, The terrorists armed insurrection and attacking innocent civilians, those rules apply only to military confrontation with a legitimate state and government. The security forces must be authorized to use lethal force and termination of the terrorists with extreme prejudice.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most fundamental responsibilities of any legitimate government is to safeguard the safety and security of its people. But, this is not what’s happening in Israel. When mass rioting and violence break out, containing it might be okay as a first step but it clearly will not get to the root cause of the problem. In order for that to happen it will require a coordinated effort between local, regional, and national security agencies with no restrictions in applying its apparatus, and those responsible for causing the anarchy must be made to account for their actions in whatever way that is commensurate with their level of involvement. I do find it disturbing that the Israeli government is so disengaged with this problem. Israel's government has a duty and responsibility to protect its population with no excuses or limitations. It is time to ignore world opinion and defend The people of Israel with extreme prejudice. I hope more decisive and aggressive action is taken so the people of Israel can live their lives in peace without fear and I hope the Israeli government will implement these actions immediately and make this happen.
Those politicians whom are “calling for” drastic steps, and not TAKING drastic steps now, should be all be fired! No self respecting nation would tolerate these atrocities on their citizens.
Revoking citizenship and confiscating assets should apply to terrorists their accomplices and those who commit terror, violence and stone throwing etc.
We are out to reiterate, time and again: When the Arabs, including the Arabs of Gaza, put their weapons down, peace will reign. When the Jews, including the Jews of the State of Israel, put their weapons down, the State of Israel will be a thing of the past and the six million Jews in our homeland will follow the footsteps of the hundreds of thousands of Arabs slaughtered by their fellow Arabs in Syria and elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteMany nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory without substantiation.
ReplyDeleteNo one is mentioning that the Arab countries had persecuted and ejected about a million Jewish families and their children from their countries, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property. Many of the Jews persecuted and expelled from Arab countries died while their forced departure from Arab countries, due to attacks by the Arabs, hardship, famine and starvation. About 650,00 Jewish families and their children of these expelled Jewish families and their children were resettled in Greater Israel. The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people is: 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is in the trillions of dollars.
The Jewish people and their children during the over 2,500 years living in Arab countries have suffered Pogroms, Libel claims, beheadings, beatings, false imprisonment, slavery and extreme hardship as a second class citizens. They had their businesses and homes pillaged, their wives and daughters raped, sold them as slaves, their houses of worship pillaged and burned, forced conversion to Islam and many were beheaded.
Today over half of Israel's population are Jewish families expelled from Arab countries and their children and grandchildren. With natural growth the Jewish population expelled from Arab countries number over 7 million.
The Audacity of the Arab-Palestinians and the Arab countries in demanding territory from the Jewish people in Palestine after they ejected over a million Jewish people and their children who have lived in Arab land for over 2,500 years and after they confiscated all their assets and Real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km. - 75,000 sq. mi.), valued in the trillions of dollars. There was also Jewish property and land (totaling about 50,000 sq. km.) in Jordan, Gaza and across the Golan Heights under Syria's control.
Now the Arab nations are demanding more land and more compensation.
The Arab countries have chased the million Jewish families and their children and now the want to chase them away again, from their own historical land.
Israel must respond with extreme force to any rocket attack. violent demonstration and terror. Israel's population must have peace and tranquility without intimidation by anyone.
The Jewish people have suffered enough in the Diaspora for the past 2,500 years. It is time for the Jewish people to live as free people in their own land without violence and terror.
It is time that we must consider that the only alternative is a population transfer of the Arab-Palestinians to the territories the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people and settle this dispute once and for all. Many Arab leaders had suggested these solutions over the years.
YJ Draiman
No restraint. Israel must respond with extreme force for any hostile act or attack against its population. Let them know that no threat or attack will go unpunished defend with full force response, no holds barred.
ReplyDeleteThe days of restraint and limited response are over.
The same applies to any violence within Greater Israel.
Two States - Greater Israel for the Jewish people as guaranteed by International law and treaties after WW1 and Jordan that was originally part of the territory allocated to the Jewish people under 1920 international treaties and Jordan has 75% of its people are Arab-Palestinians and the 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi. (5-6 times the size of Israel) the Arab countries confiscated from the million plus Jewish families they persecuted and expelled from Arab countries and confiscated all their assets.
That should settle the refugee problem once and for all.
But the Arabs will not be satisfied until they get all of Israel without the Jews and they do not hide their intention.
YJ Draiman
If IDF wants it could turn all the roads and infrastructure in Gaza to rubble, so count your blessing and be aware that pushing the envelope too far will have dire consequences for Gaza.
If you check history, you will find that Gaza was Jewish territory.
The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
ReplyDeleteAny building of housing in The Greater Israel is the right and duty of the Israeli government. There is no such a thing as occupied territory. It is the liberated land of Israel for over 4,000 years.
A two-state solution was implemented in 1922 in violation of 1920 international treaties, 80% of Jewish allocated territory was given to the Arabs.
In compliance with the 1920 League of Nations Resolution, two-state solution was implemented in 1922 when British administration of occupied Israel allocated more than 70% of Israel territory to Palestinian Arabs and created Transjordan (now Jordan) where today over 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Palestinian Arabs. Every party, including UN, EU, US, etc., must respect League of Nations Resolutions, adopted and accepted by UN. Therefore, all so called "Palestinians" must be relocated there. Enough stealing Israel land. Britain and Jordan must compensate Israel for stolen land and natural resources. Ref: article “Jewish legal rights to Judea and Samaria” By prominent International Law specialist Ted Belman.
YJ Draiman
“We are tired of hearing anything from anyone associated with the U.N. The U.N. is a parasitic and criminal enterprise dominated by our mortal enemies. The U.N. cannot create states, it can only recommend and so can other nations only recommend and not create a state that never existed before in history.” Israel was reinstituted in its historical land and other Arab State were legally assigned their territory under International treaties and laws agreed to by the Allied powers after WW1 after the Ottoman Empire ceded its ownership to the Allied powers.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing to negotiate or talk about. Any Arab-Palestinian that does not want to live under Israel's government and obey the laws must transfer to Jordan or to the 75,000 sq, miles, the land the Arab countries confiscated from the million persecuted and expelled jewish families. Negotiations are over, there is nothing to negotiate, the Arabs who live in Israel must comply and adhere to the laws of Israel or leave the country permanently.
Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory - No annexation is required for Greater Israel territory..
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
Fourteen years ago, on a second try, the World Trade Center came down. on September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked the United States, we lost over 3,000 innocent lives. Since that tragic day, we have been engaged in a war on terror. Through the sacrifices of countless brave men and women in uniform and the work of our intelligence agencies, many of those responsible for the 9-11 attacks have been brought to justice, including its mastermind, Osama bin Laden. This led some to prematurely declare victory over terrorism, even at the highest levels of our government.
ReplyDeleteNow ISIS has reminded us that the world remains a dangerous place. Through their horrific actions – including the barbaric beheadings of American journalists and Iraqi men, women, and children – ISIS has demonstrated that the threat continues. Terrorism is growing world wide, the brutal killing of 12 people in France and the subsequent deaths of additional hostages, demonstrate that our resolve to eradicate terrorism is not strong enough and not cohesive enough to make a substantial difference. In fact, some experts believe the danger from terrorism is as great as it has been at any point since before 9/11. That threat requires a strong response.
First, we must develop a comprehensive and robust strategy to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, no matter where it appears or what name it goes by. By not having such a plan in place for ISIS and by dismissing them rather than the serious national security threat they are we are failing in our responsibility to protect our citizens and the nation.
Ignoring or minimizing a problem will not make it go away.
It is time for some serious action.
YJ Draiman.
Terrorism, with enough will and determination can be quashed!
ReplyDeleteDemonstration of a million people against terrorism is nice, but it is only the initial action. In the past generation terrorism has escalated and is now accelerating beyond control.
The real demand by the masses of the free world is to call for, that immediate action with force and unrestricted international cooperation to fight, crush and eliminate terrorism.
The terrorist infrastructure and financing must be eliminated. Let the terrorists know under no circumstances that terror and violence will not be tolerated.
Let the leaders and politicians know that if they do not go after terrorism in earnest without personal political reasons, that they will not be elected again. This is no time for politicking, but actions and results, the future of the world as we know it, depends on it.
Put all politics aside - fighting and quashing terrorism is a matter of world survival.
The world needs to put together immediately an International task forces to fight terrorism and Muslim extremists. It needs to be a well trained force with substantial resources and manpower as well as an International intelligence cooperation with no restriction. It has to be a unified and cohesive battle to abolish terrorism at all costs.
Let the terrorists know that there is no hole they can hide in, that the world terrorist task force and other law enforcement agencies will get them wherever they are. We must shut off all their resources, financing, financial institutions and any source that supply them with any kind of support; weaponry, economic, information, etc. whatsoever.
I urge the world powers at large to take these terrorist events seriously with utmost urgency. The situation is at a critical stage and if immediate all out action is not taken in all parts of the world, terror and mayhem will take over the world and we will not be able to stop it.
Just imagine if one of those terrorist got a hold of a nuclear suitcase bomb. Do I need to describe it any further.
Is there a leader today (please stand up) in the free world who can take the bull by the horn and initiate this global war on terrorism.
YJ Draiman
P.S. Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can not be treated just where it is visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
A heavenly maiden with an orb of gold Sits by the Mediterranean Sea
ReplyDeleteShe gazes at the sailors and ships
That pass by for eternity
Who are you? fair maiden,they ask
Whats your pedigree
I am a Jew, she answers, and that's my destiny
I am called Israel born of steel and fire
I have gathered my children from many lands afar
From East and West and South and North
They came in multitude
And they have made me what I am
In everlasting gratitude
I am their mother and they are my children
That's how we both feel
Israel (my name) is a reality
That adversity could not kill.
The Arab-Palestinians have the right to go back to the Arab countries where they from originally came from and not steal Jewish land and resources. They educate their children and the masses to commit terror and violence which is counter productive.
ReplyDeleteIt is enough that they got Jordan as the Arab State after taking it from the allocation as territory for the Jewish people according to international treaties and laws from 1920.
The Arabs countries also persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families (who lived there for over 2,400 years) from their countries, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property. Over 650,00 Jewish families and their children of these expelled Jewish families and their children were resettled in Greater Israel (the balance of the expelled Jews from Arab countries settled in other countries). The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is the trillions of dollars.
Let the Arab-Palestinians relocate to those properties and leave Israel permanently. These actions will bring about peace and prosperity. They will be able to utilize funds devoted to weapons and war and divert those resources to improve the standard of living and create a prosperous economy, which will benefit everyone .
YJ Draiman.
I have long said, this isn't about land, but extermination of a religion and culture not accepted by another. I have actually asked the question, what if there was no 'holy land'. Say a natural disaster, dissolving the place into nothing. Would you still fight? Well, the answer was chilling and saddened me greatly. The answer was over and over, "we have the right to kill all non believers". I've read and re-read everything, from both sides, also, non-biased writings. I come to the conclusion that Israel must protect herself in every way possible or face genocide. Those in power rejected all and any attempts to recognize Israel's right to exist. Don't start with who was there first, because when you look at it, there have been many successors and each took their place with the right to rule. So that argument is mute. Israel is the rightful successor, having won in a defensive war. Many times. Sadly, it will continue, because when one culture wants another's elimination, there is no talking. I hope Israel does not repent, or give up any more land, because they will only make themselves vulnerable. Might I remind you, on 911, there was one who wished our extermination, right here in America. This will continue until education and humanity replaces a hatred, for no other reason, than to not accept that you exist.
ReplyDeleteIsrael - It is your duty and obligation, you must defend your family and citizens against Hamas rockets without constraints or limitations, no-holds-barred, anything less is a dereliction of duty. This applies also to any acts of terror and violence by anyone. No response is strong enough. Anybody who thinks otherwise is committing desertion of family and friends to the atrocities of evil and terror.
ReplyDeleteIt is up to Israel to defend its people. In the past, history has shown the world stood idle while Jewish people, men, women and children were slaughtered.
YJ Draiman
The Deterioration of Family Values R6.
ReplyDeleteBy YJ Draiman.
Since World War 2 when women were encouraged to join the work force en mass, to replace the men who went to war and keep the economy and the war effort going.
There has been a deterioration of family values and a breakdown of the family unit, a trend where a mother was not at home to take care of her children, monitor their behavior, help with the homework and discipline when and where necessary.
The advancement in technology has harmed family values. The Media and Television has totally destroyed any comprehension of values in our society. We have become a materialistic society – No holds barred.
The lack of discipline and total disregard for authority and respect is clear to anyone who has watched the past 50 years and seen our society’s values deteriorate.
One example alone is that 50 years ago a teacher was happy to go to school to teach, a teacher was respected and looked up-to, a teacher could discipline. Today teachers fear for their lives they are petrified by their students, discipline is restricted both to teachers and parents alike.
This scenario caries on to other social interactions of society today, and the situation is getting worse and worse every year.
You will notice that many families who come from other countries have a very strong family values, tradition, good education, respect and the children excel in their studies. That is because they have not had the chance to be influenced by our overly liberal society.
The education of our children begins at home and continues in school – the parents and the school must take a proactive approach to teach our children values and respect.
In today’s society a teacher is not permitted to discipline a student, the teachers will be sued, not to mention that teachers fears for their safety.
Parents in today’s society are also restricted as to how to discipline their children; in many cases parents are getting sued. In many cases children would never dream of treating their parents with such disrespect 50 years ago. Today some parents are afraid of their own children.
Abuse has been and will be with society to eternity that does not give society the right to prohibit discipline; a few acts of abuse should not cause society to prohibit proper discipline.
When an individual or individuals utilize a vehicle to commit a crime cause the death of others, does society prohibit vehicles altogether, no, a vehicle is very important for our everyday life.
Well, the discipline of our children by parents and teachers is extremely important for our society and the preservation of humanity.
It seems that our society is so busy chasing the dollar, fame and glory, that anything goes all values goes out the window. We should be an example of honesty, integrity and respect to our children.
Are Americans patriotic and proud enough to defend, protect and bring family values back to America? Is America ready to fight for honesty integrity and justice in our society, eliminate corruption and fraud, waste and self serving programs?
Re-invigorate our economy, rebuild our industrial base and decrease our dependence on foreign economies and resources.
YJ Draiman, Los Angeles, CA.
THE BOMBING OF CIVILIANS IN WORLD WAR II
ReplyDelete"The Prime Minister said that we hoped to shatter twenty German cities as we had shattered Cologne, Lubeck, Dusseldorf, and so on. More and more aeroplanes and bigger and bigger bombs. M. Stalin had heard of 2-ton bombs. We had now begun to use 4-ton bombs, and this would be continued throughout the winter. If need be, as the war went on, we hoped to shatter almost every dwelling in almost every German city. " (Official transcript of the meeting at the Kremlin between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin on Wednesday, August 12, 1942, at 7 P.M.)
"The destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilized community life throughout Germany [is the goal]. ... It should be emphasized that the destruction of houses, public utilities, transport and lives; the creation of a refugee problem on an unprecedented scale; and the breakdown of morale both at home and at the battle fronts by fear of extended and intensified bombing are accepted and intended aims of our bombing policy. They are not by-products of attempts to hit factories." -- "Air Marshal Arthur Harris, Commander in Chief, Bomber Commander, British Royal Air Force, October 25, 1943 quoted in Tami Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 220.
Is the deliberate mass murder of civilians on a huge scale ever justified? This article does not have an answer for this question. However, it is important to note that this was a very specific goal of England and America in World War II as the quotes above show. Germany and Japan also bombed civilians but the scale of what they did was a tiny fraction of their opponents. More people died in the bombing of Hamburg alone that in the entire German bombing campaign against England. Was the Anglo-American bombing necessary or moral? Many serious military experts feel it was a poor choice in terms of military priorities. What follows is documentation from both sides.
Secretary General League of Arab States - Dr. Nabil El Araby - 2013.
ReplyDeleteSecretary General,
For over 2,500 years, Jews in substantial numbers resided in the Middle East and North Africa, predating Islam and the Arab conquest and subsequent occupation of much of these areas. During the twentieth century, roughly 99% of all Jews, almost a million families, men, women and children, were uprooted from their ancient Jewish communities in ten Arab countries –.
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Aden.
The repression against Jews in so many Arab countries was not independent.
phenomenon but rather the result of collusion by the League of Arab States to target and persecute their Jewish populations. This is evidenced from: (a) reports of multilateral meetings of the Arab League; (b) ominous and violent threats made against Jews by delegates of Arab countries at the U.N.; and c) legislation and discriminatory decrees, enacted by numerous Arab governments, that violated the fundamental rights and freedoms of Jews in Arab countries.
In 1947, the Political Committee of the League of Arab States approved the Text of Law which provided that “...all Jews were to be considered members of the Jewish ‘minority state of Palestine,’” their bank accounts would be frozen, assets confiscated and many would be interned as political prisoners.
These discriminatory actions made the lives of Jews in Arab countries simply.
untenable. Jews were uprooted from their countries of birth and in virtually all cases, as they fled or were expelled, individual and communal properties were seized and/or confiscated without any compensation provided by Arab governments.
The League of Arab States should acknowledge its role and responsibility in the.
drafting and endorsement of the Text of Law, colluding to inflict human rights.
violations against its Jewish nationals and residents, and the consequent displacement of Jewish refugees.
The Arab League must accept historic accountability for the humiliation, the.
suffering, and the losses incurred by innocent Jewish victims of the Arab world’s declared war against the State of Israel.
As a matter of law and equity, the Arab League must assume full responsibility for ensuring rights and redress for Jewish refugees, the direct result of their collusionary actions.
Sincerely,
The U.N. should of been disbanded 55 years ago. They are nothing but a waste of money, energy and human effort. It is one of the most corrupted organization in the world.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to withdraw American monetary support for the U.N. and take it apart.
There was never an Arab-Palestinian State in Greater Israel and there will never be one – face it.
The Ottoman land records of Palestine confirm that the Arabs did not own land, they were sharecroppers. Over 90% of the land was owned by the government the balance was owned by absentee wealthy Arabs from Lebanon and elsewhere who sold it to the Jews at premium prices.
It is time to implement population transfer for all the Arabs. (Just like was done after WW2) for those who promote and create violence, riot and attack Jews and anyone else. They could be relocated to the home and land of the million Jewish families and their children, expelled from Arab countries or can relocate to Jordan which is 75% Arab-Palestinians. (Arabs in the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria carry Jordanian Passports) They are Jordanians.
YJ Draiman.
If I am not for myself, who is.
ReplyDeleteIsrael can only help itself and G-d helps those who help themselves.
Israel must unite its people in the common cause for survival. Israeli population have to learn to respect each other no matter what the ideological and political ideology.
A Unified Israel is a strong Israel.
YJ Draiman.
It is time to reverse all concessions and stop any appeasement to the Arabs, It has proven counter-productive and only decreased the security and safety of the population in Israel.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is in control of its own destiny, make that destiny for the Arabs and the world at large that NEVER AGAIN is not just a statement, there is action behind it. The time for procrastination is over. Israel must respond with full force, any attackers must be punished by death.
Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act.
ReplyDelete(October 24, 1995).
In October 1995, the Senate (93-5) and House (374-37) adopted S.1322 - the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act - which noted that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and recalled several past Congressional resolutions that called for the city to remain united. The Act states that Jerusalem should remain a united city, should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel and that the U.S. Embassy should be moved there from Tel Aviv no later than May 31, 1999.
Included in the measure is a stipulation allowing the President to issue a waiver every six months to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv if he determines and reports to Congress that such a move is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States.
S.1322
An Act
To provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995."
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1)Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own capital.
(2)Since 1950, the city of Jerusalem has been the capital of the State of Israel.
(3)The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous government ministries and social and cultural institutions.
(4)The city of Jerusalem is the spiritual center of Judaism, and is also considered a holy city by the members of other religious faiths.
(5)From 1948-1967, Jerusalem was a divided city and Israeli citizens of all faiths as well as Jewish citizens of all states were denied access to holy sites in the area controlled by Jordan.
(6)In 1967, the city of Jerusalem was reunited during the conflict known as the Six Day War.
(7)Since 1967, Jerusalem has been a united city administered by Israel, and persons of all religious faiths have been guaranteed full access to holy sites within the city.
(8)This year marks the 28th consecutive year that Jerusalem has been administered as a unified city in which the rights of all faiths have been respected and protected.
(9)In 1990, the Congress unanimously adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 106, which declares that the Congress "strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected".
(10)In 1992, the United States Senate and House of Representatives unanimously adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 113 of the One Hundred Second Congress to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, and reaffirming congressional sentiment that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city.
(11)The September 13, 1993, Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements lays out a timetable for the resolution of "final status" issues, including Jerusalem.
(12)The Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area was signed May 4,1994, beginning the five-year transitional period laid out in the Declaration of Principles.
(13)In March of 1995, 93 members of the United States Senate signed a letter to Secretary of State Warren Christopher encouraging "planning to begin now" for relocation of the United States Embassy to the city of Jerusalem.
(14)In June of 1993, 257 members of the United States House of Representatives signed a letter to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher stating that the relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem "should take place no later than....1999".
(15)The United States maintains its embassy in the functioning capital of every country exceptin the case of our democratic friend and strategic ally, the State of Israel.
(16)The United States conducts official meetings and other business in the city of Jerusalem in de facto recognition of its status as the capital of Israel.
(17)In 1996, the State of Israel will celebrate the 3,000th anniversary of the Jewish presence in Jerusalem since King David's entry.
SEC. 3. TIMETABLE.
ReplyDelete(a)Statement of the Policy of the United States.—.
(1)Jerusalem should remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected;.
(2)Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and.
(3)the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.
(b)Opening Determination.—Not more than 50 percent of the funds appropriated to the Department of State for fiscal year 1999 for "Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad" may be obligated until the Secretary of State determines and reports to Congress that the United States Embassy in Jerusalem has officially opened.
SEC. 4. FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997 FUNDING.
(a)Fiscal Year 1996.--Of the funds authorized to be appropriated for "Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad" for the Department of State in fiscal year 1996, not less than $25,000,000 should be made available until expended only for construction and other costs associated with the establishment of the United States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.
(b)Fiscal Year 1997.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated for "Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad" for the Department of State in fiscal year 1997, not less than $75,000,000 should be made available until expended only for construction and other costs associated with the establishment of the United States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.
SEC. 5. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION.
Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate detailing the Department of State's plan to implement this Act. Such report shall include—.
(1)estimated dates of completion for each phase of the establishment of the United States Embassy, including site identification, land acquisition, architectural, engineering and construction surveys, site preparation, and construction; and.
(2)an estimate of the funding necessary to implement this Act, including all costs associated with establishing the United States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.
SEC. 6. SEMI-ANNUAL REPORTS.
At the time of the submission of the President's fiscal year 1997 budget request, and every six months thereafter, the Secretary of State shall report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on the progress made toward opening the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
SEC. 7. PRESIDENTIAL WAIVER.
(a)Waiver Authority.—
(1) Beginning on October 1, 1998, the President may suspend the limitation set forth in section 3(b) for a period of six months if he determines and reports to Congress in advance that such suspension is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States.
(2)The President may suspend such limitation for an additional six month period at the end of any period during which the suspension is in effect under this subsection if the President determines and reports to Congress in advance of the additional suspension that the additional suspension is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States.
(3)A report under paragraph (1) or (2)shall include—.
(A)a statement of the interests affected by the limitation that the President seeks to suspend; and.
(B)a discussion of the manner in which the limitation affects the interests.
With these quotes, the Arabs tell the story of the origin of the Palestinian refugees in their own words:
ReplyDeleteON APRIL 23, 1948 Jamal Husseinei, acting chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee (AHC), told the UN Security Council: "The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce... They preferred to abandon their homes, belongings and everything they possessed."
ReplyDeleteON SEPTEMBER 6, 1948, the Beirut Daily Telegraph quoted Emil Ghory, secretary of the AHC, as saying: "The fact that there are those refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agreed upon this policy unanimously..."
ON JUNE 8, 1951, Habib Issa, secretary-general of the Arab League, wrote in the New York Lebanese daily al-Hoda that in 1948, Azzam Pasha, then League secretary, had "assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property, and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states."
IN THE MARCH 1976 issue of Falastin a-Thaura, then the official journal of the Beirut-based PLO, Mahmoud Abbas aka ("Abu Mazen"), PLO spokesman, wrote: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live."
ON APRIL 9, 1953, the Jordanian daily al-Urdun quoted a refugee, Yunes Ahmed Assad, formerly of Deir Yassin, as saying: "For the flight and fall of the other villages, it is our leaders who are responsible, because of the dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs... they instilled fear and terror into the hearts of the Arabs of Palestine until they fled, leaving their homes and property to the enemy."
ANOTHER refugee told the Jordanian daily a-Difaa on September 6, 1954: "The Arab governments told us, 'Get out so that we can get in.' So we got out, but they did not get in."
THE JORDANIAN daily Falastin wrote on February 19, 1949: "The Arab states... encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."
ON OCTOBER 2, 1948, the London Economist reported, in an eyewitness account of the flight of Haifa's Arabs: "There is little doubt that the most potent of the factors [in the flight] were the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit... And it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades."
THE PRIME Minister of Syria in 1948, Khaled al-Azem, in his memoirs, published in 1973, listed what he thought were the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948: "... the fifth factor was the call by the Arab governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and leave for the bordering Arab countries... We brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees by calling on them and pleading with them to leave their land."
Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan
ReplyDeleteThis is a royal decree and sentiment of 2 of the kings of Jordan.
"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. over 75% of Jordan's population are Arab Palestinians. Arab Palestinians in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) hold Jordanian passports.
The Arabs persecuted and ejected close to a Million Jewish families and their children from Arab countries and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes, and Real property 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi.) valued today in the trillions of dollars. Let the Arab-Palestinians move to those properties and Jordan.
Jordan received 77% of Jewish land that was part of the land allocated to the Jewish people, the British gave it away to the Arabs, in violation of International treaties.
The League of Nations, prior to its termination after WW2 was preparing to file proceedings against England for violating the terms of The Mandate for Palestine and intentionally disregarding their responsibility in creating a National home for the Jewish people and restricting Jewish immigration (which caused the deaths of millions of Jewish families in German extermination camps) while disregarding the illegal immigration of hundreds of thousands of Arabs into Palestine. But it was dissolved and the U.N. never followed through.
YJ Draiman
Barrack Hussein Obama face it – Greater Israel is Jewish territory for eternity and it is not negotiable.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs already have Jordan which is 80% of the territory allocated to the Jewish people under International Treaties from 1920.
Stop fantasizing and deluding yourself and the rest of the world. Greater Israel is for the Jewish people, according to history, archeology, international law and treaties.
The Arabs already have 75,000 sq. miles of Jewish land (5-6 times the size of Israel) that they confiscated from the million Jewish families and their children they persecuted and expelled from Arab countries in the past 80 years. They also have the Jewish territory of Jordan.
I think you do not have your facts straight – Israel belongs to the Jews. It has been a Jewish country for over 4,000 years and has been occupied by various Nations who let it deteriorate into a dessert. There are 22 Arab countries and only one Jewish country. The land-rich Arabs already occupy over 5 million square miles and land-poor Israel, including all of its territories, comprises only about 10,000 square miles. The Arab areas are thus 500 times larger than Israel and the Arabs already possess 99.8% of the total land. The so-called West Bank and Gaza areas combined total 2,300 square miles and comprise a miniscule 0.046% of the entire Arab empire - and to seize this speck of land the Arabs are adamant and willing to fight and die forever! Only a mind, hopelessly out of touch with reality, can seriously suggest that the Arabs need still more land, carved out of Israel, to create yet another country.
The Quran states it clearly, Israel belongs to the Jewish people.
The Jews never had a chance of reaching a majority in the country of Palestine after WW1, given the restrictive immigration policy of the British in violation of 1920 International treaties. By contrast, Palestine’s Arab population, which had been declining prior to the Mandate for Palestine in 1922, grew exponentially because Arabs from all the surrounding countries were free to come—and hundreds of thousands did—to take advantage of the rapid economic development and improved health conditions stimulated by Zionist settlement and Worldwide Jewish financial support for development of Israel.
Historical archives lays bare the false claim that Jewish settlers dispossessed Arab people from their land in Palestine. The examination of records from 1830 onward will shock most people.
In the first place, records shows that Palestine's population barely grew for 250 years--rising from 205,000 Muslims, Christians and Jews in 1554 to only 275,000 in 1800. In the second, records from 1830, 1863, 1878 and 1893 and 1917, among others, demonstrate that when the heaviest Jewish immigration to Palestine began in 1880, a large proportion of the 425,000 to 440,000 Arabs in Palestine were themselves new and recent immigrants.
The research also carefully documents the origins of those Arab immigrants into Palestine. Many came from Egypt: The 1831 invasion by the Egyptian Khedive, Ibrahim Pasha, forced Palestine fellaheen, urban dwellers and Bedouin to permanently flee Ottoman military drafts and taxes. The 1837 Great Earthquake and epidemics that followed further cut their numbers. In their wake came Ibrahim Pasha's Egyptian Arabs, who settled the empty land. In 1831 alone, 6,000 Egyptian Arabs settled in Akko. The Egyptian Arab-Hinadi, Ghawarna tribes settled in the Beit Shean and Hula Valleys and in the Jordan Valley towns of Ubeidiya, Delhamiya and Kafer-Miser. In the Hula Valley, the Egyptian ez-Zubeids later sold their land to Jewish settlers from Yessud-Hama'ala. According to an 1893 British Palestine Exploration Fund report, Egyptians made up most of the population in Jaffa.
Additionally, Records shows, Arab and Muslim immigrants also came from Algeria, Damascus, Yemen, Afghanistan, Persia, India, Tripoli, Morocco, Turkey and Iraq. The French conquest of Algeria, for example, led to the eventual rebellion and imprisonment of Abd el-Kadar el-Hassani, whose followers in 1856 fled to Syria and the Lower Galilee towns of Shara, Ulam, Ma'ader, Kafer-Sabet, Usha (near present-day Ramat-Yohanan), the Mount Atlas village of Qedesh and villages on Lake Hula and in the Upper Galilee, where they spoke Berber. In Ramle, immigrants spoke Qebili, a Mugrabi dialect. Circassian refugees from the Caucasus settled in Trans-Jordan and as far east as Caesarea.
ReplyDeleteArab immigration continued to rise through World War I, as Avneri documents, despite locusts, the Ottoman draft and more epidemics. Egyptian laborers, contractors and businessmen flooded the country. By 1922, the Moslem population had more than doubled to 566,311, including 62,500 Bedouins. The 1931 Mandatory government census counted 693,147 permanent Moslem residents, including 66,553 Bedouins. It also gave the natural increase of the population as 132,211 --- 57,125 less than the absolute increase. Only illegal Arab immigration explains this contradiction, Avneri shows.
The next census in 1948, as the research recounts, followed unprecedented economic growth by the Jewish immigration, during which illegal Arab immigration continued and increased substantially. From April 1934 to November 1935, for example, 20,000 Haurani Arabs families came to Palestine. These and tens of thousands of other Arab immigrants worked on farms, construction projects (building roads, railroads and the Haifa port), and government and municipal jobs. Syrians and Lebanese Arabs were free to come with nothing but border passes, and they came along with immigrants from Somalia, Trans-Jordan, Persia, India, Ethiopia and the Hejaz. British Mandatory government rules required the supervision of immigration, but Palestine's borders remained porous to all but Jews. In all, records shows that 35,000 to 40,000 illegal Arab families immigrants came from 1931 to 1947 --- on top of up to 20,000 other Arab immigrants families who arrived from 1935 to 1945.
The research also carefully examines numerous historical descriptions of a desolate landscape, composed almost entirely of swamps and deserts, and sold to the Jewish people by absentee Arab landlords, appointed by the Ottoman government, at enormous profits (those facts were confirmed by the Mufti of Jerusalem while testifying in front of the British Peel commission in 1937). Dozens of sales are documented specifically, including some by the Egyptian el-Husseini family of Yasser Arafat.
Altogether, this research shatters the Arab claim of dispossession.
We as Jews survived the past 4,000 years of persecutions, pogroms and libels.
ReplyDelete-We survived the Spanish inquisition.
-We survived the Holocaust with no help from any one.
-We were victorious when we stood alone in our war for independence against the 6 Arab countries despite their British and German helpers.
-We won the Six Day War in six days under an American arms embargo and the almighty was with us.
-We suffered terrible losses at the start of the Yom Kippur War, because we listened and took American advise (against a preemptive strike) seriously which cost us thousands of casualties. But against all odds we defeated our enemies.
-We listened again during the Gulf war and were terrorized by Scud missiles raining on Israel.
– Never Again –
Article 51 of the UN Charter, which gives a nation the right to self-defense.
“The attack,” Reagan wrote in his memoirs,” was not intended to kill Gaddafi; that would have violated our prohibition against assassination. The object was to let him know that we weren’t going to accept his terrorism anymore, and that if he did it again he could expect to hear from us again.” He cited article 51 of the UN Charter, which gives a nation the right to self-defense. In a television address to the nation Reagan said, “When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the world, on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long as I’m in this office.”
-Today, by investing in Israel $3 billion a year (which over 2/3% goes to American companies), the US saves around $12 billion a year, which it would need to spend to find an alternative to what Israel provides in return (Jane’s).
No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel –
David Ben Gurion
(David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State’s main founder).
“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 nor 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.”
BEN-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)
“No country in the world exists today by virtue of its ‘right’.
All countries exist today by virtue of their ability to defend themselves against those who seek their destruction.”
Prior to the granting of the Mandate for Palestine to Great Britain by the League of Nations, to institute the dictates of The San Remo Treaty of 1920 which was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, there were many proposals to restore the Jewish people to their ancestral homeland. From Napoleon Bonaparte’s proclamation in 1799 to Theodore Roosevelt’s writings in 1918, the idea of the historical rights of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland was linked to their rights to Jerusalem. Israel’s first president, Chaim Weitzman, quoted in this context the Archbishop of Canterbury during a debate in the late 1930s in the British House of Lords, saying:
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me extremely difficult to justify fulfilling the ideals of Zionism by excluding them from any place in Zion. How is it possible for us not to sympathize in this matter with the Jews? We all remember their age long resolve, lament and longing: “If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right 25 hand forget her cunning.” They cannot forget Jerusalem.
Thus the return to Israel (the Land of Israel) and the restoration of Jerusalem became understood in the West as inseparable aspirations. What struck legal experts writing in this period was the fact that the Jewish people never renounced those rights and indeed acted upon them through prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage. In the diplomacy of modern Israel, that refusal continued in one form or another, especially after the Six-Day War when Israel defended herself and liberated their Territory and Jerusalem Significantly, these rights were backed by some of the most important authorities on international law.
The British Mandate In Iraq, 1914-1932.
ReplyDeleteBritain in Iraq: an introduction.
Britain’s direct intervention in Iraq lasted 18 years.
This time, during which Britain struggled to build an Iraqi state, can be usefully divided into four stages, 1914-1920, 1920-1923, 1923-1927 and finally 1927-1932.
The move from one period to another was triggered by major.
changes in British government policy as it attempted.
to meet international commitments under the Mandate,
pacify an increasingly hostile Iraqi public whilst also.
diffusing the growing resentment at home about the costs.
of state building. The British state did not commit the time,
amounts of money or levels of expertise necessary to fulfill.
its obligations to the League of Nations or to the people.
of Iraq. In 1932 the new Iraqi governing elite appointed.
by the British inherited a badly built and unstable state.
This elite, along with British influence in the country, was.
swept aside 26 years later in a brutal military coup that.
ushered in an era of violence and instability that persists.
up until the present day.
Britain’s formal involvement in the creation of the Iraqi.
state began in the early months of the First World War.
On 6 November 1914, troops from the British Indian.
Expedition Force landed on the Fao Peninsula in Ottoman.
territory at the head of the Persian Gulf. Six years later,
in April 1920, the British government formally accepted.
responsibility for building an Iraqi state out of the post-
war wreckage of the Ottoman Empire. It received the.
‘sacred trust’ of a League of Nations’ Mandate at the.
San Remo conference. It publicly and self-consciously.
committed itself, under the oversight of the League’s.
Permanent Mandates Commission, to turn three former.
provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Basra, Baghdad and.
Mosul, into a modern self-determining state. However,
within 12 years the British government had persuaded the.
League to recognize Iraq’s full independence. Britain had
successfully divested itself of the very costly responsibility.
for Iraq’s creation. It was during this period, from 1914.
to 1932, that the institutional basis of the Iraqi state.
should have been built. It was the failure of successive.
British governments to fulfill the terms of the League of.
Nations’ Mandate; to construct a stable, sustainable state.
in Iraq, that created the basis to the political instability.
The British Mandate In Iraq, 1914-1932 and The British Mandate for Palestine-Israel 1920-1947.
The British botched-up both Mandates by not following the International treaties dictate and violating the treaties, thereby causing havoc, dissention and conflicts for over 100 years.
The United Nations was established on 24 October 1945 by 51 countries committed to preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security. Today, nearly every nation in the world belongs to the UN: membership totals 193 countries.
ReplyDeleteWhen States become Members of the United Nations, they agree to accept the obligations of the UN Charter, an international treaty that sets out basic principles of international relations. According to the Charter, the UN has four purposes:
to maintain international peace and security;.
to develop friendly relations among nations;.
to cooperate in solving international problems and in promoting respect for human rights;.
and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
The United Nations is not a world government and it does not make laws. It does, however, provide the means to help resolve international conflicts and formulate policies on matters affecting all of us. At the UN, all the Member States — large and small, rich and poor, with differing political views and social systems — have a voice and a vote in this process.
The United Nations has six main organs. Five of them — the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council and the Secretariat — are based at UN Headquarters in New York. The sixth, the International Court of Justice, is located at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Remind the Arabs that they persecuted and expelled over a million Jewish families from their counties and confiscated all their assets including land 5-6 times the size of Israel 120,440 sq. km. That the Arabs must balance the books and pay for the assets and the relocation of the Jews.
ReplyDeleteIsrael needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
It is unconscionable to send an Army without the explicit command to quash the enemy no holds barred.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see those so called War crimes investigators and committees have their families on the front
lines with rockets aimed at them and fired on a daily basis, how would they respond.
An Army's mission and duty is to accomplish complete victory with no restrictions whatsoever.
The use "disproportionate force" has no place in war. In fact, it has no place in any conflict.
Thanks heavens that in WW II
Allies British and American Air Forces, had no concerns about using "disproportionate force" to pound the Germans and Japanese to unconditional surrender, killing millions of civilians, leveling Dresden and other German cities in response to rocket attacks on London. The U.S. used 2 Atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki to reduce American casualties. If they the Allies did not bomb Germany to a pulp, Another 50 million people would of died in WW2 and what is left of the world would all be under German domination.
It is immoral to send the IDF anywhere unless we're determined to win. To do whatever it takes to achieve total victory without limitation. War is hell.
When an organization or people declare war against all the people of Israel.
The only response is total commitment to quash the enemy without restraint. If someone comes to annihilate
your family and you. It is you obligation and duty to respond and attack with everything you got. There is no such thing as a limited response, in life and death there is no tomorrow.
The use "disproportionate force" is a fantasy. If your family was being attacked, you would fight back with everything you got.
There is a quote that states "If someone comes to kill you, you should beat him to the punch and kill him first".
YJ Draiman
Greater Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish people.
ReplyDeleteThere were about 600,000 Arabs 300,000 that left their homes in 1948, mostly of their own volition, more or less at the same time as the over 990,000 Jewish families refugees who were persecuted and expelled from Arab countries, who have lived in those Arab countries for over 2,200 years, of which the Arabs confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real Estate 120,440 sq. km or 75,000 sq. miles (which is 5-6 times the size of Israel).valued in the trillions of dollars. We resettled our Jewish refugees from Arab countries with limited land and resources — resettle yours (on the land and homes and land you confiscated from the Jewish people in the Arab countries. There is also Jordan which was taken from the Jews), the 21 Arab states have more land and resources. The Arab dis-information must be ignored and countered.
We are tired of hearing anything from anyone associated with the U.N. The U.N. is a biased parasitic and criminal enterprise dominated by our-Israel's mortal enemies. The U.N. cannot create states, it can only recommend and so can other nations only recommend and not create a state that never existed before in history. The U.N. has no authority to violate international treaties (confirmed by the 1920 treaty of Sevres) that reconstituted Israel in Palestine and no other entity was allocated territory in Palestine by International Treaties. If they want an Arab-Palestinian state, it already exists, it is Jordan which has taken 80% of Jewish allocated land, in violation of international treaties. They also have the land the Arabs Countries confiscated from the Jewish people which is 5-6 times the size of Israel 120,440 sq. km..
We are tired of stupid post-colonialist rhetoric. We liberated our territory after being attacked by the surrounding Arab countries. We are not ‘colonists’ and Arabs do not have the right to murder us in the name of ‘resistance’ or beheading Jewish Rabbi’s in Jerusalem’s Har Nof Synagogue. Talking this way reveals you as moral imbeciles. They train their children to be suicide bombers and terrorists. The Arabs are the colonialists, they have colonized the whole Middle East. They are on their way to colonize Europe and bring more death and violence. (The France massacre killing 12 people and other violent attacks against civilians throughout the world).
YJ Draiman.
No concessions and no appeasement - Greater Israel belongs tio the Jewish people.
ReplyDeleteAfter World War I, all of Western Palestine was governed by Britain under a Mandate granted to it by the League of Nations. Its mandate was to develop the area as a Jewish homeland. The eastern part of Palestine was truncated and illegally turned by Britain into the independent Arab kingdom of Transjordan. The rump segment of Palestine was reserved for the Jews. None of this was earmarked for creation of yet another Arab state. The bulk of land within the Palestinian Mandate was state-owned land, governed by the British Mandatory government. It had also been state-owned land previously under the Ottoman imperial government, before Britain liberated “Palestine” from the Turks. [Before World War I, land in Palestine was owned by the Ottoman state and a feudalistic class of absentee landlords. The few “Palestinian” Arabs who lived in the country at the time seldom owned any land. They farmed it as sharecroppers.]
The Arabs are not willing to address the persecution and expulsion of a million Jewish families and their children from the Arab countries (who lived in the Arab countries for over 2,200 years, they also confiscated all their assets including land 120,440 sq. km.), of which the majority of the expelled Jewish families were resettled in Greater Israel.
YJ Draiman
End the Unjust Arab Occupation of Jewish Land
ReplyDeleteWhen a poison strikes the human body, the only way to address it, is to remove it and destroy it completely. That is the way the terrorist organizations should be treated. The big mistake is that people are missing the economic benefits for Israel and its neighbors. That is if there was a true peace, The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
No U.N. Resolution against Israel is enforceable. (biased)
No U.N. Resolution against Israel is enforceable.
History and Archeology is the best proof Greater Israel belongs to the Jewish People and non-other.
The Arabs have no claims whatsoever to Israel.
Prominent PLO Arab says there are no 'Palestinians' and no "Palestine"
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein admitted in a March 31, 1977 interview with a Dutch newspaper Trouw.
"The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. "
The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people
If the historic documents, comments written by eyewitnesses and declarations by the most authoritative Arab scholars are still not enough, let us quote the most important source for Muslim Arabs:
"And thereafter we [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: 'Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd'.".
YJ Draiman
Israel must respond with extreme force to any attacks, violent demonstration, rockets and terror. No attack must be ignored. Israel's population must have peace and tranquility without intimidation by anyone.
The Jewish people have suffered enough in the Diaspora for the past 2,500 years. It is time for the Jewish people to live as free people in their own land without violence and terror.
It is time to consider that the only alternative is a population transfer of the Arab-Palestinians to the territories the Arab countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled and settle this dispute once and for all. Many Arab leaders had suggested these solutions over the years.
YJ Draiman
P.S. Just remember. Israel has the capability to wipe Gaza off the map just like the U.S. and England turned Dresden, Germany into rubble in WW2 in response to rocket attacks in England.
As Professor Stephen Schwebel, former judge on the Hague's International Court of Justice notes:
ReplyDeleteThe Arab-Palestinian claim to sovereignty over east Jerusalem under the principle of self-determination of peoples cannot supersede the Jewish right to self-determination in Jerusalem. While Arabs constituted an ethnic majority only in the artificial entity of "East Jerusalem" created by Jordan's illegal division of the city, the armistice lines forming this artificial entity were never intended to determine the borders of, or political sovereignty over, the city. Moreover, Jews constituted the majority ethnic group in unified Jerusalem both in the century before Jordan's invasion, and since 1967 (the exception being during Jordan's illegal occupation).
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, an international legal expert, scholar and director emeritus of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, details the legal justification for Israel's sovereignty in east Jerusalem. According to the scholar, "Jordan's occupation of the Old City–and indeed of the whole of the area west of the Jordan river entirely lacked legal justification" and was simply a "de facto occupation protected by the Armistice Agreement." This occupation ended as a result of "legitimate measures" of self defense by Israel, thereby opening the way for Israel as "a lawful occupant" to fill a sovereignty vacuum left by Britain's withdrawal from the territory in 1948.
furthermore:
A state acting in lawful exercise of its right of self-defense may seize and occupy foreign territory as long as such seizure and occupation are necessary to its self-defense......Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title.
As Schwebel explains, "Jordan's seizure [in 1948] and subsequent annexation of the West Bank and the old city of Jerusalem were unlawful," arising as they did from an aggressive act. Jordan therefore had no valid title to east Jerusalem. When Jordanian forces attacked Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli forces, acting in self defense, repelled Jordanian forces from territory Jordan was illegitimately occupying. Schwebel maintains that in comparison to Jordan, "Israeli title in old (east) Jerusalem is superior." And in comparison to the UN, which never asserted sovereignty over Jerusalem and allowed its recommendation of a corpus separatum to lapse and die, he sees Israel's claim to Jerusalem as similarly superior.
In order for Israel to protect its population, Israel needs to stand strong and maintain Greater Israel without any concessions. I hope you are right. It is not going to be easy. Israel needs a strong government that does not capitulate to world pressure and stops any appeasement or concessions to the Arab-Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteAny and all concessions and appeasement of the past has resulted in more terror and violence and the enrichment of the Arab-Palestinian leaders at the cost to the masses. They teach hate and violence to their children and the masses. That is not the way to peace and co-existence.
It is time to use extreme strong arm and crush the Arab-Palestinian terror and violence. No holds barred.
United States official position on Jerusalem
ReplyDeleteIn 1990 the United States Senate adopted a resolution "acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel's capital" and stating that it "strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city." The subsequent Clinton Administration refused to characterize East Jerusalem as being under occupation and viewed it as a territory over which sovereignty was defined. Vice President Gore stated that the US viewed "united Jerusalem" as the capital of Israel. In light of this designation, the US has since abstained from Security Council resolutions which use language which construes East Jerusalem as forming part of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act which declared that Jerusalem should remain undivided and that it should be recognized as Israel's capital.
Israel must respond with extreme force to any attacks, violent demonstration, rockets and terror. No attack must be ignored. Israel's population must have peace and tranquility without intimidation by anyone.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people have suffered enough in the Diaspora for the past 2,500 years. It is time for the Jewish people to live as free people in their own land without violence and terror.
It is time to consider that the only alternative is a population transfer of the Arab-Palestinians to the territories the Arab countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled and settle this dispute once and for all. Many Arab leaders had suggested these solutions over the years.
YJ Draiman
P.S. Just remember. Israel has the capability to wipe Gaza off the map just like the U.S. and England turned Dresden, Germany into rubble in WW2 in response to rocket attacks in England.
Two States - Greater Israel for the Jewish people and Jordan that was originally part of the territory allocated to the Jewish people under 1920 international treaties and Jordan has 75% of its people are Arab-Palestinians and the 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi. (5-6 times the size of Israel) the Arab countries confiscated from the million plus Jewish families they persecuted and expelled from Arab countries.
ReplyDeleteThat should settle the refugee problem once and for all.
But the Arabs will not be satisfied until they get all of Israel without the Jews and they do not hide their intention.
YJ Draiman
I think J Street is deluding themselves. Iran with any nuclear capability is a threat to the whole world.
ReplyDeletePast actions by Iran do not justify any trust in Irans terms and promises.
Do you want prevent nuclear terror? Do you care about you children and your family’s future? Vote for nuclear free Iran.
A terrorist state must not be permitted to possess nuclear capability.
Iran already controls; Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza, etc. how much more before we stop them from devouring the Middle East and more.
When Israel takes defensive action for its survival. Israel would rather be condemned for its actions as a live Israel than eulogized as a dead Israel.
YJ Draiman
There is nothing to talk about peace with the Arab-Palestinians while terror continues.
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand why are people fantasizing peace with Arab terrorists.
All they want is all of Israel and the Jews out. They also want all the Christians out.
When the Arab-Palestinian train their children and the masses to commit mayhem, educate and promote hate, terror and violence, Glorifies Suicide bombers and terrorists. You have no one to talk to.
Let see the Arab-Palestinians teach their children and the masses to despise violence and terror, punish those who commit violence and terror, arrest terrorists and promote co-existence for a generation. Then Israel can sit down with them and discuss mutual peace.
If the Arab-Palestinians persist on terror and violence they must leave Greater Israel and go elsewhere; such as Jordan or to the 120,440 sq. km. the Arab countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled from the Arab countries.
When a poison strikes the human body, the only way to address it, is to remove it and destroy it completely. That is the way the terrorist organizations should be treated.
YJ Draiman.
Freezing the Jewish settlements was a big mistake - It must not happen again.
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand why are people fantasizing peace with Arab terrorists.
All they want is all of Israel and the Jews out. They also want all the Christians out.
When the Arab-Palestinian train their children and the masses to commit mayhem, educate and promote hate, terror and violence, Glorifies Suicide bombers and terrorists. You have no one to talk to.
Let see the Arab-Palestinians teach their children and the masses to despise violence and terror, punish those who commit violence and terror, arrest terrorists and promote co-existence for a generation. Then Israel can sit down with them and discuss mutual peace.
If the Arab-Palestinians persist on terror and violence they must leave Greater Israel and go elsewhere; such as Jordan or to the 120,440 sq. km. the Arab countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled from the Arab countries.
When a poison strikes the human body, the only way to address it, is to remove it and destroy it completely. That is the way the terrorist organizations should be treated.
YJ Draiman.
Mahmoud Abbas is proud of his role in the Munich Massacre.
ReplyDeletehttp://abbasexposed.com/page/2/
Arab-Palestinian President Abbas: Paymaster of 1972 Munich Massacre Terrorists
Arab-Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas financed the Abu Daoud/Black September terror call to murder 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. Read the reports, then decide.
What a delusion and irony - Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen the murdering terrorist of innocent civilians and creator of fiction and delusion.
Arab-Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas financed the Abu Daoud/Black September terror cell to murder 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. He has a warrant for his arrest in Germany and a murder conviction in Italy with life in prison for the hijacking a cruise ship and killing an wheel-bound elderly man. . Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen the head of the Arab-Palestinian Authority is also the master mind of the Achille Lauro hijacking, on 11 October 1985 they thru a wheelchair bound Jew in to the ocean to die. There is a reward on his head by the United States and Germany. This is the person you want to make peace with - how delusional can people be.
Former PLO official Muhammad Daoud Oddeh published in France in 1999, Abu Mazen was involved in the hostage takeover at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, which led to the death of 11 Israeli athletes.
Oddeh, known as Abu Daoud, wrote that he was the mastermind of Munich, which was carried out by the so-called Black September organization. He recalled that the plan was concocted in Rome at a meeting he held with senior PLO official Salah Khalaf, better known as Abu Iyad, and another colleague. Soon after, Abu Daoud began planning the operation. The only people he dealt with on the matter were Abu Iyad and Abu Mazen, who, Abu Iyad said, was to secure the funding.
It was the "real" Black September, set up by Abu Iyad, Abu Daoud, and Abu Mazen as a tributary to Fatah, that was responsible for Munich.
http://www.history.com/this.../achille-lauro-hijacking-ends
http://abbasexposed.com/page/2/
Mahnoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen and his co-horts stealing millions from the Arab-Palestinians. Those are funds contributed by the world to help improve the lives of the Arab-Palestinian masses. Not to pad their leaders with funds for personal wealth and use.
I do not think the people are that blind. Unless, they are blackmailed or forced to vote opposite of their real feeling.
YJ Draiman.
Israel needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
ReplyDeleteConstruct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem. The Eco system balance is important.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
Operation Magic Carpet - Saving the Jews of Yemen
ReplyDeleteThe story of the modern exodus of “Beta Israel,” the Jews of Ethiopia during Operations Moses and Solomon, which together airlifted some 22,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel, is well known. Less well known is the dramatic exodus of over 48,000 Jews from Yemen. Almost unknown is the role played by Alaska Airlines.
No one knows for certain when the first Jews came to Yemen. Local legend has them being sent as traders by King Solomon. In any event, Jews have lived in Yemen for many centuries. In that backward and poverty-stricken country, the Jews were the poorest and lowest of citizens living in contempt and on sufferance as dhimmis. However, in their synagogues and schools, they taught their male children to learn and write Hebrew. They never forgot their faith, protected the traditions, observed the Sabbath and passed the Torah and Talmud to each succeeding generation. Following World War I, when Yemen became independent, life in that Muslim country for the Jews became intolerable. Anti-Semitic laws were revived; Jews were not permitted to walk on pavements; in court a Jew’s evidence was not accepted against a Muslim’s; Jewish orphans had to be converted to Islam. Some Jews were able to escape to Palestine but most were trapped.
In 1947, following the United Nations vote to partition Palestine, the situation of the Jews in Yemen turned from despair to physical danger. Arab rioters in the adjacent port of Aden, then a British Crown colony and now part of Yemen, killed 82 Jews and torched the Jewish quarter. The establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948 and Israel’s War of Independence increasingly endangered the Yemeni Jews as it did in all Arab countries. It was not, however, until May 1949, when the Imam of Yemen unexpectedly agreed to permit all Jews to leave his country that they were able to flee. They longed to return to Zion if only they had the means. At that time, slightly over 49,000 Jews lived in Yemen.
As the War of Independence ended in early 1949, Israel was devastated and virtually bankrupt. Notwithstanding, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, defying logic and the advise of his economic advisors, ordered the immediate and rapid “Ingathering of the Exiles”. Where would Israel get the money? “Go to the Jews in the Diaspora and ask them for the money”, Ben-Gurion answered the skeptics.
For the Jews of Yemen, Egypt had closed the Suez Canal to them and therefore they would have to be transported by air to Israel. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the international Jewish humanitarian aid organization, agreed to fund the Yemenite exodus and organize the airlift, but they needed aircraft.
Alaska Airlines was founded in 1932, when Mac McGee purchased a used three passenger Stinson and started an air charter business in Alaska. With the arrival of James Wooten as president in 1947, the airline began to purchase surplus planes from the U.S. Government and within a year became the world’s largest charter airline.
Many nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its own liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had ejected about a million Jewish people and their children (who lived there for over 2,200 years) from their countries, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate. Over 650,00 Jewish people and their children of these expelled Jewish people and their children were resettled in Greater Israel. The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is the trillions of dollars.
ReplyDeleteArticle 51 of the UN Charter, which gives a nation the right to self-defense
ReplyDelete"The attack," Reagan wrote in his memoirs," was not intended to kill Gaddafi; that would have violated our prohibition against assassination. The object was to let him know that we weren't going to accept his terrorism anymore, and that if he did it again he could expect to hear from us again." He cited article 51 of the UN Charter, which gives a nation the right to self-defense. In a television address to the nation Reagan said, "When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the world, on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long as I'm in this office."
The self-defense, consent,[2] and Security Council authorization pursuant to Article 42 of the UN Charter.[3] The right to self defense isan inherent concept in law “and is fundamental to the system of states.”[4] It is recognized and protected by Article 51 of the UN Charter:
Article 51
Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security...
The application of the right to combat terrorism was further reinforced by international practice following the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States. Two Security Council resolutions issued pursuant to Chapter VII of the UN Charter[5] reflect this consensus:
Security Council Resolutions 1368 (2001)
Recogniz[es] the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense in accordance with the Charter;
. . .
Expresses its readiness to take all necessary steps to respond to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and to combat all forms of terrorism, in accordance with its responsibilities under the Charter of the United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001)
Reaffirming further that such acts, like any act of international terrorism, constitute a threat to international peace and security,
Reaffirming the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense as recognized by the Charter of the United Nations as reiterated in resolution 1368 (2001),
Reaffirming the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts . . .
Operation Embarrass? Britain's secret war on the Jews 1946-1948
ReplyDeleteBritish spies staged covert operations to sabotage Holocaust survivors' attempts to reach Palestine between 1946 and early 1948.
Among the tactics used by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in Operation Embarrass were the bombing of ships used by Holocaust immigrants, intimidation and the creation of a fake Palestinian defense group.
The British government gave the go-ahead to the campaign to slow illegal immigration into Palestine, provided there was "no risk and no link could be traced back to the British government".
The revelations come in the first authorized history of the SIS, MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949, by Professor Keith Jeffery. The book was published on Tuesday.
Prof Jeffery said: "Operation Embarrass was one of the most amazing stories I found. I just stumbled on it. It was like a spy novel. These are astonishing operational stories. Uncovering them made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck."
Before searching the archives, he had to agree to keep certain stories secret for national security reasons, but Operation Embarrass is revealed in full.
Prof Jeffery said: "It's quite explosive and you can see why the anxiety levels might go up, not just in the agency but in Whitehall as well. A lot of stuff in the archives was destroyed, so finding this tale was a reassurance. If it had been me, I would have shredded stuff like this.
"There is the possibility it could make things difficult for the Foreign Office. But I dug my heels in, and said it was very important this was revealed.
"It says a lot about the organization of the SIS at that time, about the British government's Palestine policy and about relations between the agency and the government." (The intentional various violations of the terms of the Mandate for Palestine as trustee for the Jewish people and enhance and promote the immigration of the Jewish people to reestablish the Jewish state of Israel as per the terms of the International treaties of 1920).
In late 1946, the government asked the SIS to develop "proposals for action to deter ships' masters and crews from engaging in illegal Jewish immigration and traffic" (in violation of the Jewish Mandate for Palestine). A substantial amount of money was spent on the operation.
A SIS report stated: "Action of the nature contemplated is, in fact, a form of intimidation, and intimidation is only likely to be effective if some members of the group of people to be intimidated actually suffer unpleasant consequences."
Options put forward for the campaign included the use of sabotage devices, tampering with a ship's fresh water supplies and crew's food, or setting fire to ships and planting explosives.
SIS chief Sir Stewart Menzies suggested blaming the action on a specially-created Arab organization. The agents were instructed to devise failsafe reasons for their presence abroad and were told that if rumbled, "they were under no circumstances to admit their connection with the British government".
Prof Jeffery said: "The book really does show the James Bond side of it. Embarrass is closer to the perception of the spy image than other stories in the book."
In summer 1947 and early 1948, the plot led to attacks on Holocaust survivors ships in Italian ports. The British made it a priority in order to slow or stop Jewish immigration to Palestine - to appease the Arabs. One ship was a "total loss" and two others were damaged.
ReplyDeleteThe British set up a notional organization - Defenders of Arab Palestine - which claimed responsibility for the work against Holocaust Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Operation Embarrass ended in April, before the UK pullout from Palestine the following month. But Prof Jeffery concludes that the campaign had little effect. One SIS officer wrote that the failure to carry out a planned operation to disable the President Warfield ship in the summer of 1947 had been the biggest missed opportunity.
Instead, the renamed Exodus set sail with 4,500 Jewish refugees, leading to one of the most infamous episodes in the battle to create Israel. British forces seized the Exodus off the coast of Palestine. Three people died and the immigrants aboard were forcibly returned to Europe.
"The cost," said one SIS officer, "both direct and indirect to the British government, must have been enormous. All of this could have been spared if the Foreign Office had permitted the SIS to take the appropriate action against the President Warfield."
Prof Jeffery said: "After the disaster with the Exodus, the SIS guys pretty much said 'we told you so'. They could have blown its rudder off let the ship sink and averted the crisis.
"This was a fantastic job for me. I was like a child in a sweetshop. But I also feel this is part of the accountability process. British taxpayers funded these operations. You might say after 60 years what difference does it make, but you can tell it does. People will look at this and put the record straight.."
The British also caused the death of millions of Jewish people and their children trying to escape the Nazi death camps from 1939-1948 by restricting Jewish immigration and prohibiting the sale of land in Palestine to Jews.
Obama’s relations with Israel and other Nations r8
ReplyDeleteObama has no credibility or respect from many of the International community. Obama has no credibility, he has the least experience in real politics, he is the worst president the U.S. has ever had.
Obama has alienated many nations and has caused foreign policy damage that is costing the American taxpayer trillions. His decisions are also costing numerous American lives in vain. Obama's foreign policy is a joke. It is a failed policy.
Obama has abused his executive powers and should be prosecuted for his violations. Obama is ignoring the true sovereignty of the Jewish people in Israel and the various treaties and international agreements entered into after WWI and the various congressional resolutions on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people since WWI. Obama’s blatant disrespect of Netanyahu and Israel’s International legitimate rights shows his naivety in International matters and foreign policy.
Obama’s lack of etiquette is an outright embarrassment to the United States.
Natanyahu is trying his best, but he will not compromise the security of Israel and that is the way a leader should perform. No other decent leader of the free world perform differently.
It is interesting to note, that Jordan (Jordan territory has taken over 77% of the land allocated to the Jewish people under 1920 International Treaty) 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 21 Arab States plus Jordan after WWI also re-established the State of Israel based on the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Treaty of 1920 and confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.
On the other hand, Israel and its Jewish people have over 4,000 year of recorded history.
Many Nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had ejected over a million adult Jewish people and their children from their countries which they have lived in for over 2,200 years, the Arabs confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property. About 650,00 of these expelled Jewish people and their children were resettled in Greater Israel. The Real estate the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is in the trillions of dollars. The British as trustee for the Jewish people, violated the Mandate for Palestine and re-allocated 80% of the territories assigned to the Jewish people under International Treaty and gave it to the Arabs as a new Arab State Trans-Jordan, East of the Jordan river and prohibiting Jewish people from residing in Jordan.
Let the 21 Arab countries resettle the Arab Palestinians in the land they confiscated from the Jews which is 5-6 times the size of Israel. 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 under the San Remo Treaty of 1920 and confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne) 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.
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 terms of the treaty of San Remo of 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, confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne. The U.N. cannot create countries, it can only recommend its resolutions.
ReplyDeleteIf 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, that is the bottom line.
A true and lasting peace in Israel will bring mammoth economic prosperity to The Israelis and The Arabs alike.
An approach to peace starts by teaching your children and the people not to hate and condemn any acts violence that hurts civilian population and stop celebrating and rewarding the death and destruction of each other.
http://www.cfr.org/israel/san-remo-resolution/p15248
http://www.cbn.com/.../July/San-Remo-Resolution-Revisited/
YJ Draiman
P.S.
No Jew has the right to yield the rights of the Jewish People in Israel -
David Ben Gurion
(David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State’s main founder).
“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 nor 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.”
BEN-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)
“No country in the world exists today by virtue of its ‘right’.
All countries exist today by virtue of their ability to defend themselves against those who seek their destruction.”
But Obama does not support Israel's Jewish soveriegnty in Greater Israel.
ReplyDeleteBarrack Hussein Obama face it – Greater Israel is Jewish territory and it is not negotiable. The Arabs already have Jordan which is 80% of the territory allocated to the Jewish people under International Treaties from 1920.
The Arabs already have 75,000 sq. miles of Jewish land (5-6 times the size of Israel) that they confiscated from the million Jews and their children they expelled from Arab countries in the past 90 years. They also have the Jewish territory of Jordan.
I think you do not have your facts straight – Israel belongs to the Jews. It has been a Jewish country for over 3,500 years and has been occupied by various Nations.
The Quran states it clearly.
Israel is a Jewish State its territories are non-negotiable. It has been a Jewish country for over 4,000 years.
The Arab-Palestinians are the occupiers. All they want is to destroy the Jews. They educated their children and the masses to commit terror and violence against Israel. The dance in the streets when the twin towers in 9-11 collapsed and 3,000 Americans died.
It is amazing how you and many others choose to ignore that the Arab countries have expelled over a million Jews and their children from their countries in the last 90 years. Jews who lived there for over 2,000 years. The Arabs confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel – 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles which is valued in the trillions of dollars.
Any Arab who is not happy to live under the Israeli government can move there.
Study your history; Muhammed in 627 about 1,500 years ago beheaded 700 Jews in Medina which was a Jewish town in Saudi Arabia, he killed all the men took the women as slaves and raped their daughters. This is just the tip of the history of the Jewish people in Arab countries.
Do you want more, study the complete unbiased history of the Jewish people in Arab countries objectively.
How many Jews are left today in Arab countries and how many Christians have been murdered and millions forced to leave the Arab countries.
YJ Draiman
Obama has no credibility or respect from many of the International community. Obama has no credibility, he has the least experience in real politics, he is the worst president the U.S. has ever had.
ReplyDeleteObama has alienated many nations and has caused foreign policy damage that is costing the American taxpayer trillions. His decisions are also costing numerous American lives in vain. Obama's foreign policy is a joke. It is a failed policy.
Obama has abused his executive powers and should be prosecuted for his violations. Obama is ignoring the true sovereignty of the Jewish people in Israel and the various treaties and international agreements entered into after WWI and the various congressional resolutions on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people since WWI.
YJ Draiman.
Do the Arab-Palestinians really want peace?
ReplyDelete'Peace' with whom?
My soul has long dwelt with a hater of peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
Psa. 120:6-7; see also 109:1-3
Israel has been threatened with violence - whether peace talks succeed or not! A. Zaki, a high ranking member of Abbas' Fattah party, told Syrian state TV recently that any concessions the PA gained from US-brokered talks would simply be the 'first step' towards the destruction of Israel. The PA charter calls for The destruction of Israel. ("PA Reps Slam 'Israeli' Kerry Plan, Threaten Intifada," 2 Feb. 2014)
It is now time for the Obama administration to accept…that the PA has evolved into a criminal society. How else to define a regime which brainwashes kindergarten children into believing Israel and Jews are evil parasites, teaches them how to be a terrorist and constantly calls for their destruction? This demonization of Israel is reinforced daily…in mosques, and by PA-controlled media. Also terrorists are treated as heroes and awarded state pensions from funds provided by the International community. ("The disastrous outcome of the 'peace negotiations'," JP Op-ed, 1 Apr. 2014)
If the Israeli government would stop wanting to be liked and would just kick ass and take names, none of these Arab attacks, or the rock throwers, violence and homicide bombers they support, would dare raise their heads much less utter nonsense. Don’t try to be liked when you’re trying to survive.
Pakistan, Jordan and Israel's legitimacy
ReplyDeleteWhenever I have received an email, letter or a call challenging Israel's legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called or asked any other Media sources to challenge any other country's legitimacy. In particular, I ask, have they ever questioned the legitimacy of Pakistan or Jordan?
The answer, of course, is always "no." In fact, no one ever understood why I even mentioned Pakistan and Jordan.
There are a few reasons for this.
First, of all the 200-plus countries in the world, only Israel's legitimacy is challenged. So mentioning any other country seems strange to an individual. Second, almost no one outside of India and Pakistan knows anything about the founding of Pakistan or Jordan.
After the British decided to abandon the Palestinian Mandate in 1947 and only months before the U.N. adopted a proposal to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state in 1947, India was partitioned into a Muslim and a Hindu state. The Hindu state was, of course, India. And the Muslim state became known as Pakistan. It comprises 310,000 square miles, about 40,000 square miles larger than Texas.
In both cases, the declaration of an independent state resulted in violence. The Jewish State of Israel was established by International Treaties in 1920 with assignment to the British as trustee for the Jewish people to establish a Jewish State in all of Palestine. After the British violated the Treaties, taking 80% of Jewish land and giving it as an Arab State to Jordan (which today has over 75% Arab-Palestinians as the countries population) and restricting Jewish immigration from 1939-1948, which caused the deaths of millions of Jews who tried to escape German concentration camps. The British secret service also blew up Jewish refugee ships under operation Embarrass. As soon as the newly established state of Israel was declared in May 1948, it was invaded by six Arab armies. And the partition of India led to a terrible violence between Muslims and Hindus.
According to the final report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission from Dec. 28, 1949, the 1948 war of Israel's independence created 626,000 Arabs refugees. Many sources put the figure at about 300,000 less. A roughly higher number of Jewish refugees -- approximately 990,000 -- were created when the million Jewish peoples and their children were forcibly expelled from the Arab countries where they had lived for countless generations (over 2,200 years, the Arabs also confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property, 75,000 sq. mi. which is 5-6 times the size of Israel and is valued in the trillions of dollars). In addition, approximately 10,000 Arabs were killed in the fighting that ensued after the Arab invasion of Israel. (Most of the Arabs in Greater Israel came in from neighboring Arab countries).
Now let's turn to the creation of Pakistan. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, the creation of Pakistan resulted in 14 million refugees -- Hindus fleeing Pakistan and Muslims fleeing India. Assuming a 50-50 split, the creation of Pakistan produced about seven million Hindu refugees -- at least 10 times the number of Arab refugees that resulted from the war surrounding Israel's creation. And the Middle-east war, it should be recalled, was started by the Arab nations surrounding Israel. Were it not for the Arab rejection of Israel's creation (and existence within any borders) and the subsequent Arab invasion, there would have been no Arab refugees.
ReplyDeleteAnd regarding deaths, the highest estimate of Arab deaths during the 1948 war following the partition of Palestine is 10,000. The number of deaths that resulted from the creation of Pakistan is around one million.
In addition, according to the Indian government, at least 86,000 women were raped. Most historians believe the number to be far higher. The number of women raped when Israel was established is zero. From all evidence I could find.
Given the spectacularly larger number of refugees and deaths caused by the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan, why does no one ever question the legitimacy of Pakistan's existence?
This question is particularly valid given another fact: Never before in history was there a Pakistan or Jordan. It was a completely new nation. Moreover, its creation was made possible solely because of Muslim invasion. It was Muslims who invaded India, and killed about 60 million Hindus during the thousand-year Muslim rule of India. The area now known as Pakistan was Hindu until the Muslims invaded it in A.D. 711.
On the other hand, modern Israel is the third Jewish state in the geographic area known as Palestine. The first was destroyed in 586 B.C., the second in A.D. 70. And there was never a non-Jewish sovereign state in Palestine.
So, given all these facts, why is Israel's legitimacy challenged, while the legitimacy of Pakistan or Jordan, a state that had never before existed and whose creation resulted in the largest mass migration in recorded history, is never challenged? For that matter why Jordan's legitimacy is not challenged after they were allocated Jewish territory in Palestine.
The answer is so obvious that only those who graduated from college, and especially from graduate school, need to be told: Israel is the one Jewish state in the world. So, while there are 49 Muslim-majority countries and 22 Arab states, much of the world questions or outright only rejects the right of the one Jewish state of Israel, the size of New Jersey, to exist.
If you are a member of the Presbyterian Church, send these facts to the leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA etc. who voted to boycott Israel. If you are a student in Middle Eastern Studies -- or for that matter, almost any other humanities department -- and your professor is anti-Israel, ask your professor why Pakistan and Jordan are legitimate and Israel isn't.
They won't have a good answer. Their opposition to Israel isn't based on moral considerations, it is based on pure anti-Semitism etc.
Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.
ReplyDeleteThis is a royal decree and sentiment of 2 of the kings of Jordan.
"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. over 75% of Jordan's population are Arab Palestinians. Arab Palestinians in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) hold Jordanian passports.
The Arabs ejected close to a Million Jewish people and their children from Arab countries and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes, and Real property 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi.) valued today in the trillions of dollars. Let the Arab Arab-Arab-Palestinians move to those properties and Jordan.
Jordan received 77% of Jewish land that was part of the land allocated to the Jewish people, the British gave it away to the Arabs, in violation of International treaties.
YJ Draiman
Any rocket attacks and terror against Israel must be responded with extreme force.
ReplyDeleteJust picture yourself, if it was your family they were firing rockets at, how would you respond to protect your family, anything less than an extreme response is a dereliction of duty.
There should be no such theory of limited response. The only way to respond to consistent terror is by utilizing security forces with no restrictions whatsoever, with no letup, The Hague and Geneva convention do not apply to terrorists and their supporters, The terrorists armed insurrection and attacking innocent civilians, those rules apply only to military confrontation with a legitimate state and government. The security forces must be authorized to use lethal force and termination of the terrorists with extreme prejudice.
One of the most fundamental responsibilities of any legitimate government is to safeguard the safety and security of its people. But, this is not what’s happening in Israel. When mass rioting and violence break out, containing it might be okay as a first step but it clearly will not get to the root cause of the problem. In order for that to happen it will require a coordinated effort between local, regional, and national security agencies with no restrictions in applying its apparatus, and those responsible for causing the anarchy must be made to account for their actions in whatever way that is commensurate with their level of involvement. I do find it disturbing that the Israeli government is so disengaged with this problem. Israel's government has a duty and responsibility to protect its population with no excuses or limitations. It is time to ignore world opinion and defend The people of Israel with extreme prejudice. I hope more decisive and aggressive action is taken so the people of Israel can live their lives in peace without fear and I hope the Israeli government will implement these actions immediately and make this happen.
Those politicians whom are “calling for” drastic steps, and not TAKING drastic steps now, should be all be fired! No self respecting nation would tolerate these atrocities. Any rocket attacks and terror against Israel must be responded with extreme force on their citizens.
Revoking citizenship and confiscating assets should apply to terrorists their accomplices and those who commit violence and stone throwing.
Israel must be steadfast in protecting its rights and its people.
ReplyDeleteMany nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory.
No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had ejected about a million Jewish people and their children from their countries, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate. Many of the Jews ejected from Arab countries died while their forced departure from Arab countries, due to hardship, famine and starvation. 650,00 Jewish people and their children of these expelled Jewish people and their children were resettled in Greater Israel. The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is the trillions of dollars.
The Jewish people and their children during the over 2,000 years living in Arab countries have suffered Pogroms, Libel claims, beheadings, beatings, false imprisonment and extreme hardship as a second class citizens. They had their businesses and homes pillaged, their wives and daughters raped, sold them as slaves, their houses of worship pillaged and burned, forced conversion to Islam and many were beheaded.
Today over half of Israel's population are Jews expelled from Arab countries and their children and grandchildren.
The Audacity of the Arab Arab-Arab-Palestinians and the Arab countries in demanding territory from the Jewish people in Palestine after they ejected over a million Jewish people and their children who have lived in Arab land for over 2,000 years and after they confiscated all their assets and Real estate 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km. - 75,000 sq. mi.), valued in the trillions of dollars. There was also Jewish property and land (totaling about 50,000 sq. km.) in Jordan, Gaza and across the Golan Heights under Syria's control.
Now the Arab nations are demanding more land and more compensation.
The Arab countries have chased the million Jews and their children and now the want to chase them away again, from their own historical land.
Israel must respond with extreme force to any violent demonstration and terror. Israel's population must have peace and tranquility without intimidation by anyone.
The Jewish people have suffered enough in the Diaspora for the past 2,500 years. It is time for the Jewish people to live as free people in their own land without violence and terror.
It is time to consider that the only alternative is a population transfer of the Arab-Arab-Arab-Palestinians to the territories the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people and settle this dispute once and for all. Many Arab leaders had suggested these solutions over the years.
YJ Draiman
To better understand the legal status of Judea and Samaria under international law consider the following:
ReplyDeleteAXIOM: In 1967 Israel liberated occupied Jewish Palestinian territories. This was done not only for the enemies of Israel, but also to appease Allies and a majority of Israelis. However, the world community, and the enemies of Israel hold forth that during the Six Day War, Israel “captured” the same liberated Jewish Palestinian territories. Furthermore, Israel is accused of then installing its’ “settlers” with impunity and in obvious violation of international law. Which is true, the AXIOM of 1967 or the current interpretation of international law by the enemies and critics of Israel? For obvious current political and diplomatic reasons, the truth has been swept beneath a new wave of anti-Semitism. However, in order to clarify the legal status of Judea and Samaria under international law, we only need to examine HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS which many have chosen to forget or ignore. Upon examination of said HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS the only factual conclusion to arrive at is the critics (whether Arab, American, European, or the Israeli Extreme-Left) who accuse Israel of “occupation” are wrong.
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England bombed Jewish refugee’s ships
ReplyDeleteExclusive WW2 Britain Blew Up Jewish Refugee Ships
A new book uncovers shocking secret attacks launched on ships bearing Holocaust survivors en route to Israel. Andrew Roberts on the violent lengths to which post-war Britain went to appease oil-rich Arab states. (Page 1 of 2)As Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, the pitiful remnants of History’s greatest crime, tried to make their way across an often hostile Europe at the end of the Second World War, toward at least a semblance of safety in the Holy Land, they had no shortage of problems with which to contend, including disease and malnutrition, Polish anti-Semitism, Soviet indifference, Allied bureaucracy, and Arab nationalism.
Now we discover that they faced yet another peril in the shape of bombs planted on their transport ships by Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. I do not agree with your article.
The British also in violation of the Mandate for Palestine restricted Jewish immigration into Israel-Palestine from 1939 to 1948. This caused the deaths of millions of Jews in German concentration camps and the British have to bear that responsibility.
People, especially Jewish people who do not live in Israel, have no right to criticize or dictate to Israel how it should conduct their country. Only those Jews and Israelis who live in Israel have that right.
The Israelis bear a continually hostile neighbors and a hostile world. The Israelis fight for the survival of Israel on a daily basis.
The continued terrorism and bombing, missiles on a daily basis. United States has 911 bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City. The reaction was American troops in Iraq & Afghanistan at a cost of thousands of American lives and over a trillion dollars in costs to the American taxpayer. Imagine having a 911 every year in the United States at different parts of the country. Think of a hostile nation threatening to wipe the United States of the map. How do you think the people of the United States and its government would react? Just remember when in 1962 the Russians put missiles in Cuba, America almost went to nuclear war with Russia.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy for you to criticize, you and your family are not sitting in a country that is bombed, terrorized and threatened of annihilation.
Please I implore you, stay out of Israel's path; it is their decision and not yours." The Koran states Israel belongs to the Jews" Quran/Koran: Sura 5:21 – G-od orders the Jews into Israel[5:20] Recall that Moses said to his people (the Jews), “O my people, remember G-OD’s blessings upon you: He appointed prophets from among you, made you kings, and granted you what He never granted any other people.[5:21] “O my people, enter the holy land (Israel) that G-OD has decreed for you, and do not rebel, lest you become losers. ”Sura 10:93-94“ We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling-place...If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee" - In case you had any doubts about whether the Koran talks about the Jews' right to live in the land of Israel.
I think every Jew worldwide should be thankful for Israel’s existence and safely.
The Arabs expelled over a million Jews and their children and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real property (120,440 sq. km., 5-6 times the size of Israel, valued today in the trillions of dollars), over 650,000 of the Jews and their children expelled from Arab countries were resettled in Greater Israel.
The Jews through-out history have been persecuted by the Nations of the World. Just look at the increasing anti-Semitism in Europe today 2015.
Do not be complacent in your safety and the safety of your family.
Another Jewish persecution could even happen in the United States.
YJ Draiman Los Angeles, CA
In compliance with the 1920 League of Nations Resolution, two-state solution was implemented in 1922 when British administration of occupied Israel in violation of International Treaties, (for 50 barrels of oil) allocated more than 77% of Israel territory to Arab-Palestinian Arabs and created Transjordan (now Jordan in) where today over 90 percent of the population identify themselves as Arab-Palestinian. Every party, including UN, EU, US, etc., must respect The 1920 San Remo Treaty, the League of Nations Resolutions, adopted and accepted by UN in 1945. Therefore, all so called “Arab-Palestinians” must be relocated there in Jordan. Enough stealing Israel land. Britain and Jordan must compensate Israel for stolen land and natural resources. That includes the assets and land of the million Jews and their children, (that lived in the Arab countries for over 2,000 years), who were expelled from Arab countries of which the majority settled in Greater Israel. (120,444 sq. km. of Jewish Real property was confiscated, which is 5-6 times the size of Israel and valued in the trillions of dollars).
ReplyDeleteThe League of Nation was contemplating on filing charges against Britain for violating the Mandate for Palestine, especially for restricting Jewish immigration prior and during WW2 1939-1947.
History of “Arab-Arab-Palestinians”
Article 24 of the 1964 PLO Charter addressed to UN stipulates: “Arab-Palestinian Muslims do not exercise authority over West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza territories”
Arab leaders like Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi told the Peel Commission in 1937: “There is no such country as ‘Palestine’; ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented!”
In 1946, Arab historian Philip Hitti testified before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history.”
In 1977, an executive committee member of the PLO Zahir Muhsein confirmed that there is no such thing as a separate “Arab-Palestinian” people of Arab descent. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw in March 31, 1977, he stated the following: “The Arab-Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Arab-Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.”
In 1948, Bernadotte, mediator between Jews and Arabs appointed by the UN General Assembly, noted in his journal that the “Arab-Palestinian” Arabs had little desire for independence:
“The Arab-Palestinian Arabs had at present no will of their own. Neither have they ever developed any specifically Arab-Palestinian nationalism. The demand for a separate Arab state in Palestine is consequently relatively weak. It would seem as though in existing circumstances most of the Arab-Palestinian Arabs would be quite content to be incorporated in Transjordan.”
In 1947, Arab leaders protesting the UN partition plan argued that Palestine was part of Syria and “politically, the Arabs of Palestine (were) not (an) independent separate … political entity.”
Western media must stop broadcasting and publishing fraudulent, fake, false, and distorted information on Israel and Jews. Current situation, specifically in Europe, is quite similar to 1930s, however, we, Jews, learned our lessons and will not hesitate to give appropriate response to any mortal attacks on us.
YJ Draiman
Gaza Allotted to Tribe of Judah
ReplyDeleteGaza is referenced in a number of books in the Bible, most prominently in the Book of Judges and the Book of Joshua. According to the Bible, the area was allotted to the tribe of Judah, but the Jews never quite secured it. After the Biblical Exodus, during the period of the Judges, the territory fell under Philistine control. The Philistines were an Aegean people, meaning they came from the area of modern Greece. In ancient Egyptian writings, they are described as one of the “Sea Peoples” that attempted to invade Egypt and conquer the entire area.
Anyone familiar with the Bible will have heard of the “Philistines.” Every reference to the “Philistines,” especially in reference to land and territory, almost always refers to the Gaza area. The most infamous Philistine was the warrior Goliath who was famously defeated by King David. The story of Samson and Delilah, the evil mistress of Samson who seduced him into revealing the secret of his strength, which led to his downfall, took place in Gaza. The prophets Amos and Zephaniah prophesized that Gaza would be deserted. The Philistines exited from history in 722 BCE, when they were taken into captivity by the Assyrians.
Maccabees: Gaza is ‘Inheritance of our Fathers’
After the Philistines disappeared, the area came under the control of various empires, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans. The Maccabees (Of Chanuka and dreidel fame) conquered Gaza, as it says in the Book of Maccabees 1:15:
“Not a strange land have we conquered, and not over the possessions of strangers have we ruled, but of the inheritance of our Fathers that was in the hands of the enemy and conquered by them unlawfully. And as for us, when we had the chance, we returned to ourselves the inheritance of our Fathers.”
Gaza Jewish Community Flourished
After the great Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire in 67 CE and in 132 CE that ended Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel, Gaza again played a role in Jewish history. For example, King Titus passed through Gaza on his march toward to Jerusalem, and again on his return. Gaza also served as the main marketplace for Jewish slaves into the Roman Empire.
In the fourth century, the Jews returned and the Jewish community flourished. Gaza was the main port for Jewish commerce in the Holy Land. It also served as a center of Talmudic and Kabbalistic (Jewish mysticism) studies. By the time the Arabs arrived in the seventh century CE, Jews had been in Gaza for over 2000 years. In 1929, when the area was under British control, British forces evacuated the entire Jewish community of Gaza for fear of a massive pogrom after the Jews of Hebron were massacred by the local Arab population.
The details for the planned independent Jewish state were set forth in three basic documents, which may be termed the founding documents of mandated Palestine and the modern Jewish state of Israel that arose from it. These were the San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920, the Mandate for Palestine conferred on Britain by the Principal Allied Powers and confirmed by the League of Nations on July 24, 1922, and the Franco-British Boundary Convention of December 23, 1920. These founding documents were supplemented by the Anglo-American Convention of December 3, 1924 respecting the Mandate for Palestine.
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Moral and ethical bankruptcy.
ReplyDeleteAmericans are finding a grotesque echo in the moral – ethical bankruptcy and worse of a substantial sector of American society.
The "moral depravity" of "the Arabs" who kill innocent civilians. It is more than moral depravity. It is a culture that teaches, educates and breeds hate toward other societies that are not like them as they say "infidels".
There is no way this situation should be handled with kid gloves – when a poison strikes your body, you remove it and destroy it completely, leaving no trace of such poison.
History has shown that these types of atrocities and acts of barbarism have increased in the past half a century and getting worse by the day.
With today's advancement in technology and telecommunications, the world has shrunk, events on the other side of the world affect everybody (like the Japanese Nuclear reactor fallout, ISIS barbaric acts, etc.) it affects our health our economy, brings fear and uncertainty to our lives.
The financial crisis we are facing today is the price we pay for years of neglect and government abuse of power.
Is today's society heading toward annihilation, you be the judge?
YJ Draiman
P.S. The Qur'an 17:104 - states the land belongs to the Jewish people.
Historically, there was an exchange of populations in the Middle East and the number of displaced Jews (million plus and their children) exceeds the number of Palestinian Arab refugees by 2 to 1. Most of the Jews were expelled as a result of an open policy of anti-Semitic incitement and even forced ethnic cleansing (their assets ans Real propert confiscated 120,440 sq. km. which is 5-6 times the size of Israel). However, unlike the Arab refugees, the Jews who fled are a forgotten case because of a combination of international cynicism and domestic Israeli suppression of the subject. The Palestinians are the only group of refugees out of the more than one hundred million who were displaced after World War II who have a special UN agency that, according to its mandate, cannot but perpetuate their tragedy. An open debate about the exodus of the Jews is critical for countering the Palestinian demand for the "right of return" and will require a more objective scrutiny of the myths about the origins of the Arab- Israeli conflict.
ReplyDeleteEquality works both ways, When you support violence and terrorism against Israelis and Jews, it is not surprising that you are treated with suspicion. The Arab population have to earn the trust. Killing indiscriminantly Israeli civilians including babies in their cribs, does not promote trust. The Arabs teaching their children and the masses to commit violence and terror. Celebrating terrorist accomplishments and glorifying them is a major obstacle to any co-existence.
Arab violence against the Jews started in about 627 when Muuhamed beheaded over 700 Jews in Medina. The violence against the Jews in Arab countries continues to date with no abatement.
To many of the previous comments, naturally, we cannot address the whole story of the Arab-Israel Conflict... it takes BOOKS and COLLEGE COURSES and YEARS to cover ALL points!
ReplyDeleteWhat strikes me and many others is that regardless of what degree to which we critique both "sides" in this conflict, no matter how detailed we get with "what was left out" or "what was unfair" it is absolutely clear and irrefutable that if the Arab partners [years ago] would honestly accept a state called ISRAEL; a Jewish entity there in their Palestine ... that the conflict would cease. At once.
The fact remains that under the cover of talks and agreements, negotiations and rhetoric [and everyone knows this] the Arabs in general and the Muslims in particular will NEVER EVER abide a Jewish state in what has been controlled by the Waqf; i.e. Falestin and Al Quds [as they call it]. They might tell you anything at all, but they will NEVER recognize and cede this land to Jewish sovereignty. Never! Forget it. Truce? Treaty? Cessation of conflict for 10 years? Whatever buzz term you want to use. They will never, ever, ever, EVER surrender the vision of eliminating tiny Israel! It will take a miracle alone. And only that will solve this puzzle. G-OD made this puzzle and He alone will solve it.
The Arabs are not willing to address the expulsion of a million Jews and their children from the Arab countries (who lived in the Arab countries for over 2,000 years, they also confiscated all their assets including land 120,440 sq. km.), of which the majority were resettled in Greater Israel.
The world at large must compare how Israel uplifted and resettled the dispossessed Million JEWISH REFUGEES and their children FROM ARAB COUNTRIES (who lived in those Arab countries for over 2,000 years) many Jews died from hardship, persecution by the Arabs and starvation during the expulsion. The Arab countries confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real Estate totaling 120,440 sq. km. - 75,000 sq. miles which is more than 5-6 times the size of Israel valued in the trillions of dollars with 67 years of Arab manipulation of a much lower number of Arab refugees. Mahmoud Abbas' stance on refugees makes a mockery of a two state solution, which will never happen. It denies the rights of the million Jewish refugees from the Arab countries. It sidesteps Arab culpability for starting the wars that led to BOTH refugee issues. And it runs counter to the way every other population exchange has been resolved. They have to consider relocating to Jordan (which is Jewish territory) and or to the homes and confiscated Jewish lands (120,440 sq. km.) the Arabs confiscated from the expelled Jewish people and their children. The Arabs have 21 States where they must resettle the Arab refugees , Israel has only one small one.
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish people war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with far more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. Plus we are easy to find now.
"No country in the world exists today by virtue of its 'right'.
All countries exist today by virtue of their ability to defend themselves against those who seek their destruction."
Israel needs to deal with another Arab-Palestinian leader who truly wants peace and coexistence. The Arabs must start by teaching their children that hate and violence will not be tolerated. Only than is there a chance of coexistence.
YJ Draiman
Israel Liberated Judea and Samaria - Just like U.S. and its allies liberated Kuwait.
ReplyDeleteIraq 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
Iraq conquered and occupied Kuwait a sovereign Nation and was liberated by the U.S. and its allies.
ReplyDeleteIsrael without outside help liberated Judea and Samaria after it was attacked by Jordan and removed Jordanian occupation, just like the allies liberated Kuwait.
Historically Gaza was a Jewish City and the Golan Heights was always Jewish territory.
YJ Draiman
To truly understand the status of this territory in Greater Israel we have to first differentiate between the personal and the national.
ReplyDeleteOf course there is land privately owned by Arab-Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, what many call the “West Bank” in seeming deference to the Jordanian occupation, which invented the term as juxtaposition to its eastern bank. These areas, like privately owned territory anywhere in the world, cannot be touched unless there is very pressing reason for a government or sovereign power to do so. These areas, according to Ottoman and British records, constitute no more than a few percent of the total area, meaning the vast majority is not privately owned.
However, to contend that these territories are “Arab-Palestinian” on a national level is problematic. To claim an area belongs to a particular nation requires the territory to have belonged to that people, where they held some sort of sovereignty that was broadly recognized.
All of these criteria have been met historically by the Jewish people, and none by the Arab-Palestinians.
In fact, the Jewish people were provided with national rights in these territories not just by dint of history and past sovereignty, but also by residual legal rights contained in the San Remo Treaty of 1920 and the League of Nations Mandate, which were never canceled and are preserved by the UN Charter, under Article 80 – the famous “Palestine Clause,” that was drafted, in part, to guarantee continuity with respect to Jewish rights from the League of Nations.
For the past almost 2,000 years, since the destruction of Jewish sovereignty and expulsion of most of its indigenous people, it remained an occupied and colonized outpost in the territory of many global and regional empires.
The Ottomans were the most recent to officially apportion the territory, in what they referred to as Ottoman Syria, which today incorporates modern-day Israel, Syria, Jordan and stretching into Iraq. Before The Ottoman Land Code of 1858, land had largely been owned or passed on by word of mouth, custom or tradition. Under the Ottomans of the 19th century, land was apportioned into three main categories: Mulk, Miri and Mawat.
ReplyDeleteMulk was the only territory that was privately owned in the common sense of the term, and as stated before, was only a minimal part of the whole territory, much of it owned by Jews, who were given the right to own land under reforms.
Miri was land owned by the sovereign, and individuals could purchase a deed to cultivate this land and pay a tithe to the government. Ownership could be transferred only with the approval of the state. Miri rights could be transferred to heirs, and the land could be sub-let to tenants. In other words, a similar arrangement to a tenant in an apartment or house as having rights in the property, but not to the property.
Finally, Mawat was state or unclaimed land, not owned by private individuals nor largely cultivated. These areas made up almost two-thirds of all territory.
The area recently declared “State Land” by the Israeli government, a process which has been under an intensive ongoing investigation for many years, is Mawat land. In other words, it has no private status and is not privately owned.
Many claims to the territory suddenly arose during the course of the investigation, but all were proven to be unfounded on the basis of land laws.
Interestingly, it should be clearly understood by those who deem Judea and Samaria “occupied territory” that according to international law the occupying power must use the pre-existing land laws as a basis for claims, exactly as Israel has done in this case, even though Israel’s official position is that it does not see itself de jure as an occupying power in the legal sense of the term. It is only a liberator of its ancestral land.
None of these facts are even alluded to in the many reports surrounding the government’s actions in settlement and housing. This is deeply unjust and a semblance of the relevant background, history and facts would provide the necessary context for what has been converted into an international incident where none should exist.
Many nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its own liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had ejected about a million Jewish people and their children (who lived there for over 2,000 years) from their countries, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate. Over 650,00 Jewish people and their children of these expelled Jewish people and their children were resettled in Greater Israel. The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is the trillions of dollars.
YJ Draiman
The Jewish heart and mind is eternally connected to Jerusalem and Israel for thousands of years.
ReplyDelete“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. 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.’ “.
“Every Jew has a spark in his soul from the light of God above that illuminates his way during difficult times. And when it seems to him that he is lost and that there is no way out, the spark flares and lights his way. This is the little jug of oil that is revealed in time to save the Jew in times of despair and to light up his life in desperate times.”.
“Let the world know that we were granted our right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization 4,000 years ago. The Jewish people have a historic, eternal and inalienable right to the whole of the land of our forefathers. And for that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unprecedented in the annals of nations.”.
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
The Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel 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.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
It is time to re-institute the teaching of the Jewish Bible in all Jewish Schools as was in Israel before 1987.
Many of the Israelis today know nothing about our Jewish Heritage and history, it is due to the termination of studying the bible at all Jewish schools in Israel which was implemented by the than Israeli education minister in 1987.
Authoritative experts who have declared Israel’s presence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan to be legal, include inter alia
ReplyDeleteJudge 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 and http://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. See http://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.
ReplyDelete• 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.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
“who controls the energy supply controls whole continents”;
“who controls water sources controls life”.
“Who controls the food supply controls the people”;
“who controls money controls the world”;
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
ReplyDeleteJudge 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 and http://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. See http://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.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
“who controls the energy supply controls whole continents”;
“who controls water sources controls life”.
“Who controls the food supply controls the people”;
“who controls money controls the world”;
YJ Draiman.
Oil as a political weapon
ReplyDeleteThe Middle East's declining strategic importance is likely to affect Israel-U.S. relations, which would change once the U.S. no longer needs the region's oil, thus significantly diminishing the Arab nations' clout.
The U.S. withdrawal strategies from the region may even affect how the Middle Eastern countries band together against common enemies.
Israel is the strongest and most stable country in the region, and it has proved itself to be a reliable ally, but it is still plagued by the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.
It is the ratio between any progress made in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the volume of regional threats, and the scope of mutual interests -- defeating radical Islam, a nuclear Iran and prolonged unrest -- that will eventually dictate the nature of the relationships Israel forges in a theater from which the U.S. is seeking slowly but surely to distance itself.
Israel is becoming an energy powerhouse with new discoveries of Natural Gas and Shale Oil.
Israel's current reserves of Natural Gas is the largest in the Middle East.
Wake-up world to the real Muslim mission.
ReplyDeleteIsrael has no choice but to continue to fight for its survival with a unified people and a unified nation.
I have long said, this is not about land, but extermination of a nation, religion and culture which is not accepted by another. I have actually asked the question, what if there was no 'holy land'. Say a natural disaster, dissolving the place into nothing, but not the people. Would the Arabs still fight? Well, the answer was chilling and emphatic, it saddened me greatly. The answer was over and over, "we have the right to kill all non believers". I have read and re-read everything, from both sides, also, many non-biased writings.
I have come to the conclusion that Israel must protect herself in every way possible or face genocide. The Arab countries have expelled over a million Jewish people, confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and land totaling over 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi. (which is 5 times the size of Israel) and valued in the trillions of dollars.
Those in power in the Arab-Palestinian leadership have rejected again and again any and all attempts to recognize Israel's right to exist. They continue to teach their children and the masses hate and violence.
Don't start with who was there first, even-though in actuality there has never been in history an Arab-Palestinian Nation, but there has been a Jewish Nation homeland in Palestine-Israel for the past 4,000 plus years, although sometimes occupied by various empires. Israel has won and liberated their ancestral land in a defensive war, it is known that possession is nine tenths of the law. Israel is the rightful liberator and successor, having won and liberated its ancestral homeland in war, numerous times. Sadly, it will continue, because when one Arab culture wants another's elimination, there is no talking.
I hope Israel does not concede to any of the Arab demands, or give up any more land, because they will only make themselves more vulnerable and endanger the safety and security of its citizens. Israel must not capitulate to world pressure. Israel's foremost duty and obligation is the safety and security of its citizens at all costs. Any responsible democratic country will do no less. Israel as a responsible democratic country must do the same. The end result will be that the world at large will respect a country that defends its people from harm and terrorism at all cost.
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The Muslim mission in the world is not only Israel but the rest of the infidel non-believers. Might I remind you, on 911, there was Arab terrorists who wished our extermination, right here in America. This will continue until education and humanity replaces a hatred, for no other reason, than to not accept that you exist.
The Muslims have killed over 200 million people since its inception 1500 years ago, and they will continue to kill anyone who they consider is an infidel. They have colonized the Middle East over the years. Slowly but surely they are taking over Europe, and if we are not careful they will take over the United States and other countries.
Wake-up world to the real Muslim mission.
ReplyDeleteIsrael has no choice but to continue to fight for its survival with a unified people and a unified nation.
I have long said, this is not about land, but extermination of a nation, religion and culture which is not accepted by another. I have actually asked the question, what if there was no 'holy land'. Say a natural disaster, dissolving the place into nothing, but not the people. Would the Arabs still fight? Well, the answer was chilling and emphatic, it saddened me greatly. The answer was over and over, "we have the right to kill all non believers". I have read and re-read everything, from both sides, also, many non-biased writings.
I have come to the conclusion that Israel must protect herself in every way possible or face genocide. The Arab countries have expelled over a million Jewish people, confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and land totaling over 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. mi. (which is 5 times the size of Israel) and valued in the trillions of dollars.
Those in power in the Arab-Palestinian leadership have rejected again and again any and all attempts to recognize Israel's right to exist. They continue to teach their children and the masses hate and violence.
Don't start with who was there first, even-though in actuality there has never been in history an Arab-Palestinian Nation, but there has been a Jewish Nation homeland in Palestine-Israel for the past 4,000 plus years, although sometimes occupied by various empires. Israel has won and liberated their ancestral land in a defensive war, it is known that possession is nine tenths of the law. Israel is the rightful liberator and successor, having won and liberated its ancestral homeland in war, numerous times. Sadly, it will continue, because when one Arab culture wants another's elimination, there is no talking.
I hope Israel does not concede to any of the Arab demands, or give up any more land, because they will only make themselves more vulnerable and endanger the safety and security of its citizens. Israel must not capitulate to world pressure. Israel's foremost duty and obligation is the safety and security of its citizens at all costs. Any responsible democratic country will do no less. Israel as a responsible democratic country must do the same. The end result will be that the world at large will respect a country that defends its people from harm and terrorism at all cost.
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The Muslim mission in the world is not only Israel but the rest of the infidel non-believers. Might I remind you, on 911, there was Arab terrorists who wished our extermination, right here in America. This will continue until education and humanity replaces a hatred, for no other reason, than to not accept that you exist.
The Muslims have killed over 200 million people since its inception 1500 years ago, and they will continue to kill anyone who they consider is an infidel. They have colonized the Middle East over the years. Slowly but surely they are taking over Europe, and if we are not careful they will take over the United States and other countries.
But what disturbs me is where are the other 950 million Muslims who are not terrorists? Who are not bomb blasting, acid throwing, zealots? Where are the other 950 million Muslims who tuck their children in at night with a lullaby, who are okay with Christians and Jews, crave a peaceful world and wish nothing more than a tasty bowl of hummus and a friendly game of Shesh Besh with a neighbor?
ReplyDeleteI want to believe they are out there for their sake and for ours. I want to believe they weep in pain over the desecration of their faith. I want to believe that we have partners who dream the dreams we do and wish upon the same star.
I want to believe - - but where are they?
A silent partnership is no partnership. Sin is not just in the act of commission - it is also in the act of omission. Most Germans were not Nazis - but it did not matter.
Most Russians were not Stalinists - but it did not matter.
Most Muslims are not terrorists - but it does not matter.
Stand up righteously or get out of the way. Perhaps in every mosque, in every midrassah, in every Muslim neighborhood, Edmund Burke's powerful warning should be chiseled on a wall in Arabic, in Farsi, in Pashto, in Urdu, for all to read and heed. “All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.”
A couple of months ago, 3 young Israelis were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and killed. And so began Operation Protective Edge. But the Gaza war was much more than shooting down rockets and blowing up tunnels - it was the preview, the soft opening, for a much more serious war - a genuine world war. It was a test of resolve, of fortitude. It was a test watched carefully by the indecent forces of a rising Islamist world. Israel is only the beginning. The first prize sought in what promises to be a protracted, multi-generational Kulterkampf. Israel made the headlines but the front lines are all over the map - we just don't know it yet. The whole world was watching and our performance was pathetic. We, the good guys, stumbled at the gate; tripped clumsily in an embarrassing display of moral confusion and ineptitude. It was amateur hour and the bad guys were licking their chops.
I say the following unapologetically and with a heavy heart. When the war began, the President of the United States, the leader of the Free World, should have immediately, instinctively invited to the Oval Office, the leading Democrats and Republicans of the Senate and the House, his cabinet and all significant Washington political players. Every domestic and international news organization should have been notified and the following talk broadcast across the planet.
"Fellow Americans - a crisis has erupted once again in the Middle East and I have been told that the war between Israel and Hamas is complex and nuanced. I have been told that our great nation must be evenhanded- but I am here to say with no equivocation, with no hesitation, this war is not complex. This war is not nuanced and we will not be evenhanded in this confrontation of good and evil, of right and wrong, of civilization and savagery. We Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives from sea to shining sea, stand together in unshakable support of Israel against foul, corrupt, murderers who sacrifice the lives of children in their pursuit of power. To Israel we say - do whatever you must. To Israel we say, take whatever time you need to crush this vile enemy and whatever you require, you can count on us. To the world we say, Israel is fighting for all of us - for our values, for our principles, for our civilization. Support her efforts, as we do, in every way possible. I will not tolerate any words of disparagement against our greatest ally and friend in the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless the United States of America."
But these words did not ring forth from the White House, the capital of the free world. What we did hear was "No victor, no vanquished." This statement was our President's strategic plan. No call for triumph over terrorism, but a weak kneed, stalemate with butchers - a tie between good and evil. Right and wrong. Civilization and savagery.
ReplyDeleteThis did not go unnoticed.
Media coverage during the war was biased and shameful with a few notable exceptions. To permit Hamas spokesmen and Hamas sympathizers to speak and to defend their monstrous deeds to millions of viewers is morally shocking. To promote equivalency between Israel and Hamas is morally appalling. With my remote, I would channel surf, go from station to station and I could not believe what I was hearing on CNN, CBS, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and all the rest. The grotesque propaganda, the repulsive distortions - the tolerance of the wicked.
And this did not go unnoticed.
As I sat through these numbing broadsides, I wondered if our mainstream media during WWII would have invited the Germans and the Japanese to share their perspectives on the hostilities in Europe and in the Pacific. As they moaned about Dresden and the Doolittle Raid, would the anchors have nodded in sympathy? When the Germans and Japanese explained the need for the V1 and V2 bombardment of London and the necessity for the Bataan Death March, would the anchors have expressed understanding?
The obscenities and outright lies given airtime and legitimacy should be sickening to any person of conscience.
Words distinguish us from the beast. In a powerful Holocaust tale, Eli Wiesel painfully writes that when words lose their meaning, disaster follows. In today's Middle East, lexicon; restraint means suicide. Terrorists have become militants. Self-defense is a war crime. Democracy is apartheid. Israelis and Jews have become Nazis. Warning civilians to get out of harm's way has become genocide. 38 Muslim countries - 22 Arab countries and Israel, the only Jewish nation, must constantly defend her right to exist.
Russia invades. Nigeria enslaves. China oppresses. Pakistan rapes. Iraq slaughters. North Korea starves. Iran nuclearizes. Syria massacres. Venezuela plunders. Afghanistan tortures. Sudan annihilates. ISIS beheads and Israel is the pariah state, put under the microscope by the morally noxious.
And this did not go unnoticed.
The false claim that Jewish settlers dispossessed Arab people from their land in Palestine. The examination of records from 1820 onward will shock most people.
ReplyDeleteIn the first place, Palestine's population barely grew for 260 years -- rising from 200,000 Muslims, Christians and Jews in 1555 to only 270,000 in 1810. In the second, records from 1832, 1865, 1879 and 1893 and 1918, among others, demonstrate that when the heaviest Jewish immigration began in 1870, a large proportion of the 420,000 to 430,000 Arabs in Palestine were themselves recent immigrants.
Documents the origins of those immigrants demonstrate. Many Arabs that came from Egypt... In 1830 alone, 6,010 Egyptian Arabs settled in Akko...
Additionally, Arab and Muslim immigrants also came from Algeria, Damascus, Yemen, Afghanistan, Persia, India, Tripoli, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq...etc.
Numerous historical descriptions of a desolate landscape, composed almost entirely of swamps and deserts, and sold to the Jewish people by absentee Arab landlords, appointed by the Ottoman government, at enormous profits. Dozens of sales are documented specifically, including some by the Egyptian el-Husseini family of Yasser Arafat.
The Hajj Amin el-Husseini, the intractable opponent of Zionism, a Jew-hater on par with Hitler, admitted under questioning that no Arab land was stolen; no Arabs were wiped out, no villages destroyed. Rather, the Jews bought hundreds of thousands of dunam (about ¼ of an acre) of land from willing sellers, often from absentee Arab landowners. Moreover, thanks in part to the Zionists and the British, the quality of life for Palestine’s Arab peasantry was vastly improved, with less taxation, more schools, and an increase in Arab population.
The next time someone spouts the Arab line about how Zionists came and stole Arab land and drove Arabs out, just quote the Mufti.
A substantial amount of land was leased from the Ottoman Empire by the Arabs as sharecroppers, they never owned the land.
This documentation shatters the current Arab claim of dispossession.
YJ Draiman
P.S. The world at large must compare how Israel uplifted and resettled the dispossessed Million JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB COUNTRIES and their children (who lived in those Arab countries for over 2,000 years) many Jews died from hardship and starvation during the expulsion. The Arab countries confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real Estate totaling 120,440 sq. km. - 75,000 sq. miles which is more than 5-6 times the size of Israel valued in the trillions of dollars with 68 years of Arab manipulation of a much lower number of Arab refugees. Mahmoud Abbas' stance on refugees makes a mockery of a two state solution, which will never happen. It denies the rights of the million Jewish refugees from the Arab countries. It sidesteps Arab culpability for starting the wars that led to BOTH refugee issues. And it runs counter to the way every other population exchange has been resolved. They have to consider relocating to Jordan and or to the homes and lands the Arabs confiscated from the expelled Jewish people. The Arabs have 21 States where they must resettle the Arab refugees , Israel has only one small one.
YJ Draiman.
It is time to Annex Judea and Samaria and adopt the Levy report.
ReplyDeleteIt is time for Israel to take serious action against terror and violence and restore the safety and security of its people without fear of violence, riots, stone throwing and intentional vehicular usage to kill and injure Israelis.
Remind the Arabs that they expelled over a million Jews from their counties and confiscated all their assets including land 5 times the size of Israel. That the Arabs must balance the books and pay for the assets and the relocation of the Jews.
Israel needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
Non-broken series of treaties and resolutions, as laid out by the San Remo Resolution, the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives the Jewish People title to the city of Jerusalem. The process began at San Remo, Italy, when the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I – Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan – agreed to create a Jewish national home in what is now the Land of Israel. San Remo
ReplyDeleteThe relevant resolution reads as follows: “The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust… the administration of Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to a Mandatory [authority that] will be responsible for putting into effect the [Balfour] declaration… in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. "Gauthier notes that the San Remo treaty specifically notes that “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine” – but says nothing about any “political” rights of the Arabs living there. The San Remo Resolution also bases itself on Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which declares that it is a “a sacred trust of civilization” to provide for the well-being and development of colonies and territories whose inhabitants are “not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world.” Specifically, a resolution was formulated to create a Mandate to form a Jewish national home in Palestine. League of Nations
The League of Nations’ resolution creating the Palestine Mandate, included the following significant clause: “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.” No such recognition of Arab rights in Palestine was granted. In 1945, the United Nations took over from the failed League of Nations – and assumed the latter’s obligations. Article 80 of the UN Charter states: “Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed, in or of itself, to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties. ”UN Partition Plan.
However, in 1947, the General Assembly of the UN passed Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan. It violated the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine in that it granted political rights to the Arabs in western Palestine – yet, ironically, the Arabs worked to thwart the plan’s passage, while the Jews applauded it. Resolution 181 also provided for a Special regime for Jerusalem, with borders delineated in all four directions: The then-extant municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns up to Abu Dis in the east, Bethlehem in the south, Ein Karem and Motza in the west, and Shuafat in the north. Referendum Scheduled for Jerusalem
The UN resolved that the City of Jerusalem shall be established as a separate entity under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations. The regime was to come into effect by October 1948, and was to remain in force for a period of ten years, unless the UN’s Trusteeship Council decided otherwise. After the ten years, the residents of Jerusalem “shall be then free to express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible modifications of regime of the City.”
The resolution never took effect, because Jordan controlled eastern Jerusalem after the 1948 War of Independence and did not follow its provisions.
After 1967
After the Six Day War in 1967, Israel regained Jerusalem and other land west of Jordan. Gauthier notes that the UN Security Council then passed Resolution 242 authorizing Israel to remain in possession of all the land until it had “secure and recognized boundaries.” The resolution was notably silent on Jerusalem, and also referred to the “necessity for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem,” with no distinction made between Jewish and Arab refugees.
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Given Jerusalem’s strong Jewish majority, Gauthier concludes, Israel should be demanding that the long-delayed city referendum on the city’s future be held as soon as possible.
YJ Draiman
The Oslo accord is null and void! - A scathing indictment of the world nations at large!
ReplyDeleteThe Arab-Palestinians Charter explicitly states that they want the State of Israel for themselves and the Jewish people destroyed.
The Arab-Palestinians actions to date has proven that they do not want peace. Why is the liberal left and many of the world nations are fantasizing and deluding themselves that the Arabs want peace.
People of the world wake up and realize what is their ultimate mission, eliminate the unbelievers.
If the world at large does not wake up now they will be next. It already has started, take off the blinders, open you eyes and look around.
No entity in the world will force a solution on Israel.
They forced or were complicit to the Final solution in WWII with the Holocaust and the extermination of over 6 million Jewish people, men women and children.
Where were the worlds nations outcry, threats and objection when millions of Jewish people were being exterminated, men women and children? They were silent.
Where was the world nations when the Arab countries expelled over a million Jewish people and their children from their countries who lived there for over 2,000 years, the Arabs confiscated their assets, business, homes and land 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles), valued in the trillions of dollars?
Where is the world nations today? Why do they ignore when thousands are slaughtered by Muslims throughout the world.
Today and since 1948. Israel is being threatened with annihilation and when Israel defends itself from destruction, suicide bombers, thousands of missiles, violence, etc, by the Arabs, every country has something to say, threaten Israel and meddle in its business.
This is the time when nations of the world must mind their own business and stay out of Israel’s internal affairs. Only then there will be a possibility of peace.
NEVER AGAIN!!!
YJ Draiman
Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan
ReplyDeleteThis is a royal decree and sentiment of 2 of the kings of Jordan.
"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.
The Arabs ejected close to a Million Jewish people from Arab countries and confiscated their homes and assets. Let the Arab Palestinians move to those properties.
Jordan received 77% of Jewish land that was part of the land allocated to the Jewish people, the British gave it away to the Arabs, in violation of the Treaty.
YJ Draiman
The Palestinian Arabs are the occupiers of Jewish land by YJ Draiman
ReplyDeleteThe Palestinian Arabs are the occupiers of Jewish land. Tell the world at large that they are delusional in thinking that Arabs belong in Israel. There are 21 Arab countries where the Arab Palestinians came from originally – There will never be an Arab/Palestinian State together or adjacent to Eretz Israel. There has never been such a nation as the Palestinian/Arab People. The Arab/Moslem Koran specifically states in The Qur’an 17:104 – states the land belongs to the Jewish people If the historic documents, comments written by eyewitnesses and declarations by the most authoritative Arab scholars are still not enough, let us quote the most important source for Muslim Arabs: “And thereafter we [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd’.”. Any sincere Muslim must recognize the Land they call “Palestine” as the Jewish Homeland, according to the book considered by Muslims to be the most sacred word and Allah’s ultimate revelation. Any building of housing in The Greater Israel is the right and duty of the Israeli government. There is no such a thing as occupied territory. It is the liberated land of Israel for over 4,000 years. A continuous habitation by Jews, Sequence of historical events, agreements and a non-broken series of treaties and resolutions, as laid out by the San Remo Resolution, the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives the Jewish People title to the city of Jerusalem and the rest of Greater Israel. Let the Arab nation take the Palestinian Arabs and settle them in the Million plus Jewish homes that they evicted from their countries and allow the Jewish nation to live in peace. Anyone be it a Country or the Vatican or the U.N.cannot declare or allocate a territory for any State.
A true peace in the Middle East will be an economic phenomenon that the world has never seen. But this can only be accomplished when there is a real peace. The Arabs must stop preaching and teaching hate. Any liberal Israeli that is delusional about Arab intention and wants to give any land in Israel to the Arabs should leave Israel; he does not belong in Israel.
YJ Draiman
Historians and researchers and everyone in Israel again stressed what has been very well known since 70 CE – that the temple Menorah and the other Temple vessels are, indeed, held by the Vatican in its hidden basements and, as in the past, they do not want to return them to the Jewish People, to Jerusalem, to be used in the Third Temple which is soon to be rebuilt. Israel has very clear evidence which makes this an undeniable fact. It is very well known that the Vatican also holds ancient Torah Scrolls, Jewish manuscripts and other holy vessels in its basements.
ReplyDeleteThe Office of the President of Israel confirmed the president’s request and stated that it is “a meaningful break-through and the first major request of this kind from an Israeli president”.
The fact that the Vatican and the Pope are not ready to return the Temple Menorah and the vessels to Israel and Jerusalem will not deter The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement in their struggle and campaign to bring about the return of these major vessels from the Temple to Israel and Jerusalem. Israel is now living in G-d’s time of redemption and the Temple Mount Faithful Movement is the vessel of the G-d of Israel to immediately rebuild His holy Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The demand of the Faithful Movement is the demand of G-d Himself and we are His messengers to present it with no delay. It will not help the Vatican and the Pope to try in this way to stop the march of the prophetic history of Israel and even all the world. They have no chance to fight against the Gd of Israel and His clear intention to redeem Israel and all the world and to rebuild His house in Jerusalem.
Bibi promised he will not let the left-Labor join the government.
ReplyDeleteThe left is one of the main reason a new election was called.
It is time to replace the Media with an objective people who care about Israel and its people. A police force that protects the people of Israel
It is time to punish those who incite terror and violence. Prosecute those who betray Israel in words and action and treat traitors with full force of the law.
Protect all Jewish institutions and houses of worship.
It is time to elect a new Supreme Court Justices in Israel.
It is time to Annex Judea and Samaria and adopt the Levy report.
It is time for Israel to take serious action against terror and violence and restore the safety and security of its people without fear of violence, riots, stone throwing and intentional vehicular usage to kill and injure Israelis.
Remind the Arabs that they expelled over a million Jews and their children from their counties and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel. That the Arabs must balance the books and pay for the assets and the relocation of the Jews, the value of the Jewish assets confiscated by the Arabs is valued in the trillions of dollars..
Israel needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel. 50,000 housing units in Jerusalem and 10,000 housing units in the Galis and the same in the Negev with expanded roads and highways and industrial zones.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
Vatican order considers “Holy land” to be former Greater Syria
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Even the Qur'an says that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jews !
ReplyDeleteEven the Qur'an says that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jews !
It [the Qur'an] "is a guide for the righteous, who have faith in the unseen and are steadfast in prayer"
[Qur'an: Sura 2, "The Cow", verse 2]
It [the Qur'an] is "a confirmation of previous scriptures" (i.e., the Bible)
[Qur'an: Sura 12, "Joseph", verse 112]
"We [Muslims] believe in that which was revealed to us [the Qur'an] and that which was revealed to you [the Torah]. Our God and your God is one. To Him we surrender ourselves".
[Qur'an: Sura 29, "The Spider", verse 47]
"Enter, My People, the Holy Land which Allah has assigned for you. Do not turn back, or you shall be ruined".
[Qur'an: Sura 5, "The Table, verse 21]
"We [Allah] settled the Israelites in a blessed land and provided them with good things".
[Qur'an: Sura 10, "Jonah", verse 93]
"Pharoah sought to scare them [the Jews] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him, together with all who were with him. Then We said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land. When the promise of the hereafter comes to be fulfilled, We shall assemble you all together [in the Land of Israel in the End of Days]".
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"it was Our [Allah's] will to favour those who were oppressed [the Jews] and to make them leaders of mankind, to bestow on them a noble heritage and to give them power in the land [of Israel]: and to inflict on Pharoah, Haman, and their army, the very scourge dreaded by their victims".
[Qur'an: Sura 28, "The Story", verses 5-6]
"We [Allah] gave the persecuted people [the Jews] dominion over the eastern and western lands which We had blessed [the east and west banks of the Jordan River]. Thus your Lord's gracious word was fulfilled for the Israelites, because they had endured with fortitude; and We destroyed the edifices and towers of Pharoah and his people".
[Qur'an: Sura 7, "The Heights", verse 137]
"To Moses We gave the Scriptures, a perfect code for the righteous, with precepts about all things, and a guide and a blessing, so that his people might believe in the ultimate meeting with their Lord".
[Qur'an: Sura 6, "Cattle", verse 155]
"tell of Our servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: men of might and vision whom We made pure with the thought of the hereafter. They shall dwell with Us among the righteous whom We have chosen".
[Qur'an: Sura 38, "Sad", verse 46]
"Glory be to Him [Allah] who made His servants [Muhammed and El Burak] go by night from the Sacred Temple [of Mecca] to the farther Temple [of Jerusalem], whose surroundings We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our signs. He [Allah] alone hears all and observes all. We [Allah] gave Moses the Scriptures and made them a guide for the Israelites, saying, 'Take no other guardian than Myself. You are the descendants of those whom We carried in the Ark with Noah. He was a truly thankful servant'".
[Qur'an: Sura 17, "The Night Journey", verses 1-3]
"We gave the Scriptures to the Israelites and bestowed on them wisdom and prophethood. We provided them with good things and exalted them above the nations".
[Qur'an: Sura 45, "Kneeling", verses 16-17]
"There is guidance, and there is light, in the Torah which We [Allah] have revealed. By it the prophets who surrendered themselves to Allah judged the Jews, and so did the rabbis and the divines; they gave judgement according to Allah's scriptures which had been committed to their keeping and to which they were witnesses".
[Qur'an: Sura 5, "The Table", verses 44-45]
In fact, there's no difference between Israel proper and the "West Bank". There never was. Both were recognized, by international agreements subsequently ratified into law, to comprise the Homeland for the Jewish People. Ironically, it is the rest of the world which recognizes this inconsistency, albeit unconsciously. They sense that Israel is not being true to herself. They feel she is not living up to her true potential, not fulfilling her true role in the world. Maybe that's the real reason why Israel is universally held in such low regard.
ReplyDeleteBottom line: there is no and never was any "occupation" of "Palestine". This patently false charge has NO BASIS in either fact or law and has been hugely damaging to Israel's morale, self-image, sense of purpose and of course its public image. Here's a direct quote from Stephen Schwebel, former head of the International Court of Justice in the Hague:
"Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully [Jordan's 1948-1967 occupation of Judea and Samaria], the state which subsequently takes that territory [Israel] in the lawful exercise of self-defense [1967 War] has, against that prior holder, better title." - Stephen Schwebel, "What Weight to Conquest," American Journal of International Law, vol. 64 (1970) pp. 345-347
A polluted society - by YJ Draiman
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We've learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just ignore it.
YJ Draiman
“Most people don’t know that there was Yemenite community living in the area before it became Silwan,” he continued. “At the same time we want people to know where Beit Yehonatan is and to understand how close it is to the Old City.”
ReplyDelete"In 1845, more than a half century before the first Zionist Congress set out the territorial aims of political Zionism, the Prussian Consul General in Jerusalem, Dr. Schultze, estimated that there were 7,120 Jews, 5,000 Muslims, and 3,390 Christians in the city. From that moment, the Jews were to remain the largest single religious community. Their numerical dominance increased, despite periods of first Turkish and then British restrictions on their entry into Palestine. Two years after Dr. Schultze's estimate, a British visitor, Dr. John Kitto, wrote in his book, Modern Jerusalem: 'Although we are much in the habit of regarding Jerusalem as a Muslim city, the Moslems do not actually constitute more than one-third of the entire population.'
On April 15, 1854, the New York Daily Tribune ran an article that declared: 'The sedentary population of Jerusalem numbers about 15,500 souls, of whom 4,000 are Musulmans and 8,000 Jews.' The author of the article was Karl Marx.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the influx (of) Ashkenazi Jews, especially from Tsarist Russia, raised the Jewish population to more than 28,000 in 1896. At the same time the Christian Arabs and the Muslim Arabs each numbered less than 9,000....By 1914 the Jewish population had reached 45,000 out of 65,000. Only the coming of the First World War halted the continuing demographic dominance of the Jews, many of whom were expelled to Egypt or deported to Turkey."
(All of the above are from Martin Gilbert, "Jerusalem: A Tale of One City," The New Republic, November 14, 1994. A French source, Father Abbe J.J. Bourasse, estimated in the late 1850s that the Jewish population in Jerusalem numbered 7,000 out of a total population of 15,000
It’s worth mentioning that the Arabs not only rejected the 1947 partition plan but had no intention of instituting it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI refer everyone to Ephraim Karsh’s excellent “Palestine Betrayed.” It has a lot of direct sources to support the general Israeli line but the one pertinent to this discussion is that when the Arab armies invaded mandatory Palestine their intention was to grab land, not set up an Arab state.
The Jordanians took as much as they could get. The Egyptians had several land goals in the area, one of which was the Negev. The Syrians intended to take as much of the Galilee as they could. Karsh’s sources confirm this; they are direct and in substantial part from Arab sources.
As should be pointed out more often,from 1949 to 1967 the Arabs could have set up this supposedly desperately needed Palestinian state whenever they liked, without needing to consult Israel at all.
A glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel might be glimpsed if the Palestinians were ever to realize that the rest of the Arabs don’t give a damn for them, seeing them only–and I mean “only”–as sticks to beat Israel and the west.
But this would require at least a tiny ability to engage in self-examination and self-reflection and this is something that Arab society tends not to have.
YJ Draiman
The “Mandate for (JEWISH) Palestine” is Valid to This Day
ReplyDeleteThe Mandate survived the demise of the League of Nations.
Article 80 of the UN Charter implicitly recognizes the “Mandate for Palestine” of the League of Nations. This Mandate granted Jews the irrevocable right to settle anywhere in (JEWISH) Palestine, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, a right unaltered in international law and valid to this day. Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (i.e. the West Bank), Gaza and the whole of Jerusalem are legal. The International Court of Justice reaffirmed the meaning and validity of Article 80 in three separate cases:
• ICJ Advisory Opinion of July 11, 1950: in the “question concerning the International States of South West Africa.”33
• ICJ Advisory Opinion of June 21, 1971: “When the League of Nations was dissolved, the raison d’etre [French: “reason for being”] and original object of these obligations remained. Since their fulfillment did not depend on the existence of the League, they could not be brought to an end merely because the supervisory organ had ceased to exist. ... The International Court of Justice has consistently recognized that the Mandate survived the demise of the League [of Nations].”34
• ICJ Advisory Opinion of July 9, 2004: regarding the “legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied (JEWISH)
Palestinian territory.”35 In other words, neither the ICJ nor the UN General Assembly can arbitrarily change the status of Jewish
settlement as set forth in the “Mandate for Palestine,” an international accord that has never been amended.
All of western (JEWISH) Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, including the West Bank and
Gaza, remains open to Jewish settlement under international law. Professor Eugene Rostow concurred with the ICJ’s
opinion as to the “sacredness” of trusts such as the “Mandate for (JEWISH) Palestine”:
“‘A trust’—as in Article 80 of the UN Charter—does not end because the trustee dies ... the Jewish right of settlement in
the whole of western Palestine—the area west of the Jordan—survived the British withdrawal in 1948. ... They are parts of the
mandate territory, now legally occupied by Israel with the consent of the Security Council.”36 The British Mandate left intact the Jewish right
to settle in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Explains Professor Eugene Rostow:
“This right is protected by Article 80 of the United Nations Charter, which provides that unless a trusteeship agreement is agreed upon (which was not done for the Palestine Mandate), nothing in the chapter shall be construed in and of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which members of the United Nations may respectively be parties.
What Is A True Jewish Leader?
ReplyDeleteThe Torah (The Jewish Bible) clearly expresses the true character traits necessary for leaders of the nation. It is not great rhetorical skills that will help a person succeed in leading "The Nation of Israel". The gift of self-expression is not a necessary component in the skill set of national leaders.
A Jewish leader is one who is meant to represent the nation as a whole, externally and internally, expressive ability is no more than an impressive external trait that occasionally has the power to cover for an internal void. That is not what sets apart the leader of the Jewish nation. A Jewish leader must have the ability to withstand external pressures and protect his people and the Jewish nation at all times.
The Jewish nation that appeared on the stage of history thousands of years ago did not begin as a nation with an impressive external appearance. On the contrary, for long periods, the Jewish people lacked military and political abilities. However, since its inception, the Jewish nation has represented a huge world of moral, ethical and just values, values which the entire world learned, some more and some less, and spread to cultures everywhere throughout the world .
A leader of the Jewish nation is not meant to stand out as having an impressive external appearance, but rather a significant internal appearance that also expresses the special characteristics of Jewish culture and humility. Moshe (Moses who lead the Jewish people out of Egypt, after hundreds of years of slavery and oppression. Moses who lead the Jewish people during their Exodus fromEgypt, were attacked by various nations. Hence, the Jewish people had to learn how to defend themselves. Thus with the help of the almighty they were victorious), the Jewish nation’s first leader Moses, was “heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue,” and with this he signaled for us the correct path and the worthy considerations which should guide us as we choose our nation’s leadership.
A true leader of Israel has to lead from a platform of absolute faith. He cannot be just a politician. He has to embrace the history of the Jewish people and Israel. A leader of the Jewish nation has to understand what the Jewish people had to endure for thousands of years and still endure today in order to survive.
A true leader must act from a foundation of humility and perseverance; understanding the welfare of Israel and the Jewish people should be the foremost reason before any action is taken. One must lead by action and example and not by rhetoric.
A faithful Jewish leader must be one who will not compromise Jewish values.
A true leader of Israel has to have fortitude and determination to overcome internal and external obstacles!
He must stand relentlessly behind the defenders and supporters of Israel.
YJ Draiman
On January 3, 1919 Chaim Weizmann, who was the leader and representative of the Zionist Organization on behalf of the Jewish people, met with Emir Feisal, who represented the Arab Kingdom of Hedjaz. Included in an agreement that both.
ReplyDeleteparties agreed upon was that the Jewish people should get the land west of the Jordan River and that the old city of Jerusalem would be under Jewish control.
The Paris Peace Conference began on January 18, 1919 and lasted about six months in which new borders were decided upon for parts of Europe and the Middle East and were given the force of international law. The conference was made up of the victorious Allied powers from World War I. The “Big Four” were made up of the Page United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy. Lord Balfour represented Britain. It was during the summer of 1919 that Arab opposition began to be voiced against the Feisal-Weizmann agreement. As a result that aspect of the conference stalled and was never agreed upon. Nevertheless, Balfour issued the following statement on August 11, 1919:
“The four great powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age long traditions, in present needs in future hopes of far profounder import than the desire and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.”3 The Paris Peace Conference ended without a final solution reached concerning the status of Palestine, even though there was much discussion about the matter.
THE SAN REMO CONFERENCE.
A meeting to deal specifically with the unfinished business of Palestine,
which was to be seen as an extension of the Paris Peace Conference was commenced on April 19, 1920 in San Remo, Italy (confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres). It was attended by the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I who were represented by the prime ministers of Britain (David Lloyd George), France (Alexandre Millerand) and Italy (Francesco Nitti) and by Japan's Ambassador K. Matsui.
The San Remo Resolution adopted on April 25, 1920 incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917 issued by the British government. The San Remo resolution and Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which was adopted at the Paris Peace Conference on April 28, 1919, were the basic documents upon which the British Mandate for the stewardship of Palestine was constructed. It was at San Remo that the Balfour Declaration went from being just a statement of British foreign policy to international law.
The British Mandate was fully implemented upon approval by the Council of the League of Nations on September 22, 1922. However, when the parties left San Remo in April 1919 the future state of Israel was to be made up of what now.
constitutes the Kingdom of Jordan, as well as all the land West of the Jordan River. After September 22, 1922 what is now the Kingdom of Jordan was taken away from Palestine and became another Arab nation. This was the beginning of the trend still.
operative today that Israel needs to give up more land in order to be promised peace. The reality is that every time Israel gives up land, she experiences even less peace.
I know it is a dream and fantasy, If this story can be conveyed to the masses with a message and an inspiration to leave the distorted past behind. Go forward with an open mind, leave your prejudices and pursue peace, tranquility and life with an economic future. Life without hope is no life at all. Life is too precious to live in animosity towards others.
ReplyDeleteMany souls who survived the Holocaust against all odds had the courage and determination to go beyond hate and revenge. They started life anew when they lost a whole generation and family.
I know it is not easy, you carry the scar all your life.
I have a mother in law who was put in the gas chamber by the Nazis 3 times and was able to live through it and survive while losing her parents, grandparents and other siblings.
YJ Draiman
their homes and go to Palestine? The majority did this because they heard that a future National Home for the Jewish people was being established in Palestine, on the basis of the League of Nations obligation under the “Mandate for Palestine” document.
ReplyDeleteThe “Mandate for Palestine,” an historical League of Nations document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law.
The “Mandate for Palestine” was not a naive vision briefly embraced by the international community. Fifty-one member countries—the entire League of Nations—unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:
“Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
It is important to point out that political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs were guaranteed by the same League of Nations in four other mandates—in Lebanon and Syria [The French Mandate], Iraq, and later Trans-Jordan [The British Mandate].
Any attempt to negate the Jewish people’s right to Palestine—Eretz-Israel, and to deny them access and control in the area designated for the Jewish people by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of international law.
The “Road Map” vision, as well as continuous pressure from the “Quartet” [U.S., the European Union, the UN and Russia] to surrender parts of Eretz-Israel are contrary to international law that firmly call to “encourage … close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.” It also requires the Mandatory for “seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the government of any foreign power.”
In their attempt to establish peace between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors, the nations of the world should remember who the lawful sovereign is with its rights anchored in international law, valid to this day: The Jewish Nation.
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT
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The late Professor Julius Stone was recognised as one of the twentieth century's leading authorities on the Law of Nations. "Israel and Palestine -- Assault on the Law of Nations", which appeared in 1980, presented a detailed analysis of the central principles of international law governing the issues raised by the Arab-Israeli conflict.
the first edition of this short summary appeared in 1990. Since then the rights of the parties have been modified by agreement, and the optimism which followed the various agreements has been succeeded by violent conflict. This second edition therefore appears in a climate in which legal assertions are once again a central part of the political discourse, a context which has renewed the relevance of Professor Stone's clear analysis of the status under international law of the Territories which came into Israel's possession in 1967. To download the summery, click here.
What follows is Part I of the Summary.
PART 1. THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE TERRITORIES
Julius Stone examines the principles governing legal title to the Territories known as the Gaza Strip and the "West Bank", which are part of the territory which came into Israel's possession during the war of 1967. In his analysis Stone draws upon the writings of Professor Stephen Schwebel, the former Chief Judge of the International Court of Justice.
Since Stone wrote, the legal status of the Territories has been affected by the agreements implementing the Oslo Accords of 1993, which provide for a sharing of governmental powers in the Territories with the Palestinian Authority, with specified security powers reserved to Israel (See Part 5). However those agreements are on an interim basis, pending and subject to the negotiation of a "permanent status agreement", and they leave the underlying legal title intact.
Also the peace treaty of 1994 now sets the international boundary between Israel and Jordan at the centre of the Jordan river, "without prejudice to the status of [the] Territories".
Haym Salomon asked George Washington if Jews would be welcome in an independent America. Our founding fathers, having seen the millenia of death and destruction suffered in Europe and Britain under the guise of religion, were determined to prevent this from happening in their new country, and Washington assured Salomon that State and religion would be separate and there would be a safe haven for Jews. Salomon went to the Jewish communities abroad and raised revolutionary funding/loans from them, as well. We were told he died destitute because he volunteered his time and either did not charge, or minimally charged, for his services to the Revolutionary cause. We were never told (and rightfully so) that he advanced his own money. He made it possible for the Continental Army and militia to be fed, clothed, and armed when they met the enemy.
ReplyDeleteHAYM SALOMON
ReplyDeletePolish, Jewish, American patriot - financier of the American Revolution….
Haym Salomon personally provided financial support to a whole range of Revolutionary leaders, members of the military, and political figures, keeping them “in the game” when they had no alternative funding. He funded, from his own pocket, the unofficial, secret Spanish Ambassador to the Revolutionary Government. The Ambassador ultimately brought in Spanish support and loans for the war.
Salomon did what he did for Patriotic reasons. He did what he did because he believed that the American cause and ideals were different, unique and idealistic. He did it not just because it would be good for the Jews. He did what he did because he believed, if the American cause would be triumphant, there would be a better tomorrow for everyone.
Jerusalem. Actually, the Jews assimilated the Jebusites, as we have pointed out. Further, the city was destroyed and its people exiled, wholly or in part, on several occasions in ancient times. The Romans went farthest in this regard when they had suppressed the Jewish uprising led by Bar Kokhba in 135 CE. Not only did they expel all Jews from Jerusalem and a large surrounding zone (populated by Jews), but they colonized the city and the zone with foreign peoples. Several other demographic changes had taken place by the time of the Crusader conquest in 1099. The Crusaders made further changes by massacring all Jews and Muslims that they found in the city. Obviously Arab-Muslim spokesmen cannot point to continuity of Muslim residence here from before the Crusades.
ReplyDeleteOf course Arabs can and should have civil and religious rights here in Jerusalem. However, it is clear that civil and religious rights for non-Muslims, indeed human rights in general, can only be protected by an undivided Jerusalem within active Israeli sovereignty. Indeed there are no grounds for Arab sovereignty over any part of the city, not in history, nor in justice, nor in concern for peace, democracy or human rights, nor in accepted international practice.
The Jewish heart and mind is eternally connected to Jerusalem and Israel for thousands of years.
ReplyDelete“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. 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.’ “.
“Every Jew has a spark in his soul from the light of God above that illuminates his way during difficult times. And when it seems to him that he is lost and that there is no way out, the spark flares and lights his way. This is the little jug of oil that is revealed in time to save the Jew in times of despair and to light up his life in desperate times.”.
“Let the world know that we were granted our right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization 4,000 years ago. The Jewish people have a historic, eternal and inalienable right to the whole of the land of our forefathers. And for that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unprecedented in the annals of nations.”.
How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
The Jewish people celebrate most of their holidays and fast days in memory of Jerusalem and Israel 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.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
It is time to re-institute the teaching of the Jewish Bible in all Jewish Schools as was in Israel before 1987.
Many of the Israelis today know nothing about our Jewish Heritage and history, it is due to the termination of studying the bible at all Jewish schools in Israel which was implemented by the than Israeli education minister in 1987.
The Obvious Successful solution for a Peace between Israel and the Arabs.
ReplyDeleteContrary to popular belief, the Arab-Israeli conflict has a reasonable solution.
Arab countries since the late 1940's have expelled over a million Jews and their children from the Arab countries and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and land, Real Property 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles), valued in the trillions of dollars. Is it not enough that the British violated the San Remo Treaty of 1920 which was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, and took away about 80% of Jewish allocated land on the east bank of the Jordan river and gave it to the Arabs as their new state.
The Jewish State of Israel resettled most of the million Jewish people expelled by the Arabs countries with a limited amount of resources and land. The Jewish refugees from Arab Countries did not stay refugees for about 7 decades and used as a pawn to incite violence and conflict between the Jews and the Arabs.
It is time for the Arab countries who expelled over a million Jewish people and their children and confiscated all their assets to resettle the Arab refugees in the Arab countries and Jordan.
The following is an option:
An orderly resettlement elsewhere of the so-called Palestinian Arabs would solve this long-standing ‘intractable’ problem. To propose this solution today elicits automatic rejection by almost everyone and perhaps even anger and hostility at its very mention (although attitudes may finally be changing). This is because the minds of many have been so thoroughly conditioned and brainwashed, with layer upon layer of repeated falsehoods, such that open-minded reconsideration is almost impossible.
But resettlement could become the basis of a successful solution for both sides.
One option proposed by the Al Sisi the President of Egypt. Is part of the Sinai attached to Gaza which will give the a seaport. Offer them funding from the trillions confiscated from the Expelled Jewish people from Arab countries. Utilizing the funds to build up communities, schools, industry and much more.
The resources and funds contributed by the nations of the world and the diversion of resources from armaments and conflict should be utilized to advance the economic benefits of all the Arabs being resettled and bring about a proud and self sustaining people in the nations of the world.
Is there a leader or a consortium that can undertake such a worthwhile project and bring about an end to hostilities and an economic rejuvenation to the Arab population in the area,
YJ Draiman
"Crash Course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict."
ReplyDeleteHere are overlooked facts in the current & past Middle East situation. These were compiled by a Christian university professor:
BRIEF FACTS ON THE ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY... (It takes just 1.5 minutes to read!)
It makes sense and it's not slanted. Jew and non-Jew -- it doesn't matter.
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem: Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam.
2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BC, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand (1000) years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.
7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: in 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left (many in fear of retaliation by their own brethren, the Arabs), without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The ones who stayed were afforded the same peace, civility and citizenship rights as everyone else.
10. The Million Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.
11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 600,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be about 990,000.
12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
13. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Arabs are represented by twenty two separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won.
14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them.
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
These are incredible times. We have to ask what our role should be. What will we tell our grandchildren about what we did when there was a turning point in Jewish destiny, an opportunity to make a difference?
The silent Islam majority must act or they become part of the problem Looking back at history of fanaticism
ReplyDeleteDuring the Nazi regime; 'Very few people were true Nazis,' 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride,' and many more were too busy to care.
some German's just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come.’
‘Some aristocratic German family's lost everything. Some German's ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed their factories.'
‘We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.’
‘The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb,
behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.’
‘The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.’
‘The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said
that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?
‘History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.’
‘Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.’
‘Now Islamic prayers have been introduced in Toronto and other public schools in Ontario , and, yes, in Ottawa , too, while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in.’
‘In Australia , and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation's shores.’
ReplyDelete‘In the U.K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of "no-go" zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law.’
‘As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts - the fanatics who threaten our way of life.’
Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this essay without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.
Extend yourself a bit and send this on. Let us hope that thousands world-wide read this, think about it, and send it on before it's too late, and we are silenced because we were silent!!!
The Obvious Successful solution for a Peace between Israel and the Arabs.
ReplyDeleteContrary to popular belief, the Arab-Israeli conflict has a reasonable solution.
Arab countries since the late 1940's have expelled over a million Jews from the Arab countries and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and land, Real Property 5-6 times the size of Israel (120,440 sq. km or 75,000 sq. miles), valued in the trillions of dollars. Is it not enough that the British violated the San Remo Treaty of 1920 (which was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres) and took away about 80% of Jewish allocated land on the east bank of the Jordan river and gave it to the Arabs as their new state. (A State that never before existed in history - it is named Jordan, where 75% of its population are Arab-Palestinians).
The Jewish State of Israel resettled most of the million Jewish people expelled by the Arabs countries with a limited amount of resources and land. The Jewish refugees from Arab Countries did not stay refugees for about 7 decades and used as a pawn to incite violence and conflict between the Jews and the Arabs.
It is time for the Arab countries who expelled over a million Jewish people and confiscated all their assets to resettle the Arab refugees in the Arab countries and Jordan.
The following is an option:
An orderly resettlement elsewhere of the so-called Palestinian Arabs would solve this long-standing ‘intractable’ problem. To propose this solution today elicits automatic rejection by almost everyone and perhaps even anger and hostility at its very mention (although attitudes may finally be changing). This is because the minds of many have been so thoroughly conditioned and brainwashed, with layer upon layer of repeated falsehoods, such that open-minded reconsideration is almost impossible.
But resettlement could become the basis of a successful solution for both sides.
One option proposed by the Al Sisi the President of Egypt. Is part of the Sinai attached to Gaza which will give the a seaport. Offer them funding from the trillions confiscated from the Expelled Jewish people from Arab countries. Utilizing the funds to build up communities, schools, industry and much more.
The resources and funds contributed by the nations of the world and the diversion of resources from armaments and conflict should be utilized to advance the economic benefits of all the Arabs being resettled and bring about a proud and self sustaining people in the nations of the world.
Is there a leader or a consortium that can undertake such a worthwhile project and bring about an end to hostilities and an economic rejuvenation to the Arab population in the area,
YJ Draiman
It is time to expel all the Arabs who create violence, riot and attack Jews.
ReplyDeleteA Jewish person and any other person in Jerusalem and the rest of Greater Israel has the right to live and walk in his own country in peace and tranquility without fear or intimidation.
I suggest a massive demonstration by Israelis, demanding the government to restore peace without fear or intimidation at all costs. Ignore world opinion and the Media, they will criticize and defame Israel no matter what.
Eventually the world at large respects a government that protects its people.
According to International Law (The San Remo Treaty confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres) All Jews have the right to live in any area of the original 1920 Mandate for Palestine and its adoption in perpetuity by the League of Nations.
It is interesting to note that the World at large is not questioning the State of Jordan and its territory, which was taken from the allocation to Jewish land. Jordan a State that has never existed in history prior to WW1. But Israel that has existed on its land for over 4,000 years which included The land Jordan occupies, they are questioning Israel’s land. They do not mention that The Arabs ejected a million Jewish people and their children and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles (5-6 times the size of Israel, valued in the trillions of dollars) and that about 650,000 of them were settled in Israel’s LIBERATED TERRITORY.
Arabs are the occupiers, they have 21 Arab States that were granted to them after WW1 by the same powers that granted the State of Israel.
There is no other term for Jewish villages and towns in Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem than Liberated Territories.
To negate any claim of Arab ownership of the land, Read and study the Ottoman empire land title. It states that approximately 98% of the land was owned by the government, some of it was leased to the Arab population as sharecroppers, not owners.
The balance 2% was owned by Arab land barons who sold the land at premium prices to the Jews.
Here is the incredible testimony of The Mufti of Jerusalem on January 12, 1937 when he documents in testimony for the British Peel Commission that the Jews did not steal land from the Arab Palestinians but by the year of 1920, the time of the “Occupation” meaning the British Palestine Mandate, the Jewish people had already purchased 1,500,000 dunams of land in the Land of Israel which is 375,000 acres.
The Mufti also testified that the land was not bought by “forcibly acquired-compulsory acquisition of land”. That kind of ruling behavior was the action of the Ottoman rulers and not the Jews. Also the Mufti admitted that any evictions done were by absentee landlords who chose to sell “land over the heads of their tenants, who then were forcibly evicted”, and that the majority of these tenants were not Palestinians but Lebanese.
It is also important to address the expulsion of over a million Jewish people and their children from the Arab countries (which they have lived in for over 2,000 years) and the confiscation of assets, businesses, homes and land owned by Jewish people in the Arab countries, totaling over 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles (5-6 times the size of Israel) valued in the trillions of dollars.
The Jewish people resettled the million Jewish refugees and their children from the Arab countries. It is about time the Arab countries who expelled the million Jewish people and their children and confiscated their assets and land, must settle the Arab-Palestinian refugees once and for all without compromising Israel and bring about peace and tranquility to the region.
YJ Draiman
Arab-Palestinians. Go ahead try and take my/our Jewish land if you want to try!
ReplyDeleteThere are laws that will stop you and than there is me/us the IDF that will stop you! We are done being pushed around by anyone. We will fight back and defend ourselves, we will not let the Holocaust repeat itself - NEVER AGAIN.
As it is now, Israel has the Jewish land by right!
That is just the fact!
I am also telling the rest of the world to mind its own business and stay out of Israel's internal affairs.
They have their own problems to contend with.
They were complicit during WWII when over 6 million Jews, men, women and children were exterminated. This will not happen again!
There is a real status quo that requires energy to make the change!
Are you going to put in the energy to try to change it???
Maybe it is better to cut your losses and accept whatever generous package we the Israelis offer you the Arab-Palestinians, because quite frankly under the current conditions we do not owe the Arab-Palestinians anything and we can just unilaterally set our own legal borders insisting that viable land for real Arab-Palestinians self determination already exists in Jordan which is 80% of Jewish allocated land under the San Remo Treaty of 1920 which was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres!
The Arab-Palestinian can also relocate to the Jewish land previously owned by the million Jewish people who were expelled and their land confiscated by the Arab countries, the confiscated assets and land which is at least five times the size of Israel and is valued in the trillions of dollars.
Israel has resettled the million Jewish refugees from Arab lands. It is time that the Arab countries resettle the Arab-Palestinians refugees, in Jordan which was suppose to be part of the Jewish state, or the 120,440 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles of land that the Arab countries confiscated from the Jews.
The options we are proposing to the Arab-Palestinians is more than fair, considering you are constantly terrorizing and killing our people every chance you get. That is what you tech your Arab children and masses to do.
It all depends on whether we can see the Arab-Palestinians as peaceful neighbors and there is nothing that they have ever done to date that can lead us to believe that they will be good peaceful neighbors!
YJ Draiman
One must convey Jewish feelings and passions about Jerusalem with un-minced words.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to JERUSALEM’S sovereignty there is a line drawn in the sand. For the Jews, Jerusalem is their heart, aspirations, their holy
city, devotion, ideals, symbol of being a nation with history, a nation with
prophets, justice, fairness, rich Jewish history and the Jewish soul. When a
Jew conveys his feeling about Jerusalem, he must not worry about offending
anybody, or hurt feelings. We cannot make an omelet without cracking eggs, and
a Jew cannot and must not be apologetic about Jewish’ feelings concerning Jerusalem. it is clear to me even if I were not a Jew, just from a pragmatic consideration of running a city, that any division of Jerusalem will lead eventually to immense unbearable friction and sooner-or-later to another war. We must present and make the analogy, that dividing Jerusalem is like dividing the baby in King Solomon’s verdict. Jews do not divide babies, only those who do not feel and care for the baby are prepared to take half. This is what every Jew must say.
I hope that we all have the opportunity to say these tough words for Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
P.S. How many holidays do the Arabs-Muslims celebrate due to historical events in the land of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.
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.
YJ Draiman
PEACE THROUGH VICTORY
PEACE THROUGH VICTORY
To the victor, Israel goes the spoils, Jewish liberated land - The concessions must come from the defeated Arabs who initiated the war
THE HOLOCAUST
ReplyDeleteA short historical overview
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the murder by Nazi Germany of six million Jews. While the Nazi persecution of Jews began in 1933, the mass murder was committed during WWII. The background of the Holocaust was in the prevalent anti-Semitism in Europe and Auschwitz did not begin in Auschwitz. In many cases existing anti-Semitism inhibited people from coming to the aid of the Jews. So it was that very few stood up for the Jews and in four and half years Germans and their accomplices murdered six million Jews. They never showed any restraint and they only stopped when the Allies defeated them.
There was no escape. Not only were Jewish communities destroyed but each Jew was hunted down and traced in order to be put to death. The crime of being a Jew was so great that every single one had to be put to death. They were men, women and children. They were healthy and sick; the committed and the disinterested; the creative and the lazy. There was no reprieve and no amnesty. All of the Jews were meant to suffer and ultimately die. To this purpose industrial scale extermination centers were established.
The Allies could of saved millions of people by bombing the railroads which transported the Jewish people to German extermination camps and the Gas chambers.
The British who were set up as the trustee for the Jewish people in the Jewish Mandate for Palestine under the San Remo Agreement which was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres.
The British adopted a policy of restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine in the late 1930's, this was in violation of the Mandate for Palestine. It caused millions of Jews to be exterminated. The British went as far as blowing up Jewish refugee ships trying to come to Palestine-Israel.
The Allies finally put a stop to the mass murder. But most of the Jews of Europe had perished by 1945 and a civilization that has flourished for 2000 years was no more.
Many nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had ejected about a million Jewish people and their children from their countries, confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate 650,00 Jewish people and their children of these expelled Jewish people were resettled in Greater Israel. The Land the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,400 sq. km. or 75,000 sq. miles, which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is the trillions of dollars.
Learn more about the Holocaust at Yad Vashem's website.
Jerusalem Temple Mount Guide 1925
ReplyDeleteJerusalem Temple Mount Guide 1925
Click here for the 1925 Temple Mount Guide
http://www.raptureforums.com/IsraelMiddleEast/guide.pdf
One of the most disturbing end times propaganda being
promoted today is the absurd notion that the Jews never had a presence on the
famous Temple Mount area in Jerusalem. Anyone who is
knowledgeable about history and aware of the recent archaeological
discoveries on the Temple Mount area over the years knows that the propaganda being perpetuated by the
Islamics, United Nations, and other ungodly organizations is simply a
political ploy to deny the Jews their historical capital of Jerusalem
and the sacred Temple Mount area. The Temple Mount area is the holiest place in Judaism and the remnants of the Second Temple area visible in the form of the "Wailing Wall" where religious Jews flock from around the
world in order to pray near the site of the First and Second Temples. Some of the outstanding
quotes from the official Temple Mount Guide are as follows:
“The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on
which David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings” (2 Samuel 24:25).
Posted by: YJ Draiman
1925 Wakf Temple Mount Guide or Temple mount - part 5
ReplyDeletePage 15 - Pic The Al Aksa Mosque (interior)
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THE SUBSTRUCTURES
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Leaving the mosque of al-Aqsa by the front entrance, we
turn to the left and proceed to the south-east corner of the Haram
Area where a staircase leads down in to the vast subterranean
substructures known as Solomon’s Stables. The first flight of steps
takes us down to the small chamber, now used as a place of
Moslem worship, which was believed in medieval times to have
been associated with Jesus Christ’s infancy. This belief was prevalent
long before the advent of the Crusaders and was subsequently
accepted by them. In the angle between the west and
south walls of the chamber is a little dome borne upon four
marble columns; and underneath the dome is a small niche lying
horizontally, which was believed in early times to have been the
Cradle of Christ and referred to under that name by several
Arab historians.
In the west wall of the chamber, a door opens into a stair-
case descending to Solomon’s Stables. This is a vast subterranean
chamber, of roughly rectangular shape, of which the chief feature
is the imposing size of the piers. Of these, there are fifteen rows
of varying size and height supporting the vaults on which rests
the roof. Little is known for certain of the early history of the
chamber itself. It dates probably as far back as the construction
of Solomon’s Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence
and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of
the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D.. We also
know that this space was used by the Knights Templar as stables,
and the holes to which they tethered their horses can still be
seen in the masonry of the piers. Such evidence as is afforded
by the masonry itself, and more particularly by the contrast
between the lower and the upper courses of the larger piers,
would tend to show that they belong to two distinct periods, and
that the upper parts and the vaults were of Arab construction
superimposed upon ancient foundations.
The substructures supporting the nave of the mosque of
al-Aqsa are not accessible.
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The best way out is across the esplanade, past the porch
of the mosque of al-Aqsa, and back to the Bab al-Silsileh. An
alternative would be to continue northwards past the Bab al-
Silsileh to the gate known as Bab al-Quttanin, a handsome gate
dating from the reigh of Sultan Muhammad ibn Qalaun (1336 A.D.)
and typical of XIVth century Arab work. To the south-east of
this gate is the Sabil (or drinking fountain) built about the year
1460 A.D. by Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay –an attractive
building, perfect of its kind. (Fig. 2).
G. A.
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Franciscan Printing Press, Jerusalem - back page
1925 Wakf Temple Mount Guide or Temple mount by force.
In 1925 Moslems that controlled Temple Mount produced this guide which as it turns out is a pretty accurate history showing that they do NOT hold the original claim to the mount, but instead, took it by force. Admitting that even their own scholars admit it belonged to the Hebrews.
https://www.strategypage.com/…/military_photos_201007011783…
ReplyDeletePalestinian Garbage Truck
Take a good look at one of the reasons Israeli planes have so much trouble finding the source of the rockets and missiles.
For all who believe the stories and propaganda about Israel's attacks on civilian targets.
NOTE HOW IT IS FITTED TO SHOOT MISSILES
This is a captured Palestinian garbage truck from Gaza.
The truck is set up to fire 9 Kasem rockets and then drive off innocently.
The note pasted on the drivers door says In case of traffic violations, please contact The Palestinian Authority.
The Israelis have evidence of ambulances and emergency vehicles set up the same way.
Doesn't it make you all "warm and fuzzy" that we just gave the Palestinians $400 million dollars from our US taxes? Just think how many more garbage trucks, emergency vehicles and rockets they can buy with $400 million dollars.
How sad it is that power is measured by what can be enforced by arms, and not by what can be furthered by influence; that richness is measured by the quantity of loot wrested from one's neighbours, not by the wealth created through increased productivity. How absurd it is to gauge the wealth of a country by how many golden artefacts can be plucked from its ruler's tombs rather than by the adequate diet of the dwellers in the land; how blind is judgment when the welfare of a country like E is assessed according to the profligacy of its kings rather than by the prosperity of its people.
ReplyDeleteHistorical obtuseness cannot be attributed merely to an obsessive interest in accumulating the emoluments from noble tombs and buildings. Anti-Semitism fostered a willingness to adopt tendentious precepts uncritically, and led to ignore or deny gains by E under Semitic rule.
What is unjustifiable is that historians continue to confuse conquest with progress, an historical distortion which is not confined to the history of E. Finding satisfaction over artefacts scavenged from the grandiose tombs and palaces of ambitious conquerors, historians are inclined to assert that these worthies were instrumental in promoting their societies to new heights of cultural and economic development. They skip lightly over the tens or hundreds of thousands slaughtered in the process of conquest. It seems beside the point to mention the cities decimated, the countryside ravaged, the peoples enslaved. It seems of little importance that under the despotic rule that usually follows bloody conquest, people are grievously taxed, forced into slavery, and that a great proportion of their labor is consumed not in promoting the general welfare but in touting the glory of the conquerors by the creation of those very works that fill museums.
Then, much of history is taken from what the conquerors had inscribed on these works. Herodotus put it briefly: "Such as think the tales told by the E credible are free to accept them for history. As for me, I keep to the plan of this book, which is to record the traditions of the various nations just as I heard them related to me".
Must we continue to judge a civilization by the size of its palaces and monuments? By the numbers of people subjugated? By how dissolute are its rulers? Or do we measure a civilization by its dedication to peaceful pursuits? By the economic well-being of its people? By its technological and cultural achievements? By the freedoms its citizens enjoy?
If Israel is threatened and in grave danger, it has the capability to wipe out Lebanon of the face of the earth. That applies to Iran and any other Entity that is taking action and posing a grave danger to Israel and its population. Israel has the duty and responsibility to protect its population at all costs.
ReplyDeleteWhen Israel takes defensive action for its survival. Israel would rather be condemned for its actions as a live Israel than eulogized as a dead Israel.
YJ Draiman.
So it was throughout Christendom. Time and time again the Jews were expelled, and time and time again they were recalled for their literacy or expertise. A common religion and tradition welded the Judaic community together. Judaic literacy, unique in the ancient world, made them invaluable as administrators, international intermediaries, doctors, and innovators. Judaic artisanship, a product of their egalitarian philosophy when combined with literacy, made them invaluable to their host's economies.
ReplyDeleteCreativity was the salvation of the Jews.
Iran's past performance has shown that it can not be trusted
ReplyDeleteWho to believe ? It's time to speak up about the confusion concerning the Iran Framework nuclear deal. The French have one version of the results, Americans have another version and the Iranians yet another.
We have different interpretations, different fact sheets, and flying
accusations... What we do not have is a clear agreement whereby Iran's ability to develop nukes has been drastically curbed, and an ironclad inspection system to ensure strict adherence. To arrive at this sorry state of confusion on such an important and volatile matter does not bode well for what we might get in June... That is why it is essential that the US Congress, the people's representatives, have the final say on such an important issue.
The present framework does not block Iran's path to the bomb. By removing the sanctions and lifting the main restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in about a decade, the framework paves Iran's path to the bomb. Now, not a single facility will be shut down. Iran will be permitted to continue its advanced centrifuge R & D, and the issue of the intercontinental missile program remains unaddressed.
Egyptian chronology from the Exodus to Rehoboam's 5th year ...
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Dec 26, 2013 - The Jewish historian Josephus in the book works of Josephus by William Whiston page 68 shows it was princess Thermuthis who drew Moses ...
A nuclear-armed Iran puts the whole world in danger.
ReplyDeleteNuclear-armed Jihadi terrorists are the greatest threat our civilization may ever face.
Bibi's address to a joint session of the US Congress this week 3.3.2015 was appropriate and necessary. There are some who have ears but they do not hear and eyes but could not see. Such people said and asserted that Bibi said "nothing new". There is an adage which says "a dog that is destined to get lost will not hear the hunter's whistle". Majority of Americans heard the whistle, loud and clear on Tuesday, when Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his speech about terrorist Iran's acquiring nuclear capabilities is a threat to the world at large.
We must learn to face reality and not delude ourselves to wishful thinking.
Iran the destabilizing factor in the Middle East and beyond..
The PM stated the greatest dangers facing our world is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.”
YJ Draiman.
Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and it seeks one of the world’s most terrifying weapons: a nuclear bomb.
ReplyDeleteIsrael's PM speech in Congress just reinforced our resolve to stop Iran's Nuclear development at all costs. The alternative could bring the world to a nuclear Holocaust.
Iran also has developed the largest ballistic missile force in the Middle East, which poses a growing threat to U.S. bases, U.S. allies, and numerous other countries in the region.
The rogue regimes in Iran pose some of the most dangerous threats to U.S. national security interests. Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and is rapidly expanding its nuclear program and ballistic missile force plus other offensive weapons and methods of terror. Regrettably, the Obama Administration has failed to formulate effective policies to address the challenges posed by the rising power of Iran and its unpredictable regime.
I am confused who are the real Palestinians
ReplyDeleteISRAEL LEADERS
Benjamin Netanyahu
Born October 21-1949 Tel-Aviv
EHUD BARAK
Born February 12-1942 Mishmar-Hasharon
ARIEL SHARON
Born February 26-1928 Kfar-Malal
EHUD OLMERT
Born September 30-1945 Binyamin-Giv
ITZHAK RABIN
Born March 1-1922 Jerusalem
ITZHAK NAVON President
Born April 9-1921 Jerusalem
EZER WEIZMAN President
Born June 15-1924 Tel Aviv
ARAB PALESTINIAN LEADERS
Yasser Arafat
Born August 24-1929 Cairo Egypt
Saeb Erekat
Born April 28-1955 Jordan
Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini
Born 1948 Baghdad Iraq
Sari Nusseibeh
Born 1949 Damascus Syria
Mahmoud Al-Zahar
Born Cairo Egypt 1945
So you got ask who are settler or more accurate occupiers the Israelis that we’re born in Israel or the ARAB Leaders that were born in Arab states which are Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt
'On June 22 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel. Begin forcefully responded:
ReplyDelete“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”'
A nuclear-armed Iran puts the whole world in danger.
ReplyDeleteNuclear-armed Jihadi terrorists are the greatest threat our civilization may ever face.
Radical Islam is not just a threat to American and Israel. It is a threat to Western Civilization everywhere. Unless the West wakes up now before it’s too late and stops this evil.
Do you want prevent nuclear terror? Do you care about you children and your family’s future? Vote for nuclear free Iran.
A terrorist state must not be permitted to possess nuclear capability.
Iran already controls; Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Gaza, etc. how much more before we stop them from devouring the Middle East and more.
When Israel takes defensive action for its survival. Israel would rather be condemned for its actions as a live Israel than eulogized as a dead Israel.
YJ Draiman
Bibi has a new Government set up on March 31, 2015 - Now keep your promises
ReplyDeleteBibi promised he will not let the left-Labor join the government.
The left is one of the main reason a new election was called.
It is time to replace the Media with an objective people who care about Israel and its people. A police force that protects the people of Israel
It is time to punish those who incite terror and violence. Prosecute those who betray Israel in words and action and treat traitors with full force of the law.
Protect all Jewish institutions and houses of worship.
It is time to elect a new Supreme Court Justices in Israel.
It is time to Annex Judea and Samaria and adopt the Levy report.
It is time for Israel to take serious action against terror and violence and restore the safety and security of its people without fear of violence, riots, stone throwing and intentional vehicular usage to kill and injure Israelis.
Remind the Arabs that they expelled over a million Jews and their children from their counties after living there for over 2,000 years and confiscated all their assets, businesses, homes and including Real estate property 5-6 times the size of Israel. That the Arabs must balance the books and pay for the assets and the relocation of the Jews.
Israel needs to build 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years, It also needs to build 3 superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem and build additional roads and highway in and from Jerusalem.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
During the 1950's and 1960's The Christian Arabs were 60% of the population, they controlled the government and Lebanon was the Riviera of the Middle East. In the late 1960's the Muslim radicals came in and over time killed many of the Christian Arabs and destroyed Lebanon. in 1983. An American Marine Barracks that was there to help the people was bombed and 241 Marines died, the Americans pulled out. After that Lebanon became a war zone and a free for all with various factions fighting for control and Lebanon became an unending war-zone. The Muslims took over and the terrorist organization Hezbollah supported by Iran too over.
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U.S. Congress will not terminate sanctions against Iran - That puts the Iran nuclear Agreement in question
ReplyDeleteObama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, recognized that congressional prerogative in a letter to Corker urging him to hold off on any legislation until a deal is finalized.
“We agree that Congress will have a role to play — and will have to take a vote — as part of any comprehensive deal that the United States and our international partners reach with Iran,” McDonough wrote. “As we have repeatedly said, even if a deal is reached, only Congress can terminate the existing Iran statutory sanctions.”
The Obama administration hopes to complete a framework for a deal this month, and then to have it finalized by the end of June.
"Israel - United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which have got to destroy that unification upon which our existence hangs".
ReplyDeleteA heavenly maiden with an orb of gold
ReplyDeleteSits by the Mediterranean Sea
She gazes at the sailors and ships
That pass by for eternity
Who are you? fair maiden, they ask
What is your pedigree
I am a Jew, she answers, and that's my destiny
I am called Israel born of steel and fire
I have gathered my children from many lands afar
From East and West and South and North
They came in multitude
And they have made me what I am
In everlasting gratitude
I am their mother and they are my children
That's how we both feel
Israel (my name) is a reality
That adversity could not kill.
What Is A True Jewish Leader? r1
ReplyDeleteThe Torah (The Old Testament - Jewish Bible) clearly expresses the true character traits necessary for leaders of the nation. It is not great rhetorical skills that helps a person succeed in leading "The Nation of Israel". The gift of self-expression is not a necessary component in the skill set of national leaders.
A Jewish leader is one who is meant to represent the nation as a whole, externally and internally. Expressive ability is no more than an impressive external trait that occasionally has the power to cover an internal void. That is not what sets apart the leader of the Jewish nation. A Jewish leader must have the ability to withstand external pressures and protect his people and the Jewish nation at all times.
The Jewish nation that appeared on the stage of history thousands of years ago did not begin as a nation with an impressive external appearance. On the contrary for long periods the Jewish people lacked military and political capabilities. However, since its inception, the Jewish nation has represented a huge world of moral, ethical and just values. Values which the entire world learned, some more and some less, and spread to cultures everywhere throughout the world .
A leader of the Jewish nation is not meant to stand out as having an impressive external appearance but, rather, a significant internal appearance that also expresses the special characteristics of Jewish culture and humility. Moses (Moshe in Hebrew) was “heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue” yet he led the Jewish people out of Egypt following hundreds of years of slavery and oppression. Moses was the one who led the Jewish people during their exodus from Egypt and were attacked by various nations. Hence, the Jewish people had to learn how to defend themselves and thus, with the help of the almighty were victorious. The Jewish nation’s first leader Moses signaled to us by example with his presence and leadership, the correct path and the worthy considerations which should guide us as we choose our nation’s leadership.
A true leader of Israel has to lead from a platform of absolute faith. He cannot be a politician, only. He has to embrace the history of the Jewish people and Israel. A leader of the Jewish nation has to understand what the Jewish people had to endure for thousands of years and still endure today to survive.
A true leader must act from a foundation of humility and perseverance. Understanding the welfare of Israel and the Jewish people should be the foremost reason before any action is taken. The leader must lead by action and example -- not by rhetoric.
A faithful Jewish leader must be one who will not compromise Jewish values.
A true leader has to have a vision, fortitude and determination to overcome internal and external obstacles!
A true leader must stand relentlessly behind the defenders and supporters of Israel.
YJ Draiman
Qualification for a leader of the Jewish nation of Israel
The U.N. is only a figurehead. They can only recommend not create or modify countries boundaries.
ReplyDeleteCheck the U.N. Charter.
The U.N. should be dismantled we could save billions of dollars that are wasted on people who are doing nothing constructive.
YJ Draiman.
Tell the White House official to return occupied Texas and other states to Mexico and the rest of the United States to the Indians.
ReplyDeleteThe Jews have a history with Israel going over 4,000 years. The Americans have only a few hundred years of occupation and deliberate destruction of the Indians.
YJ Draiman.
“And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, … to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their offering … to the house of the Lord.” (Isaiah 66:20)
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/…/23554-people-world-si…/…
The last occupier of Palestine-Israel was the Ottoman Empire. The last official country with an independent government in Palestine was the Jews. All others were just conquerors with no official independent government. After many years the Jewish people retained their land back and established its own government.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs who claim title to the lands in Palestine-Israel are thieves who have possessed land that was never theirs. They never purchased any of the land in any legal manor.
Just like the Arabs expelled a million Jews (who lived there for over 2,000 years) from their countries and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate 5-6 times the size of Israel 46,000 sq. miles.
YJ Draiman.
To truly understand the status of this territory in Greater Israel we have to first differentiate between the personal and the national.
ReplyDeleteOf course there is land privately owned by Arab-Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, what many call the “West Bank” in seeming deference to the Jordanian occupation, which invented the term as juxtaposition to its eastern bank. These areas, like privately owned territory anywhere in the world, cannot be touched unless there is very pressing reason for a government or sovereign power to do so. These areas, according to Ottoman and British records, constitute no more than a few percent of the total area, meaning the vast majority is not privately owned.
However, to contend that these territories are “Arab-Palestinian” on a national level is problematic. To claim an area belongs to a particular nation requires the territory to have belonged to that people, where they held some sort of sovereignty that was broadly recognized.
All of these criteria have been met historically by the Jewish people, and none by the Arab-Palestinians.
In fact, the Jewish people were provided with national rights in these territories not just by dint of history and past sovereignty, but also by residual legal rights contained in the San Remo Treaty of 1920 and the League of Nations Mandate, which were never canceled and are preserved by the UN Charter, under Article 80 – the famous “Palestine Clause,” that was drafted, in part, to guarantee continuity with respect to Jewish rights from the League of Nations.
For the past almost 2,000 years, since the destruction of Jewish sovereignty and expulsion of most of its indigenous people, it remained an occupied and colonized outpost in the territory of many global and regional empires.
The Ottomans were the most recent to officially apportion the territory, in what they referred to as Ottoman Syria, which today incorporates modern-day Israel, Syria, Jordan and stretching into Iraq. Before The Ottoman Land Code of 1858, land had largely been owned or passed on by word of mouth, custom or tradition. Under the Ottomans of the 19th century, land was apportioned into three main categories: Mulk, Miri and Mawat.
Mulk was the only territory that was privately owned in the common sense of the term, and as stated before, was only a minimal part of the whole territory, much of it owned by Jews, who were given the right to own land under reforms.
Miri was land owned by the sovereign, and individuals could purchase a deed to cultivate this land and pay a tithe to the government. Ownership could be transferred only with the approval of the state. Miri rights could be transferred to heirs, and the land could be sub-let to tenants. In other words, a similar arrangement to a tenant in an apartment or house as having rights in the property, but not to the property.
Finally, Mawat was state or unclaimed land, not owned by private individuals nor largely cultivated. These areas made up almost two-thirds of all territory.
The area recently declared “State Land” by the Israeli government, a process which has been under an intensive ongoing investigation for many years, is Mawat land. In other words, it has no private status and is not privately owned.
Many claims to the territory suddenly arose during the course of the investigation, but all were proven to be unfounded on the basis of land laws.
Interestingly, it should be clearly understood by those who deem Judea and Samaria “occupied territory” that according to international law the occupying power must use the pre-existing land laws as a basis for claims, exactly as Israel has done in this case, even though Israel’s official position is that it does not see itself de jure as an occupying power in the legal sense of the term. It is only a liberator of its ancestral land.
None of these facts are even alluded to in the many reports surrounding the government’s actions in settlement and housing. This is deeply unjust and a semblance of the relevant background, history and facts would provide the necessary context for what has been converted into an international incident where none should exist.
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The last occupier of Palestine-Israel was the Ottoman Empire. The last official country with an independent government in Palestine was the Jews. All others were just conquerors with no official independent government. After many years the Jewish people retained their land back and established its own government.
ReplyDeleteThe Arabs who claim title to the lands in Palestine-Israel are thieves who have possessed land that was never theirs. They never purchased any of the land in any legal manor.
Just like the Arabs expelled a million Jews (who lived there for over 2,000 years) from their countries and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate 5-6 times the size of Israel 46,000 sq. miles.
There never was an Arab-Palestinian State on Jewish land and it will never be an Arab Palestinian State on Jewish land of Israel.
The Arabs beheaded 700 Jews in Medina (Saudi Arabia today) 1500 years ago and destroyed the Jewish community, took the wives , women and children as slaves.
The Arabs killed hundreds of Jews in Safed Israel in the 1600's.
Arabs expelled over a million Jews from all their countries and confiscated all their assets and 46,000 sq. miles of Real estate.
The Jewish forced exodus from Arab lands refers to the 20th century expulsion or mass departure of Jews, primarily of 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 989,000 Jews were forced out of their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970’s. Some 750,000 resettled in Israel, forced to leave behind personal property which the Arabs confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and Real estate valued today in the trillions of dollars. Jewish-owned real-estate confiscated by the Arab countries is about 120,000 square kilometers or 46,000 square miles (5-6 times the size of the State of Israel). Valued today in the trillions of dollars.
Israel - In order to consider a new negotiations with the Arab-Palestinians
First thing, let us see the Arab Palestinians stop teaching their children and the masses to commit terror and violence. Stop rewarding terrorists, stop funding terrorists families, stop naming streets after terrorists. Declare and practice that terror and violence is unacceptable. We need to see a change in attitude towards terror and a true and honest pursuit of peace and coexistence.
You can accomplish more with honey than with vinegar.
If that is not possible than there will never be peace.
A true peace will be a blessing and an economic prosperity to all concerned.
YJ Draiman
Israel - In order to consider a new negotiations with the Arab-Palestinians
ReplyDeleteFirst thing, let us see the Arab Palestinians stop teaching their children and the masses to commit terror and violence. Stop rewarding terrorists, stop funding terrorists families, stop naming streets after terrorists. Declare and practice that terror and violence is unacceptable. We need to see a change in attitude towards terror and a true and honest pursuit of peace and coexistence.
You can accomplish more with honey than with vinegar.
If that is not possible than there will never be peace.
A true peace will be a blessing and an economic prosperity to all concerned.
YJ Draiman