Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Israel - Palestine - Overview


Israel - Palestine - Overview
Overview
After more than 50 years of war, terrorism, peace negotiation and human suffering, Israel and Palestine remain as far from a peaceful settlement as ever. The entire Middle Eastern region remains a cauldron waiting to reach the boiling point, a potent mixture of religious extremism, (Jewish, Christian and Islamic), mixed with oil and munitions.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a major source of Arab and Muslim grievances against the West in general and the US in particular. Over recent decades, Israel has continuously strengthened its influence over American domestic politics and Middle East policy.

Up until 2000, the US was often seen as an independent broker, working to resolve the Mid-East conflict, but in recent years America has abdicated any role in negotiating a peace agreement, while lending tacit support to unilateral Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories. Failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to fuel Islamic extremism throughout the Middle East and is a root cause behind Al-Qaeda’s war against Israel and the West.
Middle East Instability
For most people, the Mid-East Crisis has been a fixture on the world political stage for their entire lifetime, from the Arab-Israeli wars to plane hijackings, the Munich Olympic massacre and a seemingly endless series of shuttle diplomacy. Over five decades Israel has grown in size, wealth and power, defeating Arab armies and has become a nuclear power able to dominate the region. Meanwhile, Palestinians remain in refugee camps, resigned to poverty, a people without a country and without hope. The Palestinians have fought back with stones, terrorism and suicide bombs, only to face collective punishment at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
During this time we have witnessed the rise and fall of communism, pan-Arabism and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. We’ve seen the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the advent of globalization and the Internet, but Israel and Palestine remain gridlocked. Today, frustration and anger spawned by years of hypocrisy, exploitation and political failure have unleashed a new variant of international terrorism on America and Europe. Although Palestine is a root cause of today’s international terrorism, little, if anything, is being done to find a path to peaceful settlement.
History
The ancient city of Jerusalem is a religious center of Judaism, Islam and Christianity and the surrounding region of Palestine reflects this religious diversity. In the late 1800’s, a Zionist movement began seeking the creation of a Jewish homeland and state in Palestine, at that time part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was divided into independent states and colonial jurisdictions. Palestine was placed under control of Britain, which issued the Balfour Declaration, promising a Jewish homeland and vowing protection of rights for non-Jewish peoples in Palestine.
While Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan gained independence; Britain retained control of Palestine. The Zionist movement encouraged the migration of Jews to Israel, altering the demographics of Palestine, which had been about 90% Arab. As Britain attempted to control the Jewish migration, Jewish activists supported illegal immigration and the “Irgun” emerged as a guerrilla force, opposed to British rule. Jewish settlers purchased land from wealthy Arab landowners, expelled Arab peasants and established communal colonies (Kibbutzim), protected by armed militias.
The Holocaust of World War II united the Jewish Diaspora and focused international attention on the plight of persecuted Jews. In 1947, reacting to increasing anti-British terrorist attacks by Irgun, Britain sought intervention by the United Nations, and devised a partition plan, establishing independent Arab and Jewish territories, under UN administration. Led by Menachem Begin, the Irgun quickly launched a campaign to consolidate areas under Jewish control, while Arab states threatened invasion. In 1948, the British withdrew and Ben Gurion proclaimed the independent state of Israel, provoking an invasion by Arab armies. The war lasted until 1949 and left Israel in control of 40% more land than agreed under the UN plan and forced the relocation of thousands of Palestinians.
Subsequently, Arab states refused to recognize the state of Israel, or its claims to Palestine. In 1956, after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, Israel invaded the Sinai, but later withdrew under pressure from the US and USSR, with US President Eisenhower siding with Egypt. Official US government support for Israel began developingd in the 1960’s, after Egypt aligned itself with Russia.
In 1967, Israel launched the Six-Day War, with a preemptive invasion of the Sinai Peninsula, Palestine, and the Syrian Golan Heights. UN Resolution 242 called for Israeli withdrawal from the newly occupied territories, but Israel refused, citing the need to maintain a security zone to protect itself from Arab invasion. In 1977, under the Camp David Agreement, Israel finally withdrew from the Sinai, but continues to occupy other territories seized in the 1967 war.
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), led by Yassar Arafat, continued attacks against Israeli interests and citizens. After the PLO was expelled from Jordan, they resumed operations from bases in Lebanon. In 1982, reacting to continuing attacks from Palestinian guerrillas, Israel forces invaded Lebanon, which had been engulfed in civil war. The PLO was subsequently forced to leave Lebanon.
Palestinians launched the first intifada, a mass insurrection in 1987. This spontaneous outburst brought the Palestinian cause to world attention. Previously, the situation had been seen as a violent, anti-Semitic reaction by regional Arabs states to the existence of a Jewish state. The intifada demonstrated the plight of the Palestinian people, resulting from the Israeli occupation and rule.
In 1989, Arafat’s PLO accepted previous UN resolutions and recognized the state of Israel, a prerequisite to eventually establishing an independent Palestinian state. This action was not universally accepted within the Arab world and hostilities by militant Arab groups continued. Some observers have questioned whether Arafat actually speaks for the Palestinian people, or whether the PLO serves as a proxy for the interests of other Arab countries in exchange for their substantial financial support.
With the collapse of the USSR in 1989, immigration of more than 1.0 million Soviet Jews to Israel accelerated, prompting construction of new settlements in the disputed Israeli occupied territories on the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. This massive immigration was facilitated by the rise of a hard line fundamentalist movement within Israel. The issue of illegal settlements remains at the heart of present day disputes. As Israel solidifies its control of the occupied territories, Arabs view this as permanent annexation, precluding any prospects of a negotiated settlement.
After continued Israeli crackdowns against Palestinian guerrillas, Israel and the PLO agreed to a phased plan for Palestinian autonomy in Jericho, Gaza and eventually the West Bank. New Jewish settlers in the West Bank reacted with anger and Israeli “Kach” extremists attacked Palestinians in Hebron. Subsequently, Israel clamped down on Kach extremists and agreed to the release of Palestinian extremist prisoners.
In 1994, Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza, after Yitzak Rabin and Yassar Arafat agreed to grant autonomy to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. Relations between Israel and neighboring Arab states improved significantly, while internally, conservative Israeli factions increased their influence. Prime Minister Rabin was assassination in 1995 by a right-wing Israeli extremist.
Conservative Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud Party) was elected Israel’s Prime Minister in 1996 and retreated from the period of relative reconciliation under Rabin’s leadership. Israel adopted a renewed hard-line stance, refusing to withdraw from occupied territories, accelerating construction of settlements in the West Bank and forcefully retaliating for any terrorist attacks.
After Netanyahu dissolved Parliament in 1999, Ehud Barak was elected Prime Minister and in May 2000, finally, withdrew Israeli forces from Lebanon. In July, US President Clinton convened meetings at Camp David with Barak and Arafat in an attempt to develop a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The result was a relatively positive Israeli proposal to return about 95% of the occupied territories to a Palestinian state over a period of years. Ultimately, Arafat rejected the plan without further negotiations. Subsequently, Israeli leaders and the incoming Bush administration concluded it was impossible to deal with Arafat and decided that he had to be marginalized and removed as the Palestinian leader if there was ever to be a settlement.
The New Intifada
On September 28, 2000, ignoring US pleas, former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon visited the religious site at Temple Mount in Jerusalem, accompanied by about 1000 Israeli Defense Forces troops. This visit provoked violent protests by stone-throwing Palestinians. Israeli forces responded with excessive force and using live ammunition killed 14 Palestinians over the next several days. Mobs of Israeli Jews attacked Arab homes, businesses and mosques near Nazareth. Israeli forces were slow to respond and when they finally arrived, reportedly opened fired on Arab citizens, killing several. The Palestinian uprising, sparked by Sharon, has become known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
Amnesty International reports that over 300 Palestinians were killed, 10,000 wounded and 2000 arrested during 2000. Prime Minister Ehud Barak resigned from office in December, forcing new elections.
Right-winger Ariel Sharon was elected Prime Minister in February 2001, vowing to continue a hardline policy of forceful retaliation. Sharon’s election sent a powerful symbolic message to Palestinians. In 1982, Sharon had been in charge of Israeli forces surrounding the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps when the Phalangist militia launched a three-day long massacre of hundreds of defenseless Palestinian women and children. Sharon’s Israeli troops stood by, in effect, sanctioning the massacre. During 2001, Palestinian terrorists launched serial suicide bombings against Israelis, while Israelis continued to level Palestinian homes and expand Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
In April 2001, the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee published a report, prepared under the direction of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, who had also orchestrated the Good Friday peace Agreement in Northern Ireland. The Mitchell Plan outlined the grievances of the parties and steps for a new peace process, however with the collapse of all dialogue and Sharon’s attempt to force Arafat from power, the report did little more than gather dust.
In 2002, violence escalated as Israeli forces invaded Palestinian of cities and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The IDF surrounded and laid siege to Yassar Arafat’s compound in Ramallah, headquarters of the PA government. An estimated 1,600 people died from Israeli attacks and Palestinian suicide bombings, most of them civilians.
In 2003, as violence continued unabated, the US introduced a "road map" to peace that was to lead to a Palestinian state by 2005. Instead of organizing a series of serious diplomatic negotiations, the Bush administration sanctioned Sharon to continue Israel’s military forays into Palestine in the name of "anti-terror" operations. Sharon announced plans to erect a controversial security fence – an Israeli version of a Berlin Wall - criticism from the international community argued that the wall would institutionalize the disputed border in contravention of previous UN resolutions. 
Nonetheless, construction of the wall began.
In 2004, Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli civilians continued and major Israeli military operations in the occupied territories killed more than 900 people. In November, besieged Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat died. With Israel’s long-time nemesis out of the way, Prime Minister Sharon proposed a plan to completely withdraw troops from the Gaza strip and dismantle Israeli settlements. Meanwhile, on the Lebanese front, sporadic clashes with Hizbollah continued and Israeli air strikes into Lebanon killed at least 20 people.
In 2005, Israel unilaterally removed ground troops and dismantled its settlements in the Gaza Strip, but continued expanding settlements in the West Bank. In Palestinian elections moderate Mahmoud Abbas was chosen as prime minister. Facing dissension from Israeli hard-liners, opposed to Sharon’s withdrawal program, Prime Minister Sharon quit the Likud party and created a new party, Kadima, triggering elections for early 2006. Soon after Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, fighting resumed and an estimated 300 people, mostly Palestinians, were killed.
After a massive stroke in January 2006, Ariel Sharon fell into a coma and Ehud Olmert became Israel’s prime minister. Also in January, the Palestinians held elections in which Hamas won a surprising and resounding victory. Israel’s strategy of forcing Arafat from power backfired as Hamas, a terrorist organization won a political election that would complicate the prospects for dealing with prime minister Abbas. Israeli reaction was swift and harsh. "Israel will not conduct any negotiation with a Palestinian government, if it includes any members of an armed terror organization that calls for Israel's destruction," said the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. The Israeli government authorized the army to "liquidate" anyone it suspected of being a terrorist. The US government continued a policy of tacit support for Israel and imposed sanctions by withholding foreign aid for Palestine.
Issues & Aspirations
ISRAEL - First and foremost Israel wants to ensure its survival and national security. As an island of Jewish democracy, surrounded by hostile Islamic Arab states this is no small challenge and there are major internal differences about how to maintain security. Many Israeli immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former USSR know and care little about human rights or democracy. These newcomers often settle in the occupied territories and take low-level jobs once held by Palestinians. Politically, they are often hardline conservatives, who approach the Palestinian question with a ‘them or us” mentality. In its most extreme version, some would welcome ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Continuing Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians provide the motive and justification for draconian counter-terrorist policies and collective punishment.
Many Israelis doubt that Arabs will ever accept their presence and allow Israeli to live in peace. Israel argues that the Palestinian Authority makes no serious effort to stop the terrorism that threatens Israeli security and that it actually facilitates the activity of terrorist groups.

Beyond security, Israel has other motives, namely land and resource (water) acquisition to support its rapid growth. Despite their agreement to halt the construction of new settlements, construction continues, bulldozing olive and fruit orchards, while expanding Jewish settlements. Allegedly, Israel is prepared to eventually abandon these settlements and relocate residents as part of a long-term peace plan. Palestinians are skeptical of such claims and believe that the Israelis will drive them from their lands by either tanks or bulldozers.
Israel wants full diplomatic recognition by the Arab states and assurances that they will respect Israeli sovereignty and security. Some extreme Jewish fundamentalists seek to gain control over Eratz Israel, the land between two rivers as described in the Bible; this would entail taking the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers, including portions of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq.
PALESTINE - Many Arabs doubt that Israel will ever allow an independent Palestinian state, or withdraw from the occupied territories with the resulting relocation of hardline Jewish settlers. They view the situation as a war of attrition waged by an enemy with far superior firepower and US support. Israel has imposed extreme restrictions on Palestinians, denying citizenship, employment, education, freedom of movement and assembly, or fair judicial process. Israel also maintains a hold on financing for the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinians argue that since the Oslo Agreement in 1993, (halting settlement construction) the population of Jewish settlers in the West Bank has doubled to over 200,000, with another 170,000 or more in East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Finding it impossible to believe that Israel ever plans to withdraw, groups like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad have no difficulty recruiting supporters.
Israel describes the conflict as “armed conflict short of war,” which justifies their extreme responses. Israel does not automatically investigate deaths of Palestinians killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and uses lethal force against unarmed demonstrators.  Palestinians also argue that Israel has an assassination policy of extra-judicial executions of targeted individuals in violation of international conventions.
Imposition of curfews and travel restrictions has damaged an already weak Palestinian economy, increasing employment. To make matters worse, Israel has suspended payments of taxes and custom fees to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Israel has also destroyed tens of thousands of olive and fruit trees, imposing a permanent economic hardship.
The Palestinians want an independent state, defined by the borders that existed prior to the 1967 war and IDF withdrawal from this area. This would presumably include a transfer of ownership to the settlements erected in the occupied territories. UN resolutions have called on Israel to withdraw to the 1967 broders, but Israel has refused.
Some Palestinians and their foreign backers, ignoring the facts on the ground, continue to call for the destruction of Israel. Like extreme demands of their radical Israeli counterparts, such demands are a means to rally public support with no prospect of realization.
Excerpt from the Mitchell Report
The following is quoted from the Sharm-el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Report, dated 23 May 2001:
"During the half-century of its existence, Israel has had the strong support of the United States. In international forums, the U.S. has at times cast the only vote on Israel’s behalf. Yet, even in such a close relationship there are some differences. Prominent among those differences is the U.S. Government’s long-standing opposition to the Government of Israel’s policies and practices regarding settlements."

As the then-US Secretary of State, James A. Baker commented back in 1991:
“Every time I have gone to Israel in connection with the pece process, on each of my four trips, I have been met with the announcement of new settlement activity. This does violate United States policy. It’s the first thing that Arabs —Arab governments, the first thing that Palestinians in the territories —whose situation is really quite desperate – the first thing they raise when we talk to them. I don’t think there is any bigger obstacle to peace than settlement activity that continues not only unabated but at an enhanced pace.”

P.S.
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 JordanGaza 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.
YJ Draiman

38 comments:

  1. Terrorism, with enough will and determination can be quashed!

    Demonstration 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.

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  2. Israel stands in the way and is an obstacle to full Muslim domination of the Middle East. The West fears Islamic aggression (which has been going on since WW1), and is opting for appeasement. Propaganda is being used to try to convince people that Muslims in Israel, and in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights, are being mistreated. Islamist forces have conducted maneuvers at the borders of Israel, and have continuously lobbed missiles into Israel. Islam constantly threatens Israel, often using language that proclaims a desire for the complete destruction of Israel. The Arab-Palestinians have spoken to the world, proclaiming parts of Israel to belong to them.
    Peace in the Middle East is desired at any cost by the Western Appeasers. The unrest is being blamed on Israel. Islam promises that the Arab-Palestinian claims are the last they will make in Israel. If land is traded for peace, they say, then the unrest in the Middle East will ease, which is a delusion and not reality.
    The Western Leaders, fearful that if the Muslims are not appeased the world could plunge into terrorism (which it has already and increasing daily), have decided they need to negotiate with the Arab-Palestinians, grant them the Statehood they suddenly desire, and grant them their demands for the purpose of a delusional peace.
    As The West prepares for appeasement, the forces of jihadism are on the rise in Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Iran and extends to Pakistan, Afghanistan and former Russian states. Egypt's peace with Israel has been guaranteed by U.S. involvement, and land for peace. The treaty with Egypt was based on the proposition of the Sinai in 1982 for peace. The Islamists moving into position to gain power in Egypt places the treaty at risk. They have no intention of abiding by its provisions.
    The concept of land for peace has failed, as it failed prior to WW2. Islamism does not care about land. Islamism only cares about the destruction of Israel, the destruction of non-Islamic societies, and ultimately the worldwide domination of Islam through a Muslim caliphate.
    Israel gives land because they want the Arabs to abide by peace agreements. Israel craves peace, but deep down knows that it is not possible. Islam has made it loud and clear that land for peace is a one way street. Israeli land giveaways are permanent, but Islamic commitments to peace are revoked at any time.
    With the current presidential administration in the United States, and the liberal socialists in control of the U.N. and Europe, Israel stands alone. No one plans to stand up for Israel's right to exist, as history has proven, the Jewish people have ultimately been abandoned by the world nations. The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties are working to take an absolute majority in Egypt and other Muslim countries, but The West has fallen for the propaganda that claims these parties are moderate and pragmatic. ISIS has proven that this approach is wrong and detrimental to peaceful coexistence.
    The fact is, the rising Islamist control over the Muslim nations has no intention of respecting treaties, or Israel's right to exist. They are waiting for conflict, and then will blame it on Israel. Talks are doomed to failure. The Islamists want it that way or the highway.
    Land for Peace fails. Liberalism fails. Only a strong and direct military posture with no-holds-barred that stands up against the rising threat will succeed. . . but the appeasers refuse to learn from history, and like Neville Chamberlain with Germany, Barack Obama and his fellow appeasers are positioning the world for a new world conflict that could turn the world to ashes.

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  3. It is enough that they the Arabs 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 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. Due to natural growth the numbers of Jews from Arab countries exceeds 7 million people.
    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.

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  4. The Arab-Palestinians have the right to go back to the Arab countries where they originally came from and not steal Jewish land and resources. They educate their children and the masses to commit murder, terror and violence and glorify such acts, which is counter productive. (It is time to initiate a population transfer and get rid of trouble makers and terrorists)
    It is enough that they the Arabs 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 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. Due to natural growth the numbers of Jews from Arab countries exceeds 7 million people.
    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.

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  5. 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. If they want an Arab-Palestinian
    state, it already exists, it is Jordan which has taken 80% of Jewish allocated land.
    In 1947, the UN Gen. Assembly passed Resolution 181 recommending the partition of Palestine. This did not create the State of Israel. The General Assembly does not create countries, make laws, or alter the Mandates (Mandates were a big brother system for setting up independent countries to be led by its native populations, with historic national connections to the territories. The Jewish people 4,000 year history to the land of Israel. In Jewish prayers the aspirations to rebuilt Jerusalem is recited 3 times a day). The Partition plan, was merely a recommendation. The resolution also violated Article 5 of the Mandate for Palestine and therefore it also violated Article 80 of the UN
    Charter. It was therefore an illegal resolution. What we call the State of Israel, along with her "legal" borders, was established in April 1920 with the San Remo Resolution which adopted the Balfour declaration and was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne. 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 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. The Jewish State's reconstitution was a fact 25 years before the UN existed. The Mandate was there to protect its
    survival. which the British violated again and again, 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.
    YJ Draiman

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  6. 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 homes and land (120,440 sq. km.) of the million Jewish families and their children, persecuted and 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).
    YJ Draiman.

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  7. Moral and ethical bankruptcy
    Americans 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

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  8. Moral and ethical bankruptcy
    Americans 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

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  9. 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.”

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  10. With these quotes, the Arabs tell the story of the origin of the Palestinian refugees in their own words:


    ON 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."

    ON 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."

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  11. 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. The Arabs 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).
    The government of Israel has the duty, obligation and responsibility to defend its people against any harm whatsoever with no holds barred, world opinion or criticism be damned.
    YJ Draiman.

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  12. Jamal Husseinei, the nephew of Grand Mufti Hajj Amin El Husseinei, reported to the UN that, "

    "The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce; they rather preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town. This is in fact what they did." ( Jamal Husseinei, Acting Chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, speaking to the United Nations Security Council. UNSC Official Records (N. 62), April 23, 1948, p. 14.)

    John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), the commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, was quoted in the London Daily Mail of August 12, 1948. as admitting,
    "Villages were frequently abandoned even before they were threatened by the progress of war"

    A report by Habib Issa in the Lebanese newspaper, Al Hoda of June 8, 1951, stated:

    "The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade. He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean.

    “Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down."

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  13. United States official position on Jerusalem
    In 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.

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  14. Israel needs a smart urban planning with a balance between nature and population growth. Both are needed for proper development. Each side has to understand that a compromise from both sides will bring the project and development to fruition.
    Israel today needs urgently 500,000 housing units.
    Israel also needs to expedite the development of its natural resources with a careful Eco balance. It should not take decades.
    Nobody is going to get everything they wanted.
    There is enough vacant land in Greater Jerusalem that can be developed without any obstructions. I looked at some 20 years ago.
    The main problem is the bureaucracy.
    YJ Draiman.

    How about the hundreds killed by Allied bombing of ISIS.
    Or the bombing of cities in Germany in WW2 by American and British bombers, leveling cities and killing over 100,000 civilians including women and children.
    That is OK.
    When Israel defends itself, it is not OK.
    I think Israel should ignore the worlds comments and criticisms and defend its population with no holds barred. That is the ultimate responsibility and duty of the government of Israel.
    Any leftist who is delusional and does not like it can go elsewhere.
    YJ Draiman

    There is nothing to talk about peace with the Arab-Palestinians while terror continues.

    I 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 persecuted and 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.

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  15. 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.
    It 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 homes and land (120,440 sq. km.) of the million Jewish families and their children, persecuted and 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).
    YJ Draiman.

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  16. Israel needs strong and consistent international PR (public relations) program
    The numerous comments of liberal bigots below reveal once again that Israel’s biggest mistake is not having a strong and consistent international PR (public relations) program. Most people in the west don’t
    know, for instance, that:
    1) Although the territory of Palestine/Israel has been occupied by foreign powers throughout most of history, since around 1200 BC, there has never been an independent state in Palestine that wasn’t Jewish. Nobody has a stronger historical claim to the territory than the Jews.
    2) Many if not most of the alleged “native Palestinians” were “bused in” to the territory in the decades preceding Israel’s independence by hostile neighboring Arab states bent on thwarting the nascent state of Israel.
    3) The Israelis didn’t drive out of Israel the “Palestinians” now claiming a “right of return.” They left voluntarily, probably under the erroneous assumption that they would be slaughtered by the Jews, because that’s exactly what they would have done to the Jews, if they had the power.
    4) Living in peace with medieval next-door neighbors bent on the destruction of your people and your state is a fool’s errand.
    5) Etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.
    Does Israel need to make more consistent and public efforts to accommodate an emergent Palestinian state? Probably. But what Israel needs most is a better PR campaign. It is clear that the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic forces are putting tremendous resources into PR on a global scale. Israel and her friends must fight harder in the court of public opinion.

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  17. End the Unjust Arab Occupation of Jewish Land
    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.
    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

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  18. 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."
    The self-defense, consent,[2] and Security Council authorization pursuant to Article 42 of the UN Charter.[3] The right to self defense is an 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...

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  19. The 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 an Arab-Palestinian state but simply the destruction of the Jewish state. That is why they train the Arab children and the masses to commit terror and violence, honor terrorists and suicide bombers. 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.
    The Arab countries persecuted and expelled over a million Jews and their families, the Arabs confiscated all their personal assets, including Real estate property 120,440 sq. km. 5-6 times the size of Israel, valued in the trillions of dollars (these Jewish people and their children have lived in those Arab countries for over 2,200 years. Most of those Jews were resettled in the liberated Greater Israel.
    Israel must stop all Arab violence at all costs and restore security and safety to its citizens.
    YJ Draiman

    Ben Gurion
    "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."

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  20. It is interesting to note, that Jordan is a country that never existed in history before WWI and nobody is contesting its legitimacy or territorial sovereignty and control. The same powers that established 21 Arab States plus Jordan after WWI, established the State of Israel based on the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Treaty of 1920.
    On the other hand, Israel and its Jewish people have over 4,000 years of history.
    Many nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory. No 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 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.
    Let the 21 Arab countries resettle the Arab Palestinians in the land they confiscated from the Jews which is 4 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) 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.
    If the U.S., Europe and other countries will stop meddling, and stop its criticism and involvement in the politics of Israel and the Arabs, than there will be a chance for peace.
    We know the great powers are only interested in the OIL and nothing else, 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 the Arab-Palestinian children and the people not to hate and condemn any acts of violence that hurts civilian populations 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/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/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.”.

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  21. Jordan is Arab-Palestine
    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).
    The 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

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  22. Jordan is Arab-Palestine
    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).
    The 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

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  23. It is interesting to note, that Jordan is a country that never existed in history before WWI and nobody is contesting its legitimacy or territorial sovereignty and control. The same powers that established 21 Arab States plus Jordan after WWI, established the State of Israel based on the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Treaty of 1920.
    On the other hand, Israel and its Jewish people have over 4,000 years of history.
    Many nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory. No 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 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.
    Let the 21 Arab countries resettle the Arab Palestinians in the land they confiscated from the Jews which is 4 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) 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.
    If the U.S., Europe and other countries will stop meddling, and stop its criticism and involvement in the politics of Israel and the Arabs, than there will be a chance for peace.
    We know the great powers are only interested in the OIL and nothing else, 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 the Arab-Palestinian children and the people not to hate and condemn any acts of violence that hurts civilian populations 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/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/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.”.

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  24. The 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 an Arab-Palestinian state but simply the destruction of the Jewish state. That is why they train the Arab children and the masses to commit terror and violence, honor terrorists and suicide bombers. 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.
    The Arab countries persecuted and expelled over a million Jews and their families, the Arabs confiscated all their personal assets, including Real estate property 120,440 sq. km. 5-6 times the size of Israel, valued in the trillions of dollars (these Jewish people and their children have lived in those Arab countries for over 2,200 years. Most of those Jews were resettled in the liberated Greater Israel.
    Israel must stop all Arab violence at all costs and restore security and safety to its citizens.
    YJ Draiman

    Ben Gurion
    "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."

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  25. 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."
    The self-defense, consent,[2] and Security Council authorization pursuant to Article 42 of the UN Charter.[3] The right to self defense is an 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...

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  26. End the Unjust Arab Occupation of Jewish Land
    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.
    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

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  27. Israel needs strong and consistent international PR (public relations) program
    The numerous comments of liberal bigots below reveal once again that Israel’s biggest mistake is not having a strong and consistent international PR (public relations) program. Most people in the west don’t
    know, for instance, that:
    1) Although the territory of Palestine/Israel has been occupied by foreign powers throughout most of history, since around 1200 BC, there has never been an independent state in Palestine that wasn’t Jewish. Nobody has a stronger historical claim to the territory than the Jews.
    2) Many if not most of the alleged “native Palestinians” were “bused in” to the territory in the decades preceding Israel’s independence by hostile neighboring Arab states bent on thwarting the nascent state of Israel.
    3) The Israelis didn’t drive out of Israel the “Palestinians” now claiming a “right of return.” They left voluntarily, probably under the erroneous assumption that they would be slaughtered by the Jews, because that’s exactly what they would have done to the Jews, if they had the power.
    4) Living in peace with medieval next-door neighbors bent on the destruction of your people and your state is a fool’s errand.
    5) Etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.
    Does Israel need to make more consistent and public efforts to accommodate an emergent Palestinian state? Probably. But what Israel needs most is a better PR campaign. It is clear that the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic forces are putting tremendous resources into PR on a global scale. Israel and her friends must fight harder in the court of public opinion.

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  28. 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.
    It 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 homes and land (120,440 sq. km.) of the million Jewish families and their children, persecuted and 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).
    YJ Draiman.

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  29. Israel needs a smart urban planning with a balance between nature and population growth. Both are needed for proper development. Each side has to understand that a compromise from both sides will bring the project and development to fruition.
    Israel today needs urgently 500,000 housing units.
    Israel also needs to expedite the development of its natural resources with a careful Eco balance. It should not take decades.
    Nobody is going to get everything they wanted.
    There is enough vacant land in Greater Jerusalem that can be developed without any obstructions. I looked at some 20 years ago.
    The main problem is the bureaucracy.
    YJ Draiman.

    How about the hundreds killed by Allied bombing of ISIS.
    Or the bombing of cities in Germany in WW2 by American and British bombers, leveling cities and killing over 100,000 civilians including women and children.
    That is OK.
    When Israel defends itself, it is not OK.
    I think Israel should ignore the worlds comments and criticisms and defend its population with no holds barred. That is the ultimate responsibility and duty of the government of Israel.
    Any leftist who is delusional and does not like it can go elsewhere.
    YJ Draiman

    There is nothing to talk about peace with the Arab-Palestinians while terror continues.

    I 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 persecuted and 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.

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  30. United States official position on Jerusalem
    In 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.

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  31. Jamal Husseinei, the nephew of Grand Mufti Hajj Amin El Husseinei, reported to the UN that, "

    "The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce; they rather preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town. This is in fact what they did." ( Jamal Husseinei, Acting Chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, speaking to the United Nations Security Council. UNSC Official Records (N. 62), April 23, 1948, p. 14.)

    John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), the commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, was quoted in the London Daily Mail of August 12, 1948. as admitting,
    "Villages were frequently abandoned even before they were threatened by the progress of war"

    A report by Habib Issa in the Lebanese newspaper, Al Hoda of June 8, 1951, stated:

    "The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade. He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean.

    “Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down."

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  32. 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. The Arabs 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).
    The government of Israel has the duty, obligation and responsibility to defend its people against any harm whatsoever with no holds barred, world opinion or criticism be damned.
    YJ Draiman.

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  33. With these quotes, the Arabs tell the story of the origin of the Palestinian refugees in their own words:


    ON 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."

    ON 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."

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  34. Moral and ethical bankruptcy
    Americans 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

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  35. 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 homes and land (120,440 sq. km.) of the million Jewish families and their children, persecuted and 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).
    YJ Draiman.

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  36. 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. If they want an Arab-Palestinian
    state, it already exists, it is Jordan which has taken 80% of Jewish allocated land.
    In 1947, the UN Gen. Assembly passed Resolution 181 recommending the partition of Palestine. This did not create the State of Israel. The General Assembly does not create countries, make laws, or alter the Mandates (Mandates were a big brother system for setting up independent countries to be led by its native populations, with historic national connections to the territories. The Jewish people 4,000 year history to the land of Israel. In Jewish prayers the aspirations to rebuilt Jerusalem is recited 3 times a day). The Partition plan, was merely a recommendation. The resolution also violated Article 5 of the Mandate for Palestine and therefore it also violated Article 80 of the UN
    Charter. It was therefore an illegal resolution. What we call the State of Israel, along with her "legal" borders, was established in April 1920 with the San Remo Resolution which adopted the Balfour declaration and was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne. 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 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. The Jewish State's reconstitution was a fact 25 years before the UN existed. The Mandate was there to protect its
    survival. which the British violated again and again, 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.
    YJ Draiman

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  37. It is enough that they the Arabs 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 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. Due to natural growth the numbers of Jews from Arab countries exceeds 7 million people.
    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.

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  38. Israel stands in the way and is an obstacle to full Muslim domination of the Middle East. The West fears Islamic aggression (which has been going on since WW1), and is opting for appeasement. Propaganda is being used to try to convince people that Muslims in Israel, and in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights, are being mistreated. Islamist forces have conducted maneuvers at the borders of Israel, and have continuously lobbed missiles into Israel. Islam constantly threatens Israel, often using language that proclaims a desire for the complete destruction of Israel. The Arab-Palestinians have spoken to the world, proclaiming parts of Israel to belong to them.
    Peace in the Middle East is desired at any cost by the Western Appeasers. The unrest is being blamed on Israel. Islam promises that the Arab-Palestinian claims are the last they will make in Israel. If land is traded for peace, they say, then the unrest in the Middle East will ease, which is a delusion and not reality.
    The Western Leaders, fearful that if the Muslims are not appeased the world could plunge into terrorism (which it has already and increasing daily), have decided they need to negotiate with the Arab-Palestinians, grant them the Statehood they suddenly desire, and grant them their demands for the purpose of a delusional peace.
    As The West prepares for appeasement, the forces of jihadism are on the rise in Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Iran and extends to Pakistan, Afghanistan and former Russian states. Egypt's peace with Israel has been guaranteed by U.S. involvement, and land for peace. The treaty with Egypt was based on the proposition of the Sinai in 1982 for peace. The Islamists moving into position to gain power in Egypt places the treaty at risk. They have no intention of abiding by its provisions.
    The concept of land for peace has failed, as it failed prior to WW2. Islamism does not care about land. Islamism only cares about the destruction of Israel, the destruction of non-Islamic societies, and ultimately the worldwide domination of Islam through a Muslim caliphate.
    Israel gives land because they want the Arabs to abide by peace agreements. Israel craves peace, but deep down knows that it is not possible. Islam has made it loud and clear that land for peace is a one way street. Israeli land giveaways are permanent, but Islamic commitments to peace are revoked at any time.
    With the current presidential administration in the United States, and the liberal socialists in control of the U.N. and Europe, Israel stands alone. No one plans to stand up for Israel's right to exist, as history has proven, the Jewish people have ultimately been abandoned by the world nations. The Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties are working to take an absolute majority in Egypt and other Muslim countries, but The West has fallen for the propaganda that claims these parties are moderate and pragmatic. ISIS has proven that this approach is wrong and detrimental to peaceful coexistence.
    The fact is, the rising Islamist control over the Muslim nations has no intention of respecting treaties, or Israel's right to exist. They are waiting for conflict, and then will blame it on Israel. Talks are doomed to failure. The Islamists want it that way or the highway.
    Land for Peace fails. Liberalism fails. Only a strong and direct military posture with no-holds-barred that stands up against the rising threat will succeed. . . but the appeasers refuse to learn from history, and like Neville Chamberlain with Germany, Barack Obama and his fellow appeasers are positioning the world for a new world conflict that could turn the world to ashes.

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