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Israel is a jewish nation ... that's coexistence?
On Mar 29, 4:24 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Israel and the Occupation Myth
>
> The hatred and violence that killed five members of the Fogel family existed
> before the Jewish state did.
>
> By DANNY AYALON
>
> The recent murder of a family of five in Itamar shocked Israelis to their
> core. A terrorist broke into the Fogels' home before stabbing and garroting
> to death the two parents, Udi and Ruth, and their children Yoav, 11 years
> old, Elad, 4, and almost decapitating Hadas, who was only three months old.
>
> There has since been very little outcry from the international community.
> Many nations who are so used to condemning the building of apartment units
> beyond the Green Line remained silent on this sadistic murder. Meanwhile,
> the few international correspondents to have covered the massacre have
> placed it in the context of ongoing settlement-building and Israel's
> so-called "occupation."
>
> However, regardless of one's views on which people have greater title to
> Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, it is a historically inaccurate
> distortion to claim that the occupation that breeds this type of violence.
> If this mantra were true, then it must be the case that before the
> occupation there was no violence. This defies the historical record.
>
> In 1929, the Jewish community of Hebron—which stretches back millennia, long
> before the creation of Islam and the Arab conquest and subsequent occupation
> of the area—was brutally attacked. The Jews who had been living peacefully
> with their Muslim neighbors were set upon in a bloody rampage, inspired by
> Palestinian Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later became notorious as
> Hitler's genocidal acolyte during the Holocaust. In two days, 67 Jews were
> hacked or bludgeoned to death. Jewish infants were beheaded and Jewish women
> were disemboweled. Limbs were hacked off the dead as well as those who
> managed to survive.
>
> On visiting the scene shortly after the massacre, Britain's High
> Commissioner for Palestine John Chancellor wrote to his son "I do not think
> that history records many worse horrors in the last few hundred years."
>
> This and other similar pogroms happened, not only before the "occupation" of
> Judea and Samaria, but even two decades before the state of Israel was
> reestablished. From 1948 to 1967, Judea and Samaria were illegally occupied
> by Jordan, which renamed the area the West Bank, in reference to the East
> Bank of the Kingdom of Jordan that fell beyond the Jordan River. Not one
> Israeli was allowed into this area, yet nor did Israel know one day of peace
> in that time, during which it saw brutal attacks launched from the West Bank
> against Israeli civilians.
>
> Further evidence against the mantra that the occupation breeds violence can
> be culled from Palestinian sources. Take Hamas's founding charter, for
> instance, which does not mention occupation or settlements. What is does
> contain are calls for the complete destruction of Israel, down to its last
> inch, such as: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam
> will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." The charter
> goes even further, aspiring to a point in time when there will be no Jews
> left anywhere in the world.
>
> Meanwhile, the Palestine Liberation Organization, currently headed by
> President Mahmoud Abbas, notes in its founding charter that "this
> organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank,"
> while still calling for a "liberation of its homeland." This was written in
> 1964, fully three years before Israel conquered the West Bank during the Six
> Day War.
>
> It's safe to say that the violence and terror visited upon Israelis has
> little connection to "occupation" or settlements. This myth has no
> historical foundation, but is easy to proclaim for those who have little
> understanding of the conflict.
>
> Yet these fatuous canards only make our conflict harder to solve. The recent
> massacre in Itamar highlighted the Palestinian Authority's ongoing
> incitement to violence through its media, mosques and educational system. At
> this point, the basic parameters of the peace process need an overhaul. If
> our aim is to reach a peaceful resolution, then merely ending the
> "occupation" would far from guarantee that, as history has shown.
>
> Israel was assured in the past by the international community that if it
> just retreated from Gaza and Lebanon, peace would flourish and violence
> would come to an end. In both cases, this hope proved deadly wrong, and
> millions of Israelis have been subjected to incessant attacks from these
> territories since the retreat.
>
> This is not about "occupation" or territory; it is about meaningful
> coexistence. Only when the root ideological causes of our conflict are
> solved can Israelis and Palestinians make the painful concessions necessary
> for peace.
>
> Mr. Ayalon is the deputy foreign minister of Israel.
>
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