If anyone had any doubt that the Palestinian Authority has never given up on “reclaiming” all of “Palestine,” this current Fatah assembly declaration should shine a little light into their true intent towards Israel.
The sixth Fatah General Assembly decreed on Saturday that the return of both east and west Jerusalem to Palestinian control was a “red line” which was nonnegotiable, and would need to be fulfilled before any peace talks with Israel could renew, Israel Radio reported.
According to the report, a document adopted by the delegates of the assembly declared that Fatah would “continue to sacrifice victims until residents of Jerusalem are free of settlements and settlers.” The document went on to state that all of Jerusalem, including the surrounding villages, belonged to the Palestinians, and lands conquered following the Six-Day war shared the same status as those located within the green line.
You got that? ALL of Jerusalem, not just the “traditionally Arab east Jerusalem” part of it. This is, of course, because their mosques sit atop the Temple Mount, which is in the part that Jordan had control over from 1948 to 1967. They are asserting that Jerusalem is a Muslim waqf, just as the Hamas charter declares it, and just as the Islamists keep telling us. Once a Muslim land, always a Muslim land, according to them.
There is no compromising with the Palestinians. Not because Israel doesn’t want to compromise. The problem is, as it always has been, Palestinian Arab intransigence. Their refusal to negotiate is the real issue that is preventing peace. Not the settlements. Not “natural growth” building. Not the separation barrier. It is, quite simply, the fact that the Palestinians still think they can win all of Israel, somehow. They think they have time on their side demographically, and they think they can get the EU, the UN, and now the U.S. to force Israel into making a deal that will favor their ultimate goal—which is a state called “Palestine” where now there is a state called Israel.
Yeah, good luck that that. If I were a betting woman, I’d place my money on the Jews. Oh, wait. I am.
So if say the Cannanites of Israel or the Zorastrians of Iran, or any of the older polytheistic and pantheistic middle eastern based religions wanted any ancestral lands back, the same claim could be made?
How many of the Palestinians came from other countries because they were booted out as undesirables by their home country?
And, I’m still trying to figure out why they insist on being called by an old Roman land area identification.
I’m waiting for Big Guy Upstairs to have a rather lengthy conversation with the Palestinians out behind the woodshed.
My dream is for Israel to survive and prosper and that the fraudulent pali scammers be shown the door to Jordan, the real pail state.
I must say that radical islam has taught me the meaning of hate.
So, let me get this straight.
Netanyahu called for negotiations without preconditions.
Obama demanded the precondition of “settlement freeze.”
And now “moderate” Fatah is demanding no less than 14 preconditions, including the ceding of Jerusalem in its entirety, both east and west, as a precondition for talks.
What idiocy.
If they do not want negotiations then there will be no peace. If they do not want negotiations then there will be no Palestinian state and the status quo will remain. The blockade will remain. The checkpoints in the West Bank. And so forth.
Does anyone not see a 3rd Intifada around the corner?
I’m beginning to think the biggest strategic mistake Israel ever made was not taking and destroying the Dome of the Rock in ’67. As long as it stands Arabs will believe Israel is weak, no matter how many times the IDF kicks their asses.
A historical tidbit to consider:
The legal provenance of the Paletinian’s claim to the West Bank and Gaza is that the UN partition plan of 1947 had them in an Arab state (Palestinians weren’t mentioned, so far as I remember), and since 1967 Egypt and Jordan, respectively, have ceded their claims in favor of the Palestinians. This doesn’t hold for Jerusalem or Bathlehem, both of which were to be international. This means, if you wish to be a stickler, that neither Israel nor Jordan and certainly not the Palestinians have any claim to these two towns beyond the fact that they control them. There is no reason the Paletinian claim to jerusalem, which they don’t control, is any stronger than the claim of the Israelis, who do.