Nurit Greenger
For The Arab-"Palestinians" it is
less about having their Palestine state; it is more about destroying the State of Israel and waving their victory flag over
the skies of Jerusalem.
On January 6, 2013 Mahmoud Abbas went the extra mile with his non-compliance
of the Oslo Accords and declared: It is not longer the Palestinian Authority; the Palestinian
Authority has officially changed name to
'State of Palestine' (http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/palestinian-authority-officially-changes-name-to-state-of-palestine.premium-1.492065).
Some background facts:
The
decision by the international bodies of that time, i.e. the League of Nations,
the UN, the World Court, the US congress and senate, to return to the Jewish
nation its right to the land and establish a Home for the Jewish nation in the
land of Israel, on both sides of the Jordan River banks, and later on all the
land West of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, that includes, not
excludes, Judea and Samaria, was irrevocable. That decision cannot be revisited
or over turned. The irrevocability of this decision is founded on the Doctrine
of Estoppel - Res Judicata in Canada = a final judgment
that is no longer subject to appeal. Based on both, the integral quality
continuity of to the statues of the San Remo Resolutions and the Doctrine of
Estoppel, the Nations of the World, the membership of the League of Nations,
the UN, including the Arab states and the Supreme Council, are all legally
bound by the San Remo Resolutions.
The Jewish nation's title and its historical
connection to the land of Israel was recognized by the legal powers of the
World, beginning in the San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920, which was and is
binding on the world today.
The
Jewish nation's title/deed to the land was given to them by G-d, some 3500
years ago, as evidenced in the Old Testament/ Bible. History unequivocally
confirms the Jewish nation's sovereignty in the land and the continuity of Jews
living there, that culminated in modern history when Jews were given the green
light to return to and restore their ancient land. No other nation can make
similar claims to its land and the Jewish nations' history in the land of
Israel is unique, as it has formed the basis values of civilization as we know
it to be today.
The two-state
solution, Israel and "Palestine" born in the Oslo Accords, has been
proven to be a disastrous proposition to every Israeli. It was an agreement
Israel thought will deliver peace. However, it was a thoughtless agreement that
has turned to be one of the worst mistakes Israel has ever made in its modern
history. It was an agreement to establish a Judenrein Arab state within ten
minutes drive from the official residence of the prime minster of Israel, in
Jerusalem. The question is what guarantee Israel has that this new Arab state
will not turn to be another rocket frenzy Gazastan? None!
If
the two state [dis]solution, as I address it, is not the answer for Israel to
have peace from Arab aggression, then what is the alternative to keep Israel
safe and Jewish? What can Israel do with the baggage of 2 million Arab
squatters it inherited in 1967, when it freed its land from Arab illegal
occupation?
Recently the Women For Israel's Tomorrow- Women
in Green
(http://www.womeningreen.org/), Nadia Mata and Yehudit Katsover
held the 3rd annual Sovereignty
Conference in which the future of Judea and Samaria was discussed. It is now
clear that the movement towards annulling the "2-state' wrongful idea is
gowning fast.
Watch the entire
conference dubbed in English here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kNaF6M4zltI
Applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria has
to be approached in carefully thought stages. We all know that the government
of Israeli will not get up one fine morning and declare to the world that all of Judea
and Samaria is now under Israeli sovereignty and each citizen there falls under
Israeli law. But the public discourse is now leading as Israelis finally woke
up to know that Israel cannot give up Judea and Samaria to become an Arab
state, a bait to have peace that cannot be and is not guaranteed.
And
thus this discourse must continue in this direction; end the separation of
Judea and Samaria from Israel the whole and fulfilling the San Remo Resolution,
the state of Israel from the River to the Sea.
Many people simply do not understand the entire issue of
the status of Judea and Samaria and the 2-state "solution" some
people decided on, because they do not have solid information. And thus it falls on those who understand and
wish to promote Israeli sovereignty on all the land from the River to the Sea,
to disseminate the information and created the proper atmosphere for this
discourse. And this dialogue must be advanced in the most rational way, via the
sharing of facts, and not emotions. After all it is the future of the state of
Israel we are speaking about here.
To begin with, here are the facts as
presented by Advocate
Alan Baker, an expert in international law, former
Israeli ambassador to Canada and a member of the Edmund Levy Committee, which issued
the Levy Report,
its three-person Levy Committee mandate was to examine the status of Judea and Samaria and to recommend ways to
deal with the land:
'Jews building settlements in Judea and Samaria is legal-Ten Basic Points
Summarizing Israel's Rights in Judea and Samaria' - http://newsblaze.com/story/20130108121907nurg.nb/topstory.html
Now that we have covered
the facts, here are some of Israel's pundits notable
suggestions and well deserve careful attention as to the alternatives to the
"two-state" proposition and issues connected with this matter. There must be
practical aspects of applying sovereignty; how it should be done, what status
the Arabs in Judea and Samaria will have, what will be the expected reaction
from the Arab and Western world and what will Israel's response be.
Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Public
Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs (Likud): application of sovereignty, couched in
legal language, would not automatically resolve international challenges Israel
would be facing, therefore, he calls to return to discourse on the rights to the
land, from the historic aspect; sovereignty would send the world a clear message,
this land is our land and it will be easier for Israel to face the
international community hostility when the nation is united by a consensus. He calls for the remedy
of the lexicon used; Israel did not conquer land of another state, definitely
not a Palestinian state, because there wasn’t one and so the term
"occupation" is false. Use Judea and Samaria, not West Bank, use Jewish
communities not settlements.
MK Yariv Levin, Chair of the Knesset House Committee, (Likud): advocating gradual acre by acre sovereignty
application method but, even if sovereignty is applied over the existing Jewish
community blocs first, it is not to become the final step. Israel needs to first
apply its law to all those Jews living in Judea and Samaria, both
personal and general laws, first and foremost Construction laws so Jews can develop Judea and Samaria and Jewish communities to grow there, rather than
being suffocated by the military.
MK Moshe Feiglin, Chairman of the
Jewish Leadership faction in Likud and currently on Likud's list: thinks it is extremely important that Israel
first pays attention to and cannot afford to lose sight of places where it
suppose to already have sovereignty, but is losing it. A government that does
not have the courage to protect sovereignty on Temple Mount, the holiest place
to Jews is not going to promote legislation for sovereignty in Judea and
Samaria.
MK
Ze'ev Elkin,
Chair of the Coalition, (Likud), and Chair of the Knesset Eretz Yisrael
Committee: The Jewish state has been in a state of confusion and he hopes this
period is now coming to an end.
He finds it difficult to take the Oslo Accords seriously as the Arabs
squandered it. What Abbas achieved at the UN, which is upgrading the
Palestinian Authority status has brought the Oslo period to its end but there
is no government final consensus on this yet. He suggests that Israel adopts
the Arabs' ‘Salami method’ approach, maximize possible
sovereignty application at any given moment and slowly the public discourse
will change as well.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Islam, Muslim/Arab
culture and Middle East scholar and expert and a lecturer at Bar Ilan
University: claims that the courts in
Israel should have nothing to do with determination of borders; this is a political
issue, for the Knesset to work out as only those who are victors can secure
their place in the Middle East. Those who seek peace are seen weak and
vanquished and continuously get kicked. He claims that Arabs believe Israel has no
priori right to exist, only a posteriori, because it forced its way in and won
the wars. He supports an inch by inch sovereignty application and expects
disorderly incidents in Judea and Samaria but not a full scale Intifada
(Uprising).
Caroline Glick, a columnist, senior editor at the Jerusalem Post and senior fellow
for Middle Eastern Affairs for the Center for Security Policy: every Arab in
Judea and Samaria shall have the opportunity to request citizenship, provided
he or she meets the criteria established by the Ministry of the Interior with
regard to renouncing terrorism and accepting Israel as a Jewish state. She
believes Israel is entering a period that is historically revolutionary and the
more the public speaks about adding Judea and Samaria to Israel's sovereignty the
more it will catch on and become inevitable. The Israeli public must be
convinced, especially in terms of demographics, that the ratio of Jews to Arabs
will remain in Israel's favor. To be able to keep on the sovereignty course,
matters must take place in the context of a larger change in the Israeli public
mindset as well as changes in the Israeli legal system and claims Israel is now
in the drivers' seat.
MK Aryeh Eldad, M.D., member of Strong Israel party: there is a problem with the Israeli Arabs
who think they are the "owners" of our land and that notion must be
uprooted. He is not against the 'salami method', but Israel needs to be the one
to be holding the salami slices. He calls to adopt the Levy Report as Israel
cannot afford for the Report to accumulate dust. His vision, the Arabs can be
residents of the State of Israel and the citizens or Jordan, which is
Palestine, and if they do not like this situation they door is open, they can
leave.
Adv. Elyakim Haetzni, former member of Knesset: claims that the
act of annexation has been done already and that Israelis are already partially
there to gain sovereignty over Judea and Samaria along a 1967 Knesset amendment
law to govern, which says that the Israeli law and administration will apply to
all of the land of Israel on which the government decided by injunction. In
other words, the Knesset already gave the key to the government for an act of
sovereignty and the government of Israel already has the power to annex all of
Judea and Samaria without the need to the Knesset's legislation. So in the
morning the government of Israel declares the annexation of all of Judea and
Samaria. The following day the Knesset passes an autonomy law for areas 'A' and
'B' with a certain volume of authority for Arab home rule with limits by what
the government of Israel will give them, which the Knesset can cancel because
it is the one that has passed to law. This autonomy will be in the frame of Israeli
sovereignty and the Arabs will vote in the Palestinian State of Jordan. The
Arabs must rule themselves as their civilization is different from the Israeli
one and it is no good for Israelis to mix with them…for how long? Till every
Israeli is permitted to reside, if so he or she chooses, in the land east of
the Jordan River, land that was illegally taken away from the Jewish nation.
Dr. Martin Sherman, a political scientist, believes in evacuation with compensation is the
answer. He claims that between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there
will be either full Jewish sovereignty or full Arab sovereignty and the side
that is to prevail is the stronger side that has more political wisdom and at
the moment it is Israel but signs are not promising that this status will
remain as such.
Sovereignty means, there
is no room for Arab collective between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean
Sea. In order for Israel to survive as the nation state of the Jewish people,
the state of Israel must deal with two issues, the demographic and the
geographic. It will be impossible to reach government stability if Israel
leaves large areas of Arab collective between the 'River and the Sea'.
Technically, full rights for the Arabs simply does not
relate to reality that will be created on the ground. As for Arab self rule and
autonomy, it is not reasonable from theoretical and pragmatic point of view.
The Arabs will have autonomy not because they accept the sovereignty of the
state [of Israel] but because they deny this sovereignty. Besides, what
autonomy can Israel give them that will not harm the Jewish state? None, and
with autonomy the present situation will only worsen.
There is a story of an American diplomat who came to
visit Israel and was taken to visit the Biblical zoo where he saw a lamb in the
lion's cage. He turned to his host and said, you see the Biblical prophecy came
true right here. The Israel host replied, not exactly, as each day the zoo
keeper provides the lion with a new lamb. The lamb is Israel. Since its
establishment it was the lamb and the Arabs the lion. Since the Oslo accords,
and the peace bait that came with it, Israel not only remained the lamb but
acted along the hope that things will fall into place by themselves; they did
not. The Arabs have declared political and diplomatic, economical and physical
jihad on the Jewish state and Israel went along to get along and remained the
lamb. Now is the time to end the lamb mentality and become the lion. The
sacrifice of Jewish life and Jewish land ends right here, right now; Israelis,
together and in unison, must put Judea and Samaria, the whole, under Jewish
sovereignty. It is legal, it is moral, it is the right thing to do to make sure
the state of Israel prevails.
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