Doc's Talk: Real Peace with the Jews

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Real Peace with the Jews

Bassam Tawil
April 2, 2014

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4244/palestinians-jews-peace

"Allah will gather them [the Israelis] so that we can kill them." — Abbas Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member, March 12, 2014
The truth is, however, that...even Israeli Arabs have no desire to exchange Israeli citizenship for a Palestinian Authority passport.
Arafat himself...declared that Israel was a Jewish state.
If I were an Israeli, I would think twice about entering into any agreement with such people.

On March 12, 2014, the eve of President Mahmoud Abbas' departure for the White House and a meeting with American President Barack Obama, Fatah Central Committee's Abbas Zaki went on Palestinian national TV and presented his vision for the future of the Jews in the State of Israel. According to Zaki, "Allah will gather them [the Israelis] so that we can kill them." He said that "every killer has to die, there is no other option."
His sweeping declaration represented the true vision that a great many Palestinian leaders have for the Jews, based on Surah 17, Al-Isra (The Night Journey), Verse 8 of the Qur'an,[1] which deals with the bitter fate of the Jews condemned to hell.

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki speaks on Palestinian Authority TV , March 12, 2014. (Image source: Palestinian Media Watch)

Those leaders also repeat – endlessly – the hadith (a saying attributed to Muhammad) claiming that Judgment Day will be delayed until the Muslims have slaughtered all the Jews, the last of whom will be revealed by the stone or tree behind which he is hiding, so that the Muslims can kill him. That is what the Jews can expect, what the Palestinians tell each other even as their smiling leaders convince the world they want peace with the Jews.

While the Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as the national homeland of the Jews, they admit that in fact, the Holy Land belongs to the Jews. They invented a word, "Judaize," and use it to define the Israelites in Israel. The Palestinian leaders call Israel's construction in Jerusalem the "Judaization of Jerusalem." The flyers distributed by the Palestinian terrorist organizations always call for the murder of all the Jews in "Palestine." The sheikhs and commanders of the Islamist terrorist organizations use the pulpits of the mosques to preach the slaughter of the Jews in "Palestine," as they were slaughtered by Muhammad. Even Palestinian intellectuals display the link between the Jews of "Palestine" and world Jewry as an aspect of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is based on the claim that it would deny Israeli Arabs their rights to the land and cancel the "historic rights" of the Palestinian people in Palestine. If the Palestinian leaders had any real interest in Israeli Arabs, they would have agreed to the proposal given by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and accepted them and all their property and land, as Lieberman offered, as citizens of Palestine. The truth, however, is that despite the claims that Israel is discriminatory, colonialist and an apartheid state, even Israeli Arabs have no desire to exchange Israeli citizenship for a Palestinian Authority passport. By refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state the Palestinians are in fact admitting that they have no intention of ending the conflict. The Palestinian leaders claim they are willing to recognize the fact of Israel's existence, but not its right to exist.
The Israeli demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is legitimate: It signals Palestinian acceptance of Israel's existence, the waiving of the so-called "right of return" and the end of the conflict. The verbal acrobatics of our leaders deceive us and perhaps the world at large, but not the Israelis. Mahmoud Abbas' reasons for the refusal are unclear. After all, Arafat himself was documented and photographed recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.
With regard to religion, Palestinian recognition of the State of Israel is more serious than its recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. For us as Muslims, the word "Israel" and our recognition of it and its inhabitants as "Israelis" mean we verify and confirm the fulfillment of the Qur'an prophecy according to which the blessed land is the divine heritage of "Bani Israail," "the Israelites." That means we give Israel Islamic religious sanction with the full weight of Qur'anic blessing.
Therefore, Mahmoud Abbas' evasion of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state is nonsensical. Arafat himself, who founded and led the PLO and engineered the establishment of the Palestinian Authority through the Oslo Accords, declared that Israel was a Jewish state. For that reason, President Abbas' stubborn resistance seems spiteful and underhanded, and is firm proof that he does not really want peace.
The day after Abbas Zaki gave his speech, Mahmoud Abbas told the 13^th annual Fatah Revolutionary Council, held in Ramallah, what his plans were for peace with Israel. He said, "No recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, no waiving of the right of return and no abandoning Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine." Those three "No"s also show that the Palestinians have no interest in a peace process and seek to continue the conflict with Israel. They still hold the onto the hope that they will be able to blackmail the Jews into giving more for nothing in return -- backed by the generous and freely-given assistance of the American administration and the European Union.
The truth is that the stronger Russia, China and Iran become, and the longer the list of American failures (Iran, Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Soviet Union and the Ukraine), the less the Palestinians will be able to rely on the Obama administration.
The more American society becomes polarized and its economy destabilized by its catastrophic debt, the less the pro-Palestinian elements in Washington will be able to extort compromises and concessions from Israel, which is still considered a strategic asset of the United States.
In addition, the economic downfall of the European countries will weaken the European Union and eventually stop the funds pouring into the Palestinian Authority and its mostly corrupt leadership. The Palestinian attempts to destroy Israel through the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign will fail and the unscrupulous pro-Palestinian organizations, NGOs and agencies like UNRWA will close their doors.
Our hope that the international situation, especially in view of America's weakness, will lead the West to boycott Israel in the service of the Palestinians, as was done against against South Africa, is in vain. The only people who will suffer from the boycott of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank are the Palestinians who work there and support their families with their jobs in the settlements' factories. The BDS campaign, in its efforts to put the settlements out of business, has swollen the ranks of unemployed Palestinians. In the past, tens of thousands of Palestinians came from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip every day to work in Israel. The two intifadas took away their job; we took away their jobs by boycotting Israel and its manufactured goods. To us, it is clear that the international community cares less about helping Palestinians than trying to destroy Israel.
Mahmoud Abbas is a disappointment and without vision. In calling himself a leader who will not betray the interests of his people he trapped himself. The truth is that he does not have a general Palestinian consensus to lead and he does not have legal constitutional standing. He cannot advance the Palestinian cause even one inch forward and instead promotes showy but meaningless public relations ploys, such as the release of Palestinian security prisoners from Israeli jails. The release of prisoners is all he wants; once he has them, he will be through with negotiations.
Whoever called the Mahmoud Abbas era a unique opportunity for peace was mistaken. Peace does not depend on one individual, it must represent the general agreement and wishes of the people who will still be in the Palestinian street long after Mahmoud Abbas is gone. His refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state (as he conveniently ignores the fact that his regime exists only because of the security support he receives from the Israeli army) is unnecessary and petty, and is a major cause of concern and suspicion for the Israelis.
His unwillingness to reach a peace agreement was essentially the theme of the speech he delivered to Fatah's Revolutionary Council the day before he left for the United States to meet with President Obama. He and others in the Palestinian Authority refuse, in fact, to compromise on any issue. They refer publicly and often to the return of all the refugees to "occupied Palestine." Unfortunately, the morning after, the Palestinians will be left with the legacy of a "leader" whom history will show to have been a coward with no vision, no real concern for his people and no political backbone. Since the Jews in Palestine will never agree to the implementation of the right of return, which would mean the physical destruction of Israel, the Palestinian problem will most likely remain without a solution forever.
The Palestinians claim that the Jews themselves cannot answer the question "Who is a Jew?" and therefore that there is therefore no reason for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. They claim that they arrived in Palestine before the Jews and that they are the descendants of the original Canaanites. The claims, even if they were valid and not imaginary, would still be irrelevant. The fact is that UN General Assembly Resolution 181, determined one state for the Jews and one for the Arabs (the name of the Palestinian state was not mentioned). We rejected it out of hand and attacked Israel in 1948.
If I were an Israeli, I would ask who those Palestinians are who have gathered in Palestine during the past hundred years, brought in by the British to build roads and by landowners from Syria and Lebanon to work in the fields. Are they the people supporting Mahmoud Abbas when he claims he wants peace, or are they a collection of terrorist operatives of the Hamas-Palestinian Islamic Jihad type, who smuggle weapons from Iran and rain rockets on Israel's cities and its civilians from the Gaza Strip? If I were an Israeli I would also be worried about the recent mudslinging bouts of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his former minister of the interior and commander of preventive security Muhammad Dahlan. The arguments and mutual accusations expose a Palestinian leadership that is rotten to the core, corrupt, thieving, engaged in mutual murders and betraying the Palestinian people. If I were an Israeli I would think twice before entering into any agreement with such people.
The most recent decision of the Arab League to back Mahmoud Abbas as the elected and only president of "Palestine" and to demand the establishment of a Palestine state with east Jerusalem as its capital was wise. However, the unfortunate and rather stupid decision not to recognize Israel as a Jewish state prolongs the Arab political fixation and is an obstacle to peace. It reflects an Arab disregard for historical truth and the prophecies of the Noble Qur'an regarding the establishment of the Jewish state in Jerusalem and its environment, called by the Qur'an "the Blessed Land." Anyone who disregards what is written in the Qur'an is an enemy of Allah. The only outcome of the Arab League's unfortunate decision will be that the Jews in Palestine will continue to flourish while the Palestinians continue to suffer.

[1] "It is expected, [if you repent], that your Lord will have mercy upon you. But if you return [to sin], We will return [to punishment]. And We have made Hell, for the disbelievers, a prison-bed."

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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