"The
only thing that does appear to matter to some Europeans is that, according to
their views, the rights of Arab-Palestinians who left their homeland 53 years
ago are fundamentally superior to the rights of Jews who left their homeland
almost 2,000 years ago." [Steinitz]
Unfortunately, many Americans (including some members of the PNEWS forum) are
also blinded by 'pro-Palestinian' rhetoric and are consequently denying Israelis
the very rights that they are championing for others. They refuse to recognize
that pro-'Palestinian' rhetoric is simply anti-Semitism in disguise.
In point of fact, it's not only homes left 2000 years ago that we are talking
about; many Jews were REALLY forced out of their homes in Samaria, Judea and
East Jerusalem - the area now known as the West Bank (as opposed to leaving at
the request of their leaders as a political ploy) prior to 1948 because of
Jordan's military forces.
The existence of the Palestinian state of Jordan on adjacent land to the State
of Israel has represented a danger to Israel since it was formed! The PLO,
founded and headed by Arafat, which has been devoted to the total destruction of
Israel from its inception (AND IT HASN'T CHANGED)
established its terrorist operations under the auspices of the Jordanian
government and on territory occupied by Jordan.
Unlike Israel, whose leaders created a viable provisional government BEFORE the
establishment of the State because their aim and purpose was BUILDING; the only
'government' the Arabs in Israel have is concerned with DESTRUCTION, not little
details such as infrastructure. Their supporters are also not working on helping
to build a viable government. In fact, many of these supporters are so
determined to hold Israel responsible for
everything that they expect Israel to not only allow another state in its midst,
but actually to create one and run it! Indeed, most of their 'supporters' would
drift away if Israel no longer existed and the
'palestinians' became no different from the millions of other Arabs (as long as
the mistreatment is done by their own leaders and not those impossible Jews, few
people give a damn.)
Some of the 'palestinians' loudest supporters have blamed Israel's 'lack of
cooperation' for the failure of the peace talks and the continuation of the
Intifada (the article is in Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/006/17.22.html): "Israel's recent
offers to the Palestinians to relinquish 80 to 90 percent of the West Bank and
parts of Jerusalem, however far-reaching, didn't go far enough. Israel failed to
offer a blueprint for a viable Palestinian state or a realistic plan dealing
with the claims of 4 million Palestinian refugees living in the Arab
world."
If Americans want to help dispossessed people, let them work for the Native
Americans who were truly FORCED off their own land and still suffer the effects
of the deliberate destruction of their culture. The Native Americans are not
demanding their original lands with the ultimatum of more murders and not one of
them is using their losses as an excuse to set off bombs, which kill multitudes
of people who never did them any harm. (And, in case anyone wonders, yes, I do
support them.) Now, there is a just cause for all people who truly care about
'human rights.'