"How about this idea: Since Israel is obviously such a militaristic and genocidal state, isn't it irresponsible to want to live next to it? Shouldn't Palestinian Arabs move elsewhere in the Arab world so that their children are not put in danger from the IDF and the wildly rampaging settlers we hear so much about? In fact, when an Arab olive tree is allegedly uprooted by those evil Jews, doesn't that mean that it is time to move?"There's a lot of truth in this short paragraph. After all, hundreds of Huffington Posters and bloggers like Sharmine Narwani responded to the settler killings with the following reaction: "If it is so dangerous, why don't they just leave?"
The problem, of course, is that you can say the exact same thing about the Palestinians too. And the Lebanese, and the Syrians, and the Gazans, whoever. If Gaza is a "concentration camp," and if the people living there are being "slowly exterminated," then why not flee the country? We know they have tunnels, and the last time I checked tunnels work in both directions, so there is nothing physically stopping them from going. That's the way it always works for people who are really in danger of their lives, they run away and become refugees.
Of course, the classic response to this is that the Palestinians are living in their homeland, and why should they leave? Exactly. The Palestinians make a choice to stay every single day, even though they recognize that may mean suffering and more violence. I will not fault them for that decision, because I can understand it. However, choices continue to have consequences. If you complain about the settler-on-Palestinian violence, but your only response to Palestinian-on-settler violence is to tell the settlers to leave, that strikes me as hypocritical. The Palestinians can leave too, if their lives are so hard. And to the settlers, the West Bank is just as much their homeland as the Palestinians, and unlike the Palestinians most of them wouldn't mind sharing it.
This in turn brings me back to one of the points that critics of Israel always love to make: That the Palestinians have no choice, have never had choices, and always "react" to the choices of Israel (or in this case the settlers). It is good to remind them that the Palestinians do have choices, and make them every day. Sometimes we all forget that.
Idiocy.
ReplyDelete"The Palestinians make a choice to stay every single day, even though they recognize that may mean suffering and more violence." So they should move? To save the Israelis the trouble of forcing them out.
The Palestinians are on their own land and the Israelis in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan are not.
Therefore it is the Israelis who should get out - forcibly removed if it comes to it.The Israelis are there ILLEGALLY. They are not in their "homeland" - for a lot of them that is not even in Israel but Europe or America or Australia even. They must be made to comply with law.
Zionism gone mad in its determination to get all of the land as they progressively clear it of Palestinians.
As far as your rubbish goes you are right. Palestinians don't have a choice.
Often you talk about Palestinians like low life with no rights - and this is one of those times.
One SICK, SICK, SICK bunny wabbit.
Anonymous Amanda, the Jews - most of them have no place to go back to.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is their homeland and you talk of the Jews like they're low life with no rights and you talk of forcibly evicting them from their land and homes.
Israel has never forced out a single Arab and you would advocate something done to the Jews you would never stand for it if it was done to the Arabs.
The fact that you anti-Zios think Jewish and Arab rights are mutually exclusive ensures there will never be peace in the Middle East.
NormanF
ReplyDeleteThe West Bank is NOT the homeland of Israelis.
Of course the West Bank, aka Judea and Samaria, is the homeland of the Jews.
ReplyDeleteJews have been living there for thousands of years.
Thousands of years before the "Palestinians" were even constructed as a people, Jews lived there.
So, sorry.
Also, anonymous, I have to say Israel is really doing well. I mean, think of it. Despite 90 years of incessant Arab violence against the Jews, Israel is thriving economically and has more Nobel prize winners than the entire Arab nation combined.
That's quite an accomplishment, you must admit.
Good for them.
You people don't even know your own history.
ReplyDeleteI ain't about to go into "who got where first", but it's enough that the Jews came out of Egypt - and, if they went into an empty space then their so-called Dog would not have needed to tell them to slaughter everyone - HEY, they are still doing that.
They left.
The people who were left were the Palestinians.
You don't get to claim come back after 3000 years and say "Hey! We were here 3000 years ago. Now - GET LOST"
It is not yours any longer.
Sure Israel is doing well on land that it had no right to.
Good luck with that.
Anonymous:
ReplyDelete"The West Bank is NOT the homeland of Israelis."
How is it the "homeland" of the Palestinians?
You do know that that in current terms of region, that there is no
"Palestine", and that all of the manufactured "Palestinians" are nothing other than Arabs from surrounding Arab countries, right?
BTW, why do you think they call it "the WEST Bank"....take a look at a
map and see what it is "west" of....JORDAN.....where most "Palestinians"
came from, along with Syria, Lebanon, TransJordan.
As for "You people don't even know your own history."
Maybe time to re-evaluate the situation. It seems to be you that is lacking in the area of "your people's history".
@anynymous, who said "The Palestinians are on their own land and the Israelis in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan are not."
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>"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel".
- Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council -
>"There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it".
- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -
>"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria".
- Representant of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956 -
>"You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people".
- Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yassir Arafat -
So WHO is it that does not "know their own people's history"????????
"Occupied Palestine Territories" - in countless international documents. End of.
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