A Japanese View of the Palestinians
by Yashiko Sagamori
If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of
recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions
about that country of Palestine:
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or
now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what
was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against
the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that
date.
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise
and when did it occur?
You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation. Please tell me,
when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all:
If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic
Arabs collected from all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they
really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for
self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs
suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the
Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here.
The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries
have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it
today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military
means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created
a terrorist organization, cynically called it "the Palestinian people" and
installed it in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. How else can you explain the
refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank"
and Gaza, respectively?
The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less claim
to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut
with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a
constructive goal that motivated them. The so called "Palestinians" have
only one motivation: the destruction of Israel, and in my book that is not
sufficient to consider them a nation" -- or anything else except what they
really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.
In fact, there is only one way to achieve peace in the Middle East. Arab
countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against
Israel and, as the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more
than 50 years of devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate
form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization
from the land of Israel and accepting Israel's ancient sovereignty over Gaza,
Judea, and Samaria.
That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again
was its beginning?
You are absolutely correct in your understanding of the "Palestinians"
murderous motives. I am afraid however that you, along with 99% of the
population of this planet have missed the beginning of WWIII (the enemy call
it Jihad) quite a few years ago. The siege of the US embassy in Tehran in
1979, an event to which the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner had so miserably
failed to respond, can be very well used as the day WWIII stepped out of the
pages of the Koran and into the current events.
I pray the United States and Israel lead the world to victory in this war.
Come to think of it, there is no choice, be you a Christian, a Jew, or even,
believe it or not, a Muslim.
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