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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (1186)	4/9/2002 10:14:19 PM
From: c.horn	Respond to of 2279

The end result of the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence was the creation of a Jewish State slightly larger than that which was proposed by the United Nations two years before. What remained of that almost-created second Arab Palestinian State was gobbled up by Egypt occupying the Gaza Strip and by Trans-Jordan occupying Judea-Samaria ,the "West Bank" of the Jordan River and Jerusalem. In the next year (1950) Trans-Jordan formally merged this West Bank territory into itself and granted all those Arabs living there Jordanian citizenship. Since Trans-Jordan was no longer confined to one side of the Jordan River, it renamed itself simply "JORDAN." In the final analysis, the Arabs of Palestine ended up with nearly 85% of the original territory of Palestine. But that was still not 100% and thus the conflict between Arab and Jew for "Palestine" would continue through four more wars and continuous Arab terrorist attacks upon the Israeli citizenry! It continues to this very day. From 1948-67 when all of the West Bank ... including Jerusalem! ended up under Arab [Jordanian] control, no effort was EVER made to create a second Palestinian State for the Arabs living there. Surely you do not expect Israel to now provide these same Arabs with their own country when their fellow Arabs failed to do so! And isn't it curious how Arafat and his PLO discovered their "ancient" identity and a need for "self-determination" and "human dignity" on this very same West Bank ONLY AFTER Israel regained this territory three years later in 1967 following Jordan's attempt attempt to destroy Israel! Why was no request ever made upon King Hussein of Jordan when he "occupied" the West Bank? Is it logical that the PLO was formed in 1964 to regain the lands they would lose three years later in 1967? This sort of logic makes sense only to those who who have not learned that the PLO was formed to DESTROY Israel. And that is STILL their goal! A cosmetic name change from PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) to PA (Palestinian Authority) does not change the spots on THIS tiger! Throughout much of May 1967, the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian armies mobilized along Israel's narrow and seemingly indefensible borders in preparation for a massive invasion to eliminate the State of Israel. The battle cry heard throughout the Arab world was then, as it continues to be... "Slaughter the Jews" and "Throw the Jews into the sea!" But the Jews of Israel, remembering 2,000 years of being butchered, gassed, burned and skinned eg. The Crusades, The Spanish Inquisition, the Arab rampages of early Palestine and particularly the Holocaust, planned and executed a perfect pre-emptive strike against Egypt. Within two hours the Egyptian Air Force did not exist... most of its planes destroyed while still on the runways! Unaware that the Egyptians had no more air force, King Hussein of Jordan, launched his attack from the his West Bank into Israel's belly while Syrian troops prepared to descend down the Golan Heights mountain range into northern Israel. After ONLY six days of air, sea and hand-to-hand ground warfare, Israel defeated all three Arab armies along three separate fronts, taking control of the entire Sinai Desert from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem and its Old City) from Jordan. The God of Israel was surely watching over His children! Most importantly was the return to Israel of its holy 3,000 year old city of Jerusalem along the western edge of the West Bank... the same Jerusalem from which all Jews had been denied access for the 19 years following Jordan's seizure and control over it following the first Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9. Unfortunately, Israel then became an "occupier" of this "West Bank" and the Gaza Strip along with its 850,000 Palestinian Arabs who were living there. These Arabs would refer to themselves as "refugees" and joined the masses of refugees from the previous war of 1948-9. Once again we see Palestinian Arabs becoming refugees by their own actions, the actions of their leaders and from the actions of their fellow Arabs from neighboring states! Israel was responsible for bringing about some of its own problems. The Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were packed and ready to leave following their defeat. Suddenly the victorious IDF General Moshe Dayan persuaded them to stay. This singular act stunned no one more than the Arab enemy themselves who could not believe that manifestation of Jewish madness! After all, the Arabs knew what THEY would have done to the Jews if THEY had won! Dayan's plan was to educate them, offer them modern medical treatment, provide them with employment both in the West Bank AND inside Israel Proper and to live amongst them in hopes of building a bridge to the Arab world. Israel is now paying dearly for this typically naive "Leftist" gesture. That "bridge" led to BOTH Intifadas and world-wide Palestinian terrorism. From a frightened and defeated enemy, these "Palestinian" Arabs under Israel's jurisdiction turned into a confident, hateful and dangerous enemy now on their way toward forming a terrorist state determined to destroy Israel! Usually when one side starts a war and loses both the war AND some territory, no one on the planet would expect the winner to give back anything! This not only sounds preposterous, it is preposterous! But the Jews (I hate to admit) had this insane obsession of wanting the world to love them and thus were willing to give back the entire Sinai (oil fields, air bases and endless miles of security buffer) to Egypt for a piece of paper. Thus in 1982 Egypt regained their Sinai and Israel lost a massive buffer against any future Egyptian aggression! Israel still occupies Syria's Golan Heights which had been used solely for terrorist incursions into and artillery bombardment upon Israel's northern settlements. The Golan should never be given back to Israel's most vicious enemy! And of course, Israel still occupies the West Bank with it's ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND (and growing daily AND exponentially) "Palestinian" Arabs. Had Israel done to these Arabs what the Arabs would have done to the Jews had THEY won, she would have expelled these hostile Arabs and made it officially part of a Greater Israel. By remaining an "occupier," Israel was set up for a campaign of vicious propaganda, the scope and intensity of which the world has never before seen!