Watching C Span Debate Israel's Position on Living in Judea and Samaria

Nadene Goldfoot                                        

 
Our Congress commenced today, this first day of the new year of 2017 and what were they talking about?  Israel.  They were debating a resolution backing Israel's position after Obama shocked everyone with Kerry voting against Israel at the UN, and then having the Chutzpa to defend this stand afterwards, breaking a 30 some year practice to be defensive for the tiny Democratic state of Israel who is fighting for her life.
                                                                           

The Democrats were against Israel while I was watching, and the last I noticed was from Vermont.  They are aghast that 600,000 Jews now live in their ancient homeland and think it is strictly land for the Palestinians to claim as Palestine.  Good Grief!
                                                                         

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel meeting with Arab citizens 

Does anyone realize that there are 1.7 million Arabs living in Israel?  They are full citizens with every right anyone else has there.  May I remind our people that there is but one Israel and 49 Muslim majority states already?  Yet another Muslim state, Palestine, is to be 100% Muslim?                                        
                                                                         

Why do these  Democratic Congressmen allow a Palestine to be strictly Muslim without any Jews living there at all and yet it's fine that Israel is so Democratic to have so many Muslims living among them?  No one has brought this fact up.
                                                                           

Is the United States all one religion like England started off to be?  One had to be Episcopalian there.  That's why the Pilgrims left in 1620.  So that's okay for the Palestinians because they have already stated it will be Judenrein, like Germany wanted to be.  If Israel can hold 1.7 Arabs in their 8,000 sq miles of land, why can't the Palestinians have 600,000 Jews in their Palestine I'd like to know?  Why is it that whatever they want--no one questions it?
                                                                             

Israel has already done this with Gaza and got in return land holding families to be turned into an arsenal and platform in their backyard in which to shell Israel from.
                                                                           

Your argument is so lame.  Israel has the right to have as many Jews living in their own ancient homeland as they wish.  It was their land originally and was granted to them again by all the nations of the world who belonged to the League of Nations.  It was granted state's rights again by the UN.  International lawyers such as Professor Eugene Kontorovich have stated that Israel is in the right to do so.  They had been attacked in an aggressive war by a gang of armies and they won.  That means everything.  It means they now have their own land back, despite what Europe thinks.
                                                                               
Listen, world.  Europe has never been fair to the Jews.  We have suffered anti-Semitism for thousands of years.   It's time you realize that your pronouncement against Israel is age-old anti-Semitism and you have not-through the United Nations of today, been treating Israel fairly at all.

It has always been Israelis who have fought their wars.  No American has ever had to fight for them.  It was Israelis who fought in 1967 when 5 countries attacked them.  It was Israelis who won the battle allowing their families to finally be able to visit the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount where their Temple of Solomon had once stood.                                                        

Israel expects borders which will be defensible, not the 1967 Armistice borders, that will not constitute a temptation to a potential aggressor as did these pre-1967 lines.  Israel has, since 1967, offered to negotiate with the Arab Governments a true peace which would also provide for secure borders.  Israel has insisted that it makes no prior conditions, and that everything will be open for discussion in the negotiations.  Israel must have a few positions on where the secure borders ought to be.  Israel has never wanted to annex a large Arab population , but its position is that the River Jordan should no longer be open to crossing by Arab troops and that, to assure this, there must be an Israeli foothold in the Jordan Valley.  These conditions  are as they stood in 1973.  Now, 2017 is upon us; Forty-four years have since passed.  Arabs have been attacking during these years.  Peace has been wanted by Israel but the Arabs still opt for attacking them.  And the Chutzpa of it all is that the world, including some in Congress, expect Israel to sign on any paper for a 2-state solution.  They expect nothing from the Arabs!

                                                                             
Israel has been most fair to all their people as the Republicans who spoke today explained.  They said much that you  Democrats were not listening to.  I've never been so ashamed of a group of people in my life as the Democrats who spoke today against Israel.  I'm certainly glad I switched over years ago from being a Democrat to a Republican.  What used to be a party for Jews is sticking it to them and they don't even realize it in their desperation to defend their party.  Who is the party who is hurt by it?  Israel.  May the Republicans win their debate today.