Nadene Goldfoot
Yasser Arafat, also spelled Yāsir ʿArafāt, byname of Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Qudwah al-Ḥusaynī, also called Abū ʿAmmār, (born August 24?, 1929, Cairo?, Egypt [see Researcher’s Note]—died November 11, 2004, Paris, France), president (1996–2004) of the Palestinian Authority (PA), chairman (1969–2004) of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah, the largest of the constituent PLO groups. In 1993 he led the PLO to a peace agreement with the Israeli government. Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994.
Hillary Clinton was a shoe-in with most Jews until she kissed Suha Arafat. ''Some of you may or may have not been to the Middle East,'' Mrs. Clinton said, ''but a kiss is a handshake.'' Everyone knew that Arafat was a terrorist and killed many Jews. If one had any feelings about life and who was a friend of Israel, should they kiss the wife of one's enemy? Suha had never claimed to feel friendly towards Jews.
It was the Jordanians who gave these important places the name-West Bank, and it was the Jordanians who demanded the land from the British who held the mandate over the land in the 1920s, and the Brits, who had promised this Jewish Homeland to the Jews who caved in and gladly gave it to them. Then the Jordanians annexed Judaea and Samaria illegally in 1950. It was also the Brits who had kept Jews out of Great Britain from 1290 to 1655 (365 years) by a decree, so one can see their emotional animosity toward Jews.
Palestine was in such a poor condition when newly arrived Russian Jews managed to get there-a feat one would disregard today to undertake-they were desperate to get out of Russia and the constant pogroms Jewish communities would be victim of. Their ancient communities were no more, and the weeds and mosquitoes had taken over the land. They started from scratch in building homes for themselves. These homes developed into communities and their impact has been the opposite of what Arab propaganda claims.
From 1967 to 1992, the population and economy of Judea and Samaria-their original land of where the tribe of Judah was allocated to them by Joshua and Samaria-the land surrounding Jerusalem now referred to as the West Bank, had grown substantially. This caused the standard of living of the Palestinians, as well as the average per capita income, to increase almost exponentially. It was partly due to the Israeli "Marshall Plan,"which expanded the infra-structure, modernized roads and the supplies of water, electricity and sewage, and made 20th century medical care available. telephone and radio technology ws upgraded to 20th century levels. Economic progress was also due in part to the integration of the Palestinian workforce into the Israeli economy by the employment of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a wide variety of Israeli business and agricultural endeavors.
Tourism grew throughout Judea and Samaria which was a further boost to the area's economy. The population of Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip more than tripled from 1967 to 1994, with an Arab population of about 950,000 in 1967 growing to more than 3,000,000 by 1994. The fact that Muslims still practiced having multiple wives and no birth control helped increase their numbers quickly.
Seven universities, some sponsored in part by Jewish donors as well as the Israeli government, came into being where only 3 teacher-training institutions had existed before.
The Jews didn't displace Palestinians. There has always been some Jews living in Palestine after 70 CE's destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. The Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria stimulated substantial growth and improvement. It has been noted that when an Israeli town of any of the first 4 types was erected, (and they usually had Palestinians working on the building process earning a living by doing so) areas around it that were uninhabited became wanted pieces of land for Palestinian shops selling agricultural goods and cottage industry wares to the Israelis. The value of that land had increased because of all this. Later, what happened was that Palestinian houses followed the shops.
It was between June 1967 and December 1972 tht Israel established 14 villages-small towns in Golan Heights, and 6 in Judaea and Samaria, 7 in the Gaza Strip and North Sinai and 5 in East and South sinai. There are 3 different types of these. Nahal villages were established by the Israel Defence Forces. These villages were military points, like those held by any other uit of the Israel Defence Forces. Other villages intrinsically civilian were established in areas which Israel hoped might be assigned to its jurisdiction by peace treaties. Communities established in areas where the political future was not expressly covered by Israel's position, but hopefully even if became populated by Arab would be able to have an integrated society. No Israelis, even those willing to relinquish large parts of the administrated areas, would accept any arrangement that banned Jews from living in places which are of religious and historical significance which certainly describes Judea and Samaria. The total number of Israelis who had settled in the administered areas since 1967 by 1973 included Nahal military settlements was 4,200. A report shows a 19.05% increase of Jews living in Judea and Samaria in the last 5 years, or an actual growth of 74,132 people.
During the decades after 1967, there were no road-blocks or lock-downs or curfews except on rare occasions when the Israeli military or central intelligence agencies learned of the presence of terrorists in a specific village or town. Arabs from Judea-Samaria and Gaza Strip shopped in Tel Aviv, and Jews shopped in east Jerusalem and Ramallah-a city of Arabs.
As an ancient town, Ramallah has buildings incorporating masonry from the time of Herod the Great (reigned 37–4 BCE), but no complete structure antedates the Crusades of the 11th century CE. Ramallah is located 10 km (6.21 mi) north of Jerusalem at an average elevation of 880 meters above sea level, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority (PA).
From 1983 to 1993, Arafat based himself in Tunisia, and began to shift his approach from open conflict with the Israelis to negotiation. In 1988, he acknowledged Israel's right to exist and sought a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In 1994 he returned to Palestine, settling in Gaza City and promoting self-governance for the Palestinian territories. He lost that city to Hamas terror, a break-away group of Fatah, his terror group.
Since 1994, when 96% of Palestinians living in Israel came under the autonomous and independent control of the Palestinian National Authority (Fatah), that the economies of Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip have been crippled and the lives of the Palestinians wrecked by the Authority's despotic and terrorist rule. Hamas terrorists are a division of the PA and were made up of those who wanted even more terrorist acts done to the Jews. It happened that Judea and Samaria's GDP in 2003 was about 1/10th of what it was in 1992 Only because of Arafat's terror war was Israel forced to implement the now infamous and wildly exaggerated harsh measures to stop terror attacks and protect civilian lives.
The so-called "apartheid roads" did not exist prior to Arafat's 1994 ascent to power, nor are they apartheid. During the decades from 1967 on, Israelis and Arabs used the same roads, many of which ran as main streets through the towns and villages of Judea-Samaria, bringing in millions of tourist dollars to impoverished small-town Arab merchants. Only after Arafat began his terror war, and Israelis driving through Arab towns found themselves in mortal danger, did Israel build the "Israelis only" (not "Jews only") roads. Rather than take punitive measures against Arab offenders who murdered or injured Israeli motorists (Jewish, Christian an Moslem), did the government decide instead to create this by-pass system so that Israelis could reach Judea-Samaria and Gaza Strip destinations without exposing themselves to terrorist attacks.
Until Arafat began his terror war, the growth of the Israeli population in Judea-Samaria and Gaza, and the expansion of Israeli villages and towns in those territories, was highly beneficial economically for Judean, Samarian and Gazan Arab populations, and did not entail significant loss of Arab privately owned land. Israel's government
offered legal recourse to the rare cases of unfair expropriation, and was accompanied by a far, far greater growth of Arab population and villages in Judea-Samaria and Gaza.
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Resource: Update; Earlier this month, Israel announced plans to advance 5,000 residential units in pre-existing settlements; it did not announce plans to advance 5,000 settlements.
https://www.camera.org/article/voa-corrects-israel-not-advancing-5000-settlements/?fbclid=IwAR2mtrJyP7QmcZAgCcVZZzHBmi4QIDBX7WB7T5Q2IC7HbIxyt1i8W3K25DM
Publication of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, BIG LIES: demolishing the myths of the propaganda war against Israel
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ramallah
ISRAEL 101-Product of StandWithUs, from 2010
https://www.jpost.com/international/as-first-lady-hillary-was-a-prized-jewish-keynoter-until-she-kissed-suha-arafat-398658
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_and_Samaria_Area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
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