Nadene Goldfoot
Some people just aren't ready to vote on a par with others. It's like taking black and white, mixing it and expecting to get sky blue.
In the 1967 war, when all of Israel's neighbors attacked her along with others for religious and political reasons, Israel won back single handedly these territories (Gaza Strip and the West Bank--Judea and Samaria) including East Jerusalem, which was subsequently annexed by Israel. The war brought about an exodus of Palestinians, estimated at half a million, who had been waiting on their leaders' orders to be patient and then they could take over the Jews' homes after the Arabs won the war. It was a war like 10 to 1; the 1 being little Israel. It was a shock to the world that Israel won, and in 6 (Six) days at that; a slap in the face to the Arabs, certainly.
They were so mad about it that they held a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, Africa about it and decided on their 3 famous NO's. No to recognition of Israel, No to peace with Israel, NO negotiations with Israel. That was on September 1, 1967. Here was their first educational error. The resolutions were influenced by Nasser and also included the condition of "maintenance of the rights of the Palestinian people in their nation".
Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both Nasser’s decision to threaten to destroy Israel in 1967, and the subsequent enthusiasm of his followers, was an ‘antisemitic impulse as it was carried over from the Nazi period to the post-war period and then to the next generation.’ It was not Israel or Zionism that provoked the 1967 war but ‘the latent anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the Arab world’ and the fact that ‘Nasser was gripped by the same destructive sentiments that he whipped up in the masses.’ Did Obama know of this book? Kuntzel was not alone in his thinking.
There never was a nation of Palestine. There was Israel, though. It was the Romans who attacked Israel-actually attacked one of the states, Judaea in 70 CE, slaughtering, starving and making slaves out of the living they captured who had lived through it all. Then by a descendant of Rabbi Eleazar of Modiin, Bar Kokhba, in 132 CE, who had gathered up a huge army of Jews wanting Jerusalem returned to them, fought this famous Roman army and held out for 3 whole years before the young man was killed in battle in 135. The Romans had an army of 35,000 under Hadrian and the commander, Julius Severus. The Romans were so angry and defiant about this that they renamed the land, Palaestina/ or Palestine, for the known enemy of the Judeans, the Philistines.
From then on, it was called Palestine, and so were the people, Jew or Muslim. The Ottoman Empire ruled Palestine for 402 years, from 1516 until the end of World War I in 1918:
During World War I, Britain and Turkey (Ottoman Empire) were enemies, and British forces entered Palestine in 1917. The Ottoman Empire lost the war and was defeated at the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918.
- League of Nations 30 year Mandate
- In 1922, the League of Nations placed Palestine under British administration. The British Mandate included the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
By 22 September 2005, Israel's withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip to the 1967 Green Line, and the eviction of the four settlements in Samaria, was completed. The purpose of the plan was to improve Israel's security and international status in the absence of peace negotiations with the Palestinians. It was done in the name of having peace with the Palestinians; giving them the land, homes, business, everything. What did they do? Within a heartbeat, they were attacking the Jews with rockets, mortars and missiles. I thought it was a mistake they'd never make again.
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