When Israel Tried All They Could To Bring About Peace with You Know Who

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

Let's all sing; "Kum By Yah, my dear, Kum by Yah....

Back in 2004, when I started writing in a blog, I saw that Israel had such high hopes for living in Peace with the Arabs, and had great plans to carry their dreams out. This one's by Chaim Hertzog from 1984. 

 Everything they tried to offer was turned down.  It became futile.  A two-state solution was not going to happen.  That would only bring a violent amoralistic people closer  in order to let them kill Jews easier. Hamas terrorists have been in power in Gaza for the past 17 years, and Israel has thus had 17 years of hell from them. With all of that, Israel has to listen to the drumming of other countries demanding a two-state solution calling for the death of Israel in that calling.

There are several Israeli views of the peace process. The official position of the State of Israel is that peace ought to be negotiated on the basis of giving up some control of the occupied territories in return for a stop to the conflict and violence. Israel's position is that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ought to be the negotiating partner in the peace talks, and not Hamas, which has at times engaged with Israel in escalations of the conflict and attacks Israel's civilian population. The Oslo Accords and the Camp David 2000 summit negotiations revealed the possibility of a two state system being accepted by Israeli leadership as a possible peace solution.

The two-state solution is the consensus position among the majority of Israelis. However, the violence of the second intifada and the political success of Hamas (a group dedicated to Israel's destruction) have convinced many Israelis that peace and negotiation are not possible and that a two-state system is not the answer. Hardliners believe that Israel should annex all Palestinian territory, or at least all minus the Gaza Strip. Israelis view the peace process as hindered and near impossible due to terrorism on the part of Palestinians and do not trust Palestinian leadership to maintain control. In fact, Pedahzur goes as far as to say that suicide terrorism succeeded where peace negotiations failed in encouraging withdrawal by Israelis from cities in the West Bank. A common theme throughout the peace process has been a feeling that the Palestinians give too little in their peace offers. (I'll add that all of the expectations are always on the shoulders of Israel and not Palestinians.)

  It's been 56 years since the Six Day War of 1967 and these Palestinians who have been followers of Hamas terrorists still go by the 1967 code of NO, NO, No to peace with Israel.  (The Central Elections Commission released the final results on Sunday, 29 January 2006, and announced that Change and Reform (Hamas) had won 74 of the 132 seats, while Fatah trailed with 45. According to the results, Hamas won the large majority of the constituency seats but was more narrowly ahead on the lists.)

I ask the rest of the world, when have you ever faced a people like the Palestinian Hamas terrorists whose idea of fighting has degenerated into such sadistic ways of killing people as has been found in Israel's attack on October 7, 2023?  

Here's what I wrote back then in June 2007:

         Qassam rockets shot at Israel by Hamas 

The 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip want to become neighbors and have their own government alongside of Israel. To show their friendliness, they continually shot Qassam rockets into Israel and kidnapped several Israeli soldiers. Yet they knew they were dependent on Israel since all its fuel and medical supplies have to come through Israel.  2007

    Sderot, Israel near Gaza border, hit constantly by these Qassam rockets/missiles. 2007 

Palestinian Qassam Missile Attacks Target Israeli Towns

SDEROT, ISRAEL - JULY 9: Ultra-Orthodox Jew David Fendell inspects the damage to his neighbor's house which took a direct hit from a Palestinian Qassam rocket early morning July 9, 2006 in Sderot near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. More than 20 of the crude handmade missiles struck the town and surrounding areas over the weekend. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)  I ask, did the USA, our friend, or the other countries help Israel or even care about these constant attacks?  Did they put any pressure on the Palestinians to stop shooting someone they wanted live next to?  2007

Naturally, when shelling started from Gaza, Israel was forced to close all of its border crossing sites with Gaza. After all, the Islamist Hamas's charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, not an exactly friendly thing to do when one wants to move into the neighborhood. This included the Rafah terminal which lies on the border with Egypt that bypasses Israel.

                Palestinian Arab  2007

The fundraising campaign unveiled Thursday fits "within the framework of the kingdom's well-known historic role in standing with the brotherly Palestinian people," said Dr Abdullah al-Rabeeah, head of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.  King Salman donated 30 million Saudi riyals (roughly $8 million) to the campaign, while Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler, donated 20 million Saudi riyals (roughly $5.3 million), SPA said.                    

                                      Saudi Arabian donator

80% of this future Palestinian state depends on foreign aid. They have not come up with the where-with-all to support themselves to any degree as yet. Right now they are living in poor conditions. They have spent much time fighting over who is the supreme ruler of Palestinians, the Fatah group who was in power, or the Hamas group who were supported by Iran. Fatah of course has won in this Gaza Strip.

Israel will continue to supply electricity and water to the people there for humane reasons. Palestinians have enough food in grocery stores to last for several weeks. With all the internal killings going on, Palestinians need a steady supply of blood, which was running low as of yesterday. Early in the week blood was brought in from Ramallah.

Israel said it was ready to supply humanitarian aid there. They wonder who will accept the delivery of such aid on the Palestinian side as at present they know of no one. The takeover by Hamas presents problems as Israel will have no dealings with these radicals who want to kill them, so they have no one to coordinate the border crossings.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat stated that the international community should make sure that no harm comes to these people and that their situation does not worsen. John Ging, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, commented that not only do they need aid but also commercial trade comes through the crossings that are now closed.
                             

     Palestinian Politics; friends for the time to take the picture--then fighting again 

                                   

                   Fatah's leader, Arafat

One would have thought that for people so dependent on Israel for so many things, they would have shown more neighborliness when preparing for statehood. Fatah is the group that refuses to have peace with Israel and they now rule. Palestine will have to remain on the back burner.  Fatah has changed their name to the Palestinian Authority or PA.  Today we are doing away with Hamas-who had said that Fatah was too weak for them.  Could they say that to Arafat?  

Resource:

https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2007/06/gaza-palestinians-for-neighbors-not-1.html

https://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2013/01/two-palestinian-states-oy.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_peace_process

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election#:~:text=The%20Central%20Elections%20Commission%20released,narrowly%20ahead%20on%20the%20lists.