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![]() En dan? Waarom zou de huidige generatie Palestijnen moeten worden gestraft voor de dingen die in 1967 of in 1948 zijn gebeurd? De meeste van hen waren toen nog niet eens geboren.
En daarbij, die beslissingen zijn genomen door onverkozen leiders en door het westen gesteunde marionettenkoningen zoals Hoessein van Jordanië. Vind jij dat kinderen moeten worden gestraft voor de fouten van hun ouders?
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Maar wat doe je met 2000 in Camp David ? Daar had deze generatie weldegelijk een kans op vrede. Maar het afschieten van Qassams is gemakkelijker dan een vredesvoorstel verdedigen zeker.
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![]() Onzin, de Israelische organisatie peace now heeft daar een goede informatiewebsite over. Wat in camp david werd voorgesteld was niet aanvaadbaar voor de Palestijnen. Er werd niet gesproken over de vluchtelingen, de meeste settlements zouden blijven en Israel zou de buitengrens controleren van Palestina. Wat voorgesteld werd was niets anders dan een soort Bantustan, en voldeed in de verste verte niet aan de VN-resoluties en de rechtvaardige Palestijnse eisen.
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![]() Do yourselves a favor and read this fantastic op-ed by Salim Mansur, a Muslim associate professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario.
The 60th anniversary of Israel’s birth is a milestone as was every other such anniversary going back to that defining moment for Jews and non-Jews alike when David Ben-Gurion proclaimed independence of the Jewish state in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948. After nearly two millenniums of wandering in strange lands — following destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem by the Romans and forced exile from the land of their prophets — the birth of Israel has offered Jews a secure home where they may prosper without any fear or apology. Israel’s birth was assisted by Britain, joined by France, which carved Arab states in lands that were provinces of the Ottoman Empire. If Israel had been born 10 years earlier then a great many Jews who perished in Hitler’s death camps likely would have survived and Britain’s eventual withdrawal from the region probably would have been less acrimonious. For Ben-Gurion’s generation Israel’s birth was a small promise made even smaller by the UN partitioning British-mandated Palestine, and then arriving so terribly late, even as smoke from the ruins of war-devastated Europe hid the full disclosure of the Jewish devastation in the Holocaust. There is no parallel in modern history to the story of Israel defying the rancour of old and new enemies of Jews. This is the story of a people about whom it can truly be said are indestructible despite whatever their enemies have thrown at them. INSIGNIFICANT FRACTION The present world population is over six and a half billion people, and Jews are an insignificant fraction of this number, estimated somewhere around 14 million, or a mere 0.2% of the total. Yet Jewish contributions in the making of the modern world tower above that of any other people in relative terms and the immense odds of survival as a people given the level of hostility directed at them. From imagining the fundamentals of monotheism to conceiving the fundamentals of space-time relativity of modern physics, Jews have been an immensely creative people through nearly four millenniums of human history. Their achievements have earned them admiration, envy and implacable enmity of non-Jews. But Jews have survived through the ages. They first entered recorded history in pagan times while their contemporaries — the ancient Hittites, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Philistines and the Phoenicians — have vanished totally. Of the ancient peoples from the age of Moses only the Egyptians, the Hindus and the Chinese survive, but their culturally dynamic moment as civilizations lie in the past. And of these three people from ancient times, Egyptians became Arabized as most of them converted to Islam and disowned their pre-Islamic culture. Israel is a tiny sliver of land in a vast tempest-ridden sea of the Arab-Muslim world, and yet it is here the ancient world’s most enduring story is made fresh again by Jews to live God’s covenant with Abraham as told in their sacred literature. Jewish survival as a people maybe providential, but turning a desert into one of the rich economies of the world few imagined six decades ago is a minor proof of how much more could be achieved if those fighting Jews joined with them instead by turning their swords into plowshares. Happy anniversary, Israel. |
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Dus antwoord op de vraag.
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![]() Ja, maar de vraag is: hoe zijn die joden in de vroegere Palestijnse gebieden gekomen. Dat is nu juist de hele kwestie.
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Erken toch eens dat een grote groep Joden altijd in Israel is blijven wonen en dat het in Jeruzalem e.o. de grootste bevolkingsgroep was, en in sommige tijden zelfs de absolute meerderheid. |
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In Palestina hebben de joden zich ook proberen te vestigen in de loop van de eeuwen, maar dit is hun nooit gelukt. De enige plaatsen waar er een zeker aantal joden waren, was Jeruzalem en later Saphed. Wat ik zeker betwist is dat zij ooit de absolute meerderheid zouden hebben gehad in Al Quds, of Jeroesjalaim als u verkiest , sinds de val van Jeruzalem in de Romeinse tijd. Laatst gewijzigd door system : 17 mei 2008 om 14:35. |
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Joods!) En ze hadden de absolute meerderheid in 1948! Laatst gewijzigd door Francientje : 17 mei 2008 om 17:49. |
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![]() May 16, 2008, 0:00 a.m.
Israeli Miracle The crime is not its policies but its insistence on living. By Charles Krauthammer Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Dr. Benjamin Rush. The eminent doctor prepared a series of scientific questions for the expedition to answer. Among them, writes Stephen Ambrose: “What Affinity between their (the Indians’) religious Ceremonies & those of the Jews?” Jefferson and Lewis, like many of their day and ours, were fascinated by the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and thought they might be out there on the Great Plains. They weren’t. They aren’t anywhere. Their disappearance into the mists of history since their exile from Israel in 722 B.C. is no mystery. It is the norm, the rule for every ancient people defeated, destroyed, scattered, and exiled. With one exception, a miraculous story of redemption and return, after not a century or two, but 2,000 years. Remarkably, that miracle occurred in our time. This week marks its 60th anniversary: the return and restoration of the remaining two tribes of Israel — Judah and Benjamin, later known as the Jews — to their ancient homeland. Besides restoring Jewish sovereignty, the establishment of the State of Israel embodied many subsidiary miracles, from the creation of the first Jewish army since Roman times to the only recorded instance of the resurrection of a dead language — Hebrew, now the daily tongue of a vibrant nation of seven million. As historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, Israel is “the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago.” During its early years, Israel was often spoken of in such romantic terms. Today, such talk is considered naive, anachronistic, even insensitive, nothing more than Zionist myth designed to hide the true story, i.e., the Palestinian narrative of dispossession. Not so. Palestinian suffering is, of course, real and heart-wrenching, but what the Arab narrative deliberately distorts is the cause of its own tragedy: the folly of its own fanatical leadership — from Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem (Nazi collaborator, who spent World War II in Berlin), to Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser to Yasser Arafat to Hamas of today — that repeatedly chose war rather than compromise and conciliation. Palestinian dispossession is a direct result of the Arab rejection, then and now, of a Jewish state of any size on any part of the vast lands the Arabs claim as their exclusive patrimony. That was the cause of the war 60 years ago that, in turn, caused the refugee problem. And it remains the cause of war today. Six months before Israel’s birth, the U.N. had decided by a two-thirds majority that the only just solution to the British departure from Palestine would be the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state side by side. The undeniable fact remains: The Jews accepted that compromise; the Arabs rejected it. With a vengeance. On the day the British pulled down their flag, Israel was invaded by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan and Iraq — 650,000 Jews against 40 million Arabs. Israel prevailed, another miracle. But at a very high cost — not just to the Palestinians displaced as a result of a war designed to extinguish Israel at birth, but also to the Israelis, whose war losses were staggering: 6,373 dead. One percent of the population. In American terms, it would take 35 Vietnam memorials to encompass such a monumental loss of life. You rarely hear about Israel’s terrible suffering in that 1948-49 war. You hear only the Palestinian side. Today, in the same vein, you hear that Israeli settlements and checkpoints and occupation are the continuing root causes of terrorism and instability in the region. But in 1948, there were no “occupied territories.” Nor in 1967 when Egypt, Syria and Jordan joined together in a second war of annihilation against Israel. Look at Gaza today. No Israeli occupation, no settlements, not a single Jew left. The Palestinian response? Unremitting rocket fire killing and maiming Israeli civilians. The declared casus belli of the Palestinian government in Gaza behind these rockets? The very existence of a Jewish state. Israel’s crime is not its policies but its insistence on living. On the day the Arabs — and the Palestinians in particular — make a collective decision to accept the Jewish state, there will be peace, as Israel proved with its treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Until that day, there will be nothing but war. And every “peace process,” however cynical or well-meaning, will come to nothing. © 2008, The Washington Post Writers Group Laatst gewijzigd door Francientje : 17 mei 2008 om 17:58. |
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![]() Als usurpatoren ja. Massaal neergestreken zoals bepaalde vogels op land dat niet van hen was.
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Hier het standpunt van Peace Now voor een oplossing van het conflict. Ja, ze kunnen altijd dromen. De Palestijnen willen een eigen staat én Israel ook. Peace Now Positions Two States for the two Peoples - Principles of a Final Agreement - 07/08/2003 Peace Now’s Position on the Permanent Settlement between Israel and Palestine The Starting point for a permanent settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is mutual recognition of the right of both peoples to full national life in the area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. In order to promote peace and reconciliation between the two peoples, Israel should adopt the following principles: The Palestinian people have the right to self-determination, including the right to establish its own state alongside the State of Israel. The Green Line will constitute the guiding line for the determination of the permanent borders between the State of Israel and the Palestinian State. Israeli settlers in locations which, after the determination of the permanent borders, fall within the Palestinian State, will be able to return to Israel and will receive appropriate compensation. It will not be possible to achieve a permanent agreement without evacuating settlements. During the negotiations the two sides will determine those settlements in which Israeli settlers may remain; settlers will be required to recognize and respect Palestinian sovereignty. The permanent agreement will provide security arrangements enabling the Israel Defense Forces to protect the security of Israel. These security arrangements will include, inter alia, the demilitarization of the Palestinian State with regard to certain types. Israeli and Palestinian authorities will cooperate against hostile elements from within the Palestinian state who pose a threat to Israeli security. Jerusalem will not be divided. It will be recognized that members of both nations live in the city, and that both have national and religious rights. The area of the city will be redefined and agreed and coordinated municipal frameworks will be established within its borders in order to enable each community to manage its own internal affairs. Two capitals will exist within the municipal area: the capital of Israel in the Jewish areas, and the capital of Palestine in the Arab areas. The status of the holy sites will be determined through negotiations based on maintaining the religious rights and freedom of worship of all religions. The permanent settlement will include a comprehensive solution of the problem of the refugees (from 1948) and the dislocated residents (from 1967). The Palestinian State will be entitled to absorb refugees within its borders according to its own considerations. A compensation arrangement for refugees will be agreed upon with international support. After such agreement is reached, the parties will categorically waive any further claims for the return of refugees, restitution of property rights or the right of settlement in the area of the other state. Improving the economic conditions and well being of the residents of Israel and Palestine will help to stabilize and consolidate the peace agreement. Israel will advocate joint management of natural and environmental resources and economic cooperation with the Palestinian State. The framework and scale of cooperation between the two states will reflect the needs and capacities of each. Borders will be open to the passage of goods and workers as agreed upon by the two parties. Israel will actively support the Palestinian economy and will help recruit international support and investments to promote economic development of the Palestinian State. |
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Overigens niet alleen in deze praktijken lijken de joden verdacht veel op hun beulen uit WO II. De schandalige manier waarop zij de Palestijnen behandelen als tweederangsburgers. Niet om fier op te zijn. Zij maken van de Palestijnse gebieden één groot concentratiekamp, prikkeldraad, muur en geschutstorens incluis. En dan maar fulmineren tegen Iraniërs die zouden werken aan het vervaardigen van kernwapens terwijl zij al decennia atoombommen bezitten. Moet er nog zand zijn? Laatst gewijzigd door system : 17 mei 2008 om 21:08. |
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