Monday, May 23, 2011

The whole story in one line

Deputy FM Danny Ayalon
Fresnozionism.org
22 May '11

http://fresnozionism.org/2011/05/the-whole-story-in-one-line/


Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon recently tweeted (I know, it sounds so ridiculous) this:

הסכסוך אינו סכסוך טריטוריאלי ועל כן המו”מ לא יכול להתבסס על סוגיית שטח

Which means,

The conflict is not a territorial conflict, so negotiations cannot be based on the issue of territory.

This is the whole story in one line.

Today I attended a talk by Yaakov Kirschen, the Dry Bones cartoonist. He said the same thing in slightly different words:

Everyone is upset about Obama’s mention of 1967 lines. This is irrelevant. The only issue, and one that he did not mention, is that the Arab world does not recognize the Jewish state of Israel as a native part of the Middle East.

This is what ‘recognition’ means.

It is what Arafat never changed the PLO charter to include, despite the fact that he agreed to do so in the Oslo agreements and despite pleas from President Clinton that he do it.

It is what the Arab Initiative does not offer — it refers only to “normal relations” even after Israel has withdrawn to aforesaid insecure borders.

It is what Mahmoud Abbas meant when he refused to say that Israel was the state of the Jewish people.

And despite the fact that President Obama claims to accept this principle himself, he proposes that the Palestinian Arabs be granted sovereignty without agreeing to accept the idea — in particular without saying that millions of descendants of 1948 refugees do not have a ‘right’ to the place now called ‘Israel’.

I think most people in the US and Israel understood this from 1948 to 1993. It was clear to everyone that the Arabs wanted Israel replaced by an Arab state, and they were ready to fight to make this happen. But when Arafat lied about his aims, Israelis sick of war and wanting to finally be ‘normal’, jumped at the chance to believe him.

Now, after Arab terrorism has claimed more than a thousand Israeli victims, most realize that it was all a trick. Unfortunately, in America and Europe and among Israel’s extreme Left, it’s easy for those who (for various reasons) want to see Israel out of the territories to insist that the principle is fine, it’s just that Israel hasn’t made enough concessions. They will continue to say this until there isn’t anything left to concede.

Recognition is everything. But if we are realistic we know that neither Hamas, Fatah nor any other Arab nation is prepared to grant it today — even the ones that are allegedly at ‘peace’ with Israel. The Arab world hasn’t changed its position since 1948.

As Danny Danon argues, the Arabs will abrogate the Oslo agreements by unilaterally seeking recognition of statehood at the UN. It can also be argued that the countenancing of terrorism by the PA, the Hamas-Fatah agreement and the refusal to provide recognition of Israel also constitute a rejection of Oslo.

It’s not possible to continue pretending that there is a path to peace through negotiation with the Fatah-Hamas Palestinian Authority. Obama’s plan only makes things worse by moving the US closer to the Arab position. Time for Plan B:

Let’s accept that the root of the problem (Kirschen said this, too) is the Arab refusal to accept a Jewish state in the Mideast and work on that.


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1 comment:

  1. Ken Besig, IsraelMay 23, 2011 at 4:00 PM

    The trouble is that many Israeli Leftists, Left wing journalists, and far too many Left wing Israeli military leaders like Rabin, Sharon, Lipkin Shachach, Ashkenazi, and practically the entire Left wing political crew all espouse the line that the root of the Palestinian Israeli conflict is the supposedly Israeli "occupation" of Palestinian lands.
    These people have had the stage for years spouting their ridiculous and dangerous propaganda and have convinced many Israelis that Israel is the problem. So it is not surprising that Obama and many even pro Israeli Americans now believe this hogwash and the Israeli nationalist religious movement has done little or nothing to dispel these delusions.
    The Israeli Left is our own worst enemy and only lately have we begun to confront these Quislings and their foreign supporters.
    So while Obama and his cast of clowns are indeed negatively inclined towards Israel, the blame for much of their hostility and the ignorance is based on can or can be laid at the doorsteps of the Meretz and Labor Parties, Yediot Achronot, Maariv,and Haaretz newspapers, Peace Now and it's Americans supporters like the New Israel Fund and much of the European Union.
    We did not arrive at this nadir by accident, this isolation and demonization of Israel has been carefully planned and executed, largely by Left wing, secular, and humanistic Israel Jews.

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