The theme behind this series was a simple one: Israel
is not guilty of any illegal occupation. The “occupied territories” were taken
during the Six Day War in response to a declaration of war from Israel’s
neighbors. They took this land as a defensive posture to protect themselves
from genocide, a genocide promised shamelessly by the Arabs. Even so, most of
this was the same territory already promised to them under the Balfar
Declaration, not to mention that this land had been their home for several
thousand years before the Romans destroyed Jerusalem
and changed the name of the land to Palestine.
There has never been a country named Palestine or a
people named Palestinians. This was a
publicity ploy that sucessfully deceived many under the leadership of Yassar
Arafat. And Arafat was never interested
in a two state solution. He was interested in the annihilation of Israel.
So where does this leave us today? Would a two state
solution bring peace to the Middle East? Well, the Arabs were offered a state in
1948. They turned it down. At that time,
they already had a separate Palestinian state, Jordan
and this was not enough, even though it had been carved out from 75 percent of
what had been promised to the Jews. In March of 2000, after years of violating the terms of the Oslo Accords (1993) Arafat
was offered over 90 percent of the land he wanted. He
turned it down. Why? Because the man
never really wanted peace. He would have had no reason to exist any more if
real peace came about.
Today Arafat is dead. The new Palestinian leader, Mahoumad
Abbas says he wants peace. But this man has written about the Holocaust in ways
that would make Iranian leader Ahamadinnejad blush: Yes, more nonsense about
how the Holocaust never happened. And we
are supposed to put our hope in this latest "peace lover"?
As I once heard it aptly stated, “Abbas is nothing but Arafat in a
suit.”
The Palestine National Covenant was adapted in 1964 (once again,
prior to Israel’s
“illegal” occupation of the West Bank) It was revised
again in 1968. This document contains 33 articles which define the specific
objectives of the PLO. Allow me to share
just a few of its attractive highlights:
Article Two allows absolutely no provision for a Jewish
state in the Middle East.
Article Twenty denies that the Jews have ever had any
historical or religious claims to the area.
Article Twenty-One rejects all solutions which fall short of
“the total liberation of Palestine.”
Incidentally, such total liberation cannot take place until Israel
ceases to exist.
Article Fifteen calls for the elimination of Zionism in Palestine.
The Oswald Accord called for the canceling of any clauses
which did not recognize Israel’s
right to exist but such clauses were never removed.
In 1993, on the same day in which Arafat signed an agreement
on the White House lawn, he gave a public discourse to Palestinian Arabs on
Jordan TV:
“Since we cannot defeat Israel
in war, we do this in stages. We take
any and every territory that we can of Palestine
and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take
more. When the time comes, we can get
the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.”
The PLO’s Abu-al Aynawn also said: “We have to accept the
deal and wait for a change in the circumstances that could lead to the
elimination of Israel.”
Today Israel
does not even show up on the maps in Palestinian schools. Kindergarten classes
are taught that Jews are devils, to be hated and exterminated.
I myself had a chance to watch a Palestinian children’s TV
Show, with a Sesame
Street like costumed character talking to a
cute little five year old girl in the audience.
“What do you want to do when you grow up, Sweetheart?” he
said.
“I wanna kill Jews,” the adorable little girl replied.
The mascot winked at the audience with a big smile and then
turned back to the child. “You do? How
many Jews do you want to kill?”
“All of them!”
“All of them?”
Isn’t that sweet? Now
exactly why would we believe that peace will come to this region if its
children are taught that hating Jews is as natural a breathing?
When two nations make a peace treaty, there is supposed to
be give and take on both sides. Israel’s
deal (brokered by the U.S) always goes like this. “You give the Palestinians
back some land and here is what they will do: They’ll promise to stop
killing you.” That’s the deal. Then one day after the deal, the promise
is broken and missiles are fired into Israel
from Gaza (where the Palestinians
were finally offered their own autonomous rule) or a suicide bomber kills women
and children on a bus.
At
the time of this writing, the Bush administration is still putting pressure on Israel
to cooperate with “The Road Map to Peace.”
Wow! More peace talks between the
Israelis and Palestinians! This could be the greatest thing since
Chamberlain met with Hitler. I’ve been so excited; I can hardly sleep at
nights.
Let
me be as straight with my readers as I possibly can. Nothing Israel
does, no gesture, no concession, no discussion, will make a hill of beans of
difference. They can sign a peace treaty. They can jump on board for a two
state solution. It doesn’t matter. Hezbolah wants Israel
dead. Al-Qaeda wants Israel
dead. Hamas wants Israel
dead. But it isn’t limited to the terrorist groups. Palestine
itself wants Israel
dead. The surrounding Arab nations want Israel
dead. The Persian nation of Iran
wants Israel
dead.
My
advice to Israel:
Just do what you have to do. Do what you need to do. Do what is right. The
world will hate you no matter what action you take and the Arabs will try to
kill you no matter how much flowery talk you participate in with our State
Department. You may as well just do what’s right.
My
advice to Christians: I hope you have discovered a better reason to side with Israel
than theological reasons. Fascinating as prophecy may be (and I am a big
believer in Bible prophecy) the issue in the Middle East
is a human rights issue.
Israel is hated not because of any occupation. Israel is hated for the same reason the United States is hated: We are not Muslims. You will
discover that defending Israel is only the beginning of defending the
entire world.