RoccoR
Gold Member
P F Tinmore, et al,
I don't think that was said at all.
Much of any Palestinian argument is based upon rights and protections that the Allied Powers fought for and extended to the Palestinian. Not a single contribution was ever made by the Arab-Palestinian or its ancestral linage.
Whether we talk about the basic mandates of the San Remo Convention (1920), the adoption of the November Resolution of 1947, or the Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States (1970), they are all concepts and codifications of ideas that are not consistent with the Arab World. They are, as YOU have often pointed out, something the "foreigners" did; not decisions the Arabs made or even the Palestinians made. Such a discussion would avoid the central question:
Do we see a wide ranging picture of success, demonstrating that the Arab Culture can unequivocally stand on its own two feet and further the cause of peace and stability?
The issues are much more basic than generally thought of in Treaty, Law, and strict compliance terms. Such a debate has to separate what the HoAP believes culturally, and what they attempt to use as justification for the continued struggle that they initiated.
One has to come to terms with whether or not the HoAP can actually handle a democracy that can peacefully establish relations with non-Arab neighbors and operate a country that can peacefully transition from one periodically elected government - to the next, without going into a major meltdown and upsetting the regional balance of peace. Clearly, several countries in the Arab League cannot accomplish that.
The question becomes then --- if there is no reasonable expectation that the Palestinians cannot establish a nation that can stand on its own, in peace and tranquility, without causing a regional disruption, SHOULD it be allowed to establish a nation like Syria, Iraq, Iran, and now Egypt and Lebanon, which goes into chaos and meltdown periodically?
Most Respectfully,
R
I don't think that was said at all.
(COMMENT)Are you saying that Israel has no current intelligent and articulate people suitable for debate?
- The big question is: What would you debate?
Much of any Palestinian argument is based upon rights and protections that the Allied Powers fought for and extended to the Palestinian. Not a single contribution was ever made by the Arab-Palestinian or its ancestral linage.
- General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948 - International Bill of Human Rights
- Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966)
- Universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination (A/RES/49/148 23 December 1994)
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (General Assembly 61/295 13 September 2007)
Whether we talk about the basic mandates of the San Remo Convention (1920), the adoption of the November Resolution of 1947, or the Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States (1970), they are all concepts and codifications of ideas that are not consistent with the Arab World. They are, as YOU have often pointed out, something the "foreigners" did; not decisions the Arabs made or even the Palestinians made. Such a discussion would avoid the central question:
- Is the Arab World, any part of it, but to focus on the Israel-Palestinian Issue, truly ready for democracy?
- Is it a picture of peace and stability?
- Or do we see a culture in chaos?
The Hostile Arab Palestinian (HoAP) has, for more that half a century, grooming generation after generation in the medieval and hostile philosophies of the 16th Century Arab. Year after year, the most productive export the HoAP has generated is the short range terrorist and insurgent. And it has a stack of generations that know nothing more than to create turmoil and havoc. It is not a nation or a culture that is founded on the principles of peace, prosperity, trade and commerce. It is a nation that has, for more nearly a 100 years, began by teaching their children the art of the professional victim and it begins by a class in throwing rocks ---> and progresses through their life ---> to launching rockets. They simply don't know any better.Syria refugee crisis poses major threat to Lebanese stability: U.N. said:(Reuters) - An influx of almost 1 million refugees from Syria into neighboring Lebanon poses a serious threat to the already fragile country, but donor nations may not grasp the potential impact of further destabilization, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
"There is not a single country in the world today that is shouldering as much in proportion to its size as Lebanon," said Ninette Kelley, regional representative for Lebanon for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
"If this country is not bolstered, then the very real prospect of it collapsing and the conflict of Syria spreading full force to Lebanon becomes much more likely," she said during a visit to Washington.
Last month, top U.N. officials said that as Syria's grinding conflict enters its fourth bloody year, Syrians are set to replace Afghans as the world's largest refugee population.
SOURCE: BY MISSY RYAN WASHINGTON Thu Mar 27, 2014
One has to come to terms with whether or not the HoAP can actually handle a democracy that can peacefully establish relations with non-Arab neighbors and operate a country that can peacefully transition from one periodically elected government - to the next, without going into a major meltdown and upsetting the regional balance of peace. Clearly, several countries in the Arab League cannot accomplish that.
The question becomes then --- if there is no reasonable expectation that the Palestinians cannot establish a nation that can stand on its own, in peace and tranquility, without causing a regional disruption, SHOULD it be allowed to establish a nation like Syria, Iraq, Iran, and now Egypt and Lebanon, which goes into chaos and meltdown periodically?
Most Respectfully,
R