P F Tinmore,
et al,
This is the nature of conflict.
Why should the Palestinians get the boot because of what happened in Europe?
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The Palestinians did not "get the boot because of what happened in Europe" as you say. They opened up hostilities and lost control.
The delegation of Iraq considered that the whole question of Palestine had been treated in a manner contrary to the principles of the Charter and of international law and to the ancient principle whereby every country was allotted to the people who inhabited it.
A/PV.207 of 11 May 1949
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Don't, for a moment, think that the Iraqi believed then or now, that there is any such ancient principle. They are just as bad as the Palestinian.
They are not any authority on international law and human rights. They kill each other over the drop of a hat. The Sunni 'vs' Shi'ite dispute is the worst.
Find another example. I suggest may be using the Hashemite Kingdom as your template.
Why do you always slime the Palestinians for defending their rights?
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I am not, in the least bit, sliming the Palestinians. It is what it is. In essences, I said that the Palestinians only have a capacity to think of themselves, and not the greater good. They don't have the capacity to help save a culture. It is a theme not so uncommon in the Middle East.
Of all the post-Ottoman Empire that was Muslim, it all went back to the Arabs excepts for a small sliver of land allocated to the Jewish National Home. There was a greater good at work, one which the Hostile Arab Palestinian wants to suppress, deny and actively worked against.
You can disregard my interpretation of the Hostile Arab Palestinian and use their own words:
UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION - First Special Report to the Security Council: The Problem of Security in Palestine said:
6. The Secretary-General has been informed
by the Arab Higher Committee that is determined to persist in its rejection of the partition plan and in its refusal to recognize the resolution of the Assembly and “
anything deriving therefrom”. The Subsequent communication of 6 February to the Secretary-General from the representative of the Arab Higher Committee set forth the following conclusions of the Arab Higher Committee Delegation:
“a. The Arabs of Palestine will never recognize the validity of the extorted partition recommendations or the authority of the United Nations to make them.
“b. The Arabs of Palestine consider that any attempt by the Jews or any power or group of powers to establish a Jewish State in Arab territory is an act of aggression which will be resisted in self-defense by force.
c. It is very unwise and fruitless to ask any commission to proceed to Palestine because not a single Arab will cooperate with the said commission.
d. The United Nations or its commission should not be misled to believe that its efforts in the partition plan will meet with any success. It will be far better for the eclipsed prestige of this organization not to start on this adventure.
e. The United Nations prestige will be better served by abandoning, not enforcing such an injustice.
f. The determination of every Arab in Palestine is to oppose in every way the partition of that country.
g. The Arabs of Palestine made a solemn declaration before the United Nations, before God and history, that they will never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition.
“The only way to establish partition is first to wipe them out – man women and child."
SOURCE: A/AC.21/9 S/676 16 February 1948
Palestine National Charter said:
Article 9: Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase.
Article 10: Commando (Feday'ee) action constitutes the nucleus of the Palestinian popular liberation war. This requires its escalation, comprehensiveness, and the mobilization of all the Palestinian popular and educational efforts and their organization and involvement in the armed Palestinian revolution.
SOURCE: Palestinian National Charter
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement said:
Article 13: There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
Article 15: The Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is an Individual Duty: In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.
SOURCE: HAMAS Covenant
Me! Slime the Palestinian! --- Oh no. I just understand who they are and the character of the species and culture. What was it they said:
“The only way to establish partition is first to wipe them out – man women and child."
I thought I was being kind.
It should be noted that the Israeli did not respond to this threat in kind. Because if they had followed the lead of the Arab Higher Committee, there wouldn't be a problem with refugees today, there wouldn't be a border dispute, there wouldn't be a State of Palestine, HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, or Hezbollah to worry about. There would not have been a massacre at the Olympics, there wouldn't have been the piracy of the Achille Lauro, the numerous attacks on airports, the suicide bombings, the ambushes or the rocket attacks. The Israeli responded in a much different way, civilized way, with a Hostile Population that openly told the UN their strategy should the Jewish Agency accept the Partition Plan offer.
If there was a culture that had adopted a holocaust-like strategy, it was the Arab Higher Committee ("wipe them out – man women and child"). The Palestinians did not "get the boot because of what happened in Europe" - but because of what they threatened to do in 1949 (and still promote today). And in 1949, with the events of Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Dachau, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka, still very much fresh in their mind, I don't quite blame them.
Was I sliming? No. I was on my best behavior.
Most Respectfully,
R