Billo_Really, et al,
This is the age old question as to which came first: The "Chicken" or the "Egg?"
If Israel wanted peace, they'd end the occupation and blockade.
(COMMENT)
The question as to which side bends first and compromises is a paradox.
The Israelis, under the threat of violence from the Arab Palestinian since a time before independence, cannot afford to compromise the defense of the nation or the security of the citizens. If Israel makes the first move towards peace and allows the Arab Palestinian to secure a strategic offensive advantage, they might lose all and never be able to regain its sovereignty. The Israelis, having been attacked numerous times by nearly every Arab nation (at least once), and consistently outnumbered by Hostile Arabs, has much to risk in such an uneven political equation and tactical situation.
If we just examine the timeframe beginning with the
UN General Assembly Adoption of the Resolution 181(II), we find that Hostile Arab Palestinian (HoAP) made a solemn pledge 68 years ago
(over half a century past) that was made by an Arab Leadership that supported the authors of the Holocaust
(the systematic and state-sponsored persecution of six million Jews by the Axis Powers and its collaborators) which said:
Statement of 6 February 1948 Communicated to the Secretary-General by Mr. Isa Nakhleh said:
13. In conclusion, the Arab Higher Committee Delegation wishes to stress the following:
(a) The Arabs of Palestine will never recognise 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 group of powers to establish a Jewish state in Arab territory is an act of aggression which will be resisted in self-defense.
(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, woman and child.
SOURCE: A/AC.21/10 16 February 1948
This pledge has gone essential unchanged for more nearly seven decades and is mimicked in Palestinian National Charter (1968), the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (1988), and more recently in a 2013
major position paper, published by Khaled Meshal, Chairman of the
Hamas Political Bureau (currently hiding out on Doha, Qatar).
Oddly enough, Palestinians in general --- pose a new kind of threat to themselves, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. The inability of the HoAP to effectively govern has allowed the Islamic State (ISIS/DAESH)
(and associated Salafi terrorist groups) to appeared and operate in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. More recently, a group calling itself the "Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem" has turned-up in the Holy City; placing the City itself at risk. ISIS is know to vandalize and destroy locations holding ancient artifacts and antiquities. The ability of the HoAP to secure its own territorial interests from such a threat represents a much greater threat to Palestinian Sovereignty than Israel ever did.
The HoAP must first turnover a new leaf, if it is to get a reaction from the Israelis. The HoAP must demonstrate that the vendetta and feud between the Israeli and Palestinian is over and they must first demonstrate that through actual deeds. That is of course, if they are not first eaten by the Iranians or ISIS.
Most Respectfully,
R
