RoccoR
Gold Member
RE: Israel's Lies
⁜→ P F Tinmore,
BLUF: AH, yessss... The question of Palestine.
This is a typical and harmless looking response. But the reality of this statement has a very profound set of consequences if implemented. There is no muddy water here. The Arab Palestinians want to control Israeli sovereign territory. I repeat: → the Arab Palestinians want to control all of Palestine including Israel which they consider "Occupied Territory."
First, let me say, that I do not speak for Israel. But I think that Israel made a "mistake" by not Annexing the West Bank the moment that HM King Hussein "announced the severance of all administrative and legal ties with the occupied West Bank." On 1 August 1988, it was a peaceful transition. The transition was from Jordaining Soveirenty to Israeli effective control. There was no outbreak of hostilities. It took the Arab Palestinians nearly three Months to respond. And their response was well overtaken by events.
Second, The Arab Palestinians were not asked to surrender any territory. How can this be true, you might ask? Because the Arab Palestinian Leadership generally:
Your questions do not lend themselves to sound bite answers. Your questions may be simple to ask, but much more difficult to explain.
Literally hundreds of people have written thousands of books on the "Question of Palestine." And even more thousands of exchanges and cables that were composed between the Quartet (UN, US, EU, and Russia Federation) trying to hammer-out kinks in various approaches to a solution. If you are expecting a simple three or four-sentence answer to your questions, --- prepare to be continuously disappointed.
I'm not 'verbose' as you term it. If anything, experts on the subject will suggest that I'm oversimplifying the answers; what they sometimes call the baby-spoon explanations.

Most Respectfully,
R
⁜→ P F Tinmore,
BLUF: AH, yessss... The question of Palestine.
The key here is how "YOU" define "Palestine."
(COMMENT)To the Palestinians Palestine is Palestine. Occupations are periods of history that do not change the original fact. The opinion of foreigners do not change anything.
This is a typical and harmless looking response. But the reality of this statement has a very profound set of consequences if implemented. There is no muddy water here. The Arab Palestinians want to control Israeli sovereign territory. I repeat: → the Arab Palestinians want to control all of Palestine including Israel which they consider "Occupied Territory."
Palestine National Charter (1968) said:Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit.The Palestinian Arab people possess the legal right to their homeland and to self-determination after the completion of the liberation of their country in accordance with their wishes and entirely of their own accord and will.
HAMAS said:Palestine from the river to the sea, and from north to south, is a land of the Palestinian people and its homeland and its legitimate right, we may not a waiver an inch or any part thereof, no matter what the reasons and circumstances and pressures.
As a side note, I noticed that the State of Palestine/Palestine Liberation Organization, Negotiation Affairs Department (PLO/NAD) Website has taken the narratives down on the explanation of their political positions for the nine major points of negotiation (including the position on Borders). I thought that was interesting. I wonder what that means.
I also noticed that the PLO/NAD Website left an ironic key statement behind under Publications (absent the publication): "The Looming Annexation: Israel's Denial of Palestine's Right to Exist" AND if you connect the dot, you finally get to the publication "Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation."
terra nullius ‘The expression “ terra nullius ” was a legal term of art employed in connection with “occupation” as one of the accepted legal methods of acquiring sovereignty over territory. “Occupation” being legally an original means of peacefully acquiring sovereignty over territory otherwise than by cession or succession, it was a cardinal condition of a valid “occupation” that the territory should be terra nullius— a territory belonging to no-one—at the time of the act alleged to constitute the “occupation”
(COMMENT)Occupation is the method that Israel claims it has acquired territory. None of the other methods fit.
When territory is peacefully controlled for a period of time that territory can be claimed. Israel's claim to the territory has never been peaceful. It has always been contested by the native population.
Israel constantly whines about so-called terrorist attacks as the natives refuse to cede their territory to Israel.
All "peace offers" to the Palestinians have required them to surrender territory to Israel. So far no such treaty has ever been signed.
First, let me say, that I do not speak for Israel. But I think that Israel made a "mistake" by not Annexing the West Bank the moment that HM King Hussein "announced the severance of all administrative and legal ties with the occupied West Bank." On 1 August 1988, it was a peaceful transition. The transition was from Jordaining Soveirenty to Israeli effective control. There was no outbreak of hostilities. It took the Arab Palestinians nearly three Months to respond. And their response was well overtaken by events.
Second, The Arab Palestinians were not asked to surrender any territory. How can this be true, you might ask? Because the Arab Palestinian Leadership generally:
◈ Rejected Negotiations opportunities.
◈ Did not avail themselves of the "Dispute Clause" in the Oslo Accords.
◈ On those occasions where they did come to the negotiation table, they did not act in go faith.
◈ Continued Asymmetric and terrorist attacks on a continuous timeline from 1967 to the present.
◈ Or, the Arab Palestinian adopted a policy of:
✦ no peace with Israel,
✦ no recognition of Israel,
✦ no negotiations with Israel,
(COMMENT)Holy verbosity, Batman!
Your questions do not lend themselves to sound bite answers. Your questions may be simple to ask, but much more difficult to explain.
Literally hundreds of people have written thousands of books on the "Question of Palestine." And even more thousands of exchanges and cables that were composed between the Quartet (UN, US, EU, and Russia Federation) trying to hammer-out kinks in various approaches to a solution. If you are expecting a simple three or four-sentence answer to your questions, --- prepare to be continuously disappointed.
I'm not 'verbose' as you term it. If anything, experts on the subject will suggest that I'm oversimplifying the answers; what they sometimes call the baby-spoon explanations.

Most Respectfully,
R