RE: Palestine Today
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,
You have to be a bit careful here.
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Post 2459 directly quotes the Part, Section, and Paragraph of the passage from the Recommendation.
This is just one of those Myths that the Arab Palestinians believe because they have difficulty reading the passage. While I post documentation that dispells your theory, you return with the suggestion that I oppose "rights" which cannot be bought, sold, or transferred from one individual to another
(inalienable). As if the acceptance or rejection in the participation in the Steps Preparatory to Independence has something to do with some sort of "right."
✪⇒ Nothing in the recommendation requires the Arab Palestinians to "approve" anything. The Recommendation is such that either party may "accept" or "reject" the process.
You only say this because you believe that somehow Palestinians are exempt from universal inalienable rights.
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On the second point, I do not hold any such belief that the Hostile Arab Palestinian have been withheld any particular inalienable rights.
As you know, the "inalienable rights" that the Arab Palestinians go on and on about, are about some "freedom" the Arab Palestinians that allow them to do something. This is articulated in
the Resolution 217 A (III) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), in the Preamble. BUT the concept of "inalienable rights" refers to the fact that it IS NOT a requirement of these rights, that other people must provide them, toil or sacrifice to render something tangible.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional
or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether
it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
• Negative Rights requires that no man can be forced to do anything he doesn't want.
• Positive Rights do not require others to provide for some benefit of the others.
J.P. Moreland said:
A negative right is a right for me to be protected from harm if I try to get something for myself. A positive right would be my right to have something provided for me.
If health care is a negative right, then the state has an obligation to keep people from preventing me from getting health care and discriminating against me. If health care’s a positive right, then the state has an obligation to provide it for me.
SOURCE: • Home / Politics / The Difference Between Negative Rights and Positive Rights •
When the UDHR speaks of rebellion against tyranny and oppression, it is NOT speaking about opposing the Israelis.
• Israel does not challenge the Right of the Arab Palestinian to life, liberty and security of person; as long as the Israelis are allowed the same.
• The Israelis do not hold Arab Palestinians in bondage, slavery or servitude.
• In Israel, are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
• No one is subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
• etc, etc, etc,
While Israel has had more UN condemnations in the last half-century, than any other country in the world, when it comes time to actually evaluate the human development benchmarks, Israel is consistently well above that of any Arab League Member Nation; not marginally, but by a considerable level.
Humanity (especially Israel) does not hold any obligation to the Arab Palestinians for a single thing; no matter what they think they are owed.
Most Respectfully,
R