Palestine Today
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,
Oh, come off it. You act as if that was not the intention of the Arab Palestinians.
What we have today is the accumulated political residue of failed Arab attempts to subdue the State of Israel.
What we have today is Israel continuing to steal all of Palestine and get rid of the rest of the Palestinians. The Palestinians are fighting back with what little they have.
(COMMENT)
This is the protodiplomacy for what was to become the
de facto mantra:
A/AC.21/10 → 16 February 1948 (Before the Creation of the Jewish State)
• 10. The Arab Higher Committee Delegation wishes to reaffirm here that the Arabs of Palestine cannot recognize the
Balfour Declaration, the Mandate of Palestine or any situation arising or derived therefrom. They consider that imposing international alien immigrants on their country by force is nothing but an act of aggression and invasion, whether made by Jews themselves, through Great Britain, or by the United Nations. The Arab Higher Committee Delegation therefore expects that the duty of the United Nations is to remove the said aggression and stop that invasion. The creation of any Jewish state in an Arab territory is more than invasion or aggression, it is something with no precedent in history. It is en act of wiping out the existence of an Arab country, violating its integrity, subjecting its land and people to foreign Jewish domination. “
S/775 → 24 May 1948 (Nine Days After Independence)
• Question (F) Have Jewish forces penetrated into the territory in which you claim to have authority?
Answer: Arabs claim to have authority over all the area of Palestine as being the political representative of the overwhelming majority of the population. They regard Palestine a one unit. All forces that oppose majority wherever they may be are regarded as unlawful.
• The evolution of the Arab Palestinian illusion has been stated in many different ways over the last the last century:
ψ Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit.
ψ 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.
ψ Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day.
ψ No recognition of the legitimacy of the occupation whatever; this is a principled position, political and moral, and therefore do not recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and recognition of "Israel" and the legitimacy of its presence on any part of Palestine no matter how long; nand it will not be long, God willing.
ψ It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned.
ψ The Arab Palestinian people, expressing themselves by the armed Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions which are substitutes for the total liberation of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem, or its internationalization.
ψ The demand of security and peace, as well as the demand of right and justice, require all states to consider Zionism an illegitimate movement, to outlaw its existence, and to ban its operations, in order that friendly relations among peoples may be preserved, and the loyalty of citizens to their respective homelands safeguarded.
Many things can be said of Israel and its policies. Since the time of the Balfour Declaration the leadership that has culminated into the modern and contemporary has evolved quickly and adapting to new changes in the political scene. And with these changes, and adaptation to meet the new challenges, Israel has developed well beyond that surrounding neighbors; in fact well beyond any of the members of the Arab League. While Israel (19th) may place slightly below the development of the United Kingdom (16th), Japan (17th), and the Republic of Korea (18th) → it may interest you to note that it was rated above any Middle Eastern country you can name.
∑ If anyone is going to throw stones, then it should be those nations, in the immediate surrounding region and North Africa, that have shown the best human development for their people and the nation as a whole. It should not model itself after Middle Eastern and North African nations that have no significant improvement in their position (least of all the Arab Palestinians). You follow the successful.
"Here's everything I know about war:
Somebody wins,
somebody loses,
and
nothing is ever the same again.
• Except that the Palestinians are still fighting;
over what → we can't even remember. •"
Admiral Constanza Stark,
CY 9784
Most Respectfully,
R