RE: Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
SUBTOPIC: Palestinian Literary License to Exaggerate
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
BLUF: There is no "siege." That is just propaganda flare to capture the emotion of the (target audience) readers.
The siege is an act of war.
(JUST A FEW CONCEPTS)
All sovereignties have the right to control their borders as they deem necessary. (National Security, Customs and Immigration being the three biggest purposes.)
The issue of Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in All Its Aspects since the mid-1990's has become ever a reason to interdict such trade.
UN Security Council said:
Welcomes efforts made by Member States, regional and subregional organizations in addressing the illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation and misuse of small arms and light weapons, and encourages the establishment or strengthening, where appropriate, of subregional and regional cooperation, coordination and information sharing mechanisms, in particular, transborder customs cooperation and networks for information-sharing, with a view to preventing, combating, and eradicating illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation and misuse of small arms and light weapons;
1997International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings
Creates a regime of universal jurisdiction over the unlawful and intentional use of explosives and other lethal devices in, into, or against various defined public places with intent to kill or cause serious bodily injury, or with intent to cause extensive destruction of the public place.
Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, including, where appropriate, domestic legislation, to ensure that criminal acts within the scope of this Convention, in particular where they are intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, are under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature and are punished by penalties consistent with their grave nature.
We resolve to undertake the following measures to prevent and combat terrorism, in particular by denying terrorists access to the means to carry out their attacks, to their targets and to the desired impact of their attacks → See Annex to A/RES/60/288. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy:
To strengthen coordination and cooperation among States in combating crimes that might be connected with terrorism, including drug trafficking in all its aspects, illicit arms trade, in particular of small arms and light weapons, including man-portable air defence systems, money-laundering and smuggling of nuclear, chemical, biological, radiological and other potentially deadly materials;
(COMMENT)
Over and above concepts and strategies mentioned, supra, Israel has a Right to protect its citizens from the actions of external rouge populations that threaten the public order and safety its citizens and national interests.
Since the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip (2005), thousands and thousands of rockets and mortars have been fired into Israel from the terrorist government and its associated satellite entities. All mariners were advised that as of 03 January 2009, 1700 UTC, Gaza maritime area was closed to all maritime traffic and is under blockade imposed by Israeli Navy until further notice. This action was not a punitive measure → but rather → a preventative measure necessary to be implemented as an outcome for the abuses of the freedom (kidnapping, Murder, Indiscriminate fire, routine targeting of civilians, etc) the Arab Palestinians acquired as a result of the unilateral withdrawal.
The Arab Palestinians have demonstrated that they pose a danger and repeatedly threatened to Israeli life style and culture over the last seven decades. The Arab Higher Committee reaffirmed that the Arabs of Palestine could not recognize the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate of Palestine or any situation arising or derived therefrom.
- The Arabs of Palestine will never recognise the validity of the extorted partition recommendations or the authority of the United Nations to make them.
- 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.
- 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.
Most Respectfully,
R