(by OdlerRobert Jeanlouie)
Arafat and the Palestinians are in their rights. Here is why.
During WWII (1939-1945), six millions Jews were massacred by the Germans. Back then, for centuries, the Jews had no country. They would live all over the world, in every country, getting rich and smart. The Nazis wanted an all-White world. They felt threatened by the Jews, got aggravated, and killed them.
While the Jews were fleeing persecution in Europe, the Palestinians were the most welcoming people for them. They welcome them in their country as their long-lost unlucky cousins.
After Germany lost the war, the United Nations led by the U.S, arbitrarily gave a portion of the Palestinians? land to the Jewish people. In all fairness, the Jews should have been compensated with a portion of Germany, not of Palestine.
Once the Jews established their first settlement in Palestine, they discovered that the whole Palestinian country belonged to them! How did they get to that piece of truth? You would never guess: through the Bible. According to them, the Holy Scriptures ?clearly? identified Palestine as the Promised Land given by God to the Jewish people. That happened about four thousands years ago, way before Fox News and Al Jazeira were able to cover the ceremony. Wow!
At once, Jews of all walks entertained the idea of kicking Palestinians out of the land and get it all for themselves. They were helped in their project by generous made-in U.S.A support. Still today, we are giving $10 million a day (I repeat: a day) to Israel. These millions are used to buy guns, tanks, and planes, to equip Israel of the most sophisticated armed forces and intelligence services outside of North America and Western Europe.
Fighting these terrific forces are the Palestinians led by Yasser Arafat. No nation on Earth has the right to sell them weapons. (Iran ran into trouble a few months ago for doing just that.) That explains why Palestinians throw stones at Israeli tanks and why they use their body as detonators for bombs. That explains why, here in the U.S, media outlets always refer to ?Israeli soldiers? and ?Palestinian gunmen?.
If we want the Palestinians to stop suicide bombings, we need to give them machine guns, tanks and planes, so they can?t fight with the Israeli soldiers. They would no longer be desperate ?terrorists? or ?gunmen?; they too would be soldiers.
Now you may ask, why all the diplomacy in the world does not work for these two parties? You may even be more direct and ask why Yasser Arafat did not take the 96% of the Palestinian land that was offered to him in 1998 when Bill Clinton was trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize. Arafat sounded unreasonable, didn?t he?
Well, the reason is three-fold:
(1) When the Israeli occupied Palestine in 1948, they expelled two millions Palestinians. The homeless became refugees in other Arab countries, mostly Jordan. Arafat wanted these people to get their home back or to be compensated for their losses. Erhud Barak refused.
(2) Jerusalem, with all of its shrines, is the religious capital of Palestine, as much as it is for the Jews. Arafat proposed that Jerusalem be divided between the two countries, or become an international city under the watch of the United Nations. The Jews refused. They want Jerusalem to be the ?indivisible capital of Israel.? No sharing.
(3) Israel, back by the strength of its military, has built large colonies in the midst of what would be the country of Palestine. Arafat wanted these settlements to be dismantled. It would be like having an autonomous Chinese territory in Fort Lauderdale. Israel said no.
Therefore, Arafat had to walk away from the deal, to Clinton?s big disappointment. Everybody in the Americas called him unreasonable. But this agreement was not an offer he could not refuse.
Complicating the large picture for peace is the fact that a substantial minority in both nations does not want to live with the other. They want the whole area for themselves.
Some of us, in the Americas, may argue that the Jewish people are right and that Palestine truly belongs to them as a God-given Promised Land. In this case, the same of us should agree that Koweit belongs to Iraq, and that Texas belongs to Mexico.
They should also stand ready to pay rent to the descendants of the pre-Colombus Indians who received the entire American continent from the hands of Manitou. These great-great-great-great grandsons of the right owners of the land now live in the so-called Indian reservations, drunk and diabetic.
So?
(OdlerRobert Jeanlouie, Wednesday, April 17, 2002)
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04-18-02, 02:53 AM
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