Israel's News & Views BlogThe following letter was written in reply to receiving a rather frank discourse as to who is responsible for both the Palestinian and Lebanese conflicts with the State of Israel. Although names have been omitted. I am sharing it with all of you:
Dear…………,
Your comments were a lot more direct than mine will ever be; but there are a lot of ’shades of grey’ in the entire conflict of Israel and her neighbors. Well before Islamic extremism even came to the forefront, the simple reality was the Israel’s Arab neighbors, including Lebanon, simply have not wanted a Jewish State within their midst. This goes back even before the British Mandatory period ended. Better still, let’s go way back into history, when Jews were driven from the land called Palistinus Provinvicius by Imperial Rome, and made to wander in many lands, often subject cruel and tyrannous kings and emperors. Even in Muslim lands Jews were forced to be on a much lower social level than their Muslim neighbors.
It was only at the turn of the last century when the idea of a “Juden Stadt”, or Jewish Homeland, moved from a mere dream to possible reality thanks to people like Theodore Herzl. What has transpired since Israel became a state in 1948, you must be aware of, including the combined Arab armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and others who attacked the fledgling Jewish state form literally all sides vowing to ‘push the Jews into the sea”. That’s why the Arab refugee problem began, and continues to this day. No set borders were established, only ‘armistice lines’. The U.N Partition Plan of 1947 proposed the divide Palestine into two states, Jewish and Arab; and the Arab part was actually larger and included most of the Galilee! That was turned down by the Arabs by waging way against Israel. The 1967 ‘occupation’ resulted from Egyptian President Nasser choking off Israel’s outlet to the Red sea and threatening to attack Israel (Israel just decided to beat him to the draw). Many people, including myself, admit that a lot of problems were created by letting all the settlements be built in both the West Bank and in Gaza, especially with the peace treaty with Egypt including a phrase involving dealing with the Palestinian problem “in all its aspects”.
Various Israeli governments, especially the ones run by the right wing Likud Party, catered to the wishes of groups who considered the West Bank as part of the Land of Israel (Gaza never was, despite some trying to convince us otherwise). Palestinians, by the way, consider the ENTIRE piece of real estate as theirs. Their children have always been taught this, as well as hatred for the ‘Zionist enemy’ and how glorious it is to be a Shaheed and commit Holy Martyrdom for Allah. Jewish kids have never been taught this and (hopefully) never will.
Regarding Lebanon, Israel only ‘occupied’ the ten km ’security” belt in southern Lebanon to prevent the Palestinians (who used to shoot the Katyushas into Israel as well as send terrorists over to attack Israeli towns and settlements) from being too close to Israel’s border. The Palestinians were later replaced with the Hezbollah. As I wrote before, Israel doesn’t have any territorial interests in Lebanon, except small border areas like the Shabaa farms, and those only for security reasons (not for homesteading). Following Israel’s pullout from Lebanon in May 2000.a recognized border was agreed upon through the U.N., Unfortunately, Hezbollah didn’t accept this, and kept intimidating Israel towns and settlements along the border, as well as creating incidents such as the kidnapping of 3 soldiers, whose remains were only returned 3 years later, along with a so-called ‘Businessman” named Elkanah Tannenbaum ( his business interests weren’t too ‘kosher’ to say the least).
Hezbollah is not only involved in southern Lebanon, but in other places as well (Just like Hamas and Islamic Jihad are). And Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah definitely does want to create an Islamic Republic with your country, Israel, Jordan, and Syria as its territory; with other countries to be added later, including Egypt, who have plenty of Islamic extremists; quite willing to lend a helping hand. If you want to ask the good Sheik if all of this is true, go visit him in his reported suite at the Damascus Hilton, loaned to him by Syrian President Bashar al Assad; and where he probably has tea regularly with Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal, and consults daily with Mahmud Ahmadinejad over in Teheran.
I feel a lot of sadness for the people of Lebanon, including ones like the example of the Lebanese woman who lost her entire family from the bombing. I also feel sadness for Israelis who have lost THEIR entire families to terror attacks (it’s happened numerous times as well).
At this moment, we all must do what we can do to stop the bloodshed by both sides. My question is how, as Kofi Anan and the UN don’t seem to have the ability to do anything, except draft resolutions.
Take care,
……………………..
8 Comments
Hi Picow
How do we solve the borderproblem??? It`s quite easy.
You take 30.000 Bundeswehrsoldaten (German soldiers) and place them betweem the Israeli border and the Litani river, for the next 30 to 40 years. Then you flip EU the bill for the German troops.
When you have done that, you let those who belong there come back, and then you more or less seal off the area. You follow Lebanese laws execpt for the ones dealing with consciption and schools.
You use French legislation about what to wear and what to put on the walls in schools, (means no religion) and Scandinavian teaching methods.
After 30 to 40 years, the south lebanese will be able to see right from shit.
This will however never take place, because of the lack of balls in the EU.
In light of everything, including a lot of elderly Holocaust survivors still alive in Israel, I don’t thing that 30,000 ‘Whermach’ troopers on Israel’s border would work out! Too many bad memories.
AS for the French, let them go to Zaire or Rewanda or Cote D’Ivore. The French, being once ‘custodial guardians’ in Lebanon, would not be welcome there either. So, whose left: the Russians? – no way. Their experience against both Afghanistan and Cechnya makes them enemies of Muslims for life. The Italians? They are clowns at best, like they were in North Africa During WWII and Lebanon in 1982. The Americans? They’re up to their asses in the shit of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Brits? Bad vibes for Israel like the Germans. The Swedes or Norwegians? Maybe, if they’re willing to show they have balls They seemed to enjoy themselves when they were stationed in Israel with UNDOF and UNIFIL.
Maybe the Chinese…They don’t speak the local languages and usually do what they’re told. Besides, there’s so many of them that if a few get wasted, it’s not really even noticed back home!
I think you both have it wrong. I pick the Mexican Army! If anything, they will help introduce more Mexican food into both Israel and Lebanon. And what’s better that a good fajita or enchelatta dinner, with fresh corn and flour torillas. Man, my mouth is already watering!
Viva las comidas Mexicanos !
Hi there
Ed. Your love for the Scandinavians is priceless, but we don`t have the resources, so that`s a no go.
About the French…..Hey man only the legislation..not soldiers..who cares about the French anyway.
About the US and the UK you`re right, but Ed.. The Chinese???!?!?!?!!!They don`t know anything at all, and you might just place them in a part of the world where they will acturally learn something other than YES BOSS. No Ed. No Chinese.
About the Germans. They would be a good choice.
Imagine German soldiers taking care of the safety of the jews, the ironi alone.
On the other hand, that`s not a bad idea, when Ed, I brush you up on the fact that their is a HUGE difference betweem Wehtmacht and Bundeswehr.
Wehrmacht was the German army from 1871-1945.
Bundeswehr was to start with the westgerman army from 1949-1991, after that date the Nationale Volks Armee (National peoples army) of Eastgermany was combined with Bundeswehr. It`s a democratic army, obeying Nato as a member, and you know who`s the head of Nato, don`t you ?
To Picow…. Mexicans…Yeah right….You will have to get use to getting missiles in you butt during the siesta when Hisbollah sneaks though.
And the food…Picow, I geuss you have a pretty good toilet or what ?.
However I did get your point,(comidas Mexicanos) and no it`s not a joke about the Germans. It could really work. A least they (the politicians) have started to debate the issue here in Germany
You´r all right…
but after all those initiative, the Quoran will still preach death to all Jews and Christians.
Finish the Job!!
God Bless
Amazing…much fewer words and Luke takes takes it right to the heart of the matter! This war can not be won with munitions. It defines insanity ie., doing the same thing over and over, expecting diferent results. Funny thing about this “Holy War”, everyone thinks they have to “fight” for their Gods. Why can’t we let the God’s fight it out?
I mean really, if God wanted a people destroyed, who thinks for a moment He could not accomplish this on His own? Earthquakes, floods, tornado’s, fires, lightening, the many many forms of human illnesses.
Come on people, get a clue! Something tells me, He could handle it! Maybe, just maybe…this just isn’t His Will at all. Now what?
Whatever will work, Carnache, and as soon as possible! I work with a lovely German lady (from Berlin) and she says that todays Germans are actually very interested in studies about the Holocaust.
so, If those guys want to come over why not? We will just have to convince those few thousand octeneraians with numbers on their arms that it’s for everyone’s good. Hey, why not you guys from Denmark as well? You might also want to participate too. And you can bring your footballs along. I think we played against you last time in the World Cup perliminary matches.
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