THE ONLY SOLUTION
FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Part 1
by Phil Dobson
(WebToday, April 6, 2002)-- I know what you're thinking. Another diplomatic novice who thinks he knows how to quell the problems in the Middle East. What a laugh. I mean come on Phil, the experts have been trying to rein in the warring factions for over fifty years and still there's no end in sight. So, what makes me think that I have the answer? Glad you asked.
Make no mistake; Israel is in a war, a war for it's very survival.
Now before I give you my take on the solution, let's pretend for
a moment that the United States is in their shoes. Canada, Mexico,
Cuba, and the majority of Central and South American countries
are calling for our destruction. Troops are lined up along our
borders. They've trained, armed and sent men on suicide missions
to kill as many people of the Great Satan as possible.
They believe that in so doing they will receive great glory in
heaven. They believe that their religion is supreme and must be
advanced by any means possible. How would the U.S. handle such
a situation? That's right, we'd go to war. We'd use every means
at our disposal to win that war. We wouldn't show restraint, like
we tell Israel to do, and we'd ask our allies to help.
Okay, I've shown my hand. My solution to the debate is for Israel to wage a war, a war it can and would win even without the help of its so-called allies. If they continue to wait their enemies will develop or purchase nuclear weapons and then it would be too late. They must strike now, today, and strike hard. They need to take back all the land that use to be theirs under King David and decimate their enemies armies.
"Oh but Phil," you say, "that's not the way to peace. All the Palestinians want is a homeland." WRONG! All they want is to destroy Israel. Period. Nothing less is acceptable. Their religion calls for Israel's destruction, and get this, ours too.
Get a clue; peace between the Jews and Arabs is a fantasy. After Prime Minister Barak was willing to concede 95 percent of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Temple Mount, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat simply said, "No." Oh yeah, Arafat wants peace all right. He wants Israel in pieces so that he and his Arab friends can carve it up along with the Jews.
Is any of this getting through or are you still buying the liberal media's garbage that they so eloquently spew? Okay, let's take a look at the facts. Palestine was nothing for hundreds of years until the land became a Jewish State in 1948. It was a desert. There was never a "Palestinian" homeland. The Ottoman Empire ruled the land until World War I after which the British took control. You don't believe me? Look it up. There are too many newspaper articles and history books to even begin to cite here. And what was the Arabs response to this tiny Jewish State? They attacked.
Since we've been talking and I'm feeling somewhat friendly, I'll share with you a little modern history on the Jewish State. Regardless of what the liberal media wants you to believe, it's the truth Jewish settlement began in 1878 in Ottoman Palestine. Settlement continued under British rule, which controlled the area from 1920 to 1948 until a United Nations resolution partitioned Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. On May 14, 1948, Jewish leaders led by David Ben-Gurion, Chairman of the Jewish Agency and head of the Zionist workers movement, proclaimed the State of Israel. The very next day British troops withdrew and the surrounding Arab countries invaded. Fighting continued until the end of the year and in early 1949, after cease-fire and armistice agreements, Israel was left in control of twice as much land as had been proposed by the UN. No peace treaties were signed and no Arab state granted Israel diplomatic recognition. In January 1949 David Ben-Gurion was elected Israel's first Prime Minister and Chaim Weizmann became President.
In May 1949, Israel was admitted to the UN. In 1952 the Arabs demanded Israel's withdrawal to the original UN boundaries while still refusing to recognize Israel's statehood. After securing military pacts with Syria and Jordan in 1955, Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran, cutting Israel off from East Africa and the Far East.
After fighting broke out along the Gaza Strip in 1956 with Egyptian trained terrorist units, Israel invaded Sinai, advanced to the canal, and captured the Gaza Strip. A cease-fire was arranged in 1957 and a UN Emergency Force replaced the Israeli troops. Israel received access to the Gulf of Aqaba but not the canal.
In May of 1965 Israel and West Germany established diplomatic relations. From 1965 to 1967 Arab terrorists launched attacks from Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. On May 18, 1967, Egypt ordered the UN to remove its force from the Egyptian-Israeli border and on June 5, along with Jordan, Syria and Iraqi, attacked Israel. Israel bombed Egyptian airfields, knocking out the country's entire air force. Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqi air power was also largely destroyed. After capturing all of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank in just four days, Israel stormed the Syrian front and took the Golan Heights. On June 11, a UN sponsored cease-fire went into effect and on June 28 Israel declared Jerusalem a united city. In November of that year the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 242, calling for Israel to withdrawal from territories occupied during the war in return for a "just and lasting peace." The Arabs rejected it.
Did you get that? The Arabs rejected it. Why would they do such a thing after being trounced in a war that they believed they would easily win? Haven't you been paying attention? There's a test when we're done
I'm going to end this here and resume next week. I'm tired and not feeling so friendly after rehashing the first 20 years of Israel's modern day history. And no, I'm not Jewish; I'm a realist. Next week we'll take a look at the PLO Chairman, and I say this with all the disgust and disdain I can muster, the murdering terrorist Yasser Arafat and what he's done to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As Joseph Farah said, "It cheapens the award." Boy, that's an understatement.
Oh yeah, one more little tit-bit to chew on while you're breathlessly awaiting next weeks addition. If you were to ask someone where the trouble spots are in the world, an informed person will tell you, "The Middle East of course. Then there's Chechnya, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia. There's fighting in India and the Philippines, and Sudan is a wreak." So, what's the one thing that all these places have in common?
I'll tell you all about it next week.
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