Israel 'occupies' no Arab territories
Nov 18, 2008 19:32 Updated Nov 19, 2008 10:03
Israel 'occupies' no Arab territories
By LOUIS RENE BERES
In urgent matters of national survival and geopolitics, words matter. The still generally unchallenged language referring provocatively to an Israeli "Occupation" always overlooks the pertinent and incontestable history of the West Bank (Judea/Samaria) and Gaza.
A topographical map of Israel, delineating the 1967 borders.
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Perhaps the most evident omission concerns the unwitting manner in which these "Territories" fell into Israel's hands in the first place. It is simply and widely disregarded that "occupation" followed the multi-state Arab aggression of 1967 - one never disguised by Egypt, Syria or Jordan.
A sovereign state of Palestine did not exist before 1967 or 1948. Nor was a state of Palestine ever promised by UN Security Council Resolution 242. Contrary to popular understanding, a state of Palestine has never existed. Never.
Even as a nonstate legal entity, "Palestine" ceased to exist in 1948, when Great Britain relinquished its League of Nations mandate. During the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence (a war of survival fought because the entire Arab world had rejected the authoritative United Nations resolution creating a Jewish state), the West Bank and Gaza came under the illegal control of Jordan and Egypt respectively. These Arab conquests did not put an end to an already-existing state or to an ongoing trust territory. What these aggressions did accomplish was the effective prevention, sui generis, of a state of Palestine. The original hopes for Palestine were dashed, therefore, not by the new Jewish state or by its supporters, but by the Arab states, especially Jordan and Egypt.
LET US return to an earlier history. From the Biblical Period (ca. 1350 BCE to 586 BCE) to the British Mandate (1918 - 1948), the land named by the Romans after the ancient Philistines was controlled only by non-Palestinian elements. Significantly, however, a continuous chain of Jewish possession of the land was legally recognized after World War I, at the San Remo Peace Conference of April 1920. There, a binding treaty was signed in which Great Britain was given mandatory authority over "Palestine" (the area had been ruled by the Ottoman Turks since 1516) to prepare it to become the "national home for the Jewish People." Palestine, according to the Treaty, comprised territories encompassing what are now the states of Jordan and Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza. Present-day Israel comprises only 22 percent of Palestine as defined and ratified at the San Remo Peace Conference.
In 1922, Great Britain unilaterally and without any lawful authority split off 78 percent of the lands promised to the Jews - all of Palestine east of the Jordan River - and gave it to Abdullah, the non-Palestinian son of the Sharif of Mecca. Eastern Palestine now took the name Transjordan, which it retained until April 1949, when it was renamed as Jordan. From the moment of its creation, Transjordan was closed to all Jewish migration and settlement, a clear betrayal of the British promise in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, and a patent contravention of its Mandatory obligations under international law.
On July 20, 1951, a Palestinian Arab assassinated King Abdullah for the latter's hostility to Palestinian aspirations and concerns. Regarding these aspirations, Jordan's "moderate" King Hussein - 19 years later, during September 1970 - brutally murdered thousands of defenseless Palestinians under his jurisdiction.
IN 1947, several years prior to Abdullah's killing, the newly-formed United Nations, rather than designate the entire land west of the Jordan River as the long-promised Jewish national homeland, enacted a second partition. Curiously, considering that this second fission again gave complete advantage to Arab interests, Jewish leaders accepted the painful judgment. The Arab states did not. On May 15, 1948, exactly 24 hours after the State of Israel came into existence, Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, declared to a tiny new country founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre."
This unambiguous declaration has been at the very heart of all subsequent Arab orientations toward Israel, including those of "moderate" Fatah. Even by the strict legal standards of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Arab actions and attitudes toward the microscopic Jewish state in their midst has remained patently genocidal. For some reason, this persistence has repeatedly been made to appear benign.
IN 1967, almost 20 years after Israel's entry into the community of nations, the Jewish state, as a result of its unexpected military victory over Arab aggressor states, gained unintended control over the West Bank and Gaza. Although the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war is codified in the UN Charter, there existed no authoritative sovereign to whom the Territories could be "returned." Israel could hardly have been expected to transfer them back to Jordan and Egypt, which had exercised unauthorized and terribly cruel control since the Arab-initiated war of "extermination" in 1948-49. Moreover, the idea of Palestinian "self-determination" had only just begun to emerge after the Six Day War, and - significantly - had not even been included in UN Security Council Resolution 242, which was adopted on November 22, 1967.
For their part, the Arab states convened a summit in Khartoum in August 1967, concluding: "No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it...." The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed three years earlier, in 1964, before there were any "Israeli Occupied Territories." Exactly what was it, therefore, that the PLO sought to "liberate" between 1964 and 1967?
This question should now be raised in connection with the US-sponsored "Road Map To Peace in the Middle East," a twisted cartography leading to "Palestine."
THIS HAS been a very brief account of essential historic reasons why the so-called "Palestinian Territories" are not occupied by Israel. Several other equally valid reasons stem from Israel's inherent legal right to security and self-defense. International law is not a suicide pact. Because a Palestinian state would severely threaten the very existence of Israel - a fact that remains altogether unhidden in Arab media and governments - the Jewish State is under no binding obligation to end a falsely alleged "Occupation." No state can ever be required to accept complicity in its own dismemberment and annihilation.
Both Israel and the United States will soon have new leadership. Neither Jerusalem nor Washington should be deceived by the so-called "Road Map To Peace in the Middle East," a twisted bit of highway that makes entirely inaccurate claims about "Palestinian Territories" and "Israeli Occupation." For substantially documented reasons of history and national security, it is imperative that a twenty-third Arab state never be carved out of the still-living body of Israel.
A topographical map of Israel, delineating the 1967 borders.
Photo: Courtesy
If anyone should still have doubts about Palestinian intentions, they need look only to former Prime Minister Sharon's "disengagement" from Gaza, an area that is now used by Hamas to stage rocket attacks upon Israeli noncombatants, and by al-Qaeda to mount future terrorist operations against American cities.
The writer, a professor of International Law at Purdue University, is the author of many books and articles dealing with military affairs and international law.
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Four killed in deadliest Gaza infighting under Hamas
Four killed in deadliest Gaza infighting under Hamas
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GAZA CITY (AFP) — Four Palestinians were killed overnight in the deadlist bout of infighting between Fatah and Hamas loyalists since the Islamist movement captured the Gaza Strip in mid-June, medics said Thursday.
Paramilitaries in Hamas's self-styled police Executive Force armed with anti-tank missiles exchanged fire with members of a powerful Gaza clan, the majority of which supports political rivals Fatah, witnesses said.
Trouble broke out in Gaza City when the Executive Force stopped a Palestinian Authority vehicle carrying former police officer Adel Hellis.
Three Hellis relatives and an Executive Force officer were subsequently killed, said an official at the Hamas-run health ministry, Maawia Hassanin.
Another 30 people were wounded, including one critically, said medical officials, revising up an earlier toll of three dead and 22 wounded.
Witnesses said the Executive Force blew up Adel Hellis' home but that the former police officer, who stopped work after Hamas routed Fatah in a bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip four months ago, was not hurt.
The clashes lasted about eight hours but ended before daybreak under a truce mediated by armed group, the Popular Resistance Committees.
Most of the Hellis clan are loyal to Fatah, the secular political party of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Its loyalists were routed by Hamas in the mid-June take over following months of political rivalry and sporadic violence.
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Pali - Dictionary (2007)
Pali - Dictionary (2007)
The guide to the Arab Muslim 'Palestinian' propagandist
A security ‘check point’ (the one you have
in the airports that effects all Israelis too) =
“oppression“.Arrests of terrorists =
“subjugation“.Equal rights, equal treatment, freedom for
all & democracy = “
apartheid“.Terror camps = “
refugee camps“.
Terror attacks aiming at the unarmed
innocent civilians = “
freedom fighting“.
Cowards hiding among civilians = “
fighters“.
Reluctance to shoot at terrorists
surrounded by civilians = “
weak Zionists“.
Use of human shields = “
heroism“.
Unintended deaths of human shields = “
victims of the occupation“.
Call, attempt for genocide = “
struggle“.
Mass murder = “
martyrdom“.
Annihilation = “
just-anti-Zionism“.
Investing in self destruction Jihad instead of economy = “
plight“.
[’Palestinian fake & edited images -] Pallywood = “
documentary“.
“(Idbachu) Itbach al Yahud” [”kill the J-s.”] = “
liberation“.
Oppression & totalitarianism (by
bad-Fatah or worse-Hamas) = “
freedom“.
Caliphate, radical Islamic repressive
empire = “
equality“.
Islamic Apartheid [including on women
& on non Muslims] = “
Palestinian culture’“.
Oppressing Christians = “
Muslims’ rights“.
Forcing Christians to convert to Islam = “
practicing their faith“.
The anti - Israel bigotry composed of 1)
‘Arab racism’ against non Arabs by Arab supremacy (the same active in Africa
like genocide in Sudan, Chad, etc. or in all of the Arab world on all non Arab
minorities), 2) ‘Islamic Jihad’ against any non Muslims (the one active in the
entire world) = “
anti Zionism“.
Israelis’ natural human fear of massacres,
attacks by Arab racism & Islamofascism = “
anti Arab racism“.
IDF sincere factual humanitarian programs
worldwide = “
propaganda“.
Terror masters gathering = “
freedom of movement“.
Terrorists using ambulances = “
carrying the sick”…
Oppressing women = “
manhood”.
Fascism aka not even giving “right to exist” = “
Palestinian rights“.
Preferential treatment to Arabs over Jews,
including in cities like Hebron = “
apartheid state“.
Israel’s extraordinary humane help for
‘Palestinians’ (including free hospital care to their children injured though of
Arab initiated attacks, medical advancement for ordinary Arabs & more
http://israel21c.org, etc.) = “
not an issue“.
The historic Arab attacks, massacres
& ethnic cleansing on Jews in the holy-land prior to the date of so called
‘occupation’ = “
not the issue”.
Seeing the US as the big Satan &
Israel as the little one = “
land issues“.
Defending against attacks = “
occupation“.
Preventing ‘Palestinians’ from killing = “
crimes against humanity“.
Revealing the truth about ‘Palestinians’ = “
propaganda“.
A terrorist = “
activist“.
Demonizing of Israel via lies = “
all or the cause“.
Calling to ‘wipe of Israel off map’ = “
free Palestine campaign“.
Telling it’s children invented horror
fantasy ’stories’ about the Zionists = “
pride“.
Spreading around graphic photos of dead
kids who died as tools by Arab adult terrorists = “
evil Zionists“.
Dehumanization of innocent Israeli men
women & children as “tanks” = “against the occupation“.
Publicizing Hitler’s ‘MeinKampf’ in Arabic
and having it as a ’best seller’ in Gaza = “
defying the Zionists“.
The vast anti Israel bias, the global
Arabism & Arabists control in the mainstream media = “
Zionists control“.
The most powerful lobby in Washington -
the Saudi Arab Muslim lobby = “
Jewish lobby“.
Arab lobby paying to write books using fake slurs = "
research".
Militant Hamas’ front group in Islamic
lobby CAIR = “
real ‘Americans’“.
[Not dual loyalty but one loyalty] Arab
“americans” acting on behalf of ‘Palestinian’ terrorists against US = “
loyal Americans“.
Treacherous American Muslims raising funds
in US for ‘Palestinian’ terror Jihadi organizations =
“
brethren“.
Dancing masses in public square towards
the blood of 3,000 innocent victims of the Islamic attack on 911 or
of major Islamic terror attacks on innocent Israelis = “
folklore, national holiday“.
Arab lobby’s two anti-Israel Arabist books, Carter & Mearsheimer =
“
balanced view“.
The one way street, like activists ONLY on the Israel side to act on behalf of ‘Palestinians’ = “
equivalency“.
Having only the ‘Palestinian’ view at any forum = “
even handed“.
Islamic Republic of Iran’s Hitler ‘Mahmoud Eichmanjihad’ [the ‘mehdi’ ‘Islamic Messiah’ with nukes, the one giving the ultimatum to the west to convert to Islam or else, that declares ‘Death to US, UK’, threatening Israel despite having absolutely no land or any other disputes with, stretching all over his global network of violence, having troops creating bloodshed & mayhem in, Lebanon, ‘Palestine’, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.] = “
Palestine’s poster boy“.
Cheering to the party that seeks an all out Shiite oppressive theocracy in the region, Iran’s Hezbullah (2006) invasion & attack of Israeli civilians when half of the victims were Arabs in Israel & using civilians in Lebanon, causing deaths & destruction there = “
good job, we want more“.
‘Palestinian’ war on Lebanon, siding with militant Islamists Al Qaeda, in terror “refugee” camps =
“
Lebanese occupation & racism“.
Mourning the deaths of the butchers of our
time: Saddam & Zarqawi = “
national pride, mutual understanding“.
Global Arab Palestinian led anti Israel hate lobby = “
International Solidarity Movement“.
Blaming the Zionists for all Arabs,
Muslims crimes against humanity all over the planet, with or without “theories”
= “
FYI“.
“Death to Israel!” = “
peaceful protest“.
Pro terror march = “
anti-war march“.
Abu Mazen, Fatah’s terror arm ‘Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade’ = “
moderates“.
Racist vicious boycotts = “
protesting“.
Powerful hijacking the UN, EU & most
world bodies via the international Arab Muslim oil lobby Goliath = “
David vs Goliath“.
The Islamo Arab giant kicking, bashing little Israel — who's fighting to
survive — at the UN & in international media all the time = “
olive branch“.
Jihad, Shahid & hatred camps for kids = “
education“.
Teaching little Muhammad about ‘
apes & pigs’ = “Biology“
Strapping death belt to it’s kids = “
Parenthood“.
Being paid for [selling to the devil]
sending own kid to die via massacring others = “
heroes“.
Lost battle = “
massacre“.
Muslim clerics’: ‘kill all infidels’ = “
justice“.
‘Palestinian’ TV industry of lies = “
information“.
Honor killing = “
honor“.
Oppressing any opposition = “
inner ‘Palestinian’ matter“.
Uncivil war, fighting between ‘mainstream’
radical Arab - Muslims & more extreme Arab - Muslims = “
western conspiracy“.
‘Conspiracy theories’ = “
the truth“.
Careful planning of terror attacks, genocide bombings = “
desperation“.
Anti terrorism fence, shield = “
apartheid-wall“.
Muhammad’s dreaming about a Jewish city = “
Muslim site“.
Arab immigrants prior to 1948 = “
indigenous, natives“.
Smuggling weapons = “
humanitarian aid“.
Terror tunnels = “
family unification“.
Mass kidnapping cult “
activism“.
Shooting into residential homes or
Infiltrating into cities invading homes in the middle of the night, murdering
kids in their beds = “
liberating the land“.
Corruption & stealing from it’s population = “
Zionists’ fault“.
Shooting missiles on schoolchildren “
grievances“.
Ethnic cleansing, Judenrein ‘Palestine’
[aka no Jew in ‘Palestinian’ controlled area] = “
right to self determination“.
Stoning ANY Israelis passers-by = “
David vs Goliath“.
Lynching [by the masses of “moderate”
mainstream ‘Palestinians’, or attempting to] any Jew who dared lost it’s way into their “territory” = “
human rights“.
Lynching own brothers = “
Palestinian legal system“.
IDF’s rubber bullets to disperse violent
‘Palestinian’ crowds = “
Israeli bombs“.
Israeli security’s use of tear gas to
disperse ‘Palestinians’ on rampage = “
attacking civilians“.
Arab terrorists firing among civilians =
“
Israeli massacre“.
IDF’s humane advanced notice, warning to
evacuate certain areas before conducting anti terror operations (on the
expense of terrorists escaping) = “
Zionist scare tactics“.
IDF’s high risk investment & use of
specially low impact, maximum precision, small missiles, designed to hit only a
dangerous terror target & minimize by-standers causalities = “
F-16 onpoor Palestinians“.Killing it’s own kids [like Muhammad Al-Dura, Gaza beach family, etc.] & creating of them icons each time, carrying the ‘torch’ on = “voice of Palestine“.
Self inflicting suffering [ever since 1948, still today, rejecting any settlement, rejecting Israel’s help, choosing terrorism over calm, war over peace, exterminating Jews over partition of two states] = “
the victims“.
Always initiating the attacks = “
innocent victims“.
[Arab] Targeting civilians in shopping
malls, bus stops, wedding halls, restaurants, etc. = “
legitimate rights“.
Massive support for fascist terror
organization Hamas bend on annihilating all of Israel & urges it’s will of
“drinking the blood of the Jews” = “
innocent Palestinians“.
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