Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why Isn't There a Palestinian State? (video)
Prager University ^ | 3-27-2017 | David Brog

Posted on 03/27/2017 4:40:56 AM PDT by servo1969

If Israel just allowed the Palestinians to have a state of their own, there would be peace in the Middle East, right? That’s what you hear from UN ambassadors, European diplomats and most college professors.

But what if I told you that Israel has already offered the Palestinians a state of their own – and not just once, but on five separate occasions?

Don’t believe me?

Let’s review the record.

After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, Britain took control of most of the Middle East, including the area that constitutes modern Israel.

Seventeen years later, in 1936, the Arabs rebelled against the British, and against their Jewish neighbors.

The British formed a task force – the Peel Commission – to study the cause of the rebellion. The commission concluded that the reason for the violence was that two peoples – Jews and Arabs – wanted to govern the same land.

The answer, the Peel Commission concluded, would be to create two independent states – one for the Jews, and one for the Arabs. A two-state solution. The suggested split was heavily in favor of the Arabs. The British offered them 80 percent of the disputed territory; the Jews, the remaining 20 percent. Yet, despite the tiny size of their proposed state, the Jews voted to accept this offer. But the Arabs rejected it and resumed their violent rebellion. Rejection number one.

Ten years later, in 1947, the British asked the United Nations to find a new solution to the continuing tensions. Like the Peel Commission, the UN decided that the best way to resolve the conflict was to divide the land.

On November 7, 1947, the UN voted to create two states. Again, the Jews accepted the offer. And again, the Arabs rejected it, only this time, they did so by launching an all-out war. Rejection number two.

Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria joined the conflict. But they failed. Israel won the war, and got on with the business of building a new nation. Most of the land set aside by the UN for an Arab state – the West Bank and east Jerusalem – became occupied territory; occupied not by Israel, but by Jordan.

Twenty years later, in 1967, the Arabs, led this time by Egypt and joined by Syria and Jordan, once again sought to destroy the Jewish State.

The 1967 conflict, known as the Six Day War, ended in a stunning victory for Israel. Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as the area known as the Gaza Strip, fell into Israel’s hands. The government split over what to do with this new territory. Half wanted to return the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt in exchange for peace. The other half wanted to give it to the region’s Arabs, who had begun referring to themselves as the Palestinians, in the hope that they would ultimately build their own state there.

Neither initiative got very far. A few months later, the Arab League met in Sudan and issued its infamous “Three No’s:” No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel. Again, a two-state solution was dismissed by the Arabs, making this rejection number three.

In 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met at Camp David with Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to conclude a new two-state plan. Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital. But the Palestinian leader rejected the offer. In the words of US President Bill Clinton, Arafat was “Here 14 days and said ‘no’ to everything.”

Instead, the Palestinians launched a bloody wave of suicide bombings that killed over 1,000 Israelis and maimed thousands more – on buses, in wedding halls, and in pizza parlors. Rejection number four.

In 2008, Israel tried yet again. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went even further than Ehud Barak had, expanding the peace offer to include additional land to sweeten the deal. Like his predecessor, the new Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, turned the deal down. Rejection number five.

In between these last two Israeli offers, Israel unilaterally left Gaza, giving the Palestinians complete control there. Instead of developing this territory for the good of its citizens, the Palestinians turned Gaza into a terrorist base, from which they have fired thousands of rockets into Israel.

Each time Israel has agreed to a Palestinian state, the Palestinians have rejected the offer, often violently.

So, if you’re interested in peace in the Middle East, maybe the answer is not to pressure Israel to make yet another offer of a state to the Palestinians. Maybe the answer is to pressure the Palestinians to finally accept the existence of a Jewish State.

I’m David Brog, Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force, for Prager University.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Philosophy
KEYWORDS:
I fully believe if Israel gave all its land to the Arabs and moved to Antarctica the Arabs would follow them and keep attacking.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76NytvQAIs0

1 posted on 03/27/2017 4:40:56 AM PDT by servo1969
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: servo1969

Because there’s no such thing as a Palestinian. They’re either Jordanian or Syrian. Palestine was a British label nothing more.


2 posted on 03/27/2017 4:54:17 AM PDT by Snowybear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

Muzzies are at war with the world. They cannot peacefully coexist with anyone. They are followers of evil.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 5:01:44 AM PDT by boycott
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Snowybear

Exactamundo. I’ve stated that very thing to defenders, to which the wise have no response.

My ace up the sleeve is that the Israelis are the Palestinian people.

Of course, they never bring up the subject in my presence again...


4 posted on 03/27/2017 5:04:30 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: logi_cal869

Yep. Palestinians were a geographical grouping, not a people. Jews and muzzies. Jews got their homeland Judea back and got successful, muzzies got po’d. Arafat was Egyptian, btw.

Muzzies hate the Jews going wayyyy back, want then non-existent. Pretty simple to understand. They hate us, too.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 5:18:06 AM PDT by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel.

Israel here was justified and should have wiped the recalcitrant animals off of the face of the earth.


6 posted on 03/27/2017 5:20:43 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969
Becasue: they would then totally responsible diplomatically for ensuring the peace and stability of their borders, and the safety of all citizens; if they failed to do those things inherent to peace they could be condemned or forced to fight a war as a state. As Terror-i-tory they are given the diplomatic pass at the UN to engage in warlike activities without holding the leadership responsible.

The world body and UN leadership are engaged in a war against Israel, the USA and in some places it extends to the EU civilian populace. Islam is a corrupting influence.

7 posted on 03/27/2017 5:28:58 AM PDT by Jumper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

Jordan is the Palestinian state.


8 posted on 03/27/2017 5:33:06 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

That’s what Israel would really need: another Arab country on her border.


9 posted on 03/27/2017 6:02:20 AM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Snowybear

Thank you for putting the central and unavoidable truth out there so quickly in the thread...GMTA!! All the other points made by the author are merely window-dressing on a false concept of there being a “Palestinian people.” No such thing exists, merely Arabs who have lived for multiple generations in a portion of the Middle East that was labeled by the Romans over two millennia ago as “Palestine.”


10 posted on 03/27/2017 7:39:38 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

Very nice presentation.

Thanks for the post.


11 posted on 03/27/2017 9:27:17 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: servo1969

If the Palis had a state, terror attacks could be treated as a military assault and the state could be crushed. Instead they have to chase will-o-the-wisp murderers who retreat to the non-state.


12 posted on 03/27/2017 9:41:38 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: T-Bird45
...a portion of the Middle East that was labeled by the Romans over two millennia ago as “Palestine.”

Much of which had been known as Israel most of a millennium before that.

13 posted on 03/27/2017 9:52:50 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson