Middle East 101 (acording to me)
Hamas conceding Israel has a right to exist? Egypt releasing political prisoners to Israel and vice versa? What the heck is going on here?
Out of all the smoke and mirrors peace deals that the Middle East peace process has produced, I believe this is a genuine opportunity for a normalized situation in Middle East.
The situation is this: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon do not recognize Israel as a state, and all basically have state policies of Israeli elimination. Egypt and Jordon were in the same group, but have made their “peace” with Israel over the decades.
The main sticking point in any negotiation is something called “right of return”. When Israel was created, per United Nations Resolution 181 after World War II, 300,000 – 400,000 Palistinians were displaced. Arabs say the Jews through them out, Jews say they left on their own to avoid the issuing massacre from Israel’s neighboring Arab countries, which invaded the day after Israel declared itself a state. Even if they were “thrown out”, since when does this give them a “right of return”. There have been thousands of wars over thousands of years, and everyone has had a winner and a looser. The Jews won and the Arabs lost. It’s interesting to note that the Arabs who had remained in Israel became Israeli citizens after the war.
The displaced palestinians who are of Egyptian and Jordanian decent were still promised a state. From 1948 to 1967, Jordan occupied the west bank and Egypt occupied Gaza. The Palestinian state was never created. In 1967, Israel, in what is commonly referred to as the 6 day war, took the West Bank from Jordan, The Golan Heights from Syria, and The Gaza Strip from Egypt. Its Ironic that Israel is working towards creating a palistinian state in Gaza and the West Bank when Jordan and Egypt did nothing to create such a state when they had control of the territories for almost 20 years. 99.9% of the Golan Heights had been offered back to Syria in return for recognition. Syria refused.
The consensus “border”, even among the Saudi Royal Family is the “green line”, which was the old Jordan/Israeli border before the 1967 6 day war. The security fence, a wall in some areas, falls 80% on the line, and leaves 94% of the west bank and all of Gaza for a Palestinian state.
The death of Yaser Arafat signals the end of the struggle. Its time for peace.
Out of all the smoke and mirrors peace deals that the Middle East peace process has produced, I believe this is a genuine opportunity for a normalized situation in Middle East.
The situation is this: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon do not recognize Israel as a state, and all basically have state policies of Israeli elimination. Egypt and Jordon were in the same group, but have made their “peace” with Israel over the decades.
The main sticking point in any negotiation is something called “right of return”. When Israel was created, per United Nations Resolution 181 after World War II, 300,000 – 400,000 Palistinians were displaced. Arabs say the Jews through them out, Jews say they left on their own to avoid the issuing massacre from Israel’s neighboring Arab countries, which invaded the day after Israel declared itself a state. Even if they were “thrown out”, since when does this give them a “right of return”. There have been thousands of wars over thousands of years, and everyone has had a winner and a looser. The Jews won and the Arabs lost. It’s interesting to note that the Arabs who had remained in Israel became Israeli citizens after the war.
The displaced palestinians who are of Egyptian and Jordanian decent were still promised a state. From 1948 to 1967, Jordan occupied the west bank and Egypt occupied Gaza. The Palestinian state was never created. In 1967, Israel, in what is commonly referred to as the 6 day war, took the West Bank from Jordan, The Golan Heights from Syria, and The Gaza Strip from Egypt. Its Ironic that Israel is working towards creating a palistinian state in Gaza and the West Bank when Jordan and Egypt did nothing to create such a state when they had control of the territories for almost 20 years. 99.9% of the Golan Heights had been offered back to Syria in return for recognition. Syria refused.
The consensus “border”, even among the Saudi Royal Family is the “green line”, which was the old Jordan/Israeli border before the 1967 6 day war. The security fence, a wall in some areas, falls 80% on the line, and leaves 94% of the west bank and all of Gaza for a Palestinian state.
The death of Yaser Arafat signals the end of the struggle. Its time for peace.
posted by American Patrol | 2:45 PM
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