Peloni: Gaza is Jewish land, by history, war and international law. The 2005 Expulsion from Gaza was a crime against the Jewish people, not unrelated to the crime of empowering the Arabs over the most precious site in all of Judaism by Dayan in 1967. These acts of self-betrayal have come to oversee the creation of theseeds of slaughter which have continued to grow into fruition in both the terror wars between wars, as well as actual wars themselves. The resulting preference of creating frozen conflicts from thin air is neither a healthy nor a sustainable mission. When the victors cede the fruits of victory to their defeated enemies they make a mockery of the mortal costs which were spent in achieving that victory. These lands are our land. We need to recognize this fact, and credit the same international binding charters which also recognize nations as far away as Europe, but also that den of deception and duplicity known today as Jordan. The recognition of the reconstitution of the State of Israel was the same mandate from which the recognition of the creation of the state of Jordan (originally Transjordan) was created. The League of Nations for the Mandate of Palestine was adopted by the League of Nations in 1922, confirmed by the US govt in 1924, and affirmed by the United Nations in 1945. These are facts which need to be referenced by Israel’s leadership, as Sha’i ben-Tekoa notes, in every speech, every press conference, and every interview they hold. Til such time as we accept that our own rights are legitimate and make clear the international basis upon which these rights stand, the narrative wars will continue and the butcher’s bill for such an act of self-betrayal as was adopted by Sharon and Dayan will continue to grow as well.
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa
A few days after Israel entered the old city of Jerusalem in the Six Days War it cleared the most sacred Jewish place – the Western Wall of the Temple. Photo by Yehuda Greenberg, Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia
The Six-Day War began on Sunday, June 5, 1967 and on Wednesday, June 7, Israeli soldiers conquered the Temple Mount, some of them scaling to the top of the war memorial of the Muslims over the Jews – i.e. the golden Dome of the Rock intentionally, symbolically built on the site of the Jews’ ancient temples.
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