Professed love for Palestinian Arabs is oddly selective.
I have never met anyone who really gives a genuine damn about Palestinian Arabs unless it is linked with an umbilical cord to hatred of Israel.
The two are so welded together that you have to think what came first – the Palestinian chicken or the Israeli egg.
Those that adopt a Palestinian cause use it as a club to beat Israel. Show me anyone who loves the Palestinian Arabs without hating Israel.
Their professed love of Palestinians is selective. They only love them if Israel is lurking somewhere in their narrative.
They don’t love them sufficiently when Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and others abuse and kill Arabs who claim to be Palestinian. Then they go silent. I wonder why.\
No BDS campaigns against Egypt for their blockade on Gaza. No pro-Palestinian protests outside Syrian embassies for their wholesale slaughter of Syrian-based Palestinians. BDS has nothing to say about Apartheid-Jordan that has kept Palestinian Arabs in refugee status for 70 years, since 1948.
Even worse, they are silent against the Palestinian Authority that maintains refugee camps in the territories that they control and administer!
How can you still be a Palestinian refugee when you live under the control of the Palestinian Authority? Go figure, because I don’t have the answer. Perhaps BDS does.
People who don’t care a hoot about the Kurds, Yazidis or Druze, yell and scream about the Palestinian condition.
If “occupation” is their shtick, why no boycott campaigns against the two hundred countries that have an occupation issue? They do nothing to protest Turkey’s occupation of Northern Cyprus or Kurdish territory, or Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara? How come its only Israel that makes them mad?
This deep hatred that festers against Israel is only about Israel being the nation state of the Jewish people.
It is an exclusive despicere that goes against all reason and logic, and it shows itself in the falsehoods, the perversion of facts, history, and in the blood libels that Jews are so familiar after centuries of similar defamation.
For at the dark heart of this pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, venom is anti-Semitism.
Weel, the Greek Cypriots are not slaughtering Turkish Cypriots, and teaching their babies to hate them. Besides the Northern Cypriot “state” is not recognised by the UN. As for Western Sahara denizens. They are offered citizenship but they have been invaded and deprived or their own country. Not at all like Israel which has Irrevocable Sovereign Rights LEGALLY over the whole country from the Jordan to the Sea.
a BIG “boo-boo”. The Jews are not RETURNING after 1800 years. They have been there all the time and at times during that 1800 years, historical accounts show that they have been in the majority, as for instance when they raised a large army to help the Persians to defeat the Byzantines. Or in the previous century that extant letter of the Bishop, writing to a colleague, complaining that the Jews stifle out the lesser Christian population. Also Adriaan Reland’s 18th cent. (taken in 1796-7, published 1714) investigations and census of the 2500 towns and cities mentioned in the Torah taken under the auspices of the University of Leyden, shows there were NO settled Arabs in the country, other than a few passing nomads and one family in Jaffa numbering 120. The large majority was of Jews, with some Samaritans and Christians making the balance.
As I said the Jews didn’t return as much as they once again displayed Sovereignty and re-constituted their legal State of the Jews, on Land they had full rights to.
I’m sure you’re being facetious, but the fact is that the “AngloSaxons” were two distinct people who conquered one another, never had any settled rule, and invaded the land they occupied only formed short historical period. They then passed on the England in successive waves, ruling the country, where they were eventually defeated by the Normans and absorbed.
Your whole unreal article is put in proper perspective by it’s last fake premiss…that there are 11 million “disenfranchised Palestinian” refugees, knowing that this is not the case that there are perhaps 20,000 still alive and in the vicinity, many of them living in their own homes, from which they have never moved, the rest being descendants or even pretenders, with no legal rights to any return to anywhere, and that their situation is the fault of their own Arab brothers who have kept them like that.
Also included in that fanciful number of 11 million….( a year ago it was only 5-6 mill) are probably about 6-8 million who are in different parts of the world earning a living, and citizens of the countries they were born in..
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Apples and oranges with Cyprus. While Turkey does not belong in Northern Cyprus, there is a fully independent regular Cyprus, which is a state. One does not have to go through Turkish customs to go to Nicosia. One has to go through Israeli customs to go to “Palestine” in Judea and Samaria. Nicosia has a free airport. Does Ramallah?
There are no ongoing Turkish checkpoints all over Cyprus.
The Kurdish areas are starting to draw attention.
Israel – and I am not saying Israel is wrong – but Israel will never give Palestine a state.
The Western Saharans are offered citizenship in Morocco – though they may not want it. The Palestinians of Judea and Samaria are NOT offered Israeli passports at all.
So the author’s premise is logically inconsistent.
I am NOT saying Israel is wrong; but the argument is inconsistent.
The fact is that Israel has a desparate, disenfranchised people under its control, while at the same time Israel claims to be a democracy.
Do what you want. I do NOT support BDS. I am NOT anti-Israel.
The reason I do NOT support the Palestinian cause is because I despise Islam.
I do not see that. It may be in some cases. I do not think that if Zionism had bought a province in Argentina – as Herzl suggested was an option – there would be this much hulabaloo.
I seriously think that many Palestinian supporters believe that Palestinians have the superior claim on the land, without thinking the issue through.
The reason I do not press that argument is because I do not like Islam; and I think Jews do have some historical claims on the area.
Though one has to admit returning after 1800 years is difficult to explain. Imagine if every Anglo-Saxon on the planet decided – after 1600 years – to return to Denmark and NW Germany – telling the locals …. “We’re back!”
The locals Germans/Danish might not be so thrilled.
My view is that I despise Islam; and that takes a major precedence.
And there is a religious aspect to all of this. Frankly, apart from religion, it would have made sense for the Jews to buy a province in Argentina as Herzl suggested. Christians support Israel because they believe the conflagration that will arise from this conflict will lead to the return of Christ, and the eventual conversion of the Jewish people to Christ.
So while both Jews and Christians support Israel for religious reasons, they do NOT have the same end in mind.
Ultimately, you are faced with roughly 11 million disenfranchised Palestinians in the Mideast. Some of the pro-Palestinians are upset that Egypt, Lebanon, Syria denies them civil rights – and upset that Jordan does not give them full civil rights. But they see the answer to the problem being that they be allowed to return to where their ancestors came from 70 years earlier.
Because this whole issue is clouded with Islam, I am not anti-Israel.
But the argument could be turned on its head. I have yet to meet a strong supporter of Israel who is not anti-Palestine.
The argument of the author is logically a tautology. It means nothing.