T. Belman. Goldberg has a good thought here. The best way to counter a UN imposed solution in favor of the PA is to destroy the PA. Israel just has to stop protecting them and stop subsidizing them and stop supplying them with necessities. Let them find their own electricity and water. Israel will be accused of not abiding by the humanitarian provisions of the FGC but we are accused of violating it by building houses. But then again we should embrace the Levy Report which holds that the FGC does not apply.
If Obama is rethinking his position on Israel, we can do the same.
Ever since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning, decisive victory in Israel’s elections, the Obama Administration has been issuing warnings that it is reassessing its previous support for Israel in the international community. Bitterly disappointed at the outcome of the election, President Obama and his spokespeople claim that their reassessment is the result of Netanyahu’s statements on the eve of the election that apparently repudiated his previous support for the two-state solution. Their delicate feelings were also hurt by the Prime Minister’s truthful statement on the day of the election that foreign sources were bringing Israeli-Arabs to the voting booth “en masse” in a coordinated effort to defeat him.
Among the threats being issued by the White House and State Department representatives is the warning that the United States is likely to refrain from vetoing, and even might support, a resolution in the United States Security Council calling for the creation of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines, the halting and dismantling of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, and the division of Jerusalem. The Obama Administration is also threatening to allow Israel’s enemies to bring criminal actions against Israel and various senior political and military officers in international courts.
These threats must be taken seriously. If implemented, Israel and its citizens could face serious sanctions until Obama is replaced by a friendlier President.
He has his eye on the calendar and will not let his remaining 22 months in office pass without seriously punishing the Jewish state.
The Israeli government cannot sidestep these threats by stalling for time in the hope that Obama’s term in office will soon expire and a friendlier President of the United States will replace him. Obama’s undeniable antipathy towards Israel and determination to midwife the birth of a Palestinian state should not be underestimated. He has his eye on the calendar and will not let his remaining 22 months in office pass without seriously punishing the Jewish state.
Consequently, the Prime Minister’s effort to explain away his campaign statements pledging to oppose the creation of a Palestinian state as a misunderstanding is doomed to fail.
Nevertheless, Israel has the power immediately to thwart the efforts to force a Palestinian state down its throat. The Prime Minister can announce that the Israeli government has reassessed its longstanding support for, and protection of, the Palestinian Authority.
He can declare that, from this point forward, Israel will no longer turn over tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority. That money can be applied to reduce the much larger debt that the Palestinian Authority owes to the Israeli Electric Authority.
Prime Minister Netanyahu can announce that if the Palestinians want independence, they can have it, in spades. The Palestinian Authority will be responsible for providing its own people with electricity, water and other government services. No longer will Israel assume that responsibility.
The Palestinian Authority will be responsible for building its own economy and finding employment for its people, as Palestinians will no longer be able to cross the Green Line to find employment by Israelis.
Finally, Netanyahu can announce that the IDF will no longer offer physical protection to Mahmoud Abbas and other officials of the Palestinian Authority. Abu Mazen and his henchmen can rely on their own forces to protect them from the tender mercies of Hamas.
This will, of course, lead to the immediate disintegration of the Palestinian Authority. There will be a civil war among various Palestinian factions, and the Arab areas of Judea and Samaria will soon start to resemble what is left of Syria and Iraq as the Palestinians begin to slaughter each other.
There will also be a cost to Israel, including an attempted surge of terrorism against the Jews of Judea and Samaria, as well as inside the Green Line. The Israeli government must be prepared to take severe measures to prevent it.
The United Nations, the European Union and the Obama Administration will also be furious, but it will pass, as there will be nothing they can do to create a Palestinian state once the Palestinian Authority no longer exists.
The collapse of the Palestinian Authority will not be cost free to Israel, which is why Abbas frequently issues empty threats to dismantle the Palestinian Authority himself. It would be delusional to believe that Israel can avoid the imposition of a Palestinian state without paying a price. Such a price, however, is small change compared to the catastrophe that would result from the creation of a Palestinian state and the benefit of terminating that threat once and for all.
It is unrealistic, of course, to expect that the Israeli government will declare the termination of Israel’s cooperation with the Palestinian Authority at this time without provocation. The Prime Minister’s cautious nature precludes such a bold move. Nevertheless, the possibility that Israel will take this step in response to any change in support by the United States for Israel in various international bodies should be floated.
Simply put, if the Obama Administration can reassess its position with regard to Israel, the Netanyahu government can reassess its position with regard to the Palestinian Authority. The street runs two ways.
Watch an episode of Caroline Glicks new satire. Previous entry in moderation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0n07UTDHQjc
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Take a look at Israels situation through the eyes of an Israeli. Caroline Glick has a new satire. It’s similar to the Newscast on Saturday Nite Live. This episode is a satire of the recent elections. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0n07UTDHQjc
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Rational arguments get Israel and the Jewish nation nowhere in the UNO, the EU, the US State Department, some elements of the US Defense Department, and the current US presidential administration.
The only policy that has any expectation of efficacy regarding Israel, the PA, and the international busybodies is two-fold direct action:
1) Large-scale Jewish population augmentation in all parts of Area C, at a rate of 6 per cent per year, in order to double the present Jewish population there to about 750,000-800,000 in 12 years. Immediate annexation of Area C is less needed than changing Israeli management of that 62 per cent of Shomron and Yehuda from military to civil Israeli control.
2) Direct negotiations for local autonomy solely — and privately — with the leaders of the urban Arab hamulas and other notable families in the cities that make up most of the Arab population in Area A. As part of this step, take steps to bankrupt the PA, and as that happens, wind down contacts with that body. Historically, thee are few if any examples of a group of local chieftains refusing offers of local power offered to them as part of a package deal that uses them to replace a gang such as Fatah that pretends to represent all of them.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Considering the International efforts to (forcibly) impose a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict at Israel’s expenses, Israel should come out with all the arguments she has to put-up obstacles and defete this completely arbitrary process. We must return to the fundamentals of the conflict; League of Nations resolution regarding then a Jewish National Homeland in the area called Palestine..the endorsement (making it into law)of those by the US Congress and Senate a few years later..the UN’s legal obligations (article 80)to live up to those irrevocable resolutions. Israel must put the Jewish refugees from Arab lands into the equation. Israel must question and denounce the fake and politically made up identity of a so called Palestinian people etc..If the Arabs cannot accept a Jewish state why should we (and the world at all)agree to give legitimation and statehood to a previously unknow, fabricate, fake people?
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at the expense of willing ANTISEMITES.
IL needs to develop asap a new network of relationship independent of the Western world and then get rid of the Pal. The US can still prevent IL from defending herself.
@ Bert:
As Shmuel here would say UnJews in Israel, or more exactly – Israelis – wield a great deal of power. Jews have little ability to influence their traitorous deeds.
For many years I keep looking for signs that Jewish leaders will finally show some bit of Jewish self-respect and speak truth to power. U.S. officials have been insulting and abusing Israel for decades and not just since Obama. By now it has become firmly established that Israel can be kicked and insulted at will and they will always bow and take it. Our leaders have trained our enemies and critics that kicking Israel around has no cost and brings no consequences. Israel even funds its enemies in the Palestinian Authority while it carries on low level attacks and teaches its children to hate and kill Jews. Is there any other ethnic group in the entire world that is so debased?
Netanyahu just unfroze taxes due to the PA allowing it to prosecute its lawfare against Israel. And keep on paying convicted Arab terrorists in Israeli prisons.
Congratulations! And that renewed subsidy goes to Hamas, too FWIW.
Israel cutting loose from recognition, financial support and security for Fatah’s “Palestine Authority” need not lead to chaos and terrorism at any appreciable level. Instead, it would provide an opportunity for Israel to negotiate separate local autonomy agreements with the urban Arab extended-family clans (hamulahs) and other notable local families in each of the main Arab-populated cities of Shomron and Yehuda. These include Jenin, Tulkarem, Nablus, Kalkilya, Ramallah, Jericho, and Hevron. All of these together comprise the bulk of the Arab population of the territories.
Coincidental with these moves, Israel should replace military with civil rule to Area C, which comprises some 62 percent of Shomron and Yehuda, and re-assume civil control over the smaller Arab towns and villages of Area B.
Each of the Arab-populated cities with local autonomy would be granted power to police its own territory and would be expected to keep the peace without much interference from the Israeli government and its armed forces. How the leaderships would be chosen in each such city would be determined by the ruling clans or families and their degree of support from their own local residents. Would any of this be based on Western democratic political ideals? Probably not at all. But they would certainly be in keeping with the traditions of Arab civilization going back in time to ancient history. In that sense, such a political arrangement would probably be quite stable.
I have been advocating the above-described arrangement for a few years now, after having read — and studied at length — the published work of various Israeli and other scholars which have described details of the unique power relationships of the Arab urban clans and their rural tribes from which the urban clans arose.
The time has come for these considerations to be fully considered as a serious means of winding down the troubles with the local Arabs, in a way that would serve the interests of both the Jewish nation, the State of Israel, and he bulk of the local Arabs themselves. And all that with no interference needed — or wanted — from the USA, the UNO, the EU, or any other non-local body.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Yup.
The Palestinian Arabs want independence, let them support themselves.
Under the present conditions they can bite Israel’s hand, wage lawfare at the UN against it and support Arab terrorists imprisoned by Israel.
Cut them loose and inform them they’re now grown-up adults and Israel’s support for them is coming to an end.
Let’s see if independence is really what they want.