The “international community” is antisemetic

A population was needed. Creation of “Palestinians” was made possible by denial, by the government of Israel, of the right of Jews to live everywhere in the Land of Israel.

Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Jordanian Arabs live in Judea and Samaria. Egyptian Arabs live in Aza. Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (1984). The government of Israel connived with those Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian and Egyptian Arabs to apply to them the label “Palestinians,” a term which theretofore never connoted a national identity. With further connivance of the government of Israel, those Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian and Egyptian Arabs manufactured the potential other sovereignty of “Palestine Authority.”

Like a Dr. Frankenstein, the government of Israel engendered the monster of “Palestine.” That monster, through “Palestinians,” turned and wreaked vengeance on its creator. Vengeance included thousands of murders of civilian Jews at the hands of Arabs; thousands of killings of military-service Jews at the hands of Arabs. Unlike the fictional monster, the Arab monster will express no remorse, and will not immolate itself.

“International law” and “international community”

There is no “international law” any more than there is an “international community.” The term “international community” is a euphemism for the totality of disparate, motley countries which fight endless wars of all against all. Thomas Hobbes wrote, in another context, that “. . . during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.” Leviathan, ch. 13.

Actions of the government of Israel in line with “international law” are anomalous. Some countries other than Israel pay lip service to “international law.” Most countries do not even that. Lip service or no service, every country acts in accordance with its national self interest, because there is no “international law” and there is no “international community.”

The lowest common denominator of countries large and small is Jew-hatred. That explains widespread use of “international law” by the “international community” as a club with which to clobber Israel. Two examples among many are the countless anti-Israel resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly, and the innumerable anti-Israel resolutions by the UN Human Rights Council and its predecessor UN Commission on Human Rights.

A visitor from Mars who counts all those resolutions, and who takes note of the diplomatic efforts monomaniacally devoted to drafting them, circulating them, discussing them and passing them, would be forgiven for thinking that, to the “international community,” the overriding threat to the third planet is Jews living in the Land of Israel and governing the Land of Israel. During the sixty-five years of the existence of the United Nations, no circumstance—not the murders of seventy million people by the Red Chinese; not the Gulag archipelago maintained by the Soviet Union; not the brutalization of North Koreans; not the oppression of Burmese; not the loot-motivated wars in Africa; not the genocide in East Timor; not the genocide in Rwanda; not the genocide in Cambodia; not all of them together—has been of greater concern to the “international community” than “the Jewish problem.” The “international community,” which knew of the World War II death camps but refused to bomb the railroad tracks which led to them, regrets that the Nazis did not fully effectuate the Final Solution to “the Jewish problem.”

The one-sidedness of the “obligation” of the government of Israel, under “international law,” to create a “Palestine” out of Judea, Samaria and Aza, which are integral parts of the Land of Israel, is illustrated by application elsewhere of the concept of two states for the purpose of resolving a territorial conflict.

Suppose that a call were issued to Moslem Iraq and to Moslem Turkey to give away land for peace, to create a homeland. Suppose that there were UN resolutions expressive of the obligation, under “international law,” of Iraq to deny its sovereignty over Kurdistan, and of Turkey to deny its sovereignty over Anatolia, and for Iraq and Turkey to create ex nihilo, out of Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkish Anatolia, a homeland for Kurds, with Mosul as its capital.

There would be no two-state solution. No sonorous talk about a Kurdistan living side-by-side in peace and security with Iraq. No visionary sound-bites about mutually-beneficial relations between Kurdistan and Turkey. No road map; no international conferences; not a single meeting at Camp David. No shuttle diplomacy among Baghdad and Ankara and Mosul. There would be no establishment and endless funding of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Kurdish Refugees in the Near East (compare the UNRWA).

Iraq and Turkey, respectively, would respond with outright rejection of, and outraged nationalism about, alienation of even a square foot of its territory. Each of Iraq and Turkey would say that territorial integrity is an unshakeable standard of “international law.” In that, Iraq and Turkey would be supported by the “international community.” It is otherwise for Israel.

Two recent events should be juxtaposed. In June, 2010, there were systematic attacks by ethnic Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan against ethnic Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan. More than 2,000 ethnic Uzbeks were murdered. Hundreds of houses and shops owned by ethnic Uzbeks were destroyed. There were 400,000 refugees, as ethnic Uzbeks fled to Uzbekistan. The “international community” took no notice. “International law” was not invoked to condemn the government of Kyrgyzstan. No one demonstrated, in any city, in protest of the systematic attacks.

In May, 2010, a “humanitarian” flotilla of three ships, one passenger ship with Jew-haters as passengers, and two cargo ships with goods of unknown quality and quantity, attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Aza. The “humanitarian” passengers disdained delivery to Aza via the port of Ashdod, because the aim of the “humanitarian” passengers was not delivery of “humanitarian” goods, but was to prove the illegitimacy of Israel, and to prove that it is illicit for the government of Israel to protect Israelis from the onslaughts of the Hamas gang which is in control of Aza.

The “international community” took notice of the meretricious blockade-running by praising it. “International law” was invoked to condemn the government of Israel.

Nine “humanitarian” participants on board the passenger ship were killed (not 2,000, as in Kyrgyzstan), in self defense by Israeli military personnel (not in ethnic clashes, as in Kyrgyzstan). “Spontaneous” anti-Israel demonstrations were held in various cities around the world.

A moment’s thought leads to the conclusion that blockades are permissible. It is well within the war powers of a country to deny war materiel to an enemy. Here’s a baker’s dozen of blockades of recent history, among numerous historical instances of blockades:

By the United States of the Confederate States, during the War Between the States (duration of war: 1861-1865).
By the Great Powers of Constantinople, during the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897.
By the United States of San Juan, Puerto Rico, during the Spanish-American War (duration of war: a few months in 1898).
By the United Kingdom of Germany, during World War I.
By the United States of Japan, during World War II.
By the Soviet Union of West Berlin in 1948-1949, during the Cold War.
By Egypt of the Strait of Tiran, prior to the 1956 Suez War.
By the United States of Cuba in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
By Egypt of the Strait of Tiran, prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
By India of East Pakistan, during the 1971 Bangladesh War.
By Egypt of Israel, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
By NATO of Yugoslavia in 1993-1996, during Operation Sharp Guard.
By Turkey and Azerbaijan of Armenia, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War (duration of war: 1988-1994).

The gist of the “international law” prescribed by the leadership of the “humanitarian” flotilla in particular, repeated Goebbels-like by the Left comprehensively, and accepted by the “international community” generally, is that Israel, alone among countries, has no legal right to act in its own behalf. The United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Egypt, NATO, Turkey and Azerbaijan may maintain blockades. Israel may not.

Another only-Israel-may-not inconsistency is the assertion by the “international community” that “international law” prohibits acquisition by Israel of territory in consequence of the 1967 war. There is no assertion by the “international community” that “international law” prohibited acquisition by China of Tibet as a consequence of the 1950 war waged by China against Tibet; or that “international law” prohibited acquisition by Russia of Finnish territory in consequence of World War II; or that “international law’ prohibited acquisition by Russia of Japanese territory, likewise in consequence of World War II; or that “international law” prohibited acquisition by India and Pakistan of their respective parts of Jammu and Kashmir in consequence of the 1947 war; or that “international law” prohibited acquisition by India of Goa, Daman and Diu in consequence of the 1961 war by India against those Portuguese territories.
Two-state “solution” and 22-state solution

The “international community” demands a two-state “solution” detrimental to Israel. No comparable demand is made for a two-state solution detrimental to Spain and France, concerning the Basque country. Or detrimental to the Philippines, concerning Mindanao. Or detrimental to Cyprus, concerning the Greek and Turkish parts of the island. Or detrimental to Georgia, concerning each of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. There was no demand by the “international community” that there should have been a two-state solution detrimental to Sri Lanka, concerning the Sinhalese and the Tamils.

The presence of Jews in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights, the Sheba’a Farms, and Aza is rightful. To the perverse “international community,” that rightful presence is, and as to Aza was, an “occupation,” and a contravention of “international law.” The wrongful occupation by Arabs of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria et al. is ignored. Nothing is said about the United Kingdom contravening “international law” by occupation of Northern Ireland; or about Spain contravening “international law” by occupation of the Canary Islands, Melilla, and Ceuta.

It is high time for the “international community” to get over its fixation with the two-state “solution,” and to sign up for the 22-state solution. Israel plus 21 Arab countries would participate in the 22-state solution. Thereunder, Arabs keep the 5,300,000 square miles of 21 of the 22 members of the League of Arab States (that excludes the square miles claimed by the “Palestine Authority,” one of the members of the League). Jews keep the Land of Israel, and its mere 11,000 square miles.

The two-state “solution” is a bill of goods, bought by the government of Israel at a heavy price: tens of thousands of deaths, military and civilian, of Jews at the hands of Arabs, plus abandonment by the government of Israel of the Sinai peninsula, plus abandonment by the government of Israel of Aza, plus desertion and forceful removal by the government of Israel of Jewish settlers in Aza, plus desertions and forceful removals by the government of Israel of Jewish settlers from various places in Judea and Samaria.

Despite the heavy price paid to date, the bill of goods is not paid in full by the government of Israel. It will be expected by the “international community” to commit yet more crimes against the Land of Israel and against Jews, under the euphemism of “painful concessions.”

If implemented, the two-state “solution” would find a vulnerable Land of Israel, hemmed by an irrational border, and surrounded by a post-Mubarak Egypt, a Hamas-controlled Aza, a post-Abbas “Palestine,” an Assad-controlled Syria, and a Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. A coordinated ground attack from those Arabs, coupled with a rain of rockets from Iran, would cause irreparable harm.
National interests of Israel

It’s high time for the government of Israel to define the national interests of Israel and to implement them:

The government of Israel should abandon its Jew-hating subservience to the “international community.”
The government of Israel should say “No” to its Judaism-hating two-state “solution.”
The name of the country should be changed to Yisrael. Name changes of countries include Ivory Coast – Côte D’Ivoire; Burma – Myanmar; Ceylon – Sri Lanka.
The name of the capital of the country should be changed to Yerushalayim. Name changes of capital cities include Rangoon – Yangon (the capital was since moved to Naypyidaw); Akmola – Astana. See also Stanley – Puerto Argentino, which reverted to Stanley; Bombay – Mumbai; Calcutta – Kolkata.
Embassies should be required by the government of Israel to be located in Yerushalayim. A foreign government has no authority to demand that the location of its embassy be New York or Philadelphia rather than Washington; or Rio de Janeiro rather than Brasilia. If a foreign government demurs, its representation in Israel should be a mission. Not a consulate, because a consulate implies an embassy.
There should be a declaration by the government of Israel that the entirety of the Land of Israel, from the north to the south, from the Mediterranean to the east side of the River Jordan, and along the east side of the Salt Sea and all of the Negev, is Jewish.
The declaration should be implemented by kicking out all Arabs in the Land of Israel.

Why not? Serbians were successful in their kicking out of Bosnians, thereby getting Republika Serpska for themselves. South Ossetians were successful in their kicking out of Georgians, thereby getting South Ossetia for themselves. It is not by-the-bye that Arab countries kicked out Jews, thereby getting for themselves Arab countries which are judenfreien (free of Jews) and judenreinen (free of Jewish influences).

The accusation of “racism” would be hurled at Jews, though that accusation is not hurled at China or Japan or Russia or Malaysia, in each of which racism is woven into the woof and warp of society. The accusation of “racism” is not addressed to Moslems, though Jew-hatred is a pestilence fomented throughout the Moslem world, including Arab countries.

Racism does not describe the proposed kicking out. An action is racist if it is motivated by the color of a man’s skin. The proposed kicking out is not motivated by skin color. It is motivated by the incompatibility of Jewish culture and Arab culture. It is motivated by the unbounded hatred of Muslims, Arabs among them, of Jews and Judaism. It is motivated by massacres and murders and killings and maimings of Jews, since the end of World War I, by Arabs. It is motivated by Arab wars against Jews (1948; 1956; 1967; 1973), and repeated promises of another one. It is motivated by Arab bombs, Arab bullets and Arab rockets in and into the Land of Israel. It is motivated by two intifadas (Arabic for “crime waves”) against Israel. It is motivated by desecrations of Jewish graves in Arab countries. It is motivated by the beheading of Daniel Pearl. It is motivated by the torture-murders at the Chabad house in Mumbai.

All coexistence schemes concocted for Jews and Arabs are doomed to failure. Jews are Jews, Arabs are Arabs, “and never the twain shall meet” (Kipling).

Conclusion