Hello Dave !
Thank You for your views.
Too often, we (as well as our opponents) go the easy route where there are the good boys on one side, and the bad boys on the other side.
The 1947 U.N. vote has been reached through heavy ‘’diplomatic’’ discussions, in order to obtain the right vote from many countries . This preliminary process has been many times criticized. Nevertheless, the U.N. vote is an International decision and must be implemented.
At that time, all the neighbours of the future Israel State were Arab States. Almost all ‘’Arab’’ States said that they will vote strongly against. We can like their reasons or dislike them. The point is that this opposition has not be dealt with properly. That is why I say that « Some violent reactions were highly predictable from other Arab States, but this issue has not been addressed. That is a major error (& responsibility) of the international community. »
This negligence from the International Community led to the reprehensible/illegal military agression of several Arab States against the State of Israel, which occured at the very beginning.
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As regards to the occupation which followed the 1967 six-days-war, it is absolutely clear that the « defensive war » you mentioned was in fact a « preventive war ». The International Law call a preventive war an agression/ an attack. That is why the borders lines which existed before the agression are the one which are the right ones for a Palestinian State.
This view is not only mine :
Blood Borders is the title of a 2006 US ‘Armed Forces Journal’ article. It asserts that ‘For Israel to have any hope of living in reasonable peace with its neighbors, it will have to return to its pre-1967 borders — with essential local adjustments for legitimate security concerns. »
Tony Blair (in front of American Congress, in 2003) explained that terrorism cannot be defeated without peace between Israel and Palestinians. This is the source of poison. This is the place where extremism is capable to completely disrupt the spirit of a shockingly large amount of people, enough for them to confuse the plea for a palestinian state with the destruction of Israel.
Henry Kissinger (Nobel Prize 1973) underline that Israel’s positions have a pattern which reinforces the passions which a peace process is supposed to overcome. He adds that the palestinian question is a major piece of the regional order and, ultimately, of the world order. (ref. his Book on World Order/ 2015).
Following the 1967 israelian attack, the french President De Gaulle said : « Occupation is inseparable from oppression, repression, deportation, and the resistance movements will be qualified of terrorism by the occupant. » And we’re still there, aren’t we ? The resistants are there because their country is illegally occupied.
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Today, (too) many countries still do not recognize the State of Israel :
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Palestinians already wrote that they would recognize the State of Israel within the borders of before the 1967 six-days-war.
Is it not « funny » (or highly immoral?) that a country which does not recognize the State of Israel (but which has no problem to actively collaborate with Israel in the area of military weapons), which takes no measure against some of their citizens who finance terrorism & religious extremism all over the world, becomes a stable strategic ally of America ?
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Repeating that the Arabs would « murder every Jewish man, woman and child » is moving the discussion to another field : the idea of antisemitism (the idea of the ‘’hate of the Jews’’) which we stick on the face of all ‘’Arabs’’. This kind of approach is often used by the ‘’hasbara’’.
As I said before : Too often, we (as well as our opponents) go the easy route where there are the good boys on one side, and the bad boys on the other side.
If we look at facts and numbers, the picture can be analysed quite differently :
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The risk of destruction of Israel is a myth which is used to unduely ‘’victimize’’ Israel.
All western States expressed very clearly, and repeatedly over many decades, that they will not allow the destruction of Israel.
Of course there is the rhetoric of some extremist Arab leader, from time to time. But we all know (and the ‘’Arab leader’’ as well) that the State of Israel is to stay.
Israel’s existence is NOT at risk from the exterior anymore, despite the israelian govenment’s victimization rhétoric.
Former US President Jimmy Carter said the US should not attack Iran, even if Iran develops nuclear weapons. He added : “Israel has nuclear weapons on his own, what, 300 or more, nobody knows exactly how many” ( …) “And I know that every Iranian realizes that if they should try to use a nuclear weapon, Iran would be wiped off the face of the earth” (Ref. : israelhayom April 2014)
Colin Powell leaked emails say “Anyway, Iranians can’t use one [a nuclear weapon] if they finally make one. The boys in Tehran know Israel has 200, all targeted on Tehran, and we have thousands” (Ref. independent.co.uk sept. 2016)
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The U.N. references are International Laws and Human Rights.
The 1947 resolution said that all citizens of each State will have equal rights.
« Guaranteeing to all persons equal and non discriminatory rights in civil, political, economic and religious matters and the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including Freedom of religion, language, speech and publication, education, assembly and association »
But what is happening today, within Israel, are discrimination against their Arab citizens.
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The President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, said en several instances that the four main ‘’tribes’’ of Israel must start talking to each-other, and work together with equal budget to build a new ‘’israelism’’= a new way to live together for the four ‘’tribes’’.
The current trend, instead, is to move towards a kind of religious State, NOT a democratic State. Indeed, a religious State (and we have many of them in the Middle East) cannot be democratic.
