Peter Freedman wrote on Mar 20
th, 2012 at 9:07am:
Adel crow says: "The poms steal a country from a group of people and then hand it to the Jewish people to salve their guilt after ww2 and now we are wondering why the original inhabitants are a tad ticked off.
British colonialism and the poms old habit of thinking they owned the world and every person on it is what created the problem in Palestine.
I have no problem with Israel remaining where it is but the Jewish people chose to occupy stolen land handed to them by a colonial power so they have to put up with the consequences."
I say: Spot on adel and remember I am Jewish and proud of i. I am also proud of Israel, but not everything she does.
There were huge differences among the Jews in 1947 - ranging from peacemakers to the murderous Stern Gang. The peacemakers tried to persuade the Arabs they had nothing to fear and could claim full citizenship.
But the Nazi-loving Mufti of Jerusalem was in their ear telling them Jews were animals and flee for your life.
Any Arabs who were wavering were surely convinced by the 1948 massacre of Deir Yassin where 107 Arabs were murdered. From that moment on the Palestinian "situation" became inevitable.
Even worse, other Arab states threw the Palestinians into refugee camps and left them there. Assimilating your own seldom makes a headline.
Winston Churchill said that "jaw-jaw is better than war-war".
No matter how long it takes, the two parties MUST sit down together and try to find a solution that can endure. That means the Arabs should pressure the Palestinians and the USA must pressure the Israelis.
Sure it is hard to sit down with someone whose first principle is to destroy you. But if you don't that destruction may become inevitable.
Hard, not hard at all.
It's impossible actually.
What the Palestinian and Hezbollah terrorists do is not just a 'principle', it's a reality they practice or try to practice on a regular basis.
Even Abbas, the PLO chairman got himself as popular as a one armed leper leper appearing on a Paris catwalk found himself on the Hamas craplist, by having the temerity in asking Hamas to stop firing rockets into Sderot because the rockets were landing on the wrong side of the Gaza walls maiming Palestinians.
Hamas didn't care for any of that, because they blamed the IDF for the deaths and injuries anyway.
They hate, and want to kill Jews.
It's really that simple.
The problem isn't how to negotiate with such people because one cannot negotiate with them.
The problem is what the Israeli's are doing to stop the terrorists, and the ongoing failed attempts at appeasement.
Because appeasement has a zero blot zero zero zero success rate throughout history.
In short, it's never worked.
Ever.
The recent saga, and swap of kidnapped SGT Gilad for a 1000 convicted Palestinian criminals will only backfire one day.
It's not as if Israel got any brownie points from the Left anywhere on the planet for releasing these criminals.
Because Hamas got back overnight the missile and mortar crews they lost in 2006 and then some.
And when they have stored enough rockets and other ammo, it's game on.
And if the Leftists dream that these terrorists will stop if and when the Palestinians get their promised State, keep dreaming.
Because the Palestinians will still hate the Jews as much today as they did yesterday, and they will continue to attack in the time honoured fashion, the UN will do nothing in the time honoured fashion, and Israel will respond in the time honoured fashion with their ongoing half hearted measures trying to be all things to all people and satisfying none.
This will drag on long after all on Ozpolitics today are dead and buried.
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