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Arafat calls for withdrawal to Partition lines and return of refugees to
Israel
Aaron Lerner Date: 22 October, 2000
In his speech yesterday at the Arab summit in Cairo, Yasser Arafat
presented the following demand:
"Israel should lift the siege on our cities and people and withdraw
from all the Palestinian and Arab territories, including holy
Jerusalem, the capital of our independent Palestinian state. I
reiterate that our goals are the liberation of our land, the
establishment of our independent state on the blessed land of
Palestine with holy Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of
refugees based on international legitimacy resolutions, especially
Resolutions 181 and 194."
U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 from November 29, 1947 - before
the creation of the State of Israel, calls for the partition of
Palestine into an Israeli and Arab state with the Israeli state
divided into three small segments. Ashdod, Jaffa (part of Tel
Aviv-Jaffa), Nazareth, Acre, Naharia and other areas part of a
Palestinian state and Jerusalem internationalized.
U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 from December 11, 1948, calls
for Holy Places to be under U.N. supervision; a special status and
"international regime" for the Jerusalem area - stretching as far as
Ein Kerem and Motza; and the return to within Israel of "refugees
wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their
neighbors. . .at the earliest practical date."
The Oslo process was based on 242, a resolution that calls for
withdraw to "secure and recognized borders" rather to a specific
border. The Americans, British and even Russians involved in the
preparation of this U.N. resolution made it clear that it provided
Israel with considerable latitude.
While the above Palestinian demand is a position that is not
acceptable to any Israeli Jew - even the members of the extremist
Gush Shalom - for some reason there has been very little coverage of
these demands in the Israeli media and the morning news/interview
programs have completely ignored it.
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
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10/22/00
If this is what the Palestinians want, then why didn't they accept it
when it was first offered by the UN in 1948? Four wars ago.
ANSWER: Because they thought they could " drive the Jews into the sea."
There was no need to live in peace with the Jewish minority,
because it was easier to kill them off. Problem solved.
Unfortunately for the Palestinians, they and five Arab armies couldn't do it.
Peace is NOT the goal. Coexistence is NOT the goal. Taking back Israel
is the goal here. It's not a realistic option without a full scale war which
involves several nations. This then becomes a no win situation for ALL OF US.
If the Palestinians and the Arab world appear to be successful in defeating
Israel, then Israel will undoubtedly go to it's nuclear option as it did
when it was losing the 1973 Yom Kippur war. They would have nothing to lose
in the face of being overrun and having their population slaughtered.
The Palestinian leadership and other influential groups among them, have
a long history of making incredibly stupid decisions which ordinary
Palestinians wind up paying for with their lives.
Now, we are all at risk. Not just the players in the Middle East.
Joshua2
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