Palestine should declare the independence immediately.
The very same Haaretz declared the other day taht Kosovo is NOT PRECEDENT.
I compared Serbia to Israel, but now, they shoudl lear what is the
PRECEDENT.
On 2/21/08, ANTIC.org-SNN <[Е-ПОШТА
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> Kosovo is already here
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> By Israel Harel
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> Kosovo's declaration of independence has sparked concern in certain
> circles
> in Israel. The day may not be far off when the Arabs of Galilee start
> clamoring for political independence, too. In recent years, many of them
> have been cutting themselves off, psychologically and physically, from the
> Jewish-democratic State of Israel.
>
> The Muslims of Kosovo constitute an absolute majority of the population,
> and
> the same is true for the Galilee Arabs. Quite a few Jews have been leaving
> the Galilee, especially since October 2000, and not many are joining the
> sparse Jewish population there, despite an array of financial incentives.
> The events in Kosovo have triggered memories of the thousands who took
> part
> in the violence in Wadi Ara in 2000, blocking major traffic arteries and
> cutting off access to Jewish communal settlements in an outbreak of
> rioting
> that coincided with Yasser Arafat's war of terror.
>
> Memories come rushing back on the use of live ammunition in some cases,
> and
> the operation of an underground and terror cells alongside the suicide
> bombers dispatched from Gaza, Judea and Samaria.
>
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> Demonstrations where the Palestinian flag is raised in protest - on the
> anniversary of Arafat's death, for example - have become commonplace on
> campuses in Israel, especially at the University of Haifa. In the Galilee
> and Haifa, Arab intellectuals and public figures have compiled documents
> known as "The Vision," in which they reject Israel as a Jewish state and
> the
> homeland of the Jewish people.
>
> Before the Annapolis summit, delegates of all the Israeli Arab
> organizations
> convened in Nazareth and reached a unanimous decision to call upon Mahmoud
> Abbas not to cooperate with Ehud Olmert and recognize Israel as a Jewish
> state. A delegation of Arab Knesset members was sent to meet with the
> Palestinian negotiators to ensure that the message had sunk in. If the
> Arab
> citizens of Israel vehemently oppose recognizing Israel as the Jewish
> homeland, said MK Ahmed Tibi to Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei), how can you, the
> representatives of the Palestinian people, even consider such a thing?
>
> Israeli governments have resigned themselves to the blatant, unconcealed
> separatist actions of the Galilee Arabs, and this only perpetuates the
> phenomenon. Shimon Peres, who was appointed by several governments to
> oversee measures ultimately aimed at increasing the Jewish presence in the
> Galilee, talked a lot but did little. Political correctness, such as
> halting
> the campaign to "Judaize Galilee," was his guideline.
>
> All the authorities, including those in charge of law enforcement, have
> resigned themselves to criminal acts ("juvenile delinquency," the police
> chief of the Northern District calls the phenomenon of stones thrown at
> Jewish vehicles, especially near Hamovil Junction), such as encroaching on
> state land and illegal construction that has reached the scope of tens of
> thousands of buildings.
>
> Kosovo is already here, even without a formal declaration of independence.
> Looking at the government's mode of conduct in the periphery, and even its
> response to the Qassam rockets in the south, one realizes the futility of
> expecting it to wake up and fight against those who are challenging
> Israeli
> sovereignty in the Galilee.
>
> The leaders of this separatist policy in the Israeli Arab community know
> very well that apathy and lack of self-confidence also characterize the
> approach of the agencies of the state - the police, the courts, the Israel
> Lands Administration, the tax authorities and the Ministry of the Interior
> -
> in their dealings with the Arab public. This only increases the motivation
> to gnaw further at Israeli authority and sovereignty.
>
> Unlike the Kosovars in the Balkans, who are satisfied with their
> separatist
> province and do not claim ownership over all Serbian territory, the Arabs
> of
> the Galilee, and certainly the northern wing of the Islamic Movement,
> claim
> ownership - political and territorial - over all of Israel. The "salami
> method" pays off.
>
> In the Negev, the Bedouins are taking over large stretches of land almost
> without hindrance, while Israel's do-nothing government responds by
> establishing committees to "sort out" the land issues. The most recent of
> them is the committee chaired by Judge Eliezer Goldberg, which is now
> convening.
>
> This inertia will probably continue, with the Zionist state financing, via
> education, health, national insurance and other state monies transferred
> to
> citizens, a population that is de facto establishing a Palestinian state
> within the sovereign State of Israel - separate, of course, from the
> Palestinian state that the Arabs are pushing for in Judea and Samaria.
>
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/956443.html
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