Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Is Israels policy in the West bank simliar to the Nazis policy of "Lebensraum"?
The difference is obvious to anyone without their political blinders on. The Germans took land neither they nor their ancestors ever owned, and exterminated the inhabitants (at least the Jewish ones). Jews (ancestors of today's Israelis) had settled all of present day Israel, Jordan, the Sinai, and parts of what is now Lebanon and Syria in ancient times. Although the Israelis took the west bank as a result of war, unlike the Nazis, it was not a war they started. If the damn Arabs had minded their own business (ie not attacked Israel) they'd still control that land. If you kick a dog and he bites you, don't come bitchin' to me, you know? But the greatest difference between Nazi occupation and the Israeli variety is that the Israelis let their enemies continue living there. They've controlled the west bank since the 1973 Yom Kippur War and there are still Arabs living there. Why haven't they killed them all by now if they're so much like the Nazis? As for letting the Palestinians have their own state, that would be fine with me if only they'd use it for something besides a firebase for attacking Israel. Back when Yir Arafat was still alive he had a chance to make peace with Israel and have his Palestinian state, but he refused because he also wanted Jerusalem to be the capital of that state. That was absolute insanity. Jerusalem is a Jewish city if there ever was one! Ever since King David conquered it over 3,000 years ago, it has had a Jewish majority, even when it was under Arab (or Turkish) rule. BTW, the ancient Jebusites from whom the city derrives its name are long extinct and are not even remote ancestors of today's Arabs. They have no historical claim to the city whatsoever. But Arafat was adamant, and the window of opportunity closed, probably forever because no Palestinian leader today has the gravitas Arafat had. Besides, the leadership is more divided today than its ever been. The militant group Hamas (now there are people you could compare to the Nazis!) control Gaza, having thrown out Arafat's successors in Fatah by force of arms. Abu Abbas, (Arafat's successor) maintains a rump state in the west bank, ironically due to Israeli support. Yet for all that, he still refuses to make peace, for the same reason Arafat did: Jerusalem. As the late Israeli Prime Minister Abba Eban so eloquently put it, "The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Truer words were never spoken!
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