Palestinian “refugees” come up with another anti-Israel ploy: 100,000 march during Israel’s 60th-never happen!
comment by Jerry Gordon
JudyW over at Refugee Resettlement Watch has got it exactly right. The call for Palestinian “refugees”, who fled during the 1948-1949 War for Independence , to converge on Israel tomorrow, its Independence day, is nothing more than a sham to put on the bargaining table their alleged ‘rights of return”. The effect of that ‘refugee return’ would be the creation of a “one state solution’ signifying the ‘death’ of the Jewish State of Israel. 700,000 Arab refugees-there was no Palestine, other than the British mandate that ended with Israel’s founding on May 15, 1948, fled at the behest of Arab leaders so they could conquer the Jewish state. Instead they lost. These refugees have become over three generations more than four million huddled in squalor in UNWRA refugee camps in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. Their Arab brothers never absorbed them. The US and others donors contribute nearly one half billion annually to support these “eyesores”. Last week in London, Secretary Rice called for Arab donor nations to do more. They had pledged $715 million to support a Palestinian state, and coughed up less than $153 million. Coincidentally, that amount is nearly equivalent to what our government ‘donates’ annually to the operation of UNWRA camps filled with hate and training in Islamist terrorism. Contrast that with the nearly 900,000 Jews expelled from Arab lands after the Israeli War for Independence. No international group, not the UN, not the US government, paid for their absorption. Israel and World Jewry did. Those displaced from Arab countries have legitimate claims for seized property and other assets that some estimate at more than $100 billion. So, let the huddled masses of Arab Refugees dare to trudge to the borders of Israel, tomorrow. We hope that UNWRA will feed and clothe them, because Israel won’t let them in. Their Arab brethren simply couldn’t care about them one way or the other. They have been unfortunate pawns for over 60 years in a fruitless struggle.
We note that today is Israel’s Memorial Day, Yom Hazickaron. It commemorates the loss of Israeli lives from the pre-State era to the current day. The late Yossi Harel, captain of the famed vessel, The Exodus and leader in the illegal immigration movement that brought Jews to Israel noted the cost of lives in Israel’s struggle for existence.
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In a speech in La Jolla, Calif., in 2005, Mr. Harel gave statistics to show that running the British blockade was deadlier than Israel’s war for independence. He said that 6,000 of 600,000 Jews who fought in the war were killed, or 1 percent. Of the 100,000 who tried to get through the blockade, 3,000 died, or 3 percent.
“With all these casualties, they kept coming, they didn’t stop,” he said. “A nation destroyed was coming back to life.”
Yom Hazizkaron morphs into Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Israel’s Independence Day) in a brilliant military tattoo on Mount Herzl, Israel’s national cemetery at Midnight. Happy 60th Birthday, Israel!!
by JudyW, Refugee Resettlement Watch, May 6, 2008
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Palestinian Authority is telling Palestinians from around the world to converge on Israel during its 60th anniversary celebrations later this month. The point of this propaganda campaign is to embarrass Israel by pretending the Palestinians want to move to Israel and live peacefully there. They are supposed to bring suitcases and tents and go to “their former villages and towns.”
Somehow I don’t think that a wave of old people are going to be doing this, though anyone who has a “former” village or town in Israel has to be at least 60 years of age. Their fellow Arabs have refused to resettle the Palestinians since they voluntarily left in 1948, preferring to let them stay in miserable conditions in “refugee camps” (many of which are actually towns) in order to create anti-Israel sentiment throughout the world. Their descendants now call themselves ‘refugees’ and claim the “right of return” to Israel.
Not often discussed is the fact that all the Arabs who stayed in Israel when it was founded became citizens, and have prospered beyond Arabs anywhere else in the Middle East. They also have more rights than Arabs anywhere else in the Middle East, and have their own political party and representatives in the Knesset, the legislature.
The idea behind promoting the “right of return” is to overwhelm Israel with Palestinians. One idea is to get an agreement that there will be one state with Palestinians and Jews living side by side rather than a separate Palestinian state. Since the birthrate among Palestinians is much higher than among Israelis, they would soon be a majority. And it is no secret that their intention is to destroy Israel — this is just one alternative way of doing it.
The Palestinian Arabs are using Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration to dramatize their claim that Israel’s founding was illegitimate. Here is a piece by Barry Rubin that lays out the double standard the world applies to Israel over this matter.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:02 • opinion • Arab refuggees • "rights of return' • Jewish refugees expelled rom Arab Lands • Israel's 60th birthday • 0 Comments •
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