Throwing salt in the 'Palestinians' wounds
The 'Palestinians' awoke this morning to discover that Tzipi Livni, probably the most pro-'Palestinian' Jewish MK from a mainstream party in the current Knesset, has a program for them that's similar to Avigdor Lieberman's: She wants to transfer them to a 'Palestinian state' in exchange for Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria remaining part of Israel. I suppose that if you're going to make a 'land swap' (a concept I oppose), it makes sense to improve your demography while you're doing it. It's amazing that the 'Palestinian street' didn't see this coming.They also awoke to discover that Livni's close friend, then-US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, wanted to transfer some of the 'Palestinian diaspora' to Latin America.
Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's secretary of state, wanted to settle displaced Palestinians in Argentina and Chile as an alternative to letting them return to former homes in Israel and the occupied territories. Rice made the proposal in a June 2008 meeting with US, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Berlin, according to minutes of the encounter seen by the Guardian.Well, they have to go somewhere, and the Arab countries in which they currently live aren't willing to grant them citizenship, so why not Argentina and Chile? Oh wait - you mean they really believed they were coming back to their former villages that don't exist anymore in Israel? I guess that means they didn't see this from the front page of Tuesday's JPost:
During a discussion about international funding to compensate refugees – an estimated 5 million Palestinians are scattered around the Middle East – the US diplomat made a startling suggestion.
"Maybe we will be able to find countries that can contribute in kind. Chile, Argentina, etc (ie, give land)."
The minutes, which are not verbatim, have the initials CR before the quote. Rice was the only participant with those initials.
The proposal seems based on the fact that Chile has a large Palestinian community dating back a century and, like Argentina, has large tracts of sparsely populated land.
It flew in the face of Palestinian insistence that the refugees have the right to return to their ancestral land – a demand Israel has resisted since its foundation in 1948. Carving out a new Palestinian homeland 8,000 miles away in the Andes could theoretically reduce pressure on Israel to return land.
In a dramatic comment on the refugee issue, furthermore, at an internal meeting that PA President Mahmoud Abbas had with the Palestinian Negotiations Support Unit on March 29, 2008, Abbas said, “On numbers of refugees, it is illogical to ask Israel to take 5 million, or even 1 million – that would mean the end of Israel.You just knew that the failure to educate their people for peace would come back to bite the 'Palestinians,' didn't you?
Labels: Argentina, Chile, Condoleeza Rice, Mahmoud Abbas, Negotiations Support Unit, Palileaks, Politics, Tzipi Livni, World Politics
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:29 PM
4 Comments:
I am wondering about the timing of this but I think they're preparing the "Palis street" for the day of reckoning that foreign aid is about to be dried up and it's time for them to have a dose of reality and this is one way to segueing the transition.
Couple that with a recent report that Israel is better off without the $3 billion support from the USA. If Israel doesn't need the money, so does Egypt and everyone else. And I think this is what the USA Taxpayers are demanding anyway (cut foreign aid and UN).
And add to the Knesset investigation of NGO (which is long overdue) to "follow the money" and make the anti-Israel NGO back off or disappear all together.
Just hope someone is smart enough to tie all this together!
Sorry, but it is totally ludicrous to ship Arabs to South America( that's not to say there aren't a large number of mozlem arabs IN S. America!).
Looking at a map of mozlem lands, there is plenty of space for them there!In a map produced for T E Lawrence's The Seven Pillars of Wisdom from 1917, the Saudis only had a small tribal area and the Brits allowed them to have the rest of the Arabian Peninsula! Let the EU and US INSIST that there is space in Arabia for the Arabs who live in Israel: get rid of the lot of them.
After all, no one calls the Arabs racists for not allowing non-Arabs to hold power in Saudi!!
Time to push back against the camel-humpers!
Yup.... the PA leadership finds itself caught between Al Jazeera and the Palestinian Arab Street.
I am enjoying their dilemma - which they richly deserve!
Heh
Chili, Argentina?
Is Madagascar taken?
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