Israel Matzav

Sunday, November 27, 2011

'The greatest crime'?

What do you think was the greatest crime in human history? The Holocaust comes to mind. So do many of the pogroms in Europe starting with the crusades and continuing right up to the end of World War II. Of course, I'm being pretty parochial. So how about the Armenian genocide? The Sudanese war on non-Muslims? The Hutu's and Tutsi's of Rwanda?

'Palestinian Authority' television, run by our 'peace partner,' has decided that there's something worse - much worse - than all that. Would you believe the Balfour declaration?

Every year on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority leaders and official media issue harsh statements attacking it. According to the Palestinian narrative, Jews have no history in the land and therefore have no right to exist as a state. Consequently, Israel exists only because of the Balfour Declaration.

This year, the PA Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Culture organized a workshop for high school girls in Tulkarem in cooperation with the city's Education Administration. The girls wrote "letters of sorrow and pain to the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, and to the British Foreign Minister, William Hague, since it was the letter by that country's Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour, which has caused the Palestinian people ongoing suffering," reported the official PA daily.

One girl wrote to Queen Elizabeth:
"The real reasons that caused Balfour to give his dark promise, first and foremost [the desire] to be rid of the Jews in Europe and to award them a prize for the genocidal weapons which they had invented, which helped Britain to annihilate more people."
PA leaders and official media have published claims on many occasions that the establishment of Israel was a European plot to get rid of the Jews in Europe because the Jews were a burden on European society. The Balfour Declaration is cited by many Palestinians as proof that Zionism was not a Jewish idea but a colonialist idea, and it was this idea that the Palestinian girl was expressing in her letter.

Let's go to the videotape.

Here's another one. Let's go to the videotape.

Despite the PA's claims in English to the international community that it recognizes Israel, the PA openly continues to indoctrinate its people with significant historical revision, to reject and deny Israel's right to exist.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Balfour Declaration, Palestinian Authority Television, Palestinian rejectionism

Thursday, June 09, 2011

Why the 'Palestinians' want a state

Rick Richman reproduces a letter from Morton Klein, the National President of the Zionist Organization of America, which was published in the Wall Street Journal.

My only qualm with this formulation is that it might imply only that the Palestinians inflexibly seek a state within the limits of the 1949 armistice lines (often wrongly termed "the 1967 borders") and that this defines their maximalism. Sadly, this is not the case. The Palestinians rejected statehood alongside a Jewish state, not only in 1937 and 1947, but in 2000 and 2008 as well.

This is also clear from on-going Palestinian incitement against Jews, Judaism and Israel; Palestinian maps and textbooks that refuse to acknowledge Israel; the honoring of terrorists who murder Jews; insisting on a "right of return" that has never solved any other refugee problem but which would destroy Israel if implemented, and so on.

In recent days, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wrote that "Palestine's admission to the United Nations would pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one. It would also pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel."

In short, Palestinian statehood would not be satisfied by the "maximum" of the 1949 lines. It would be merely a new installment in the Palestinians' war on Israel's existence.

Richman adds that the 'Palestinians' (or their Arab forebears) rejected statehood offers in 1919, 1978 and 2001.

So why does anyone still believe that this is about a 'Palestinian state' and not about the destruction of the Jewish one?

Labels: Palestinian rejectionism, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, two-state solution