The enemies of Israel can never state that Israel is not a legitimate country.
Today, nearly 70% of all UN resolutions are castigating Israel in some form. However the UN voted for the Jewish state and that can never be undone. This resolution sticks in the throat of every Jew hater. Use it and show it to all decent open minded people so they know the truth.
Another day, another piece on the the New York Times opinion page calling bashing Israel. Today's piece comes from Robert [corrected from earlier edition. CiJ] Wright, and I will limit myself to one small part of it.
Sadly, here is the policy Clinton unveiled to avert this catastrophe: America will talk to the two sides about what they might say should they ever talk to each other. As The New York Times headline put it, “Clinton Says U.S. Is Committed to Mideast Peace but Reverting to Old Strategy.” You’re familiar with how well that strategy worked?
There is a strategy that could actually work. It would take boldness on President Obama’s part, but it could win him a place in history and the enduring gratitude of most Jews and Palestinians.
Seizing the opportunity involves first seeing the flaw in one premise of our current policy. As Clinton put that premise on Friday, “The United States and the international community cannot impose a solution. Sometimes I think both parties seem to think we can. We cannot.”
Yes we can.
The United Nations created a Jewish state six decades ago, and it can create a Palestinian state now. It can define the borders, set the timetable and lay down the rules for Palestinian elections (specifying, for example, that the winners must swear allegiance to a constitution that acknowledges Israel’s right to exist).
Establishing such a state would involve more tricky issues than can be addressed in this space. (I take a stab at some of them at www.progressiverealist.org/UN2states.) But, however messy this solution may seem, it looks pretty good when you realize how hopeless the current process is.
The United Nations did not establish the State of Israel. The United Nations voted for a partition plan, which the Jews accepted and the Arabs rejected. The Arabs unilaterally made war on the Jews in a bid to ensure that the partition plan would never come to pass. The Jews won the war. It was the Jews who won the war (with God's help) who established the State of Israel - not the United Nations.
If anything, the United Nations is less capable of establishing a state today than it was in 1948. The Arabs will use that state as a pretext to once again attack the Jews. And the Jews, with God's help, will hopefully defend themselves. The United Nations will impose nothing, although by trying to impose a 'Palestinian state' it may finally encourage a fight to the finish that will leave both sides bloodied and battered.
Monday will be the 63rd anniversary of the UN partition resolution that called for dividing the area of the British Mandate that was West of the Jordan River into two states - a Jewish state of Israel and an Arab state. Yes, the 'two-state solution' was around back then (and a number of times earlier as well). The Jews accepted the partition resolution, but the Arabs did not, and when the British mandate ended in May 1948, five Arab armies went to war to drive the Jews into the sea. The result was that Israel became a Jewish state, with more land than it was supposed to get under the partition resolution (including, most significantly, the airport, which was to have gone to the Arabs).
Here's a video of the UN vote and the Jews' reaction to it - sorry but everything but the vote is in Hebrew.
Let;s go to the videotape. I will have another surprise for you after the video.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
