| Middle East Conflict Sharon Nader Sloan, Esq. 7 Jan 2003 Dear Mr. Netanyahu, You seem surprised every time a Palestinian kills an Israeli baby. You are outraged when most of the media sides with, or leans with bias toward, the Palestinian cause. Is it possible that you don't understand that they all feel righteous in their cause? They all believe that this is their land occupied by the Israelis; they are therefore freedom fighters employing every possible method to liberate their land? This will never stop. It cannot stop until, either Israel surrenders, or Israel deports all the Arabs from the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan, or this belief in a Palestinian entity is exposed for the big lie that it, in fact, is. Please read the enclosed paper by Conrad Nadell and see the truth of the above statement. Then, if you choose, you can raise your voice against most of the media; be politically incorrect; expose the big lie, and speak the truth, again and again and again, until others begin to hear you; until the Arabs begin to hear you. Then it will all change. Then it might even be possible to talk about a Palestinian state existing peacefully alongside the state of Israel. I said: "if you choose," because I believe you do have the courage, you need only hear the truth of it. This is a great challenge with a great deal at stake. Again, please read the enclosed paper. Sincerely, Sharon Nader Sloan, Esq. Lebanese American Occupied Territories A lie repeated often enough can easily becomes an accepted fact. The Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank is one of those lies. Arab diplomats have boasted that one of their key objectives after the Six-Day War was to make the term “occupied territories” the standard nomenclature to describe the lands in dispute. They have succeeded. The Europeans and the U.N. accept the unjust Israeli “occupation” as the root cause of the current Palestinian uprising. Any attempt to classify resistance to “occupation” as an act of terrorism is vociferously objected to by the Arab nations. The phrase “occupied territories” is a deliberate attempt to link Israeli practices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with the Nazi occupation of Europe during the Second World War. When else have we used the term “occupied territories”? Kashmir, populated mostly by Muslims, but annexed and ruled by Hindu India in 1957 is considered “disputed” territory. Morocco invaded Western Sahara after Spain withdrew from its former colony in 1975. Morocco has ignored the International Court of Justice finding against its claim to the territory, yet Western Sahara is “disputed”. In November 1975 East Timor, a former Portuguese colony was declared an independent country. Indonesia invaded it and formally annexed it in 1976. By 1979 200,000 Timorese had been killed by Indonesian soldiers. The UN does not recognize Indonesia’s annexation, yet the territory is considered “disputed”. Tibet was a sovereign state for 2,000 years until China’s invasion in 1949 and 1951. Since then China has killed and arrested over 1,000,000 Tibetans, destroyed their monasteries and burned their sacred texts in an effort to obliterate the Tibetan culture. China controls all major policy decisions and sharply restricts basic rights and liberties through their appointed Tibetan official. Since joining the UN in 1971, China has blocked any resolution regarding Tibet. Tibet is not only not spoken of as “occupied” territory, it is not even “disputed”. How did the ancient kingdom of Israel, later divided between Judea and Samaria, which extended to both the eastern and western shores of the Jordan River, become Palestinian “occupied territories”? When Rome conquered and sacked Israel, the emperor Adrian intended to destroy all remnants of Israel. The Philistines who lived along the Mediterranean coast had long battled with the Israelis. The Romans named the area Palestine, after the Philistines, to deliver what they felt would be the final death knoll of what was Israel. After the Roman conquest, the area known as Palestine was invaded and conquered by Muslim Arabs, Christian Crusaders and the Ottoman Turks. Palestine, without its own ruler or language was never considered anything but an area within the ruling country of the time. As part of the Ottoman Empire the land was largely barren and uninhabited. In the early 20th century Zionists began to emigrate in greater numbers, purchasing land from absentee Arab landlords, usually at highly inflated prices. Jewish immigrants reclaimed large tracts of swamps and marshes into arable land. Large numbers of Arabs followed the Jewish immigration for opportunities to work, to better their living conditions and for personal freedom; all of which were missing from the Arab lands they emigrated from. After World War I the British were given a mandate over Iraq and Palestine as part of the liquidation of the Ottoman Empire. The mandate by the League of Nations was spelled out in the San Remo Conference in 1920. It acknowledged Jewish national rights in all of the mandated territory, recognizing “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine.” Its provisions included “encouraging the close settlement by Jews on the land,” including Judea, Samaria and Gaza. In 1922 Britain separated nearly 80% of the mandated territory creating a brand new Arab emirate, Trans-Jordan. This became an exclusively Arab area, closed to Jewish settlement, contradicting the Mandate’s provision of encouraging Jewish settlement throughout the area known as Palestine. Throughout their administration of the Mandate territories, Britain severely limited Jewish immigration while Arab immigration was unrestricted. The United Nations recommended partitioning the remaining portion of Palestine into two states, one Arab the other Jewish. This was UN Resolution 181 passed in November 1947. While the Jews accepted the plan joyously, the plan was rejected by the Arab states. Less than a year later the neighboring Arab countries launched an aggressive military invasion against the newly reborn Jewish state, in violation of the UN Charter, and invalidating Resolution 181. This left the San Remo Conference resolutions governing land ownership throughout Palestine. It means there is no enforceable, valid document that prevents or prohibits the Jews from settling anywhere in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The Arab League created the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo in 1964 as a weapon against Israel. The PLO’s terrorist attacks, against civilian targets, began at that time, before any Israeli “occupation”. While under the control of Jordan and Egypt neither the PLO nor any other Palestinian group campaigned for an independent state for the West Bank and Gaza. PLO activism was focused solely on the destruction of Israel. Once the Arabs were defeated in the 1967 Six Day War, and Israel captured Gaza and the West Bank, the PLO changed tactics claiming to be fighting Israeli “occupation” and for an independent Palestinian state. Israel entered the West Bank June 5th 1967 after repeated Jordanian artillery fire and ground movements across the armistice lines drawn in 1949. Those boundaries lost all validity once Jordanian forces revoked the armistice by attacking Israel. Israel took control of the West Bank as a result of a defensive war thereby gaining legitimate rights to the land of the West Bank. The same holds true for the Golan Heights. The West Bank Palestinians pose the greatest danger to Israel. They are an armed enemy that has publicly stated its aim is to destroy Israel. They exist squarely in Israel’s mid-section. The disputed West Bank territory is but 11 miles from Tel Aviv, 9 miles to Netanya and 10 miles from Be’er Sheva. The West Bank represents indefensible borders. It was used to launch attacks against Israel when ruled by Jordan, and continues to be used by the PLO to launch attacks into Israel. The language of “occupation” has allowed Palestinians to obfuscate history. The current territorial dispute is alleged by the Arabs to be the result of an Israeli decision to “occupy” their land. In reality Israel has recaptured land they have every right to, after a defensive war imposed on Israel by a coalition of Arab states in 1967. As Abba Eban said; “This is the first war in history which has ended with the victors suing for peace and the vanquished calling for unconditional surrender.” In 1993 the PLO were given administrative control over Gaza and the West Bank at the Oslo peace accords as a step towards a permanent peace. Instead of preparing for peace, the PLO have used their control to build large “security forces”, build bomb factories, import weapons and teach unrelenting hatred of the Jews, all in violation of the Oslo agreements. The true objective of the PLO became obvious after the failed Camp David talks in July 2000. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had offered 97% of the land claimed by the Arabs, plus 3% from other Israeli territory in return for peace. The offer was rejected. An unrelenting campaign of terror has ensued. The Prophet Mohammad established the way to deal with non-believers that cannot be defeated militarily. Mohammad signed the Hudaybiyya Conciliation Accord with the Kuraysh while living amongst them. Two years later once the Muslims gained strength they attacked the Kuraysh, despite the agreement, and slaughtered them all. Arafat has referred to the Kuraysh Agreement in Arabic as his reason for signing the 1993 Oslo Peace Accord. It is time to recognize the PLO’s Trojan horse tactics. They obtained land by making promises they never intended to keep, and continued their attacks against Israel. It is time to end the Arab lie of “occupied territory”. It is time the UN ended 54 years of welfare that has kept so many Arabs as refugees. It is time the neighboring Arab countries demonstrated their concern for the Palestinians and used some of their vacant lands and oil billions to address the Arab refugee problem. The PLO has lost any moral right to the disputed territory of the West Bank. The land of Judea and Samaria was retaken from Jordan at the cost of many Israeli lives in order to stop attacks against Israel. Yet the attacks continue. Israel has only wanted to live in peace with secure borders. They do not want to be occupiers of any people. The PLO has lost all credibility as a legitimate government. The Arabs in Judea and Samaria must be governed by an internationally supervised mandate. The mandate should provide government services while eliminating the corruption legacy of the PLO. Most importantly their children must be taught the true history of the Jews, and learn tolerance rather than hate. The Arab states should fund improvements to the lives of the Arab Palestinians, rather than funding weapons and rewards to the families of killers. The Arab Palestinians must be prepared for democracy and self-rule. Only when the killings and hate have ended; when Israelis can live in Arab populated lands as the Arabs live in Israel, will an Arab Palestinian state be desirable or possible. Conrad Nadell |
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