| There is no Israeli Occupation David 23 July 2002 Dear Sir There is no Israeli occupation. The west bank (Judea and Samaria) are part of the biblical and historical land of Israel. In fact, the West Bank is more rightly a part of Israel than California is a part of the United States. If the west bank is occupied land then so is all of the American Southwest - California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada etc. The U.S. conquered the American southwest, which unlike Judea and Samaria had never previously been a part of the U.S., from Mexico in the Mexican American War in 1846-1848. The American southwest is not occupied land and neither is the Judea and Samaria (The West Bank). The American southwest is America and Judea and Samaria is Israel. Establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank is not a good idea because it goes against the will of GOD and it makes Israel vulnerable to attack. Moreover, because the Palestinians would only use the land as they have used the land currently under their administration as a basis for terror. A Palestinian state could be established in Gaza because although it too would probably become a terrorist base it would not put Israel in the position of having indefensible borders. Moreover, it would be a just solution to the Palestinian plight. It would also not be without precedent. In the Mexican America War the US conquered more than just the southwestern United States. However, Mexico south of the Rio Grande was given back to Mexico. Moreover, we should not ignore the religious context. The west bank or Judea and Samaria are part of the biblical promised land of Israel but Gaza (correct me if I'm wrong) was not part of the promised land. Consequently, Israelis could allow a Palestinian state in GAZA, former Philistia, without being opposed to the will of GOD which is for the land of Canaan, including Judea and Samaria, to be the land of Israel. Leftists around the world, who's cause in Israel appears to be championed by Shimon Peres and others, contend that the Palestinians must be offered a far reaching proposal from Israel to give the Palestinians hope (nonsense). Hope for what? Hope that they are getting closer to their goal of destroying Israel. I am an African American man in America. Do I need an African American state comprised of the entire Atlantic coast of the United States to have hope? Nonsense! What hope does statehood provide that opportunity and self-rule does not? Hopelessness is not a function of nationhood but of neighborhood and lack of opportunity. Any and all efforts to lessen Palestinian frustration should be devoted to building economic opportunity and individual economic empowerment. Palestinians should not have a state until their economic and social structures are developed enough so that they value life, their own lives and the lives of others. Hope arises from having something to live for instead of something to die for. Any and all arguments for far reaching proposals are essentially code words for rewarding terrorism and giving the Palestinians what they want and are merely tools in the bags tricks of those who knowingly or naively are attempting to bring about the destruction of the state of Israel. The very idea of giving a state to a people who have shown themselves to be as committed to violence as Adolf Hitler himself is nonsense. Establishing a Palestinian state on the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) makes even less sense than establishing a neo nazi state in the heart of Africa. No sense at all. David |
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