When the question of, "Why don't the Palestinians have their own state?" is asked, the general response from many pro-Israelis is that the Palestinians are terrorists and that they did not accept the numerous and "generous" peace treaties that the Israeli government had proposed. But these peace treaties are anything but generous. So let us examine in detail what I mean.First, I'll give you the most widely accepted version of a two state solution. A two state solution that entails a separate state for Israelis, and a separate state for Palestinians. Each state has full control of its land, its borders, airspace, water, and harbors. Each state shall have the freedom to create a military, and each state shall be accepted and fully recognized by the other, and that each state has the right to live in peace.
Yet the numerous, and failed peace treaties called for no such thing. First of all, the Palestinian state would be established in the West Bank and Gaza, yet hold on a second, not all the West Bank. Thanks to the Israeli Government, and its settlement building and colonizing of the West Bank, this serves as a roadblock to peace. And in every peace treaty generated by the US, Israel's closest and most powerful ally, both nations, Israel and the US agree on one thing, that the settlers shall not leave the occupied territories, and a Palestinian state shall have to be built around that.
Not only that, but Palestine shall not have any control of the borders, airspace, and water, and it does not have a right to build a military. So how in the world can anyone call this a state, if it has not control over itself. How can a state be formed around Jewish settlements, making an archipelago of Palestine in a sea of Israel. No one in their right mind would accept to such conditions. And at Camp David, Arafat was offered 90 % if the West Bank to build a Palestinian state on, yet he refused because he doesn't want peace, or so they said.
But Israel Proper is 78% of Historic Palestine, the occupied territories: West Bank and Gaza making up only 22%. So they are allowing Arafat to build a Palestinian state on 90% of the 22% if Historic Palestine and on top of that, barely have control of it. This is absurd, and people in our international society should wake up to these lies and acknowledge the fact that no person should accept this upon his people.
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I completely agree with you!
ReplyDeletePeople always say that Palestine doesn't want peace, and is the agressor, and that Israel is trying to make peace, but in reality it's the exact opposite. Those conditions sound nothing like what a two-state solution is supposed to be, and it's absoultely horrific what these poor innocent Palestinians have to live through!
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Sorry but Israel is 17% of historic palestine whilst West bank and Gaza are about 5% and Jordan is 78% of historic palestine.
ReplyDeleteNo one has yet justified why a second arab state in palestine - in addition to Jordan - is really necessary.
Can't the two arab populations living on either side of the Jordan River be consolidated into one single state? This would give the Arabs about 80% of historic Palestine as their own exclusive Arab state with not one Jew living amongst them or controlling their lives.
What more could the Arab population ask for?
To reply to the comment above, I would ask the writer, why should anyone be forced out of their home, and their land? Why do you find it acceptable, even if what you say is true why is there no problem in forcing and kicking out people from their homes from their memories, and from their lives to be dubbed refugees? When you can answer this, I will have no problem with the Israeli occupation
ReplyDeleteAnd historic Palestine's borders were drawn out by Britian, and Palestine and transjordan were seperate, so Israel is 78% of Historic Palestine.
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