Today’s “Land Day” demonstrations at various places in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza border, as well as a march on the Israeli-Lebanese border, are all intended to bring attention to the Palestinian campaign against Israel and to increase international sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. But the violent nature of the protests and the demands raised by those participating give the lie to the notion that any of this has anything to do with the cause of Middle East peace.
By flinging rocks at Israeli forces in the hope that they will respond with deadly force, the Palestinians are playing their usual game in which they hope to sacrifice some of their youth in exchange for damaging the reputation of the Jewish state. More to the point, should anyone actually be listening to what they are screaming, the Palestinians and their foreign cheerleaders are also making it clear their goal is Israel’s destruction.
“Land Day” is an annual event that commemorates a dispute over the property of some Arab villages that turned violent in the 1970s. But it is no civil libertarian holiday. As today’s demonstrations have once again reminded us, the goal of the Palestinian street as well as those foreigners who parachute into the country to help stir the point on the issue, is to promote the “right of return” by which Arabs hope to flood the Jewish state with the descendants of the 1948 refugees.
Many of Israel’s critics — including those Jews who pose as Zionists while preaching boycotts and sanctions that give cover to a rising tide of anti-Semitic incitement around the globe — ignore what the Palestinians say they want and instead, pretend that the dispute is about borders and settlements. But as today’s events illustrate, they have but minimal interest in the Jewish communities in the West Bank, the vast majority of which are near the 1967 lines. Instead, they are focused on the nature of the Jewish state itself. The Land Day extravaganza is about an attempt to reverse the verdict of 1948, not to place an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Moreover, despite the fact that the Palestinians are constantly talking about transforming the conflict by adopting the non-violent protest methods of Gandhi, the nature of their political culture is such that they appear incapable of doing so. Violence is always a given at these events.
That is due in part to the desire of the organizers to create a new batch of martyrs to be celebrated so as to blacken Israel’s name. As accounts of today’s events make clear, the whole point is to create theatre for the cameras of the international press.
But the violence is also a function of Palestinian politics that has unfortunately always valued the spilling of blood over anything else. This is also related to the plain fact that Palestinian nationalism came into existence in the 20th century as a reaction to Zionism rather than as part of a national cultural revival as was the case with other modern national cultures. This negative impulse is why recognition of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state is something no Palestinian leader can accept. It is also why violence against Jews and Israel is still the only way for such leaders to establish their own bona fides.
The “Land Day” show will accomplish nothing for the Palestinians except to further confirm the dead-end path of violence and confrontation in which they are stuck. If their foreign friends wish to help them, they could do so by ceasing to support these pointless exercises in violence and to begin coming to terms with the permanence of the Jewish state.
Nothing has ever changed in those areas – and now they are in the clutches of End Time Prophecies, and they still have no Instinct for Survival – just a malignancy in their hearts that doesn't care for their own as much as they care for killing others, no matter what. n nGolda Meir: "Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us." n nGolda Meir: "We can forgive you for killing our children. We cannot forgive you for making us kill yours." n nThere will be no peace with these Arab forces, these children of Esau.
Pointing out to leftists and liberals that Palestinians want to exterminate the Jews is like pointing out cake to fat people.
They even beat up anti Israel Neturei Karta Rabbis just because they were Jewish.
What is interesting is that Hamas attempted to keep infiltrators from breaking through on their side of the Gaza border.
Antagonizing Israel is the 'worlds' sport; they indulge in it.
The West hates more the Muslims than the Jews. The Muslims hate the West and the Jews. The Jews are disliked by both the West and the Muslims! The Jews hate no one!
For the past decade every Arab military or armed venture to destroy or at least demoralize Israel into surrender has failed, and has even made Israelis more determined than ever to protect out Jewish State. So now the Arab world is stuck with using political and diplomatic "terrorism" to accomplish the same ends. Of course if the Arabs really wanted a state for the Palestinians and peace with Israel, they could actually sit and negotiate in good faith with Israel.
nCrybaby, pro Israel Zionist Jews to the ongoing call for stirring up antisemitism and the intransigence of the Arabs in wanting the return of stolen land through violence and confiscation and the new motto of the so called existential threat that Israel and world Jewry face from Iran and violent Arabs. All fine tuning Israeli propaganda to meet the growing picture of Israel as using violence with impunity in the name of self defense and counter the delegitimization of Israel across all levels of society around the world. the "winner take all" is all Israel has to offer the Arabs along with decades of rejection and expansion.Israel murders the truth and exploits legitimate Arab frustration to stereotype and demonize Palestinians. "The only way to defeat those who deny our rights to our land, our nationhood and our history is to expose their corruption, and their hateful intentions towards the Jewish people." This ,of course, includes the Muslim world and many in the EU biased against the tiny democratic, peace loving state.In the end it is only Israel that will destroy itself by acting against legitimate aspirations and rights of the oppressed Palestinian people.
The chorus of Israeli deniers of the reality of their oppression of Palestinians (not recognized by them as a nation or people) and comparing the outright murder of civilians they have committed in the name of self defense as their divine right makes any attempt at objective clarification of the issue an exercise in futility. The propaganda machine about anti-semitism,the existential threat to Israel by Iran and demographic destruction by the Arab right to return and demonizing Islam and Muslims in America for following orthodox Islam and shari'at law or having special facilities for ablution is part of a campaign to delegitimize Muslims in the US for their potential influence on policy that would favor a balanced approach more in line with US national interest and justice. nIsraeli fanatics love it when a crazy driven Arab goes and kills children and pregnant women while they only "mistakenly" kill a far greater number of innocents as collateral damage or as in Gaza, wholesale slaughter. Hypocrisy, thy name is Israel. Dershowitz, the arch defender of the guilty has his work cut out for defending Israel but finding the Palestinians guilty does not make Israel innocent. Note: Previous post was not published. Israel will self-destruct-no need for WMDs.