From The River To The Sea
"We are getting more and more phone calls and conversations of concerned people — if it’s Israelis who invest in Ireland and are concerned about their investment, if it’s Israelis who have relocated to Ireland into different tech companies and either are requesting to be relocated somewhere else or asking to return to Israel.""I think it sends the wrong message about the location and the centrality of Ireland as a tech hub when there are more and more people who are concerned about moving to Ireland. I don’t think that this is the message that Ireland wants to send to the world … And this is not what we want to see.""[Many Irish sympathize with Israel] behind the scenes. I think there is a lot of potential in our bilateral relations, if it’s cybersecurity or health care, climate change. I hope to be given that opportunity to continue that."Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Dana Erlich
Anti-Israel demonstrators stand outside the Israeli embassy after Ireland has announced it will recognize a Palestinian state, in Dublin, Ireland, May 22, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Molly Darlington |
A
March poll by the Palestinian polling group elicited the data that
seven in ten Palestinians approved of the October 7 sadistic barbarity
that Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine terrorist operatives inflicted on southern
Israel's kibbutz residents. Poll results rendered the information that
Palestinians in the West Bank outdid their Gaza counterparts with a
greater number supporting Hamas as the duly constituted government in
both territories.
Israelis,
looking back in appalled anger at the carnage wrought by the
Palestinian terrorist operation of October 7 are almost equal in numbers
in rejecting a renewed Palestinian enclave in Gaza. It seems that in
the West, in European countries in particular, Hamas and the other
Palestinian terror groups are not held in any judgement. Israel, on the
other hand, is held to a standard not expected of Palestinians. When
Palestinians invoking their 'refugee' status as 'victims' everlasting as
long as Israel exists, commit to the goal of destroying Israel, their
ongoing violence against Israel and its population is considered
irrelevant.
Israel's
responses to deadly raids, however, are viewed through the magnified
lens of international demands that restraint be the order of the day,
not the wholesale intention of responding militarily to the rocket
barrages, and suicide missions -- and above all the October 7 sadistic
savagery with its death count, determined to prevent the promise of more
October 7s, until Israel is destroyed -- by taking the initiative to
destroy first those whose unremitting violence against Israeli existence
must be final and complete.
Ireland
has led the way in persuading Spain and and Norway -- all three
countries known to be hostile to Israel -- to formally recognize the
'State of Palestine', rather than await a final agreement between Israel
and the Palestinian Authority government on mutual recognition and a
corresponding decision on conditions both agree upon, setting standards
and boundaries as well as pledges of non-hostile cooperation. Israel has
been available for talks in the critical issues involved, the
Palestinians have evaded them.
Choosing
instead their slow and steady scheduling of the poisoning of
Palestinian minds against their Jewish neighbours, inculcating in those
minds the need for 'resistance' against the 'occupation'; an occupation
necessitated by the urgent call to protect Israelis of all ages against
lethal attacks that Palestinians are taught by their governments it is
their duty to carry out to martyrdom in the greater interests of
opposing Israel's presence and committing to killing Jews.
Sovereignty
recognition must pass some elemental standards, not the least of which
under international law a state must have fixed borders, a permanent
population, uncontested government with control of its security and
commitments to amiable foreign relations. In light of the most recent of
the ongoing attacks against Israel and its people, to proceed at this
unresolved juncture to recognize a Palestinian state that refuses to
negotiate with the neighbour it threatens, to agree on boundaries and
future relations is beyond premature.
Granting
that status for the Palestinians is not only premature, it represents a
reprehensible decision to reward savagery committed against a neighbour
where 1,200 lives of Israeli citizens were extinguished on one fateful
day of carnage dedicated to terrorizing, slaughtering and hostage
taking. Neither Palestinians, nor now Israelis favour the two-state
'solution' the West is anxious to hasten to reality, seemingly to solve a
brutal, unresolved issue of two peoples rivalling one another in a
competition for territory.
Israelis
settled for a state on a small portion of their historical ancestral
land mass; Palestinians rejected outright the opportunity offered them
through the Partition Plan of the United Nations in 1947. Consistently
since then when war after war broke out as surrounding Arab states
attempted to dislodge the Jewish State from the Middle East, Israel
successfully clung to its territory, militarily defeating its enemies
and frustrating Palestinian aspirations to achieve a state from the
Jordan River to the Mediterranean sea.
Which
is to say, without a presence of an Israeli state, leaving the entire
area to the Palestinian Arabs. That remains the goal of both Fatah (West
Bank Palestinian Authority) and Hamas (Gaza Strip). Fatah and Hamas
oppose one another with a hostility born of ideological differences and
factional rivalry. Their only area of agreement is the destruction of
the State of Israel. That part of the West that is amenable to granting
State status to Palestinian aspiration is effectively agreeing that the
use of violent sadism was justifiable and awaited reward.
Countries
that would never tolerate violence against their claims to sovereignty
and against their populations, appear to feel that having suffered the
intolerable, Israel should merely shrug and count its losses to satisfy
the demands of a global community fixated with the entitlements and
inalienable rights of a Palestinian population that chooses its method
of persuasion, trumping lethal violence over the negotiating table. In
the process the pretense for consumption by the West, frequent appeals
to victimhood. Appealing for help from the international community to
bypass normal international standards to qualify for statehood.
Looking
ahead to the eventual agreement on statehood for 'Palestine', the issue
of who would govern is critical to relations between Israel and the
Palestinians. Palestinians make no secret of the fact that the majority
reject 88-year-old Mahmoud Abbas, who was elected to his position as
President decades ago, with no election keeping him in office for the
past 20 years. Their choice of governance has been stated time and again
in their admiration for Hamas's agenda.
Ireland,
Spain and Norway would never agree to live alongside another state with
destructive tendencies and an agenda that included ongoing violence
against a neighbour. Yet they deem it acceptable for Israel and they
prefer to force the matter by supporting a Palestinian State that is
loathe to bargain in good faith with Israel, since to do so would be to
forego their ambition to have free reign from "The River to the Sea" in perpetuity.
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