Actually, pulling support for Israel would be a good thing. Just sign an order that says the U.S will suspend funding to Israel until it complies with U.N Resolution 242, the UN Declaration Of Human Rights and The Geneva Convention.
Right now, part of the problem is the fact they have the upper hand. 3 Billion dollars a year in U.S taxpayer funds to support their suspect policies gives them no incentive to halt their illegal actions and make any real strides toward peace. Many in the Israeli government believe Jews are a superior race and that they have the right to all the land in the area beacuse they are the "chosen people". So they have very little motivation to actually give up something significant as opposed to the little bits and peices they are offering.
My solution:
-Create a Palestinean state along the lines of the pre-1967 borders.
- Make Jerusalem an international city. It is too important to too many people to belong to any one government, especially a theocracy.
- Create a transport corridor between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Make The Golan Heights a demilliterized zone. Put a few UN peackeepers in there with a standing mandate to bring in a larger, combat force to repel any nation or group attempting to remilliterize it.
- Garuntee the Right Of Return to all refugees. (Arabs are allowed to go back to the land they were forced out of when Israel launched
Plan Dalet) Israel contends this would "destroy the Jewish state". Too bad. The people who were ethnicly-cleansed out of the area are garunteed their right to the land that was stolen from them beginning in 1948 by the U.N Declaration of Human Rights and The Geneva Convention.
Israel doesn't want there to be a majority of non-Jews in the country. It wants to dictate the racial and religious makeup of the population and who gets to own land and have political power.
Didn't the Nazis do the same thing, and use the same methods to achieve their goals?
Of course they did, but no one is allowed to make the comparison, because Jews were victims of the Nazis. In fact, anyone who criticizes the Israeli government is open to being labled an anti-semite. Pro-
Zionists love to drag out the Nazi references to smear their opponents.
And it always works.
I mean, when supporters of Israel call you a Nazi, it's pretty hard to live that one down.
And personally, I believe it degrades the very memory of all who died during the Halocaust. It is a cheap cop-out and ploy that insults all those who suffered under the Nazi regeime.
But many pro-Zionists know they can lay down the guilt-trip without having to back it up or even address and refute the charges made against them.
Roughly 90 billion has been spent supporting what Israel does, and they would love to keep the money flowing. It leaves them in a position where they have very little to lose in the whole scheme of things. They can use any means......and believe me, they
do use
any means to acheive their goals.
- Torture
- Assasination of people who
may possibly commit crimes
sometime in the future.
- Targeting of civillians and indiscriminate bombings of civillian population centers.
- A policy of Nuremberg-like laws limiting the rights of non Jews....even if they are Israeli citizens.
- Kidnapping
- Illegal expropriation of land
- Illegal settlement of land
- Ethnic Cleansing, not to far removed from what the
Nazis themselves did to the Jews
A few quotes on Ethnic Cleansing
from here:
"Following the outbreak of 1936, no mainstream (Zionist) leader was able to conceive of future coexistence without a clear physical separation between the two peoples - achievable only by transfer and expulsion. Publicly they all continued to speak of coexistence and to attribute the violence to a small minority of zealots and agitators. But this was merely a public pose..Ben Gurion summed up: 'With compulsory transfer we (would) have a vast area (for settlement)...I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it,'" Israel historian, Benny Morris, "Righteous Victims."
"Joseph Weitz was the director of the Jewish National Land Fund...On December 19, 1940, he wrote: 'It must be clear that there is no room for both peoples in this country...The Zionist enterprise so far...has been fine and good in its own time, and could do with 'land buying' - but this will not bring about the State of Israel; that must come all at once, in the manner of a Salvation (this is the secret of the Messianic idea); and there is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer them all; except maybe for Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem, we must not leave a single village, not a single tribe'...There were literally hundreds of such statements made by Zionists." Edward Said, "The Question of Palestine."
"That Ben-Gurion's ultimate aim was to evacuate as much of the Arab population as possible from the Jewish state can hardly be doubted, if only from the variety of means he employed to achieve his purpose...most decisively, the destruction of whole villages and the eviction of their inhabitants...even [if] they had not participated in the war and had stayed in Israel hoping to live in peace and equality, as promised in the Declaration of Independence." Israeli author, Simha Flapan, "The Birth of Israel."
"During May [1948] ideas about how to consolidate and give permanence to the Palestinian exile began to crystallize, and the destruction of villages was immediately perceived as a primary means of achieving this aim...[Even earlier,] On 10 April, Haganah units took Abu Shusha... The village was destroyed that night... Khulda was leveled by Jewish bulldozers on 20 April... Abu Zureiq was completely demolished... Al Mansi and An Naghnaghiya, to the southeast, were also leveled. . .By mid-1949, the majority of [the 350 depopulated Arab villages] were either completely or partly in ruins and uninhabitable." Benny Morris, "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949.
"The first UN General Assembly resolution--Number 194- affirming the right of Palestinians to return to their homes and property, was passed on December 11, 1948. It has been repassed no less than twenty-eight times since that first date. Whereas the moral and political right of a person to return to his place of uninterrupted residence is acknowledged everywhere, Israel has negated the possibility of return... [and] systematically and juridically made it impossible, on any grounds whatever, for the Arab Palestinian to return, be compensated for his property, or live in Israel as a citizen equal before the law with a Jewish Israeli." Edward Said, "The Question of Palestine."
Remember folks, this is what our 3 billion dollars a year is paying to maintain.
