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Response to MoveOn.org's Pro-Palestinian Bulletin ?
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Move On, who just ran the internet primary ran the
following article. http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin19.html
I have copied the first few paragraphs and have
interpolated my responses thereto in red and
blue.
Clifford Lazar
INTRODUCTION: WHERE DOES THE ROAD MAP LEAD? This sentence left out that Barak made an offer and Arafat wouldn't respond. That September, Ariel Sharon, chairman of the Likud party, made a provocative visit to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Control over this holy site for both Muslims and Jews is contested by Palestinians and Israelis. This is a typical anti-semitic remark. Muslim members of the Israeli parliament can visit the Temple Mount but you say Jews can't. When Muslims were in charge of the Wailing wall Jews could not visit the site. Jewish sites in the West Bank were desecrated. Did you object? During the indifada Joseph's tomb was desecrated by Palestinians. Did you object? The visit implied Israeli sovereignty over all Jerusalem, the eastern portion of which is considered occupied territory by the international community. So began the second indifada, or Palestinian uprising. The 11 western states is considered occupied territory by some international non-governmental organizations. Who is the international community that you refer to? The indifada would have begun without the Sharon visit. Palestinian schools were indoctrinating children to hate Israelis and to admire suicide bombers. As in the first indifada in the late 1980s, the demand is for an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem -- which has persisted since 1967 -- and acknowledgment of the Palestinian refugees right to return to the villages from which they were forced to leave during the 1948 war that established the State of Israel. Firstly, how many Palestinians were forced to
leave and how many left at the direction of the Mufti of Jerusalem? Secondly, do you advocate the Muslim expansion is only one way? Are you upset that Muslims were driven from Spain in 1492? Do you feel that non-Muslims should evacuate Lebanon? Or do you advocate that all conquered people have the right of return? If you do, do you agree that Jews should have the right of return to Medina, originally a Jewish city? Do you advocate the Jews right of return to Poland, the Ukraine, Iraq? Or do you believe that the right of return only extends to Muslims? In the 33 months since, human death has saturated the region: 816 Israelis and 2,384 Palestinians have been killed. The quantiy of Palestinians killed came from the Palestinian Red Crescent. Did the number include the 1,000 it claimed to have been killed in Genin? How many Palestinians were killed while attacking Jews ? Most of them. How many Jews were killed while attacking Palestinians? Most Jews were killed by attacking Palestinians. Here are the links provided by MoveOn.org CRITIQUE From the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz: From The Nation: ------------------------------ FACTS ON THE GROUND: TERRORISM Gush Shalom, an Israeli peace group, on the Rantisi assassination
attempt. An Israeli parliament member and 25 former Israeli generals have
raised questions about the timing of Sharon's assassination attempt. Senator Dick Lugar (R-Indiana), chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, has raised the possibility of U.S. military
intervention "to root out the terrorism that is at the heart of the
problem." ------------------------------ FACTS ON THE GROUND: OUTPOSTS AND SETTLEMENTS From The Nation: ------------------------------ FACTS ON THE GROUND: THE SEPARATION WALL A troubling report on the 25-foot tall separation wall from Israeli
newspaper Yediot Ahronot describes how the system of barbed
concrete walls and armed watchtowers will imprison hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians without access to their agricultural lands. The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment on legal efforts to block the wall. ------------------------------ CONCLUSION: ALTERNATIVE MAPS Yakov M. Rabkin is a professor of history at the University of
Montreal. He describes how Israel-Palestine could become neither a
Jewish state, nor an Arab state, but a state of all its citizens. ------------------------------ CREDITS Editing team: ------------------------------ Are you trying to drive Jewish democrats to the GOP? Your article is an insult to the intelligence. It is propaganda.
Clifford Lazar
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