The World Jewish Congress provided some information while it was seeking monetary support for Israeli causes. This information is a map of Israel as it stands today. The map does not show a Palestinian nation sharing the same historical territory. What it shows is a partitioned land of the West Bank and Gaza dotted with REFUGEE CAMPS.
Palestine land is not yet a nation. It is an absurdly divided property with Israel in between. The Palestinians have much of the best land for farming and have in Gaza access to the Mediterranean. The larger section of Palestinian land was once the west bank of the Jordan River and belonged to Jordan. Israel has hills and desert. Yet Palestinian “Refugees” with the support and maintenance by the United Nations cluster in “camps” where they maintain refugee status from 1948 when surrounding Arab nations attacked the new Israeli State.
There are 27 camps on this map that could represent cities where people make their own lives. Instead, they are miserable places where people are dependant on the UN to regulate their “camps” and they look to Israel for jobs. Instead of cities that they built by themselves to raise themselves up, they have become centers of unrest and the people blame the very existence of Israel for their problems. A violent and obsessed minority believe they are entitled to attack Israel and continue a war, for that it what it is, that proclaims they have just lost battles but will eventually drive the Jews into the sea. No Palestinian army has ever been raised. Instead, terrorists daily go forth to kill the Jews. It has been made to appear that a modern Jewish army equipped by the United States is warring against innocent victims who are oppressed prisoners in their own land. The conclusion by the apologists for the Palestinian cause is that any destruction caused by heroic human “suicide” bombers is understandable and justified.
The world looks on and sees what has happened, what is happening and what will happen in this small corner of the world that once was the crossroads of a fertile crescent joining two immense empires of Babylonians to the east and Egyptians to the west. The dates have changed but the scenario remains the same. What is different is that Israel has become a modern nation while the countries that surround it and the puppets in Palestine are mired in anti-Semitic rhetoric. This rhetoric is peculiar since Semites are doing the name calling and blaming. All of their activity is to get to the original goal of liquidating Israel. Ancient Hebrew lands were once wiped out but they were rebuilt in our time and Israel was created. Jerusalem of old is still there and is the capitol of a modern, democratic and vibrant nation. Yet while the scene looks bleak and unpromising, two nations in one land is not impossible.
Two nations in one land is N0T impossible. We have seen the insanity of victorious nations redrawing maps and making nations by dividing countries in two. North and south or east and west partitions have created new countries and many indigenous people lost their homelands. Unique peoples with vibrant cultures often were pushed together with others quite different and were not asked if they would accept the changes. Geography was recast by the powers of the time. The artificiality of some of the new entities has never been satisfactory. We have witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Empire into countries that we never knew had peoples who once had and once again wanted a land of their own.
The Jews in Israel and the Palestinians in their divided country can make the changes that need to be made. It was never permitted to be easy. There was always the intervention of neighboring countries who declared they are the enemy of the Jews. These same countries were never the friends of the Palestinians. Iraq and Syria are home to terrorists who dominate the camps because of money and arms these countries supplied. The terrorist factions and organizations run by other countries should be driven out of Palestine. The Jewish “settlers” in Palestine should be removed and the Israeli army withdrawn behind a border, not behind a fence.
The world looked on while Palestinians were sent to camp. The world looks on and does nothing constructive while the camps remain as they were and where the people who live in them train more human sacrifices for a needless cause.