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Titolo: Two-state illusion: The Sderot perspective

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Two-state illusion: The Sderot perspective
Jan. 5, 2009
Noam Bedein ,
In early September, I was invited to take part in a press conference
in Oslo, along with the Israeli ambassador to Norway, members of the
Norwegian media and members of the Norwegian parliament. The title of
the press conference was "Iran: At Sderot's Back Door."
It was at that press conference that "rocket reality" was presented
before Norwegians for the first time, showing the Western Negev as the
only place in the Western world where rockets and missiles are fired
at citizens on almost a daily basis. Of these attacks, 97 percent are
launched by Palestinian militias from the convenient cover of civilian
homes in Gaza. Their weapons come directly from Iran, with their
delivery to Gaza facilitated by Syria and Egypt. This is how Hamas
became Teheran's "third arm," after Hizbullah in Lebanon.
While Norwegian parliament members showed sympathy and said that they
more clearly understood Sderot and Gaza, they also rationalized the
Gaza rocket reality with the commonly held illusion that "if the
Palestinians would be able to have their own independent state - in
the West Bank and Gaza - this would bring peace and security to both
sides and the firing on Israel would stop." In other words, firing
missiles at Israel is justified because of the lack of a Palestinian
state, since the West Bank is still "occupied."
From an Israeli perspective, then, promoting the "two-state solution"
gives Europeans and their parliamentarians a way to justify ongoing
rocket fire. This also gives nations around the world a justification
to continue to aid the Palestinian Authority, which now receives the
largest proportionate aid compared with any people of a similar sized
population.
Indeed, the Norwegian government provided $100 million to the PA over
the past year, even after it was proven that much of this budget
reaches the hands of Hamas, which openly uses these allocations to
finance terrorism.
The two-state solution is mistakenly used by Israel's advocates to
justify Israel's approach to peace - pursued even under fire as a
political solution. But when Israel's advocates support a two-state
solution while Sderot and the Western Negev remain under constant
missile threat - especially after Israel pulled out all Jewish
communities and IDF bases from the Gaza Strip in August 2005 - they
are simply ignoring the fact that 7,000 missiles have been fired at
Israel from the de facto Palestinian state spawned in Gaza over the
past three years.
THAT IS what a two-state solution means - giving the country's enemies
a convenient base from which they can terrorize the civilian
population, in defiance of international law. The Western world's
media, and even the Israeli media, refer to the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip, taken in 1967, as the territories that are in dispute, while
Hamas, all of the other Palestinian terror groups and the PA itself
define Sderot and the Western Negev as "occupied territory." They do
not recognize the territory that Israel acquired in 1948, an integral
part of the sovereign state of Israel.
In the words of the press statement that Hamas issued on November 26,
2006, the day before the last cease-fire commenced (a six-month cease-
fire in which more than 300 missiles were fired at Israel): "We will
not stop firing on the Zionist settlement Sderot until the last
citizen of Sderot leaves." Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority's
"Palestine Map," which can be purchased in any PA office, replaces
Sderot with pre-1948 Najd; Ashkelon is replaced by al-Majdal and
Ashdod by Isdod.
The Palestinian "right of return" refers to the return of Palestinian
refugees to all of Israel. Meanwhile, the PA schools books show no
rights for Jews living in the land of Israel, no mention of the
history of the Jews in the land of Israel.
By what right was the State of Israel established? What were the
historical and legal rights of the Jewish people to the land of
Israel? And why has the Palestinian refugee problem persisted, like no
other in the world? It is the responsibility of anyone who speaks for
Israel to emphasize that during the late 1940s, more than 40 million
refuges around the world were resettled, except for one people. They
remain defined as refugees, wallowing 60 years later in 59 UNRWA
refugee camps, financed by $400 million contributed annually by
nations of the world to nurture the promise of the "right of return"
to Arab neighborhoods and Arab villages from 1948 that no longer
exist.
No nation would tolerate even one rocket being launched toward its
territory; but that is what Israel is asked to accept as an integral
part of its existence, since the supposed root of the problem is that
the Palestinian Arab people do not have a state of their own.
Yet the regime in Gaza let the ceasefire lapse and resumed its rocket
attacks - provoking the current Israeli military operation - not to
facilitate a two-state solution, but to "liberate" the rest of
Palestine.
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"Vorrei smentire l'errata impressione che io abbia mai cessato di
usare il mio nome per intervenire sui newsgroup. E' capitato" (Luca
Logi / rodewalder / Golda Meir, gennaio 2009)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/il-nome-e-il-come.html

 state, since the West Bank is still "occupied."
Uno pensa che gli idioti di IPI siano a loro modo straordinari.
Poi incontri i parlamentari norvegesi...
Tb