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Titolo: Palestinian statehood not the answer

Only when the Palestinians demonstrate acceptance of Israel as a
Jewish state will negotiations produce peace, not bloodshed.
Published: 10/13/2008
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20081013KleinPalestinian10122008.html
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Though Israelis and Palestinians have been involved
in ongoing negotiations since 1993, terrorism has increased and
casualties have mounted. Nearly 2,000 Israelis have been killed and
more than 10,000 maimed.
So why do some people persist in urging still more negotiations?
It's because they believe two things: The absence of a Palestinian
state is the cause of the continuing conflict, and such negotiations
can produce a Palestinian state and therefore peace.
Wrong on both counts. Under prevailing conditions, negotiations will
not create a peaceful Palestinian state and in any event, Palestinian
statehood is not the issue.
Palestinians were offered statehood in 1937 (the Peel Royal
Commission), 1947 (the United Nations Partition Plan) and 2000 (the
Clinton-Barak plan). The proposals were rejected.
Rather the issue was, and remains, Palestinian non-acceptance of
Israel within any borders. Only this year, Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas issued a new P.A. emblem showing Israel
covered with a Palestinian headdress labeled "Palestine" with a
Kalashnikov rifle next to it. Abbas has stated publicly that Hamas and
others do not have to recognize Israel.
After the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, Yasser Arafat
readied Palestinians for war and confrontation, not peace. After
receiving the highest per capita international aid, the Palestinian
Authority spent it on building the largest per capita militia in the
world and hidden arsenals, not industrial parks and development
projects.
Instead of educating Palestinian youth for peace, a cult of suicide
bombing and "martyrdom" was inculcated and its practitioners glorified
by P.A. leaders. Thousands of their pictures and posters were
plastered throughout the Palestinian Authority calling them heroes.
Only recently, Abbas lowered Palestinian flags to half mast and
declared three days of mourning when veteran PLO terrorist George
Habash died. When Israel released this year perhaps the most vile of
terrorists, Samir Kuntar -- a man who had crushed the life out of a
small girl with a rock after murdering her father before her eyes --
Abbas personally sent congratulations to Kuntar's family and later met
him on a visit to Beirut.
In the P.A.-controlled media, mosques, schools and youth camps,
incitement to hatred and murder of Jews and glorification of terrorism
as a religious and national duty is routine. To this day, P.A. maps
and atlases pretend Israel does not exist; P.A.-salaried clerics call
for murdering “the sons of monkeys and pigs”; TV and radio, popular
songs and poetry extol the glories of suicide attacks; textbooks teach
that Israel is a Nazi-like state; and streets, sports teams and
schools are named in honor of suicide bombers.
In short, more than their own state, Palestinians want victory in the
form of Israel's demise.
Nor is this only a matter of the Palestinian leadership, whether Fatah
or Hamas, both of which call in their respective charters for the
elimination of Israel and the use of terrorism. Rather this goal is
something that is reflected repeatedly in Palestinian opinion.
A poll by An-Najah National University in May showed a clear majority
of Palestinians rejecting statehood alongside Israel. Two months
earlier, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found
that 84 percent of Palestinians supported the terrorist attack on the
Jerusalem yeshiva that killed eight Jewish students. The same poll
showed that 64 percent of Palestinians support missile attacks on
Israel.
Despite this evidence, many prefer to believe that Israeli occupation
is the core issue and that creating a Palestinian state will produce
peace by ending it. This, too, makes no sense. It is simply a flat-
earth statement to describe Judea, Samaria and Gaza as occupied.
Article 6 of the Fourth Geneva Convention defines foreign power as
"occupier" "to the extent that such Power exercises the functions of
government in such territory." Yet since 1993, Israel relinquished to
the Palestinian Authority all of Gaza and about half of Judea and
Samaria, along with administrative functions and 98 percent of the
Palestinian population.
These territories are now ruled by Palestinian regimes, Israel's writ
no longer runs there, nor does it any longer maintain law and order in
the territories in question. By no stretch of the imagination can
these territories be described as occupied. Such Israeli military
incursions within them occur as a function of continuing terrorism and
would end if the terrorism ended.
In short, occupation is not the issue and Palestinian statehood has
never been the answer. Only when Palestinians demonstrate acceptance
of Israel as a Jewish state will negotiations produce peace, not
bloodshed.
(Morton Klein is the national president of the Zionist Organization of
America.)

 master will negotiations produce peace
dalla serie il razzista zanardo andrea e' tra quelli che vuole i
palestinesi ridotti ad untermensch
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