SOLUTION TO THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL DISPUTE

There is something missing from the news about the Palestinian-Israeli dispute. I hear all about the Hamas rockets being fired into Israel. I understand how a radical religious organization took control over the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and understand why they do what they do, which is to destroy democracy and instill a caliphate government. I understand the long-term dangers of having an externally funded radical religious organization such as Hamas taking the lead in the dispute. A few religious leaders, an ayatollah led dictatorship, can keep the fight going simply by firing a few rockets from Gaza Strip. Most complex of all, I even understood why U.S. past presidents have taken the position they have taken for years and now understand why Obama takes the stand he does in the dispute.

I understand why Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is upset with President Obama call for a  two state solution; in other words, I understand the Israeli position from both the currant as well as a historical point of view including the deeply felt world sentiments surrounding the U.N. vote to partition Palestine in 1946. In fact, as a young person, I was strongly in support of the U.N. vote at the time. It is only in hindsight that I see it was a terrible mistake. Even though I understand, or at least think I understand all of this, I do not understand why I can carefully listen, for weeks on end, to news commentators and war reporters for the answer to the simple direct question, “What are the Israelis hoping for?” These people give the answer but they bury it.

In a sense, Israel has violated the trust the world put in their hands. However, in retrospect that is exactly what the world should have expected. Palestine was an area of territory that colonial powers had claimed ownership and had delineated without respect to ethnicity, religion, or anything else and almost without respect to geographical features—politicians drew straight lines in the desert. Palestine was an area of the world the WWI peace negotiators in Paris in 1919 could do with what the great powers wanted: Great Britain, Frances, and the United States. This territory issue was all a minor or side issue not even worthy of direct comment in the negotiation that set the stage for a second even greater conflict, which turned out to be WWII with all of its ghastly atrocious mistreatment of European Jews. Jews around the world cried out, never again and the world listened.

As background, the American Congress let it be known in 1939, at the time when they want to start massive immigration from German territories, that in their eyes, European Jews were not welcome in the Untied States. This response from congress should be reminiscent of the flight of people from China and Cuban, people fleeing the Haiti earthquake, or more recent the flight of children from Honduras Salvador, and Guatemala. This was not unique to the U.S.; almost every country in the world that took this stance forcing people to stay and be slaughtered; although there were hints, no one could actually predict the “final solution”, something well beyond even the wildest imagination. Nevertheless, people from one country do not want “masses” of people from another country entering their territory even under those circumstances. The establishment of a Jewish nation, a territory for Jews, ruled by Jews, seemed to be the answer, the panacea. There were many false claims made at the time; the territory was empty of people; that it is not owned by anyone when clearly it was privately held. In addition, there was the claim that God gave the territory to the Jews, which meant religion leaders dictated what territory Israel controlled, with out dispute. In addition, it was to be a democracy, which is the antithesis of having absolute Jewish control over a territory, which was the objective of the entire action. A United Nations vote to partition Palestine territory to allow that to happen passed. A world government partitioned the land the land with little knowledge of the territory they were dealing with; an Israeli government formed which welcomed hoards of Jewish people from around the entire world but especially from Europe and western Asia.

In 1946, I was 100% in support of forming Israel. However, like everyone else, I ignored the warning signs from day one. The Israelis had to have territory to house people and they displaced Palestinians, who actually owned the land. At first the Arab population fled, but later thought better of it and then realized it was too late; the Jews formed a government and they were not part of it. They fought as individuals, and isolated people, against the world supported Jewish coalition.  No one seemed to realize that these people were displaced persons, actually refugees. They saw their farms, lands, and birth places being gobbled up by “much needed” Israeli settlements and occupied by people with legal rights to land that was not their. Every time, Israel wants more land they start a war. The more the Palestinians fought, the more they lost. The world looks at Israel as a peace loving democracy because Israel says that is what it is but the “peaceful” circumstances have squeezed Palestinian Arabs into a small territory; the most populous in the world. They have to go through checkpoints run by Israel solders; they cannot even fish in the ocean but for a few miles off shore; they are rationed water; they are at the complete mercy of the Israeli government. The worst thing of all is that it cannot get better; it must keep becoming worse until they do not exist.

A two party state, the Obama position, is not acceptable to Israel; they do not want to give up half of what they aim to get. They want it all and it looks like they are going to get it. The U.N. vote in 1946 was a mistake; it has led to what is becoming the equivalent of genocide without ovens, the elimination of an entire people. Strange as it may seem, the answer seems to be in massive migration of Palestinians to other countries. Of course, we are against letting them come to the United States; we won’t even let them build a mosques in downtown New York but how about the U.N. creating a new country for them in western Texas.  

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