This year from sunset on May 5th through sunset on May 6th Israel celebrated its Independence achieved by hard fighting in 1948 after five (or six) invading Arab armies came at the newly formed Israel (SEE Also HERE) to steal the Jewish homeland again. The miracle is Israel survived the Arab-Muslim aim of exterminating Jews and terminating the Jewish State.
Justin Smith writes an essay that touches on the recent Independence Day and Secretary John Kerry’s insidious pro-Palestinian accusation of calling Israel an apartheid state.
JRH 5/10/14
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The Winds of Anti-Semitism
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 5/10/2014 1:48 PM
For the past sixty-six years of this modern era, Israel has been forced to defend itself, day in and day out, from a cohesive group of fifty-seven Islamic nations across the globe, even though, since its new founding - "the Jewish State, to be called 'Israel'" - on "the eve of the Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), Israel has appealed to the Muslims to preserve peace and participate in the rebuilding of the State on the basis of "full and equal citizenship". But now, the decades have shown that the Islamofascists want nothing less than all of "Palestine" and the destruction of Israel, and Israel is doubly indemnified by an evil wind of anti-Semitism blowing through the international community, the U.S. State Department and the Obama administration.
On April 23, 2014, a nine-month long "peace talk" series of negotiations collapsed, after the White House and Secretary of State John Kerry seemed reluctant to introduce a more reasoned approach, that did not require so much more of Israel than it did the Palestinian Authority. Kerry was on a fool's errand, if he actually thought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would agree to expel 650,000 Jews living in so-called "Palestinian territory", such as East Jerusalem; this same day, Kerry's final-status agreement died, as Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leaders held hands aloft with those of the Hamas terrorists, and Israel immediately froze any further talks indefinitely.
On April 28th, 2014 during a White House meeting, Obama attempted to coerce and intimidate Israel by issuing a veiled threat that the U.S. might not be able to properly defend or protect Israel, if the U.S. led peace talks were not soon renewed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded that he would never compromise on Israel's security.
A few days after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed a unity deal with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist groups, John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission (April 29), in a blatant act of anti-Semitism, that if Israel does not cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it will either cease to be a Jewish state or it will become "an apartheid state." This represents the first time a sitting U.S. Secretary of State has publicly endorsed an anti-Semitic view of Jews and the Jewish state.
With anti-Semites such as Obama and John Kerry at the helm of these peace talks, how could anyone expect them to succeed?
According to the 1998 Rome Statute, Apartheid is a crime of intent, not outcome. The Palestinians across their political and ideological spectrum have the malicious intent to found a state based on anti-Jewish bigotry and ethnic cleansing, while no Israeli leader or faction has any intention of basing national policies on racial subjugation in any form.
And yet, it is the Palestinians who demand that many areas designated for their homeland must be cleansed of all Jewish presence, before they will agree to accept sovereign responsibility for it. These "peace-loving" Muslims are so imbued with genocidal hatred for Jews that they insist all 650,000 Jews living in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria must be forcibly removed from their homes.
So who is it that wants an "Apartheid State", if not the PLO and their champion John Kerry?
To make matters worse, Tzipi Livni, Israeli Justice Minister and chief negotiator, has regularly weakened Israel's position and enabled Kerry's hostile and bigoted policy views, because she owes both positions largely to the Obama administration's support. And, then of course there are the leftist Jews of J-Street, an American Jewish group, who use deceptive rhetoric to agitate against Israel, have embraced the PLO's unity pact with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad and are now defending Kerry's "apartheid" remarks.
Last month President Abbas signed 15 international treaties after the collapse of the peace talks. Two of these were the Geneva Convention of 1949 and the 1977 protocols on the laws of war. By signing these, the PLO leaders believe they are now recognized as an "occupied state", which if true would undermine Israel's contention that the 1967 territories are disputed.
Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the PLO's central council, stated on April 29th: "We will proceed with UN treaties and gradually into UN agencies, the last of which will be the International Criminal Court", as he suggested that the Palestinian's would pursue Israel's "war crimes" and that "There will be a moment when Israel will be brought to justice."
Former Mossad intelligence director, Efraim Halevy told Israel Radio, "In the eyes of our rivals, it is in the end of the day a sign of weakness__ because they get something without giving anything". But a senior officer stated, "Official rebuke, special reports, fact-finding missions and condemnations__ they (the PLO) are not ready for that," as he alluded to how easy it is to show that human rights are being systematically violated everyday in Gaza.
"On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their state is irrevocable" (The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel).
Unilateral actions hold very clear lessons and dangers, as Israel learned through a 2005 disengagement from Gaza with thousands of rockets raining down on southern Israel, something Mahmoud Abbas may well soon discover. PLO negotiator, Saeb Erekat recently stated, "Israel cannot maintain the status quo", and he is right, for reasons far removed from his own.
The propaganda and twisted rhetoric of the Islamofascists/the PLO have led them into a dream of destruction and bloodshed, of injustice masquerading as justice and rights based upon falsehoods. And now, Abbas is considering a move to disband the Palestinian Authority and its security forces, to burden Israel with the responsibility for "the state under occupation", scape-goating the Jewish state and inhumanely using "Palestinian refugees" as a war weapon against Israel; so, in light of this fact, Israel must move swiftly towards a One-State Solution, annexing Gaza and the West Bank, and in the process, Israel must correct the detrimental effects of 66 years of bending over backwards in the name of peace and human dignity.
"This is the natural right of the Jewish people to be the masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign state.....Placing our trust in the Almighty, we affix our signatures to this proclamation....on the soil of the Homeland, in the city of Tel Aviv....." signed: David Ben - Gurion and 37 other founders of the State of Israel (Establishment of the State of Israel).
By Justin O. Smith
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Editor John R. Houk
© Justin O. Smith
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