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Disengagement from Gaza and Northern Samaria: Liability or Asset?

1. Missile Threat Exacerbated. The deeper the disengagement, the larger the Palestinian production, upgrading and smuggling of weaponry, ammunition, explosives and missiles of enhanced range and precision.  A year ago, Palestinian missiles hit Jewish communities in Gaza, this year they hit Sderot and the northern Negev and very soon they will be able to hit the power station of Ashqelon and the port of Ashdod. The cut & run and the uprooting of Jewish communities would expand Palestinian missile arena into Judea & Samaria. It would plague Israel‘s Soft Belly, including  Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, BenGurionAirport, Netanya, Hadera, Afula, Kfar Saba and Ra’anana.

 

2. Smuggling of Explosives Facilitated.   Three years ago, Israel apprehended the missiles, weaponry and ammunition loaded “Karinne-A” boat.  The disengagement would facilitate many “Karinne-As”, would severely erode Israel‘s intelligence and will provide the PA and Hamas with Hizballah-style capabilities.

 

3. Tailwind to Terror.  PA’s Muhammad Dahlan: “Disengagement constitutes a key achievement of the Intifadah” (February 22, 2004).  Hamas: “Disengagement would lead to the return of the 1948 refugees, bringing an end to Zionist occupation [including Jerusalem, Galilee, Negev, Haifa and Jaffa]” (August 15, 2004).

 

4. Egypt’s Role?  Egypt considers Palestinian terrorism a cost-effective means to erode Israel‘s tenacity. It has facilitated the smuggling of weaponry, ammunition, missiles and explosives to Gaza.  Poverty-stricken Cairo has launched a military procurement campaign, designed to become a potent threat to Israel. Egyptian hostility, revealed during the Oct. 2004 Taba Massacre, attests to Cairo‘s attitude toward Israel and toward Islamic terrorism. Egypt‘s education system features anti-Jewish hate-education, and its school books are used by the hate-mongering Palestinian Authority. Egypt has poisoned Israel‘s relations with the UN, Africa and Persian GulfStates.

 

5. Israel’s Water Resources Threatened. Uprooting Jewish communities in northern Samaria would require a multi-billion Shekel investment, in order to develop alternative water resources. Exploiting the Samaria Aquifer, by the PA, would increase salination, would destroy the agriculture and would dismantle the Jewish communities of Israel‘s northern valleys. The resulting need for desalination facilities would deepen Israel‘s dependency upon importation of expensive energy and would exacerbate security risks (Israel‘s Water Commissioner, “Globes”, September 27, 2004).

 

6. Economic Burden. The intensified missile and terror threats would require more large scale costly military operations in Gaza and northern Samaria, would drive away tourists and airliners, would escalate reparation to victims of terror and missiles, would freeze infrastructure projects, would decrease human services budget, would aggravate unemployment and would raise taxes.

 




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*General Alexander Galloway, UNRWA Jordan Office Director (April 1952 briefing to the American Christian Palestine Committee):The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.” (Asaf Romirowsky, Middle Eastern Studies, September 2010).

 

*Dr. Benny Morris (Irish Times, Feb. 21, 2008): “…In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29th, 1947, [the Palestinians] launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost…”

 

*15 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displace in 1947 in order to create Pakistan. No right of return…

 

*300,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait, in 1991, in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. No Arab or international uproar…

 

*Scores of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from Jordan and killed – in 1970 – in response to Abu Mazen’s PLO attempt to topple the Hashemite regime.

 

*The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employs 6,300 persons, resettling gradually 27MN refugees. UNRWA – the largest UN agency – employs 29,000 Palestinians, perpetuating Palestinians’ refugee-status.

 

*The phantom of the Palestinian refugees – just like Abu Mazen’s hate education – constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Vision, aiming to de-legitimize and de-humanize the Jewish State.

 

*The root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the existence – and not the size – of the Jewish State.

 

Please read the following Summer 2010 articleThe Nakba Obsession – by Sol Stern, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the City Journal quarterly:

 

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_nakba.html




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