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Gaza Giveaway – Tail Wind to Terror

1. ISRAEL DISENGAGED ITSELF FROM GAZA ALREADY IN 1993 (and from 40% of Judea and Samaria), in accordance with the Oslo Accords. The outcome has been: 1,400 Israelis murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the last 10 years, compared with 215 murdered during the 15 years prior to Oslo. 8,000 Jews reside in Gaza, disengaged from the Arab population. Israel’s military presence there is in response to Palestinian terrorism.

2. EARLE G. WHEELER, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT C-O-S: “The occupation of Gaza by Israel would reduce the hostile border by a factor of five, and eliminate a source for raids and training of [Palestinian terrorists]… By occupying the Gaza Strip, Israel would trade approximately 45 miles of hostile border for eight. Configured as it is, the strip serves as a salient for introduction of Arab subversion and terrorism, and its retention would be to Israel’s military advantage… Gaza provides a salient into Israel… It has served as a training area for [Palestinian terrorists]” (Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense on Israel’s minimum requirements for security, June 29, 1967). Wheeler’s recommendation is doubly relevant in 2004, when the world is less predictable (than in 1967), the Mideast is more explosive, rogue regimes are more armed, terrorism is more widespread and horrific, and the PLO/PA has systematically and terroristically violated every commitment during the last 10 years.

3. ISRAEL’S CHIEF-OF-STAFF, YA’ALON: “Uprooting of settlements would be a tail wind to terrorism” (Herzeliya, March 12, 2003); “[evacuation of Gaza] would be perceived by Palestinians as a crack in our steadfastness, and would bolster terrorism” (Yediot Achronot, Dec. 26, 2003); “IDF evacuation of Gaza would accelerate smuggling of military supplies to Gaza” (Ma’ariv, Mar. 1, 2004). ISRAEL’S CHIEF OF SHIN BET (Secret Service), DICHTER: “An evacuation of Gaza would be perceived as a Palestinian victory, bolstering terrorism” (Ma’ariv Feb. 11, 2004). ISRAEL’S CHIEF OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, ZE’EVI-FARKASH: “Sharon’s proposed withdrawal from Gaza is perceived as a victory of terrorism, bolstering Islamic terrorism” (Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Feb. 10, 2004).

4. PRIME MINISTER SHARON: “Israeli evacuation of Gaza… would transform Gaza’s main square to a launching platform of missiles to Israel’s Ashqelon… Terrorism can be destroyed, if we control its bases… In 1970, Gaza was controlled by terrorists, because Israel evacuated the populated areas and the refugee camps… The cost would be much higher, if Israel repeats that mistake… A flight from populated areas, and a failure to annihilate of the threat in its incept, would require a much longer and a more difficult effort…” (Ma’ariv, June 12, 1992). Sharon’s OpEd is doubly accurate in 2004, as is Wheeler’s Memorandum.




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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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