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The Cost of the Gaza & Northern Samaria Giveaway

THE U.S. SHALL NOT FINANCE THE GIVEAWAY

 

*FACT: President Bush has turned down Prime Minister Sharon’s request for special financial assistance.

 

*FACT: Israel‘s best friends in Congress – who possess the Power Of The Purse – have advised Israel to refrain from such a request. Congress operates within rigid budgetary caps, and under the constraints of a $500BN deficit and mounting cost in Iraq, Afghanistan and other sites of the war on global terrorism.

 

*FACT: VP Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld counsel against such a request, that could raid the Pentagon’s own budget, while financing an Israeli policy of retreat from terrorism, which would constitute a tail wind to regional and anti-US terrorism.

 

*FACT: President Clinton promised Israel $800MN for the withdrawal from So. Lebanon. The funds have not been extended.

 

THE IMMEDIATE COST TO ISRAELIS – $7BN (SIMILAR TO THE ANNUAL DEFENSE BUDGET!)

 

*FACT: The cost of the Rafiah Salient Giveaway (to Egypt) was 15BN shekels in June 1990 (3.30 shekels per dollar), which is equal to 30BN shekels in 2004 (4.50 per dollar and a one third decrease in the value of the dollar).

 

*FACT: The cost of the Gaza and No. Samaria Giveaway could skyrocket to 44BN shekels, since it pertains to 8,000 residents with a 30 year tenure, compared with 5,000 residents with a 5 year tenure in Rafiah.

 

*FACT: A minimalist estimate (ignoring the Rafiah precedent) could bring the cost down to 26BN shekels: 13.5BN for homes (including furniture and improvements), a two year adjustment payment and a 30 year compensation; 9.5BN shekels for jobs infrastructure; 3BN Shekels for roads, communications, electricity, water, sewage, classrooms, community structures and relocation of military installations.

 

*FACT: The huge cost could halt the current economic recovery, worsen unemployment, increase taxes, impose mandatory government bonds, cut infrastructure expenditures, etc. The expected rise in terrorism would impose further cost.

 

*FACT: The added cost would not be in return for a peace accord.  Rather than Land For Peace, this one will be Land For Nothing, or – probably – Land For Terrorism, or Land For Recycled Non-Binding Friendly Presidential Declarations.

 

THE LETHAL COST OF THE GIVEAWAY

 

*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…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 recommendation is doubly relevant in 2004, with a less predictable world (than in 1992), a more explosive Mideast, more armed rogue regimes, a more horrific terrorism, and a systematically and terroristically non-compliant PLO/PA.

 

*FACT: Former Chmn of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, General Earl Wheeler: “Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Israel would reduce the hostile border by a factor of five, and eliminate a source for raids and training of [Palestinian terrorists]…The Strip serves as a salient for introduction of Arab subversion and terrorism, and its retention would be to Israel’s military advantage…By occupying the Strip, Israel would trade 45 miles of hostile border for eight.” (June 29, 1967 Memorandum, to the Secretary of Defense, on Israel MINIMAL requirements for security).

 




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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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