WHAT IS THE PALESTINIAN OBJECTION?

The Palestinian objection to US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is that they want Jerusalem for the capital of their state following an eventual peace agreement. But Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel as well after an eventual peace settlement. So what is the harm to the Palestinians of the US recognizing that fact? 

In 1947 the UN offered two states for two peoples. The Jews accepted and created a Hebrew Republic with Jerusalem as its capital. The Palestinians refused and have neither state nor capital. 

For 70 years they have endlessly demanded a state, and just as endlessly refused one when the condition for it was peace with Israel. Now, they grudgingly might, just might, accept a state someday in the future. 

Again, how does preparation for a state the Palestinians have repeatedly refused to have, preclude recognition of the capital of a state the Jews have long since accepted and established?

How does their objection make any sense?

The Israeli Army in Peacetime

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What the world really thinks of Israel

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Hamas is so much fun....

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Oops, got the video and the commentary switched.  This one is just as much fun as the previous one.  I am starting to really like this guy....

Here he explains what we have tried to explain for years, that the Palestinians are children and grandchildren of Egyptians, Syrians, and Saudis who came to Palestine for jobs created by the nascent Zionist settlements in the 1920's, 30's and 40's.

So far from having been in Palestine from time immemorial and having been "invaded" by the Zionist settlers, they came after the Jews did, drawn by the economic opportunities created by the new Jewish settlements.  And here is their foreign minister admitting it on television.


After a lifetime of demanding that Israel give them land that is not theirs, here he is demanding that Egypt, a poor country, give them oil without the inconvenience of paying for it.

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Apartheid in Israel

After the murders of the 8 yeshiva boys by a Jerusalem Arab, maybe it is time for non-Israeli-citizen Arabs to leave Israel. The left and the Arabs have for half a century demonized Israel with a long list of lies claiming Israel is racist, colonialist, apartheid, engaged in ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Having cried "wolf!" for half a century, maybe it is time for Israel to take advantage of the Palestinians' unrelenting destruction of their own credibility.

The Arabs have driven out and, where they could, killed every Jew in their jurisdictions. One has only to think of the former Jews of Gaza who were forced out in part by endless Arab terrorist attacks. It is not clear why the Jerusalem Arabs have any more right to live in Israel than the Jews had to live in Gaza. The recent murders have demonstrated the costs of permitting them to remain. Perhaps it is time for them to go.

What can the Arabs and the left say that they did not say when it wasn't true? With Saudi-paid liars like Jimmy Carter already claiming Israeli apartheid, what else could they say if it were true? How would those who believed the lies about forced removals think any the worse if there were forced removals?

The murderer had a resident-of-Jerusalem identification. It gave him permission to freely go anywhere in Israel. Perhaps it is time for that kind of situation to be discontinued.

The Arabs persistently demand the dismantling of Israeli settlements on land the they claim. Perhaps the Arabs should prove the sincerity of their belief in apartheid by dismantling Arab settlements on land Israel claims. That would include all of Jerusalem. Israel should take the lead in Arab-Israel cooperation by doing the dismantling for them.

Would this be collective punishment? Yes. The Arab celebrations of the murders of the Israeli boys with flags, dancing in the streets and on rooftops, giving out of sweets, firing rifles in the air, demonstrates that it would be fully justified.

Arabs out of Jerusalem. Now.