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If you agree with me I think that’s great. If you do not agree with me I don’t care.
I am your neighbor. I am the one who stands with you against harm, the one who helps you when you are in need, who laughs when you fall, the one who helps you up.
Your suffering is my suffering, your joy mine too. I am your friend. I am an American!
"A unified nation is a strong nation."
Yj Draiman
It takes more guts (courage) to make peace than to make war
ReplyDeleteMaking peace is harder than making war.
Can humanity overcome the urge to make war and pursue peace
Tolerance and peace is a two way street.
If you want peace and economic prosperity, both sides, show your resolve by taking bold actions, showing your determination to the benefit of all the people. You can accomplish more with honey than with vinegar.
We must pursue peace with passionate determination and vigor but we must have all parties desire for true peace.
A true and lasting peace in Israel and the Middle East will establish an economic prosperity of which the world has never experienced and all the people in the region will benefit from a true peace. Do not waste your time and money in promoting war and hostility. The people in power must utilize the resources and manpower to the economic advancement of all the people, this will promote tranquility in a region that has known strife for centuries. The leaders have to utilize funding to enhance education and promote innovation.
It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace. We should require each party in this conflict to listen to the voice of their own conscience, not to close themselves in solely on their own interests, but rather to look at each other as brothers and decisively and courageously to follow the path of encounter and negotiation, and so overcome blind conflict.
The “greatest contribution to a sound and continuing peace in the Middle East would result from the development of trade and other economic relationships between Israel and the Arab countries. When nations are making progress and peoples’ opportunities for rising living standards are favorable, it is more likely that they will concern themselves with constructive achievements rather than with hostility and war.”
“Israel has the talent, technology and skills and by now the experience of dealing with the environment and the resources in the Middle East which are readily transferable. Therefore, it is entirely realistic to expect prompt and major developments in the Arab countries under peaceful and normal relations in that region,” “Israel’s economic growth is reasonably assured under any circumstances but only if she could divert the hundreds of millions of dollars now devoted to defense efforts could she not only speed her own development but also play a positive role in helping the economic expansion of the entire region.”
YJ Draiman
A rabid dog or a do that bites have to be put down. The same applies to the radical Muslims who are consistently creating violence and mayhem, terror and killing men women and children; they also must be put down and wiped off the face of the earth like cancer.
ReplyDeleteFor the sake of Jewish identity, heritage, and history – and of Israeli security and survivability – Israel should immediately assert sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh), granting Palestinian Arabs the dignified options of permanent residency status or emigration with compensation.
ReplyDeleteThose Arabs who wish to remain should be allowed to do so and enjoy the rights of permanent residents while fulfilling the attendant responsibilities. Those who wish to leave should be paid fair market value for their property, plus a reasonable sum to cover moving expenses to Jordan (Palestine) or elsewhere. Those who insist on violence should be dealt with accordingly.
Israel should also withdraw immediately from the United Nations (whose full name seems more accurately to be UNAI, the United Nations Against Israel) and help found a robust league of democracies, a new body where human rights violators don’t preside over human rights councils and where blocs of Islamists and communists don’t dictate to progressive republics. The UN might have arguably been the greatest endeavor man ever embarked upon; instead, it is a tiresome farce run by malevolent circus clowns. This is one club to which the Jew, and the Jewish State, should not belong and not wish to belong.
These are no extreme measures; rather, they are reasonable and moderate propositions representing nothing more than common sense. Such steps ought to have been taken long ago.
Whatever Israel does or does not do, it will face global condemnation. Therefore, it only stands to reason that it should do what is necessary and proper for its fundamental needs as the Jewish national home, and act both domestically and internationally with self-respect and determination on behalf of all its citizens and residents, Jewish or otherwise. Acting with halfheartedness and trepidation invites the world’s contempt like nothing else.
Judea and Samaria is Jewish territory – No annexation is required.
ReplyDeleteLet me pose an interesting scenario. If you had a country and it was conquered by foreign powers over a period of time. After many years you have taken back you country and land in various defensive wars. Do you have to officially annex those territories? It was always your territory and by retaking control and possession of your territory it is again your original property and there is no need to annex it. The title to your property is valid today as it was many years before.
Annexation only applies when you are taking over territory that was never yours to begin with, just like some European countries annexed territories of other countries.
YJ Draiman
Was there a concerted effort to divide and weaken the Middle East after World War I?
ReplyDeleteIf so, to what end?
Here are some breaking news: there was no Middle East to divide and weaken during WWI. There were no countries, no nations, no governments, no armies, no judicial systems and nothing else that resembles an array of countries.
There was one, big, Ottoman Empire that ruled the Middle East since the 1500's and all the countries making the Middle East today were provinces of the Ottoman Empire which were ruled and taxed by Ottoman commissioners located in Damascus, Baghdad, etc.
There was, however, a concreted effort to weak and erode the Ottoman Empire by the British and French even before WWI. The Ottomans knew it and tried to fight it. When WWI broke, the Ottomans were unprepared, economically and militarily, for a modern war and lost their centuries old Empire. The British and French re-designed the map of the Middle East and created new countries and so-called 'nations' without taking into account the religious and tribal conflicts in each new country (and I'm not talking about Palestine. This is one of the relatively small cases), as well as the tradition and the mentality of the people.
So as for the original question: no, there was no attempt to weaken the Middle East after WWI. There was something much worse: an attempt to build it on foundations that never really existed by people who were totally clueless about what they were doing. The house of cards they built held for a century under tyranny and fear; Now it all goes down in flames.
The Jewish people war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with far more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. Plus we are easy to find now.
ReplyDeleteThe West Bank (Judea and Samaria) was re-taken and liberated from Jordan by Israel in 1967 after another failed Arab attempt at destroying the young Jewish state and has been under Israel control ever since. In the Oslo accords (which are now null and void), Israel tried to give the PA limited supervision on a part of the area but it obviously did not work as the Arab goal here is not the creation of a Arab-Palestinian state but simply the destruction of the Jewish state. If they wanted a Arab-Palestinian state, they would have asked Jordan before 1967 for the territories. They never bothered (because they knew it was occupied Jewish territory) until Israel took over.
Israel must stop all Arab violence at all costs and restore security and safety to its citizens.
YJ Draiman
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ReplyDeleteA rabid dog or a do that bites have to be put down. The same applies to the radical Muslims who are consistently creating violence and mayhem, terror and killing men women and children; they also must be put down and wiped off the face of the earth like cancer.
ReplyDeleteIt takes more guts (courage) to make peace than to make war
ReplyDeleteMaking peace is harder than making war.
Can humanity overcome the urge to make war and pursue peace
Tolerance and peace is a two way street.
If you want peace and economic prosperity, both sides, show your resolve by taking bold actions, showing your determination to the benefit of all the people. You can accomplish more with honey than with vinegar.
We must pursue peace with passionate determination and vigor but we must have all parties desire for true peace.
A true and lasting peace in Israel and the Middle East will establish an economic prosperity of which the world has never experienced and all the people in the region will benefit from a true peace. Do not waste your time and money in promoting war and hostility. The people in power must utilize the resources and manpower to the economic advancement of all the people, this will promote tranquility in a region that has known strife for centuries. The leaders have to utilize funding to enhance education and promote innovation.
It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace. We should require each party in this conflict to listen to the voice of their own conscience, not to close themselves in solely on their own interests, but rather to look at each other as brothers and decisively and courageously to follow the path of encounter and negotiation, and so overcome blind conflict.
The “greatest contribution to a sound and continuing peace in the Middle East would result from the development of trade and other economic relationships between Israel and the Arab countries. When nations are making progress and peoples’ opportunities for rising living standards are favorable, it is more likely that they will concern themselves with constructive achievements rather than with hostility and war.”
“Israel has the talent, technology and skills and by now the experience of dealing with the environment and the resources in the Middle East which are readily transferable. Therefore, it is entirely realistic to expect prompt and major developments in the Arab countries under peaceful and normal relations in that region,” “Israel’s economic growth is reasonably assured under any circumstances but only if she could divert the hundreds of millions of dollars now devoted to defense efforts could she not only speed her own development but also play a positive role in helping the economic expansion of the entire region.”
YJ Draiman
It is the Arab Conflict, not Israel. The Arabs want what Israel has; which they rebuilt with blood sweat and tears; well they cannot have it.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is on its own historical territory with continued habitation of Jerusalem and The Land of Israel for over 3,000 years, that in the past 140 years with hard work and toil have turned the land of Israel from a desert, desolate and abused land into green pastures with modern industry and infrastructure and a first class medical research, outstanding technology and innovation that is helping all the people and nations in the world. The April 1920 San Remo Conference incorporated the Balfour Declaration as international law and allocated Palestine without boundary restrictions to the Jewish people ant the same time; The Arabs have received over 13 million sq. km. since WWI of which 70% is vacant with a wealth of oil reserves plus Jordan which is Jewish territory. The Arab countries expelled over a million Jewish families (confiscated all their assets including homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned land for over 2,600 years) who were resettled in Israel and now they want to throw them out of their own country. There is no such entity as Arab Palestinians, they are Arabs from the neighboring Arab countries that most of them crossed the border illegally into Israel and settled there on Jewish land in the past 120 years. The Arab-Palestinian Organization is a terrorist organization just like Hamas and Hezbollah with its leader Mahmmoud Abbas the convicted terrorist murderer.
The Arabs and the world at large must face reality and stop deluding themselves. It is Jewish territory for over 3,000 years and Israel will never surrender it to anyone.
Only with this realization will there be a chance for peace.
U.N. resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing.
It is time for Israel to transfer the Arabs who reside west of the Jordan River to Jordan and to the million homes and over 120,000 sq km. of land the Arabs countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled who now live in Israel. That is the only way that Israel will have peace and safety.
YJ Draiman