In
2006, Virginia Tilley, Professor of political science explained:
"In his
October 2005 speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad never used the word 'map' or the term 'wiped
off.' According to Farsi-language experts like Juan Cole and even right-wing
services like MEMRI, what he actually said was 'this regime that is occupying
Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'
"In this speech to an annual anti-Zionist conference, Mr. Ahmadinejad was
being prophetic, not threatening. He was citing Imam Khomeini, who said this
line in the 1980s-a period when Israel was actually selling arms to Iran, so
apparently it was not viewed as so ghastly then.
"Mr. Ahmadinejad had just reminded his audience that the Shah's regime,
the Soviet Union, and Saddam Hussein had all seemed enormously powerful and
immovable, yet the first two had vanished almost beyond recall and the third
now languished in prison.
"So, too, the 'occupying regime' in Jerusalem would someday be gone. His
message was, in essence: 'This too shall pass.'"
PERRY: "And now, the Palestinian leadership is intent on trashing the possibility of a negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel in favor of unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations. The Palestinian plan"threatens Israel and insults the United States"They seem to prefer theatrics in New York to the hard work of negotiation and compromise that peace will require."
What decades of negotiations and the "peace process" have wrought is to disseminate the so-called holy land into pieces!
What threatens Israel is being held accountable and responsible for a 44-year military occupation; whereas under international law occupations are to be temporary and occupiers are not to pilfer resources, colonize or build a wall on land that belongs to the occupied.
"Financed
with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile. The Israeli wall prevents
residents from receiving health care and emergency medical services. In other
areas, the barrier separates farmers from their olive groves which have been
their families' sole livelihood for generations." [3]
PERRY: "It was a mistake to inject an Israeli construction freeze, including in Jerusalem, as an unprecedented precondition for talks. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership had been negotiating with Israel for years, notwithstanding settlement activity. When the Obama administration demanded a settlement freeze, it led to a freeze in Palestinian negotiations."
Obama's mistake was backing down and negotiations must be done between
equal
players; but these two sides have never been equal players and the US
has never been an honest broker for justice that will lead to peace.
PERRY:
"In refusing to deal with the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and
taking this destabilizing action in the UN, the Palestinians are signaling that
they have no interest in a two-state solution. The Palestinian leadership's
insistence on the so-called "right of return' of descendants of Palestinian
refugees to Israel's sovereign territory, thereby making Jews an ethnic
minority in their own state, is a disturbing sign that the ultimate Palestinian
"solution' remains the destruction of the Jewish state."
Refusing to recognize the rights of the indigenous people of the so-called holy land is what has destabilized the Middle East.
And as Israel's nuclear whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu said, "Israel is not a democracy unless you are a Jew." [4]
The "so called right of return" is what Zionists claim for any Jew without any historical connection to that land to come and colonize upon legally owned Palestinian property.
The establishment of the State of Israel was
contingent upon upholding the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, which enshrines:
Article 13.
(1)
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders
of each state.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
1
1
1
