TWO QUESTIONS FROM DAN STONE:
Anyone who goes to the Palestine-Israel debate tomorrow (Tuesday)
night might consider asking Alison or one of the other panelists-for-
the-Motion the following questions:
(1) "How can there be peace when israel steals Palestinian land every
day, every week, every month, every year of every decade via illegal
settlements ever since israel was illegally created in 1948? Is there
any wonder the Palestinians are fighting against this theft of their
land?"
(2) "Why did the UN violate its own Charter in 1948 to create israel?"
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Background
: The 700,000 Arab residents living in Palestine were dispossessed of
their land as the israelis terrorized them out of it leading up to
1948. Then, in 1948, the UN violated its own Charter by creating
israel. The UN Resolution 181 partitioned Palestine. The Palestinians
rejected such an unfair imposition, but the UN, pushed by the u.s.,
went ahead and created israel anyway. The creation of israel was the
equivalent of militarily invading a country [Palestine] and setting up
a foreign entity [israel] to run it, similar to our illegal and
immoral invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
"[The UN] . . . was responsible for the partitioning of Palestine
through General Assembly resolution 181, creating the state of Israel,
while endorsing a Palestinian state and international status for
Jerusalem, neither of which were ever allowed to come into existence."
- Phyllis Bennis, Calling the Shots: How Wa****ngton
Dominates Today's UN
(Olive Branch Press NY, 1996; p. 211)
The following excerpt is from The Origin of the Palestine-Israel
Conflict (published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East,
distributed by If Americans Knew, pp. 8-9). You can download and read
the whole 40-page pamphlet at :
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
The UN Partition of Palestine
Why did the UN recommend the plan partitioning Palestine into a Jewish
and an Arab state?
"By this time [November 1947], the United States had emerged as the
most aggressive proponent of partition . . . The United States got the
General Assembly to delay a vote 'to gain time to bring certain Latin
American republics into line with its own views.' . . . Some delegates
charged U.S. officials with 'diplomatic intimidation.' Without
'terrific pressure' from the United States on 'governments which
cannot afford to risk American reprisals,' said an anonymous editorial
writer, the resolution 'would never have passed.' - John
Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice"
Why was this Truman's position?
"I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands
who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of
thousands of Arabs among my constituents."
- President Harry Truman, quoted in "Anti-Zionism,"
ed. by Tekiner, Abed-Rabbo & Mezvinsky
Was the partition plan fair to both Arabs and Jews?
"Arab rejection was . . . based on the fact that, while the population
of the Jewish state was to be [only half Jewish] with the Jews owning
less than 10% of the Jewish state land area, the Jews were to be
established as the ruling body -- a settlement which no self-respecting
people would accept without protest, to say the least . . . The action
of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which
the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of
all peoples to self-determination. By denying the Palestine Arabs, who
formed the two-thirds majority of the country, the right to decide for
themselves, the United Nations had violated its own Charter."
- Sami Hadawi, "Bitter Harvest"
". . . the injustice done to them [the Palestinians] by Israel's
creation in 1948 . . ."
- Christian Science Monitor, editorial, July 18, 2007
[http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0718/p08s01-comv.html]
- Dan Stone
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__ Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ( John Adams, 1798)
__ If Americans are really interested in Peace, and having a Republic
instead of an Empire, they will do 2 things: (a) eliminate our
standing army; and (b) eliminate our permanent war economy that we
have had since ww2.
__ I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really
talking about peace.
-Bush, June 18, 2002 ("War is Peace," Big Brother double-speak in
George Orwell's 1984)
__ Please use the word "occupation" instead of "war." It has been said
that if we had used the word "occupation" instead of "war" after 2003,
we'd be out by now. Many Americans feel the need to endure a war until
it is "won," but they will not sup****t an occupation. Any conflict of
any kind can be called a "war," and it only has one syllable. But, if
we really want to motivate Americans to pull out our troops, we should
call it an "occupation."
Daniel Stone
justice_freedom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I bought my ticket on the telephone for $5 this morning (Monday).
--HW
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