Does Palestine Deserve Independent Statehood? What does the phrase, "We gave what? to who?" remind you most of? The Nobel Prize Committee a day after the 1994 ceremony? Ronald Reagan learning of Iran-Contra? Congress learning of the Clinton's relationship with John Huang?
It might be one of those for now, but pretty soon it will be the collective world the day Palestinian statehood is announced. In an article over at Ynetnews.com, it is reported that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud (I'm not Arafat) Abbas has stated that Palestinians could be ready for independent statehood by the end of President Bush's second term in office. Incredibly, President Bush has also agreed to this idea (no doubt making the Harriet Miers nomination easier, after all, one bad turn deserves another), although he has recently pulled back from his earlier statement in which he hoped to accomplish this by the end of the second term.
Do the Palestinians deserve independent statehood? Is Israel shortsighted enough to let this happen? No and hopefully not. Name one thing Palestine has done on any kind of level to deserve concessions from Israel and recognition on the world stage. Renounce violence? Nope, 66% of Palestinians support the murder of unarmed Israeli civilians, including KIDS, through homicide/suicide bombings. I've felt a little anti-semitic too from time to time (A $0.68 tip? You know what, just keep it), but even then I didn't feel like strapping TNT to my body and blowing up their children. Can Israel and Palestine even co-exist if Palestine was to get statehood? 51% of Palestinians do not wish for a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish State, but one instead of her.
"Being in the Hamas Color Guard helps me get chicks out of their burka"
Think back to the last time Israel made a concession to the Palestinians, within hours of giving up Gaza, Palestinian rockets were being launched at Israeli cities. My personal opinion (previously kicked around with Redhurt and Barnabas at a Pittsburgh Quizno's) is that Israel gives a foot from time to time in order to take back a mile (Barnabas sat through the Gaza pullout security briefing and said it was virtually indefensible).
Israel knows that they can't fight terrorists as aggressively as they would like without attracting global scrutiny, so to avoid charges of antagonism they are willing to suffer a rocket or suicide bomber from time to time in order to fly gunships over to the West Bank and take out everything they can find wearing a ski mask and carrying an AK-47. Want the easist solution to the problem? Send all the Palestinians to Jordan. Ethnically, they're the same anyway.
It might be one of those for now, but pretty soon it will be the collective world the day Palestinian statehood is announced. In an article over at Ynetnews.com, it is reported that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud (I'm not Arafat) Abbas has stated that Palestinians could be ready for independent statehood by the end of President Bush's second term in office. Incredibly, President Bush has also agreed to this idea (no doubt making the Harriet Miers nomination easier, after all, one bad turn deserves another), although he has recently pulled back from his earlier statement in which he hoped to accomplish this by the end of the second term.
Do the Palestinians deserve independent statehood? Is Israel shortsighted enough to let this happen? No and hopefully not. Name one thing Palestine has done on any kind of level to deserve concessions from Israel and recognition on the world stage. Renounce violence? Nope, 66% of Palestinians support the murder of unarmed Israeli civilians, including KIDS, through homicide/suicide bombings. I've felt a little anti-semitic too from time to time (A $0.68 tip? You know what, just keep it), but even then I didn't feel like strapping TNT to my body and blowing up their children. Can Israel and Palestine even co-exist if Palestine was to get statehood? 51% of Palestinians do not wish for a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish State, but one instead of her.
"Being in the Hamas Color Guard helps me get chicks out of their burka"
Israel knows that they can't fight terrorists as aggressively as they would like without attracting global scrutiny, so to avoid charges of antagonism they are willing to suffer a rocket or suicide bomber from time to time in order to fly gunships over to the West Bank and take out everything they can find wearing a ski mask and carrying an AK-47. Want the easist solution to the problem? Send all the Palestinians to Jordan. Ethnically, they're the same anyway. posted by Justin at 2:53 PM 
4 Comments:
The only relevant question for me is whether or not Palestinian statehood would end (or help to end) the violence. If it would, they get one; if not, then not. It has nothing to do with "deserving" a state or not. This isn't like giving Hitler Austria.
Each new generation in Israel and Palestine has to learn to hate--strictly speaking, there's no such thing as "long-standing ethnic hatred," because people don't live long enough. They must teach their children to hate. We can only hope that some generation of Israelis and Palestinians will choose to end the violence.
Good post.
I agree that stabilization of the Middle East should be the ultimate goal in deciding matters such as this. However, I am against giving the Palestinians Israeli land for the same reason that I'm against withdrawing American troops from Iraqi soil. I think it sets a bad example.
I don't think the world needs another sovereign nation run by a bunch of terrorist hooligans. I don't think that just because you shoot a few rockets over a wall and threaten to strap explosives to your children that the world should give in to your demands. If anything, I would say that kind of behavior should set them back in obtaining their own country. If your kid misbehaves out in public you don't buy him something to control his behavior, you kick him in the teeth, figuratively, of course- unless you're both into that sort of thing.
I guess I agree, but my question then is what are we to do? We can't just kill them all, and sending them to Jordan is a complicated and difficult enterprise. It would be easy if Hamas would organize an army and declare open war on Israel, so that Israel could strike back and kill their military.
As it stands, as long as the people are controlled by radical clerics bent on the destruction of anyone, there will not be peace in the middle east. I don't know what we can rightfully do about these people, besides continuning to point out to the entire world just how ridiculous they are, and striking back when given the opportunity. I'd rather just assassinate all the clerics, but I don't think that's going to get us very far, and is quite definitely not legal anyway.
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