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| A historic watershed shames Britain and Europe |
| 2017-12-09 |
| [Jpost] It’s a seismic event, a great decision and a historic watershed. This is where blackmail and intimidation are faced down. This is where appeasement ends. President Trump’s speech recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has signaled that, for America, the century- long Arab attempt to destroy Israel’s legitimacy ‐ the essence of the Middle East conflict ‐ has failed. ...Appeasing those who threaten violence doesn’t reduce it. It encourages it. The more concessions are offered, the more the Palestinians believe even greater violence will deliver them final victory. That’s why the Oslo-process offer of a Palestine state led to the Second Intifada; that’s why the expulsion of Israeli residents from Gaza led to the all-out rocket onslaught against civilians in southern Israel. ...But of course, recognition reflects a far deeper and broader reality ‐ which is why it’s much more important than moving the embassy. For it makes explicit what by moving the embassy would only be implicit. This is because the Arab war against Israel is not a conflict about the division of land. It is a war of extermination based on a refusal to accept that the Jews have any right to that land. And Jerusalem is central to that refusal. ...Which is why the refusal by Western countries to recognize the unique Jewish right to Jerusalem has been so malevolent. It’s not just that this made Israel into a second-class country, uniquely prevented from asserting its own capital. Much worse than that, it gave legitimacy to those who wanted to eradicate altogether the Jews’ right to the city and the land. By their opposition to Trump’s speech the British, French, Germans and the rest have revealed that, like the Palestinians, they don’t think the Jews have the right to any part of Jerusalem at all. They appear to think that Jewish Jerusalem, part of the State of Israel since its creation in 1948, can be bargained away to those who would destroy the Jewish homeland altogether. Israel is a symbol of Nation State Civilization - European elites are its deadliest enemies. Of course they hate Israel. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |