Imagine that! No outcry by the supposed defenders of international law - by Elder of Ziyon

...This isn't surprising. The people who have been manipulating international law for decades to make Israel appear guilty of war crimes have no interest in applying their new laws to any other circumstance.

Elder of Ziyon..
24 January '17..

From The Guardian, January 13:

In the valleys between Damascus and Lebanon, where whole communities had abandoned their lives to war, a change is taking place. For the first time since the conflict broke out, people are starting to return.

But the people settling in are not the same as those who fled during the past six years.

The new arrivals have a different allegiance and faith to the predominantly Sunni Muslim families who once lived there. They are, according to those who have sent them, the vanguard of a move to repopulate the area with Shia Muslims not just from elsewhere in Syria, but also from Lebanon and Iraq.

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The West's double standards and Mahmoud Abbas's minority report

...So the fact that Abbas is rejecting the idea of retaining a Jewish minority in a Palestinian state is not only anti-Semitic. It would also turn the resolution the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into the only case of a two-state solution in which only one state retains a minority belonging to the other state.

Dr. Emmanuel Navon..
I24news.tv..
06 August '13..

Shortly after negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians resumed, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared that he wouldn’t tolerate the presence of a single Jew in the future Palestinian state. Imagine if Scotland, which is supposed to hold a referendum on its independence next year, would declare that it shall not tolerate any Englishman (or Jew, for that matter) on its sovereign territory. While Abbas’ declared intolerance for minorities is plainly anti-Semitic, Western leaders let him get away with it.

The partition (or two-state) model has been applied to partially solve conflicts in other parts of the world, but nowhere does this model entail the absence of minorities. The Indian sub-continent was divided between India and Pakistan in 1947. Although this partition engendered a tragic mutual population transfer (about 7 million Muslims left India for Pakistan, and about 7 million Hindus and Sikhs left Pakistan for India), both countries retained minorities: there is a 14 percent Muslim minority in India, and a two percent Hindu minority in Pakistan.

In Contrast to Palestine: Partitions, Population Transfers, and no demanded "Right of Return"

Daphne Anson
19 September '10

This is a Guest Blog by Wales-based historian Professor William Rubinstein:

What a surprising number of people, even those who are highly sympathetic to Israel, fail to realise, is that the Partition of the Palestine Mandate in 1947-48 has many parallel examples, and is far from unique in modern history. Moreover, the population transfers which occurred there at that time are also far from unique, and for the most part they have never been questioned.

The most obvious precedent for the Partition of Palestine, and the one the British almost certainly had in mind, was the Partition of Ireland in 1922. In that year, Ireland was divided between the Roman Catholic-dominated Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland), and the Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland, which remained within the United Kingdom. For decades, the Roman Catholics in the north of Ireland had demanded, first, “Home Rule” for the whole of the island, and then, with the ascendancy of Sinn Fein, complete independence. These goals were, for decades, fiercely resisted by the Protestants of the north.

A civil war in Ireland almost began in 1914, delayed only by the outbreak of the First World War, and then began after the end of that conflict. The division of Ireland into two states has been opposed by Roman Catholics of the south to this day, although most moderates now accept it as a reality. The IRA, however, has never accepted it, and, like the PLO and later Hamas, commenced a terror campaign in the 1960s which culminated in the murders of over 3000 persons. Nevertheless, the Partition of Ireland has been relatively peaceful, and was certainly the only way to end the bitter conflict there.

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Avigdor Lieberman and the right wing mislabel

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
Weekly Commentary
22 July '10

FM Avigdor Lieberman's latest proposal to rely on the efficacy of inspections and other security activities by third parties in the Gaza Strip only reflects the ongoing disconnect between reality and the "solutions" he has advocated for years.

Consider the following policy recommendations from Avigdor Lieberman's 2004 book, My Truth, pages 202-203:

"Also overall security responsibility should be placed in the end on Egypt(AL: in the Gaza Strip)

"Jordan ...in such an arrangement should give support...including the issuing of passports and taking of overall and comprehensive security responsibility for what transpires in Judea and Samaria"

"Thus for practical purposes this arrangement will be, almost certainly, a kind of two confederations - in one case with the Jordanians, and in the other case with Egypt."

Time and again Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman is labeled by the media as "right wing".

But is he?

Is it "right wing" to advocate bringing Jordanian security forces to the back entrance of Kfar Sava and Egyptian forces a few kilometers from Ashkelon?

And what of his "transfer" proposal that some areas in Israel with heavy Arab populations be transferred to a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation?

Since when is proposing borders that are even worse than Israel's pre-'67 "Auschwitz borders" a right wing proposal?

No.

There are all kinds of labels one may give to Avigdor Lieberman and his ideas.

The labels "reckless", "shortsighted" and "simplistic" all come to mind.

But "right wing" surely isn't one of them.

Related article: The Trouble with International Forces

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