Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Yugoslaviation of Israel


The Yugoslaviation of Israel

Is there room for minorities to live in a country?
From Giulio Meotti

Jerusalem resembles Belfast, but not in appearance.

Throughout the Irish city, high walls separate one street from the next, one backyard from the next. The walls are stark iron slabs covered with graffiti.

But in the negotiations over the fate of Northern Ireland, there was one “solution” neither side would have ever suggested: the destruction of towns, villages and homes, Catholic or Protestant.

Why? Because it's considered ethnic cleansing, and regarded as a crime.

So why don't the obsessive calls to destroy the Jewish settlements raise the same reaction?

In the last few days there have been many events to remember the Fogels, five members of the same wonderful family slaughtered one year ago in Itamar. But there was also much hypocrisy.

Will Itamar stand there in the future? Will the Fogels’ memory be honored or betrayed?

Migron’s residents are going to move their homes to a nearby hill. But will the “new Migron” stand there after the relocation? Will the communities east of the security barrier stand in the future? Will the state preserve Elon Moreh, Itamar, Bracha and Yitzhar, as well as the communities well inside the Binyamin area - Shilo, Shvut Rahel, Ma’ale Levona, Rehelim and Ofra?

The Islamic world, the European Union, the Vatican and now even the White House want to establish another Arab state on the ruins of the homes of 500.000 Jews.

But the Arab “phased plan” wants go much deeper and further. The PLO’s constituency is the 1948 refugees, both in Judea and Samaria and abroad. The PLO is the living embodiment of their demand to return to Jaffa, Haifa, and all the rest.

If Israel adopts Abba Eban’s argument of “the three percent minority”, Judea and Samaria will be cleansed of the Jews. Eban referred to the fact that since 1967, only three percent of Israel’s Jewish population has chosen to make their homes in Judea and Samaria, and that they constitute an ethnic minority. Subsequently, Eban concluded that “these areas are destined to be predominantly Palestinian” and Israel should therefore renounce them.

Indeed, since 1948, only a few percent of Israel’s Jewish population have chosen to make their homes in the Negev and only a tiny fraction of those people settled outside the cities of Beersheba and Eilat. And in the larger part of Galilee, the Israeli Jews are a minority in a predominantly Arab area. Do we have to assume that, at a future stage in the negotiations, Israel will renounce of parts of the Negev and Galilee?

The ethnic and demographic irredentism is threatening the entire Israeli edifice. It’s the Yugoslavian argument: it would have been easier to end the war if there were no Serbian minority in Croatia and no Albanian minority in Serbia-Kosovo.

Today Judea and Samaria are inhabited by Arabs, many of them refugees from within 1949 Israel, and the Jews in them, claim the irredentists, will bring no more peace to the Middle East than the Serbian settlers in Croatia and Bosnia did to the former Yugoslavia.

If Israel would adopt this argument, many areas inside and outside the “Green Line” should be immediately cleansed of the Jews.

Is there any difference between the settlement of parts of land inhabited by Arabs in the early 20th century and outposts in parts of the land of Israel inhabited by Arabs in the early 21st century? Either both are moral, or both are immoral.

“Unauthorized settlement outposts” have existed in Israel for many years, ever since Jewish settlement resumed in the early twentieth century. Carmiel, Rosh Pina and the hilltop communities in the north were established to Judaize the Galilee.

The false demographic argument is leading to the Yugoslavization of the land of Israel. And to the Jews who sail again the ships for Marseille and New York.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11348#.T1K-5nJSR0U

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