After 60 plus years of illegitimate occupation there can be no doubt what the Jew is. The Jews came into Palestine, took land by force of arms and then declared themselves a nation state. When the United States recognized their legitimacy they became the Nation of Israel we know today. The abject recognition and acceptance by the United States is revealed unworthy and legally unjustified. The United States, Briton and other states have demanded that all nations "recognize" Israel. Any nation that refuses is subjected to war. Israel never intended to recognize the Palestinians. The so-called "Two-State Solution" was a scam from the begininng to make the Palestinians believe that there is maybe some hope of being recognized as equal to the Jew. Legitimate nation-states that derive their power to exist from their people don't have to ask permission to be recognized. The Jew's refusal to recognize Palestinian legitimacy doesn't make or break the Palestinian right. The nation-state of Israel is, in and of itself, a statement of Palestinian rejection. The Jews have had more than 60 years to make peace with the world. It's obvious they never intended to recognize anyone's equality. If Israel, the U. S. and other nations continue to treat the Palestinian people as independent, then it is time they started acting like they are.
I was working on the article when I came across the following well-written and well worth reading commentary written by Johann Hari.
--Joe
Enough. The Palestinians should now declare their independence
Could the Israeli government make it any more obvious they have no intention of sharing the Over-Promised Land with its other inhabitants?
This week the Obama administration – who give Israel $3bn a year, more than they dole out to any other nation on earth – made a meek and craven request for Israelis to simply have a pause in seizing even more land, and to sit down with the Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded with a big concrete slap: the announcement of 1,600 more homes to be built on occupied Palestinian land from which Arabs will be forcibly kept out. He has made it plain he will not loosen his grip by an inch, announcing: "Even if [Palestinian President] Abu Mazen comes along and says he's ready to sign a peace deal on the spot, we will restore settlement construction to its previous levels." No compromise. Never.
How does this look to the Palestinians? Their story is so rarely explained without disinformation that it still seems startling when it is stated plainly. Until 1948, the Palestinians were living in their own homes, on their own land – until they were suddenly driven out in a war to make way for a new state for people fleeing a monstrous European genocide. They lived huddled and dazed in the 20 per cent of their land they were allowed to keep. They hardly fought back: they wept and dreamed of return. Then in the 1967 war, even these small strips were conquered with tanks and platoons.
