#838 1/22/17 – This Week: Time To Take Stock and Take Action

 

WHILE YOU STAND ON ONE LEG:  This weekend is a time for us to take stock and take action, not because of the U.S. inauguration, but because of the Jewish homeland delegitimization damage just done and the potentially even worse damage from which this week we escaped.  So this weekend’s Alert assesses that damage and how we might effectively counter it.

This Week: Time to Take Stock and Take Action

If there’s been a weekend during our lifetimes for supporters of the Jewish homeland of Israel to take stock and take action, this is that weekend.  This is NOT because of this weekend’s inauguration of President Trump, but because this week, erev Trump, the Jewish homeland barely escaped what might have been U.N.S.C. resolution 2335, which would have heaped upon 242-ignoring 2334 and recent UN agency place name renaming resolutions yet further Jewish homeland delegitimizations.

These U.N. actions attacked the Jewish homeland’s legitimacy in two fundamental respects – territory, including historic Jerusalem, and historical homeland connection.  And, as CAMERA pointed out this week, the New York Times has just piled on by discounting recognition of Israel as the Jewish state – two states for two peoples – as an inherent component of “the two-state solution.”

Come take a look with me, in “Taking Stock” below, at the magnitude of these three new devastating Jewish homeland delegitimizations, and look not just at the scope of the U.N.’s decrees, but at the world-wide support for the U.N. decreeing them.  Then, if you’re still with me, take a look, in “Taking Action” below, at a suggested Jewish people response:  not that “Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are not illegal” and that “242 didn’t say ‘the’,” but countering with an affirmative counter-claim of equivalent magnitude” that both historically and legally Judea-Samaria and historic Jerusalem are not “Palestinian,” but intrinsic parts of the homeland of Jews.

Taking Stock

[1]  Just weeks ago, the U.N. Security Council, to the cheers of the spectators representing the nations of the world, transformed the green line, the old, superseded 1949 nine-miles-wide-in-the-middle “Auschwitz” Israel-Jordan military ceasefire line, into a red line, every inch beyond which is, in the U.N.’s categorical term, “occupied Palestinian territory.”  This includes not just Judea-Samaria but historic Jerusalem – Jewish Quarter, Western Wall, Temple Mount, Mt. of Olives Jewish cemetery, City of David with all of its archeological finds, everything.

[2]  Not long before that, the United Nations, with European nations’ joinder, decreed that the Temple Mount and Western Wall aren’t the Temple Mount and Western Wall anyway, but are Islamic-named places, down to the al-Buraq Wall Plaza.  And likewise for other Jewish historical shrines.

[3]  In a posting Thursday titled “New York Times Fabricates Palestinian Support for ‘Two States For Two Peoples’,” the wonderful media watchdog group CAMERA caught the New York Times following its correct statement defining the U.S.-promulgated “two-state solution” as “two states for two peoples” a paragraph later with the incorrect statement that the Palestinian Authority, along with the U.S., U.N., Israel and others, has adopted “two-states” as “official policy.”  On the contrary, as CAMERA points out, the Palestinian Authority adamantly rejects Jewish statehood.  It quotes Abbas saying “I will never recognize the Jewishness of the state or a ‘Jewish state’,” and also a senior P.A. negotiator: “The story of ‘two states for two peoples’ means that there will be a Jewish people over there and a Palestinian people here.  We will never accept this.”

What’s new here is just America’s Newspaper of Rectum repeating just recently that the Palestinian Authority is on board with two-states-for-two-peoples.  In Lee’s and my 2012 book, Pressing Israel: Media Bias Exposed from A-to-Z, we devoted the letter “J” to “Jewish State – Fundamental Part of Two-State Solution.”  We cited U.S., Israeli, media and Palestinian Arab statements, including the above quotes, on two-states, showing the gulf between the two former and two latter entities’ positions.  We cited even Abbas’ chutzpah in lecturing Israel to get on-board with “two-states.”

To sum up this “Taking Stock,” we have to recognize how few we’ve convinced of the Jewish homeland’s claim to an inch of the land of Israel over the “green line” now turned into a world-endorsed red line excising from Israel the Judea-Samaria hill country heartland and historic Jerusalem; that the Temple Mount and Western Wall et al should continue to be called the Temple Mount, Western Wall et al; or even that it’s the Arab side that rejects “the two-state solution” in its true U.S.-backed meaning of two states for two peoples.

But even Israel slinking back to the green line, “West Bank and East Jerusalem settlers” and all, especially now that the world has decreed that Israel has no rights beyond it, would not end the conflict.  There’s still the Arab-claimed “right of return” for millions of descendants of the smaller number of Arabs who left Israel in 1948 than Israel absorbed Middle-eastern Jews evicted from Arab and other Muslim lands.

And there’s still that an American Jew born today in an Israeli hospital in western Jerusalem, inside “green line Israel,” can’t have “Jerusalem, Israel” stamped on his U.S. birth certificate.   (How’s that for the definitiveness of the ‘green line’ as “Israel’s 1967 borders”?)

Taking Action

So now what?  This weekend’s change of U.S. administration does not put the burden on the United States to go out and change world opinion on the Jews’ claim to their homeland.  What it does do is hopefully interject a modicum of global warming into the international ice age climate in which the Jewish state finds itself, giving us the opportunity to make our homeland case to a somewhat less than totally-hostile international audience, should we Jews choose to make it.

We do not make that case by just contending that “Jewish settlements in the West Bank are not illegal,” by calling historic Jerusalem “East” Jerusalem, by calling the old, superseded 1949 ceasefire lines “Israel’s 1967 borders,” by acquiescing and even joining in “occupation,” etc.

We have to include in that case that the Jews never left; that the State of Israel is the land’s next native state after Jewish Judaea, every ruler in between having been a (mostly non-Arab) foreign invader; that San Remo and the Mandate recognized the historical Jewish connection; that the 1947 attempted-partition resolution sought to partition ‘Palestine’ between its Jews and its Arabs, not between Jews and ‘Palestinians,’ and called Palestine’s Jews and Arabs (who previously got 78% of the Palestine Mandate as all-Arab Transjordan) “the two Palestinian peoples.”

Especially must we make that homeland case now, on the heels of the U.N. just declaring every inch of the land of Israel over the old 1949 “green line” to be “occupied Palestinian territory.”