Background: Why Netanya?, by David Bedein
Excerpts:
“At the end of November 2000, I spoke at a retirement home in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, to discuss the PLO demand that all Arabs who have wallowed in UN refugee camps for the past 50 years have the ‘right to return’ to villages that they left in 1948.”
“I showed them the map of a “future Palestinian State” which the PLO Orient House headquarters provides in Jerusalem, which marks the 531 Arab villages that are slated for return, all of which had been overrun in 1948.”
“One of those villages was Umm Khalid, which, according to the PLO, had been illegally absorbed by Netanya.”
“The PLO therefore defines Netanya as one of Israel’s ‘illegal settlements,’ under the terms of the Fourth Geneva Convention, enacted in 1949, which forbids a conquering nation from moving its citizens into a conquered area.”
“The implications: the PLO will justify any attack on any such settlement that it views as ‘illegal’, under international law. The head of the PLO Refugee Department, Daoud Barakat, confirms this.”
“In January 1995, following Hamas terror bombs that killed 21 people at a bus stop at the Beit Lid/Netanya junction, The PLO secretary general Marwan Barghouti, now in prison for the first degree murders of 13 people, calmly told MBC Saudi television why the PLO would justify an attack on Netanya: ‘This is an area that we have yet to liberate.’”
Commentary:
As if Netanya were somehow more sacrosanct than Gush Katif, Jerusalem, Chevron, Beit El, Kever Yosef, etc. Ain’t no Brutus Beefcake here, i.e. “A bit off the top, a little off the sides.” Israelis have, as yet, not learned the age-old lesson; A Jew is a Jew is Jew. Kipa S’ruga or peyos, kapata, or black suit, strommel or black hat, or no Kipa, rings through the noses, cheeks or ears or Dennis Rodman doo, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. You can’t run away from it!
To be intellectually honest, and not a boiled lobster, the goal of the Arab/Moslem/Islamic world, Egypt and Jordan included; is to eliminate and eradicate the existence of Israel and anything Jewish including ALL JEWS. MB