RE Refugee crisis: Israelis invoke Holocaust as they debate how to
respond- Israel is building a new fence along its border with Jordan
amid widespread soul searching over whether it should allow Middle
Eastern refugees to come in.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/0911/Refugee-crisis-Israelis-invoke-Holocaust-as-they-debate-how-to-respond
Dear Editor,
Israel's obsession with demographics created and continues to
perpetuate the Palestinian refugee crisis which began in 1948 with
the Arab-Israel war. UN Resolution 194 from 1948 clearly outlines the
expectation that those 750,000 Palestinian men women and children,
those refugees
“wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their
neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable
date..."
http://www.unrwa.org/content/resolution-194
Today more than ever, the international community- and American
newspapers- need to be more honest about Israel and the huge harm
that Israel's demographic obsessions have done to the region.
Israel, in violation of international law, has already built a
divisive land grabbing wall on Palestinian land in the West Bank,
while at the same time generously subsidizing Jewish settlements in
the illegally occupied territories. Palestinians who had hoped to
build a Palestinian state alongside Israel on the remnant remaining
of what was historic Palestine 70 years ago do not have control of
their own land, airspace or borders.
Ending the Israel-Palestine conflict ASAP with a fully secular two
state solution that FULLY respects The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, would go a long way towards calming down the entire
region, as well as setting a good example as to how modern
nation-states based on the rule of fair and just laws are more
secure, more prosperous, more sane and a much better alternative
than a religious state: Tax payers here and there should not be
forced to fund and empower Jewish or Islamic religious "scholars"
and schemes- and endless war with escalating refugee crises.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
The Golden Rule : a general rule for how to behave that says that you should treat people the way you would like other people to treat you
