By Jan Willem van der Hoeven
How in the world can you be so foolish and self defeating, dear Mr. Abbas (Mr. Abu Mazen), to go on record stating that, once you succeed – as you are ceaselessly striving to do – to have the land you are after turned into a Muslim dominated Palestinian state, you will not permit one Israeli man, woman or child to remain living in what once was the very biblical heartland of the Jewish people?
Don’t you realize that, by making such a stupid remark, you have let all Israelis know – if they didn’t already -that you are not really interested in living in true peace with them; that you are only using the so-called peace process to arrive at your Judenrein State of Palestine – a state which, by its very anti-Zionist nature, will become a well-placed stepping stone for the entire fanaticized Muslim World from Iran to the Sudan to use to achieve the ultimate goal of most Muslims and Palestinians: the final eradication of the sovereign Jewish democratic state from your midst?
What if Israel’s prime minister were to announce to the world that the price for a two state solution is that all Arabs now living under the sovereignty of the State of Israel need to leave and be made citizens of your to-be-formed Palestinian state? How would you react, and how would the world react, to such an announcement, which would mirror completely the one you just dared make concerning the Jews who now live in their own historic land?
With your reprehensible declaration you have foolishly (for you) proclaimed the end of all peace negotiations, even with many among the Israelis who were duped into believing your intentions! Now we know. All you want to use the Europeans (and I am a European) and Americans for is to pressure little Israel into undoing what your Arab friends themselves brought about by their announced wish, as voiced by Abdul Nasser, to drive the Jewish people into the sea. Remember, it was in this war of Israeli self-defense that Jordan lost the so-called ‘West Bank’.
For many Israelis this land – illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967 – was part of their ancestral land. By joining Egypt at the outbreak of the Six Day War (against the appeal of the Israeli government, “please do not do so”) Jordan lost the territory to the people who, by divine decree, once owned it.
And now you, Mr. Abu Mazan, dare to say that, while the Arabs can live in Jaffa, in Haifa and all over Israel, Israelis who live in their Hebron, in their Shiloh, in their Beth El, in their Samaria cannot live among you – not even one – when it becomes a Palestinian state?
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
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