Hamas Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad Slams Egypt over Fuel Shortage in Gaza Strip, and Says:
“Half of the Palestinians Are Egyptians and the Other Half Are Saudis”
Al-Hekma TV (Egypt) – March 23, 2012.
His video is on youtube.

The Lebanese replied, “Good God, do you really think we are going to destroy the finest propaganda we possess? It’s a gold mine!”

When Meinertzhagen observed that this view was unkind and immoral, the Lebanese replied, “They are just human rubbish, but a political gold mine!”

In slightly different language referring to the same attitude about the usefulness of Palestinian refugee camps, Meinertzhagen notes in his book, “I received identical views from other Arabs.”

In discussions about refugees in the Middle East, a major piece of the narrative is routinely omitted, and my life is part of the tapestry of what’s missing. I am a Jew, and I, too, am a refugee. Some of my childhood was spent in a refugee camp in Israel (yes, Israel). And I am far from being alone.

This experience is shared by hundreds of thousands of other indigenous Jewish Middle Easterners who share a similar background to my own. However, unlike the Palestinian Arabs, our narrative is largely ignored by the world because our story — that of some 900,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries dispossessed by Arab governments — is an inconvenience for those who seek to blame Israel for all the problems in the Middle East.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/The-vanishing-Jews-of-the-Arab-world-Baghdad-2694221.php#ixzz27ISwmUfX

They stole from us an area 5X the size of the present state of Israel.

We demand RESTITUTION.
What’s Fair is Fair!!

Where did I say Jordan is Palestine ? Lying again ?

The British had rights over the Mandate because they conquered it from the Ottomans, who had declared war on Britain. This basis was the accepted, worldwide basis for control over a territory at the time. Far be it for an Arab to pretend otherwise as Arabs and Islam had absolutely no native connection to the land and only controlled it through a brutal conquest whose story is one of the massacre of the native populations and their enslavement. Those natives who remained were made into dhimi. So, lets not pretend that the British, Ottomans or anybody in the last thousand years invented the notion of wars of conquest. The Arabs were plenty comfortable with conquest when they are at the winning end of it.

The land was not under Arab sovereignty at the time of the partition. So, the right was held by the trustees (British) and the title holders on the land, many of whom were Jews. You keep bringing up the issue of Jewish thieves from Europe and Russia. Do you deny that Jews bought the land on which they lived up to 1948? Do you deny that Jews only confiscated land from those who fought against the Jews in the Palestinian Civil War? Do you deny that Arabs in Palestine formed militias and attacked Jews? Do you deny that the Arab armies came to the rescue of the failing Arab militias?

Israel violates non-binding UN resolutions. So, it’s not truly a violation of a resolution if it is non-binding.

Regarding the 4th Geneva Convention, “Article 2 states that signatories are bound by the convention both in war, armed conflicts where war has not been declared and in an occupation of another country’s territory.”… Syria is under an official condition of hostility with Israel and until a peace treaty is concluded, Israel has the right to hold the Golan. Besides the Golan, Israel does not hold any territory of another country. The West Bank is not the territory of any other state. So, how exactly is the 4th Geneva Convention being broken by Israel?

Finally, Oslo was well broken by the Arabs many years ago. Go on and show me any violations of Oslo by Israel that predate Arab violations.

You ask about Chapter 8 of the UN Charter. That is my mistake. It is Article 80 of the UN Charter.

http://www.fsmlaw.org/miscdocs/uncharter.htm

It is under the section dealing with International Trusteeship. Remember that the San Remo Accord was ratified by members of the UN and Article 80 maintains the legality of those agreements. San Remo establishes a Jewish State on the territories of Palestine, west of the Jordan. You may not like the reality, but international law still stands and it certainly has greater validity then a little meeting between the Jordanian king and self-proclaimed Palestinian leaders in Jericho.

Lets not pretend that I am the one hawking mythes from the sky. You admit that Jordan is a Palestinian State. You should be proud of your country and you should convince your fellow countrymen to live there.

Jordan has a responsibility to care for it’s citizens. Instead of taking on these Jordanian refugees from the West Bank and settling them behind Jordan’s legal borders, the Jordanians chose to disenfranchise their countrymen.

As for what right did the UN have. Every right. There was never an independent Arab state of Palestine. There last time a people had their capital in Jerusalem 9or anywhere in what is now Israel, Judea, Samaria or Gaza, was under the Crusader kingdom. Before that it was the capital of Judea. So, one can’t point to any Arab independence in the land. Second, the Ottomans had the territory for centuries and permitted Jews to purchase and settle the lands. After them the British had sovereignty and they negotiated the San Remo Accord, which established a Jewish Homeland west of the Jordan River. It was their right to do so. The League of Nations ratified the San Remo Accord and the UN grandfather this accord into that international body with Chapter 8 of the UN Charter. So, Israel has an internationally legal claim to the territory.

You can look to international law to protect yourself from excesses. You may us the UN to help care for the refugees. You can try to join the UN. all 22 Arab states are member states of the UN. So, you either recognize the actions of the UN or you don’t. You either look to the international community and the system established, or you do not.

You are welcome to disregard the UN system, but don’t come crying about Human Rights abuses and crawl to the International Courts to judge events in a war between our people. You either accept international arbitration, or you don’t. Don’t be a hypocrite. It’s not going to get you anywhere while Israel is the more profound military power.