PLO wil bestaan en recht op zelfbeschikking van Joodse volk niet erkennen

 

De Palileaks laten interessante zaken zien die de Guardian en Al Jazeera niet de moeite waard vonden, en die de NOS, NRC of de Volkskrant ook niet op eigen houtje zijn gaan uitzoeken (waar is de echte onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalistiek tegenwoordig nog? Oh ja, die mensen zitten allemaal in Sheikh Jarrah te wachten totdat er weer een paar Arabieren uit hun huis gezet worden nadat zij de huur niet betaalden, of in Hebron kolonisten te spotten die onaardige dingen over Arabieren zeggen). Gelukkig hebben we EoZ nog; zo iemand zou natuurlijk betaald moeten worden, want wie zoekt anders nog dit soort dingen uit en biedt wat tegengas tegen de Mainstream media en het heersende beeld dat er over Israel en de Palestijnen bestaat? Journalisten moeten niet alleen de macht ter discussie stellen, maar ook heersende ideeën en clichés, maar ik dwaal af.

De PLO schrijft in een discussiestuk over erkenning van Israel het volgende:

 

"Recognizing the Jewish state implies recognition of a Jewish people and recognition of its right to self-determination. Those who assert this right also assert that the territory historically associated with this right of self-determination (i.e., the self-determination unit) is all of Historic Palestine. Therefore, recognition of the Jewish people and their right of self-determination may lend credence to the Jewish people's claim to all of Historic Palestine."

 

Interessant, nietwaar?

 

RP

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Cynical PLO Denies the Undeniable–Jews Exist!

http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/10/cynical-plo-denies-the-undeniable-jews-exist/

by Eldad Tzioni
Posted on February 10 2011 11:00 am

Eldad Tzioni blogs at http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/

 

When The Guardian and Al Jazeera released "The Palestine Papers," they chose to write articles about a very small percentage of them — and then they twisted what the papers actually said to advance their agenda.

In fact, the papers have a lot of information that is quite newsworthy that the Guardian decided against publicizing — precisely because it makes the Palestinian Arab leaders look like fools, liars or both.

Here's just one example out of many.

One paper is called "Talking Points on Recogntion [sic] of Jewish State," where the PLO details its reasons for not accepting Israel as a Jewish state.

The paper includes an annex that discusses the implications of such recognition. One of them is:

Recognizing the Jewish state implies recognition of a Jewish people and recognition of its right to self-determination. Those who assert this right also assert that the territory historically associated with this right of self-determination (i.e., the self-determination unit) is all of Historic Palestine. Therefore, recognition of the Jewish people and their right of self-determination may lend credence to the Jewish people's claim to all of Historic Palestine.

There is no controversy over the existence of the Jewish people. The Jews have been recognized as a nation by the entire world for some 3000 years. (Here's an example from 1850, and an anti-Semitic example from 1743.) The Koran seems to say it as well. It is simply a fact.

Which means that the official PLO position is to deny an undeniable fact because that fact may makes their negotiating position weaker!

Also, note that while they use as their reason for denying Jewish peoplehood the possibility that it might be used against them in negotiations over the Green Line, that same denial can be (and is) used by Palestinian Arabs to deny the Jewish right to self-determination anywhere.

Yasser Arafat and other senior PLO officials used to tell everyone that there was never a Temple in Jerusalem. The official Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information website had an article last year that denied that there was any Jewish connection to the Western Wall, a claim that was repeated in official PA media.

The fact is that any recognition that Jews have historical ties to the land of Israel is threatening to a "people" who have only sprung up in the last century. The very existence of a Jewish people is a natural extension of that fear.

As a result, the Palestinian Arab leaders must go to great lengths to ensure that they can lie consistently about the non-existence of the Jewish nation. After all, if self-determination is a human right, then the Jews have that right as well — but only if the Jews are a people.

Here we can see that the Palestinian Arabs know that their proposition is absurd, but they willingly choose to lie about a historical fact because the truth is uncomfortable to them.

Why should we believe them about anything else?