WASHINGTON, November 13, 2016 – Exactly where Donald Trump would take U.S. policy in the Middle East remains less than clear. During the presidential campaign, he told us that fighting ISIS would be a key priority. He even said that he “knew more about ISIS” than the generals. If his goal is to strike a blow…
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It would be difficult to find anything remotely accurate in this unintentionally-hilarious Orwellian rewriting of history masquerading as an editorial, but I will restrict myself to the following points:
“The indigenous Palestinian population”? Nice try, but I am pretty sure that Judea was not named after the Arabs. This author’s rhetoric disregards Jewish history within the Land of Israel dating back to antiquity and is an attempt to re-write history by anti-Israel gadfly in order to belittle the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
Under international law, Jews are entitled to live anywhere in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There is no such thing as Palestinian land and never was. The West Bank and Gaza never belonged to any sovereign ruler after the British withdrew from Mandatory Palestine; before that it was part of the Ottoman empire. Israel actually acquired the West Bank in a defensive war from “Trans-Jordan” in 1967. Under international law, Israel is not required to transfer the land to a third-party.
Finally, the conventional two-state proposal is a misnomer inasmuch as Gaza already constitutes a Palestinian “statelet,” so that another Palestinian state based in the West Bank would actualize a three-state solution—something that the fathers of the Oslo accords could not imagined in their wildest dreams.