Not-That-Bright said:
From what i've seen, the palestinian leaders took it serious when Sharon decided to pull out, they believed him because he had never said it before. Of course however.. they don't have enough power over the situation, they said they would stop attacks but the terrorist groups simply increased their attacks.
Terrorist groups? Increase attacks? Jeeze man you need to rethink the whole issue.
How bout straight from the hoarses mouth on the issue? Just so you know David Ben-Gurion is the father of Israel and head-of-state.
"In 1936-9, the Palestinian Arabs attempted a Nationalist revolt …David Ben-Gurion, eminently a realist, recognized its nature. In internal discussion, he noted that ‘in our political argument abroad, we minimize Arab opposition to us,’ but he urged, ‘let us not ignore the truth among ourselves.’ The truth was that ‘politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country, while we are still outside’… The revolt was crushed by the British, with considerable brutality."
Noam Chomsky, "The Fateful Triangle."
Heres more:
"While the Yishuv`s leadership formally accepted the 1947 Partition Resolution, large sections of Israeli society- including…Ben Gurion- were opposed to or extremely unhappy with the partition and from early on viewed the war as an ideal opportunity to expand the new state’s borders beyond the UN-earmarked partition boundaries and at the expense of the Palestinians.
"Israeli Historian, Benny Morris,
in "Tikun", March/April 1998.
The partition is the splitting of Palestine and the mandate of the state of Israel.
‘In internal discussion in 1938,[David Ben-Gurion] stated that’ after we become a strong force, as a result of the creation of a state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine… The state will only be a stage in the realization of Zionism and its task is to prepare the ground for our expansion into the whole of Palestine’… In 1948, Menahem Begin declared that: ‘The partition of the Homeland is illegal. It will never be recognized. The signature of institutions and individuals of the partition agreement is invalid. It will not bind the Jewish people. Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel) will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And forever.’ "
Noam Chomsky, "The Fateful Triangle"
The above basically sais that Israel will ignore any splitting and sharing of Palestine with the Palestinians and will expand to Palestines entirety regardless.
"The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce TransJordan; one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. ‘We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.’"
David Ben Gurion, in 1936, "
"The main danger which Israel as a ‘Jewish state’, poses to its own people, to other Jews and to its neighbours, is its ideologically motivated pursuit of territorial expansion and the inevitable series of wars resulting from this aim…No Zionist politician has ever repudiated Ben-Gurion`s idea that Israeli policies must be based (within the limits of practical considerations) on the restoration of the Biblical Borders as the borders of the Jewish State."
Israeli Professor, Israel Shahak,
"Jewish History, Jewish religion: The Weight of 3000 years."
" ‘[Ben – Gurion stated], ‘ If I knew that it was possible to save all the children in Germany by transporting them to England, but only half of them by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second- because we face not only the reckoning of those children, but the historical reckoning of the Jewish people.’ In the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, Ben-Gurion commented that ‘ the human conscience’ might bring various countries to open their doors to Jewish refugees from Germany. He saw this as a threat and warned: ‘ Zionism is in danger.’ "
Israeli historian, Tom Segev,
"The Seventh Million. ""
And above all, probably one of the most important quotes to do with the whole issue:
" "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we came here and stole their country. Why should they accept that?
David Ben-Gurion quoted in
"The Jewish Paradox"by Nahum Goldmann,
former president of the World Jewish Congress."
These are all from the father of Israel himself, a realist, a zionist and a bastard of the highest magnitude.
Does this sound like "terrorism" or resistance?
