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It is time to take back Israel. It is time to reclaim what belongs to the Jewish People from time immemorial and reconfirmed in modern times

Mr Netanyahu: It's time to #ENDARABOCCUPATION of Israel; Release the Levy Report



How do you find a compromise with people whose government pays a lifelong dividend to the families of those they proudly call “martyrs;” those who target civilians: children, women and men, grandparents, in cafés, on beaches, in hotels, on Holy Sites, and who attack cars and buses with impunity? How do you develop empathy for people who idolize these murderers, these terrorists, by naming streets and plazas after them, joyfully acknowledging their arrival in paradise with their much desired gift of 72 virgins for their barbaric actions?
Would you invite people like this into your home, to your table, to break bread with them while they sit beside your children? Why would you sit down with people who claim a history on the land over which you have full legal title and demand that it be “returned” when there are no artifacts, anywhere, of any kind, that show that they had any footprint, hand-print anything to prove their statements? Where are the archaeological proofs, let alone written ones? Where are the coins of the realm, the mosques and mosaics of their great leaders and artists? Where is their “Josephus,” their great historian of their people’s adventures? Where are the ancestries, generation after generation of Arafat, Abbas and Khaled Mashal? Where are the remnants of ancient steles in other lands referring to these people and their exploits? Their victories and defeats? Where are the carvings of their symbols, their written words through the ages? Where are the “tells” filled with the remnants of centuries of cities one built on top of another, monuments to their history on the land?

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There are no artifacts of the “Palestinian people” because here is no historical Arab Palestinian people, with living proof of their ancient borders, their laws and language, their old records of marriages and businesses-the flotsam and jetsam of a past life: their genizahs. They are nowhere to be found because “There is no Palestinian people, no Palestinian entity,” as pointed out by the late president of Syria, Hafiz el Assad (the current dictator’s father) in 1976. Yet, Israel is told to sit down with these people and compromise. On what? Israel is a land that historically, from Biblical references and Egyptian Merneptah stele to modern international law, legally inhabits the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including Gaza and stretching from the Golan to the Red Sea. It is time to take back Israel. It is time to reclaim what belongs to the Jewish People from time immemorial and reconfirmed in modern times from the Balfour Declaration to the San Remo resolution, and the actions of the League of Nations. These were treaties and laws that were never repealed but were illegally abrogated beginning with the British. It is time for Israel to table the Levy Report and act on it.http://www.cilr.org/home/the-levy-report In 1948 Israel lost East Jerusalem in a war to the Jordanians who then ethnically cleansed the area of Jews and desecrated more than fifty Holy sites. After Israel’s crushing defeat of the five Arab countries in 1967, Moshe Dayan offered the Jordanians control of the Temple Mount. In the words of Abu Yehuda “Many of them were probably expecting to be kicked out of their homes, as the Jordanians had done to the Jews in 1948. But instead of teaching them that they had been defeated, Dayan gave them hope that by continued struggle they could prevail." And they have taken that kindness and perverted it. Abbas recently said at the UN “We do not respond to the Israeli occupation’s hatred and brutality with the same. Instead, we are working on spreading the culture of peace and coexistence between our people and in our region, and we are anxious to realize it and to witness the day when all of the people in our region will enjoy peace, security, stability and prosperity.” Then he accused Israeli “occupying forces” of entering The Al-Aqsa mosque while preventing Muslim worshippers from exercising their religious rights.” Until just recently when Israeli authorities finally shut them down, screams of "The Al-Aqsa mosque is under threat,” were heard from "mourabitoun" and "mourabitaat" (Arabic for male and female sentries), two groups of provocateurs affiliated with the Islamic Movement in Israel, who have been instigating violence in the area for years. Social media and calls from the mosques incite Arabs to “defend al Aqsa.” Defending Al Aqsa means terrorizing the Jews. And now Abbas declares: “The struggle will continue until the Palestinian flag flies over our eternal capital, occupied Jerusalem.” [url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-palestinians-next-seek-flag-over-occupied-]http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-palestinians-next-seek-flag-over-occupied-[/url] Much has happened in the name of compromise since 1967 because Israel assumed that compromise was an effective tactic when dealing with Arabs. It wasn’t. It isn’t. And now that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has declared that the PA should cease to abide by agreements signed with Israel, including the 1993 Oslo accords, it’s time to #ENDARABOCCUPATION of Israel.


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Diane Weber Bederman -- Bio and Archives

Diane Weber Bederman is a blogger for ‘Times of Israel’, a contributor to Convivium, a national magazine about faith in our community, and also writes about family issues and mental illness. She is a multi-faith endorsed hospital trained chaplain.


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