If I wanted to avoid escalation by militant Islam in the #middleeast, I wouldn’t start by making a quarter million able-bodied men homeless & motherless with nothing to lose.
@gimulnautti Three different peace plans were offered to Yasser #Arafat and to those #Palestinian leaders who came after him. One of those, broken by #Clinton , gave the Palestinians about 95% of everything they’d requested.
They walked away.
So, if you have them, please share your specific ideas for this centuries old feud between two closely related tribes.
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
In the 2000 #CampDavid peace negotiations… #Arafat’s refusal to accept a #Palestinian state on all of the #Gaza Strip and nearly all of the #WestBank was indeed tragic and misguided
What is striking about #Arafat’s refusal to accept the deal offered at #CampDavid—a state on all of #Gaza and 90+% of #WestBank, including a capital in #EastJerusalem—and his subsequent turn to #violent confrontation is just how popular it was and remains🔥
There was not anywhere within #Palestinian politics a minority camp that opposed this move, that warned against the possible consequences, that organized #protests and galvanized #opposition parties
Do elaborate on your views that there's no right to self defense here. I'll go out on a limb and infer that you would put this in the context sought by South Africa as:
which, while unstated, is almost certainly based on the context #arafat :
Ich dachte eigentlich, die Geschichte des #Holocaust zu kennen – bis ich kürzlich auf die Person Amin al-Husseini stieß. Es klang für mich erst wie alternative Geschichte à la “Man in the High Castle”, ist aber Realität. Im Kontext des heutigen #Holocaustgedenktag verdient er aus meiner Sicht Aufmerksamkeit und sollte – unabhängig von der Frage der Interpretation für den weiteren Verlauf der Geschichte nach dem II. Weltkrieg – so bekannt sein wie andere Täter aus der SS. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Amin_al-Husseini
Mir geht es genauso. Ich bin fassunglos.
Ich denke, das Unwissen in der westlichen Welt über diesen äußerst einflussreichen chauvinistischen rassistischen Extremisten und #Kriegsverbrecher, der sogar Mentor von #PLO-Führer #Arafat war, erklärt so einiges, warum westliche Politiker und Strafverfolgungsbehörden oft so blind für islamischen #Antisemitismus sind.
Stern statement from Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Jordan yesterday, after his trip to Rafah. Anyone who respects human rights & wants to know what's happening in Israel-Palestine should read this in its entirety.
HCHR calls for Member States to press urgently for an immediate #CeaseFire
"the complete siege now lasting over one month has made it an agony for residents in Gaza...to survive. All forms of #CollectivePunishment must come to an end."