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Headline: “Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich aims to legalize 68 outposts in Judea and Samaria and has instructed various ministries to prepare to provide them with public services.”
Although Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir are portrayed as extremist fringe politicians within Israel and by the world for claiming all the land “from the river to the sea,” truth is that this has become the national, centrist consensus in Israel.
After October 7, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been adamant that in the future Israel will exercise 100% security control from the river to the sea, which means sovereignty.
In other words, Netanyahu is in total agreement with the “extremists” – and likewise with every Israeli Jew and Druse with a brain and self-respect.
What is so strange and even weird about many Israelis is that official Israel never makes this claim — when international law supports it. The Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations in 1922 allotted Eastern Palestine (as it was then known) a.k.a. the eastern bank of the Jordan River and beyond, to the Arabs, and Western Palestine to the Jews. Indeed, in the earlier Faisal-Weizmann agreement of January 3, 1919, they both foresaw such an arrangement.
In history, “Palestine” never existed for Arabs and Muslims and this is why Faisal had no objection to calling the Jewish state “Palestine.” Two years later, the Mandate even explicitly recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine” and the “grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
But many of today’s Israelis have never staked their claim to all the land “from the river to the sea.”
Why not?
It is doubly weird since the Palestine Mandate was preserved as a living legal instrument embedded in the United Nations Charter of 1945. That Charter contains the “title deed” to all the land “from the river to the sea” bestowed upon the Jews.
One reason for the Israeli refusal is the baseless fear that if Israel does claim sovereignty, it will have to grant citizenship to the Muslims there — whose favorite political movement is Hamas. And, of course, with citizenship comes a vote in the Knesset.
But where is it written that the victor in war must grant citizenship to the defeated enemy and especially when the enemy’s Koran sanctifies “oppressing and humiliating” Jews?
For sure, Jewish sovereignty “from the river to the sea” would be the antithesis of the TSS (Two-State Solution) which is a euphemism for Israel handing over Judea and Samaria to Hamas. Since 2006, Hamas has been the favorite political party of these Muslims, so the TSS calls for, in effect, handing Judea and Samaria over to them. This is what President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Biden want for Israel.
No sober, mature Israeli Jew or Druze can agree to that, especially after 10/7.
A second reason why Israel recoils from the thought of claiming all the land “from the river to the sea” is that it puts the kibosh on statehood for the “Palestinians” — which will make Israel-haters world-wide very angry, since the post-religionists who founded the state in 1948 wanted, in the title of Netanyahu’s’ 1993 book, A Place Among the Nations.
If the No. 1 concern of the 193 nation-states in the UN is the absence of a state for the “Palestinians” (a verbal hologram of a nation), so Israel should want the best for “Palestinians” too. Indeed, the prime minister has spoken of a better tomorrow for the people in Gaza after the current campaign to exterminate the Hamas demoniacs ends. So, official Israel, no matter the party in charge, has always held out for the possibility of creating the TSS “under the right conditions” that have never materialized.
Thirdly, what deters official Israel from claiming all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza is that it is too “religious” a claim for the state’s post-religious elite. Netanyahu is a self-defined secular man, no less than the Marxists Rabin and Peres who wanted to be rid of Judea for being “too Jewish,” too religious, which is why Israel’s leftists prefer to use the term “West Bank,” the name antisemites also use.
If Israel were to claim sovereignty as per the UN Charter, as the legitimate landlord it would have the right to evict squatters, especially when so many are proven, antisemitic, homicidal sex maniacs capable of vicious cruelty. Israel has the right not to suffer the behavior of such neighbors. How many other nations among the 193 UN member-states over the last two decades have been targeted with tens of thousands of rockets, bombs, incendiaries?
Israel as the legitimate landlord will have the right to evict the 70% of the Arabs in the Strip supported by UNRWA, which has been proven to be a front organization for Hamas that turned the Strip into one gigantic terrorist camp.
Israel will have the right to demolish this greatest welfare scam in history. The so-called “Palestinian refugees” in Gaza are neither Palestinian nor refugees. Their grandparents were refugees, but commonly not “Palestinian” in the least. They were migrant workers from all over Araby who ran from the war when their Arab brethren launched their attempt at preventing the dhimmi Jews from breaking free of Muslim “oppression and humiliation,” their fate for fourteen centuries according to the Koran — versus the Arabs with roots and property to protect and worry about. One reliable figure for the refugees was 590,000 of them – versus the 150,000 Arabs who did not run and became citizens of the new state along with the Jews. They were left alone by the new Israelis.
For the first decade after Israel’s War of Independence, the label “the Arab refugees” was universal. Everyone including other Arabs called them “the Arab refugees,” generically, because they were a mixed bag of men from Morocco, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc. with nothing “Palestinian” about them. Rebranding them the “Palestinian refugees” was a later psychological warfare tactic.
In sum, according to the United Nations Charter, the Gaza Strip, an artificial district produced by the Arabs’ aggression in 1948 against the Jews, is legally Israeli territory and besides legality, Israel has the human right to do whatever is necessary to prevent ever again the recurrence of an October 7. Israel has the human right to never again suffer diabolical cruelty at the hands of these barbarians. The cruelty involved the terrorists forcing parents to watch as they chopped off the fingers of their children, raped and killed them, and stuffed their shrieking babies onto the burning coils of electric ovens.
Israel has not only the legal but moral right to exercise the age-old wisdom: “To the victors go the spoils.” Israel has as much of a right to keep the Gaza Strip as the U.S. had in 1848 when victorious over Mexico it kept about of a third of Mexican territory.
Israel will have the right to engineer the humane expulsion of the UNRWA freeloaders to any of the fifty-six officially Muslim states, twenty-one of them officially Arab too.
Let them take care of their fellow believers in the One True Faith.
Dave says
“A second reason why Israel recoils from the thought of claiming all the land “from the river to the sea” is that it puts the kibosh on statehood for the “Palestinians”…”
The Partition plan designated JORDAN (then Transjordan) as the Arab (“palestinian”) state. This is the two-state solution.
Cia says
Jordan killed hundreds and drove out thousands of Palestinians in 1970, when they tried to overthrow the king. It now has every human right, the same as Israel’s, not to let them in.
I think refugee camps in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, are going to be the only answer. Not a solution, but there is no solution.
Alkflaeda says
Yes, there’s some real sleight of hand going on here – the entire excuse for carving out two-thirds of the then Palestine in 1922 was that it would be a homeland for “Arabs from West Palestine”, but now the remaining third has to be carved up as well.
Alkflaeda says
If the Palestinians have been in the land for millennia, then the archaeological record should bear witness to it – instead of which it evidences a Jewish presence. The IDF would not need to protect archaeological sites from Palestinian vandalism if those sites bore out their false narrative of statehood in antiquity, rather than undermining it. Most of the current Palestinians are descended from Arab migrants who entered the land during the British Mandate or during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. That does not mean that they do not have any rights, but it does mean that they cannot claim to have more rights than Israeli Jewish people.
Jeffrey Henderson says
If you want to stop the propaganda acknowledge the fact that the crusades came about when the Muslims took Jerusalem and slaughtered both the Jews and Christians . Before that all 3 religions lived together. Religion of peace alright.
Shai Ben-Tekoa says
Sebastian,
Read my book and learn that there was no “Palestine” when the Muslims ruled the Land of Israel for 12 or the last 14 centuries. It was the League of Nations who created the modern territory called Palestine after WWI that the Muslims rejected because they called it “Southern Syria,” the name of a newspaper the Grand Mufti in Jerusalem created to fight calling the country “Palestine.” Post-WWI, until the 1960s, the Mufti, was murderously adamant that there was no such country by that name and he was right. “Palestine” never had any meaning to Arab Muslims. In those 12 millennia, no Arab ever called himself a “Palestinian” or was called that by others.
The only people in that post-WWI generation who called themselves “Palestinians” were Zionist Jews who established the all-Jewish Palestinian Symphony in 1936 and the Zionist Palestine Post newspaper in 1932, and the Palestine Electrification Company in 1925, etc. And as for the Jews in Europe allegedly having no connection to the country – they just prayed for 18 centuries three times daily in Hebrew, the indigenous language of the country, praying for a return there because gentiles treated them so badly.
There is absolutely nothing “Palestinian” about the people who claim to be “Palestinians” today. Not one speaks the “Palestinian” language because there never was one, as millions of Jews today speak Hebrew as their mother tongue. Your “Palestinians” call themselves Arabs; their language is called Arabic; five times daily they pray toward Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula, the home base of their religion, because their religion is not native to the country. In truth, these “Palestinians” are Muslim colonists faithful to the imperialist/predatory Muslim Empire, whose Koran mandates “oppressing and humiliating” the Jews (and Christians) which is what the violence is all about. You shouldn’t be opining on a subject about which you obviously have no serious information.
Raymond in DC says
Rubbish. It’s a fact that, even as the British betrayed their responsibility as Mandate power by restricting Jewish immigration, they imposed NO restriction on ARAB immigration. As a result, and as the census figures over the 1930s confirm, there was a massive in-migration of Arabs over that period. So no, many of them have no history of residence over “hundreds of years”.
Need more proof? The UN gave refugee status to those displaced Arabs who had resided in Mandate Palestine for as little as TWO YEARS.
Allegra says
Not sure where you get your information. The overwhelming majority of Jews before WW2 lived in Eastern Europe including Poland, Russia Romania and Hungary.
They had their own language and followed their way of life was following their religion, with its traditions and customs.
Anthony F says
Matrilineal dna …in other words, Jewish men occasionally taking local wives?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but someone who claims Jewish identity, even if they are secular, or attained through ancestral conversion, is nonetheless bound to affirm, at least historically, both the religious and national aspects of that heritage as being interdependent on the particularity of its forging. But, it sounds like you’re saying that the legitimacy of Jewish nationality is defined wholly in terms of racial purity.
Liatris Spicata says
“The Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations in 1922 allotted Eastern Palestine (as it was then known) a.k.a. the eastern bank of the Jordan River and beyond, to the Arabs, …”
No, it did not. It gave the British, who had the Mandate for Palestine, the right to designate the land east of the Jordan River to the Arabs. The Brits exercised that right shortly after assuming the Mandate.
Shai Ben-Tekoa says
Liatris, surely you know that before documents are signed, they are discussed. Before the signing, it was understood the all the land from the River to sea would go to the Jews and east of the River to the Arabs, as the Faisal-Weizmann agrreement called for..
Liatris Spicata says
You give a distorted history. Many Arabs moved to Palestine in the early 20th century, drawn by the economic opportunities provided by the Zionists. In addition, the have been Jews there continuously since antiquity.
Palestine was never important to Arabs unless somebody else considered it important. There was never a “Palestinian” people until the mid 20th century (1967 is a pretty good date for their birth). Jews go back a bit longer.
Gene says
Anthony Biden might be Blinken’s real name
Raymond in DC says
“But many of today’s Israelis have never staked their claim to all the land “from the river to the sea.””
Aside from the issue of not wanting to grant citizenship to all those in the territories in question, they definitely don’t want to be responsible,for their welfare. Been there, done that in the years following the Six Day War, when they numbered less than a million. Now they’d be dealing with almost five million, and all on their dime. Right now foreigners give a couple billion annually to support the PA and through various international bodies like UNRWA, the large dependent population. IF THEY ALL FELL UNDER Israeli sovereignty, the aid spigot would close immediately, as they happily make them all Israel’s problem.
Shai Ben-Tekoa says
First, you shamelessly, guiltlessly claim ownership of the real estate and then exercise the right to evict unwanted squatters. You reject any responsibility for their welfare. They have been the enemy. You also institute a death penalty for an obvious murderer, no trial necessary. As soon as he is identified, he must be hung before the sun the goes down and his nuclear family simultaneously expelled from the country with the clothes on their backs. You capture a teenager throwing rocks at Jewish cars and you immediately transport him to the Golan Heights and expel him into Syria and tell him he will never return. His nuclear family must also be expelled immediately. This will be a deterrent fare more powerful than the stupid Israeli imitation of the goyim who invented prisons as punishment. Not Jewish behavior at all.
Jason P says
By 1933, 25% of the Palestinian Mandate was Jewish, they bought the land and made it valuable.
By 1955, the majority of Israel were Jews ethnically-cleansed from Arab nations, so-called Mizrahi Jews.
And, as the article pointed out, many of the Arabs prior to WWII came from Yemen, Morocco, Syria, & other Arab nations, drawn by the opportunities created by Jewish industriousness. They weren’t there for generations, as you say.
Now learn some history & we can have a nuanced discussion.
Andrew Blackadder says
A young American Far Left Soy Boy told me that the ethnic indigenous people of that area should be allowed that homeland, so I informed him that if that’s the case then its the Jewish people he speaks of as they were there long before islamic warriors invaded and beheaded, slaughtered and raped and in doing so conquered that area previously occupied by Jews and Christians…
So he said the indigenous people but didn’t know they are in FACT the indigenous people..
The Useful Idiot Generation on Parade.
Allegra says
For almost two thousand years Jews all over the world have expressed their yearning to return to Jerusalem. This can be heard in their prayers and in their passover services.
(The same passover depicted in the Last Supper of the New Testament)
The holy books of the Jews are ONLY about the children of Israel
The land of Israel is mentioned many times in the Quran.
You personally may wish to deny the connection but that is all it is. Denial.
lisa says
Thanks, mr Tekoa 🙂 We need 100s of articles like this.
I am tired of telling people facts, and they don´t believe me. Because they haven´t heard it.
I know that arabs have lived there for a long time (after having invaded the land), but the only people alive today who have lived there the longest, is of course the jews.
History is evidence of this. Archeology is evidence. And raw law confirms it.
Arabs are among the biggest colonial powers today (all “arab” land outside of the arab peninsula).
And, as they are masters at projecting – they accuse Israel of “occupation”.