Negotiated Settlements Set Aside by Norway, Ireland, Spain
"Today, Ireland, Norway and Spain are announcing that we recognize the state of Palestine. Each of us will now undertake whatever national steps are necessary to give effect to that decision.""There is never a wrong time to do the right thing"."It was my government’s preferred position to recognize a two-state solution as part of a peace process to bring that about, but sadly, unfortunately, such a comprehensive peace settlement now seems, in many ways, further away than it has ever been.""We believe you can’t say you’re in favor of a two-state solution and not recognize the very existence of two states."Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris
Was
ever a sentence uttered that should have been corrected as 'There is
never a right time to do a wrong thing'? Israel, in reacting to the
tripartite statement in shock and disbelief is entirely correct in
chiding these three Western democracies for their gross error in
judgement, deciding between them that the 'right thing' to do is to
reward terrorist groups in the Middle East for their vicious penchant to
declare their intention to destroy a legally and morally constituted
state on its own ancestral geography that has been challenged for
possession by a group of Arab (of mostly Egyptian origin)
colonizers claiming it as their own. Did the three ask themselves why it
was that a negotiated settlement was further away than ever?
The
opportunity for a two-state 'solution' was offered through the UN's
partition plan, promptly and gratefully accepted by Israel, furiously
rejected by those now calling themselves 'Palestinians' who preferred to
wait out the intentions of surrounding Arab/Muslim countries to march
on the nascent state of Israel with a view to preventing the
establishment of the Jewish state. Succeeding wars failed just as the
initial one did, but the Palestinian-Arab determination to wreak havoc
on Israel with the ultimate aim to destroy it and murder all its
population has never faded.
The
October 7 butchery that took place in southern Israel by the terrorist
groups Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, aided and abetted by Palestinian civilians
exhibiting raw savagery in the sordid, ghoulish sadistic cruelty meted
out to innocent civilians has few parallels in modern history. This
declaration by Palestinians both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip who
have been polled to render 85% support to Hamas terrorism and their
approval of the October 7 bestiality represents the level of
civilization that Spain, Norway and Ireland are prepared to recognize
and legitimize with statehood.
Israel
is dismayed, but perhaps not completely surprised by the three
countries turning their backs on the only democracy in the Middle East,
distinguished from all others because it is Jewish, its origins the very
land it now sits upon, along with other areas the world prepared to
honour and hand over to an Arab population that has no intention, ever,
of living in peace with the original inhabitants of the land. In their
preparation to recognize the State of Palestine, no effort has been made
by Spain, Norway and Ireland to condemn the Palestinians for their
aspirations to destroy Israel.
Nor
has any overture been made to persuade the Palestinians through their
leadership to turn their ambitions toward statehood infrastructure and
the merits of civilized behaviour in favour of completely foregoing its
lethal hostility against Israel. Needless to say, with no expectations
of Palestinians curbing and abandoning their commitment to violence
against Israel, the announcements of support in the form of recognition
of their ambitions to form a legitimate state with no pre-conditions
sits extremely well with the Palestinian leadership -- the Palestinian
Authority and Gaza's Hamas rulers.
Envoys
of the three countries were summoned by Israel in a diplomatic
expression of profound disappointment in their judgement and
decision-making. The European ambassadors to Israel, Israeli Foreign
Minister Israel Katz said grimly, would be requested to witness video
footage of the October 7 attack, to ensure they had intimate first-hand
knowledge of what had transpired, through videos produced by the
terrorists themselves as they rampaged through Israeli farming
kibbutzim, raping and vandalizing, torturing children and women before
murdering them.
"[A Palestinian state is] a prerequisite for achieving peace in the Middle East.""There will be no peace in the Middle East without a two-state solution.""There can be no two-state solution without a Palestinian state."Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre"This recognition is not against the people of Israel and certainly not against the Jewish people.""It’s not in favor of Hamas.""It’s in favor of co-existence."Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
"[Recognizing a Palestinian state would be a] reward for terror.""This will be a terror state, which will attempt to perpetrate the onslaught of October 7 time and again, and to that we shall not agree.""This evil must not be given a state."Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
A man waves the Palestinian flag in front of the Norwegian Parliament building during a demonstration in Oslo, Oct. 28, 2023. (Frederik Ringnes/NTB via AP) |
Labels: Abandoning Negotiated Settlement Agreement, Appeasement, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Palestinians, Spain, State of Palestine Recognition
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