Friday, September 22, 2006

Israeli FM and her weird logic


Israeli FM Tzipi Livni recently made a preposterous declaration about how she figures out any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem and what amount of land the state of Israel is ready to give the Palestinians to build their state . FM Livni made it clear that the Palestinians have no right to make any claims on the territories that were occupied by Israel before 1967. Her argument for such a misleading claim is that there was no Palestinian Authority and as a matter of fact no Palestinian state before that date. FM livni seemed to be oblivious of the fact that before 1948 there was no State of Israel in Palestine,either. Therefore, if she were to deprive the Palestinians of building their state on the land of their forefathers, a land that belongs to them by force of law, then the same logic is to be applied to the state of Israel itself; and logically enough, the International Community and the UN should interfere to put back the entire region to its status-quo before 1948. This state of affairs is a clear-cut evidence to anyone who supports Israeli occupation of Palestinian land that they had better reconsider their position on this issue and try as much as possible to be fair towards Palestinians and their just cause.

Mohamed Chhilif