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Jerusalem at night
Interesting to note how the international media (and especially the bias BBC) criticizes Israel’s reasonable claims such as those to Jerusalem and to a demilitarized Palestinian state. Yet is totally willing to accept completely unreal a pipe-dream-esque Arab claims to swamp Israel with millions of “refugees” to form in a capital in parts of Jerusalem where Arabs are still a minority. It is as if the international community is pushing Israel into a corner where it will behave more like the Arab negotiating team.
If Israel was to make extreme claims, such as for Arabs to be transferred or Hebron to be totally under Israeli control - then maybe the international community might actually be accepting of Israel’s reasonable and justified demands, to limited parts of the west bank and a unified Jerusalem as its capital. These methods, of raising the sakes into the land of the absurd, are what prevent real progress. Israel has also been doing all the ‘leg work’ trying to appease the Palestinians. The Arab side sits there with its arms folded like a metaphorical child refusing to budge from positions which defy reality.
The Arab world is still deeply politically retarded. It has not developed the strands of democracy, liberalism or accountability which would allow for it to be engaged with on an equal footing. Netanyahu’s speech lays out what is realistic, and what the Arab world must accept. The reality is that by continuing this unlimited hostility to Israel the Arab world has a smoke screen to avoid significant criticism and to enable horrifically corrupt leaders to continue to drive the Arab world economically, culturally, socially and politically into the ground.
a 90 degree turn away from the other photo, Jerusalem.
