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by Denis MacEoin • July 27, 2018 at
5:00 am
- Given that all
Palestinian leaderships have called for a Palestinian state that
will encompass and obliterate the state of Israel, it is not
surprising that they cannot bear to accept any proposal that
will give them only one small state (or two small states) in the
territory allotted to them by the United Nations in 1947.
- Re-imposition of
Islamic waqf law will not restore Spain, Portugal,
Sicily, India, Greece and all the other states of the abandoned
caliphal empires to Muslim rule, and it is futile to think that
is nothing more than a fantasy.
- A recent US report
revealed that there are, it seems, actually no more than 20,000
Palestinian refugees in the world.
- In the end, it is
so-called pro-Palestinian activists such as Robert Fisk or
writers for papers such as The Independent, The
Guardian, or the New York Times who do their utmost
to persuade the world to favour Palestinian intransigence over
offers of upgrading lives and international law.
Pictured:
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left) and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin (right) acknowledge applause during a Joint Session of
Congress in which U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the results
of the Camp David Accords, September 18, 1978. (Image source: Warren
K. Leffler/Library of Congress)
Anyone who cares for Israel, who aspires to peace, who
has a good understanding of the historical, ethical, political, and
legal facts that underpin the right of the Jewish people to a state
of which they are the indigenous people, will be familiar with the
name of Robert Fisk. But not in a good way.
For decades, Fisk has been one of the most unrelenting
of Israel's many haters and one of the most uncritical supporters of
the rights of the Palestinians and their unending calls and actions
aimed at the total destruction of Israel and the expulsion or
massacre of the Jewish people living there.[1]
Fisk is a clever man. He took his PhD in 1983 from
Trinity College, Dublin, an ancient and respected university.
Although his doctorate was in political science on a topic related to
Ireland and Britain, he has worked as the Middle East correspondent
for the Times (1976-1988) and, since 1989, for the left-wing
daily, The Independent.
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