Obama and Assad's Blood Stained Line

A line in the sand is a metaphor with two similar meanings:

• The first meaning is of a point (physical, decisional, etc.) beyond which one will proceed no further.  
• The second meaning is that of a point beyond which, once the decision to go beyond it is made, the decision and its resulting consequences are permanently decided and irreversible.

It is generally believed that if someone should “cross the line” than their behavior is wrong and not socially acceptable. The recent use by President Assad of chemical weapons, whose use was banned in warfare by a 1925 international treaty, does indeed cross a line, into a sort of brutality so extreme that the civilized world cannot afford to tolerate it.

President Obama left his proverbial “fly open” by making multiple “Line in the sand” threats against Bashar Assad to end the civil war in Syria. President Obama's lack of an immediate and swift military response not only embarrassed himself but has made a mockery of his administration as well.

This bloody civil war has been raging for more than two years and has claimed more than 100,000 civilian casualties, many of them women and children in atrocities that shock the conscience. President Obama’s failure to enact his threats to stop this bloodshed has stained all brave Americans with cowardice. It is hoped by many American's that after President Obama speech that he has come to the conclusion to never make a threat if you cannot willingly carry it out. As President he needs to know that; "When placed in command — take charge." And that "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, do without the strategy."

Like some spoiled grade school kid to the school bully he threatened President Bashar Assad, of "Red Lines" and than he stepped back, again and again. The people of the world and the Middle East now know that the US which was once feared by evil leaders as the "most powerful Democracy" is in reality a weak kneed "Paper Lion".

From my own personal experience in life I agree with the words of the late Four Star General and Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command of the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War of 1991 H. NormanSchwarzkopf, Jr. that; “Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar.” And that;

 "A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. All you have to do is hold your first dying soldier in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that his life is flowing out and you can’t do anything about it. Then you understand the horror of war.” 

As an Israeli I will reiterate that I personally do not want the US to get involved in Syria because most Americans do not have the faintest idea of what makes up the Middle East. The most glaring example of American ineptitude by the US in the Middle East occurred thirty years ago on October 23, 1983 during the Lebanese Civil War in the Beirut Barracks Bombings incident. Suicide bombers from the 'Islamic Jihad' drove two trucks laden with 9,525 kg (21,000 pounds) of TNT into separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Beirut,Lebanon.

This single attack represented the deadliest single-day death toll for the US Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War One.

All told 299 American and French servicemen were murdered—241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers, along with 60 injured. A then obscure group calling itself 'Islamic Jihad' led by Imad Mughniyah,a non-"Falestinian" Lebanese Shiite member of  Palestinian Fatah’s Force 17 claimed responsibility for the bombing. This same Imand Mughniyah who was responsible for the deaths of many Americans was a founder and a senior member of Lebanon's Hezbollah.

It is because of this continuing ineptitude of the US Intelligence Departments and the State Department that I stand firmly behind the fact that Americans should not get involved and to sacrifice their kids for either side in the quagmire that the Syrian Civil War has become. Especially in light of it’s two warring fractions that I term "Bad" or "Even Worst".

It is my fervent wish; I hope it is yours too, for them to murder each other in droves. The “Pro Assad” "Secular" Baath regime is being backed by the fanatically religious Shi'ite regime of Iran and their Lebanese lackeys the Hezbollah. The rebels are a confused mixture with a new and odious vicious group The Chechnian Al Qaeda.

This particularly vicious radical and fanatical Sunni Moslem religious group is involved in the fighting and they are getting stronger. For the moment they are fighting against the forces of Assad and the Hezbollah. And for once I actually agree with Russian President Vladimir Putkin and with the Ruskies that as long as the Al Qaeda’s Chechen, Caucasian fighters are getting killed and the Hezbollah are being killed we should be immensely thankful! As my Christian Lebanese friends say; “Inshallah may they continue!” 

As an American, President Obama is right on the count that he needs to know that at least the US Congress will back him up. When the US Congress reconvenes I think that it is about time that all US voters/taxpayers wipe the smirk smiles off those Arab faces. Use this “Golden Opportunity” to take immediate action to bombard your representatives, congressmen and Senators to wake up and cut off ALL foreign aid to ALL Arab countries, the UN and especially UNWRA!!!

IF the Arabs are “Laughing” at the USA than Let them “foot” the bill  LITERALLY. After all the billions if not trillions in US Tax dollars spent on saving the wrong guy in Arab countries over the years. It is time for the Arabs primarily Saudi Arabia -YOUR "US Gas Dollars at work" to police the area. AND the USA should demand repayment! I ask;"Why should you Americas spend your hard owned tax dollars to protect the lavish lifestyles of the Saudi Princes?" And what do YOU the US Taxpayer's have to say to this? Did I hear any of you writing your congressman about cutting US Aid to the Arabs? I mean wouldn't it be nice to get back the TRILLIONS wasted on protecting Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf State Emirates to pay for America schools, Health Care and aging infrastructure?

American naiveté of the Middle East can be further witnessed in an interview to Al Arabiya, few days after his inauguration, Obama declared: "my job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.  President Obama in his infamous "A New Beginning" speech in Cairo in June of 2009 embarrassed himself and the American people by trying to "make up" with the Arabs of the World. At that time that Egypt was chosen as the place for the speech because as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated; "it is a country that in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world.”

President Obama and his adviser's fiasco of not comprehending the Middle East is further exasperated in his lauding of the "Election" of the Moslem Brotherhood leadership in President Morsi and his ostracizing the Egyptian Military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The moderate mainly secular middle class youth who led the protests in Tahrir Square, in what the imbeciles of the BBC and CNN termed the "Arab Spring" protests, brought the Moslem Brotherhood into power. The "romance" with the "Democratic" removal of President Hosni Mubarak seemed a clear message from the White House.

Though the Army had supported Mubarak through his decades-long rule, it became increasingly clear that the Moslem Brotherhood had the best political operation and would likely win the popular vote in the elections of 2012 Ever-pragmatic businessmen, the military officers realized that they had to negotiate with their erstwhile enemies, to protect their own institutions, perks, and bank accounts, they would have to step in on the side of the protesters of the "Arab Spring" against Mubarak. When Morsi turned autocratic and the Brotherhood subverted the popular will, Egypt received little in support from the U.S.

The extremely fanatical Islamic fundamentalist group which had been outlawed by the Egyptians, who knew what they were all about, was released from its’ “Pandora box”. Suddenly they took over as the Nazis did through “Democratic” elections because the Moderate and seculars “thought they had the elections in the bag” they had not realized that the Moslem Brotherhood out numbered them. These Sixth Century backward uneducated Islamic religious fanatics began to reverse Egypt, like Iran in 1979.

“Luckily” the Egyptian military leadership reversed all this is their military putsch. And for once it was a military Junta that took control to bring sanity back to what was once a close ally to the US.  Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rationalized the military putsch he helped orchestrate to depose Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Muhammad Morsi by saying:

The dilemma between the former president [Muhammad Morsi] and the people originated from [the Muslim Brotherhood’s] concept of the state, the ideology that they adopted for building a country, which is based on restoring the Islamic religious empire [El Kalifa or Califate (Caliphate) ]. That’s what made [Mohamed Morsi] not a president for all Egyptians but a president representing his followers and supporters.

Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi‎ wrote that “The Conception of Democracy from [an] Islamic Perspective,” articulates his wide world perception of ideas and beliefs as follows:

Democracy, as a secular entity, is unlikely to be favorably received by the vast majority of Middle Easterners, who are devout followers of the Islamic faith.…Although concerns exist, for the most part, the spirit of democracy, or self-rule, is viewed as a positive endeavor so long as it builds up the country and sustains the religious base, versus devaluing religion and creating instability.

Democracy cannot be understood in the Middle East without an understanding of the concept of El Kalafa [the Caliphate]. El Kalafa dates back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. During his life and the seventy year period that followed the ideal state of El Kalafa existed as a way of life among the people and within the governing bodies. This period of time is viewed as a very special period and is considered the ideal form of government and it is widely recognized as the goal for any new form of government very much in the manner that the U.S. pursued the ideals of “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” From the Middle Eastern perspective, the defining words governing their form of democracy would likely reflect “fairness, justice, equality, unity and charity.”

But President Obama and his advisors once again have shown their ignorance by siding with the “Democratically Elected” Mohamed Morsi while ostracizing the Egyptian Military leader General AbdelFattah al-Sisi. As he bluntly told The Washington Post in a rare recent interview: “You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that.” 

Since the overthrow of the Moslem Brotherhood and Morsi in Egypt and the cut off of US funds, the Sunni royals of the Gulf States, who have their own agenda in Egypt, have secured billions of dollars in aid from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. President Obama and the US rejection of the “Military Junta” has so angered the Egyptians that the Egyptian Minister of Defense recently stated that “No (US) warship has the right to pass through the Suez Canal to attack Syria”

I seriously doubt that President Obama’s “advisors” are aware that Al-Sisi was selected to attend the U.S. Army War College in 2006 during a severely traumatic period in the Middle East—for Americans as well as for Arabs. It was while at the War College, al-Sisi wrote an 11-page academic paper titled “Democracy in the Middle East.”

In his paper he pointed out the influence of Christianity and its culture on American government, especially in its early days, drawing a parallel with the role of Islam now in the establishment of nascent Middle Eastern democracies. Al-Sisi wrote that whereas;

• Americans believe in “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,”
• Islamic cultures cling to principles of “fairness, justice, equality, unity, and charity,”
• Americans look to their republic’s Founding Fathers for guidance;
•  Muslims cherish the memory of the ancient caliphate. 
• It is ironic that in this paper he states that “this does not mean a theocracy will be established,” wrote al-Sisi, “rather it means a democracy will be established based on Islamic beliefs.”

And another fact to note is that since the Camp David peace accords 1978 more than $1.4 billion a year from the United States pours into the coffers of the Egyptian military. This policy, which originates back in the days of British Imperial involvement in the nineteenth century, was meant to keep its officers and soldiers loyal because the Egyptian military pays out rich dividends to them. The military draws on recruits from all levels of Egyptian society. Egypt historically has been a state habitually plagued by nepotism and corruption. As officers move up the ranks, they move ever-more deeply into a world intentionally isolated from the rest of the country. They have their own apartments, their own clubs, their own schools and stores. The Army has its own manufacturing empire and a vast construction business that frequently shuts out the private sector in bids for contracts with little or no public accountability.

As to the embarrassing fall of our once staunch ally in the United Kingdom. The vote in the English House of Commons shows not only the war weariness of the English people but it is a warning bell to the people of England and Europe of the spread and rise in population of their Moslem constituents and their growing political power from within.

The quagmire we live in today vis a vis the Arab world is a direct outcome of those who still cannot comprehend the hidden agenda and rise of post 9/11 radical Islam and the inner warfare between the two sects Shiism and Sunni.

Since taking office, Obama stated his support for the creation of a "Falestinian" state and announced that he would engage in negotiations with Iran. He also declared he opposed Israeli settlements and wanted to revive "Falestinian" peace talks. The two examples of Syria and Egypt, that I have presented above show exactly why the US pressure on Israel is so wrong. Binyamin Netanyahu’s six-year old policy, which was oriented on engendering understanding with Barack Obama, is in ruins as Bibi now has to wipe egg off his face.

And of course yet again we in Israel have been left holding the proverbial bag and have been put in a tight spot on three counts:

1.  The hostile Iran-Syrian-Hezbollah bloc comes out strengthened;

2.  Tehran can feel free to develop a nuclear bomb without fear of resolute US interference;

3.  Hezbollah can celebrate its backing for the winning horse in Damascus.

In the meantime “Wile E. Coyote” aka Bashar Assad and his Iranian partners now have all the time in the world to line up their counter moves. And we will continue to hear the laughter from the whole Arab world of what a total fool and weak leader the US has.

The West Wing

Two years ago I had been watching reruns of the Fifth and Sixth season of the "West Wing", ‎rebroadcast on the Israeli cable "Yes" TV channel. And I had written this Blog entry at that time and I was amazed at some of the things that were written and acted out Leaders of the EU, US ‎President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry should take heed of  of the dialogue which is out of ‎date but some still very rings true today. It is amazing how on the Arab side nothing has changed. The hate is still the same as mentioned in Abba Eban’s famous quote after the Geneva Peace Conference with Arab countries (21 December 1973); “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

The story of the fictional Palestinian – Israeli Peace Initiative  begins with episode 21 from the fifth season filmed in 2003(?), written by Peter Noah and directed ‎by Christopher Misiano,; before the Israeli one sided "Disengagement of 2005" from the Gaza Strip and the brutal ‎taken over by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in 2007.

The character Donna - Donatella Moss - ‎is sent on a congressional fact-finding mission with Admiral Fitzwallace and a few ‎congressmen to the Middle East. Just as they enter the Gaza Strip they encounter an IED ‎‎-a road side bomb which kills Admiral Fitzwallace and two Congressmen DeSantos and ‎Korb. The then  Democratic President Bartlet, sounding strong as Republican George ‎Bush or a Ronald Reagan Republican type of US president states:‎

‎President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet: What do we know? - Roadside bomb, detonated by cell phone. They knew they were ‎targeting Americans. The black Suburbans are well-known. Up to now, that's been ‎advantageous U.S. officials have long been off-limits to Palestinian terror attacks. What's ‎striking is no claim of responsibility. They usually can't take credit fast ‎enough Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad. All announced they had nothing to do with ‎this. They don't wanna wake up to a cruise missile for breakfast.”‎

Donna is seriously injured in the terrorist car bombing. Three Americans are killed. And ‎as President Bartlet is considering targets for military action, the staff struggle to deal ‎with the tragedy emotionally. The most realistic part of the episode takes place as we are ‎given this 2003 version flashback view of "Life in Gaza" where we learn through Donna ‎about the conflict between the Israelis and "Falestinians" through an "Irish" ‎photojournalist introduces her to a "Falestinian" "Electrician" by the name of “Ashraf” ‎from Gaza.‎

Episode Dialogue: Voice Over-‎

‎“When you get out of the hotel and into the streets what hits you about Gaza isn't the ‎overcrowding and poverty. You've been briefed about that.‎ What strikes you is something else. Idleness. (When I served there in the late ‘70s it was ‎the stench that struck me) The sense of a people waiting, but with no expectation. It's ‎hard to convey.‎

 Colin (speaking to Ashraf)  I'd like you to meet someone.‎

Colin: Ashraf Monsour, this is Donna Moss.(Please note the name Monsour is an ‎Egyptian name)‎

Donna: Hi.‎

Colin: Miss Moss is with the American government delegation.She'd like to ‎understand Gaza better.‎

Ashraf: (Replying in bad English) I am not an employee. I'm electrician.‎

Colin: (Speaking to Donna) Ashraf works in construction in Israel.‎

Ashraf: I am not an employee.(Ashraf attempts to explain here that he does not live on ‎the dole from the Palestinian Authority) and that he is unemployed because....‎

Ashraf:  I don't

Colin: The Israelis closed the checkpoints after a suicide bombing. Last week.‎

Donna: Right.‎

Ashraf: I can't work to feed my family.‎

‎(Asharaf’s friend comments in Arabic “Better you should be one of them pointing at a ‎poster of a “Shahid-Martyr”)‎

Ashraf: He says I should become one of them.‎

Donna: What's it say?  

Ashraf: "The glory of eternity for our martyrs.”‎

Colin: The Palestinian Authority pays 2000 U.S.dollars to the families of ‎‎"martyrs.”Plus 150 a month until the last child leaves home.‎

Ashraf:‎ I wish to work. These martyrs, These martyrs take food out of my children's ‎mouths.‎

Colin: When it's open, 19,000 Palestinians a day pass through the Erez checkpoint to ‎work jobs in Israel.”‎

To recap:  In the dialogue from this scene we learn that the "ordinary Falestinian" in the ‎post Oslo Accords period works not in "Falestine" (Gaza) but in Israel. He tells Donna ‎that he is not a member of the "Falestinian" Authority- run by the Nobel Peace Prize ‎winner Yasser Arafat. That he Ashraf the “ordinary Falestinian”, is a person living on the ‎UNWRA dole from US and foreign aid. That he, the “ordinary Falestinian”, cannot enter Israel to work because a ‎suicide bomber had committed an atrocity and the Checkpoints that would have been ‎open to allow him to work and feed his family were closed due to Arafat's secret ‎prompting of suicide bombing attacks.

That "IF" he were to be a "Martyr" = suicide ‎bomber his family would receive $2,000 (in actuality it was $20,000) dollars from ‎‎"Falestinian" Authority plus his wife and children $150 each a month until age 18.‎(This is still true until today)

Continuing in the episode we see Donna and the photojournalist in their hotel room ‎watching the video of a Palestinian suicide bomber on “Palestinian Authority ‎Television".‎

Donna: Shes so young

Colin: “Yeah Suicide bombers often leave these videotapes behind.‎

Donna: What's she saying?‎

He backs up the tape and translates for Donna.‎

Colin: Um... "It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel to knock on ‎the door of heaven with the skulls of Zionists.God gave me two children who I love so"‎

Donna: She had children?‎

Colin: Oh, yeah.One and 3.‎

Donna: Her husband had no idea she was planning to do it?‎

Colin: Here. Families of suicide bombers get showered with gifts. It's customary at the ‎funeral to hand out sweets.‎

Donna: It's unimaginable.‎

Colin: Well, you don't have to imagine it, do you? It's real.”‎

Now do you know WHY? we built the security wall. Now back to 2003…..‎

Donna [Voice Over]‎

Getting in and out of the Israeli settlement of Kfar Durom requires a military
escort. 500 mortar shells have landed there in the last three years. During‎out pre-dinner break, I met an Israeli settler family. Two days before,‎a mortar round had exploded in their kitchen.‎

‎"CUT TO: EXT. - HOME - GAZA - DAY" Supposedly a scene shot in a an Israeli ‎‎"Settlement" in the Gaza Strip before the "Disengagement" Donna and Colin are talking ‎with an Israeli man and woman.‎

Israeli Mother: It came through the roof. Israeli Father: One half hour later, my wife ‎would have been giving breakfast to our children. Israeli Mother: Four others have fallen ‎around the house.‎

Colin: See, when the Palestinians get a hit, what they do is secure the launchers,‎

and that way they can make sure and repeat the strike.‎

Donna: You must live in constant fear.‎

Israeli Mother: Our soldiers will find the mortar.‎

Israeli Father:  You replace the tile roof with concrete and pray.‎

Donna: In Israel there's talk of giving up these settlements.‎

Israeli Mother: God wants us in this place. It is our divine, moral obligation to be here.‎

Israeli Father: If we give in to the Arabs, they'll take more and more, and eventually we'll ‎all end up in Tel Aviv.‎

Israeli Mother: And then they'll take that.‎

Donna: All of this... it doesn't make you want to leave?‎

Israeli Father:  This is the more safe environment.‎

And there is a scene where the script writers include this conversation with an Israeli ‎soldier:‎

‎"Yossi" an Israeli Soldier: “Once, we're sent to dismantle an illegal settlement. The ‎settlers punch and kick us.A woman bit my arm so hard, she drew blood. My own people.‎

Colin:  Yossi spent some time guarding the settlement in Kfar Darom.‎

In 2005 Israel forcibly ejected Israeli residents from their homes in Gaza in the hopes that ‎the world would see that Israel will sacrifice for peace. And what have we received in ‎return? More than 13,000 rockets and mortar rounds fired at innocent civilians in our ‎towns and cities.‎

In regards to the disengagement. The words from the dialogue of Episode 2 Season Six at ‎Camp David, we have this exchange written in 2004 where the fictional Israeli PM ‎Zahavy, His Israeli Defense Minister Massar, The Palestinian ‎Josh are sitting around a table, talking.‎

Mukarat, Toby, Will, and

Israeli PM Zahavy: And the removal of our forces from the territories would create a ‎power vacuum. How are we to prevent rocket attacks from Palestinian-controlled areas. ‎

Palestinian Mukarat: It would be our responsibility to gain control over our militants.‎

Israeli Defense Minister Massar: We've tried that before.‎

Palestinian Mukarat: You've never given us enough time to assert ourselves before you ‎come rushing back in with your tanks.‎

In this excerpt from the dialogue we hear the constant lame and feeble excuse of the Palestinians to prevent ‎terrorism which is quoted:‎

Palestinian Mukarat: They've done everything in their power to undermine moderate ‎leadership. Don't they understand when the blow up leaders of Hamas with bombs, all ‎those Palestinian homes, they only make them stronger? Boys and girls, they no longer ‎want to be doctors, teachers, engineers. Now, they all want to be martyrs.‎

When the Palestinian Chairman "Farad" calls to offer his condolences to President Bartlet ‎what “prophetic*” statement does the Presidents Secretary of Defense say in the War ‎Room?‎

Leo: Condolences?‎

Toby: Let's see what he has to say about it in Arabic for domestic consumption.‎

Secretary of Defense Hutchinson: He knows who did it.‎

Barrow: I'm sure that's what the Israelis will say.‎

Secretary of Defense Hutchinson: They've lived thirty years with this guy's track record.‎Harper: The Chairman's control over Gaza is not absolute. *Hamas has a strong power-‎base there.‎

And this conversation between "senior" White House Staff: Will Bailey Deputy ‎Communications Director, Claudia Jean "C.J." Cregg Press Secretary, Charlie Young, ‎Personal Aide to the President ,Kate Harper Deputy National Security Advisor, Toby ‎Ziegler Communications Director and Leo McGarry, Chief of Staff.‎

Will: Israel is not the problem.‎

C.J.: The settlement, the wall...‎

Charlie: Israel didn't just blow Americans up.‎

C.J.: I'm not saying there's equivalence.‎

Will: Israelis don't talk about driving the Palestinians into the sea.‎

Harper: Some do.‎

Will: Oh, come on.‎

C.J.: Ever heard the phrase "Greater Israel"?‎

Leo: Not from anyone serious.‎

Harper: One reason some people say nothing can happen till these guys are gone is the feeling they both may be stuck in old attitudes or assumptions. There‎ was a time when Palestinians and all Arabs wanted to drive Jews into the sea,‎ but some would argue that time's past.‎

Will: Listen to some Arab broadcasts.‎

C.J.: Rabble-rousing to distract their street.‎

Harper: I'm not sure any credible Arab leader truly expects Israel's demise anymore,‎

not even the Chairman.‎

Leo: Don't be so sure.‎

Harper:  Well, there's a view that...‎

Will: Don't keep saying "Some argue" and "There's a view." Can we restrict it to

your view?‎

Harper:  Okay. Palestinians are no longer fighting to destroy the Jewish state. They're ‎fighting for a state of their own, a revolutionary struggle against an occupying force, and ‎revolutionaries will outlast and out-die occupiers every time.‎

Will: I don't know if that's more simplistic or naive.‎

Toby: It's tribal. It can't be solved. It's Hatfield and McCoy and there is no end.‎

Here is what is said about the “Peace Process” before Ehud Olmert’s better deal that was ‎also refused in an exchange between Leo McGarry and President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet:‎

Leo: The peace process? The Israelis handed the Chairman the deal of the century in ‎Taba five years ago - he started smuggling Katyusha rockets into Gaza on fishing boats. ‎There is no long-term. The Israelis are right: there is only one way to bring stability to ‎this region and we should be out there with them digging ditches and putting up barbed ‎wire.‎

President Bartlet: The fence?‎

Leo: It's a realistic solution.‎

President Bartlet: It's a land-grab.‎

Leo: There's no alternative! - There's no partner for peace.”‎

Toby Ziegler Communications Director: Last time, Israel offered up Gaza, half ‎of Jerusalem, Temple Mount, and the lead role in the Temple Beth el Purim Play.”‎

Back in the time of the filming the show in 2003 of the story of the total corruption of the “Palestinian Authority” and Hamas was not well publisized. While visiting the wounded Donna Moss in the Hospital in Germany Josh ‎Lyman is called to meet with a representative of the Palestinians. ‎

Palestinian: Hamas grows stronger every day.‎

Josh Lyman: Because of frustration with Israel.‎

Palestinian: Yes, but even more because of what Hamas can offer the Palestinian

people. Food, education, health care.‎

Josh Lyman: But doesn't the Palestinian Authority...‎

Palestinian: The Palestinian Authority lines its own pockets. Chairman Farad cannot... ‎will not change, and he's willing to pull the temple down on his head. But there are

other, more reasonable men, who with help could affect change, challenge Hamas.‎

Josh Lyman: Moderates?‎

Palestinian: I tell you this in the strictest of confidence. I bring word from Prime Minister Mukarat of Palestine. He is concerned with the ongoing situation,‎ and he feels the time has come for opening a new line of dialogue with Israel and your country; a line of dialogue that does not include Chairman Farad.‎

And then there is this Liberal Leftist American poke at the Bush presidency in this  exchange between the fictional characters Leo McGarry Chief of Staff and ‎Kate Harper Deputy National Security Advisor:  ‎

Kate Harper: American intervention is responsible for propping up nearly every dictator

in the Middle East.‎

Leo McGarry: And look where that's gotten us. Sir, it's time to focus on the terrorist

elements who have declared war against us.‎

Kate Harper: We're at war with the plague of jealousy and hatred and the Israeli-‎Palestinian conflict is the index patient. Shouldn't that be our focus?‎

And for the people of Israel a special message from the “Yordim” Israeli expatriates and Jewish writers ‎of Hollywood:‎

Leo McGarry:  You know on May 13, the day before Israeli Independence Day, the TV ‎stations screen the name of every soldier who has fallen for the country. A name flashes

on the screen for a second or two, then the next name appears. You go to bed,‎you get up, the names are still flashing. It takes 24 hours. That's how they observe Memorial Day.‎

President Bartlet: Yeah, and they keep firing missiles into Gaza, we start encouraging it,‎

how long until that broadcast last 48 hours? Or 72?‎

Then there is the exchange between the "Irish" photojournalist and Josh Lyman:‎

Colin: Looks like your boy's got himself into a bit of trouble.‎

Josh: My boy?‎

Colin: Bartlet.‎

Josh: He's been President Bartlet for six years; he hasn't been a boy for about 50.‎

Colin: Israelis are never gonna meet with Farad. Why should they? They've got him

surrounded in the West Bank. What does Bartlet think they're going to do,‎ knock on the door of his compound and say, "I'm so sorry about the tanks and stuff, but would you like to pop over to America and have a nice wee chat and sort this out?"?‎

Josh:  Where are you from?‎

Colin: Belfast.‎

Josh: You guys are really the model on how to work things out over there.‎

Colin: Yeah, we are, actually.‎

Josh: The Israelis have every right to protect themselves from terrorists.‎

Colin: They don't occupy a force to oppress...‎

Josh: They're citizen soldiers trying to keep their sisters from getting blown up

on a bus.‎

Colin: You Jewish?‎

Josh: Why? You anti-Semitic?‎

Colin: Anyone who thinks the Palestinians have a point is anti-Semitic.‎

Josh: And anyone who thinks the Jews don't after being chased and exiled and persecuted for centuries is either an idiot or a fool, probably both.‎

And then there is this exchange between President Josiah Bartlett and the Israeli PM Zahavy on the phone:‎

President Bartlet: It's a show of good faith on Chairman Farad's part; an example of his ‎renewed willingness to address the peace process. Mr. Prime Minister, the territories are ‎undermining your legitimacy as a modern Democracy and sapping your moral authority ‎in the eyes of the world.‎

Israeli PM Zahavy: Farad is beholden to the very forces that wish to push us back into the‎ Sea. It's not a negotiating point for him. It's a religious and a moral imperative to take ‎back all of Israel for Palestine.‎

President Bartlet: Sir, you cannot hold yourself out as the Promised Land while ‎occupying the territories and oppressing other peoples.‎

Israeli PM Zahavy: Our Arab citizens enjoy the most freedoms of any Arabs in the ‎Middle East. Palestinians are oppressed as opposed to... We don't stone women who refuse to wear head scarves in Tel Aviv.‎

At the fictional negotiations at Camp David :  Palestinian Chairman Farad, Israeli ‎‎ Ambassador to the USA Shira Galit , National Security Advisor Kate Harper, and ‎several other people are sitting at a table and are talking.‎

Farad: A million Palestinians were being forced from their homes, their...‎

Galit: Closer to 700,000, and they weren't expelled. They left after being urged to do so ‎by our...‎

Farad: We were being terrorized by Zionist troops who were threatening to torch every ‎Arab village in the...‎

Galit:  You accepted the Partition Plan in '47. Not a single Palestinian would become a ‎refugee...‎

Kate: If I might interrupt...‎

Farad: The Palestinians were being massacred. Even Israeli historians admit this.‎

Galit: It was war, only three years after the Holocaust. If we had lost there would have ‎been another wholesale slaughter of Jews.‎

BASKETBALL COURT - CAMP DAVID - DAY We see that Charlie, Toby, Will, Josh ‎and Bartlet are playing basketball while discussing the negotiations. President Bartlet's ‎wife Abigail "Abbey" and Deputy National Security Advisor Kate Harper are sitting on ‎the sidelines watching.‎

Will: The Israelis will return the territories but they want a military presence.‎

Toby: The Palestinians don't get how it's going to be their house if it comes furnished ‎with Israeli tanks.‎

Josh: Have you mentioned Germany? We've had troops there for 50 years.‎

Toby: They asked how many British troops were still stationed in Philadelphia after the ‎American Revolution.‎

Josh: Plenty. But they were, you know, shackled to the wall.‎

President Bartlet: What about settlements?‎

Kate: The Israelis are hinting they'll abandon everything in Gaza but they want 75%‎

of the West Bank settlements to remain.  ‎Mukarat  (the TV Palestinian fictional President) might go for it if he gets land in exchange.‎

President Bartlet: Sounds promising.‎

Kate:  Only Mukarat wants twice as much as Israelis say the settlements sit on.‎

Abbey: How's he justifying that?‎

Kate:  Says Israelis took the best land. Wants two-for-one in exchange.‎

President Bartlet:  Dismantling terror?‎

Will: Israelis want Farad to renounce terrorism. But in Arabic on Al Jazeera. They want ‎more than a promise to disarm Hamas. They want it before they leave.‎

President Bartlet: What do the Palestinians say? -‎

Toby: That Farad's renounced terrorism.‎

Josh:  Is that why he calls for the blood of a million martyrs in all his speeches? ‎

Will: I thought that was a problem with the interpretation.‎

President Bartlet:  Right of return?‎

Kate: Farad wants the right of return to apply to all Palestinians. The Israelis are ‎understandably concerned about 3 million Palestinians moving back in.‎

Josh:  Gallop did some polling in the West Bank. Found that, while refugees wanted the ‎right to come back, most wouldn't.‎

Will: That's great. Then they won't be disappointed.‎

Meanwhile at the fictional Camp David "Peace" negotiations Israeli Ambassador to the ‎USA Shira Galit has a heated exchange with the Palestinian Chairman Farad

Galit: The Palestinians only became refugees when our Arab neighbors refused to accept ‎them. 800,000 Jews were similarly expelled from Arab nations. 600,000 of them were ‎resettled in Israel without compensation from Arab countries.‎

Kate: Madame Ambassador, you bring up the issue of compensation. Would Israel

be prepared...‎

Farad: We are not asking for money. We want the right of return.‎

Galit: We can't allow 3 million refugees the right to freely reenter.‎

Farad: Of course not! Since the 19th century, Zionist leaders have advocated a

transfer of Arabs out of Palestine.‎

Galit: We can not accept an unlimited right of immigration.  If the Arab population hadn't ‎been uprooted (?)- no Jewish state could've arisen.‎

Farad: So it was right for Palestine to be cleansed of its native population to establish a ‎Jewish ‎state? We are prepared to sacrifice, but not to formalize our dispossession."‎

Fawzi al-Qawuqji 

The following dialogue could have been taken directly from the "Palestine Loss" web ‎site. It is the typical "Nachba" dialogue that only gives the “Falestinian” version of what ‎occurred. There is no mention that none of this would have occurred if the ex Waffen SS ‎members of the Arab Irregulars forces of the  Arab Liberation Army   (Jaysh al-Inqadh al-Arabi) Fawzi al-Qawuqji  had not begun butchering ‎the mainly Orthodox Jewish residents of Safed.‎ It is also interesting that when the script was written it supposedly is the fictional Palestine Chairman Farad who relating “his” life story and it is similar to the true story of the real current Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

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Kate: "Chairman, I know how difficult it would be for you to appear to be abandoning the ‎principle.‎

It's not reasonable to ask that Israelis allow an unlimited number of refugees to return.‎

Farad: I was born in the city of Zefat. Do you know Zefat? It's in the mountains of ‎upper Galilee.‎ I was 8 years old when the British left. There were 52,000 Arabs in Zefat. Only 1300 ‎Jews. Within a month, the Haganah had taken over the city. My eldest sister, Amira, was ‎killed. The body of my brother, Aziz was found hanging from a burned cypress tree. We ‎fled to Syria lived in tents, ate United Nations handouts and surplus American cheese. I ‎still remember the view of the valley from the roof of our house. The smell of the ‎pomegranates. The sound of children playing in our orchard.‎

The home of my father, of my aunts, my uncles. They are now art galleries and bed-and-‎breakfasts.‎

Will I get to go home, Miss Harper?‎

Kate: No, sir. Probably not."‎

In the narrative of the conflict of the Middle East we are constantly exposed, as in the scene above, of the terrible consequences of Arab hatred towards the Jews during the foundation of Israel. The imagery of “Deir Yassin” and the massive rout of the seven Arab League armies by the defiant Jews in the “Nachba” (Catastrophe) of 1948 has been poured onto the world media since 1974. The once proud imagery of Israel as the brave David fighting a massive Goliath has been brushed aside by Pro Palestinian and Liberal haters of Isarel and Zion after Arafat’s 1974 UN Speech. 

It is due to this that the writer of the “West Wing” failed to put in a similar narrative from a European ‎Holocaust survivor(s) who after losing his/her family and home fled Europe to Israel, the story of Jewish residents of the Old Quarter of Jerusalem or the Gush Etzion Block or the story of a wealthy Jewish family ‎from Iraq who were stripped of their property and money by the Moslems and kicked out ‎or barely fled with their lives. This lack of showing the full narrative  only shows how messages are ‎played out in Hollywood.‎

Upon Negotiating Jerusalem - A Classical Hollywood Fictional Account

President Bartlet is on the terrace at Camp David talking ‎with Palestinian Chairman Farad.‎

President Bartlet: Shared sovereignty of Jerusalem is the only realistic approach.‎

Palestinian Chairman Farad: No. If anyone led you to believe we could agree...‎

President Bartlet: Mr. Chairman, do you really want to see your people oppressed for ‎another generation? Shared custody of the city and its holy sites is the only...‎

Palestinian Chairman Farad: Why do you continue to support Israel? Hatred of America ‎grows because of this, and not just in the Muslim countries.‎

President Bartlet: I've done more to support the Palestinian cause than anyone who's ever ‎sat in my chair.‎

Palestinian Chairman Farad: The Haram Sharif, the Dome of the Rock, stands on the site ‎where the prophet Mohammed landed in his divine journey from  Mecca to Jerusalem.‎

President Bartlet: Mr. Chairman, there isn't a single member of your delegation who ‎doesn't think turning down the offer of a Palestinian homeland in 1947 was lunacy,‎

a colossal mistake. Please, do not make the same mistake today.‎

Next scene: President Bartlet is walking along a path with Israeli PM Zahavy: and they are talking ‎about the status of Jerusalem.‎

President Bartlet: The general principle would be that Arab areas are Palestinian and ‎Jewish areas   are Israeli; Israeli sovereignty over the Western Wall, Palestinian ‎sovereignty over the Haram. There would have to be a firm commitment from both ‎parties not to excavate under the Haram or behind the wall, of course.‎

‎Israeli PM Zahavy: You have kept us here for five days, negotiating contriving little ‎things we did not want to do but we have tried, struggled to find a common ground ‎because we value your friendship and that of the United States; but I have taken a solemn ‎oath before God and my people not to give up Jerusalem. I told that on the first day. I told ‎you. ‎

Israeli PM Zahavy begins gesticulating with great fervor to try to get his point across to ‎Bartlet. ‎

Israeli PM Zahavy continues: And yet you continue to talk and to talk; you have not been ‎listening. Mr. President, my right eye will fall out, my right arm will fall off before I ever ‎sign a document giving up Jerusalem.‎

I wonder just how much of this "script"  will be repeated?‎

My Proposal

The Truth and NOTHING but THE TRUTH!!

The tremendous desire for a true peace and an end to the cycle of violence between our ‎‎two peoples has led Israel to make endless concessions to the Palestinians. 

• We Israeli’s ‎‎have evacuated the Sinai and it’s settlements for Peace with Egypt. 
• We also “disengaged” ‎‎from the Gaza Strip, a step which severely traumatized parts of our people, for no ‎‎concessions in return other than that the Palestinian people acknowledge our right to ‎‎exist. 

There have been many who have tried to find a “just and lasting” peace for the Middle East but their efforts have been squashed by those predominantly on the Arab side. 

The PLO or Fatah, the group that represented the Palestinians in the negotiations, that deceitfully accepted the 1993 Oslo Peace accords. Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine openly and violently objected to the accords because their own charters abjectly refuse to recognize the mere presence of Jews let alone Israel's right to exist in "Palestine". They adhere openly to the Iranian policy of the total extermination of the State of Israel. Their ‎‎leaders make endless speeches of hatred as they urge their followers -especially their youth to seek "the path of martyrdom" as they offer substantial monetary incentive to their families in the #pay4slay scheme. In Palestinian society there is a total lack of the teaching of ‎‎tolerance and peace among their youth.‎

Here in Israel, a strong debate over the Oslo Peace accords took place along long standing viewpoints; the political parties of the "left wing" (Meretz and Labor) supported them, while the "right wing" (Likud) opposed them. 

After a very heated two-day discussion, on the 23rd of September 1993, on the government proclamation in the Knesset on the issue of the accord and the exchange of the letters, a vote of confidence was held in which 61 Knesset members voted for the decision, 50 voted against and 8 abstained. 

As to WHY we Israelis choose peace one merely needs to read the words of Yitzhak Rabin after the acceptance ceremony on the White House lawn:

"We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.”

 "We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed." 

I always point out how in my personal conversations with Yitzhak Rabin z"l how he hesitated in negotiating with Yasser Arafat and how he had the inkling of his deceit. Yitzhak had been unwilling to touch the hand soaked with the blood of so many innocents: "Of all hands in the world, it was not the hand that I wanted nor dreamed of touching, ...  

In the five years immediately after the Oslo Agreements. the “Palestinians” murdered a total of 279 Israeli men, women and children in 92 lethal attacks by Palestinian terrorists. 

According to the Palestinian’s their trust in the process was undermined in the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, in which at least 39 Palestinians were killed by a Baruch Goldstein; the lone Israeli gunman (who was beaten to death once he ran out of ammunition), and by the expansion of Israeli settlements (although the Oslo agreements stipulated no such ban and oddly enough the PA acknowledges that the settlements have actually provided 12,000 temporary jobs to Palestinian construction workers.) 

The Palestinians claimed support for the accord declined because of the construction of the “Apartheid Wall” which was constructed in response to the wave of Palestinian suicide attacks, and blockades -necessitated by the smuggling of weapons and ammunition, which caused a "deterioration of economic conditions".

In the aftermath of this latest round of fighting we have see the intervention of hostile Moslem – Islamic forces from Iran inside Sudan, Egypt and Gaza with Hamas. 

The “Palestinian Authority” has been regulated to those "Palestinians" living in Judea and Samaria – the “West Bank” and the extremists of the Palestinians in Gaza to Hamas.

We of the Labor Party who backed Yitzhak Rabin z’l wanted the 1993 Oslo Peace accords to succeed and work. 

Sadly his work still goes unfinished until today. For the sake of peace initiated by the late Yitzhak ‎Rabin z”l who gave his life ‎in an attempt to bring peace to the Middle East. I do not wish to go back in time to “What was” and “Why we have failed” but I wish to look forward to, “What should be done”. As our party leader and past Prime Minister Yitzhak ‎Rabin z”l  stated; “We who have fought against you, the Palestinians - we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. ...The time for peace has come.”

The Jewish people wherever they are aspire for peace. For over two thousand years, our ‎people ‎have known discrimination, bigotry, death and destruction with no place to run to. The ancient Jewish people gave the world a vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and the learning of war. —"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Despite the tragedies and disappointments of the past, today we have a home but we lack a true peace. Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and we desire peace, peace for us and our children as well peace for our neighbors and their children. Golda Meir z”l once said;

 “I am also grateful that I live in a country whose people have learned how to go on living in a sea of hatred without hating those who want to destroy them and without abandoning their own vision of peace. To have learned this is a great art, the prescription for which is not written down anywhere. It is part of our way of life in Israel.”

I say enough! Just as the late Anwar Sadat stated;

“Let there be no more wars or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis—let there be no more wars or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith. Let no mother lament the loss of her child. Let no young man waste his life on a conflict from which no one benefits. Let us work together until the day comes when they beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. And God does call to the abode of peace.”

One must take into account the stark contrast to todays’ world wide vision of Israel and “Zionism” as a focal point of ‎and virulent anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred. For at one time in the aftermath of World War I the renewal of Jewish life in ‎‎“Eretz Yisrael” was not an ‎obstacle to the Arab world. We were not demonized as we are ‎today by the ‎‎“Falestinians” and “Human Rights Groups”. 

During the peace conference ‎following World War I, the Emir Feisal ‎exchanged letters with Justice Felix Frankfurter, ‎professing his support for Zionist aims. ‎On March 3, 1919  Feisal wrote: ‎

"We Arabs, especially the educated among us look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement."

"People less informed and less responsible than our leaders and yours, ignoring the need for co-operation of the Arabs and Zionists have been trying to exploit the local difficulties that must necessarily arise in Palestine in the early stages of our movements.

Some of them have, I am afraid, misrepresented your aims to the Arab peasantry, and our aims to the Jewish peasantry, with the result that interested parties have been able to make capital out of what they call our differences." 

My proposal for a "Just and lasting peace" for the Middle East is based on proposals put forward in a meeting from the 25th of October 1938,  between US President ‎‎Franklin D Roosevelt  and the British Ambassador to the ‎‎‎U.S.

Sir Ronald Lindsay regarding the resettlement and absorption of the stateless and homeless ‎‎Arabs of the Mandated Areas.

Lindsay wrote that the President was “impressed by the fact ‎‎‎that the Arab population had increased by 400,000 since the establishment of the ‎‎[League ‎‎Of Nations] Mandate.” ‎

US President ‎‎Franklin D Roosevelt, contemplated the creation of a program of well-digging ‎across the Jordan. ‎‎Roosevelt firmly believed that, “we ought to be able to find that money ‎for the purpose”. ‎‎FDR believed that once a large quantity of water would be made ‎available for irrigation ‎‎and the cultivable land thus created in Trans-Jordanian territory it; ‎

‎‎“should be set apart ‎for Arabs from Palestine. They should be offered land free, and ‎that ‎ought to be enough ‎to attract them; and failing the attraction, they should be ‎compelled to ‎emigrate to it. ‎Palestine could thus be relieved of 200,000 Arabs”.‎

‎FDR also added that it would:

 “be necessary to prescribe that no Arab should be ‎allowed ‎‎to immigrate into Palestine, as NO JEW was allowed into the Arab lands.” ‎‎

The Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, later recalled that,” The President was full ‎‎‎of Palestine” and that FDR called on Ronald Lindsay to call a conference of Arab ‎‎‎princes. FDR was adamant in having them lay down,‎

‎“say ‎‎$200,000,000 buying a farm ‎for every Arab who wishes to leave Palestine, the ‎money ‎chiefly to be used in digging ‎wells, which is perfectly possible in the Hedjaz.” ‎Here, it is ‎quite clear that Roosevelt ‎intended the Arabs to pay for the transfer of ‎the Arabs of ‎Palestine.‎"

This program that I propose was used in Israel for the absorption of some 900,000 Jewish refugees of Arab Lands. 

FDR believed that once a large quantity of water would be made ‎available for irrigation ‎and the cultivable land thus created in Trans-Jordanian territory it; ‎‎“should be set apart ‎for Arabs from Palestine. They should be offered land free, and that ‎ought to be enough ‎to attract them…”

I propose that all six Arab countries that ‎‎were then represented at the UN and voted against UNR194; Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, ‎‎Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen, and were active participants to the conflict in ‎question.‎Should lead the way in resolving the issue by each absorbing the Palestinians as ‎fellow ‎citizens as stipulated in UNR194 Article 9.‎

I propose a permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict/ problem based on the ‎‎Marshal Plan used in post WWII Europe and the creation of a Confederation between the ‎‎Palestinian controlled areas of the “West Bank” and Jordan as it was during the Period of ‎‎‎1948 -1967. Though painful this plan is to the Arab side it is the right and only ‎humanitarian solution ‎to end the conflict. The reactionary Arab’s constant refusal to ‎accept the State of Israel as ‎a Jewish state an entity in the Middle East is a forgone ‎conclusion and for the long ‎suffering of the Palestinian refugees there should be a ‎resolution as predetermined in ‎UNR194 Article 9 to absorb them as Israel did for the ‎Jews that were made refugees in ‎post WWII Europe and from the Arab countries of the ‎Middle East.‎

‎The plan encompasses a three step solution.‎
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‎Step One‎

Those Palestinian refugees within the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza ‎‎Strip should be offered a comprehensive resettlement and financial package in return for ‎‎a long term peace based on a total cessation of conflict and a forgoing of their “right of ‎‎return”.‎

‎Step Two‎-THE major points to be carried out

As to the Palestinians that have lived in squalid stateless refugee camps throughout the ‎‎region, in those states that have confined them there, should be allowed three choices:

• ‎‎Either to stay and be absorbed into their adoptive countries as full citizens.
• to receive plots of land, with homes in Northern Jordan
• or they should ‎‎be allowed free passage to “return” to the lands of the Palestinian Authority. 

If they do so ‎‎chose this option they should be included in the comprehensive resettlement and financial ‎‎package. ‎

• Those adoptive countries which welcome the refugees as full citizens should be enticed ‎‎to do so with incentives and financial compensation. 
• Those Arab countries that refuse ‎‎should be severe penalized and should face punitive actions. ‎

As to the Jewish residents on the West Bank, whose areas will not be swapped /exchanged in the negotiations, they should be offered the choice to become ‎‎‎“law-abiding” citizens of the Palestinian State or withdrawal. The same will be said for ‎‎Arab citizens of Israel who wish to leave Israeli territory.‎

Mutual assistance in the re-education of the population from that of war, religious ‎‎intolerance and terror must not be "just" encouraged but made part of the peace agreement. Should one of the countries in the region fail ‎‎to comply with the re-education and to co-existence in peace than that body should face ‎‎world wide condemnation, boycott and cessation of all assistance.‎

Additionally any state which threatens the existence of another state or should propose ‎‎genocide should be met with the fullest enforcement of the entire UN body under ‎‎Article 2 of the UN Charter with a total economic embargo and if ‎‎necessitated by a full scale military operation of all parties concerned for world peace.‎

Additionally a proposal should be made to the Egyptians to forgive her national debt in ‎‎return for a ceding of parts of northern Sinai to the Palestinian Authority or for the ‎‎resettlement of stateless Palestinians wishing for land to live on there.‎ (Abbas has recently rejected an Egypt offer of a 1600 square kilometer extension to Gaza to resolve once and for all the "Arab of the Mandate Areas" -"Falestinians" refugee issue but has instead resolved to keep on trying to destroy Israel.

"Falestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Egyptian proposal to resettle Palestinian refugees in a large tract of land in the Sinai Peninsula to be annexed to the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to a gathering of his Fatah party in Ramallah Sunday, August 31st,2014, Abbas said that an unnamed senior Egyptian official recently approached him and suggested settling Palestinians in an area 1,600 square kilometers (618 square miles) large adjacent to Gaza, reviving an idea originally part of the All-Palestine Government (Arabic: ‎حكومة عموم فلسطين‎ Hukumat 'umum Filastin) in Gaza which was established ‎by the Arab League on 22 September 1948 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War‎. Abbas' position is clear: The "refugees" only exist in order to ultimately destroy Israel. They must remain stateless and miserable or else they are useless to him. Actually helping the "refugees" is his lowest priority; cynically using thereby them for political ends is his highest priority.)

The same could be said for the resettlement of Palestinians in the sparsely inhabited ‎‎eastern regions of Jordan. In order to make this decision feasible than those Arab ‎‎countries willing to participate should adopt Israel’s Development Town settlement plan ‎‎used in it’s resettlement of the displaced Jews in the 1950’s. This plan based on collective ‎‎farming villages inhabited by those Palestinians who have farming skills, will be given ‎‎assistance to build homes as well as basic essentials to begin their farms. ‎

Needless to say that those who accept the resettlement plan will be given title or “Tabo”- to the land and full citizenship. Those ‎‎Palestinian refugees with small business skills and occupations who wish to resettle in the ‎‎‎“Development Towns” of these areas will be given apartments and financial aid to begin ‎‎small businesses as well as long term loans. ‎

Step Three

The Dead Sea -Med Canal Project which was first proposed by William Allen in 1855 in an overview called 'The Dead Sea – A new route to India'. Allen as well as Theodor Herzl in his 1902 novel Altneuland should be a cornerstone of this vast resettlement plan.

Efforts should be undertaken to get donor nations of the peace process to fund, through the World Bank, the capital investment for the establishment of a Dead Sea -Med Canal Project. The potential benefits of this project to provide all the parties in the region with economic, political and other respects are extremely significant. Not only will it replenish and revitalize the Dead Sea it will become the "live sea", potentially with millions of visiting tourists. It will generate substantial power and usable water and promote cooperation among the parties, thereby spurring the transformation of a barren and forbidding environment into the Jordan Valley of Peaceful coexistence. 

The Dead Sea -Med Canal Project is a proposed project to dig a canal starting at the Israeli town of Ashdod from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea, to take advantage of the more than 400-metre difference in water level between the two seas. Water from the Mediterranean Sea will be led through a tunnel and to a “green” hydroelectric power project which than can produce hundreds if not thousands of megawatts of clean and renewable electric energy. The value of such electric energy will be maximized by power generation during peak demand times. The excess electric power could be sold into the existing electrical grids to pay the cost of the Project.

There is a proposal, that in the construction of the Dead Sea -Med Canal Project, that an artificial storage reservoir for the flow from the tunnel, will be stored in this reservoir to be called “Shalom (Salaam/Peace) Lake”. The area for this Lake /reservoir will be located in a natural basin on the south branch of Wadi Qumran. Utilizing soil from the tunnel boring an earthquake resistant dam can be constructed. This proposed reservoir/lake will potentially have a surface area of about 3 square kilometers and maximum depth at the dam of some 80 meters. When the water is released daily during hours of “peak demand”, the surface elevation will decline about three meters thus creating a tidal effect for the shoreline and possibly encourage normal Mediterranean marine ecology.

It is needless to say that the creation of such a beautiful marine lake merely twenty kilometers from Jerusalem, will serve as an impetuous for tourism and residential development. Surely the name, the Lake of Peace, is suitable for this setting and for the benefits it will bring the entire region.

The water brought in through the project will help to restore the Dead Sea to the desired level, and thereby reverse the erosion and subsistence that is presently destroying the area. Additionally the continued operation of the hydroelectric power plant will enable the development of additional desalination capacity to supply the water needs to help ease the chronic water shortages in the entire region.

The newly built desalination plants established by the new canal/tunnel system of the Dead Sea -Med Canal Project can provide water for potash mining operations and for aquaculture and agriculture. Desalinated water designated for irrigation of crops can be run through ponds for the production of fresh water fish and prawns. Med Sea water from the surface layer of the Dead Sea can be used for production of Sea Bass and Bream, and high value seaweed.

In addition to tall this we can use the daily tunnel flow to create a reservoir in the upper seabed formed when the Dead Sea was the same level as the Med Sea. This area is deep clay, and very suitable for a reservoir site. A desalination plant and towns for the resettlement of Palestinian refugees can be located near this lake.

Desalinated water, from a desalination plant placed on the north shore of the Dead Sea can be used for the restoration of the Jordan River and provide a source for irrigation of nearby farmlands. This would enable a huge increase in agriculture and industry in the valley, and will lead to many new needed jobs for the resettled Palestinian refugees and Jordanian citizens during construction as well as many permanent jobs, while abundantly available desalinated water will stimulate new investment in self-sustaining agriculture, fish farming, manufacturing and real estate development.

The Dead Sea ("Dead") continues to shrink at a very rapid rate. The diminishing water level has created large sink holes and disruption of underground water tables, among other problems, with a harmful effect on tourism and everyday life. With the construction of The Dead Sea -Med Canal Project, we can than replenish the Dead Sea water levels and thereby revitalize tourism and provide employment opportunities and secondary small businesses in the area. The unique Dead Sea environment, including the ability for people to float effortlessly, will be preserved in designated areas; returning the Dead to its desirable water level will reinvigorate hotels and other tourist facilities which are now far from the water’s edge.

So? When do we take the first step?

No Lies

Ah yes the idiots of stupidity those brainless nitwits that call themselves "Human Rights" activists are once again spreading the lies of hatred and untruth in protests.

The ex-Patriot "Falestinians" - you can tell them by their UGLY faces distorted by fierce hatred - are yelling and SCREAMing at the top of their lings lies and untruths. It never fails to amaze me that these same meek minded individuals are missing when it comes to protesting REAL issues!!

A prime example of the mindless inability to read facts and truths by "Human Rights" activists is embodied in the stupidity of Sylvia Hale, a former parliament member on behalf of Australia's Greens who protested in Sydney when she blithely stated. "The Israelis are adopting a policy of slaughtering the people in Gaza,"

TRUTH- The “Brave” "Falestinian" terrorist organization Hamas -deliberately targets innocent women and children and invalided old women in their beds who can't run away. Earlier, a Grad rocket fired toward a community in the Be'er Tuvia Regional Council landed in the yard of Miriam Sarusi, 62, who lives in the house with her bedridden mother Rina said, 

"We heard the siren, but there is no secure room in the house and mother cannot be moved, so I just sat by her bed, said a prayer and told her not to be afraid."

Over the past twelve years the "Falestinians" have fired more than 12,000 rockets and mortar rounds blindly at SOLELY CIVILIAN targets, innocent women and children INSIDE Israel. The "Falestinians"and their Pro Falestinian followers cannot understand WHY so few Zionists/Jews die! 

Our secret is WE care for our people and their lives. Israel builds bomb shelters and uses them, and Israel cancels school and non-essential work in the name of protecting our citizens. The IDF -the Israeli Military does not hide in densely populated areas.

The Israel's military DEFENSE forces on the other hand have carried out more than 800 precise attacks against terror infrastructures, rendering ONLY! 25 dead, most of them are Hamas (Falestinian) launchers of TERRORISTS rockets.

Here is a picture of just how much the "Falestinians" care for their children!