Re: Palestinians MUST oppose Annapolis Trap, Start a movement for equal voting right
I don't know the recent history of Palestine but weren't the israleites in jerusalem a long before muslims? if that is the case how can anyone claim they are foreign invaders?
You are not alone, many people take sides in this sad conflict without studying the events that resulted in 1948 clahses between Israelis and Palestinians.
Your argument of prior ownership is very weak and yet it has been forwarded by many. But the current standards of land ownership do not allow legal takeover of a piece of land if it was owned by your great great great g-father but he somehow lost it 200 years ago (let alone 2000 years ago as in case of Israelis).
The problem of Palestine can definitely be traced back to 2000 years. But the division of 1948 was based on much more recent landownership rights.
For example Palestinian Arabs willingly sold 1000s of acres of land in modern day Israel (especially in and around Haifa) during a period of mid 1800s to early 1900s. Back then Palestinians didn't realize that soon this wide open land will be turned in to states. The situation would have remained so but the WWII started. During that awful war Palestinians in their flash bulb moment, ended up siding with Nazis.
Once Nazis got defeated, Palestinians lost as well and the new borders were drawn by the victors UK, US, and Commies (read up Yalta conference).
The new world order of 1947 established many borders and many new states. Pakistan and India were one good example.
Jinnah accepted the international border between Pakistan and India and moved on with his remaining (albeit short) life. And so did many other countries in the world.
However Palestinian leadership utterly failed to grasp the new reality and refused to accept their border. They wanted much more than what was given to them. Unfortunately the same "rise up" advice (like this thread starter) has been very popular among many Palestinians.
Due to this insane "rise up" strategy, Palestinians have consistently been losing their territory since 1948.
It is ironic that after the fall of Commie masters, Palestinians leadership (read Yasir Arafat) changed their qibla to USA (just like Indians) and started asking for 1967 borders.
Unfortunately the Palestinian-Israeli well is so poisoned that nobody can safely drink something from it.
Then you inject Iran in this fiasco, and you realize that Palestinian "rise up" mentality always looks for the worst possible allies (Hitler, Commies, Asad, Saddam, and now Ahmad Nejat).
Unless Palestinians learn the value of "sit down and think", they will continue moving from one intifada fiasco to another.