Visiting Russia as part of a delegation from the Netanyahu government this week, Israeli Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel demanded that the world “forget” about the idea of the Palestinian state, and said Israel’s goal should be to immediately annex 60% of the occupied West Bank, the part labeled as “Area C.”
Area C is the part of the West Bank under direct Israeli military control, and Ariel, a settler and outspoken hawk, insisted it is an area “where there are no Arabs at all,” later conceding “we would remove a few thousand, who do not constitute a significant numerical factor.”
Beyond the huge diplomatic blowback from such a move, Ariel’s math is considerably off. The UN estimated 297,500 Palestinians in Area C in 2014, and even the lowest estimates from the Israeli government claim at least 50,000. That’s a non-trivial amount of ethnic cleansing, and while it might play well in Israel’s new far-right government, it would fuel costly repercussions, likely including sanctions from much of the international community.
Several Israeli officials have advocated annexation, with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett suggesting annexation of the area and making the 50,000+ Arabs “the responsibility of Jordan.” Ariel has conceded the annexation of Area C is just the first step, and that Israel would eventually depopulate and annex the rest of the West Bank. This would mean the removal of roughly two million more Palestinians to “somewhere.”
Palestinians are Semites: not Arabs
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Arabs are people who speak Arabic. Arabic is a Semitic language. Thus Palestinians are Arabs and Semites.
acknowledged:
[[however … insistent Emphasis upon ARAB is neither semantic nor mere simile]]
” it would fuel costly repercussions, likely including sanctions from much of the international community.”
Dream on – Obama would do nothing and neither would Hillary Clinton. Sanders would wail, gnash his teeth, rent his clothes and then do nothing, and Trump would try to do a “deal”.
“Trump would try to do a deal.” What grade are you smoking?
If Trump doesn’t care much about Mexicans, Muslims, and blacks, what makes you think he is going to care about some Palestinians six thousand miles away.
Dude, lighten up – it was a joke…just like Trump.
The UN Security Council would vote for sanctions. Obama or Clinton would veto it. Sanders and Trump would abstain. Personalities matter.
Israel, like 1930s Germany, wants lebensraum – “Today Palestine, tomorrow the Mideast”
Let us remember that Israel also treats Palestinian Christians as inferior. They have few rights, even inside Israel, and are subject to daily humiliation.
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