Poor Palestine...

We cannot redo history but we must still return although a little bit, or at least I need to try to simplify it to the basic. Yet, what is the bloody fucking problem with this part of the world?

Religion? The rich, the poor? North, South? What...

This is the land. Only the land!

After that it degenerates into hatred and blood, but initially it is a history of land, "promised land" too, I think....

Thousand years before Christ, Palestine was the Jewish kingdom of King David. That's why at the end of the nineteenth century, Jews increasingly persecuted in Europe (the Russian pogroms in particular) have returned to or have the aspiration to return to their ancestral land. It is a question that comes back every time: why the Jews, when they felt the need to retreat into a space for them, why did they choose Palestine rather than Laos or Manitoba, or even Argentina how it was once suggested by the zionist congress?

Because in their mind Palestine is home now.

Except that it was home 2,000 years before. But it happens much in 2000 years in Palestine; It happened in particular that it had become the land of the Arabs.

After the war, the Nazi persecution having accelerated their movement, they were close to 700 000 Jews ready to go back on this "promise land." Promised by whom and to whom, 2,000 years later, it was not so clear. So before the dispute began with the Arabs, the UN has given half of Palestine to the Jews and half Arabs. That was in 1947.

If they have known what was reserved to them in the next half-century, Palestinians would have accepted the United Nations plan and we would have now, today, two states that hate each other, that's for sure, but one can dream, would be hate without waging war. Everyone at home shouting "nonsense" to the other over the top of the border.

But the Palestinians have rejected the UN plan and it was the war (1948). Palestinians are literally massacred. The Israelis use their victory to remake the partition of the territory: instead of 50% allocated by the United Nations, the Arabs now have less than 25% of the territory.

New war in 1967 (known as the Six Days), a new victory of the Israelis who decide that the territory of Israel is now ... all of Palestine. Period.

No more Palestinian state?

"Well.. lets wait! We'll see later. We'll see what we can give you when we have finished installing our colonies and settle our people on what was your land."

That's it. It's been 40 years that we (the international community) discuss the borders of an eventual Palestinian state. It decreased from 25% to 19% to 10% with the peace plan of Ariel Sharon in 2003. With the Sharon plan, the Palestinians would be confined to 10% of the territory they occupied before 1947.

Did the Israelis have not withdrawn from Gaza in 2005? Yes they did! And so what, here it is : this is the Palestinian state.

Look at a map. Gaza is nothing. A peanut. And the Israelis did not went far! Proof! In fact if Gaza is not occupied, it is still besieged, the entrances and exits of people and or property locked and controlled by the Israelis.

Should we also talk about the wall, which when completed, will gird what remains of Palestine for hundreds of miles - watchtowers every 200 meters? A wall that judges of the International Court declared "contrary to international law"? A wall of shame, the same type of wall who encircled the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto ( my other post here bellow describe what was Warsaw ghetto for the one who forgot or the one s who ignored...).

Seven hundred people dead on one side. Nine on the other side, including two killed accidentally by a "friendly fire"... Let me explain: The nine Israelis were killed by «terrorists» . That is the proof that Israel's security was threatened!... The 700 Palestinians, them, were killed by soldiers, nothing can be done about it, it is war.

I understand nothing? Maybe.

I'll tell you what I understand. I understand that Jews and Arabs argue for that land for so long that the former have often humiliated the latter, and that the latter are trapped in a deeply unquenchable hatred that can not be any outcome on the ground .

I understand that whenever some «moderate» , I think of all those Israelis who see themselves in the position of the newspaper Haaretz, for example, or in those, writers like Amos Oz and David Grossman, whenever moderates begin an attempt of compromise, every time an attack, a suicide bomber just torpedo their efforts. I can understand the response and the retaliation. I understand the spiral. I understand that the forces are so unequal that one week later, there are 700 dead on one side and 9 on the other. I understand that it’s only the lack of power which prevents Palestinians to massacre a few thousand Jews. I understand that we are facing a cancer.

What I do not understand at all on the other hand, what I never understood, that’s the Americans in there.

This is not true that there is no solution. There are some. Some which are known. Seen a hundred times. Two countries. Each one and everybody at home. The Israelis who renounce their colonies. Palestinians who renounce all these villages, cities, such as Haifa, which were Arabs at one time and that they had dreamed of seeing again Palestinians.

This solution, the Americans have the power to impose it.

For this, it would be necessary that the United States cease to be so scandalously always in the same camp. Protectors of Israel? Of course. But this crushing weight on the same side of the balance? This unconditional support systematically? This systematic vetoe of any resolution written to proted the right of palestinians?... This has to change! It doesn't serve the purpose of the United States anyway, specially its respect in the world, and it only fuel more hatred and anti-american feelings.

We saw how diligently Bush gave the green light to Israel‘s bombs, this time again. We have seen how Mr. Obama (who I admire beside that...) expressly also appointed Mrs. Hillary Clinton (who I admire also by the way) as Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton, the great friend of Israel, who was also once upon the time a great friend of Mrs Arafat...

Poor Palestine.

What will be next... 3% of the land?... or less? or none?...