The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air.Jews can't return to their homes in the rest of the Arab Middle East because they were expropriated by the Arabs, and the Palestinians have yet to recognize a two-state solution. They seek to supplant Israel altogether.
The plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians have decided to implement United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the refugees.
Article 11 of the resolution, which was passed in December 1948, says that “refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.”
The initiative is the first of its kind and is clearly aimed at embarrassing Israel during the anniversary celebrations by highlighting the issue of the “right of return” for the refugees.
Entitled “The Initiative of Return and Coexistence,” the plan suggests that the PA has abandoned a two-state solution in favor of one state where all Arabs and Jews would live together.
“The Palestinians, backed by all those who believe in peace, coexistence, human rights and the UN resolutions, shall recruit all their energies and efforts to return to their homeland and live with the Jews in peace and security,” the plan says.
The Palestinians have yet to show that they can live in peace alongside Israel from 1993 onwards.
When Oslo was announced, it was promptly met with an intifada, where Israelis died in suicide bombing attacks and all manner of violence perpetrated by the terrorists - Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Fatah (including it's wholly owned subsidiary al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade).
In 2000, on the heels of Camp David where Israel promised a two-state solution to Arafat, it was promptly met with an Intifada, complete with suicide bombing attacks and all manner of violence perpetrated by the terrorists - Hamas, PIJ, and Fatah (including it's wholly owned subsidiary al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade).
In 2005, Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza and left it in the hands of the Palestinian Authority, which was vested with the power under Oslo to administer Palestinian controlled areas, including Gaza, Jericho, and much of the West Bank. What happened next? Suicide bombing attacks were mostly averted, but the terrorists switched to a new tactic - the kassam attack and have fired more than 4,000 kassams into Israel, hoping to cause mass carnage and all manner of violence. These too were perpetrated by the terrorists - Hamas, PIJ, and Fatah (including it's wholly owned subsidiary al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade).
So, what's changed since the peace process started?
Well, other than Gaza being a terrorists' haven, nothing. Palestinians still call for Israel's destruction and the terrorists have the run of Gaza and look to carve away more from Israel to call their own. They want to replace Israel with their own terror regime.
UPDATE:
It's kind of tough for the Palestinians to not let their hatred of Israel and Jews shine through. Mere Rhetoric has the details. Simply put, the Palestinians want to see lots more dead Jews, and the pollster traces this to an Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of Palestinians, although it ignores the thousands of rockets fired at Israel prior to that event, each of which was intended to kill and maim Israelis.
Israel continues targeted attacks against the terrorists, wounding five in an airstrike. This comes as a Palestinian stabbed a 49-year old rabbi in the neck right by the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.
There are also reports that the Palestinians may attempt terrorist attacks during the Jewish holiday of Purim.
This also comes as the kassam rockets continue slamming into Israel.
Egypt's Mubarak, who's trying to play negotiator between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, issued a statement saying that no occupation lasts forever. Well, that's pretty rich for Mubarak to say given that the modern incarnation of Mubarak's own country is only slightly older than Israel itself. It's tough to call the situation an occupation when Israel isn't occupying Gaza, and has largely ceded much of the West Bank to Palestinian civil administrative control. The use of the word occupation has a specific meaning, and it's designed to undermine Israel's rights to Jerusalem and other areas under its dominion, captured in 1948 and thereafter.
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