Wallace Brand places ad in the Harvard Crimson
Harvard wouldn’t let Wallace Brand speak at their One State West of the Jordan Conference because his state was the Jewish one, so he purchased an ad in their newspaper for Israel’s birthday. Kudos to a proud Zionist Harvard alumnus.
This ad appears in the Harvard Crimson today:
1 State West of the Jordan
Students at Harvard should know that there are actually three solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
First there is a “one [Arab majority] state” solution, in which the Jewish Israelis would become unwelcome guests in their own National Home, and the Jews in the Diaspora, such as in Toulouse, lose the only place on earth they could go to and not be in a minority.
The second is a “two state [temporary] solution” in which the interim solution would result in the loss of much Jewish and Christian heritage and in the long run would end up as the one [Arab majority] state solution.The third is one lawful Jewish state based on the San Remo Agreement of 1920 that established the British Mandate for Palestine. It granted the Jews exclusive collective political rights to Palestine, in trust, to vest when the Jews had attained a population majority.
These three solutions are outlined at: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2012/03/salubrius-three-possible.html
The details of the San Remo agreement are also on line in a two part op ed that can be seen at:
Part 1: /Articles/Article.aspx/11408
Part 2: /Articles/Article.aspx/11412
Debunking the Palestine Lie” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U
It is likely that HLS Professor Alan Dershowitz will sponsor a conference at Harvard on a two state temporary solution. Will he permit discussion of the third option at his conference?
The three solutions are like the three legs of a stool. With only the first two, it will appear that you will get strong arguments in favor of both, but not much balance. Here is a critical review of the two state temporary solution: http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2012/03/remember-quraysh.html
Also, it would be helpful to look at what Dr. Daniel Pipes has uncovered about Yassir Arafat and the treaty of Hudibyah, a two-tribe solution that went sour.
[Al-Hudaybiya and] Lessons from the Prophet Muhammad’s Diplomacy
and
Arafat and the Treaty of Hudaybiya – UpdatesIf Harvard is a free and open marketplace of ideas, demand a conference where all three solutions are discussed by genuine proponents and opponents.
The Arab-Israeli conflicts are a fundamental condition, not a problem. Therefore there is no solution.
In the long run, I think, there will be a single commonwealth of the Jewish nation, encompassing present-day Israel, Shomron and Yehuda, the Sinai pensinula, and the present day Hashemite kingdom of Trans-Jordan. And maybe even more large parcels of neighboring lands that await Jewish annexation and absorption.
It is good that the Arab leaders and street mobs howl for the destruction of Israel, and initiate even home-grown attacks whenever they can get the armaments to do do.
That in itself will provide the military provocations that Israel can and shall use as the plausible justifications for invading these lands, destroying the Arab enemy forces located there, annexing in turn each new conquest, establishing Jewish governmental control, and planting Jewish populations, industries, irrigation-supported agriculture, large-scale mineral extraction, park-lands, and military bases to get ready for the next march of conquest.
Arab municipal populations will be put under autonomous control of local officials bought and paid for by Israel. Terrorists will be put to death. Lesser troublemakers will simply be expelled into any of the Arab lands not under Israeli control. There will be no other punishments, and consequently, no need for the Jewish state to pay costs of maintaining large-scale prisons.
The Jewish nation of the future, largely concentrated in the growing Jewish national commonwealth in the Middle East, will grow to numbers never seen before in Jewish history. That population will be served by science-based industries hardly imaginable by the comparative universal ignorance of the present generation. Extractable energy in abundance will be discovered, exploited, and will win for Israel the attention of foreign countries bidding against one another for the friendship of the Jewish national power. There will still be a Jewish diaspora, but it will be schooled to serve the interests of the Jewish nation on the soil of the expanded Land of Israel.
The demeanor and culture of the Jewish nation will change to meet its new circumstances. In place of the cringing, fear-ridden and endlessly-whining Jews of the two thousand years of exile and degradation, the Jews of the future will forget the pogroms and holocausts of the past, and focus their attention on celebrations of continuing victory. Young Jewish men and women will know pride and glory.
And the religious of the Jewish nation surely will say that all this was brought about because the Jews of the 21st and 22nd centuries at long last began obeying the iron laws dictated by ha-Shem to our prophet Moshe amid the thunders and lightning of Mount Sinai — that the enemies of the Jewish nation are to be driven from the land, by a nation and its leadership simultaneously focused, ruthless, pitiless and implacable.
Zionism, from its inception, has been and shall continue to be a conscious will to power of the collected and hitherto-scattered Jewish nation. Greater Israel, I am certain, is the manifest destiny of the Jewish nation — as surely as the conquest of our great land from ocean to ocean, with the subjugation and degradation of its autochthonous inhabitants, was the manifest destiny of the 19th century American nation.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
your words in God´s ear
Whatever the outcome of Mr. Brand’s appeal for balanced debate at the various Israel-related events coming up at Harvard, I hope he and all concerned understand that the fate of the Jewish state of Israel will not be decided in Cambridge, MA.
Opensoc,
Theology isn’t exactly my specialty. But I had thought we were supposed to listen to ha-Shem, and not expect a divine entity to listen to us. On the other hand, there are times for commandments and a time for dialogue.
Dan,
You are absolutely correct. Israel’s destiny and the future of the Jewish nation is being worked out right now, in the hundreds of big and little Jewish cities and villages in Shomron, Yehuda, Ramat ha-Golan and the eastern and eastern side of Jerusalem. One of the reliable Israeli sources shows that the Jewish population in all these places together now amounts to more than 700,000, if you include some 60,000 yeshiva students who reside there for their studies.
The time has come for Israel to annex the 72% of Samaria and Judea either identified as Area C in the Oslo accords, or are otherwise administered by the Jewish territorial entities. Most of that land area is the wide strip east of the country’s mountainous spine, bordered on the east by the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Just about the only Arab municipal area in that big strip of land is Jericho. Once Israel seals its control over that territory, then Obama, the UNO, and the so-called Palestine Authority can wipe their asses with their dictates and paper agreements which only the Jews were expected to uphold. Because with that annexation, there would not be even the remotest possibility of creating an Arab state west of the Jordan River. As a consolation prize, however, the Arabs could count Gaza as their “Palestine”. Until our people come to retake that as well.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
The details of the San Remo agreement are also on line in a two part op ed that can be seen at:
Part 1: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11408
Part 2: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11412
Debunking the Palestine Lie” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U
@ ArnoldHarris:
I love your dream. Will it come to pass? Only the future will tell. I’m not as optimistic as you are.
Miriam,
I do not indulge in dreams. I am a trained urban and regional planner. And what I do is plan. Based on carefully gathered evidence.
Neither optimism nor pessimism hold sway in this situation. But good groundwork was prepared starting immediately after the Six Day War, fought and won 45 years ago. Now, I calculate that it would be all but impossible for anyone to remove the 300,000 Jews who reside in the annexed part of Jerusalem, or the 350,000 Jews — plus the 60,000 yeshiva students — resident at various Yesha yeshivot. And the Jewish numbers are increasing rapidly. More so than that of the Arabs, if you study what demographers such as Yoram Ettinger has presented as evidence.
It is safe to assume that nobody in the US government, or the UNO, or the NATO countries, will be able to organize an armed expedition to drive these Jews off their land. But unless they do just that, or frighten the Israeli government into some such action, then there never ever can be a Palestine state west of the Jordan River.
So, each year, the Jewish demography of Shomron, Yehuda, Golan and East Jerusalem grows at about the same accelerated rate as in past years. Shomron and Yehuda together comprise only about 2000 square miles, which is about the size of two southern Wisconsin counties.
And I can tell you, based on my American experiences, that urban sprawl is a force stronger than armies, parliaments, UNO beseechments, environmentalists, nasty letters from functionaries of the US State Department, etc. It certainly has proven to be a force stronger than Fatah, the Palestine Authority, Hamas, the Arab petroleum princelings, etc. And one day, in the not too distant future, the statisticians of whichever bureau of the Israel government tracks all this stuff will notice that the Jewish population of what used to be “the West Bank” has a Jewish population that has surpassed one million people.
“Oh dear; the unfairness and insidiousness of those Jews”, our enemies will say. But the Jews will still be in Shomron, Yehuda and all over the map of eastern Jerusalem. And the numbers will continue to grow.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
How about the Arab “settlers” who are building in the West Bank too at as fast a clip as they can. They have built twice as many settlements in Judea and Samria as the Jews since 1950. You can find a list on the internet. They fill them with Iraqis, Egyptians, Lebanese and Syrians and mirabile’ dictu they are “Palestinians”. Once the area is annexed, this can be stopped. They have even built houses without having any tenants just to prempt land. But because of the past policy, there is a lot of Arab urban sprawl too.
WB,
There is only one answer to the Arab “settlers”, and that is Israeli expulsion of the inhabitants to some place across any of Israel’s borders, along with urban renewal of whatever they have built. “Urban renewal” means tearing everything down and starting over with new construction. Will any Jewish government have the audacity to do just that? The Jews of 1948 and 1949 had that audacity.
In any case, it will all boil down to kill your enemies or be killed by them; expel their populations or be expelled by them; destroy their homes or they will destroy yours.
If you understand all the arguments I have presented, and if you seriously want to help Israel and the Jewish nation survive in the international convulsions that are coming, maybe your time and efforts would be better spent on encouraging the Jews of Israel to harden their hearts and toughen their stances against their Arab enemies, rather than engaging in what will prove to be useless debates at American universities. If Israel survives, it will be because of what happens in Shomron, Yehuda, Golan, and united Jerusalem. Whatever happens in an academic suburb of Boston is just part of the background noise.
The likelihood is that you disagree with my line of argument. But that doesn’t matter either. The Jews of Israel are locked in a war that really has no end, and which cannot be walked away from. Either they expand their borders and build a much more significant power base, or all this will come to the usual and expected result of how the strong always have done what they wanted, while the weak suffered what they must.
If you think about it carefully, you might note that nothing at all has really changed in the world since the Spartan leader said that to his Athenian counterpart some 24 centuries ago.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI