Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Middle East Eye"
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@Brian Lucena : You have omitted to say that the Jews are the indigenous people of historic Palestine. They have had a continuous connection with the land, through their language, traditions, and religion. Some Jews have always lived there, though the majority were exiled for two thousand years. The League of Nations in 1920 recognised the Jews as the indigenous people and granted them the legal right to re-establish themselves in their ancestral homeland (San Remo Agreement). All non-Jews living in historic Palestine were to be accorded equal rights under the law, and Israel today includes 20% Arab-Palestinians who accepted to live in a Jewish State.
Those Arab-Palestinians who fled when the five Arab nations attacked Israel when it was founded are 'displaced people' and should by now have been resettled in the Arab countries, mainly in Jordan where the majority of people are Arab-Palestinians. An equivalent number of Jews were ethnically cleansed from their generational homes in Arab countries. Those 'displaced' Jews are now resettled in Israel, or in the US, Canada or Australia, etc. and are thriving.
Israel is legitimate and it's not going away. Thankfully we see some Arab nations now normalising relations with Israel through the #AbrahamAccords. Please stop using the so-called 'Palestinian' Arabs as political weapons in your hatred against the Jews. The Ottoman Caliphate was defeated in 1918 by the British, French & Allies. The dismembered lands were held in Mandate by British and French, and some years later, 99% of that Middle East land land was given to the Arabs for self-determination. Their countries today being Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Jewish State of Israel comprises less than 1%. Sadly they are still struggling to live peacefully and securely, but time is on their side. Do you also complain about the way the Arabs were given their land, or is it only the Jews that you hold to a very different standard?
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@pjq420 : Thousands of years of archaeological and historical evidence show that the Jewish people are intrinsically connected to that land. In 1920, after the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate, the League of Nations (today's United Nations) laid the political foundation for the creation of the 22 Arab League States and one Jewish State of Israel. As set out in the San Remo Agreement, the Jews were recognised as the indigenous people of Israel (historic Palestine) and all non-Jews living there at that time were to be accorded equal rights. Today those Israeli Arabs, whose families accepted the State of Israel, participate in all walks of life including in government, law, education, health, technology and security.
If God has gifted the land of Israel to the Jews then that's a bonus for them, but international law is not based upon promises by God.
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@RationalAUS : My values are from the Judeo-Christian teachings as found in the Bible and in Biblical traditions, which most Western countries were founded on. They include equality for all people under the law (we are all created in God's image), separation of politics and religion (render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's), loyalty to one's government (not loyalty to a global 'ummah'), have only one legal marriage partner at a time (not up to four women to one man), the "Golden Rule" (love your neighbour as yourself), and religion being a personal relationship between God and man. I am very aware of the Islamic concept of Dar al-Islam (House/Abode of Islam) versus Dar al-Harb (House of War, ie. anywhere that Islam has not yet conquered, where Infidels, Kufr, disbelievers are in control). It also concerns me that all Muslims are obligated by their ideology to agitate to live under Sharia law wherever they are. Sharia is not compatible with Judeo-Christian values and it impacts non-Muslims as well, especially if the ambition of resurrecting a global Caliphate is achieved.
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Israel is an “indigenous rights” success story. The Jewish people are back in control in their ancestral homeland after the Arabs invaded and colonised the Holy Land and the Levant in the 7th century. When the British and Allies DEFEATED the Ottoman Caliphate ☪️ in 1918, there was a window of opportunity for the Jewish people, who supported the Allies, to be granted the right to reconstitute their ancestral homeland in a tiny <1% of the Ottoman land. Hejazi Arabs, who also fought in the side of the British with Lawrence of Arabia to win the war, were granted self-rule in 99% of the land, much of it oil-rich, today’s Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. One-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs who have equal rights with Jews. I stand with Israel…🇮🇱💙🙏
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