USUAL SUSPECTS TRY TO BLAME ISRAEL FOR THE PALESTINIANS' LACK OF SELF-DETERMINATION.
Advertisement in The AUSTRALIAN tries to undermine today's bipartisan Motion.
The Friends of Palestine and their associates would do better to spend their moneys and energies in encouraging their Arab brethren to become responsible citizens and prove, like Israel has done, that they can form themselves into a responsible national entity which can live in peace and harmony with its neighbours.
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In 1947 there was no national group calling itself "Palestinian" among the Arab inhabitants and therefore there was no one to take up the UN offer of the Partition Plan to form themselves into another State alongside Israel. While the combined Arab armies surrounding the fledgling Jewish nation of Israel attacked it from all sides in '48/'49, they had no intention of doing anything other than obliterating Palestine altogether.
Hamas and the hard-line Islamists continue and are still intent on fulfilling their infamous aims even after 60 years. Which other sovereign nation and UN member has to argue for its legitimacy? How dare these signatories to the advertisement argue against our Government's principled stand in protecting the right of Israel to exist in secure and legitimate boundaries?
Congratulations to the Editors of THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper for its fair and unbiased coverage of the true situation vis-a-vis Israel and its neighbours!
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Not quite the usual suspects. The usual suspects were actually conspicuous by their absence in the advertisement in the Australian. There were no recognisable members of Greens or prominent unionists. The number of academics who are not of Arab or Palestinian origin was minuscule. If you compare that with any public statement on the war on Iraq or other statements on the subject of Israel/Palestine you'll notice a huge difference.
Finally in terms of Jewish signatories, it just may be significant that on the basis of a name by name comparison 90 per cent of the signatories to the original Independent Australian Jewish Voices petition of 2007 stayed away.
Empirical observations and their analysis do have a value in these discussions.
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