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Πατρογονικό δικαίωμα Παλαιστίνη
16 Απριλίου 2008Έτσι, οι Παλαιστίνιοι έχουν παρατηρήσει την επιτυχία του προγράμματος του Ισραήλ πατρογονικού δικαιώματος να πάρουν τους νέους Εβραίους συγκινημένους στο Ισραήλ και έχουν εγκαινιάσει το πρόγραμμά τους για «να συλλέξουν τους πρώτης γενιάς, δυτικός-γεννημένους Παλαιστίνιους (μετά την ηλικία 18 ετών) στην προγονική πατρίδα τους, έτσι ώστε μπορούν να επανασυνδέσουν και να βεβαιώσουν από πρώτο χέρι πώς οι αδελφοί τους ζουν κάτω από παράνομο Ισραηλίτη στρατιωτικό επάγγελμα.» Σύμφωνα με τον ιστοχώρο τους (birthrightpalestine.com), η έννοια δημιουργήθηκε από το «κέντρο της Παλαιστίνης εθνικών στρατηγικών μελετών». Δεν απασχολώ τόσο πολύ ότι οι παλαιστινιακές οργανώσεις παίρνουν την πίστωση για τις έννοιες που ήταν εν τούτοις περίπου από τους Εβραίους και προσαρμόστηκαν έπειτα, αλλά τι ανησυχώ για είμαι το μήνυμα που αυτά τα κατσίκια θα λαμβάνουν. Ο ιστοχώρος του PCNSS (pcnss.org) έχει στο σύμβολό τους έναν χάρτη μιας χώρας που φαίνεται ένα φοβερό μέρος όπως το Ισραήλ - υποθέτω ότι αυτό είναι η «Παλαιστίνη» στην οποία αναφέρονται.
So we’re going to jump to a conclusion here - these first generation non-Palestinians coming on their “Birthright” trip are NOT going to be taught about peace, tolerance and co-existence, and will likely be taught alot about “Israeli brutality”, the “illegal Israeli occupation”, etc. According to the birthrightpalestine.com website, the trip was “created to maintain Palestinian unity on an international level” and to “nurture relationships between participants of Palestinian ethnic
origin whom were born in different countries around the world”, with the hope of an exchange of ideas that will “possibly lead to a cohesive consensus on core issues of importance to the Palestinian Nation.”
Now, in the past we’ve been quite clear about our thoughts about the claim of “Palestinian Nationalism” - there is no Palestinian nation and there never was. The Arab Palestinian national movement began in the 1960s - before that, Arabs living in Palestine identified themselves as being South Syrian or simply as Arabs. In fact, before World War I, many of the Arab countries that exist now didn’t exist back then. Here’s a map:
So now, 100 years later, the Arabs who happened to live in “Palestine” when Jews began to move their, invent a nationalism that historically never existed and are using it as a cynical political tool. I expect this plan to run into some roadblocks, primarily getting people to come in the first place. To get to “Palestine”, the participants must fly into Tel Aviv, Israel, since there is no international airport in Palestine (for if there were, Israel would be in grave danger). In the FAQs on the site, the organizers site “security precautions” for not releasing a list of participants - surely the insinuation is that people participating have to be worried about their security from Israelis. They likely have a point - surely if a participant list was distributed ahead of time, Israel would get their hands on it and be able to investigate the participants before they land in Tel Aviv and deny entry to any with suspicious backgrounds.
Whatever the goal of “Birthright Palestine”, we don’t think it is going to be pushing for a two-state solution or a solution that leaves any Jewish presence in the Middle East. Surely peaceniks will love this concept, but will it bring about peace? Like everything the Palestinians do, that is unlikely.
As a follow-up to this story, we’d like to write about the “Palestine Center for National Strategic Studies”. Does anybody know anything about this organization and where it gets funding from?
May 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I imagine they get their funding from, in part, the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been instrumental in granting money to various groups around the globe. Here in Seattle, the rumor is that they gave enough to local Islamist leaders in order to build several new mosques in the area.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
I would imagine that the Muslim Brotherhood gets their money primarily from sources like Saudi Arabia and if that money dried up, there would be little money left for programs like this, mega-mosques and terrorism training. Saudi Arabia, as we all know, only has lots of money because we rely so much on their oil - with the recent rise in oil and gas money, that mean even more money going towards these causes. The message I’m trying to convey is that if you really want to do your part to stop terrorism, reduce your use of oil and gas! If we all bought hybrids or electrical cars, imagine the dent we could put in the demand of oil and gas!