Is there a Prime Minister in Jerusalem?

Dear Editor:

“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” so declares in blunt language the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and we, the citizens of Israel and the people of Israel in general, wonder whether we have woken up to a country without a leader, a nation without a prime minister.

The people of Israel cannot allow the President of the United States to speak with such disdain toward the Land of Israel.

In these words Trump exposes his weakness and his surrender to Arab terror, just as Europe’s weakness and surrender to the same Islamic terror that seek to take over the entire world. But the President of the United States is the President of the United States, and his considerations are the economic and political interests of the U. S., and from him we cannot expect Zionist and resolute statements.

Our expectation is of the Prime Minister of Israel, who will know how to respond to these remarks as Israel’s great leaders responded in word and deed.

We call on the Prime Minister of Israel to stand tall and to declare Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.

This is how David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol and Menachem Begin acted in their historic decisions to establish the state and to apply sovereignty in Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, even in the face of opposition from Israel’s friends, including the United States.

Arise, Israel; Arise, Prime Minister, stand tall, shake yourself off and may our enemies be scattered!

Sincerely,
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
The Sovereignty Movement

Trump Believes ‘We Hava a Deal’ on Gaza

Dear Editor:

Canada, France, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and others, calling for a Palestinian state, are either evil of ignorant. They are throwing the only democratic state in the Middle East and North Africa under the bus in favor of an internationally recognized terrorist entity with no legal, historical or ethical claim to the territory they are willing to commit war crimes against to conquer.

All 15,800,000 Jews have the legal right to citizenship in Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, the one state that will protect them.

Christians make up 28% of the world’s population. They are the majority throughout Europe and the Americas. They have earned 65% of Nobel Prizes. Muslims are 25% of the world and rule in 56 states. They earned 0.5% of Nobel Prizes. Jews are 0.2% of the population. They are the majority in 1 tiny country and have earned 22% of all Nobel Prizes.

So much for raw statistics. Make of them what you will.

Israel declared it’s independence from Britain on May 14, 1948. What was the legal chain of title that made it possible?

On Nov. 2, 1917, in the middle of WW1, The Balfour declaration was penned. It was an opinion, not a legal document. It expressed support for a national home for the Jewish People in Palestine.

The war ended on Nov. 1, 1918, with Germany and Turkey losing their empires. Turkey had occupied the Ottoman Empire since 1516. The victors, Britain, France, Italy and Japan divided the empire. In 1920 the San Remo Accords created mandates for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Palestine, the Jewish homeland. Almost immediately, to gain access to M. E. oil and fearing the anger of India’s Muslims, Churchill severed the mandate, giving 78% of it, that east of the Jordan River, to the Hashemites from Saudi Arabia. Transjordan became the Arab part of the mandate for Palestine.

In 1922, the League of Nations unanimously ratified the accords, giving legal title to the 90,000 Jews living there and encouraging further Jewish settlement. The accords recognized the Jews to be the indigenous people, with a historical connection to the land.

The Anglo-American Convention, 1924 stipulated that the American government accepted the Mandate for Palestine, acknowledging that all of the West Bank was within its borders.

At this point, the Brits double-crossed the Zionists, illegally restricting their immigration to 15,000 per year while encouraging greater Arab inflow.

In 1945, the United Nations was formed. Article 80 of its charter stated what was promised the Jews, could not be taken away. This meant no U. N. resolutions affecting Israel could have the force of law. They were suggestions only. Israel was welcomed into the U. N. No other nation has the legitimacy Israel has.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler’s ally, rejected any Jewish sovereignty. He triggered pogroms against the Jews from 1920 in Jerusalem to 1942 in Iraq. He spent WW2 in Europe, creating Muslim Bosnian SS units and sent 4,000 Hungarian Jewish children to Auschwitz. He escaped French captivity, fleeing to Beirut.

In 1947, UN Resolution 181, sought to share the Jewish state with the Arabs. Husseini refused and started a war, with 5 Arab armies, to ‘drive the Jews into the sea’. The Arabs suffered a disaster, a Nakba.

In 1964, to diminish U. S. influence, the Soviet KGB and Egypt formed the Palestine Liberation Organization. They gathered fighters from throughout MENA, calling them ‘Palestinians’. That was the origin of Palestinianism.

In 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed, allowing Yasser Arafat and 100,000 followers to enter Israel.

In 2005, Israel gave Gaza to the PA, free of all Jews, to allow them to establish their own society.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Palestinian Gazans carried out savage crimes against Israelis living near Gaza.

The days of considering a 2-state solution are over. Israel will defend itself. The Arabs may be given local self-administered cantons. They will have no opportunity to repeat Oct. 7. New Israeli towns and villages throughout Judea and Samaria will ensure security.

Sincerely
Len Bennett, Author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, Fl