POLITICS: The Thin Green Line...

The launching of this Blog was planned for a later period, but due to the latest events in Israeli politics. I couldn’t wait any longer.

Yuli Tamir proposes students learn about Israel's disputed borders. 'You can't sketch Israel's borders without bringing in politics' says Tamir

Education Minister Yuli Tamir decided that Israeli students should learn about the country's 1967 borders. Tamir ordered the Green Line be included on all maps in all future textbook publications.

The Green Line outlines Israel's borders from the 4th of June, 1967, just before the Six day War broke out.

This decision is politically loaded since the 1967 borders are at the base of the Palestinian and Arab demands for establishing an independent Palestinian state.

You don’t have to be a PHD in Political Studies to understand that this is a typical post–Zionist political decision, another step in the Bolshevik brainwash for schoolchildren to make them forget our history, creating literally "another brick in the wall".

So since you don’t learn this material in school, you will at least learn it here:


Lets start With the UN announcement, at 29th of November - 1947.
When the Arabs legions under the watchful eye of the British, launched their Jihad against the future Jewish state. They were attacking Jewish settlements until May 14, 1948.

At that day, when the last British forces of the Mandate were leaving the territories of "Palestina",(which bordered in the east with sovereign "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" (the Jordan river), the sea to the west, and the border with Egypt to the south west (the borders from Egypt independence from 1922)).
All the territory of "Palestina" was still under the British mandate and sovereignty.

On midnight May 14, 1948 David Ben-Gurion has proclaimed the new State of Israel,
Implementing the resolution of the UN General Assembly of the 29th of November - 1947.
Eleven minutes after the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, the United States formally recognized the State of Israel, followed by Guatemala, Nicaragua and Uruguay. ( The Soviet Union recognized the State of Israel on 17 May 1948, followed by Poland, Czechoslovakia (formally), Yugoslavia (formally) and South Africa).

The next day the newborn state of Israel was immediately attacked by five Arab armies (Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon) and by the uprising of the local Arab marauders.

Why?

Their intentions were declared by Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League:

"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be
spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."

This onslaught on the Jewish state ended at early 1949 with armistice agreements,
Because none of the Arab states would negotiate a peace agreement.
It was a hard and a long war, in process of which the Arab armies ILLEGALLY, against the international law, Occupied (and held for almost 20 years) the former British mandate territories also known as Judea, Samaria and Gaza- these territories were never intended to belong to one of the invader states.
Armistice agreements neither granted to these invading Arab nations internationally-recognized ownership of these newly-occupied territories nor otherwise purported to infringe the Jewish people's rights of settlement and self-determination therein authorized by the Mandate.
In the aftermath of their unsuccessful effort to destroy Israel, the Arab states eventually expelled approximately 950,000 of their Jewish residents, cleansing the entirety of their Jewish populations (the real ethnic cleansing).

These "new" borders of territories illegally occupied by Jordan and Egypt were named the "Green line" the name is derived from the green pencil used to draw the line on the map.

Now we know how the Arabs got there from the beginning…
(We will talk about the so called "refugees" in one of my future posts)

From 1949 to 1967 Israel has been the victim of genocidal Arab aggression,
For all this time Syria, Egypt and Jordan had all permitted the various components of the fedayeen precursors to mount terror attacks against Israel from the Golan Heights, from Sinai and Gaza, and from Judea, Samaria and the eastern portion of Jerusalem, respectively. Syria regularly employed mortars and snipers against the Jewish communities of northern Israel from well-fortified positions on the Golan Heights.
Shortly before June 1967 Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to all maritime traffic going to and from Israel. (- a recognized casus belli under international law), Syria began to thicken its forces in the Golan Heights.

On May 18, 1967 the Cairo-based government-controlled Kul al-Arab (Voice of the Arabs) radio proclaimed:

“As of today, there no longer exists an international emergency force to protect
Israel. We shall exercise patience no more. We shall not complain any more to
the U.N. about Israel. The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total
war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence.”

On May 20, 1967 Syrian Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad declared:

“Our forces are now entirely ready, not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.”

And on May 28, 1967 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated:

“We intend to open a general assault against Israel. This will be total war. Our basic aim is the destruction of Israel.”

On 5 of June 1967 started the Six Day War…
During the war Israel reclaimed back the territories of eastern Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and capturing the Sinai and the Golan Heights.

After the war inspite the arab assault due to pressure of the Arab states, UN released resolution 242
(Of which we will also learn providing further details, in one of my future posts, lets just say that Israel is not required by the issued Resolution to withdraw to the military separation-of-forces lines of 1949 but to "negotiate with the neighbors over secure borders")

But the Arab states still refused to accept or even acknowledge/negotiate with the Jewish state.

Later, Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated invasion against Israel in 1973 without provocation.
At the end of this military adventure, (in which Israel was caught off-guard)
Israel armed forces passed the Suez Canal almost reaching Cairo, and passed the Kuneitra district almost reaching Damascus …

The war ended with United Nations Security Council Resolution 338,
Which ment that all nations involved should stop fighting and make peace by negotiating over secure borders, implementing resolution 242.
After the war of 1973, Israel withdrew from 100% of the territory captured in Yom Kippur War... and from 90% of the territory captured in 1967… (Sinai plus all of the additional lands captured by Israel in that War beyond Sinai towards Cairo, and the district of Kuneitra on the Golan Heights plus all of the additional lands captured by Israel in that War beyond the Golan Heights towards Damascus).
At this year Israel made peace with Egypt… on which both parties agreed over withdrawal to secure borders, by this peace treaty; Sinai goes to Egypt and Gaza strip belong to Israel by ALL international laws.(UN resolution 242 and 338 is fulfilled on the Egyptian border).

Next, after two decades at 1994 Israel Signed peace treaty with Jordan… Some territories were given to Jordan, but the Judea and Samaria were ended belong to Israel by the international laws (UN resolution 242 and 338 is fulfilled on the Jordanian border).

Syria has not yet signed a peace treaty with Israel although Israel did withdraw from the Kuneitra district to "secure borders".

It is noteworthy that nowhere does U.N. Security Council Resolution no. 242 assert “Palestinian” ownership of - or call for the establishment of a “Palestinian” state in -- any portion of the biblical Land of Israel. On the contrary, the Resolution's explicitly-stated goal of safeguarding the “territorial integrity” and the “territorial inviolability” of “every State in the area” conclusively demonstrates that the Resolution was intended to address, not the present “Palestinian” Arab claim of sovereignty over certain portions of the lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, but rather that which its drafters viewed as, fundamentally, a non-existential boundary line ( the green line) dispute among the combatant countries, namely, Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

Thus after being acknowledged with these FACTS… we can understand that the "green line" is an obsolete concept, which play absolutely no role in the international law regarding the State of Israel.

In conclusion, not only the proposition of Yuli Tamir, to draw the green line in schoolbooks is a promotion of her twisted Political agenda, but it is a dangerous brainwashing of the schoolchildren,
Someone should tell her what the difference between the thin Green line and a big fat lie.




Sources:

International law and the Jewish people’s collective rights of settlement and self-determination in the land of Israel

The San Remo Conference, 1922 Extract

Myths & Facts Online Boundaries

Myths & Facts Online The 1967 Six-Day War

Myths & Facts Online The war of 1948

British Mandate 1920-1946

The Palestine facts