With a big Israel/Palestine summit in Annapolis, Maryland, planned for mid-November, and the US administration looking uncharacteristically willing to broker a new deal, hopes in some quarters are high that the middle east peace process could soon get back on track. But while the politicians talk, writes Jo-Ann Mort in a web exclusive for Prospect, businessmen on both sides of the divide are creating their own facts on the ground. Let us know what you think below.
Also this week: Christine Constable of the English Democrats replies to Jack Straw’s article in the October 2007 issue on “English votes for English laws.”
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Dear Sir:
Surely the problem is older than the resettlement question after the Yom Kippur War? Europeans have obligations to help Jewish families to resettle after we broke their trust by permitting Nazis to seize power in Germany and elsewhere before the Second World War. Also there are even more ancient grievances that would in all honesty require the Arab governments to honour their obligations to young Jewish families from Europe – few seem to know that Arab mercenaries did most of the extermination of the whole Jewish race during the taking of the province of Israel in 70 AD courtesy of the Romans. Elsewise I cannot see how we can help further – unless maybe European governments might conceivably make amends to the Israeli people by offering a new base within old Europe proper – say Bosnia or even a part of Scandinavia. We owe this one to them – we have not satisfied the minimal demands of justice still owed by European Powers toward these poor people. We owe this to the trusting young children exterminated in Nazi death camps. The youngsters who died therein in those camps, notwithstanding our knowledge of them prior to 1945, must remain sacred to the memory for a good while yet – till justice be done and be seen to be done.
Rico
Yes, Europe has an obligation to Israel.
No, that does not go beyond standing up for the pre-1967 borders…
…when your argument starts to demand reparations for something that happened in AD 70 you know you’re on to a loser…
…’creating facts on the ground’ is surely just the latest euphemism for land grabs, colonialism and eventually ethnic cleansing?