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Recognising Palestine as a sovereign state was an act of folly

Jan 16, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to the article entitled, “Guyana recognises Palestine as sovereign state (SN January 13, 2011) and would appreciate the opportunity to comment!
Recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state is an act of folly that denies the facts the evidence provides (see “Mandate For Palestine”: The Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights” (http://www.mythsandfacts.com/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/mandate_for_palestine.htm). How could the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismiss the conclusions therein?
On occasions, Guyana’s foreign policy seems to be defined by an illogical series of whimsical spurts…sometimes spurred on by Brazilian beckoning. However, Guyana’s Government has no mandate to be in lock-step with Brazil, only to assess the facts…and the truth…in the interest of the national ethos. And surely the opinions of regular Guyanese matter in that effort? The constitution provides for consultation on complex issues such as these last I checked, but this provision continues to be exercised sparingly!
“Historical Palestine” will therefore be found to be a farce…as denoted in graphic at http://www.mythsandfacts.com/conflict/mandate_ for_palestine/1922-mandate_for_palestine.jpg at page 1 of “Mandate for Palestine …” It denotes the final territory assigned to the Jewish National Home…a fact that the Ministry of foreign affairs will be hard-pressed to refute. Israel’s position is unassailable at international law, but is apparently an open target for political grandstanding.
More significantly, then, the government’s position as stated completely ignores the insatiable Arab appetite for more Israeli land…and one is saddened by the fact that no one at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs realises (or is prepared to admit) that Israel gave up 77% of its allocated land under the British Mandate to allow the creation of the Arab state called Jordan (which even today “refuses” to accept the so-called “Palestinians”, like many other Arab states with millions of square miles of territory of their own).
Arab greed for Israeli territory next resulted in the “creation” and “accommodation” of a “West Bank” and a “Golan Heights”, but the still unsatisfied voracious appetite led to an astonishing act of barefaced aggression in 1967 as troops from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan massed to invade israel…having assumed that the Israeli commitment to peaceful co-existence was a sign of weakness. Israeli retaliation was swift and sure…returning the borders of Israel to the area defined by the British Mandate.
Israel should not…and indeed surely will not despite this latest action by Guyana… relinquish another inch of the geographical territory called Palestine. Pandering to the insatiable Arabs is not good politics, only short-sighted in the extreme.
The decision by the Government of Guyana therefore flies in the face of reason, and one is again shocked at the lack of national consultation on this important issue. We had addressed it before in the 2009 letter, “The People Were Not Consulted… Again. Why Weren’t The People Consulted?” (https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2009/01/10/the-people-were-not-consulted%E2%80%A6-again-why-weren%E2%80%99t-the-people-consulted/)
Recognising “Palestine” at the expense of Israel’s rights may have been expedient politically to a short-sighted few, but was an act of folly that ignored the evidence!
Roger Williams

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