{"id":111018,"date":"2024-02-28T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111018"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:47:36","slug":"27-00-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111018","title":{"rendered":"Rothman to ‘Post’: Israel has veto power over Palestinian state, it’s a matter of life and death"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Rothman to ‘Post’: Israel has veto power over Palestinian state, it’s a matter of life and death<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

SIMCHA ROTHMAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The state the Palestinian spokespersons are gunning for is also smack in the middle of the land-starved Jewish people\u2019s tiny, zero-strategic-depth homeland.<\/strong>
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MK Simcha Rothman at a special committee meeting on the “Deri Law”, at the Knesset, the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 15, 2022. \/ (photo credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI\/FLASH90)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Responding to \u201cIsrael has no veto power over Palestinian statehood, PA tells ICJ<\/a>,\u201d Palestinian Arab spokespersons excel in generating rhetoric that always sounds plausible and always presents them as the most deserving of persons, as opposed to Jews who, it seems, barely deserve their own lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But this rhetoric is non-factual. In this case, for example, of course, Israel must have, and does have, \u201cveto power\u201d over Palestinian statehood. That\u2019s because preventing that calamity is a matter of life and death for Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s also because the state the Palestinian spokespersons are gunning for is smack in the middle of the land-starved Jewish people\u2019s tiny, zero-strategic-depth homeland \u2013 which is no accident. Let\u2019s understand:<\/span><\/p>\n

Irrevocable international commitments have been made to the ancient Jewish people for the western Land of Israel \u2013 even in the United Nations\u2019 own Charter (Article 80), which obligates everybody. So Israel does have \u201cveto power\u201d over establishing a Palestinian state in the western part of The Land of Israel, for the same reason that any home-owner in the world has \u201cveto power\u201d over her or his own living room.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli Foreign Ministry legal adviser Tal Becker and British jurist Malcom Shaw sit in the International Court of Justice on January 12, 2024. (credit: THILO SCHMUELGEN)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If this sounds unfair, recall that Israel doesn\u2019t have \u201cveto power\u201d over any of the over 20 spacious Arab states that serve the ancient Arab nation (\u201cUmma\u201d). To this nation, all Palestinian Arabs belong; they share this ancient nation\u2019s language, national dress, religion and origin. All this makes the Arab nation, to which all Palestinians belong, one of the most generously endowed nations, territorially, in the world. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I also thank Dr. Alan Baker for his recent contribution, aptly entitled \u201cThe latest legal misconception: The call for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state<\/a>.\u201d  Dr. Baker delicately raises the possibility that politicians abroad may not understand what they are talking about.  Indeed, many political figures abroad are unaware of the following three key considerations for Jews. First,  there is no way back from statehood; divorce is the well-known procedure for dismantling a bad marriage, but there is no procedure for dismantling a bad (hostile or fail) state. Second, a “state” (as opposed to an \u201cauthority\u201d like the Palestinian \u201cAuthority\u201d) is entitled to arm itself as much as it pleases, eventually becoming a behemoth that is militarily impossible for an overshadowed small country like Israel to defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, and most important, there is no such thing as a \u201cdemilitarized state\u201d. That is a pure contradiction in terms \u2013 like a \u201cchilly heat wave.\u201d It is also not true that there are various \u201ctypes\u201d of states, some of which are not risky for Israel. Why?  Let us say that a state is established whose Constitution includes an Article assuring de-militarization. This sounds wonderful, but there\u2019s a \u201csmall\u201d catch: a state is entitled to change its constitution! What happens if (and when) the \u201cPalestinian state\u201d abolishes this de-militarization article and heavily arms itself? The answer is an existential catastrophe for Israel, the state next door.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Judea and Samaria belong to the Jewish people, irrevocably, by international law, which many like to ignore. The same is true of Gaza. If these are officially taken over by Iran, which is what would happen the morning after a \u201cPalestinian\u201d state were established, this would be an absolute disaster for the Jewish people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The leadership of the Jewish people is entitled, indeed obligated, to prevent this from happening at a distance of a few meters from our capital, Jerusalem, and Road 6 (Israel\u2019s main artery), and if we prevent it, we will. All well-meaning leaders and journalists are invited to support our efforts to do the right thing publicly.  The message of the Israeli Right and Center has always been, and will always be, that incessant \u201ctwo-state\u201d rhetoric does not promote co-existence \u2013 it promotes danger and war. Israel\u2019s hand is ever extended in peace. True peace, peace-for-peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some 99 Knesset members just voted that a \u201cPalestinian state\u201d will be a \u201cprize for terror.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our friends should respect our right to exist as a Jewish state. Our friends must respect our independence and our democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recognizing a \u201cPalestinian State\u201d in the land of Israel will ignore our democratic process and will bring the destruction of the one and only Jewish State.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Simcha Rothman<\/strong> is an Israeli MK and Chair of Israel\u2019s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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