No To BDS On Behalf Of The Jewish Refugees From Arab And Muslim Majority Lands, No To BDS Capitulation To Islamists

When the Turks lost the Ottoman empire after WWI, the middle east was divided up by European powers, namely Great Britain and France, in ways that benefited their interests and not the interests of a number of the indigenous people of the middle east. When the era of colonialism ended, over 99 per cent of the middle east, and almost all of North Africa, were in the hands of Arab Muslims. Kurds, (who are mostly Muslim) the Jews of the middle east and North Africa, middle east Christians, and other religious minorities and ethnic groups were given little or nothing. The majority of Palestine, which included the west bank and what is now Jordan, was made into a kingdom. Because the king is an Arab Muslim, even though most of the population of Jordan are Palestinian Muslim Arabs, there is no demand that Jordan become a Palestinian state. When Jordan controlled the west bank, no one called this occupied territory or demanded that Palestinian Arabs have a state. Not once in fact was there a demand that the west bank and Gaza(Egypt controlled Gaza at the time) become a Palestinian Arab state. When Israel took control over the west bank and Gaza strip after winning the 1967 war, the Arab Muslim nations issued their famous no's- no acceptance, recognition, or negotiation with Israel. The Israeli borders prior to 1967, called the green line, are indefensible. Israel was willing to return the lands it just won in war in 1967 in exchange for peace, but without peace, returning the west bank and Gaza would be suicidal. When Israel became a state in 1948, it was attacked by Arab armies that sought its destruction. Israel won the 1948 war. Arabs that fled from the new found state of Israel were later transformed into a new classification of Arab in order to win the hearts and minds of the west. They became Palestinians, a newly minted unique indigenous population that were not just Arabs, and by defining them as an indigenous population separate from other Arabs, they would better win the hearts and minds of the west. The Arabs that stayed behind in the new found state of Israel now form 20 per cent of the population of the state of Israel, and are citizens with full voting rights. What the world has chosen to ignore is the plight of the Jewish refugees from Arab Muslim majority middle east and North African countries. The Muslim world ethnically cleansed their Jewish populations. Many went fleeing for their lives to the state of Israel, leaving behind all of their possessions. Despite the fiction that is propagated that the population of Israel are all European Jews that invaded the land of Palestinian, the fact is that the majority population of Israelis are the descendants of Jews from the middle east and north Africa. These Jews were ethnically cleansed. Now they live in Israel. Furthermore, Jews have had a continuous presence in what is now Israel and the west bank ( Jews were forced out from the west bank by a series of Arab massacres in the decades prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, and did not return until after 1967). BDS conveniently ignores the fact that the majority population of Israel have nowhere to go but Israel. They will not return to places like Iraq, Yemen,Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran,Egypt, Lebanon,and so many other Muslim majority countries where they will face certain persecution or war. Arab Muslims, by ethnically cleansing their Jews, gave Israel its majority population. Europe, which exterminated most of its Jews, now has admitted millions of Muslim refugees fleeing the wars in Iraq and Syria. Many of the Muslims already living in Europe hate Jews intensely. There are few places anymore for Jews where they can be safe. Rather than keep the conflict between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs alive, fight to resolve it once and for all. This can only be done by a two state solution. If BDS were sincere, they would demand a two state solution, and put the same kind of pressure on Hamas and the Palestinian authority as they do on Israel. They would demand an end to the violence on both sides and insist that both the Israelis and Palestinians live in peace in their own separate countries. There can be Palestinian Arab statehood, but not if it means the destruction of Israel. Regarding the contentious issue of Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants from 1948, it is impossible that this population flood the small state of Israel, over night turning Israel from a Jewish state into another Arab Islamist state. Israelis know that if they lose their small country, they will suffer the same fate as Yazidis, middle east Christians and other religious minorities of the middle east that suffer persecution. Right now Yazidi girls and young women are being held as sex slaves by Islamists, young Muslim men, that overran the Yazidi's villages and towns, killing the Yazidi men, and taking the young women and female children as sex slave captives. For BDS to ignore or excuse the incredible violence and intolerance emanating from the Islamic world, in which entire peoples are being exterminated and raped, and seek only the economic destruction of the one non Islamic country in all of the middle east and North Africa, is the height of hypocrisy and bigotry. BDS is all about further capitulation to Islamists. On behalf of the millions of Israelis and their descendants that were already ethnically cleansed by Arab Muslims when they were forced to flee their lands where many lived from time immemorial, and that now live free in the one small non Islamic country of the middle east called Israel, just say no.