Below you will find the response by Yashiko Sagamori to reader
Tom who wrote a non-beligerent letter about the so-called 'Palestinian people'
and his genuine concern for the Jews in Israel.
The whole concept of a 'Palestinian people' is a misnomer that Yashiko's response
puts into its proper place - Jack DeLowe
If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine:
You are lamenting the "low sinking" of "once proud"
nation. Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what
was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly
call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from
all over -- or thrown out of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine
ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never
try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the
Six Day War?
I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians"
to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won't work here.
The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries
have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it today.
Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means,
they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist
organization, cynically called it "Palestinian people" and installed
it in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan
and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank" and Gaza,
respectively?
The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less claim
to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut
with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a
constructive goal that motivated them. The so called "Palestinians"
have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel, and in my book that is
not sufficient to consider them a "nation" -- or anything else except
what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.
In fact, there is only one way to achieve piece in the Middle East. Arab countries
must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as
the losing side should, pay Israel reparations for the more than 50 years of
devastation they have visited on it. The most appropriate form of such reparations
would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel
and accepting Israel's ancient sovereignty over Gaza, Judea, and Samaria.
That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again
was its beginning?
You are absolutely correct in your understanding of the "Palestinians'"
murderous motives. I am afraid however that you, along with 99% of the population
of this planet have missed the beginning of WWIII (the enemy call it Jihad)
quite a few years ago. The siege of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, an event
to which the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner had so miserably failed to respond,
can be very well used as the day WWIII stepped out of the pages of the Koran
and into the current events. I pray the United States and Israel lead the world
to victory in this war. Come to think of it, there is no choice, be you a Christian,
a Jew, or even, believe it or not, a Muslim.