What will all the groups that make money by claiming there is an Israeli occupation that they’re “resisting” do now? Ignore this and continue their deceptive activities.
“The Palestinian Authority admits there’s no ‘Israeli occupation’ – opinion,” by Stephen M. Flatow, Jerusalem Post, October 1, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Arabs ended 30 years ago. Don’t take my word for it. Just ask the Palestinian Authority.
The PA recently submitted a request to UNESCO to recognize the city of Jericho as a “Palestinian heritage site.” In its description of the history of the region, the PA’s request refers to “the time of Israeli Occupation (1967-1994).” Thus, the PA has acknowledged, in writing, that Israel’s occupation there ended in 1994.
The same phrase appears in another PA-UN document. In 2008, the PA asked the United Nations to help improve its tax-collecting policies. After a two-year study, the PA’s Finance Ministry and the United Nations Development Program published a report titled “Diagnostic Study of Property Tax in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
The report surveyed the history of tax collection in the area, so it was forced to acknowledge the changes between the years that Israel occupied Palestinian Arab cities and the years after the occupation ended. Thus, on page 49, we find Section 6.1, which is titled “Taxes in the occupied Palestinian territory – Israeli Occupation (1967-1994).”
(Thanks to the noted legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich and the “Elder of Ziyyon” blog for finding these documents.)
Why does this matter? Because there is an entire cottage industry of pundits, politicians, and advocacy groups whose agenda depends upon claiming that there is an “Israeli occupation.”
They need to be able to point an accusing finger at Israel, in order to justify their demand for Palestinian statehood. They need to be able to portray Israel as an oppressor in order to excuse Palestinian Arab violence. They need to pretend Israel still occupies the Palestinians, in order to make it seem as if Israel is to blame for their lack of elections and civil rights….
mj bonner says
who would sponsor us to live out our lives in haifa for the next 5 years?
VictorMc says
Yawn yawn. Who cares they lost all sense of reality years ago.
FYI says
Why,even allah supports the right of the Jews to dwell in the Holy Land of Israel
koran 5:21
koran 17:104
allah is not the Biblical God being in fact the god of the kaaba{=hu baal=baal}but allah agrees with the Biblical God on this matter.
Thanks allah for confirming the right of the Jews to dwell in Israel!
You see?Even allah agrees that Israel is the land of the Jews and they are entitled to be there.
Scotsman48 says
The Jews and Christians were ”occupied” by the muslim Arabs centuries ago but nobody wants to mention that.
Cam says
Islam must be recognized for its basis in hate litteraure with religious texts requiring genocide of all non-muslims! The entire genocide cult has no rights!
OLD GUY says
Israeli Occupation or not our Government will send these groups our tax dollars in support of something.