In celebration of “nakba” day, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza all sent thousands of people to storm Israel’s borders. Several were killed and many were injured. This shows how utterly hopeless Obama’s peace efforts have become. The Palestinians are not interested in peace with Israel. They want all of Israel to become the Palestinian state.
Syria:
Israeli TV channels broadcast scenes, taken from Arab stations, of what appeared to be thousands of people gathering along the Syrian border with the Golan, with large crowds throwing objects at the fence. Dozens of people could be seen cutting through the fence and storming across to the Israeli side.
In a statement, the military said “thousands of Syrian civilians” breached the border.
“IDF forces opened fire in order to prevent the violent rioters from illegally infiltrating Israeli territory, a number of rioters have infiltrated and are violently rioting in the village. From initial reports there are dozens of injured that are receiving medical care in a nearby hospital,” the statement said.
Israeli officials confirmed two of those who crossed the Syrian border were dead on the Israeli side, and as many as four were reported dead in Syrian territory.
Lebanon:
The shooting erupted at the tense border village of Maroun el-Rass, which saw some of the fiercest fighting in 2006. Thousands of Palestinian refugees had traveled to the village in buses adorned with posters that said: “We are returning.” Many came from the 12 crowded refugee camps in Lebanon where some 400,000 Palestinian refugees live.
“Israel may be 63 years old today but its days are numbered,” said Abbas Jomaa, 50, who was carrying his 4-year-old son on his shoulders and holding a Palestinian flag. “Sooner or later we will return.”
Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers, U.N. peacekeepers and riot police deployed heavily in the area, taking up positions along the electric border fence and patrolling the area in military vehicles. Young Hezbollah supporters wearing yellow hats and carrying walkie-talkies organized the entry to the village and handed out Palestinian flags.
Gaza:
IDF forces opened fire at a Palestinian man who was apparently trying to place an explosive device in the northern Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, military sources said.
The suspected terrorist was hurt by the fire.
In another incident soldiers spotted several Palestinians who approached the border fence near the Erez crossing and fired at their legs, the army said.
Notice what all of these incidents have in common? Terrorists using civilians as cover. And the Arab refusal to acknowledge the Jewish state that exists in their midst. There will be no peace in the Middle East until Arabs accept the fact that Israel was there before the fictional construct of Filistina, and that Israel will remain where it is, and there will be no “Palestine” from the river to the sea.
Happy Nakba Day, Palestinians. Get over it and get used to Gaza and the West Bank as Filistina, or just stick with the status quo forever.
“Thousands of Palestinian refugees had traveled to the village in buses adorned with posters that said: “We are returning.” Many came from the 12 crowded refugee camps in Lebanon where some 400,000 Palestinian refugees live.”
Must have been a nice vacation for the Palis. If not for sending them to the border to threaten Israel the Lebanese keep them locked up in the camps. They cannot become citizens of Lebanon, they can’t work there, all the Lebanese want them for is cannon fodder against Israel.
“Israel may be 63 years old today but its days are numbered,” said Abbas Jomaa, 50, who was carrying his 4-year-old son on his shoulders and holding a Palestinian flag. “Sooner or later we will return.”
These people should have been resettled sixty years ago, as the Jewish refugees were, both from the Arab countries that threw them out after Israel’s founding and from Europe’s Displaced Person camps. Those camps were not finally emptied until Israel took the people in, for the European countries and America did not want to resettle them. They were told to go to Germany but for some reason, in the immediate aftermath of WWII, Jews were refusing to do that.
Make them citizens of whatever Arab country they are now living in. Israel already has over a million Arab citizens (who really are citizens, not a servile underclass the way the Arab bigshots treat the people they rule). And if the New Egypt is so keen on seeing the Gazans are well-treated, let Egypt rule the place again, make it officially part of Egypt and its people Egyptian citizens. The only reason it wasn’t given back to Egypt was that Sadat and the rest of the Egyptians would have preferred an attack of bubonic plague to having Palestinian Arabs in their country. When Egypt ruled Gaza they did so as a prison camp.
The Jews took care of their own. The Arabs left theirs to rot. It’s the Arabs’ responsibility now to uplift them, and nobody else’s.