I have recently been offering a presentation on the Strategic and
Diplomatic Challenges for Israel 2020.
In this presentation I include the linguistic trend, used by the
international diplomatic community, away from Israel's original territorial
legitimacy through the term "disputed territory" and arriving into
"occupied Palestinian land," an incorrect, devious and
dangerous change of language to suit a narrative.
And, lo and behold, this morning I read that the EU just changed their
official definition of Judea & Samaria from "occupied or disputed lands" into a
shorter, simplistic "occupied lands." This fails to admit that Israel is
occupying its legitimate land. On the contrary, it is part of the push to delegitimize
Israel on its ancestral land in favor of an amorphous, undefined, “Palestinian”
entity.
This is the new, contrived, anti-Israel
definition of EU foreign policy under its new foreign official, Josep Borrell.
The bias against Israel has been a noticeable feature
of EU foreign policy for several years, particularly emphasized under the
foreign policy leadership of Federica Mogherini, a former Arafat groupie and disciple
of Italian Communist, Massimo D’Alema. Mogherini rose through the rank of the
Italian DS party, which emerged out of the Italian Communist Party. As such,
her political dogma included sympathy for arch-terrorist, Yasser Arafat and a
desire to reduce Israel’s legitimacy in order to create a balance favorable to a
belligerent Palestinian ideology.
This EU formula continues to today.
The misuse of language is just one strategic
ploy used by EU officials when forging policies that leave Israel at a major disadvantage,
and fly in the face of documented history and territorial legitimacy favorable
to Israel’s case for justice and fairness.
A return to the phraseology of “disputed
territories” would be equally unacceptable to Israel but that would be less
politically biased than the noxious and incorrect term “occupied Palestinian
land.”
To prove themselves to be balanced and
even-handed, something they have never done for decades, I recommend that the
EU bring legislation to bear to repeal the status of "refugee
camps" located in areas under the full administrative and security
control of both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in Gaza.
This must be done in recognition of Israeli territorial
concessions to the Palestinians in vain gestures for peace, gestures that has
been totally rejected by both sides of the divided Palestinian political camps.
Simple logic decrees that people claiming to be
"Palestinian refugees” born in territories under the sole control
of a Palestinian regime, cannot be defined as “refugees.”
It is unacceptable for the EU to assist in the
illogical claim that Arabs born and living in territories exclusively governed
by Palestinian leadership, whether it be the PA in the "West Bank,"
or Hamas in Gaza, are "refugees."
That is as illogical as saying that people born
in Belgium are refugees.
If the EU claim they are working to create a
Palestinian state in "the West Bank" they are duty bound to
make changes to their language and policy to prove it, and removing the
fraudulent definition of refugeeship as one essential prerequisite.
The excuse that the EU has no control over refugee
status, even as they help maintain such a status, but that this is a UN issue, is
disingenuous. Collectively and individually EU members must bring a motion to
the floor of the UN General Assembly, if not the Security Council, to rescind
the definition of “refugee” from Palestinians living under Palestinian
control as self-evident misnomer.
This will make the work of UNRWA redundant, but
many countries and leading institutions say that UNRWA have gone beyond their
sell-by date decades ago. Why should this UN body maintain its existence in
perpetuity when there is another UN refugee body whose role has been to
implement the reduction of refugees globally Why must Palestinians, living
under Palestinian rule, be nurtured into their fifth generation by the Un and
EU?
By not addressing this misdemeanor the EU
remain exposed as having a clear diplomatic bias and of being an active participant
of Palestinian ambitions to "liberate the rest of Palestinian occupied
lands from the River to the Sea."
Barry Shaw,
International Public Diplomacy Director,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Author of the book ‘1917. From Palestine to
the Land of Israel.’
https://www.amazon.com/1917-Palestine-Land-Israel-extraordinary/dp/154230010X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=1917.+From+Palestine+to+the+Land+of+Israel&qid=1578919134&s=books&sr=1-1
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