A kowtowing ‘Post’

With your April 23 editorial “Camp David 2017?” you have fallen hook, line and sinker for the world’s propaganda regarding the status of the so-called West Bank (another misnomer for Judea, Samaria and any other areas regained in the Six Day War).

You state that both Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “must maneuver under the hanging threat of opposition by extremist constituencies that oppose a settlement based on the two-state solution the Muslim world rejected in 1947.”

In rejecting the 1947 plan, the Muslim world (note no mention of a “Palestinian” people or nation), after declaring war on Israel, left the proposed Arab state as an area in dispute, occupied by the Kingdom of Jordan. The areas were not recognized by the world (with two exceptions) as belonging to the Arabs. In 1967, again in a defensive war, Israel gained control of these territories. No other conflict in the world has been resolved in which the aggressor, who also lost the war, has had a valid claim to such territories.

Regarding the respective constituencies mentioned in the editorial, how can you equate “a Palestinian public that has been incited to pursue terrorism in order to defeat Zionism” with “a settlement movement that rejects a two-state solution altogether and demands full annexation of the West Bank”? The Arabs also reject a two-state solution, desiring the entire area from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. Even if they accept a Jewish state alongside an Arab state, the Arab state will be judenrein.

Those Israelis desiring to keep the biblical homeland do not have to annex any land because the land in question was won in a defensive war.

Finally, those like me who feel that these areas are ours as a right are not “extremists.” We are not part of a “settlement movement.” We deeply believe that these areas belong to the Jews as a God-given right, the same as the lands that extend to the Mediterranean and which have been in our hands since 1948.

We do not feel that we have to resort to terrorism and the murder of Arabs to keep these lands. Those non-Jews who wish to abide by our laws are welcome to stay and live in peace with us. Those who don’t are free to leave.

Perhaps The Jerusalem Post editorial staff will at some time defend our rights as Jews to our land, and not kowtow to the political correctness, lies and propaganda of the world. AVRAHAM FRIEDMAN

Ganei Modi’in