by Steven
Shamrak.
Critics of Israel love to mention UN resolutions, but they
do not like it when people in fact read them. Quite often interpretation of the
UN resolutions has nothing in common with the actual text:
Resolution 181 (II). Future Government of Palestine, adopted on
29 November 1947, address the issue of citizenship of the future population
of Palestine. http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/7f0af2bd897689b785256c330061d253?OpenDocument
Chapter 3 - Citizenship, international conventions and
financial obligations
“Citizenship:
Palestinian citizens residing in Palestine outside the City of Jerusalem, upon the
recognition of independence, become citizens of the State in which they are
resident and enjoy full civil and political rights.”
At the time of
declaration of Israeli independence most Arabs were not residents of Israel,
but the proposed Arab state. Therefore, they should be citizens of an Arab
state. It is not Israel’s fault that Arabs rejected the UN partition plan.
“Persons over
the age of eighteen years may opt, within one year from the date of recognition
of independence of the State in which they reside, for citizenship of the other
State, providing that no Arab residing in the area of the proposed Arab State
shall have the right to opt for citizenship in the proposed Jewish State…”
The UN
resolution allowed Jews to live outside the official border of the Jewish
state. I would like to ask if Arabs are allowed to live in Israel, why Jews
must leave territories, regardless of the outcome of future negotiations?
Therefore, I would suggest that transfer of Jews from territories contradicts
UN Resolution 181, as well as recent UN resolutions related to population
transfer.
The issue of Jews living in the West Bank and Gaza is
used as another propaganda decoy tactic. Most forgot by now ‘big and important
issues’ like: construction of by-pass roads, Sharon’s visit to Temple Mount
etc. They all have one purpose – To hide Arab’s intention, probably not only
Arabs, to destroy Israel!