Plan for Arab-Israeli Reconciliation
The P.A.I.R. Initiative

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Why the Roadmap and its ‘Land for Peace’ approach cannot work

The Roadmap approach contains fatal flaws that must be exposed along with the lack of qualifications of the Quartet, its four official sponsors. To pursue a true peace with justice it is necessary to first demonstrate the futility and danger inherent in pursuing this Roadmap approach and make way for fresh thinking.

CONTENTS OF PART I

I-A Historic truths are being ignored and distorted.

I-A.1 There never was a state of Palestine or a Palestinian People.

I-A.2 How the Arabs/Muslims acquired ten million square miles of territory.

I-A.3 The League of Nations ratified an international Arab-Jewish agreement over eighty years ago.

I-A.4 The land of Israel was the biblical home of the Jewish People three thousand years ago.

I-A.5 The Qur'an, the Hebrew bible and the Christian bible all confirm Jewish claims to the land of Israel.

I-B There is no development plan to avoid a demographic time bomb.

I-C Proponents of the Roadmap lack the credentials to design a true peace plan.

I-C.1 American officials’ secret war against Jews and against Israel.

I-C.2 Disgraceful treatment of the Native Americans.

I-C.3 Mismanagement of energy resources.

I-C.4 Failure in the war of ideas.

I-C.5 Actions that alienate foreign peoples.

I-D Arab hostility toward, and rejection of, Israel and Jews is not being addressed.

I-E Imposing a settlement on Israel would create dire risks to everyone.

I-F Part of the responsibility for the current conflict rests with some Jews.

I-G The nations have failed to recognize the historic rights of, and the immense debt they owe to, the Jewish People.

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I-A  Historic truths are being ignored and distorted.

I-A.1 There never was a state of Palestine or a Palestinian People.

To speak of Palestine as a real country and of Palestinians as a distinct people is to perpetuate a giant falsehood that creates an insurmountable roadblock to peace. In adhering to the first of the four essential negotiating principles, one must tell the whole truth without fear or favor. Falsehoods must not be allowed to become conventional wisdom simply because they have been repeated endlessly.

The name Palestine originated with the Romans almost two thousand years ago following their crushing of the Jewish revolt and their intention to erase Jewish history from the Land of Israel. The name, Palestine, was intended to replace the name, Judea. It only represented a geographical renaming and redistricting but never introduced a new nation or a new national identity. Until Israel’s rebirth in 1948 the term Palestinian was used almost exclusively for the Jews who were reclaiming, resettling and revitalizing their ancient homeland after nearly twenty centuries of exile. Arabs in the area did not wish to be called Palestinians. Following the re-birth of Israel the Palestinian Jews logically became known as Israelis. This presented an opportunity for hostile Arab leaders to appropriate the names, “Palestine” and “Palestinian”. They thus created a new national identity setting themselves apart from the neighboring Arab countries by appropriating a key part of Jewish history as their own. By failing to challenge this event at the beginning, Jewish leaders mistakenly and tragically allowed a giant falsehood to take root that would later grow to challenge to Israel’s own legitimacy. A just and lasting peace requires recovering the whole truth regardless of how long it has been ignored. More details are found in Appendix I-

I-A.2 How the Arabs/Muslims acquired ten million square miles of territory.

Today’s maps show a vast Arab/Muslim area encompassing over fifty countries and spanning multiple continents, a situation which everyone accepts as unquestionable and legitimate. However, there was a time when Arabs occupied less than one tenth of their present domain. Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was born in Arabia some fourteen hundred years ago. It was only during the century following Mohammed’s teachings that Arabs embarked on a jihad to spread Islam and conquered vast areas of the Middle East, North Africa, parts of Europe and parts of Asia. In Mohammed’s time Arabia comprised less than one million square miles and contained multiple ethnic groups, including Christians and Jews. Mohammed’s Islamic conquest virtually eliminated non-Muslims from Arabia. Today the Islamic conquests extend over some ten million square miles. About half of that territory contains twenty-two Arab Muslim nations. The other half contains dozens of non-Arab Muslim nations.

The historic land of Israel [link to a map of the time] was conquered by the Muslims in the year 638, over five and a half centuries after the Jewish revolt against Rome was crushed and many Jews were expelled from their country.

Many Arab/Muslims today espouse the doctrine that any land conquered by Islam must forever remain Muslim. There are even some Muslims who argue for a Muslim re-conquest of Spain which was under Muslim rule centuries ago. Over ninety percent of present Arab/Muslim lands was acquired by Islamic conquest. More details can be found in Appendix I-A.2.

I-A.3 The League of Nations ratified an international Arab-Jewish agreement over eighty years ago.

An amicable, far-reaching and far-sighted agreement between Arabs and Jews was reached over eighty years ago. Had the terms of that agreement been faithfully implemented it would have provided a historic opportunity to establish an enduring peace and perhaps avoid the current Arab-Israeli conflict. Following WWI, a series of peace conferences were held by the victorious allies under the auspices of the League of Nations (the predecessor to the United Nations). The League of Nations convened to draw new boundaries in the vast territory of the defeated Turkish Ottoman Empire which had ruled over those lands for four hundred years.

The Arabs were promised sovereignty in a number of newly-created "countries" comprising about five million square miles. The Jews were promised a national home inside their biblical territory of Judea and Samaria which the Romans had earlier renamed Palestine in their attempt to erase the historical Jewish connection to that land. The Jews were to receive a territory which included present day Israel, Jordan, the “West Bank”, Gaza and the Golan Heights, all of which comprised less than one percent of the area assigned to the Arabs.The Arab and Jewish delegations to the peace conferences were both in amicable agreement over the area to be assigned to the Jewish State and both expressed their anticipation of friendly cooperation in the future. The League of Nations strongly endorsed that idea with an internationally binding agreement to be known as the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. England was assigned the responsibility for faithfully implementing that Mandate.

The Arabs received their promised territories but the Jews did not because England failed to carry out the terms of the Mandate to which it was assigned. Soon after accepting responsibility for the Mandate England began to incite Arab hostility against the Jews. Shortly afterwards England detached three-fourths of the Mandated territory and unilaterally created Trans Jordan and unilaterally detached the Golan Heights for transfer to French-controlled Syria and Lebanon. The Jews were promised full control in the remaining one fourth of the land. But in 1947, the United Nations decided to ignore all prior agreements and partitioned the remaining area into a Jewish and an Arab state which the Jews accepted and the Arabs rejected, launching a war against Israel.

Had England honored its original obligations under the Mandate, a Jewish State might have emerged prior to WWII, and in time to rescue many of those who ultimately perished in the Holocaust. That would also have produced a far stronger Israel and a less tempting target to her enemies, thus increasing the chances for peace. France and the U.S. went along with this clear violation of an international treaty, thereby forfeiting credibility and trust as honest brokers in Middle East affairs. For more details see Appendix I-A.3.

I-A.4 The land of Israel was the biblical home of the Jewish People three thousand years ago.

The Jewish People have legitimate land claims. The Hebrew bible is the historical record of the Jewish People from the time of Abraham, some 4,000 years ago. The Israelites led by Moses formally became a Jewish nation at Mount Sinai thirty-three centuries ago when they received the divine Law of the holy Torah, including the Ten Commandments.

King David established Jerusalem as the capital of ancient Israel over 3,000 years ago. That event took place over fifteen hundred years before Mohammed was born and before the Arabs even set foot outside of Arabia. [link to a map showing Arabia and Jerusalem] King Solomon, the son of King David, built the First Temple in Jerusalem in ancient Israel which then existed as a fully sovereign nation. Later they were attacked, defeated and driven into the Babylonian exile from which they returned seventy years later to build their Second Temple under King Herod.

During the Roman occupation of the Land of Israel, about two thousand years ago, the Jews revolted against Roman domination. In the ensuing savage war lasting over three years the Jews sustained horrific loses, the Holy Temple was destroyed and Jerusalem was sacked. Most of the survivors were sold into slavery and ultimately driven into an exile lasting into modern times.

Some Jews always remained in the Land of Israel throughout the centuries. They survived conquests by multiple invading armies including those of European Christian Crusaders and Muslim jihads. The State of Israel is the Third Jewish Commonwealth existing on a small part of the holy land that G-d first promised to Abraham. Israel does not "occupy" one inch of land that is not theirs. Claims against Israel have no basis in law, history or theology. Those claims are not based upon equitable considerations because the Arab and Muslim nations combined occupy more than one thousand times the area controlled by Israel. They already possess far more than their fair share of land on this planet. During the past millennia many nations came and went; many boundaries were drawn and redrawn time and time again. However, the Jewish People remains eternally connected to that small sliver of holy land to which G-d assigned them. Acknowledging that truth can go a long way toward promoting peace and justice to that region. Contesting the right of the Jewish People to their holy land will create endless strife and suffering to that region and beyond.

I-A.5 The Qur’an, the Hebrew bible and the Christian bible all confirm Jewish claims to the land of Israel.

It is not true, as so many Arabs and Muslims have been led to believe, that the Qur'an rejects Jewish claims to the Land of Israel/Palestine. In fact the Qur'an confirms Jewish claims to the land of Israel. Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Secretary General of the Italian Muslim Association, has said the Jewish right to the Land of Israel is indeed inscribed in the Qur'an. He also traced how the original message of acceptance became perverted into one leading to implacable rejection and bloody conflict. The following verses from the Qur'an are but three examples supporting the Jewish right to the Land of Israel/Palestine.

"And thereafter We said to the children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd.’ " (Qur'an 17:104, The Night Journey)

"Remember Moses said to his people: "O my People! call in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples." (Qur'an 5:20)

"O my people! enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you; and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin." (Qur'an 5:21)

Additional documentation will be found in Appendix I-A.5

I-B There is no development plan to avoid a demographic time bomb.

The Roadmap peace plan proposed by the U.S., European Union, Russia and the U.N. is inherently unworkable on a demographic basis alone and it contains other fatal flaws as well. It attempts to confine two conflicting parties within a space far too small to permanently accommodate even one of them. In a few years the natural growth of both Arabs in the disputed territories and Jews and Israeli Arabs inside Israel will generate bitter conflicts from competition for limited space and resources.

Modern infrastructure projects routinely come with comprehensive development plans to assure that long term needs can be met. If the Roadmap plan was truly feasible, its proponents would have already presented a comprehensive development plan along with it.

Proponents of the Roadmap propose to confine about 5 million Jews and about 6 million Arabs, including refugees from surrounding Arab countries, within only 10,165 square miles ( Israel, Gaza and the "West Bank") The initial density would be over 1,000 people per square mile (ppsm). The present densities of China and India are 360 and 930 ppsm, respectively, and they are considered crowded nations. Even America, with only 80 ppsm, has many pockets of high population densities, which are already causing infrastructure and transport-related problems due to overcrowding.

Any credible development plan should accommodate growth requirements for at least 100 years. In only 50 years the total Israeli population comprising Jews and Israeli Arabs is projected to become 20 million with 2,550 ppsm. The proposed Palestinian state would contain 19 million Arabs with 8,100 ppsm. Even if birth rates decline gradually there would still be a problem because birth rates would have to decline dramatically and soon to avoid trouble. Any viable plan must assure jobs, food, water, energy, a viable economy, infrastructure, etc. combined with rising living standards which acts as a multiplier on the demand for resources. These problems would exist even without an ethnic conflict. Simply put, the Roadmap announced on April 30, 2003 offers no practical development plan because none is possible given demographic realities. More details and references are available in Appendix I-B.

I-C Proponents of the Roadmap lack the credentials to design a true peace plan.

The Roadmap plan would establish conditions under which Jews and Arabs will have to live on a long term basis. It is not sufficient to only evaluate the plan and its requirements. It is also necessary to examine the credentials of the Roadmap’s sponsors, namely the Quartet. With so much at stake for Jews, Arabs and Middle East peace it is logical and reasonable to also examine the credentials of those who are promoting their own solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict. America’s three partners in the Quartet all present serious credibility problems. The United Nations record is highly tarnished on many issues and it is highly politicized with at least a quarter of all resolutions being biased against Israel with a free pass on Arab aggression. Russia is becoming more authoritarian while rapidly arming Israel’s enemies, Syria and Iran, and ignoring pleas for restraint from America and Israel. The European Union has long supported militants among the Palestinian Arab radicals and generally followed a pro-Arab policy that disadvantaged Israel. The United States has protected its own security interests from these three Quartet members while inviting these same entities to help shape Israel’s future.

The United States is the best of the four Quartet members and is also the most dominant. Therefore the credentials of American officials should receive prime attention regarding their qualifications to promote any plan for Jews and Arabs. A failed attempt to establish a durable and just peace will not only harm Jews and Arabs but will damage American interests as well.

The announced goals of this administration include fighting terror and promoting freedom and democracy. Some American officials charged with implementing these commendable goals have acted inconsistently and are also endangering the security of America, its Israeli ally and the Palestinian Arabs as well. It will be shown that actions by some officials are highly irresponsible and call into question their fitness to exercise power. It is not anti-American to point out problems that need correcting and offer constructive alternatives. In a free society this is a civic responsibility and a patriotic duty.

It will be demonstrated by past performance that those American officials who back the Roadmap are not qualified to dictate solutions to either party. It will also be shown that U.S. officials in general have failed in other policy areas including protecting U.S. national security. For example, more than three years following 9/11 the Administration still fails to control the porous U.S. borders from mass illegal immigration. The inexplicable, ongoing, U.S. failure to seriously pursue energy independence also endangers national security and creates a conflict of interest over oil which operates to Israel‘s disadvantage. There are other major failures to protect the national interest.

At the least this calls into question U.S. credibility regarding the Roadmap and its security component.At this point a clear distinction must be made between the American people and the actions of American foreign policy officials. Americans are a people of good intentions and generous spirit as has been amply demonstrated over many years. They and their elected representatives in congress have been sympathetic to Israel and to its long struggle to achieve peace with its neighbors.

However, the State Department, the C.I.A., and other influential officials are able to ignore the wishes of the American people, of the U.S. Congress and sometimes even of Administration policies and directives. They sometimes operate in secret without the knowledge or approval of the American people or their representatives. It is specifically this ‘other, un-elected, America’ that is the subject of this critique. This section will identify some major issues that are still ongoing and which call into question the qualifications of U.S. officials to intervene objectively and wisely in Middle East affairs. Five diverse issues have been selected, each of which demonstrates a critical failure in leadership qualification.

I-C.1 American officials’ secret war against Jews and against Israel.

The widespread belief that American policy is highly, even uncritically, supportive of Israel must be challenged based on the actual record, including serious negatives. The following quotes are from the book jacket of The Secret War Against the Jews-How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People by John Luftus and Mark Aarons: "The major powers of the world have repeatedly planned covert operations to bring about the partial or total destruction of Israel. The savage extent of the secret wars against the Jews will horrify the Western public. ... The authors demonstrate that numerous western countries, especially the United States and Great Britain, have conducted repeated and willful spying missions on Palestine [i.e. pre-state Israel] and later Israel over many decades." [Read a review of this article at www.john-loftus.com/bookreview.asp]

It is essential that Americans learn the truth about the actions of their own officials. In every crisis involving Jews, including the Holocaust and in every war that Israel has had to fight, up to and including the present intifada, American policy has consistently harmed the Jews and favored their enemies. More details are contained in Appendix I-C.1.

I-C.2 Disgraceful treatment of the Native Americans.

Protecting the national interest may sometimes require moral compromise due to extenuating circumstances. That is unfortunate at best and it should be held to a minimum. However, there are no extenuating circumstances here to justify the disgraceful treatment of Native Americans. This involves a moral failure in a situation with a striking resemblance to the Roadmap and its promise of ‘land for peace’. Native Americans also traded almost all of their land for peace and were grossly cheated. If American officials can callously betray the Native Americans and ignore the many treaties signed with them they forfeit their moral credibility. Without that essential moral credibility American officials cannot ask Jews and Arabs to trust them with their future security. Morality and honor are indivisible and must be consistent in all dealings. American national honor is at stake and should be valued and preserved by honorable conduct. Additional details are found in appendix I-C.2

I-C.3 Mismanagement of energy resources.

Long term mismanagement of its energy programs has left the U.S. increasingly dependent on foreign sources, including rogue regimes, to meet growing requirements for energy. Long term suppression of research on the most advanced and safest energy breakthroughs has also boosted the case in favor of nuclear power. Supposedly ‘innocent’ nuclear power plants in the hands of regimes such as Iran and North Korea have become stepping stones for their developing and proliferating nuclear weapons. The U.S. has even failed to exploit the full potential of more conventional alternatives such as solar, wind, conservation and efficiency. Other developed countries consume considerably less energy per capita than the U.S. while maintaining comparable living standards. There is compelling evidence that U.S. failure to achieve energy independence with clean, safe, non-nuclear technologies was a policy imposed from the top.

America’s growing, dependence on imported oil and gas harmfully distorts its foreign relations while it enriches America’s enemies and funds terrorism. Huge and growing consumption of fossil fuels, including oil, also contributes to the greenhouse effect which risks destabilizing the global climate. The U.S. had decades of lead-time to develop a variety of clean, safe alternatives to become energy independent and avoid its present predicament.

U.S. dependence on imported oil has allowed the oil lobby and the Saudi government to influence its energy policy and, by extension, its Middle East policy. Key players have been the C.I.A., the State Department, the oil lobby and the Saudis. Those officials willing to subvert American interests in favor of sometimes hostile foreign interests, cannot command trust as honest brokers in crafting Middle East proposals involving Israel’s security. The existence of advanced energy technologies is unfamiliar to most Americans as is the politics of energy. Informative references on the complex issues related to energy are presented in Appendix I-C.3.

I-C.4 Failure in the war of ideas.

“A failure of imagination” (that phrase from the report of the 9/11 commission), and a lack of alertness among our high officials in waging a war of ideas constitutes a serious weakness in protecting the national security. America and the Western world are being challenged by a fanatical Islamic ideology which is motivating huge numbers of Muslims to join in a “holy war” against the Western world. Unless America can launch an ideological counter-offensive, it cannot neutralize the source of the Islamists’ strength.

Evasive clichés about ‘fighting terrorism’, and ‘promoting freedom and democracy’ sound hollow to Muslims who distain Western civilization as composed of unworthy infidels with a debased culture. Fighting communist ideology was easier because the Soviets were basically materialistic and America’s far higher standard of living and greater personal freedom were its strongest arguments against the promises of totalitarian socialism. But Islamist ideology is far more immune to western influence. Osama bin Laden delivers periodic and lengthy lectures to the Muslim world in which he compellingly presents his religious ideology, and his case against America and the West.

The mainstream media provides only superficial coverage of the ideology, aims and resources of the Islamists, thereby depriving westerners of awareness of the threat posed by the Islamists to their way of life. And President Bush is missing a valuable opportunity to respond to bin Laden and his Muslim audience with convincing counter-arguments. So Muslims hear only the Islamist case. This is a major failure of intellectual competence and public relations management.

Excerpts from a recently published Pentagon report highlight this failure: "In plain English, it means waging and winning the war of ideas between the United States and Islamic extremism." "The blunt conclusion of the report, ... was that "U.S. strategic communication must be transformed" because it "is in crisis." In plainer English, the United States is simply not communicating its message at home or abroad in the war on terror and is losing this contest of ideas." See Appendix I-C.4 for further details.

I-C.5 Actions that alienate foreign peoples.

It matters as to who really represents America and American values to other countries. Criminal actions over past decades by certain American officials and certain American corporations have harmed many people in other countries. This has generated a deep and widespread hatred for America in general, although these actions were done without the knowledge or consent of the American people and in violation of what America stands for. This has made it far easier for America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, to incite additional hatred against America by adding their lies to the already damaging truth. Anti-American sentiment also spills over to include Israel which suffers the fallout because of its loyal support of America.

Recently new revelations have surfaced in the form of a best selling book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. The following quote from the book’s back cover describes the basic problem.

The inside story of how America turned from a respected republic to a feared empire.

"Economic hit men", John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder."

John Perkins should know--he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S.--from Indonesia to Panama--to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank, and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks-- dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.

The American foreign policy establishment failed to adequately monitor these activities and alert Congress to legislate the necessary laws to rein in these practices. The is the same policy establishment that designed and promotes the Roadmap.

I-D Arab hostility toward, and rejection of, Israel and Jews is not being addressed.

The failure of consecutive American administrations to oppose Arab/Muslim hatred of Jews and Israel has served to encourage Israel’s enemies. Arab media, Arab leaders and Arab/Muslim clerics have long directed inflammatory invectives and incitement against the State of Israel, the Jewish People and even against Judaism itself. This incitement has moved some Arabs to violence and even a total rejection of Israel’s right to exist. American administrations and their foreign policy establishments have long failed to confront and oppose this incitement, presumably to avoid offending some of America’s Arab ‘allies’. Even worse, some administration pronouncements come close to assigning moral equivalence as they invoke a double standard in their eagerness to appear "even handed". Wild accusations and a rewriting of history have been uttered in the presence of high U.S. officials without evoking an objection, much less a deserved reprimand.

In sharp contrast, when Ariel Sharon expressed his valid concern over Israel’s being betrayed as in the case of Czechoslovakia before WWII, the Bush White House responded immediately by publicly criticizing Sharon and demanding a public apology.

Israel’s enemies are certainly observing all this and may conclude that U.S. support for Israel’s right to self-defense and to live securely is not at all solid. They note the capitulations of two administrations to Arab demands over Jerusalem. Two administrations continue to ignore a ten-year-old Congressional law requiring the U.S. embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital of Jerusalem.

Additionally, the PLO/PA has long received American funding even as their maps continued to show a Palestine as encompassing all of Israel. With no American objection, one could reasonably conclude that the U.S. government quietly shares their ultimate goal of eliminating Israel.

I-E Imposing a settlement on Israel would create dire risks to everyone.

Despite all public statements to the contrary the U.S. administration exerts heavy pressure on Israel to comply with its wishes even when such compliance weakens Israel’s defenses and results in her sustaining more casualties. Therefore it is necessary to contemplate the unthinkable and point out that any existential threat to Israel’s survival could provoke Israel to unleash her maximum response with dire consequences for other countries as well. So it can be argued that it is not in the interests of America to push Israel too far; but that does not guarantee that some U.S. officials will not ignore the obvious danger and do it anyway.

U.S. actions have long included pressures on Israel to weaken its defenses. (See appendix I-C.1.) The current Roadmap comes with heavy U.S. pressure that would tip the security balance sharply against Israel even while the administration insists that the parties must make their own decisions. Israel’s security situation leaves little margin for error and losing a war would endanger Israel’s very survival. This issue is covered in more detail in Appendix I-E.

I-F Part of the responsibility for the current conflict rests with some Jews.

By their failure to tell the truth in their own behalf, much of the mainline Jewish leadership have contributed significantly in worsening the Arab-Israeli conflict, albeit unintentionally. The entire foundation of the current conflict rests on giving credence to the false claims that Israel has stolen, and occupies, land belonging to the so-called Palestinian Arabs. Wide public acceptance of those false claims in turn serves to justify all manner of Arab terrorism in the name of ‘ending the illegal and oppressive Israeli occupation of Palestinian land’. Conversely, disproving that foundation would demolish the entire case against Israel. Israel would then be seen as the occupied party and Arabs as the occupiers. Israel would then acquire the moral right to liberate her land from the Arab occupiers.

Throughout the decades when the Arabs were issuing false claims the Israeli government remained inexplicably and foolishly silent. Instead of promptly and vigorously refuting false claims at the outset, they responded mainly by expressing their desire for peace and of their willingness to make ‘painful concessions’ for a true peace. Over time this behavior has allowed false history to become deeply imbedded in the minds of Arabs, the general public and even of many Jews. When an accused party fails to refute the accusations, the public cannot be faulted for assuming that the accusations must be true.

Today this false history has become the basis for fatally flawed peace plans such as the Oslo Accords and the Roadmap. Although these plans would greatly weaken Israel’s ability to defend herself they are difficult to refute at this late date, being based on entrenched assumptions. With so much pressure upon Israel to accede to these flawed peace plans the result could be yet another war when the Arabs sense their strength may be sufficient to finally conquer a greatly weakened Israel. This scenario has occurred before and only serves to prolong the conflict and prevent the establishment of a true peace. Attempts to establish the truth are now, unfortunately, often met with incredulity and dismissed out of hand.

The majority of mainline Jewish leadership in Israel and in the Diaspora have sometimes been dangerously naive. Their intense yearning for peace has clouded their judgment causing them to repeatedly make one-sided concessions lacking in true reciprocity. This yearning is based largely on wishful thinking while underestimating the hostile intentions of their enemy.

Despite much bloody experience to the contrary, some Jews even believe that by continuing to make one sided concessions, even in the face of ongoing terror, the PA/Arabs will eventually become less hostile and more inclined to make peace. This attitude also explains why much of the America Jewish leadership is unwisely supporting the Roadmap without giving due consideration to its inherent dangers to both Jews and Arabs and the cause of a just peace.

There is also a small, malevolent, extremist Jewish fringe which seeks to exploit its Jewish ancestry in the service of Israel’s enemies. What they lack in numbers they make up in single-minded intense activism. They hide their true agenda behind a ‘human rights’ facade or behind deceptive claims to be promoting ‘peace’. Some include tenured academics and authors who publish their propaganda and go on international speaking tours. They falsely accuse Israel of committing the most extreme human rights violations. In effect they validate the message of racist anti-Semites including neo-Nazis and Islamic extremists as they incite murderous hatred for Israel and her supporters. Because many people cannot believe that anyone would betray their own in such a manner they are able to gain undeserved credibility. The antidote to this political poison is for the public to be made aware of this dangerous phenomenon and be armed against it with the truth. See Appendix I-F for more details.

I-G The nations have failed to recognize the historic rights of, and the immense debt they owe to, the Jewish People.

Any just settlement of the conflict must respect full Jewish rights and also the unique contribution of the entire Jewish people to the world community over thousands of years. Recognizing Jewish rights does not diminish Arab rights nor conflict with them, provided we adhere to the whole truth. It is usual to hear people speak in support of specific “rights” of the “Palestinian Arabs”. It is unusual to hear people speak equally in support of specific rights of the Jewish People in Israel. This type of anti-Jewish bias is reflected in one-sided ‘peace’ arrangements such as Oslo and now the Roadmap. Both are doomed to fail because they are one-sided and make justice and Israeli security impossible to attain. The Arabs will often deny and denigrate Jews and Jewish history, even in front of American officials who generally remain silent. Such inaction reinforces and perpetuates an atmosphere the practice of institutionalized inequality where Israel cannot obtain justice in any agreement. For more details see Appendix I-G.