Israel is too Important to be left to Israelis Only.

Submitted by Ynnatchkah (United States), Aug 8, 2008 at 17:31

I recently came along with a Blog that defends Dr. Pipes' rights of analysis basically, by proxy- for very basic reasons.

http://fresnozionism.org/archives/998

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ERETZ-ISRAEL was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books…

On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.

This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State. — Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Israel's Declaration of Independence clearly states that Israel is the state of the Jewish people, not merely of "the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel". "....

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