https://www.jwire.com.au/the-xenophon-team/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:17:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.jwire.com.au/the-xenophon-team/#comment-186028 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:17:08 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=64650#comment-186028 Is it just coincidence that shortly after the European parliament’s standing ovation for the Arab who accused Jews of poisoning water wells, and shortly after Mr Xenophon’s and the Greens’ half-baked views were published, that there has been an intensification of Arab terrorism against Jews?

]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/the-xenophon-team/#comment-186024 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:17:54 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=64650#comment-186024 The person who wrote this article apparently is unaware that there has never been such a thing as “the 1967 borders.”
The lines on the map that demarcated Israel from the surrounding territory were actually the 1949 armistice lines. They were meant to be temporary lines pending negotiations between Israel on the one hand, and the defeated aggressor Arab states that had invaded Israel in 1948.
The peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan definitively established international borders, but to this day there is no international border between Israel on the one hand, and Judea / Samaria [ “the so-called ‘west bank’] on the other.
There are two reasons for this: Judea and Samaria are part of the Jewish National Home, as defined by the 1922 Mandate for Palestine, so Israel has valid legal claims there. The Arabs who call themselves ‘Palestinians’ have repeatedly rejected Israeli offers of statehood because they want the whole of Israel, not a so-called “two-state solution.”
Mr Xenophon probably knows all the above facts, but is unmoved by them.

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