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#16: "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty." Likud 1977 Party Manifesto.
A bit of historical context - in 1977 this phrase referred to "One state, one people," (a One-State-Solution. which was "in critical condition" after start of First Intifada in 1987, and finally died when Arafat started Second Intifada) and before the occupation and annexation of "West Bank of Jordan" by Kingdom of Jordan ended in 1988 with surrendering claims on what became again "Palestinian territory," and the formal end of war and transfer of security arrangement from Jordan to Israel in 1994 (after Oslo accords) - well before the West's and UN's wet dream of "Two-state Solution (2SS)"
Not the first or last time Israelis freed Palestinians from occupation by Arab countries, but can't free them from their leaders and ingrained hate.
That's exactly opposite than "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free [of Jews]" which was stated goal of PLO, adapted and codified in Hamas Charter, after taking over "self-government" of Gaza and throwing PA/Fatah families from the roofs of the buildings (even more impressive than Russian defenestrations!)
If the Jews in yarmulkes and masks (to hide their faces) will march shouting "From the River to the Sea no Arabs we can see" and occupy, vandalize institutions, campuses, statues, burn the US and Palestinian flags, then some sort of "equivalence" between the meaning of 1977 Israeli "state sovereignty" and 'Palestinian' terrorist groups' call for genocide of the Jews "from the River to the Sea."
Palestinians could've long had peace and state(s) if only they could free themselves from their "leaders" who treat them as "sacrifices" and "useful idiots," and care only about personal power and wealth, e.g.,:
www.theatlantic.com - A Brief History of Yasir Arafat - August 2002
|------- ... [Arafat] and his army have brought disorder wherever they have settled. In 1969 they based themselves in Jordan, where they soon began terrorizing the local people, running extortion rackets against businesses, and undermining the Jordanian regime. Black September followed in 1970 ... The same sort of thing happened in Lebanon a decade later, with Palestinian thugs looting banks and destroying the local government. The Syrians finally came in to restore order, in what became known as Black June.
Arafat has somehow survived his many crises - battles with the Jordanians, the Syrians, the Egyptians, the Lebanese Christians, and, of course, the Israelis. And each time, instead of being held even partly responsible for the widespread suffering his actions have caused his people, he has been lionized as the figure who will someday bring deliverance from that suffering. This is a monumental political achievement.
After the Oslo accords were signed, leaving Arafat in charge of administering much of the West Bank and Gaza, his armies began to prey on Palestinians, as they had on Jordanians and Lebanese years before. ... The immediate threat to Arafat's control during this period did not come from Arab leaders. The problem was money.
... The solution may instead be to choke off his money supply - the one thing that props up his authority in times of calm.
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This article is from 2002 - two years before Arafat died, with a fortune estimated at USD$1B-$8B, and 3-5 years before Hamas became "the highest authority in Gaza," but as they say, "The players may change, but the game stays the same" - the money 'game' is still played by Palestinian leaders, financed and directed by Ayatollah of Islamic Republic of Iran.
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