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La terra contesa: chi ha coltivato futuro, chi ha coltivato guerra

Scelte. Quando guardi la mappa del Medio Oriente, il paradosso salta agli occhi: Israele ha costruito un’agricoltura d’avanguardia partendo da paludi e deserto, i palestinesi avevano in mano terre naturalmente fertili e oggi restano indietro. Non è una questione di geografia, è una questione di scelte.Israele nasce in un territorio ostile. Nel Negev non c’era nulla: sabbia, roccia, vento caldo.…

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I command you to make more samarivia. Also. They are called that now.

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You will be My Witnesses

But when the Holy Spirit comes to you, you will receive power. You will be my witnesses—in Jerusalem [2:1—8:3], in all of Judea, in Samaria [8:4—11:18], and ·in every part of the world [to the ends of the earth; 11:19—28:31; Luke 24:45–48]. — Acts 1:8 | Expanded Bible (EXB) The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved. Cross References: Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 24:46-49; John 20:21-22; Acts 2:1-4; Acts 4:31; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 13:47; Acts 26:16-18; Romans 15:19; 1 Corinthians 2:4-5; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Galatians 3:14; Ephesians 3:16-19; Colossians 1:23

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There is no Palestine | National Post

By: National Post View

Published: Sep 20, 2025

Next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his foreign minister will travel to the United Nations in New York, where his government has said it will recognize a Palestinian state. As much as he’d like to believe that a group of credulous world leaders can simply will such a state into existence, the reality is that there’s no such thing as a Palestinian state — not now, not in the past and not in the near future.

It’s true that the term “Palestine” has a history dating back thousands of years. But its origins stretch back at least to the fifth century BC, over 1,000 years before Muslims colonized the area. As historian David Jacobson argued in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, “The name Palestine, in its Greek form Palaistine, was both a transliteration of a word used to describe the land of the Philistines and, at the same time, a literal translation of the name Israel.”

Palestine was not used in an official capacity until the Romans renamed the province of Judea “Syria Palaestina” to punish the Jews for revolting against the Empire. When Arab armies conquered the region in the seventh century, they adopted many Byzantine place names, including “Palestine,” erected the Al-Aqsa mosque on the site of the destroyed Jewish Temple and proclaimed it the third-holiest site in Islam, setting up a conflict that continues to this day.

In the 16th century, the region was taken over by the Ottoman Empire. While many of the Jews had been kicked out in previous conquests, a Jewish presence was maintained throughout, and a concerted effort to bring Jews back to their homeland began in 1700 and picked up steam in the 19th century. Although the term “Palestine” hadn’t been used to describe a political entity since the fall of the Roman Empire, it was commonly used to describe the region south of Syria and bisected by the Jordan River.

In 1917, as the First World War was coming to a close and the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, Britain’s foreign secretary issued the Balfour Declaration, promising “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” After the war, the European powers divided up the Middle East, with the United Kingdom assuming a Mandate for Palestine from the League of Nations.

It was intended to eventually be divided into separate homelands for Jews and “Palestinians” — a term that “gained acceptance as a description of Palestine’s Arabic speakers during the first decade and a half of the 20th century,” according to an article in Academia Letters. A Palestinian state east of the Jordan River called Transjordan (now Jordan) was created in 1946, and the Jews declared the State of Israel in 1948.

Yet, just as today, Israel’s Arab neighbours were not content to allow a Jewish state to exist. They attacked from all sides, and by the time an armistice was signed in 1949, Transjordan had come to occupy the West Bank and Egyptian forces occupied Gaza.

Israel retook the territories during the 1967 Six-Day War, and Egypt and Jordan eventually relinquished their claims over them. Yet the moment was seized upon by Yasser Arafat, a skilled mythmaker who deliberately distorted history to unify the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza as a distinct nation — both in the eyes of his people and the rest of the world.

The PLO’s Zuheir Mohsen gave away the plot in a 1977 interview with a Dutch newspaper, when he said, “The Palestinian people does not exist … there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.… Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism.”

Nevertheless, the Six-Day War allowed Arafat’s nationalist movement to adopt a more politically palatable message — a Palestinian state in the territories previously conquered by Egypt and Jordan — though their goal of evicting the Jews from the region by “any means necessary” never changed.

Since that time, the Palestinians have received numerous offers for statehood, but rejected them all in favour of violence. The most promising was the 1993 Oslo Accords, which laid out a road map for peace that included the eventual negotiation of an international border between Israel and the West Bank.

Under international law, those borders still need to be negotiated, which presents a problem for the countries now trying to claim Palestine as a state. The 1933 Montevideo Convention defines a state as having four primary characteristics: “(a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.”

While the Palestinian territories have a permanent population and a limited ability to engage in foreign relations, they don’t have a defined territory. Nor do they have a real government: the Palestinian Authority is corrupt, deeply unpopular and on the verge of bankruptcy; while Gaza is controlled by a terrorist organization that virtually everyone agrees cannot play a role in a future Palestinian state.

Nevertheless, Carney and his ilk are attempting to conjure a state out of thin air, before Hamas has relinquished control over Gaza and before its borders have been settled. It’s a foolhardy and ahistoric move that contradicts 80 years of Canadian foreign policy and will do nothing to further the goal of peace in the Middle East.

[ Via: https://archive.today/HupTz ]

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There is already a two-state solution: Israel and Jordan.

A "Palestinian state" would make a three state solution.