Bold
Ideas Concern Arab Palestinians and Jews
Hasan A. Yahya , Ph.Ds
This
articles deals with two bold ideas concerning the Palestinian Arab and Israeli
conflict. The first idea
about compensations of lands, possessions
and businesses in occupied Palestine as Jews of the Holocaust did? The second about Palestinians and naturalization
in Arab and non Arab host Countries?
Mental ability to think logically is a gift.
Unfortunately, culturally, to deal with Jews and Palestinian Arabs is not
equally perceived. Unlike Arabs, Jews as well as European and other advanced
nations use these mental abilities perfectly. Our concern here, is Israeli mentalities to deal intelligently with the
occupation and their management skills inside and outside Israel to handle
occupation and politically secure Palestine as a home land.
To begin with, it is a remarkable case, Jews used it
perfectly and intelligently. They used their mental abilities to support the idea
which made Holocaust victims paid for
compensation of their homes, businesses, lives, and possessions in Germany, while
Arab Palestinians were suppressed to do the same locally, regionally, and
internationally.
In the case of TWA incident years back, Libya paid
about two billions for a small number of TWA victims
(even though it was not from the ruler pocket, but there was compensation, and
the person who was supposedly in charge of the operation was as part of an
intelligent (humanitarian) deal recently released).
Of course, many people may say like me, so what? Nothing wrong with that! Those who are responsible
of making the terror for other people, and they have to pay for the victims of
that terror, or be attacked as revenge.
But the question raised among most Palestinians
in recent survey (62% percent in West Bank, 49% in Gaza Strip, and 78% in
Europe and North America). So the question was raised “Why Palestinians are denied from such
compensations? They were and still
victims of Israeli aggression and occupation? Why is it that Jews get
compensation till today, where Palestinians are not permitted to be considered as
Jews in compensation. Aren’t they human like Jews. One of my
friends told me that in his childhood his dad was preparing to build their new
home in their land near Jafa. The father bought the
cement, the wood and the stones in
1948, but they did not have the chance to have their own home built in Palestine as the family planned. It is
amazing to live on the hope to return to one’s home for sixty years and not
expect compensation.
No doubt, that Arab Palestinians are not less
intelligent than Jews, nor more. But in my belief, and may be the majority of
Palestinians would think logically about the idea of compensation as Jews did.
In many cases, the compensation idea for lands is acceptable internationally,
and migration and foreign ownership is widely accepted worldwide. I think
according to reasoning, it is the Palestinian right
still to ask and support the idea.
History told us, in secret or loudly announced documents,
that rich people and even some rulers have sold large pieces of Palestinian
lands (total some thirty villages, and compensate away from other peasants of
the time ) to the Jews who bought these lands and settled on it.
In conclusion,
I strongly support the idea. I think
it is a legal question: Why Palestinians are denied to practice their right to
have compensations for their lands, business, and possessions after leaving
their land by force? The question in itself may contribute in solving the
almost century conflict in the Middle East, as well as Palestinian
naturalization in host countries, which will be next dealt with. (608 words) www.dryahyatv.com
Bold
Ideas Concern Arab Palestinians and Jews
Hasan A. Yahya , Ph.Ds
The second idea, however, is connected with the first one, but from
political point of view. Why Palestinians are not Naturalized
in Host Countries?
Culturally speaking, cultures make us believe
certain ideas and support them illogically. Through the last 60 plus years, the
idea to
naturalize Palestinians in the host countries was and still a very negative
idea . (I mean the Arab rich and not rich enough countries). It’s true that the
land, as the Israelis say, Arabs live with Arabs who have large areas to consume
Palestinians, no matter how this was wrong and unjust to occupy other lands in
the case of Palestine. But if Arab leaders did that and accepted Palestinians as
citizens in the first place, that would
help Palestinian refugees (at least)
to establish their lives in the new countries. Arabs, in the past, and
present, strongly stood against the idea for internal or external political
reasons, or for several overt and covert reasons. Even though some of these
countries benefited from Palestinian expertise as they were city dwellers
rather than Bedouin.
To show the difference between city dwellers and
desert dwellers, research conducted in the early 1950s of past century, shows
that a question was asked for two survey attendants one who lives in the desert
in a tent, and the other was working as a hair cutter in Amman (capital of
Jordan), The first was Jordanian, the second was Palestinian. The question was:
If you were the king, or the Prime Minister, what would you do? The Bedouin did
not grasp the idea for the death of the king or the Prime Minister, so he was
angry, the researcher was attacked on the spot, the respondent was thinking
that the researcher imply the death of the two
persons, and that what made him mad. In contrast, the same question was
directed to the barber
in the Amman city. The barber responded, I would create streets, reduce
prices, and doing justice to the citizens. He did not hesitate in his answer.
That what I mean by
the difference between city and non-city dwellers.
Arabs, know very well, logically speaking, that
they were one of the many factors if not the most important one in making
Palestinians suffer all these years. These nations were counted in small
numbers in the 1950s and still in need for more population to defend
themselves. But they insisted to deny Palestinians naturalization (While some
Palestinian were naturalized in Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia, and other countries. Jordan, where thousands of Palestinians are
considered Jordanians even as second citizens, and were in certain defense areas where the high ranks
in the Army and intelligence agency Palestinians were excluded, but they
practiced almost a full right of living and be good citizens). The Jordanian
Passport was really a passport open for all countries (except the Soviet Union
in the Cold War era for a while).
It was and still a serious issue in Lebanon,
Syria, and Iraq. Palestinians pay daily
in their refugee camps, for the ignorance of solving the Palestinian problem.
It should be understood
that the land, any land
(in my opinion) belongs to those who reside, work and pursue their life on
it. Therefore, I would accept compensations for my land, because something is
better than NOTHING. Life is so short to
defend land and die for it. This slogan of dying for one’s county is a dummy
solution made by dummy selfish cultural rules and dummy powerful Governments,
who like to go back to animal like pre-history life. I think people everywhere are free to handle their lives, in any
way and not to be controlled by selfishness of cultural past. (612 words) www.dryahyatv.com