The Sun-Sentinel recent editorial “Campus Protestors Need A History” was good but missed some points.
These protests are not Pro-Palestinian, they are closer to Pro-Hamas. These protests are clearly anti-Israel, anti-Jew. They have signs and chants that say death to Israel, death to Jews. Add that there were no such protests before October 7th. Death to America” is emerged as a key slogan in these anti-Israel protests. The protestors have only one goal and that is clear.
Some history would be important for these protestors and their appeasers with their talk about rewarding Hamas and the Palestinians with a two state solution. Apparently, these people do not know their history. The Palestinians have been offered their own state next to the Jewish state of Israel (1) the British Peel Commission suggested a two state solution in 1937, (2) in 1947, the UN partition plan was put on the table, (3) July 2000 at Camp David summit Israel PM Ehud Barak offered Yassir Arafat a separate state which Arafat responded with the al-Aqsa Intifada, (4) August 2005, Israel withdrew 100% from Gaza including taking their buried dead, the response was Gaza became a war camp, (5) in 2008, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert offered PA president Mahmoud Abbas a sweeping peace proposal which have lead to a two state solution and (6) 2019, President Trump offered the Deal of the Century. Each offered was not countered with an alternative but just a plain simple no.
The Palestinian plans call for a land that is Jew Free, not one Jew will be allowed to live in the Palestinian territory. The land they want as their own would be from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, basically the total elimination of the Jewish State of Israel. The Palestinian land is significantly different than Jewish Israel which is open to LGBTQ, all minorities and Arabs. Arabs serve in all parts of Israeli society including positions on the Israel Supreme Court. In the Arab world, women do not have equal rights and LGBTQ are not tolerated.
These protesters do not care about facts or actual documented history. All of Gaza was turned over to the Palestinians in 2005, nineteen years ago. Not one Jew remained, not one Jew buried in the ground remained. Green houses and other functioning facilities were destroyed by the Palestinians. 2007, Hamas came to power, killing any Palestinian who got in their way. Hamas has received billions in financial aid over this time. The money has not gone to make life better for the Gaza residents. They did not build water purification plants, they did not build electric generating facilities, what they did spend the money on was tunnels and weapons. You might want to ask why after 17 years of full control of Gaza why those residents are still living in refugee camps. Oh, these are real cities with high rise buildings, hospital, schools and yes, weapon manufacturing facilities.
Where are these protests? On university and college grounds. Many universities and colleges brag about being a bastion for free speech and a place to exchange different opinions. Problem is that these are places where conservative professors have great difficulty getting jobs because of their different opinions. Conservative professors are criticized for what is called their microaggressions when they use words that make their liberal students uncomfortable. Pro-Israel discussion is routinely frowned on.
Universities and colleges brag about their position on free speech, they are anything but open to different opinions. Speakers representing conservative position or pro-Israel viewpoint have been shouted down or canceled to avoid hearing their opinions. The university administrators have consistently not stood up for hearing those with differences as they allowed the disruptions to stop speakers or have canceled invitations to those with different opinions.
Finally, let’s be clear these protestors hate Jews. Many of the university administrations have no problem capitulating to the protestors demands. So, where are we?
ramblingman49 