Fallacies of the Democratic Socialists of America, Part 16

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"Recognize the rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right to resist military occupation, and the right to self-determination in a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. End all military and economic aid to Israel. Prosecute U.S. and Israeli leaders responsible for the genocide in Gaza." - DSA https://program.dsausa.org/


"Free Palestine" for what, whom, and when? Is Palestine a united people? No, it needs to settle these w's. Is Palestine a singular sovereign state? No. It must determine its own future. It is not even contiguous; it consists of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It claims it is "from the river to the sea," but there is another sovereign territory in between, belonging to the sovereign State of Israel, which Palestine would prefer to occupy, using that last quoted cry. Palestine wants to claim Jerusalem as its capital, but Jerusalem is already the capital of another sovereign state: Israel. To claim Jerusalem as Palestine's capital is, therefore, a matter of aggression, which the previous DSA objective [see part 15] wants to abolish. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/who-governs-palestinians. The last time Jerusalem was rightfully in another's hands was up to the point of Israeli King David defeating the Jebusite [Canaanite] King, Araunua, to win back Jerusalem for Israel 3,000 years ago. I Chronicles 11; 4-5  


The "history" depends on which version is consulted. The Israelite tradition says that Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, were sent to the Sinai, that, when of age, Ishmael married an Egyptian woman, and established a "nation" there. The Islamic [Quran] tradition is similar, but the region was Mecca, in modern Saudi Arabia. In neither case is it what is claimed as Palestine, today, where the modern 'tradition" [if one can call it that, stemming from less than 100 years ago] is "from the river to the sea," which is not where either the Israeli nor Islamic traditions [a thousand years ago, at least] place it. Does anybody have a care to reconcile history?


Does Palestine want to be a communist state? They're divided on that, as well. https://www.leftvoice.org/palestinian-self-determination-and-the-fight-for-socialism/ 

The cited article claims the achievement of a socialist [communist] state is a "fight." Where has that been heard before? [See Part 7]


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The Palestinians have lived in Israel longer than the Jews. The Jews returned to their homeland after they were offered a place to live by the UN after the Holocaust. But the Palestinians were already living there.

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