09-05-2019, 07:56 PM
What is something, and I noted this in my article, is that Kennedy was trying to push the UN proposal on the Israelis all the way up to May of 1963.
This allowed for choice of repatriation after the Palestinian Nakba. It would have given them a three option alternative:
stay where you are
move elsewhere
return to Palestine
And the UN would pay all expenses, mostly of course through the USA.
The Israelis really did not like this but they did not want it to blow up in the UN. So Kennedy was pushing them for a number that they would take. And that is where the problems set in. Kennedy wanted them to take something like 150,000 if the Palestinians took that option. The Israelis clearly did not want to take that many. In the discussions, Golda Meir actually says words to the effect, Why that number, why not 149,000?
I mean, really, how do you deal with this stuff?
But to show you what the overall intent was, in the exchange, the Israelis object to America stamping passports with the word Palestine on them.
If you ever wanted to see what the Israeli objective was and is, that would show you.
BTW, you know who joined in the debate about repatriation? Martin Peretz, yep, the guy who bought the New Republic and ran it into the ground. His idea was that Israel should not take any Palestinians back. They should all go to Jordan, you know that Churchill created monarchy carved out of Palestine?
I always wondered why Peretz hated Kennedy so much. Then I read that. No one is more of an ultra Zionist that Peretz. From the last I heard, he spends half the year in Israel now.
This allowed for choice of repatriation after the Palestinian Nakba. It would have given them a three option alternative:
stay where you are
move elsewhere
return to Palestine
And the UN would pay all expenses, mostly of course through the USA.
The Israelis really did not like this but they did not want it to blow up in the UN. So Kennedy was pushing them for a number that they would take. And that is where the problems set in. Kennedy wanted them to take something like 150,000 if the Palestinians took that option. The Israelis clearly did not want to take that many. In the discussions, Golda Meir actually says words to the effect, Why that number, why not 149,000?
I mean, really, how do you deal with this stuff?
But to show you what the overall intent was, in the exchange, the Israelis object to America stamping passports with the word Palestine on them.
If you ever wanted to see what the Israeli objective was and is, that would show you.
BTW, you know who joined in the debate about repatriation? Martin Peretz, yep, the guy who bought the New Republic and ran it into the ground. His idea was that Israel should not take any Palestinians back. They should all go to Jordan, you know that Churchill created monarchy carved out of Palestine?
I always wondered why Peretz hated Kennedy so much. Then I read that. No one is more of an ultra Zionist that Peretz. From the last I heard, he spends half the year in Israel now.