Swedish Magazine: Time for the UN to Accept the Outcome of the Six-Day War

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There may be hope for Sweden after all. A writer, Tomas Sandell, was published in a magazine in Sweden — in Sweden, land of the mostly Muslim migrants, no less — that called on the United Nations to recognize not just the end, but the results, of the Six-Day War.

And that means disputes over territories should be dropped.

Israel won them, fair and square.

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The fact this article was even allowed to run in Sweden is optimistic. The international community is in the midst of marking the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. But it’s as if the war continues.

For globalists at the United Nations, the struggle for Palestinian rights goes on — and will, until Israel gives up its land.

Israeli military troops gather near Gaza.

As Sandell wrote, however, it’s time for the United Nations to stop pressing this cause.

Arutz Sheva has the translated version:

This week, the international community will mark the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem. But despite the fact that Israel won its war against three Arab armies in early June 1967 in record time, the war seems to continue. Indeed, the international community still has difficulty accepting that the small country of Israel, against all odds over the Arab armies, and as a result of winning this war, received new lands.

The war ended formally after six days, June 10, 1967, but still fifty years later, the international community demands that the “occupied” territories of Israel should be returned even though it was not Israel who started the war. Thus, the Israeli “occupation” is considered to be the root of the entire Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The statement is incorrect for two different reasons. According to international law, one can not occupy an area already belonging to a legal entity. Judea and Samaria were assigned to the Jewish state in the 1922 Palestine Mandate in the land area that remained when the original mandate was divided into two parts, a Jewish Palestine (1948 Israel) and an Arab Palestine, today Jordan.

The United Nations partition plan of 1947, on the other hand, had been rejected by the Arab neighbors of Israel and thus never came into force. The lands that Israel regained in the Six-Day War therefore already belonged to it according to international law after being illegally occupied by Jordan for twenty years.

Secondly, international law expressly prohibits a war of aggression. On the other hand, it does not say anything about land areas gained after a regular war of defense. Thus, a country, or a group of countries, can not start a war of aggression and if they lose the war, the counterparty be called out for occupation. Public law can not reasonably forbid countries to defend themselves, or encourage countries to initiate a war of aggression with the promise that they can later regain all the territories that they lose. This would be a recipe for complete chaos where aggressive states are rewarded while the law-abiding ones have no legal rights.

Now it is therefore time for the international community to accept the outcome of the Six-Day War.

Indeed, in UN resolution 242, the Government of Israel has agreed that certain lands should be returned in a peace agreement, but the allegation that Israel is currently occupying Palestinian land is wrong because they “occupied territories” that never belonged to a Palestinian state.

When you repeat in international relations next week that the Six-Day War is the root of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, you are wrong.

If the Palestinian people (actually Arabs living in the Palestine Mandate) had been interested in their own state, one such was founded in 1947 when the UN partition plan offered them everything they are asking for today and more. In other words, one had twenty years, from 1947 to 1967, to create a state, but there was no interest. Therefore, it is intellectually unsound to claim that the war in 1967 is the core of the conflict.

As an external columnist, it is not my job to decide how to resolve the conflict, but the Israeli government has announced that it is prepared to negotiate with the Palestinians about a state, but insists that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel, and that today’s status will not change and the Temple Mount be preserved under Jordanian administration. This is no unreasonable bargaining position.

After almost fifty years, it is time for the international community to acknowledge that the Six-Day War is over and that Jerusalem is, has been, and will always remain the capital of the Jews. This fact is acknowledged, de facto, every time a head of state travels to Jerusalem to meet the government of the country. These meetings do not happen in Tel Aviv but in Jerusalem. When you talk about partition of Jerusalem between East and West, you forget that only East Jerusalem with the Western Wall is the historic Jerusalem holy to the Jewish people. If you think Israel’s demands on Jerusalem are unreasonable, one has to consider the options, to share Jerusalem, and to create a new Mecca in East Jerusalem where no non-Muslim may enter.

For those who want to safeguard universal legal principles and values, it is therefore important to safeguard Jerusalem’s current status as a united city open to all religions as well as to those who do not belong to any religion. Jerusalem’s reunion is an event worth celebrating, for Christians, Muslims, as well as Jews.

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hvi
hvi
6 years ago

Even the most demented, most retarded, most brain-dead individuals on earth, after seeing so much suffering caused by muslims, should by now have realized, that enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Sweden, that suffers daily because of muslims, should be ideally, jumping at the opportunity to unite with other groups, against muslims.

Hopefully, this article is an indication of sweden beginning to come to grips with this concept.

KitteeK
KitteeK
6 years ago
Reply to  hvi

Ironically, as far as I can remember, Sweden, plus other Scandinavians especially the Danes ( who managed to rescue most of their Jews during WW2, many fleeing to Sweden which was neutral) )have long been pro-Israel. No it does not make real sense considering their welcoming muslim migrants, but they really do not seem to connect dots….

ronan
ronan
6 years ago
Reply to  KitteeK

May be you are not aware of the fact that Sweden is one of the most anti Israel country in the world.

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Helentlankford
6 years ago
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KitteeK
KitteeK
6 years ago
Reply to  ronan

And you know this because ? Maybe you are ( Northern) European or Scandinavian as I am ( or your roots) then apologies as you may have different info.
The psychology of the Europeans especially Scandinavians was damaged /distorted due to WW2. It is a complicated issue, with no easy answers,

Armed_Ex_Squid
Armed_Ex_Squid
6 years ago
Reply to  ronan

More anti-Israel than Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Russia, China, etc? “One of the most anti Israel country is the world” is a pretty uneducated statement.

ronan
ronan
6 years ago
Reply to  Armed_Ex_Squid

I should have said “in Europe” but believe me, they are anti Israel enough.

SCS
SCS
6 years ago
Reply to  ronan

Perhaps because of their many new ‘citizens’?

ronan
ronan
6 years ago
Reply to  SCS

It definitely “helps”.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  hvi

The UN officials are corrupt self serving crooks on saudi/qatar payroll just like Most Politicians in US and Europe.

Did you know Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugees and killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8

And that includes killing children too ! And UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt !

Why ? bcoz Syrian Assad govt is not paying UN officials but saudi/qatar salafi’s are paying them to run propaganda for them. Turkey is also a sunni state that supported ISIS &other jihadi groups to slaughter christians in syria and overthrow more secular Assad govt.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

All you have to remember that Turks are Muslims. Why would they behave like non Muslims?

aebe
aebe
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Iran was sending arms to ‘palestine’ , Turkey aided Iran .

lostlegends
lostlegends
6 years ago

Well, dud!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

“Secondly, international law expressly prohibits a war of aggression’. How much more islamophobic can it get, this clearly contradicts the unchangeable word of alice in the qur’an where it is frequently and clearly stated that muslims must fight everyone until they all submit, and, sharia where injustice is defined as no islam, justice being islam. For a nation colonized and governed by muslims, they certainly are acting like apostates.

Dennis
Dennis
6 years ago

Though I can find no fault with this article, it is simply rhetoric, and though true, it will have no effect whatsoever. That is because the Arab world cannot be made to understand that the only way they can prosper and move on from this conflict is to accept the reality that Israel, with its capital in Jerusalem, is here to stay. That cannot happen simply because the “powers” that be, especially those within the worthless U.N., because of their innate anti-Semitism, will never recognize that reality. The Arab world, especially the Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, and the like, simply are unable to accept Israel, and they will always express hate and annihilation of the State of Israel. Personally, I believe that Israel ought to negotiate a conclusion that results in their taking back Gaza and force the Gazan’s and Palestinian’s into a presently existing Arab state where they can live and practice their own culture, effectively fashioning defensible borders for Israel. I see no other result as long as the Arab world seems to continually promote and preach the death of both Israel and all of its people.

normie
normie
6 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

Do you honestly believe that if Israel gives back the land you propose that the Palestinians will stop there? I don’t so I stand with Israel to keep what they have.

dennis
dennis
6 years ago
Reply to  normie

I apologize, as I was not clear enough. What I believe ought to happen is that Israel should take back and control both Gaza and the West Bank. The Arabs should be moved into any Arab country, and Israel might offer to commit to some payment to enable that result.

Peter Joffe
Peter Joffe
6 years ago

Whats is all this talk about “International Law’? In the UN and most other places supposedly of open forum, it is the majority that counts and the majority is the law. Politics and law are mutually exclusive and the facts do not count. Sweden has adopted the philosophy that Islam is allowed to kill and plunder as it is their “Religion”. Sweden dare not question another persons ‘religion’ even if the religion is a politcal system of subjugation. If the UN decides that the moon is a hunk of cheese then it must be so!!!

aebe
aebe
6 years ago

Ought to apply the same logic to Pakistan and Bangladesh , boot all the islamites out .

Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights… Carry

Nostradamus the II
Nostradamus the II
6 years ago

WOW!!! a rational Swede with common sense, basic human decency (NOT antisemitic/pro Muslim), sheer bravery for expressing a bona fide subversive (Down right “Islamophobic”/”fascist”/”Nazi” in the blinded eyes of deranged “progressive” Swedes) opinion, in context of the current, oppressive, dictatorial, ultra progressive Swedish society!!

Free people of the west (Not part of the zombie cult of self hating “progressives” which controls Sweden with an iron fist) can only hope that there are more sane Swedes out there, like the honorable/smart/brave Mr. Sandell

SCS
SCS
6 years ago

Very true, and he’ll probably be dead within a week.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

World War II changed the entire complexion of things worldwide and that includes the Middle East borders regarding Israel under the Balfour Declaration as well as the establishment of the Curzon Line resetting the western boundary of Russia. One simple question though, who started the Six Day War with an unprovoked attack? Hint: It wasn’t Israel.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

True enough, but the air attack Israel initiated was only in response to Arabpig states mobilizing their armed forces to their borders of Israel

Andy_Lewis
Andy_Lewis
6 years ago

This may be an inflection point – first Sweden, then the West as a whole. .

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

At this point in time, who cares what the rubber stamp org. for the OIC thinks, says or does?

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