Israel - Palestina

Om femte skruven längst ned under locket på min mobil har blivit skissad av någon med ett judisktklingande namn, tolkar du det som att mobilen är israelisk?

Nej du, handelsutbytet mellan EU-länder och Israel är blygsamt, vilket tyder på att det inte sker någon större export av israeliska "teknologier" till EU. Förutom slipade diamanter och citrusfrukter, förstås.

Palestinierna hade själva inte något intresse för en egen stat, det var omvärlden som ville ha en palestinsk stat, INTE palestinierna.

Israel’s 1967 annexation of East Jerusalem — opposed by most of the world — did not come with an offer of automatic citizenship for the tens of thousands of Palestinians living there.

The alternative of residency made sense at the time, said Daniel Seidemann, a Jerusalem expert who tracks and writes about Israeli policies in the city. “We never seriously offered citizenship. The world would never have allowed that and the Palestinians didn’t want it.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/more-east-jerusalem-palestinians-seek-israeli-citizenship/

After occupying East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel annexed and began applying its domestic law to the area. It applied the 1952 Law of Entry to Palestinians from East Jerusalem and offered them permanent residency, the same status afforded to a foreigner who wants to live in Israel. Permanent residents may live, work, and receive benefits in Israel, but that status derives from their presence, which can be withdrawn if one settles outside of Israel. It does not automatically pass to one’s children or non-resident spouse and can be revoked at the Interior Ministry’s discretion.

A path to citizenship exists for Palestinian Jerusalemite permanent residents, but the vast majority chose not to pursue it, as it involves pledging allegiance to Israel, the occupying power. And not all of those who apply are granted citizenship. Since 2003, only about 15,000 of Jerusalem’s 330,000 Palestinians have applied for citizenship; Israeli authorities have approved fewer than 6,000 of them.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/08/08/israel-jerusalem-palestinians-stripped-status

Israel’s defenders like to say that Israel is being singled out, and they are right. Israel is the only state perpetuating a permanent military occupation, with discriminatory laws for separate groups living in the same territory, that self-identified liberals around the world go out of their way to justify, defend and even fund. In the absence of advocating policies with actual teeth, the Democratic critics of the Trump plan are not much better than the president. They are, not in words but in deeds, supporters of annexation and subjugation, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/opinion/trump-peace-plan.html

EU exports of goods to Israel amounted to €21,4 billion in 2017.
EU imports from Israel amounted to €14,7 billion in 2017. They are dominated by chemicals (€6,3 billion, 42,7%), machinery and transport equipment (€2,8 billion, 19,3%), as well as other manufactured goods (€1,9 billion, 13,4%).
https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/israel/

Snick-snack! I delningsplanen 1947 försökte man (om än misslyckat) bevara intressen från båda parter. Självklart hade Palestinierna en egen vision om en egen stat, precis som judarna.

Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt.[14] His father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Palestinian from Gaza City, whose mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was Egyptian. Arafat's father battled in the Egyptian courts for 25 years to claim family land in Egypt as part of his inheritance but was unsuccessful.[15] He worked as a textile merchant in Cairo's religiously mixed Sakakini District. Arafat was the second-youngest of seven children and was, along with his younger brother Fathi, the only offspring born in Cairo. His mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, was from a Jerusalem-based family. She died from a kidney ailment in 1933, when Arafat was four years of age.[16]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat

Som jag sa är det en vanlig missuppfattning att palestinierna i Jerusalem skulle ha blivit erbjudna medborgarskap.