PA: 2 million Ukrainian refugees is less a tragedy than 2,000 Ukrainian Jews moving to IsraelItamar Marcus | Mar 13, 2022 “Disaster for one [Ukrainians] is a greater disaster for another [Palestinians],” says official PA daily
Question: What is worse than 2 million Ukrainian refugees and thousands of Ukrainians being murdered? Answer: 2000 Ukrainian Jews moving to Israel - according to the official PA daily. The official PA daily headlined its article about Israel building 1,000 new housing units for Ukrainian Jews with the words: “Disaster for one [Ukrainians] is a greater disaster for another [Palestinians].” The phrase is a twist of the Arabic proverb: “Disaster for one is profit for another.” Based on the often-expressed Palestinian world view that all international events are to be judged only based on how they impact on Palestinians, the PA daily sees the tragedy of thousands of murdered Ukrainian civilians and the flight of 2 million refugees as a lesser tragedy than the “tragedy” of Jewish Ukrainians immigrating to Israel. Moreover, an additional question should also be asked: Why should the PA be opposed to Jews immigrating to Israel within the pre-1967 cease-fire lines, where the Ukrainian refugee immigrants are to be housed? The PA answers this in the first sentence of the article: “The World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division announced that it has begun a process to establish 1,000 housing units in settlements to absorb Jews fleeing from Ukraine.” [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 2, 2022]
“Settlements” is the term the PA uses to refer to what they consider to be illegal Israeli building on so-called Palestinian land. To the international community the PA leaders say they mean building in the West Bank. To their own people all Israel is said to be “Palestinian land,” all Israeli cities are labeled “illegal settlements,” and all Israelis are “settlers.” As the PA Ministry of Education recently reiterated on Facebook: “Palestine – the entire land is ours, from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River.” [PA Ministry of Education, Facebook, Nov. 16, 2021]
In one short article the PA is exposing both its narcissism as well as its fundamental lie to the international community that it recognizes Israel's right to exist. The following is a longer excerpt of the article in the PA daily: Headline: “Disaster for one [Ukrainians] is a greater disaster for another [Palestinians]” “The World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division announced that it has begun a process to establish 1,000 housing units in settlements (sic., as noted below in the article, none of the locations are in the West Bank) to absorb Jews fleeing from Ukraine. Chairman of the World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division Yishai Merling revealed that before the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war he formulated a detailed plan to establish temporary houses for the Jewish families in Ukraine that are planning to emigrate to Israel. He said that he presented the emergency plan to World Zionist Organization Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel Yaakov Hagoel. The plan includes housing structures on territories ranging from 55 square meters to 90 square meters, and they will serve as sites for absorbing the new Jewish immigrants. According to the emergency plan, the structures will be established in areas next to the northern borders, in the Negev, Arava, the Valley of Springs that is next to Beit Shean, and the Jordan Valley.” [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 2, 2022]
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