Thomas proposed transfer in 2001

Cal Thomas’s recent statements that we should end the immigration of Muslims into the United States is not the first time he has taken a radically non-liberal position on how to deal with the followers of Muhammad. In a column in June 2001 (preceding Robert Locke’s important article on the same subject by two years), Thomas called for the transfer of the Arab population out of Israel and its territories.

It should now be clear that Israel cannot tolerate a huge Arab population within its borders, so a political decision must be made. Most Arabs and Palestinians appear to be nonviolent but it can be difficult to tell the difference. As Middle East analyst Emanuel Winston (a research associate of the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies in Houston) notes in a recent article: “The terrorists sometimes come in with workers, or the Arab community offers safe houses in Israel to protect the terrorists.”

The Jews have misplaced their faith. Gifted with thinking the best about human potential, Jews have made decisions that too often are not in their interests—such as allowing mortal enemies to live among them and giving up land seized for their own protection after five wars and numerous terrorist attacks.

Israel should declare its intention to transfer large numbers of its Palestinian residents to Arab nations. This sounds radical until one considers that is precisely what Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have done. After the Palestinians assisted Saddam Hussein in Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait during the Gulf War (which Arafat cheered while calling on Hussein to shell Israel), Kuwait forcibly evicted and transferred to Jordan about 300,000 Palestinians, labeling them as traitors and a fifth column. Saudi Arabia also recognized Arafat’s betrayal of their Kuwaiti hosts by transferring about 350,000 Palestinians to Jordan.

Those diplomats who regularly denounce Israel for any perceived slight against Palestinians were noticeably silent about these transfers….

I have been saying the same since the start of the terror intifida in October 2000: that if Isreal wants to have any chance of long-term survival as a nation, it must remove the Arabs from the lands west of the Jordan.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 07, 2007 01:31 PM | Send