Sorry, Sen. Graham. You Are Simply WRONG

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Sen. Lindsey Graham. Screengrab via Youtube

While we Jews hold the claim to the land of Israel, and more, going back some 3600 years, that 3600 year old claim is, by itself, not legitimate in the eyes of many in the modern world, not all of whom should be fairly described as antisemites.  Indeed, we have legal, historical, religious, Biblical and indigenous rights, but the only set of claims which might hold much merit in the modern world, likely to both many of our friends and all of our enemies, are those rights as defined in modern international agreements which are still binding, and which nearly everyone prefers to ignore.  This is why, while our ancestral rights, ie those based on history or the Bible, should be recalled to have been from Dan to Beersheba, as the saying goes, but this is beyond the lands to which we have legal rights today.  Indeed, our ancestral rights also go from the Sinai to what is today Jordan, but again, this is beyond what our modern legal mandate allows us to control.

Hence, as is always true with the Jews, what is best relied upon is a fair and equitable application of the law, and the law, as defined in international treaties and agreements, supports our claim to lands reconstituted in the state of Israel.  This extends from the Treaty of Sevres to the San Remo Declaration to the Cairo Conference to the  Paulet-Newcombe Agreement to the League of Nations to the United Nations, all of which define the minimum basis of the boundaries of the Israeli state which were derived from mandate boundaries when the state of Israel was reconstituted in 1948.

So, taking this back to how it relates to antisemitism, the notion that Israel is less than what lies within the boundaries of the Israeli state, is itself a form of antisemitism, as it denies the most basic element of what might be used to describe the right of the Jews to the land of Israel.  While settling upon these legal rights in no way denies the further rights of our ancestry and its connection to the land, there should be no one who could legitimately deny the belief that the law should not be the minimum legal basis upon which our property rights should be preserved.  And when such scoundrels as the British, the French and the Canadians recently demonstrated the modern practice of arbitrary judgements, while empowering Arab Pal brigands simply to delegitimize and discriminate against the Jews and their well established legal property rights to the land of Israel, this should be understood to be a textbook example of antisemitism, and those who would deny the property rights of the Jews by claiming their land belongs to the savage Arab Palestinians, should in turn be understood to be textbook examples of antisemites.
Similarly, when Sen. Graham raises the claim that we must rip in two the only Jewish state in modern history to accommodate a 23rd Muslim state, he does so while ignoring the slaughter which was brought upon our people by what was in as much a state from Gaza.  If peace is actually practicable, it must be in connection with the full legitimacy of the law or it simply would be the product of regional might, and in truth, Israel must see to both its legal and marshal arguments, because losing either argument, even once, will forever seal our fate.  Thus far, we still hold the better claim, by law and war, to the lands which comprise Israel today, and only a Galut mentality could author the claim that the rights of the Jews to their homeland belongs to any other people.

The true basis to pursue peace is to recognize that Oslo is dead (see here and here), and Jordan is Palestine (see here and here), and though Sen. Graham would prefer we should ignore, not one of these realities, but both, he does so from a mindset which suggests that we Jews must accept a fiction, a lie which defies history and law, or to lose the support of the American govt.

Sen. Graham and his supporters ignore the greater truth that the US govt has never been the source of Israel support in the US, but instead, that support has always originated with the American people, and despite the best efforts of Tucker Carlson and his ilk, I believe this standard remains true to this day.  If, upon recognizing the legitimate rights of the Jewish People to their homeland and the state reconstituted in full recognition and support of the world, Sen. Graham still feels obliged to disenfranchise the Jewish people by bisecting both the legitimacy and the geography of modern Israel, well, I can only say that he is characterizing himself in a very bad light and alongside some very bad company.

As explained by the work of French Canadian attorney and scholar Jacques Gauthier along with the explanation made by eminent International law expert Natacha Hausdorff, Israel has the only claim to Israeli lands as the Jewish state, and this remains binding international law to this day.  Hence, we need not annex that which is already our own land, nor do we need to extend sovereignty over that which is established as our own.  Instead, the application of Israeli civil law is all that is required in accordance with International law to support the understanding that the Judaean hills are Jewish lands, whereas the claim made by Sen. Graham would require the eradication of established law, the denial of the property and land rights to the Jewish nation, based on a preference for arbitrary decrees such as that recently made by the South Carolinian senator, which would instead award the rights of this Jewish property to the Arab Palestinians, who already have an Arab Palestinian state in the land of Jordan, and who likewise have no claim whatsoever upon which to displace the ownership of the land of Israel from the Jewish People.

Sen. Graham stated that “Being pro-Israel means telling hard truths,” but quite notably the hard truth which he was telling was in fact a lie.  The fable he supports does not and can not result in peace, because it is founded upon the premise that both sides in this conflict want peace when it is demonstrably evident to the most beguiled onlooker that the Palestinians have never wanted peace, and today will only accept pursuing greater slaughters than took place on October 7.

Hence, with all due respect to Sen. Graham, he is simply wrong, and he does a great deal of harm by making an argument which ignores the rights of the Israeli people to make sovereign choices using their own legislative and executive instruments, none of which Graham has a right to chastise or condescend in the manner in which he is doing.  Indeed, he talks as if he was a better judge of what merits the Jewish people than do the Jewish people themselves.  I would argue that we should instead share with our friend from South Carolina that Israelis are cognizant of their predicament, in our beloved homeland of Israel, and that rather than denying Israelis the right to act as sovereigns even in our own state, he should support the right to pursue our claims as they exist under the law, not because we are Jews, but because we are a free people, deserving of respect from all, but most of all from our friends, as legitimate legal rights are freely exercised.

I appreciate that Sen. Graham may disagree with the movement in Israel to declare sovereignty over already legally acknowledged Jewish lands, but it is well beyond his right as an American senator to condescend against the Israeli people as to choose how best to secure their own future in their own homes and lands, particularly as his only solution is the well too often tried, and every time failed, Two State Solution which will only lead to greater slaughter of the Jewish people.