President Obama, as president of the United States and as a jurist, please stop sending Secretary of State John Kerry to Israel in reference to a so-called peace settlement between the Israelis and the so-called Palestinians. There are no Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. They are Arabs from multiple Arab countries who came looking for work, as the Jews created work everywhere they went. Just look around you, you will always find Jews who created work, even in the United States of America.

 

When the man who writes these lines came to the United States over forty years ago , he created a lot of work for the unions, for the trade shows, for the hotels, for the airlines, for the restaurants, etc., etc., etc. just to cite a few. He created 100 000 hotel rooms a year for the hotel industry in New York. Even now at age 82, he keeps creating jobs in the United States without even wanting to get any payment, just for the sake of it.

 

Now, in reference to Judea and Samaria, also called the West Bank or Palestinian territory, saying that it was illegally occupied by Israel is wrong. For the sake of the historical and legal truth, Jordan illegally seized and occupied the territories of Judea and Samaria between 1948 and 1967. During the six-day war of 1967, Israel has liberated the territories, as a result of this war of self-defense. It was Jordan that had illegally conquered the West Bank. 

 

Please Mr. President, be fair and admit that when saying the “occupied territories” this is not the truth. The Arabs called Palestinians can stay in the place where they are now, as long as they live peacefully, just as they had wanted the Jews to be, when they lived in the Arab countries for centuries.

 

President Obama, let Secretary of State Kerry visit other countries. Be fair; don’t let anybody say that you are doing it because of this or that. The American Jews have helped you a lot. 

 

Copyright 2013 Emile Tubiana