fredzio54
15.10.03, 14:03
After World War II, Poland was recreated by the Allied Powers.
In doing so, the Allies sliced off a chunk of Germany and extended Poland
west to the Oder-Neisse line. Anywhere from 3.5 million to 9 million Germans
were forcibly expelled from the new Polish territory and relocated in Germany.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was pleased with the result. In
1944, he had explained to the House of Commons that “expulsion is the method
which, so far as we have been able to see, will be the most satisfactory and
lasting. There will be no mixture of populations to cause endless trouble ...
a clean sweep will be made.”
Arab-Jewish conflict is more volatile than German-Polish conflict ever was.
And the solution is far easier. If there was “room in Germany for the German
populations of East Prussia and of the other territories,” as Churchill
stated, there is certainly room in the spacious Muslim states of the Middle
East for 5 million Palestinians and Israeli Arabs. If Germans, who had a
centuries-old connection to the newly created Polish territory, could be
expelled, then surely Palestinians, whose claim to Judea, Samaria and Gaza is
dubious at best, can be expelled.
It’s time to stop being squeamish. Jews are not Nazis. Transfer is not
genocide. And anything else isn’t a solution.
Benjamin Shapiro, 19, is currently a senior at UCLA. He writes for Creators
Syndicate.