ACT OF FOLLY: GUYANA’S RECOGNITION OF “PALESTINE” AS A SOVEREIGN STATE!

Dear Editor,
I refer to the article entitled "Guyana recognises Palestine as sovereign state (SN Jan 13, 2011) and would
appreciate the opportunity to comment!
Recognition of 'Palestine" as a sovereign state is an act of folly that denies the facts the evidence provides (see
"Mandate For Palestine": The Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights" (
http://www.mythsandfacts.com/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/mandate_for_palestine.htm ). How could the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismiss the conclusions therein?
On occasions, Guyana's foreign policy seems to be defined by an illogical series of whimsical spurts ...
sometimes spurred on by Brazilian beckoning. However, Guyana's government has no mandate to be in lock-step
with Brazil, only to assess the facts ... and the truth ... in the interest of the national ethos. And surely the opinions
of regular Guyanese matter in THAT effort?. The constitution provides for consultation on complex issues such
as these last I checked, but this provision continues to be exercised sparingly!
"Historical Palestine" will therefore be found to be a farce ... as denoted in graphic at
http://www.mythsandfacts.com/conflict/mandate_for_palestine/1922-mandate_for_palestine.jpg at page 1 of
"Mandate for Palestine ...” It denotes the final territory assigned to the Jewish National Home ... a fact that the
Ministry of foreign affairs will be hard-pressed to refute. Israel’s position is unassailable at international law, but
is apparently an open target for political grandstanding! Guyana joins a cacophony of noise under the subtle
intimidation of the “innuendo of oil”, but seems completely oblivious to the fact that this decision has
implications for its own border issues with Venezuela … which produces oil! What are the implications?
More significantly, then, the government's position as stated completely ignores the insatiable Arab appetite for
more Israeli land ... and one is saddened by the fact that no one at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs realizes (or is
prepared to admit) that Israel gave up 77% of its allocated land under the British Mandate to allow the creation of
the Arab state called Jordan (which even today "refuses" to accept the so-called "Palestinians", like many other
Arab states with millions of square mile of territory of their own).
Arab greed for Israeli territory next resulted in the "creation" and 'accommodation" of a "West Bank" and a
"Golan Heights", but the still unsatisfied voracious appetite led to an astonishing act of barefaced aggression in
1967 as troops from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan massed to invade Israel ... having assumed that the Israeli
commitment to peaceful co-existence was a sign of weakness. Israeli retaliation was swift and sure ... returning
the borders of Israel to the area defined by the British Mandate.
Israel should not ... and indeed surely will not despite this latest action by Guyana ... relinquish another inch of
the geographical territory called Palestine. Pandering to insatiable Arab greed is not good politics, only short-
sighted in the extreme. The imaginary country called “Palestine” exists only in the heads of Arab zealots!
The decision by the government of Guyana therefore flies in the face of reason, and one is again shocked at the
lack of national consultation on this important issue. We had addressed it before in the 2009-letter "The People
Were Not Consulted… Again. Why Weren’t The People Consulted? "
(http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2009/01/10/the-people-were-not-consulted%E2%80%A6-again-why-weren
%E2%80%99t-the-people-consulted/ )
Recognizing an imaginary country called "Palestine" at the expense of Israel's rights may have been expedient
politically to a short-sighted few, but was an act of folly that ignored the evidence!
Yours faithfully,
Roger Williams