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Thursday, December 20, 2012

REVIEWING THE PROPOSITION THAT THE U.N. SHOULD GRANT NON-MEMBER OBSERVER STATUS TO TIBET...

SUCH A PROPOSITION MAY BE SUPERFICIALLY APPEALING BUT SUBSTANTIALLY WEAK.

The idea of non-member observer status at the UN for Tibet may or may not be uniquely mine, and I do not know, if it has ever been a goal of the Dalai Lama;  I do know that the Dalai Lama has publicly expressed his wish that China allow Tibet to function as an autonomous region of China.

It may be that non-member observer status at the UN, rather than furthering the cause of Tibet against Chinese Occupation, would instead put the lid on both Tibetan autonomy and independence.  Any such internationally legal voice gained by the Dalai Lama under the aegis of a theoretically independent Tibet having non-member observer status could be a voice less substantial than the wind, having no territorial hegemony.

The Dalai Lama may have chosen the harder, longer, more painful, more difficult, ultimately necessary road -- the road of the Tibetan Buddhist, may it lead to the reconstitution of Tibet.

IN RECONSIDERATION OF THE MEANING AND IMPLICATIONS OF NON-MEMBER OBSERVER STATUS AT THE U.N. FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY...

A STATE OF PALESTINE, OR, A THEOCRATIC STATE OF EAST JERUSALEM?

Given the unlikelihood that the budding Third Intifada will lead to lasting unification of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and given that the inevitable result must be either a temporary or permanent  "Pax Yisrael" in both Gaza and Judea-Samaria, a State of Palestine under the Palestinian Authority is unlikely.  And Hamas is not [yet] recognized by the UNGA with respect to the non-member observer status of the Palestinian Authority.

There is increasing momentum for the PA and Hamas to come together in a Third Intifada, and talk that the military cooperation between the PA and Israel will soon be ended unilaterally by the PA, so the future therefore is quite tenuous.  It is not impossible to imagine that a Third Intifada will mean that both Hamas and the PA will be brought down once again by Israel, and that Israel will exert even stronger and more justifiable hegemony over Gaza and Judea-Samaria.  Nor is it impossible to imagine that Jordan and Egypt will either step in or be called upon to incorporate the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria) and Gaza into their respective contiguous nations ("Back to the Future", so to speak).

So what then of East Jerusalem and the Haram-es-Sharif?  In the context of the present dubious equivalence between the status of the PA and that of The Holy See (The Vatican), as both the PA and The Holy See are legally of the same UN non-member observer status, the precedence of The Vatican as a theocratic State implies the possibility that there could be a transformation [from the presently  intended move to create a fully-fledged UN Member State of Palestine] to instead create a theocratic State of East Jerusalem under the political and religious authority of the Waqf and the Mufti of Jerusalem.  This is a logical implication for the future of East Jerusalem that cannot be ignored.

ANTICIPATING THE ARMED, DEADLY ANTHILL AND CRYPT OF A "HOLY CITY OF EAST JERUSALEM" (12/23/2012)

The Jihadist habit of tunneling is well known throughout the world.  Whether this tunneling be by Al-Quaeda in Afghanistan and in Pakistan or, by Hamas, the PLO, and Hezbollah in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon, the hazard is relentless.  Just imagine the Jihadist catacombs that already lace the Temple Mount and that may snake throughout East Jerusalem and throughout the entire City of Jerusalem.

"Do you know?  Don't you wonder?  What's going on... down under you???" (Crosby, Stills & Nash)