The Likud charter does not recognize Palestine, why?

Palestine doesn't recognize the likud.

Palestine has never existed . . . as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine". Philistines was migrant people from the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands who settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it "Palastina".

The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from the Peleshet.

In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.

After the Roman conquest of Judea, "Palastina" became a province of the pagan Roman Empire and then of the Christian Byzantine Empire, and very briefly of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire. In 638 CE, an Arab-Muslim Caliph took Palastina away from the Byzantine Empire and made it part of an Arab-Muslim Empire. The Arabs, who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palastina, that they pronounced "Falastin".

During the First World War, the British took Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. At the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and among its subject provinces "Palestine" was assigned to the British, to govern temporarily as a mandate from the League of Nations.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917, confirmed by the League of Nations Mandate, commited the British Government to the principle that "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish National Home, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. . . . " It was specified both that this area be open to "close Jewish settlement" and that the rights of all inhabitants already in the country be preserved and protected.

During the period of the Mandate, it was the Jewish population that was known as "Palestinians" including those who served in the British Army in World War II.

The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in Palestine, until the Jews came and "displaced" them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into Palestine "displaced" the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in Palestine for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a "Palestinian refugees".

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one party is different than another "Myth"

what is Qadima ?

what is LIkud?

and what is labor party?

what is the ideology of Qadima?

and that of Likud

it is only who likes who ,and if who did not like who the easy way that the first who takes the closest group to him and make a new party

Mr Peres was all his life labor party ,and all of sudden he found himself that he is close to Qadima ,which was Sharon's new party

Sharon was all his life Likud ,then all of sudden he thought that calling himself with few others with a new name might change his past ,

Sharon all his life was Likud ,Peres all his life was Labor ,they met in Qadima.

withen two years Qadima went to war twice once against Lebanon and the other against Gaza

In camp david 2000 Ehud Barack was PM ,Sharon was a minister in his government ,Sharon has asked settlers to go and capture the highest hills of the west bank , to stop the Barack negotiations ,that happened even in the same government .After Clinton -Assad meeting led to failure ,Barack threatened with increasing settlements in Golan heights

It seems to me that what you're referring to is not from the Charter, but rather a 1999 party platform, for the 1999 Israeli elections.

Since then, there has been a shift away from that policy, and more recent platforms and party constitutions did not rule out a Palestinian state.

In 2009, Netanyahu actually outright support it.

The Israel Democracy Institute:

"...Although it refused to recognize Palestinian demands for sovereignty for a long period of time, the Likud has since moderated its stand. The Likud agreed to concessions in the Camp David Accords in 1979, began negotiations with the Palestinians during the Madrid Conference in 1991, continued the implementation of the Oslo accords, and unilaterally disengaged from the Gaza Strip in 2005, when it evacuated the Jewish settlements in that area."[1]

Likud - The Israel Democracy Institute

Geneva Initiative - Yes to an agreement - Likud Minister pushes for support of the two-state solution at Geneva Initiative seminar[2]

New York Times:

"But Mr. Netanyahu’s associates and fellow Likud activists say that he remains committed to core principles and that his flexibility reflects a change in his party’s position.

“Likud as a party has made a major transformation in the last 15 years from being rigidly committed to retaining all the land of Israel to looking pragmatically at how to retain for Israel defensible borders in a very uncertain Middle East,” said Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a close associate.

For Mr. Netanyahu, that has meant accepting that much of the West Bank will be part of a future Palestinian state, but with Israel keeping control of the borders, airspace and electromagnetic frequencies. The state would also have no military, by his reckoning.

Whether such a deal would ever be acceptable to the Palestinians is far from clear. Equally unclear is whether the government he forms will allow him the freedom of action to go even that far."[3]

The New York Times

From Wikipedia:

"With Likud back in power, starting in 2009, Israeli foreign policy is still under review. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, in his "National Security" platform, neither endorsed nor ruled out the idea of a Palestinian state.[28] "Netanyahu has hinted that he does not oppose the creation of a Palestinian state, but aides say he must move cautiously because his religious-nationalist coalition partners refuse to give away land."[29]

On 14 June 2009, Netanyahu delivered a seminal address[30] at Bar-Ilan University (also known as "Bar-Ilan Speech"), at Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, that was broadcast live in Israel and across parts of the Arab world, on the topic of the Middle East peace process. He endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, with several conditions.

The Likud Constitution[31] of May 2014 is more vague and ambiguous. Though it contains commitments to the strengthening of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, it does not explicitly rule out the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Likud - wikipedia[4]

"Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s party did not explicitly support or reject a two-state solution in its platform in the last election, and as such, does not have an official position on the issue.

Netanyahu himself says he favors the foundation of a demilitarized Palestinian state as part of a peace settlement, while many of the party’s ministers and MKs have come out against such a move." [5]

Hotovely laments Likud 'schizophrenia' on two states

Chalk it up to one more hypocrisy of the illegitimate Zionist (not Jewish) state. Apparently the ridiculous term 'right to exist' doesn't apply to anyone but them. Humorous in its absurdity, no?

wow... very interesting. Israelis always nag and whine about how Hamas doesnt want them to exist when they are guilty themselves of not wanting Palestine to exist.

Because to them. The Palestinian people are collateral damage. Its sickening