Palestinians Attempt to Co-Opt Jewish History

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In December 2011, former House Speaker and presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich made the following observation regarding the Palestinians;

Remember there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. And I think that we’ve had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community…

That comment set off a firestorm of debate and criticism but is in actuality, grounded in historical fact. As noted historian Benny Morris pointed out in his acclaimed book, 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War, at the turn of the 20th century, most Arabs residing in the Land of Israel or “Palestine” considered themselves to be subjects of the Ottoman Empire. There were some Palestinian Arabs with vague nationalistic tendencies but even this minority considered itself to be part of Greater Syria. There simply was no reference to an independent Palestine for a distinct group of people calling themselves “Palestinians.”

Morris also perceptively notes that the residents of Palestinian villages routinely failed to come to the assistance of nearby villages that were under attack by Jewish forces thus reinforcing the view that Arab villagers felt little loyalty to all but clan and village. The notion of a “Palestinian people” was an alien concept to the common Palestinian villager who was not bound by any sense of duty to assist a neighboring village.

Occasionally, Palestinians themselves will acknowledge this fact. In a revealing 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein stated,

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

It was a rare but astonishing moment of candor. A senior PLO member was openly acknowledging what few would readily admit. But his was not an isolated admission. In a March 2012 televised address, Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad essentially validated Gingrich’s assessment of the Palestinians. While pleading for Egyptian fuel, Hammad let loose with a series of embarrassing admissions that were certainly not intended for Western audiences.

“Every Palestinian…throughout Palestine can prove his Arab roots, whether from Saudi Arabia or Yemen or anywhere.” He went on to say that “personally, half my family is Egyptian, we are all like that.” And further buries himself deeper by stating, “Brothers, half the Palestinians are Egyptian and the other half are Saudis…Who are the Palestinians?” he asks rhetorically. “We have families called al-Masri whose roots are Egyptian, Egyptian! We are Egyptian! We are Arab! We are Muslim!” He concludes his rant with the obligatory Muslim battle cry, “Allahuakbar!” Curiously absent from his long diatribe is any recognition of an independent Palestinian identity and that’s precisely because there simply isn’t any.

Lacking their own independent history, culture and identity, Palestinians have adopted a strategy of denying Jewish history. Arafat, for example, flat out denied the fact that great Jewish Temples, built first by king Solomon and then by Herod, once stood where the Al-Aqsa Mosque currently stands. So ridiculous were his comments that they earned a swift rebuke from President Clinton. Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas taking cue from his boss also adopted this odious position. It should therefore come as no surprise that Abbas is also a confirmed Holocaust denier, despite his transparent efforts to rehabilitate his image for his gullible Western audience.

Palestinian Arabs have also attempted to recruit Western “experts” and academics to their cause. In his insightful book The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City, veteran Israeli diplomat Dore Gold chronicles the length to which Arab-Muslims and their Western lackeys will go to deny the Jewish nexus to the Land of Israel. They argued that much of ancient Jewish history was nothing but mythology including the Kingdoms of David and Solomon.

From the Arab perspective, the tactic was a sound one. Sever the ancient historical Jewish nexus with Israel and you severely undermine claims of indigenousness. But archeology does not lie and those very Western academics (at least the intellectually honest ones) were forced to retract their findings and conclusions after the dramatic 1993 discovery of a 9th century stele at Tel Dan in northern Israel that clearly referenced the “House of David.” Additional discoveries since then, including finds in Jerusalem, Tel Zayit and at the Fortress of Elah have further eroded claims by skeptics and naysayers.

Not content with denying Jewish history, Palestinian Arabs have actually attempted to co-opt it by absurdly claiming that Moses as well as King Saul were Palestinian Muslims who conquered and claimed “Palestine” for the benefit of Palestinians. These risible comments were spewed forth by “Dr.” Omar Ja’ara, a lecturer at Al-Najah University in Nablus and broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV. He notes further that the actions of Moses and Saul represented “the first Palestinian liberation through armed struggle to liberate Palestine… this is our logic and this is our culture.”

Incidentally, Al-Najah University boasts on its website that it is “the first Palestinian University to obtain the EFQM European Certificate of Excellence.” Something to bear in mind next time any parent contemplates sending their child off to Europe for higher education.

Of course it doesn’t matter that Saul lived approximately 1,700 years before Muhammad was zygote. Facts play absolutely no role in Palestinian academia. Empirical data and evidence is ignored. Precedence is given to upholding a false, pernicious and viscerally anti-Semitic narrative that either denies historical fact or co-opts it.

As PLO bigwig Zahir Muhsein candidly noted, the claim of a Palestinian identity is a myth whose aim is not designed to achieve liberation or advancement for any particular people but rather to subjugate and destroy another people. For those of you, who still remain unconvinced; consider the recent comments made by a prominent sheikh during a religious sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. During his tirade, which included the usual dose of anti-Semitic vitriol, the sheikh never once uttered a desire or longing for Palestinian statehood. Instead he expresses the desire to join with ISIS in its quest for an Islamic caliphate and asks the large crowd of acolytes surrounding him to, “pledge allegiance to the Muslim Caliph,” and they in turn respond with chants of “amen!”

Few in the West have faced up to this malevolent reality. They continue to adhere to the harmful, dogmatic formula of a two-state solution. What they willfully fail to realize is that such a solution poses an existential threat to the Mideast’s only democracy and will most certainly have grave negative consequences for the region at large.

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  • Bamaguje

    When in AD35 Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Judea & Samaria as Palestine to spite rebellious Jews, there were virtually no Arab speaking people in the area.
    “Palestinian” would then have refered to Jews.
    Muslim Arab presence began with the 637AD invasion of Palestine by Caliph Umar Ibn Khattab… 500 years after Hadrian renamed the area “Palestine.” And he met Jews there.
    It is therefore patently disingenuous for today’s fake Palestinians to deny Jewish roots in Palestine.

    Even their Quran (Q 5:21, 7:137) severally acknowledges Palestine as belonging to Jew.
    Mohammed was then sucking up to Medinan Jews to obtain their endorsement of his bogus prophethood… prophets being a Jewish tradition..
    as did the early Zionist movements in the late 19th-early 20th century.

    Muslims would strongly disagree with those Western lackeys who assert that David and Solomon are myths, since these Jewish kings of Israel, are considered Muslim prophets – Daud, Suleiman

    • John Pallyswine

      Day of Judgement (Sura 5 Verse 21), and that Jews
      are the inheritors of Israel (Sura 26 Verse 59).”I say to those who
      distort…the Koran: from where did you bring the name Palestine, you liars,
      you accursed, when Allah has already named it ‘The Holy Land’ and bequeathed it
      to the Children of Israel until the Day of Judgment,” argued Adwan.
      “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in the Koran.” “Your
      demand for the Land of Israel is a falsehood and it constitutes an attack on
      the Koran, on the Jews and their land. Therefore you won’t succeed, and Allah
      will fail you and humiliate you, because Allah is the one who will protect them
      (i.e. the Jews),” warns Adwan. The sheikh had more harsh words for the
      “Palestinians,” calling them “the killers of children, the
      elderly and women” in using them as human shields in order to falsely
      accuse the Jews of targeting them. He reports having seen the same tactic used
      by “Palestinians” against the Jordanian army in the 1970s. “This
      is their habit and custom, their viciousness, their having hearts of stones
      towards their children, and their lying to public opinion, in order to get its
      support,” declared Adwan.

      • c0mm0ncenz

        The unfortunate truth is that very few Muslims read the Koran. Most of them don’t know what it says, so they’re ripe for brainwashing and incitement by terrorist imans. They have no knowledge with which they could refute the lies and thus they can be led to do anything. Fed lies about statehood in schoolbooks and from their leaders, most Palestinians believe that there was actually an Arab Palestinian people. There will be no peace until the west calls the Arabs on the lies and stops supporting them.

  • Lanna

    Judaism is the oldest religion, it ruled many years long before Islam was ever formed! Try and block out truth to justify a bogus Palestinian state, you will not win!

  • Lanna

    The Dead Sea Scrolls proved how carefully the Old Testament had been copied through the centuries. Around Ad 900 nearly a millennium after the time of Jesus…groups of Jewish scribes called Masoretes began to copy the Old
    Testament texts according to strict guidelines. The Masoretes maintained nearly perfect accuracy in their copies. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, these Masoretic texts were the oldest available manuscripts of the Old Testament. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed in the mid-twentieth century, scholars compared the text of Isaiah from the Dead Sea Scrolls with the text of Isaiah preserved by the Masoretes. What these scholars discovered was that…even though more than 1000 years separated the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Masoretic texts…the Dead Sea Scrools remaining differences stemmed primarily from minor spelling variations…..Actually the copies of 1 and 2 Samuel and Deuteronomy….do not differ in any way that affects any crucial Jewish or Christian belief. With more than 5,700 manuscripts and fragments of the New Testament available to us, it would be impossible for anyone to have modified major portions of the New Testament without their changes being quite easily noticed. Truth will reign, it will not be silenced.

  • notme123

    the so called palestinians say they want a seperate state, but in fact, they want all of Israel, as Israel and Palestine are the same.

    • Bamaguje

      “Palestinians” already have a state – Jordan.
      In 1922 British mandated Palestine was partitioned into two, with Arabs taking the lion share (77%). Jews were barred from this Arab portion of Palestine, which became Jordan.
      But Arabs in the much smaller Jewish portion – together with neighbouring Arab countries – continued their agitation against any Jewish state in the area.
      The Jewish portion of Palestine as per 1922 partition, includes today’s Israel, West bank and Gaza.
      By that partition, which is the last internationally binding agreement on Palestine, today’s so-called “Palestinians” (Arabs in Israel, West bank and Gaza) are in fact occupiers of Jewish territory.

      • http://batman-news.com mamapjs

        Exactly so. In fact, up until the official formation of Israel in 1948, when you said “Palestinian” you were talking about a Jew. That is what has caused a LOT of confusion today because of old documents from the ’20s-’40s that refer to the “Palestinians”–ie: post-Partition Jews who were always in the area since Abraham.

      • Americana

        The Palestinians obviously don’t consider they have a state in Jordan and the Jordanians obviously don’t consider them Jordanian. Why? Because they’re Palestinian Arabs. There’s no reason for the Palestinians to have their land and homes appropriated simply to fulfill the religious dream of another culture that has decided it must expropriate what belonged to the Palestinian Arabs. Israel has a choice at this point in time and trying to put off the day of negotiations and reckoning by means of artificially emphasizing Jewish claims to the region from thousands of years ago simply doesn’t answer the questions that arise about the international diplomatic decisions behind Israel’s rebirth.

        • Bamaguje

          “Palestinians obviously don’t consider they have a state in Jordan…” – Americana.

          Not true. These are quotes from both Palestinian and Jordanian leaders on the issue:

          “What you call Jordan is actually Palestine” – Late PLO leader Yasser Arafat (interview with New Republic, 1974).

          “The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan” – Late King Hussein of Jordan (Interview with in Al-Nahar Al-Arabi, Dec1981).

          “Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine. There is one people and one land, with one history and one destiny” – Crown Prince Hassan to the Jordanian National Assembly, Feb 1970.

          “Jordan is an integral part of Palestine.” Chafiq el Hout, PLO official on Radio Cairo, May 1967.

          “There’s no reason for the Palestinians to have their land and homes appropriated simply to fulfill the religious dream of another culture” – Americana.

          The land doesn’t belong to “Palestinians.” In 637AD Muslim Arabs invaded and occupied Palestine, where they met Jews. So you definitely have it backwards… Muslims Arabs invaded and occupied Jewish land.

          While it is true that over several centuries many Jews were compelled to migrate because of repressive foreign occupation of their land, Palestine was never empty of Jews… until Jordan expelled Jews from Judea & Samaria (West bank) after the 1948 Arab invasion of Israel.

          Jewish right to Israel is not simply religious dogma as you seem to believe… it’s their ancestral homeland, just like England is homeland of English people or France is the ancestral home of the French people.

          In fact Jewish presence in Israel predates English in England, French in France or Euro-Americans in America.

          But none of these peoples are considered “occupation.” Having suffered centuries of persecution and pogroms in other lands, Jews have simply reclaimed their ancestral home to be safe… Let them be.

          • Americana

            The French have never been fully conquered, enslaved and dispersed all around the world. The French have forged a national identity over millennia and have achieved and maintained their unification throughout modern times. Therefore, France has been and is STILL FRANCE and Frenchmen are still Frenchmen and have been for the greatest part of modern history. Same is true for the English. There are some border areas that have fluctuated in terms of nationality and allegiance because of ancient transfers of ownership through military occupations. Brittany and Alsace-Lorraine are prime examples of this forced quasi dual-nationality. But the concepts underlying modern nations are a core sense of nationality and the long-term provenance of the region and the historical footprint of the nation. The Palestinians have all those ingredients. The Jews, on the other hand, were conquered by many different ancient civilizations and experienced both a forced diaspora and a diaspora by choice that has resulted in the Jews being granted other nationalities and establishing long lineages of familial descent in other far-flung nations. The ancient Jewish kingdoms did not, by any stretch of the imagination, continue to exist in the region and carry on as political entities through until today. The Jews have reclaimed by diplomatic force majeure that ancestral home that had since become the ANCESTRAL HOME OF ANOTHER NATIONALITY. There must be accommodations made for those Palestinians who’ve been displaced by the Israelis. There is already a plan for a Palestinian nation and it must be carried out. One doesn’t simply turn one’s back on injustice on this scale and say “It’s God’s will” and throw up one’s hands and favor one nation over the other. I don’t believe in evicting the Israelis but I also don’t believe on that same basis it’s logical to therefore insist on evicting the Palestinians.

          • Bamaguje

            “The Jews have reclaimed by diplomatic force majeure that ancestral home that had since become the ANCESTRAL HOME OF ANOTHER NATIONALITY” – Americana.

            Let me get this straight.
            It’s alright for Muslim Arabs to invade and occupy Jewish land, but it’s not right for Jews to reclaim sovereignty of their ancestral homeland.

            I suppose Spaniards should never have liberated their conquered land from Jihadists who invaded and occupied Iberian peninsula for several centuries.
            Even by your own illogic, Palestinians should also accept Israel is now the “home of another nationality.”

            Since Muslim Arabs established themselves by force (invasion and conquest) in Palestine, why do you object to Jews doing the same? Given that Jews have more historical legitimacy to that land… and they have no other.

            Muslim Arabs on the other hand are from the Arabian peninsula… from where they invaded and occupied North Africa, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Southern Europe etc. Muslim Arabs have lots of choice land to inhabit… most of which are underpopulated.
            Jews have no where else to go, having being persecuted elsewhere around the world.

          • Americana

            “Regaining sovereignty over their ancestral homeland” would be perfectly FINE and DANDY if it had been the “ancestral homeland” of the world’s Jewry within a reasonable period of historical time. Trouble is, the “ancestral homeland” hasn’t been the “ancestral homeland” of ANY of the Jewish emigres who were given possession of what had formerly been Palestinian land. They were Hungarians, Poles, Latvians, Romanians, Italians, British et al Jews. They may have ancient Jewish lineage, but their national provenance was that of another country entirely. Referring to the ancestral Jewish homeland as you do is like referring to the Bering Strait as being the ancestral homeland of the Native Americans. That’s NOT HOW WORLD NATIONAL PROVENANCE is thought of nowadays. It might be relevant to archaeology and genealogy of “races” but it’s not relevant to the forced political recreation of a Jewish national homeland in the aftermath of a world war and the implosion of a Turkish empire. By my reasoning, the Spaniards regaining control of the Iberian Peninsula from the Arabs is a similar illustration of land redounding to its long-time previous owners as in the case of Brittany and Alsace-Lorraine. But the conquering and extinguishing of the ancient Jewish kingdoms wasn’t within a reasonable period of historical time and the Jews didn’t accomplish the retaking of their ancient tribal kingdoms by remaining a unified, single entity and procreating in a nearby Jewish redoubt and retaking Israel from the Arabs all by themselves and thereby rebuilding their former tribal empires.

            The very mixed-bag of the world’s Jews were given the land on the basis of other political entities forcing out the land’s owners who received no compensation for their homes or their orchards and olive groves. The Arabs weren’t the ones who conquered and dispersed the Jewish kingdoms. It was almost all the principal early civilizations who were responsible for extinguishing the Jewish tribal kingdoms. So punishing the Palestinian Arabs for those transgressions against the Jewish tribes makes no sense.

        • Space Cowboy

          Israel has a choice at this point in time and trying to put off the day of negotiations and reckoning by means of artificially emphasizing Jewish claims to the region from thousands of years ago simply doesn’t answer the questions that arise about the international diplomatic decisions behind Israel’s rebirth.

          Seek mental help for your severe mental disease. According to the dictates of Islam, Muslims can only make temporary truces called Hudnas with infidels that they fully intend to break as soon as the time is ripe. Which history demonstrates has happened countless times before in the pass. Thus, negotiating with Muslims is a total waste of time and valuable resources.

          Hence, the Israeli-Palestinian so-called Peace Process is a total utter sham. Just like Obama’s nuclear negotiations with Iran is a total utter sham.

          The only time the jihad that is being waged against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD can end, per the dictates of Islam, is only after ALL THE INFIDELS IN THE WORLD have been converted to Islam or otherwise killed or subjugated into harsh and degrading dhimmitude. In other words, only after Islam and its followers have been made supreme.

          Moreover, I hate to rain on your unhinged parade again, but the so-called Palestinians, which expropriated the name “Palestinians” from the Jewish infidels in Israel, are nothing but the proxies of the Islamic totalitarian world. Further, the jihad they are waging against Israel is not because of land illegally occupied by Israel, as the Islamic totalitarian world lost every war they ever fought against Israel. Instead, it’s about making Islam and its followers supreme.

          • Americana

            True, the Palestinians are Muslims. They’re also sort of representing OTHER Muslim nationalities w/their jihad. But, principally, they’re IN THIS JIHAD FOR THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN DISPOSSESSED. The Israelis/the Zionists KNEW what they were up against when they chose to allow the British and the U.N. to allocate land for the recreation of Israel and they chose to pretend that resistance from the Palestinians didn’t matter. So, it should be no surprise this dispute was always going to be fraught w/the inherent difficulties of the tenets of the Muslim faith that preclude such theft alongside the Muslim supremacy BS. But it is in THE NATIONAL INTERESTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE to negotiate a true and abide by a peace treaty because of the powers arrayed against any further bellicose actions taken against Israel. Whether you consider them a distinct Arab nationality or not is basically IMMATERIAL to the fact there were many hundreds of thousands of families who were dispossessed w/nothing given to them to recreate what they’d had taken away. You can’t simply EXILE people to another country (Jordan) and expect them to be satisfied w/that exile just because it would be convenient for Israel and Israelis. Yet that is what is constantly being sold around this web site — that the Arabs were given Jordan and the nascent Israelis received a pittance percentage of the overall land that was available. On the other hand, it was always clear from the U.N. demarcation of the land, that there was a THIRD NATIONAL ENTITY which was given a proportion of the land — the Palestinians.

            As for the Palestinians being intent on making Islam and its followers supreme, that must be the latest and greatest propaganda reason presented by those Zionists who’d like to pretend there’s no reason to satisfy the birth of the Palestinian nation that was guaranteed in the U.N. partitioning of the area. Israel has a lot more to worry about by not permitting this Palestinian nation to become reality than she does if she prevents its founding and instead tries to seize the remainder of the land under the guise of “The Israel Solution”. What a humiditzy of a name for no solution whatsoever… There are as many Palestinians who aren’t serious Muslims as there are serious Muslims among them. Besides, it’s no concern of yours what the Palestinians choose to do w/THEIR NATION.

          • Space Cowboy

            You are proof positive that leftism is a severe mental disease. The neuro-sensors in the brain responsible for discerning fact from fiction and reality from delusion are all short circuited in people afflicted with this very severe mental disease. Thus, you can’t discern the forest from the trees, with the result being Marxism is the answer to all the world’s social and economic ills and Muslims are the most peaceful people on the planet, and especially the so-called Palestinians. Capitalism and Jews, on the other hand, are evil incarnate.

          • Americana

            Oh, please, not the godawful “Leftism is a severe mental disease” gambit… Such a CHEAPAZZ TACTIC! And it’s demonstrated in your post that someone has successfully blended all these ingredients into ONE CUT-and-PASTE POST that is going to be used for eternity on this web site by those too lazy to think and construct posts for themselves.

          • Bamaguje

            “You can’t simply EXILE people to another country (Jordan) and expect them to be satisfied w/that exile just because it would be convenient for Israel and Israelis” – Americana.

            Who exiled who? Again you have it backwards…
            Even before Israel declared independence in 1948, Arab countries expelled Jews.
            Israel absorbed the expelled Jews without whining about refugees “right of return.”

            Jordan also expelled Jews from Judea & Samaria after invading Israel in 1948.
            But
            when Israel reclaimed that territory, she did not expell the
            ‘Palestinians.’ If Israel had done that, she would have no Palestinian
            problem today.

            As for the ‘Palestinians’ who left in 1948, they did so on orders of invading Arab armies who wanted a clear killing field of Jews, without harming their fellow Arabs. ‘Palestinians’ were to return after Arab victory which did not happen.

            See: http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1102

            ‘Palestinians’ who did not leave became Arab citizens of Israel, and still enjoy full citizenship rights despite the treachery of many of them.

          • Americana

            Not all the radio announcements that stimulated the Palestinian Arab Nakba flight were from other Arab countries, there was an unknown amount of Israeli radio broadcasts that also directed the Palestinians to flee from strategically sensitive areas. This may have been an Israeli attempt to prevent civilian casualties or an attempt to ethnically cleanse areas of Palestinians so that Israel’s army could be sure of its unimpeded movement through areas toward the oncoming Arab armies. Regardless, Israel generated an unknown amount of the Nakba broadcasts that caused the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. The Israelis then expropriated their properties when they refused to let those Palestinians return after the hostilities had ended. It’s yet another instance of the cat and mouse political game between the two peoples.

            As for the expelling of Jews by other Arab countries, there again, it’s a cat and mouse game of propaganda because there was also clamping down on emigration by Jews after allowing the immigration of Jewish populations among surrounding Arab countries. Israel set herself a goal of encouraging Jewish immigration into Israel in an attempt to inflate Israeli population as rapidly as possible. Was there punitive purging of Jews who would have preferred to remain in surrounding Arab countries? Yes. Was immigration to Israel encouraged? Yes. Israel would NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED by the world community to expel the Palestinians from Judea and Samaria. Israel well understands that she straddles an impossibly difficult diplomatic and legal quagmire viz conquered territory. To claim that Israel hasn’t done this is illustrative of beneficent israeli intentions toward those territories is not yet clear. The fact Israel is continuing to fight the founding of a Palestinian state and the decisions as to final borders very clearly illustrates that Israel isn’t sure of her next steps but is aware that she can’t proceed solely w/her own interests at the forefront of her decisions.

            http://www.columbia.edu/~yc2444/From%20Haven%20to%20Heaven-Changes%20in%20Immigration%20Patterns%20to%20Israel.pdf

          • Bamaguje

            “Israel would NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED by the world community to expel the Palestinians from Judea and Samaria” – Americana.

            But Jordan was allowed to expel Jews from the Jewish ancestral homeland of Judea & Samaria.
            What kind of double standard is that? As you affirm, other Arabs also expelled Jews from their countries.

            If your assertion is true that Israel strived to ethnically cleanse Palestinians following the 1948 Arab invasion of the Jewish nation, why did Israel then confer full citizenship on the Arabs who did not leave?

            Back then international sympathy was more on Israel’s side, because everyone could clearly see the Arab invaders were the aggressors.

            If the Jewish nation really wanted to get rid of Palestinians, she could have.
            Just like Turkey expelled Greeks, Poland expelled Germans, millions of Hindus and Sikhs were compelled to migrate from Pakistan to India in 1948.

            In 1922 British mandated Palestine was partitioned, and Arabs – who already occupy most of the Middle east – were given the lion share (77%).

            Yet you still want the tiny meagre strip of land that is Israel, to be further partitioned to intolerant Muslim anti-semites called Palestinians, who have severally rejected offers that would have given them a second state.

      • Space Cowboy

        “Palestinians” already have a state – Jordan.

        Israel is not at war with only the so-called Palestinians. It’s actually at war with the entire Islamic totalitarian world. As the so-called Palestinians are nothing but the proxies of the Islamic totalitarian world.

        Thus, if Israel managed to somehow eradicate the so-called Palestinians, it still would not end the jihad being waged against Israel.

        To end the jihad being waged against Israel and, indeed, against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD would take the collective effort of the infidel world to eradicate Islam. Otherwise, the jihad being waged against Israel and, indeed, against all infidels in the world will continue into perpetuity.

        • Bamaguje

          Agreed!!
          Too many non-Muslims who should know better, think the Arab-Israeli conflict is different from the global Jihad menace.
          Hence Western leaders who battle Jihadists elsewhere think the Palestinian cause has merit. Some are even ‘recognizing’ a make-believe Palestinian state.

          The truth is – Israel is in the frontline of the global Jihad because it is smack down right in the Middle east, which Muslims consider Islamic territory – Dar-ul Islam.

      • Harry_the_Horrible

        The Jordanians don’t want them.
        Read up on “Black September.”
        Basically the Palis tried to overthrow the monarchy and were, in turned, slaughtered in large quantities. approx 5-10K.

  • PaBlum

    UNGA Res #181 (about partition) mentions the term, “Jewish State”, 42 times, “Jews” 4 times and never “Palestinian”. Israel is a Jewish State without the Knesset having to go through hoops.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Your post has motivated me to take time to read UNGA Res #181.

      Thanks!

    • JayWye

      ISTR that the Arabs (in 1946-47)were offered the creation of a State of Palestine when the UN was in the process of establishing Israel for the Jews,and the Arabs refused.

  • http://historyscoper.com/ T.L. Winslow

    It’s sad that although everybody knows that there’s no such thing as Palestinians, people are ostriching out of fear caused by the horrible Muslim World, which is poised like an alligator ready to eat Israel up, and which they only wish would be satisfied and take them off the menu or at least eat them last, like Churchill said. Sorry, but the alligator is never satisfied.

    Ever hear the joke about the little yellow dog, an alligator with its tail sawed off and painted yellow? You can’t change an alligator into a lamb, but you can create a New World Order by liberating peoples’ minds from an evil ideology. Will 2015 be the year that the Great Muslim Apostasy is preached by the whole non-Muslim world, the solution that can finally dissolve the Muslim World and end its existence as a political force, making Muhammad’s sick Great Jihad a dead gator forever? I don’t know but if isn’t 2015 what year will it be? Read my Winslow Plan for Defeating Islam, available free online, to see the truth that will set the world free.

  • notme

    I suspect even the Al Aqsa mosque was somewhat invented as a revered holy site for Muslims. They needed to come up with something to displace that site as the holy site of the Jews; i.e. the first and second Jewish Temples, and to “prove” their superiority. As I have said before, I believe that if the Ground Zero mosque were ever erected, it would at some point in time become the fourth holiest site for Muslims (with some invented reason thrown in for good measure).

    • Bamaguje

      Al-Aqsa and Dome of Rock mosques were provocatively built on the Jewish holiest site.
      Israel should have demolished them after regaining control in 1967. That’s what Muslims would have done if non-Muslim conquerors had built a Church or Synagogue near the Kaaba.

  • Jacob Greenwood

    LINEAGE OF ARABS (Descendants of Ham) – Archeological Research garnered from tablet fragments: Hittite, Akkadian and Sumerian:

    1.3000 BCE descendants of Canaan, grandson of Noah via Ham break out of their proscribed region – southern Turkey – immediately north of the Euphrates River – True “Syria”. Some move southward into the Levant. Most rename themselves As-Syrians. They garner iron from the Hittites and invade and destroy Haran, Assur (neighboring cities ) and attack Nineveh.

    2.300-600 years later they have burnt Niniveh to the ground and made Babylon their capitol (Babylon founded by Nimrod I, firstborn of Ham).

    3.Later the Akkadian King, Sargon of Niniveh heritage, recaptures northern Mesopotamia and conquers Babylon, making it his capitol as Niniveh was still in ruins.

    4.From several recorded Sumerian records from Ubaid, Ur and Uruk tell of the children of Nimrod/children of the Assyrians who evacuate Babylon and move into the North-Central grass plains of the Arabian Peninsula. THEY ARE THE FIRST ARABS(ARABIANS).

    5.From previous historical records, it is known that the peoples living south of the Euphrates River, down the Euphrates River. East through the Indus region and Persia and the peoples of seacoast of the Arabian Peninsula and Ethiopia are descendants are the first born of Noah (Shem), and they do not intermarry with the descendants of Ham.

    6.Midianites, at their root, are Sumerian sheepherders who later combined with offspring of the House of Abraham (a Sumerian), combined with or intermarried to peoples from the Kingdom of Sheba (Yemen) and Ethiopia.

    7.MOST IMPORTANT CLUE: Every culture had a signature animal symbol. Throughout Mesopotamia and the regions of the second born of Noah (Japeth) – The Caucasus, Turkey, Black Sea (also East and West), it was the bull. You find artifact Bulls in silver, copper, bronze and other materials. The Hamites created a half-man/half-bull symbol which they called Baal. Time of origination dates to circa 3000 BCE in Lebanon at what is now the place known as Baalbek (megalithic platform structure). As for the Arabs from the grassy central plain of Arabia, over time they migrated and founded Medina. They would have been Baal worshippers. Medina was founded near Mecca which was a thriving trade center for agriculture, minerals, frankensense everything coming up from Yemen.

    Mohammed’s wife (Khadija) inherited the camel train cartage business when her husband died, but could not keep it unless she had a husband for legal ownership purposes. She found an idiot teenager who could not read or write, and that was Mohammed. When she died, the other relatives gave Mohammed money and they took over the business. Mohammed travels with them. Near Ebla, Syria (Modern Syria), the rich idiot Mohammed teams up with Syrian mercenaries. The cult of domination – Submit or Die – Slavery of Women, begins there. They call him their prophet and use him. Between Midian and Syria, along the road east of the Dead Sea/Jordan Valley, that’s where Mohammed has epiphany in a cave. Later they settle in Medina/Mecca.

    Sources on Mohammed: University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Oxford in Britain (Syrian, Egyptian, Coptic, Middle Eastern, Yemeni, Ethiopian articles – English Translations)

    TO STUDY THE ANCIENT CULT-RELIGION OF BAAL EXPLAINS the divergence of Islam from Judaism and the adoption of dominating, killing, lying cheating and other anti-civilization aspects. Throughout the entire ancient world, the bull which was the machine-tractor of the ancient world was depicted and revered but only worshipped by Hamites (Assyrian, Canaanites, Southern Egyptians) Baal is recorded as the God of War/Violence/Storms/Domination. These are the root aspects that were worshipped in Medina, and when Medina conquered Mecca (which worshipped the God of Israel, as all Shemites/Midianites would), they supplanted those things into the new religion – Islam

    http://www.NoahIsReal.com

  • Jimbini

    The ultimate irony is that there is no “P” sound in the Arabic language. If you enter “Palestinian” in Google translate set to arabic, it comes out as “falestini” – so they can’t even say their own name in their native language!

  • DaveGinOly

    After Israel’s success in the 1948 war, Arab nations evicted 840,000 Jews. Where did these Jews go? Israel offered to take all of them in, and many went there. This presented a problem to the Arabs. At the beginning of the war, the Arab armies told the Arabs living in the nascent Jewish state to get out of the way, so they could push the Jews into the sea. Those Arabs who complied with the request believed it when they were told that they would be the beneficiaries of the land lost by the Jews in their defeat. Except that defeat didn’t happen. What to do with those Arabs who wished to see the Jews annihilated? Israel didn’t want them back (although it was happy to accept those who did not hope to benefit from their demise – they became the Arab Israelis). The Arabs could have resettled them in their own countries, as the Israelis did with the Jews displaced from Arab nations. But rather than admit they were Arabs, and resettle them, they created “the Palestinian people.” The reason for this creation was two-fold – first, denying they were Arabs gave the Arab nations a reason to not resettle them within their own nations, and second, they created a group of people who could become the poster children for “Zionist aggression.” It was genius, really.

    As for the historicity of the Jewish people in the area – no real scholar doubts that the highlands of Judea became the seat of an important Jewish nation-state around the time claimed by Jewish tradition. The argument is about exactly when the state was established and who the early Jews were (where did they come from/what were their ethnic origins – good arguments are made today to indicate that they were Canaanites — most Jewish scholars today recognize that the Book of Moses is a complete fabrication, there is zero evidence for the Exodus despite the best efforts of some Israeli archaeologists to find it). The Kingdom of David, for all its supposed glory, was considered possibly mythological, simply because such a fabulous kingdom should have left evidence behind of its existence. The “Kingdom of David” reference that has been found did little more than confirm the existence of the kingdom. The fact that stories of its opulence and might have found no support in the ground leads most scholars to believe that although a “King David” existed, most of the stories about the king and his kingdom were fables generated for propaganda purposes by the monarchy in later times to inflate its pedigree in order to gain standing and respect among the other states in the area. This is not to say that the Jews didn’t build the temples in Jerusalem – they most certainly did, but they were built in following David, with the Second Temple being built in much later (truly “historical”) times – the evidence is incontrovertible. “Palestine” was a Jewish state thousands of years ago.

    BTW, I’m amused by the Muslims by their simultaneous denial of the Holocaust, while at the same time praising Hitler for his “solution” to “the Jewish Problem.” Talk about cognitive dissonance!

    • JayWye

      What’s funny is that when the Arabs had control of Judea and Samaria,they did little to nothing with the land.
      Only after the Jews took over and reestablished Israel,was the land developed into something worthwhile,modern,and productive.
      And THAT is when the Arabs/muslims got all hot and bothered about driving out the Jews.

    • dynbrake

      There is archaeology that confirms the Exodus: the remains of the chariots of Pharaoh’s army at the bottom of the Red Sea, and the thousands of artifacts at the real Mt.Sinai in Arabia.

  • Daniel Rubio

    What “palestinians” are reportedly doing now is an old arab/muslim tradition of stealing, appropriating or other forms of plagiarism. Muslims have been doing this since their pedophile “prophet” decreed that Abraham and Moses, and Jesus as well, were “muslim prophets”. They stole the idea of the number zero from India and published it as a “muslim” discovery. Only recently, a well known muslim cheater, posing as President of the United States, attemped to lecture the world on the grand achievements of the “muslim” “culture”, of which he couldn’t name just one. Any important human kind achievement that muslims attempt to consider as their own can be promptly dismissed as bogus and ill-informed. Next thing you know, if you want to believe these liars par-excellance, is that Neil Armstrong was a muslim convert and NASA was a “sado-arabian” agency that landed the first muslims on the Moon!

    The problem is not the arabs. The problem is the gullible Westerners, who are not interested into checking the facts and confroting the muslim’s lies. Except for a brief period of small intelectual achievements in architecture and art, that incidentally coincided with the darkest hours of European knowledge throughout the Middle Ages, islam has no advancement whatsoever to show for it thru the last 14 centuries of its useless existence.

    • mtmla

      Erdogan of Turkey claimed that America was first discovered by muslims about 300 years before Columbus. If they repeat this lie enough, the west appeasers will buy into it and the muslims will start claiming that America is part of the Umma and the non muslims are the occupiers, as Israel and palestinians..How convenient..

  • herb benty

    The idea is to erase any past connection between Israel and the Jewish people, this is Islams reason for being, what the EU and Obama want. This war is really between God and Satan……..watch.

  • SoCalMike

    Not just for the region but for the US as well.
    As cost and complexity curves for producing WMD and nuclear devices have been declining for decades, the world is a much smaller place and the US has no anti-cruise or ballistic missile defense in place.

    • JayWye

      But I suspect DC always has an AEGIS ABM cruiser in the vicinity,to provide the Capitol some level of ballistic missile defense. Also,I just read about the installation/activation of OTH-B radar aerostats ( unmanned dirigibles,balloons) in Baltimore to scan the Atlantic for ballistic and cruise missile launches from the ocean. it covers a very wide area.
      BTW,there’s plan to use the VLS cells and AEGIS radars to make a land-based ABM system that could be deployed all over the US; the missile defense without the warship. it’s called Aegis Ashore.

      • JayWye

        BTW,Iran pursuing orbital satellite launch capability also means they would have the ability to launch ICBMs,or do a FOBS launch.
        The first satellite launchers were derived from military ballistic missiles.

  • http://senatormark4.org/Alinsky5.htm senatormark4

    Sure sure. I have heard all this before. The question is, WHAT do you want to do about it? We are spending billions(?) feeding the people that spout this garbage. WHY is that?

    If, for some reason, we were to say that the tax monies taken at the point of a gun from free citizens can NEVER be used to support regimes that deny the First Amendment, we’d finally have a bright line drawn to stand united behind.

    NO aid, NO visas to people or governments that deny the First Amendment.

    ON the other hand, this is just another article of words that cannot stand against the powers that lead ObamHolder http://senatormark4.org/Alinsky5.htm down their path.

  • Space Cowboy

    It’s quite simple. The Islamic totalitarian world is waging a jihad (a so-called holy war) against ALL INFIDELS IN THE WORLD in the cause of Allah to ultimately make Islam and its followers supreme. Thus, the Jewish infidels in Israel are in the same exact boat with all the other various infidels throughout the world. As all infidels are targets of their jihad.

    Moreover, according to the dictates of Islam, the only time the jihad can end is only after all the infidels have been converted to Islam or otherwise killed or subjugated into harsh and degrading dhimmitude.

    In the interim, however, Muslims can only make Hudnas with infidels. Which is a kind of temporary truce modeled off of Muhammad’s infamous Treaty of Hudaibiya, and that is why the so-called Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process is a farce and a complete and utter waste of time and valuable resources.

    Because Israel is situated in the heart of the Islamic totalitarian world it has to deal with violent jihad, similar to other infidels whose borders also touch the Islamic totalitarian world.

    Here in the infidel West, on the other hand, the Muslims wage jihad primarily by stealth and non-violently by design. Since waging jihad violently on a large scale in the infidel West isn’t feasible. As it would quickly be defeated and would inevitably result in the mass expulsion of all Muslims.

    Thus, if you hate Israel and the Jewish infidels living in Israel, then you are self-hating because whether you realize it or not, you are in the same exact same boat with Israel and all the rest of the infidels.

  • Brian

    Yes, the Palestinian nationalism is of recent origin, and often reinforced by outside agitators (like Bin Laden) who care nothing for Palestinians except as a convenient hammer with which to beat Israel or the USA. But newfound nationalism is not necessarily invalid. There was a time when Americans viewed themselves as English colonists, and then began nascent feelings of ‘American’ identity. All nationalist movements are new at some point.