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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
There would be peace in the Middle East if Israel just ended its occupation, right?
That’s what the Squad wants you to think, anyway. The statements of the three primary members of this winsome leftist House coalition on the Hamas massacres in Israel had the distinct odor of canned talking points. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Make Mine A Double) issued a statement that said, “I condemn Hamas’ attack in the strongest possible terms.” That was a good start, but she then turned on a dime to blame it all on Israel: “No child and family should ever endure this kind of violence and fear, and this violence will not solve the ongoing oppression and occupation in the region.” Ongoing oppression and occupation, see? If Israel would just ease up on the poor Palestinians, Hamas jihadis would all open restaurants and shops, and peace would dawn upon the region.
Not to be outdone, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) tweeted, “We know occupation and systematic apartheid are a violation of international law and it must end.” The Larry of this illustrious triumvirate (in case you’re wondering, Ilhan is Moe, the mean one, and AOC is Curly, the funny one), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah), chimed in with this: “I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day. I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
So all three are in agreement: Israel’s occupation is the problem. It’s a shame that we don’t have any real journalists today, because someone should ask the same question to all three of them: “If Israel is occupying Palestinian land, can you please explain the basis in international law for Palestinian ownership of this land?” They all likely assume that there was a previous Palestinian state that the Israelis occupied and destroyed, but in reality, there has never been a Palestinian state of any kind, ever, at any point in history. There has been a region known as “Palestine” since 134AD, when the Romans applied that name to the land that had previously been known as Judea, that is, land of the Jews. But “Palestine” was akin to “Staten Island” — it was only the name of a region, never of a people or a nation.
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire had sovereignty over the territory that is now Israel and the supposedly occupied land as well. The Ottoman Empire was, however, known by this time as “The Sick Man of Europe.” In the early 1920s, just before the empire fell altogether, it conceded control of Palestine and the land that came to be known as Transjordan and now as Jordan to the League of Nations. On July 24, 1922, the League granted administrative control over these territories to Britain with specific instructions to create a “national home for the Jewish people.”
Britain immediately turned over 77% of the Mandate to the Arabs to create Jordan but remained generally committed to establishing a Jewish national home in the remainder. This was known as the Mandate for Palestine. Sometimes Leftists point to it as the Palestinian state that supposedly predated Israel, but this claim relies on the ignorance of the fact that this British territory had been explicitly set aside for Jewish settlement; nine years before the founding of the modern state of Israel, a 1939 flag of “Palestine” sports a star of David.
When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, it immediately had to fight a war for its survival against the surrounding Arab nations that had vowed to destroy it. Then there was finally an occupation — in fact, two: Egypt occupied Gaza and Jordan occupied Judea and Samaria (which it renamed the West Bank). Israel won back those territories in the Six-Day War of 1967, but that was actually ending an occupation, not starting one: the only international law governing sovereignty over those territories stipulated that they were to be part of a national home for the Jewish people.
So from whom was the land stolen? Not from the Ottomans, who had ceded it to the League of Nations. Not from the league, which had granted administrative powers over it to the British. Not from the British, who only had it in order to help create a Jewish state there. And not from the Palestinians, who didn’t even exist until the 1960s, when the KGB and Yasir Arafat bestowed Palestinian nationality upon a group of Levantine Arabs as a rhetorical weapon to use against Israel.
And it has worked beautifully. The idea that Israel is occupying Palestinian land was furthered in the 1990s by the Oslo Accords, to which Israel unwisely acceded, and in which it agreed to work toward the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which would only become a new base for more jihad attacks against a diminished Jewish state. But a Palestinian state, if it is ever created, would be the first-ever such entity in the history of the world. There is actually no Israeli occupation at all. The Squad, and the left in general, is either ignorant or malicious. Or, of course, both.
The Squat. I hate those skanks, especially Ragheada Tlaib. She’s hideous.
and she is .not EYE CANDY in any sense of the word……UGH…
Picture a land mass about the size of Maryland in 1948. It is under the
auspices of Great Britain. Before that, it was ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
That land mass was named Palestine by Britain or the Palestine Mandate.
The Arab majority and Jewish minority who lived there were not known
anywhere as living in Palestine – until Britain said so.
Palestine was divided by 1948 into three parts: Gaza, the West Bank and
Israel. The majority Arabs resented bitterly that the minority Jews now had
their own state – even though they could’ve made their own state out of the
West Bank and Gaza. When Israel became a state on 5/14/1948, over
700,000 Arabs fled from their homes there. They knew from announcements
that Israel would be attacked by Arab countries the next day in which Arab
leaders assured them they could return to their homes after the Arabs had
vanquished Israel.
Except that tiny Israel prevailed against them. It is those original 700,000
now-called Palestinians – and after 75 years, their millions of descendants –
who are the reason there are world-wide demonstrations which are
supportive of the sadistic butchery of Hamas against Israel.
Even though 1. many times the Palestinians could have set up their own
state but refused to do so. 2. they are welcome to return to Israel and
become full, free citizens. 3. they were kept in dismal refugee camps
in surrounding Arab countries and not allowed to become citizens 4.
Jordan took them in as citizens and was repaid by them in 1970 when
Palestinians tried to stage a coup and were defeated. 5. the Arab
countries and Palestinians have relentlessly attacked Israel to bring her
down for 75 years, including many outright wars.
The intense Palestinian and other Arab Jew-hatred is ostensibly based
on the ridiculous “right to return”. When it is really based on their Islam
beliefs against the Jews. And their wanting to stew in boiling anti-
Semitism – without helping themselves one bit in three-quarters of a
century – only proves it’s true.
The Mandate of Palestine was not divided into Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. It was divided into Jordan and Israel (as the article says). In the 1948 war, Jordan seized Judea and Samaria and called the area the West Bank. Egypt seized Gaza. In 1967 Israel recovered this territory which was always theirs under the UN agreement. When you see “Occupied West Bank” on a pre-June 1967 map, its referring to Jordanian occupation, not Israeli. After June 1967, the Western media misleadingly continued to use the phrase “Occupied West Bank” as though the Israelis were illegally occupying Jordanian territory. That continues today.
SteveFinSC – Thank you for the corrections. I am learning more
and more about the history of that part of the world as I go along –
propelled to do so by the hideous massacre on Oct. 7th.
I actually do know about the history of Gaza and the West Bank.
When a Middle East country is mentioned anywhere now, I
can instantly picture in my head where it is on the map in relation
to Israel.
Instead of saying “Palestine was divided by 1948 into three parts, etc”,
I should have said “On today’s map, what the British called Palestine
is divided into three parts: Gaza, the West Bank and Israel”.
No. The descendants of the original Arabs who fled Israel are not welcome. They are denied the so called right of return.. in no other refugee situation in the world are descendants of the original refugees entitled to citizenship in the country their forbears left. By that ruling, I could claim Ukrainian citizenship. The only Law of Return in Israel is the one that states that any Jew may go home.
Rachelle – The descendants certainly cannot return en masse. But
where my confusion lies is in the fact that I’ve read that about 20%
of the Israeli population are Arabs and as full citizens, do very well
there. That must include individual Palestinian Arabs because I
have not heard of any Israeli policy that denies them citizenship –
if they meet certain qualifications.
You could become a citizen of Ukraine, if you applied and met
certain qualifications. And relinquished your American citizenship
or retained dual citizenship.
I admit my wording “they are welcome to return to Israel and
become full, free citizens” is awkward. Descendants today
feel they deserve to occupy Israeli land which they believe is
rightfully theirs – and they want to see Israel destroyed. It is
likely there are very few Palestinian Arabs who apply to Israel
for citizenship.
Yeah, that is 100% correct…and what???
Palestinians outside of Israel do not have the right of return to Israel.
The Oslo Accords do not mention a Palestinian state – only local/internal self-government.
The internal self-government that was given to the Palestinian-Arab population group through the Oslo Accords, has not served as a basis for Israel to proceed in negotiations for a final peace agreement, and the Oslo Accords have never had a two-state solution as their goal.
Nor did UN 242 mentioned “Palestinians”… because the fraudulent invention of a fake previously unknown “Palestinian” people or identity was still in the making. Was a Russian-Arab deceptive production which over time became reality and accepted in the world. When and why did the Arab-Israeli conflict all of a sudden become an Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
The PLO was created by the KGB in 1964 to fight the “occupation” which supposedly started in 1967.
Now reconcile that with the moronic claims of occupation
Obviously the “occupation” doesn’t refer to the West Bank or Gaza, but rather to the nation of Israel occupying Palestine.
Does anyone asked these people what the boundaries of this “occupied territory?” Hint: They consider the entire territory of Israel to be “occupied territory.” The pursuit of a “two-state solution” is a chimera. They want the entire territory. That is why the mind of man has not been able to devise a settlement suitable to the Fakestinian that results in recognition of Israel as a Jewish state with defensible borders. Since Islam once stole the area of Israel from the Jews, it considers it to be an eternal endowment for the ummah. See, “Islamic Waqf.”
Yup, the threes stooges of the Squad have a collective IQ of around 30. And that matches perfectly with the IQ level of the idiots that voted for them. Take a good look, this is what you get when you elect morons to represent you. When will they learn?
Have I been banned or something from this site? I made two rather innocuous comments, one basically restating major points in Robert’s article and another making essentially the same comment made by Kassandra above and both of my comments were deleted. Seriously…what gives?
Sorry, never mind. They magically popped up over an hour later.
In Islam, once a nation is conquered by Islamic forces, it must remain Islamic for all time. The average Muslim when asked why they support war against Israel will say “because they are in OUR lands”.
We in the west can not understand this, but the Islamic faith brainwashes it’s followers and then mindlessly
believe it regardless of any explanation of history.
You ACTUALLY expect the Muslims to tell the truth??? They are not proogrammed to tell the truth! They are programmed to say exactly what they have to say to stay alive or because they are liars by nature.
There is no occupation, at least not in the well understood meaning of the Nazi occupation of several European countries. There is occupation when a sovereign contry attacks, invades and further occupies the territory of another sovereign country. The lands Israel was made to take and control in defensive wars didn’t belonged to any sovereign country if anything were illegally occupied by Jordan and Egypt after their 1948 aggression on the Jewish state.
The Romans gave the name Palestine to Judea. Would this have been a jab at the Israelites, as it seems to be etymologically similar to the Greek word: palaestrae? This was part of a gymnasium where men wrestled naked…and knowing ancient Greece, doubtlessly got onto ‘bathhouse’ games. The Jews, being much against ‘bathhouse’ games would have been insulted by their land being named after such places. Could this be a piece of Roman strategy, to insult Jews and remind them of their subject status?
Its not the Jews who are squatters. Its the Fakestinians. The Jews are on the Land God gave to them, and it should be alot more than what they have settled for originally . In the Abrahamic Covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he gave the Land of Canaan which is now Isrrael. The Land deed runs from the Nile River to the Euphrates and somewhat beyond. How has land for peace worked out with people who are dishonest and hateful.
It is not the proper sphere of the UN to settle God-claims.
You can make a legal claim via League of Nations and United Nations.
Or you can make a God-claim through conquest, the way people have done through the ages.
But legal claim and God-claim are are mutually exclusive, unless He actually shows up and settles the matter.
As that wee Nazi prick once famously said… Tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become truth my itself.
This is the motto of the MSM today.
The very idea that a member of Congress would have the Flag of a country that has never existed outside her Office while flying the Rainbow Flag beside it, but no sign of an American Flag should tell everybody with a small version of common sense who she is working for and who she is against.
America is being defeated from within.
In 1800, 1 in 40 dwellers in Palestine were Jews.
In 1890, during the first wave of Zionist immigration, 1 in 13.
In 1931, 1 in 8.
In 1947, nearly 1 in 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
The Palestinian Arabs protested continuously to the British authorities, demanding that Jewish immigration be curtailed.
I don’t know what premium the Jewish Agency paid Arabs for land, but it had funds from Jews abroad that local Arabs could not match. To prevent unrest, the British banned land transfer from Arab to Jew in many sectors.
The Palestinian Arabs were slowly displaced, over a period of 70 years, and they objected to it throughout, through civil means and through violence. They were ruled by overlords for a thousand years, but they had a land, a local culture, villages and cities, fields and groves, mosques and churches. They had all that without the name of state.
The Cherokee did not have a state, nor the Iroquois, nor any other American tribe. Should they have no complaints?
We Americans have seen far more immigration than we like in the last sixty years, immigration that produces vast culture changes, not simply more people. Our government and our corporations disregard the wishes of the people, and the people are something more than just a state. China buys land in the US. Our neighbor to the north is even more immigrated/colonized by Asia than we are.
The Palestinians don’t seem to want peace much. They commit atrocities. They welcome retaliation and use their losses as propaganda. The Muslim world doesn’t want the Palestinians either. Dar Al Islam wants a festering sore with which to reproach the West. The Palestinian Arabs might have tried staying put instead of welcoming their Arab brethren to make war with Israel.
You can see all that, but you can also see that the Palestinian Arabs lost something precious, a land to which they belonged.
To deny that is falsehood.
The Life of Mohammed (Sunna) 5
632 Death of Mohammed
* On his deathbed, he curses Jews and Christians and dies in Aisha’s arms. Muhammad said: “Expel the pagans from the Arabian Peninsula”.
(Bukhari Vol 4, Book of Jihaad, Hadith 288)
* (B4:52:288) Mohammed said, “There should be no religion in Arabia except Islam […]”
* “And when they tell you, “There is politics, “tell them that this is Islam and we do not know the separation of religion and politics” (Hasan al-Banna)
Sahih Muslim transl. Nasiruddin Al-Khattab
Hadith Muslim 1.31
The messenger of Allah say: I have been commanded to fight against people, till they testify to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and believe in me (that) I am the messenger (from the Lord) and in all that I have brought.
Hadith Muslim 41.6985
The messenger of Allah saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.
These historical truths should be widely disseminated and repeated. Way to go, Mr. Spencer. Thank you.