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Denis MacEoin calls the
western pro-Hamas supporters the new Romantics. They chanted by the thousands
in London recently in support of this terrorist organization, in support of the
“myth of Islam as the path to peace.” http://israelseen.com/2014/08/16/denis-maceoin-the-new-romantics-being-fair-to-terrorist-groups/
Thousands of deranged
individuals harboring anti-Semitic hatred were demonstrating against Israel and
chanting, “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the Gas.” What history have they studied in
school?
People have forgotten or
deny what happened to 6 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the handicapped,
the not-so-perfect humans who were dehumanized, maligned, cartooned,
mistreated, tortured, gassed, burned, and buried in mass graves while the world
witnessed the atrocities from afar, turning a blind eye. The music got louder
in homes and churches to drown out the wailing from the passing cattle trains
filled to capacity with suffering humans.
The Office of the Historian
at the U.S. Department of State describes the establishment of the State of
Israel on May 14, 1948, recognized by President Harry S. Truman on the same
day.
“Although the
United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favored the
establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not
intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region. The
British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both
the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as
unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region.” https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel
What was Palestine
exactly? Was it ever a country? Why would the Jews claim the land of Israel as
their own? Was it because God promised them the land to Abraham? Was it because
the Jewish people settled and developed the land? Was it because the land was
captured in defensive wars? Was it because political sovereignty was granted by
international decision to the Jewish people in Palestine? How many lands and
territories have been redrawn, granted, and resettled around the world as the
result of war, conquest, and reparations?
The Twelve Tribes
of Israel founded the first constitutional monarchy in Palestine around 1000
B.C. King David made Jerusalem the nation’s capital. Jewish independence lasted
212 years then it was split into two separate kingdoms.
Linguistically,
“Palestine” is thought to have derived from Philistines, an Aegean people who
settled around the Mediterranean coast in the area known today as Israel and
the Gaza strip. The Arabic word “Filastin” is believed to have derived from the
Latin name. The Romans applied the name “Palaestina” to Judea, the southern
portion of today’s West Bank, in the second century after crushing the last
Jewish revolt in an “attempt to minimize the Jewish identification with the
land of Israel.”
The Jewish people
did not just disappear in the year 70 A.D. after the destruction of the Second
Temple and reappeared in the 20th century demanding their lands
back. They have kept strong connections to their homeland for 3,700 years, a
national language, and a distinct civilization. Jewish life and presence
continued and flourished even after the destruction of the temple in the form
of communities in Jerusalem and Tiberias through the 9th century and
in the 11th century in Rafah, Gaza, Ashkelon, Jaffa, and Caesarea.
For centuries, in
spite of the fact that Jewish people were forced off their lands or massacred,
rabbis and Jewish pilgrims immigrated to Jerusalem and the Galilee and
established communities in Safed and Jerusalem for hundreds of years. By 19th
century more than 10,000 Jews lived throughout what is considered Israel of
today.
“When Jews began to immigrate to Palestine in
large numbers in 1882, fewer than 250,000 Arabs lived there, and the majority
of them had arrived in recent decades. Palestine was never an exclusively Arab
country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population
after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or
Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. When the distinguished
Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified
against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said:
"There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."
In fact, Palestine is never explicitly mentioned in the Koran, rather it is
called "the holy land" (al-Arad al-Muqaddash).”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/The_Jewish_Claim_To_The_Land_Of_Israel.html
Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as a
separate identity. The first Congress of Muslim-Christian Association which met
in February 1919 to elect a Palestinian representative for the Paris Peace Conference
adopted this resolution:
“We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been
separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious,
linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.”
Auni
Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader told the Peel Commission in 1937, which
suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as
Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine
in the Bible. Our country was for century’s part of Syria." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/peel.html
Who
were the Zionists and what is Zionism? It is a nationalist movement that
promoted the formation of a Jewish homeland. Theodor Herzl is believed to be
the founder of the Zionist movement in his 1896 book, Der Judenstaat in which he envisioned the formation of a Jewish
state. The common denominator of Zionists is thought to be the claim to Eretz
Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people.
Zionists
defend their national liberation movement for the repatriation of a dispersed
socio-religious group. Its members have been forcibly converted, exiled,
oppressed, forced into generations of Diaspora, and invaded and occupied by the
Ottoman Empire in Judea and Samaria.
Anti-Zionists
criticize Zionism as a “colonialist and racist ideology” that caused the denial
of rights and expulsion of the “indigenous population of Palestine.”
There are many myths circulating among
anti-Semites who cover their hatred with the phrase, “We respect Judaism but
are against Zionism.” One such myth is that “Israel discriminates against its
Arab citizens.” That is hardly the case when, in a population of 6.7 million,
1.1 million are Muslims, 130,000 are Christians, and 100,000 are Druze. Arab
women can vote and Arabs hold 14 seats in the Knesset, the unicameral lawmaking
body in Israel. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/there_was_never_a_country_called_palestine.html
There
is the myth that “Jews are building settlements on Palestinian land.” There is
no Palestinian land, and the statement, “Palestine, the country, goes back
through most of recorded history” is convenient
propaganda. Yashiko Sagamori asked very pertinent questions to elucidate the
mystery of this non-existent country, and I added a few of my own:
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When and by whom was Palestine founded
as a country?
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What were its borders, capital, official
language, and major cities?
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What were its economy, major industries,
and GDP?
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What was its form of government and
leaders prior to Arafat and his PLO?
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What was the name of its currency and exchange
rate against other currencies?
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With whom did it engage in
international trade?
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What were its famous places, museums, universities,
operas?
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Who were its famous scholars and
inventors, painters, sculptors, musicians, architects, engineers?
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Since Palestine no longer exists,
presumably because of the Jews, what caused its demise and when exactly did it
occur?
If
you look at a map of Israel, it is a tiny nation surrounded by vast Arab lands,
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan,
Egypt, Libya, etc. Sagamori wonders “if the people you
mistakenly call ‘Palestinians’ are anything but generic Arabs collected from
all over—or thrown out of –the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic
identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try
to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six
Day War?”
Jerrold
L. Sobel eloquently destroys the myth that “The Palestinian Authority protects
Jewish holy sites.” “Forget about protecting these sites – in textbooks,
speech, and daily life, the Palestinians and their supporters absurdly deny any
Jewish connection at all to these ancient landmarks.” (Jerrold L. Sobel, There
Was Never a Country Called Palestine, February 12, 2012)
While
the western world is donating billions each year to help build a prosperous
society on the Gaza strip, develop an economy, and elevate citizens from
poverty, Hamas has been busy over the last four years building very expensive
and intricate tunnels, an underground city in which bizarre weddings take place
side by side with military operations aimed at ultimately destroying Israel and
wiping it off the face of the earth.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found 30 such
tunnels. Their construction was estimated at $3 million each. Hamas
could have invested in the people of Gaza. For each tunnel, it could have built
86 homes, 7 mosques, 6 schools, and 19 medical clinics. Instead it invested in
terrorism.
http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/07/26/price-hamas-underground-terror-network/
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