The Palestinian Myth
A badly invented people with no roots in Israel.
Even though the Jewish history in the land of Israel is one of the most popular stories of mankind and was incorporated into the religious beliefs of over half the human race, it’s become fashionable to deny the connection of the Jews to the land of Israel. And yet similarly dismissing the descendants of Muslim conquerors who now style themselves ‘Palestinians’, some of whom had arrived in Israel as recently as a century ago, as colonists and settlers is angrily denounced.
There’s no actual ‘Palestinian’ history. Just the ideological project of ‘Palestinianism’ and its revisionist history which reversed history, transforming the Arab Muslim conquerors who invaded and persecuted the Jews into the indigenous inhabitants who were driven out by the Jews. ‘Palestinianism’ is General Custer putting on an Indian costume and claiming that his ancestors were in America for thousands of years before the Sioux drove them out.
Palestinianism’s historical revisionism insists that the Jews who were in Israel for 3,400 years are European settlers while the Arab Muslims who decided to call themselves ‘Palestinians’ sixty years ago were the original indigenous inhabitants of the land. Their only basis for this otherwise completely ahistorical argument is picking a name with a ‘biblical’ sound to it.
But the name ‘Palestine’ came originally from the Philistines who were European settlers from the Aegean region. The name was imposed much later by the Roman conquerors seeking to remove any trace of the Jewish presence from Israel. Calling Israel ‘Palestine’ is something foreign settlers whose only link to the land came through their ties to foreign empires would do.
Rather than an assertion of indigeneity, the assumption of a false ‘Palestinian’ identity is an unintentional admission of foreignness. It’s what a clueless outsider trying to fit in would do.
The ‘Palestinian’ brand is not some ancient indigenous claim to the land, rather it’s the name of a group of European settlers who waged war against the Jews, over a millennia and a half before Islam, that was reapplied by another group of European conquerors over 500 years before Islam, and was then picked up by the Muslim invaders whose ancestors had served as mercenaries for Rome and had no historical memory predating the Roman Empire.
It’s hard to imagine a name more closely associated with foreign invaders than ‘Palestinians’.
Aware of this problem, Yasser Arafat, who was born in Egypt, took to claiming descent from the Canaanites, and specifically the Jebusites. That equally nonsensical claim of descent from an ancient people also dates back all the way to the 1960s. Rashid Khalidi, the Obama mentor who made that claim, was born in New York City to the former Foreign Minister of Jordan.
But if the ‘Palestinians’ are really Canaanites, why not call themselves that? It doesn’t have the same historical resonance among the Americans and Europeans who were the targets of the ‘Palestinian’ brand. And while the Koran mentions neither ‘Palestine’ nor ‘Canaan’, it does imply that Allah commanded the Jews to wage a Jihad and drive out the Canaanites. The more religiously devout Islamists deeply resent Arafat’s suggestion that they were ever Canaanites.
“The people of Palestine have no historical right to Palestine… our history is simple and it is not ancient. Our history dates back only 1,440 years. 1,440 years ago we had no rights of any kind. Absolutely none,” Imam Issam Amira argued in a talk in the occupying mosque on the Temple Mount that the ‘Palestinians’ can only assert rights based on Islam. “It must not be said that the Palestinians have Canaanite roots. We can go back to the words of Yasser Arafat who lost our cause… the only thing you are allowed to say is: ‘Oh Palestinians, you are Muslims.’”
When not presenting their case to Western audiences, the ‘Palestinians’ proudly trace their descent to what is today Saudi Arabia from the Qays and Yaman families. They all want to be connected to the old Mohammedan dynasties and not the pagan Philistines or the Canaanites.
The basis for the Muslim claim to Israel is the same as the claim to Iraq, Pakistan or any other Muslim country. Islam recognizes only the religious right of conquest, not any kind of indigenous ancestry, whether it’s in Israel, North Africa, India, Afghanistan or any other areas where the indigenous inhabitants were massacred, ethnically cleansed and enslaved by Islamic invaders.
Muslims preach to Westerners about the indigenous rights of ‘Palestinians’, but reject the indigenous rights of every group they conquered from Hindus and Buddhists in Asia to the Berbers in North Africa and the Copts in Egypt. Where have Muslims ever recognized the indigenous rights of any non-Muslim minority they conquered over their own people?
When it comes to Israel, Muslims demand adherence to a principle that they do not adhere to, and they demand it based on an invented history that they themselves never took seriously.
If there really is an ancient ‘Palestinian’ people somehow distinct from all their Arab Muslim relatives, what is it that makes them so? Where is their ancient history predating the 1960s?
Even a brief examination of recent history shows that it was a label of political convenience.
Were they ‘Palestinians’ when the British ran the Palestine Mandate? And yet when part of the Mandate was turned into the Kingdom of Jordan, those ‘Palestinians’ then became Jordanians.
In 1948, Jordan attacked Israel and annexed various areas including Ramallah, and the ‘Palestinians’ in the future capital of the Palestinian Authority became Jordanians. They had no interest in creating a ‘Palestinian’ state. Then only when Israel liberated Jerusalem and other parts of its territory, the Jordanians suddenly became ‘Palestinians’ and demanded a state.
None of this makes any sense if they, like the Jews, had been members of an ancient people with a consistent identity dating back thousands of years, but to the Arab Muslim settlers, Jordan and Palestine were just geographic names that they had inherited, not identities.
Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, better known as Hitler’s Mufti, and one of the pivotal figures of the genocidal ‘Palestinian’ cause who allied with the Nazis in the hopes of exterminating all the Jews, was part of the al-Husayni family which had moved to Israel in the 18th century and claimed descent from Mohammed’s grandson in Saudi Arabia. Their great rivals, the equally ‘Palestinian’ Nashashibis, were Kurds who showed up in the 15th century.
‘Palestinianism’ claims that the Arab Muslim settlers have a deep and ancient connection to the land. Surely this should be reflected in the geography and in the names of their cities?
The name of the Muslim settlers for Jerusalem is Al-Quds or Holy City because that was the only way the Arab Muslims of Arabia could describe a city they had heard about, but never visited. What the Jews call Judea and Samaria, the Arab Muslim settlers call ad-difa’a al-gharbiya or the West Bank. These names show no actual historic connection to the land.
The Arabic for Bethlehem is ‘Bayt Lehem’ or a translation of the Hebrew ‘Beit Lehem’. Is Nablus part of the great and ancient Palestinian heritage? But Nablus isn’t Arabic, it’s the Arabic mispronunciation of Neapolis, which means “New City” in Latin. Much like ‘Palestine’, it’s another borrowing from the Romans by foreign settlers with no ancient roots in Israel.
Ramallah, the capital of the Palestinian Authority, is an Arabic translation of the nearby ancient Jewish city of Beit El. It was barely inhabited under Muslim rule and dates back to the 16th century when a group of Christian Arabs crossed over from what is today Jordan fleeing Muslim persecution. Under Jordanian rule, it was overrun by Muslims and now has a Muslim majority.
When the capital of your people was founded by Christians from the other side of the river in the 16th century and its name was taken from an ancient Jewish city and it wasn’t actually your capital until the bygone days of the 1990’s, and it only became your capital because you drove out its original residents in the 1950’s, then your ancient civilization doesn’t actually exist.
The ‘Palestinians’ are not just an invented people. They’re a badly invented people with no history, no past and whose only talent is for stealing the identities of the ancient indigenous peoples that their invading ancestors from Arabia conquered, persecuted and enslaved.
When the indigenous Jewish people freed themselves, the conquerors switched to pretending to be the conquered, the oppressors played the oppressed and the invaders posed as the indigenous to justify their genocidal plans to conquer, oppress and invade Israel all over again.
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Arab Teen Films Life Under Israeli “Apartheid.”
You Won’t Believe What He Exposed!
Of the lies that are espoused by Israel-haters across the world, one of the most common refrains is that of Israel being an “apartheid state.” The implication is that Arabs don’t have equal rights as Jewish people and are treated like black people were treated in South Africa. Of course, this is intended to win world sympathy for the plight of “poor refugees” that are seemingly suffering due to their race and religion. The goal is to gain as much sympathy for Arabs and resentment towards the Jewish people in Israel. Many are buying into the lie.
Well, here are some facts and questions concerning that line of thinking. If Israel was truly an apartheid state, how could it be that Arabs serve in Israel’s Army? How could it be that Arabs serve in Israel’s Knesset, Supreme Court, Police, and in every single hospital in the most senior positions? How could it be that Arab soldiers and policemen and policewomen are among those who arrest Jewish people in the State of Israel?
Could it be that everything that is claimed against Israel is actually just a vicious lie in order to paint Israel’s image in a negative light? This young Arab man and millions in Israel know the truth. Human rights activists that follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter are hypocrites. Carter sepent decades criticizing Israel’s human rights record, but basically ignored every other human rights issue, including the human rights of Israeli victims of Arab terror. If someone selectively focuses on the human rights of one group to the total exclusion of every other group, then they are driven by hatred, not by human rights.
Arabs in Israel have better health care than anywhere else in the Middle East. Arabs in Israel have voting rights better than anywhere in the Middle East. And in general, the best country for an Arab to live in in the Middle East is Israel.
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Hamas Celebrates ‘Heroic’ Murder of
Pregnant Woman on Way to Give Birth
“Mr. Gez told them that his wife was about to give birth”
Just in case there was any ambiguity whatsoever, Hamas drops helpful reminders that it’s evil.
No qualifiers. Just evil.
Tze’ela Gez, a resident of Bruchin and mother of three who was nine months pregnant was murdered when a terrorist opened fire at a vehicle between Bruchin and the Peduel Junction in Samaria.
Gez’s husband was lightly wounded in the attack.
Tze’ela died. Her newborn baby, as of the most recent report, is still alive. This far from the first time Islamic terrorists inside Israel did something like that, but it might be the first time it became a Times headline.
Hamas Celebrates Shooting That Killed Israeli Mother en Route to Deliver Baby – New York Times
An Israeli woman on the way to a hospital to give birth was shot and killed in the West Bank on Wednesday, in an attack that Hamas applauded as a “heroic act.” …
The slain woman, Tzeela Gez, 30, a therapist and mother of three other children, set out from her home in the Israeli community of Bruchin on Wednesday night, ready to deliver. As she and her husband drove to the hospital, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on their car, according to the Israeli military.
Ms. Gez was fatally wounded. Her husband, Hananel Gez, who was driving, was injured. Still conscious when paramedics arrived at the scene, Mr. Gez told them that his wife was about to give birth, according to Dr. Asnat Walfisch, the director of the obstetrics and gynecology division at Beilinson Hospital in central Israel.
Ms. Gez arrived in the operating room of Beilinson Hospital about half an hour after the shooting, Dr. Walfisch said. Doctors quickly checked to see if the child had survived and found a pulse, she said.
Less than 60 seconds later, they had sliced open her womb and removed the child, said Dr. Walfisch. “The emergency removal of the child improves the chances of survival for both patients — for the woman as well as for the child,” she said.
Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that is fighting Israel in Gaza, praised Ms. Gez’s shooting as a “heroic act” and called on Palestinians to carry out “further painful operations against the occupation.”
Whatever anyone thinks about Israel, it should be rather obvious what Islamic terrorists, including Hamas, are, and what anyone who defends them and carries water for them is.
And yet college campuses are full of Hamas fans and the media and Democrats continue to cover for them.
Syria: Christians and Alawites warned to convert to Islam
or pay the jizya
Translation: “Flyers on the fences of the Christian and Alawite city of Tartus in Syria: Either you immediately change your religion from Christian to Muslim and convert to Islam or you will pay protection money and your life. Anonymous people distribute flyers throughout the city and at the end it says all religions are infidels and only Islam is a righteous religion.”
This is, of course, Satanic Reversal!
This is not “extremism” or a hijacking of Islam. The Qur’an itself tells Muslims to fight against “the people of the book” (Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians) until they submit and pay the jizya, that is, what is referred to on the sign as “protection money.” Jizya is the cornerstone of dhimmitude, the subservient status of the non-Muslims under the hegemony of Islam: the non-Muslims get a limited “protection” in exchange for their submission.
“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will not be accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the hereafter.” (Qur’an 3:85)
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