The Truth About the
Arab/Palestinian People
The 1948 Israeli War of Independence was between the neighboring Arab countries and the newly formed sovereign state of Israel. The Arab countries did not send troops to help the people that are today known as "Arab/Palestinians" but rather they sent troops to drive the Jews into the sea. Most of the "Arab/Palestinian" fled at the urging of the advancing Arab armies to avoid the fighting. Remember, in 1948 they were not referred to as "Arab/Palestinians". This name was was created by the Soviet disinformation masters in 1964 when they created the Arab Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The term"Arab/Palestinian People" as a description of Arabs in Palestine appeared for the first time in the preamble of the 1964 PLO Charter, drafted in Moscow. The Charter was affirmed by the first 422 members of the Arab/Palestinian National Council, handpicked by the KGB. This term was formally used by newspapers around the world after 1967.
United Nations Resolution 181 recommended in violation of international law and treaty, a second partition of the Jewish territory from the British Mandate for Palestine into two states, above and beyond the already new Arab state of Jordan - one for Jews and a second one for Arab/Palestinians. But the rejection of recommended partition by the Arabs left in place as the legally operative Mandate for Palestine, the 1924 Anglo-American Convention, and the recommended Article 80 of the United Nations Charter. All of the Arab countries objected to the creation of the Jewish state and fought a war against its recreation. This was Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Despite their superior numbers and weapons including help from the British, the Arab countries lost the war and the second Arab/Palestinian state never materialized west of the Jordan River because of this loss. In the war that was waged, the territory allotted to be the second Arab/Palestinian state by the UN recommendation of the partition resolution was divided between Israel and Jordan which is the new Arab state. The "Arab/Palestinians" were rejected by every single Arab country, with the exception of the small percentage that ended up in refugee camps in Jordan where they remain to this day.
The History of the Region
To understand the truth of modern day Israel, you must first have a clear understanding of the history of the region.
Judea was an autonomous state in the Persian Empire following the return from Babylonian exile thanks to Cyrus, King of Persia. Following the death of Alexander the Great who had captured the Persian Empire, it became part of two Hellenistic rulers.
Following the Maccabean revolt, Judea became an independent state. Following the death of King Herod, the Romans seized it and it then became a Roman province. Judea was briefly independent during the first revolt against the Romans until it was finally destroyed when the Romans put down the revolt and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in the year 70.
Judah lost its independence to Rome in the year 70 and became again a colony. In the year 135, the Romans gave the country the name "Palaestina". The name Palaestina, which became Palestine in English, is derived from Herodotus, who used the term Palaistine Syria to refer to the entire southern part of Syria, meaning "Philistine Syria." This was to add insult to injury against the Jewish people. The intent was to remove any memory of a Jewish presence. The name was kept by the next possessors, the Byzantine Empire, and then by the conquering Arabs and their successors, the conquering Turks. Note that we have a succession of different nationalities, none of whom thought of themselves as Palestinians. They were the Romans, Byzantines, Muslims, or Turks.
About 61 B.C., Roman troops under Pompei invaded Judea and sacked Jerusalem in support of King Herod. Judea had become a client state of Rome. During the seventh century (A.D. 600's), Muslim armies moved north from Arabia to conquer most of the Middle East, including Palestine aka The Land of Israel. The Seljuk Turks conquered Jerusalem in 1071, but their rule in Palestine lasted less than 30 years.
During the 7th century, Muslims invaded and the Crusaders from Europe ruled for a time until they were driven out. The Crusaders left Palestine aka The Land of Israel for good when the Muslims captured Acre in 1291. During the post-crusade period, crusaders often raided the coast of Palestine. To deny the Crusaders gains from these raids, the Muslims pulled their people back from the coasts and destroyed coastal towns and farms. This depopulated and impoverished the coast of Palestine for hundreds of years, until the Jews returned and rejuvenated it.
In the mid-1200's, Mamelukes, originally soldier-slaves of the Arabs based in Egypt, established an empire that in time included the area of Palestine also know as Southern Syria, that lasted until the Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamelukes in 1517, and Palestine also know as Southern Syria, became part of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish Sultan and ruler invited Jews fleeing the Spanish Catholic inquisition to settle in the Turkish empire, including several cities in Palestine aka The Land of Israel, to redevelop the land and bring in revenues. The Ottoman Empire ruled until the British took control of the area after WWI in 1917.
In 1922, the British in violation of international law declared that the boundary of Palestine for the Jewish National Home would be reduced and limited to the area west of the Jordan River. The area east of the river which comprised over 77% of Jewish allocated territory, and called Transjordan, which is now the country of Jordan, was made a separate British mandate and eventually given independence in 1946. The British maintained control until they abandoned their responsibility in 1948.
There was always a Jewish population in the region, most of them resided in the religious communities in Jerusalem, Tz'fat, Tiberius, and Hebron. With Jewish immigration suddenly on the rise from the 1880's on, the economy of this very under populated, desolated land and very poor country began to rise dramatically, attracting a parallel stream of Arabs from the surrounding countries who came in looking for jobs and improved standard of living. At the same time, Arab/Muslim nationalism and extremism began to rise, spurred by the Mufti of Jerusalem and the influx of what they considered "Infidel Jews" and the breakup of the Turkish Empire followed by the occupation by the British as trustee, the French and other European countries of much of the Middle East. They wanted the oil resources.
After WWI, the Supreme Allied Powers at the 1920 San Remo Conference allocated over five million sq. mi. of territory to the Arabs and Palestine aka The Land of Israel as the reconstituted National Home of the Jewish people in their historical land. That was not enough for the Arabs. From the early 1920's through the War of Independence in 1947-49, there were local Arab leaders who called for an independent Arab state in the entire country with not a single inch for a Jewish state. Many violent attacks and massacres by the Arabs against the Jews. The British violated international law and treaty and allocated over 77% of Jewish territory to the Arabs east of the Jordan River and named it Jordan. During the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, the local Arab armies and leaders identified with Syria, Jordan, and Egypt and thought of themselves as such. At the end of the war, the Arab illegally allotted land was divided between Israel, Egypt (Gaza), and Jordan. The Egyptians refused to let the Gazans become independent or Egyptian citizens. Eventually, the Jordanians did allow some refugees become citizens, but not all. The Arab states are content to let their brother Arabs remain in those refugee camps that are really crowded and squalid towns and live like that since the UN supported them. Because of this, they make a great political tool used to invoke sympathy, especially in regard to the European countries. That is crass, unfeeling politics, but these same people do not hesitate to strap bombs to their children, young men and women.
Another reason why the Arab/Palestinians fled is that they refused to live in a Jewish dominated state. Ironically, had they accepted the partition and those in Israel not fled, Israel would have had a huge and growing Arab population and indefensible borders.
A Few Forgotten Facts
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam.
2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of an Arab/Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the reestablishment of the modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence and habitation in the land for the past 3,400 years.
4. The only Arab dominion since the Muslim conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,400 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital, Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity or any other entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit Jerusalem.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. The Koran states Israel belongs to the Jews.
7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed the Muslim prophet never came to Jerusalem. The Mosque was built in 691.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
9. In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Seventy-seve percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier.
10. The million Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution, and slaughter. Moreover, the Arabs confiscated all their assets including businesses, homes and over 75,000 sq. mi. of Jewish owned land for over 20 centuries. Most of the expelled Jews from Arab countries were resettled in Israel and comprise over half the population.
11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 610,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be over a million Jewish families.
12. Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish Arab and European refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.
13. The Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Arab/Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won. It was a matter of survival.
14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. Israel has given the Arab/Palestinians most of the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria land, autonomy under the Arab/Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them with ammenities.
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.
17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues and Jewish cemeteries were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall and confiscated all Jewish assets.
The Modern Day Conflict
From the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, "Arab/Palestinians" have been sacrificed as pawns by all other Arab countries as they are to this day. No other Arab country has ever offered to accept any of these people into their own countries even though they are well able to do so. To the Arab countries and the rest of the anti-Semitic world, the "Arab/Palestinians" are useful only as a tool to exterminate Israel and the rest of the Jews in the Middle East. Otherwise, their welfare is of no concern to the rest of the Arab world.
What about the ingrained notion that the Arab/Palestinians are fighting for their ancient homeland annexed by the Jews? The truth about this matter has been so deliberately deceptively obscured that even to raise the issue seems strange to many people.
In the June 1967 war, also known as the 1967 Six Day War, did Israel annex territory from an Arab/Palestinian nation? No, Israel did not take a single inch of territory from Arab/Palestine. That is because there is not, nor has there ever been, an Arab Palestinian nation. Israel captured and liberated the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria and Eastern ancient Jerusalem from Jordan's King Hussein and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, after they declared war against the Jewish State. It was only following the Six-day War in 1967 that Arab refugees living in these territories began identifying themselves as the "Arab/Palestinian People" because the global media labeled them as such. One cannot help but wonder why these Arab/Palestinians woke up one day and suddenly discovered a national identity after Israel won the war, but not during the "Jordanian Occupation" or the "Egyptian Occupation" or Ottoman Occupation?
There Was Never A Country
Called Arab Palestine
If you consider Arab Palestine to be a "Sovereign" and "
- When was it founded and by whom?
- What were its borders?
- What was its capital?
- Who was the President?
- What was its form of government?
- What were its major cities?
- What constituted the basis of its economy?
- Who was the Arab/Palestinian leader before Yasser Arafat?
- Was Arab/Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
- What was the language of the country of ArabPalestine? The Turks did no speak Arabic.
- What was the prevalent religion of the country of Arab/Palestine?
- What was the name of its currency and what was the approximate exchange rate of the Arab/Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, or Japanese yen on any particular date?
- And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
If these so-called "Arab/, in the thousand years prior. Arab/Palestinians" are anything but a generic collection of Arabs from all over the rest of the Arab world and if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, then why did they never try to become an independent and sovereign nation until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War in 1967?
The Ten Commandments of Arab Lies
- The "Arab/Palestinian People" have an historic connection to the land.
This is very interesting since there is no such thing as a "Arab/Palestinian People". When the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestine, the people living there at the time were Jews, not Arabs. If there had been an "Arab/Palestinian People", which there never was, they would have been Jews. - The Arab/Palestinian People have been in the land from time immemorial.
For centuries pre-Israel Palestine was a forgotten, desolate wasteland inhabited by a remnant of Jews, along with some Christians and wandering Bedouins who certainly had no thought of a national identity of any kind. - There were no Jews in Palestine until Israel became a state in 1948.
The Romans officially banished some of the Jews from Israel (Palestine) in 135 CE. However, historical records show there was always a Jewish presence and habitation in the land. While many were scattered, other Jews simply moved out of harm's way until a less hostile power ruled the land. Many Jews were returning to what is now Israel well before 1948. Many left Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. - Arabs and Jews lived in harmony before Israel became a state.
Throughout the centuries, Jews as well as Christians, living under Islamic rule suffered persecution and humiliation, the intensity of which was determined by the character of a particular Muslim ruler. As second-class citizens, there was never a "good time" for non-Muslims living under Islamic rule. Because of the way that most Islamic countries look down on non-Muslims as infidels, they are always considered second-class citizens and less than equal. Arabs have rarely lived in harmony with anyone including their own people if they were the majority. The Muslims with Muhammad killed the Jewish population in Medina in about 638. - The returning Jews displaced the Arab/Palestinians
The ancestors of most of the present-day Arab population migrated to the land after Jewish pioneers began to reclaim and develop the land. They came from many different countries and were not original inhabitants of the land. Many were illegal immigrants looking for better economic conditions. - The Jews stole Arab land
Jews returning to the land settled on unclaimed, unoccupied land or bought land from absentee Arab landowners at outrageously high prices. This is a matter of record. - The Jews forced Arabs to flee Palestine aka The Land of Israel
When Israel was declared a sovereign state in 1948, leaders from the surrounding Arab countries declared war on Israel and instructed the Arab civilians living in the land to flee until the Jews were annihilated. Israeli leaders, to no avail, urged the Arabs to stay. Property that they owned was abandoned. - The Jews caused the Arab refugee problem
If Arab countries would assimilate and care for the "Arab/Palestinian" refugees, as Israel did for their million Jewish refugees from Arab countries, there would be no refugee problem. Instead they use the refugees as political pawns in their struggle against Israel. - "No Arab country that wants "Arab/Palestinians" in their country as they would rather use the " ArabsPalestinian as pawns rather than assimilate them into their populations and bring peace to the Middle East.
- Israel is the aggressor against defenseless Arab/Palestinians
In its brief history, Israel has had one war after another and each time they are blamed as the aggressor. The Arabs do not recognize the right of Israel to exist and are in a constant state of hostility against Israel. Their aim is to destroy Israel. - Jerusalem is holy to Muslims
While Jerusalem is mentioned over eight hundred times in the Bible, it is not mentioned one time in the Koran. Muslims have had little or no interest in Jerusalem until the Jewish presence in modern times.
THE JEWISH SITUATIONA brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still do not get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don't thank me. I am a giver. Here we go:
The Arab/Palestinians want their own country. There is just one thing about that: There are no Arab/Palestinians in history. It is a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan", "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in a defensive war, Gaza belonged to Egypt and there were no "Arab/Palestinians" then. The West Bank aka Judea and Samaria was occupied by the new Arab state of Jordan, and there were no "Arab/Palestinians" then. As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the "Arab/Palestinians", weeping for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation." So for the sake of honesty, let us not use the word "Arab/Palestinian" any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they are being taped. Instead, call them what they are: "Other Arabs From The Same General Area Who Are In Deep Denial About Never Being Able To Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death." I know that is a bit unwieldy to expect to see on the Media. How about this, then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters." Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing. No, they do not. They could have had their own country any time in the last fourty years, especially at Camp David. But if you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living. That is no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course - that is where the real fun is - but mostly they want Israel. Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel - or "The Zionist Entity" as their textbooks call it - for the last sixty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they are the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you have ever been around God's Earth, you know that is really saying something. It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I am missing something, the Arabs have not given anything to the world since Algebra.Chew this around and spit it out: One billion Arabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.My friend K. R. made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse the numbers. Imagine one billion Jews and five million Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshalling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab state into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Or naming streets after terrorists? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting. No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews would ever do to people is debate them to death.Mr. American President, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it is in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, that cannot be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels that have just had their drugs taken away. However, in any big-picture strategy, there is always a danger of losing moral weight. We have already lost some. After September 11th our president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City every week and then every day, start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint. If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan. (Hey, wait a minute, that is actually not such a bad idea... uh, that is, what a horrible thought, yeah, horrible.)
To see the true agenda of what the "Arab/Palestinians" and the rest of radical Islam really stand for and the hatred that is at their core beliefs, look at "Islam - A Religion Based on Terrorism".
Arab/Palestinian terrorists use the "Road Map to Peace" to plan their next attack
Courtesy of John Pritchett
Below are some additional links on the true dangers of Islam that might prove informative.
10 Obvious Reasons Why Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace
15 Iraqi War Myths
HAMAS Charter of 1988
Islam - A Religion Based on Terrorism
Islamic Terrorism in Israel
ISIS Forces Iraqi Christians To Pay Jizya,...
Jews and Muslims - An Intellectual Comparison
Quotes From The Islamic World
When World War III Started
On a final note, in all of the writing and reporting on Israel, there is one undisputed fact that is consistently forgotten and ignored. That fact is that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East who has ever properly protected sites holy to each religion and the rights of all to worship in Jerusalem and all of Israel. No Islamic nation can come close to making that claim.
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