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 7^th 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 "Independent" country that goes back through most of recorded history as many would have you to believe, then a few questions need to be answered:

• 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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. 
9. "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.
10. 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.
11. 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.

Who were the 1948 Arab Refugees? by Yoram Ettinger - What happenrd to the million Jewish families expelled from Arab/Muslim Countries

Who were the 1948 Arab Refugees?

by Yoram Ettinger

What happenrd to the million Jewish families expelled from Arab/Muslim Countries

Contrary to conventional "wisdom,” most Arabs in British Mandate Palestine – and most of the 320,000 1948 Arab refugees – were migrant workers and descendants of the 1831-1947 Muslim immigrants from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, as well as from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, North Africa, Bosnia, India, Afghanistan, etc.. Britain enticed Arab immigration and blocked Jewish immigration.

Thus, between 1880 and 1919, Haifa’s Arab population surged from 6,000 to 80,000, mostly due to migrant workers. The eruption of WW2 accelerated the demand for Arab manpower by the British Mandate’s military and its civilian authorities.

Moreover, Arab migrant workers were imported by the Ottoman Empire, and then by the British Mandate, to work in major civilian and military infrastructure projects. Legal and illegal Arab migrants were, also, attracted by economic growth, which was generated by the Jewish community beginning in 1882.

According to a 1937 report by the British Peel Commission (featured in the ground-breaking book, Palestine Betrayed, by Prof. Efraim Karsh), “during 1922 through 1931, the increase of Arab population in the mixed-towns of Haifa, Jaffa and Jerusalem was 86%, 62% and 37% respectively, while in purely Arab towns such as Nablus and Hebron it was only 7% and a decrease of 2 percent in Gaza.”

Irrespective of occasional Arab emigration from British Mandate Palestine – due to intra-Arab terrorism, which has been an endemic feature in the Middle East - the substantial wave of Arab immigration from 1831-1947 triggered dramatic growth of the Arab populations in Jaffa (17 times), Haifa (12 times) and Ramla (5 times)...

This unusual Arab/Muslim demographic diversity is evidenced by popular Israeli Arab family names, which are a derivative of their countries of origin: al-Masri (Egypt), al-Obeidi (the Sudan), al-Lubnani (Lebanon), Halabi (Syria), al-Mughrabi (Morocco), al-Djazair (Algeria), al-Yamani (Yemen), al-Afgahni (Afghanistan), al-Hindi (India), al-Hijazi (Saudi Arabia), al-Baghdadi (Iraq), Bushnak (Bosnia), Khamis (Bahrain), Turki (Turkey), etc...

Thus, contrary to the myth of the 1948 Arab refugees – aiming to delegitimize Israel - Arabs have not been in the Land of Israel from time immemorial; no Palestinian people was ever robbed of its land; there is no basis for an Arab “claim of return;” and most of the 320,000 Arab refugees – who were created by the 1948 Arab invasion of Israel and their own collaboration with the invasion – were recent immigrants and foreign workers (from neighbouring Arab countries) in the Land of Israel. (Immediately after the United Nation decided to make their refugee status permanent and to pay them for participation in anti-Israel international bigotry, their number was promptly inflated and even doubled!)

When the world extends to the million Jewish refugees and their children who were terrorized, persecuted and expelled from Arab lands and all their assets confiscated; businesses, homes and including 120,000 sq. km – 75,000 sq. mi. of Jewish owned real property confiscated nearly 70 years ago, the same sympathetic obsession that they extend to the Arabs who needlessly left Israel at the urging’s of the corrupt Arab League and the advancing Arab armies, then there maybe hope for a better international community than exists at the present time.

YJ Draiman

Usual Legal Intimidation of Zionist Failed Again

Half a year after he was arrested by the Shin Bet security services, interrogated for days, and accused of being a “Jewish terrorist,” Israel’s prosecution service has confirmed that the youth leader from the Samaria community of Kochav Hashachar, Netanel Furkowitz, is innocent of any wrongdoing, and had no connection whatsoever to the deadly arson attack in the Palestinian village of Duma last summer (which was, most likely, the Arab villagers doing). The prosecution said they had officially closed their investigation.

People Like Inventing a ‘Good’ LEGEND!

"Hating people because of their colour is wrong. And it doesn't matter which colour does the hating. It's just plain wrong." - Muhammad Ali - But he did not have problem of hating others. Most people have chosen to forget that Ali used to be not just outrageously racist but also anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, sexist and homophobic:

-        “In my name and the name of all Muslims in America, I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland and oust the Zionist invaders,”

-        “I declare support for the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland.”

-        “All Jews and gentiles are devils,” he once declared. “Blacks are no devils. Everything black people are doing wrong comes from (the white people): Drinking, smoking, prostitution, homosexuality, stealing, gambling. It all comes from (the white people).”

He did not change his ugly attitudes, just after he became geriatric he gained international sympathies!

Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak

Do not blame the 'Ugly Nothing', the United Nations, for its anti-Israel policy only. It is the traditional anti-Semitic ugliness of the Western countries, the primary controlling powers of the UN, who have been tolerating and even encouraging the aggression of Arab/Muslim world against Israel. It is main reason behind the international discriminatory policy against Israel!

Disgusting anti-Zionist Entrapment Behaviour

The undercover agent provocateur has been posing for two year as a member of the Lehava organization, and used his fake identity to incite Jewish activists over Whatsapp and Facebook. (This is how KGB operated against Zionist groups in the USSR!)

Another ‘Friendly’ Gesture from Jordan

The Jordanian government intends to restrict tourists from crossing from Jordan to Israel on the same day they land in Amman, affecting the itineraries of many tourists traveling to Israel via Queen Alia Airport in Amman. (Should Israel reciprocate by restricting tourism to Jordan?)

To Fight Islamic Terror the UN Needs a Jewish Lawyer

After months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic struggles, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon was elected to head the UN Legal Committee (officially named the Sixth Committee). The committee deals with sensitive topics including fighting global terrorism. This is a historic event, as it marks the first time an Israeli representative will head a permanent UN committee since its induction into the organization in 1949.

Just Another Empty Threat?

Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) delivered a clear message to Hamas: if you mess with Israel again - it would be your last round of fighting. “A confrontation with Hamas is unavoidable and therefore it must be the final one in the Strip - the final confrontation for the Hamas regime in the Strip,” the senior spokesperson said. (Only by removing the enemy’s population, which supports Hamas, from Gaza, Jewish land, will the attack from Gaza be stopped! The Sinai Option, see below, must start from Gaza! Is Israel ready to implement it?)

Hamas Tunnel Builder Defected to Israel?

Gaza Arabs have been debating the mystery of the disappearance of a commander in the Al Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military arm - a senior commander in the Nukhba unit, an elite Hamas force specializing in underground tunnel warfare and the son of a Hamas religious judge. According to rumours from Gaza, the man told his family he was going for a walk and would be back in the evening, but instead crossed the border fence to Israel.

Another Stupid Idea - Just Remove Them from Jewish Land

It has been revealed that Israel plans to build a concrete wall tens of meters deep underground and above ground to counter the threat of Hamas attack tunnels.

Obama is Against Security of Israel

Under the shadow of a presidential veto of over $600 million allocated for programs, pro-Israel groups criticize Obama for opposing the spending increase.

Quote of the Week:

“We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. (If war comes) it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.” - Gamal Abdel Nasser (Washington Post, May 27, 1967) – The key word is “total” – Arab/Muslim countries had planned not just destruction of Israel but of all its Jewish population – during the Independence war, the Six Day war and Yom Kippur war. The plan is still operational – they are just waiting for an opportunity!

Cancer Must be Removed!

by Steven Shamrak

Some people call the Hamas victory "The earthquake" I call it a normal, predictable and logical step of the bogus peace process. The first statement made by Hamas after the election was: "Negotiating with Israel and recognition are not on our agenda. The armed struggle will continue."

In spite of the fact that the PLO/Fatah has never removed the clause, calling for the destruction of Israel, from their charter, Israel negotiated! Between September 2000 and April 2004, Hamas perpetrated 425 terrorist attacks against Israel and murdered 377 Israelis. One terrorist organization replaced another! Negotiations with the killers who want to push Jews to "the sea" have produced only more killings, more terror and more Jewish self-doubt. Spin-doctors have already started creating the 'human face' of Hamas.

At the same time, the Hamas' victory and Arabs' predictable actions in the near future can be used by Israel as an opportunity to reclaim the Jewish ancestral land. Too often Israel has ignored and missed these opportunities.

When everything else fails, oncologists use surgery in order to remove cancerous tissues and save the life of a patient. All attempts and compromises made by Israel to achieve peace have failed. It is time to start implementing the unilateral plan of establishing permanent peace in the Middle East. The victory of Hamas could be viewed as a blessing in disguise.

Instead of making 'brave' and empty statements, the Israeli government must make plans for decisive retaliations to the attacks that are going to follow this 'historic' victory. The next time a suicide bomber or an Arab gunman commits acts of terror against Jews all their extended family must be deported from the Jewish lands. After the next rocket is fired toward Israel from Gaza, all Arab residents must be transferred from Gaza to Sinai. Our enemies understand only the language of supremacy. Let them have it! It will bring Israel closer to a full control of the Jewish ancestral land and will resolve Israel’s demographic problem. This is the only way toward peace and achievement of the Jewish National Goal.

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Was the 1967 defensive war a victory that changed Israel's dynamics? - Draiman

Was the 1967 defensive war a victory that changed Israel's dynamics?

The Six Day war transformed Israel from relative country struggling to defend itself, into a regional military superpower. It also liberated Jewish territory occupied by Arabs which has been expanding the country’s meaning and identity – The Arabs are the cancer in Israel who want to destroy Israel's existence.

Memory deceives us. Forty nine years after June 1967, many in Israel view the time before the Six Day war as a developing age, an innocence  lost when Israel was a small, just society where hard work, modesty and solidarity prevailed over success and selfishness; everyone knew each other and everyone respected anyone else.

That, of course, is a delusion: 1966, the last year before Israel liberated its territories occupied by Jordan and the Arabs, economy was struggling. Unemployment had reached a record 10%, there was a sharp recession and for the first time in the country’s history, migration from it was higher than that to it (Aliyah). Although military alertness and 400,000 Arab residents living inside Israel, in place since the 1948 war, were abolished in 1966, their situation improved, they gained the same benefits as the Jews and built towns and villages.

The 1967 war changed all that. Everyone knows that afterwards Israel was considered a regional, if not an international, military superpower; that was due to its fight for survival. What is also known is that the war changed economic history. The recession ended, unemployment decreased and the economy began to prosper. In 1967 gross domestic product per capita in Israel was only $1,500. By 2006 GDP per capita was $24,000, putting Israel in 23rd place in the UNDP’s Human Development Report. This is reflected in migration to Israel and influx of capital. More than 1.7 million Jews have arrived in the past 50 years and the population has increased from 2.4 million in 1967 to 5.6 million in 2006. No wonder that many consider the war was a turning point in the “Israeli development story”.

Yet the war can also be seen as the source of all evil. The amazing victory, in which the Israeli army smashed the three biggest Arab armies – Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian – should have made Israel feel secure, but the Arabs kept attacking and sending terrorists to hamper Israel's security. Instead, Israel is anything but a safe place. Since 1967 the Arabs had forced Israel to defend itself and it has engaged in six conflicts – a war of attrition on the Suez Canal, the 1973 war, two Intifada’s and two wars in Lebanon. More than 5,000 Israelis have been killed and there have been about 50,000 Arab deaths (Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and Arab/Palestinians).

The problem is not just that the wars go on and on, but that Israel is not winning them. Dov Tamari, a retired Israeli general turned historian, remarked after the end of the second Lebanon incursion that the 1967 war was the last in which Israel won an outright victory. All others had ended in a limited victory, if not a draw. Every war has forced Israel to give up something. The 1973 war was followed by total withdrawal from Sinai as part of the peace agreement with Egypt in 1979; the first Intifada in 1989 led to the Oslo accords in 1993; the first Lebanese war in 1982 ended in retreat in 2000; and the result of the second Intifada was the dismantling of the Gaza settlements in 2005.

The war in Lebanon is another example. While politicians claimed victory, some survey showed that only 50% of Israelis thought that Israel had won. This failure to win the wars more decisively may explain why a senior Israeli politician recently said in a private conversation that he was not sure Israel would respond in another 20 years. Decades of Arab terror and violence have worsened the fears of Israelis instead of alleviating them.

Waiting for a phone call?

Where did it all go wrong? Quite early. General Moshe Dayan, the defense minister and most prominent Israeli politician in 1967, who foolishly said right after the victory: “We are waiting for a telephone call from the Arabs”, meaning – so it seemed – that if the call came, Israel would withdraw from the territories it had liberated, the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria aka West Bank and Golan Heights, in return for peace agreements with the Arab world. In his book 1967 the historian Tom Segev proved that the Israeli government did mean it that way, and that is what the world, and Israeli public opinion, believed. But the Arabs who want nothing more than the destruction of the Jewish state, continue their futile un-winnable battle.

At the same time Israel set in motion a process that would later make the deal of territories for peace not difficult, and very possible. Levi Eshkol, the supposedly dovish prime minister, allowed the first Jews and settlers to rebuild the destroyed Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and settlements, Kfar Eztion, in the West Bank before the end of 1967, while Dayan ordered the destruction of Syrian villages and towns on the liberated Golan Heights and the rebuilding of an Israeli settlement on the ruins of the previously destroyed Jewish communities and the town of Kuneitra.

In early 1968 Israelis were allowed to live in Hebron and to retake their property the Arabs occupied, since the Arabs massacred the Jews of Hebron. The results of this can be seen 50 years later: the center of this ancient city is a Jewish enclave in town, where no Arab/Palestinian is allowed to live or walk or shop so that the place is clear for the Israelis who live there; since the Arabs are constantly attacking the Jews in Hebron. It was at Hebron was the location of the first suicide attack in 1992, Hebron has always been a hotbed of Arab terror and violence (the Arabs attack Jews who pray at what is known as Cave of the Patriarchs). The first Palestinian suicide attacks were in incitement to deter Jews from praying there.

Looking at the map it is easy to see that the rebuilt Jewish communities and settlements in Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank were planned on Jewish land of vacant land, and create a continuum between the rebuilt Jewish communities the settlements and pre-1967 Israel. Rebuilt communities and resettlements were built in East Jerusalem to reoccupy Jewish property and reunite the city of Jerusalem. Further rebuilt Jewish communities and settlements were constructed in the Jordan Valley as a development of Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank and commerce with Jordan; and roads with rebuilt settlements beside them were built in heart of Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank, nor far from Nablus, Ramallah, Kalkilia and from Tulkarem.

Ariel Sharon, the architect of the rebuilding of the Jewish communities and settlement project, said openly in 1975 that his aim was to enhance the development of Israel and protect the inner country. This project, which over the years has been supported by governments right and left, has proved successful. More than 550,000 Israelis live today in hundreds of rebuilt communities and settlements in Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank; this provide the Arabs jobs at good pay, health benefits and an increase in the standard of living – and 250,000 Israelis live in neighborhoods built in the liberated parts of Jerusalem, many on previously Jewish owned property or purchased property. Their numbers have helped change the political attitude. Apart from the Communist and Arab parties, all political leaders in Israel, from Yossi Beilin to Ami Ayalon, from Ehud Olmert to Ztipi Livni, claim that the rebuilt Jewish communities and settlement blocs should be a part of Israel in any peace agreement. The separation wall to prevent terrorism is built along the lines of these blocs.

Obstacle to peace

Yet political leaders, even perhaps Sharon before his illness, acknowledge in private and sometimes in public that the rebuilt Jewish communities and settlements must be addressed to achieve a possible peace agreement with the Arab/Palestinians and the Arab world. Israel has been correct by this huge Jewish development in Judea and Samaria, it built during 45 years of liberation of its territory. It de-facto incorporates the rebuilt Jewish communities and the settlements as part of Israel; since no annexation is needed, when you are living in your own territory liberated in a defensive war. 

The most rightwing government will eventually concede its international, legal right to the land; and it cannot ignore them because the rebuilt Jewish communities and settlements have already entered the bloodstream of Israeli society, with over half a million Jewish families residing in Judea and Samaria. The rebuilt Jewish communities and the settlements are the first line of defense.

Is it that Israel has strengthened itself voluntarily? Perhaps it has become so used to its own liberated land that it cannot and will not live without it. For 45 years Israelis have lived in a society based on hard work and determination. Before the 1967 war, new Jewish immigrants expelled from Arab countries had fewer rights than those who came from Europe, while Arab/Palestinians living inside Israel had many rights like anybody else; but after 1967 Israel set up an official system of civilized benefits. The one million Arab/Palestinians living in the Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank and Gaza (now grown to 3.5 million) were not granted political rights as per international agreements, and the military commanders controlled every aspects of their lives, when terror and violence persisted.

Relations between Arab/Palestinians living under Jewish rule and Israelis have changed over the past 45 years, but the situation in which Israelis had rights and Arab/Palestinians had limited rights had became natural to most Israelis. The worsening restrictions on the lives of Arab/Palestinians over the years, due to increased terror and violence, and the regulatory demand – some Israelis only meet Arab/Palestinians when doing military service in Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank – intensified these distinctions. Giving up the liberated Jewish territories means giving up safety and security. That will not happen.

After the defensive war of 1967 Israel was quickly transformed into a more robust economy and society. The huge public works after the war created a much stronger entrepreneur class. The billions of dollars invested by Jews and foreign companies (plus the US has given Israel $3bn military aid every year since 1973, when Israel gave up its airfields and oil, gas wells in the Sinai) spent on military technology, which progressively advanced, have helped make Israel a small high-tech superpower, in technology, medical and high-tech. At the same time, because of the economic development and influx of a million Jewish Russian Jewry, with high skills and resulting from the expansion and growth, Israel became a much more fragmented society. 

In 1967 more than 80% of the workforce was organized in one big labor union, which controlled 33% of the economy; kibbutzim were held in high esteem. Today, only 20% of Israeli labor is organized and Israel is rated as among the most advanced societies in the West: according to the Gini Index Israel is in 42nd place among the highest advanced economies and 18 families control 65% of the Israeli economy. This is also a result of the various defensive wars Israel had to endure.

There is another important result. After 1967 the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian conflict became more known in the world, if not the most known, due to biased Media. Israel has gained from its economic and technological growth. Its excellent relations with the US, its international importance, its strong army and academic wealth all derive from its open borders to all Jews worldwide. That the Arab League, which refused any deal with Israel after the wars, is desperate for Israel to disappear with the support of some Arab countries is another result.

There is a negative aspect. Israel’s position in the West also depends on the view that it is the frontline between the West and the East, between Judeo-Christian civilization (a peculiar hyphenation given the terrible historical confrontations between the divergent beliefs) and Muslim civilization. 

After the 9/11 attacks in the US, belief in this frontline position became widespread in Israel and not just among the religious right, who have claimed since 1967 that rebuilding Jewish communities and settlements in Israel is a fulfillment of the will of God, thereby making the Israeli-Arab conflict cultural-religious and not territorial. Avigdor Liberman, current defense minister and head of the pro-transfer party Israel Beitenu (Israel is our home), told Israeli newspaper in an interview that Israel is “the front outpost of the Jews worldwide and the whole free world”.

This may explain the apprehensive feeling in many parts of Israeli society after the war with Lebanon. Hizbullah was described as an arm of Iran, and Iran was damned as a leader of a clash of civilizations. So the restrained of the big and ultra-sophisticated Israeli army to crush a few thousand Iran-trained Hizbullah fighters (plus the thousands of rockets that were fired by Hizbullah into north Israel for over a month; since Israel was very careful at minimizing civilian casualties in its response) convinced many Israelis that they to find other avenues to combat hostilities in the region and in the long run they might have to take a more drastic action in the war against radical Islam. 

Four decades of expansion into its historical territory have relaxed Israeli society that its leaders lack the willpower to utilize its best resources to quash terror and violence and end the conflict. The expansion has made Israel stronger, economically and militarily.

A two-state solution for The Land of Israel aka Palestine. Draiman

A two-state solution for The Land of Israel aka Palestine.

When George W Bush belatedly outlined a two-state solution for The Land of Israel aka Palestine, he simply repeated like a parrot what his predecessor Bill Clinton had been saying for a decade. It was not original or creative, and it came too late. Alas, it turns out that it was not valid anymore either. 
The so called Arab Palestinians are split between Hamas and Fattah, two parties that have two wildly different agendas. Hamas is a populist movement that does not recognize Israel and wants to create an Islamic state. Fattah has become an elitist movement that plays the deceptive ploy that it recognizes Israel, (but their Charter states, that they want all of Israel without the Jews) and wants to create a second modern Arab state. There can be little compromise between the two. 
Suddenly the problem is no longer only the security of Israel (the two sides are two busy bickering and shooting at each other to focus on attacking their old enemy) but the security of the Arab Palestinian people under their own Arab Palestinian rulers. Since chaos in the Arab Palestinian territories has a way to spill over into neighboring countries (Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon), this is an issue that extends beyond the borders of Israel aka Palestine. 
After 50 years of wars, it may be time that the Arab Palestinians and the rest of the world to admit that we focused on the wrong problem. The real problem is that the Arab Palestinians are not the right people to run their own land. Whether it's their fault or the fault of all the empires that ruled that region without giving them any power (Arabs, Christians, Ottomans, British), it is a fact that the only Arab Palestinians who live in freedom and dignity are the ones who live in Israel, Britain and the USA. The Arab Palestinians who live in Jordan have at least dignity and jobs, if not total freedom. The Arab Palestinians who have been left behind are the ones who tried to establish their own state, and have been rewarded by history with leaders who were either corrupt, incompetent or tyrannical, or all of them. 
There is no question that the Arab Palestinians would be better off if they were fully under Israel’s autonomy. The problem is that Israel does not want them, because they would upset the demographic balance of Israel. 
The second best choice for the Arab Palestinians is to split and be ruled by the two next best neighbors: Egypt and Jordan. Jordan used to rule the West Bank until it lost the 1967 war against Israel and in 1988 it relinquished its territory to Israel. The Arab Palestinians admire the king of Jordan (who consistently ranks first in every opinion poll about regional leaders) and they all have family in Jordan. Why not resuscitate the old federation between Jordan and the West Bank? 
Egypt ruled the Gaza strip since it invaded it in 1948 until it lost the war against Israel in 1967. It was not a happy time for the people of Gaza, that were treated like animals by Egypt (they were given no political rights). However, today's Egypt relies heavily on USA aid and part of that aid could be earmarked for the reconstruction of Gaza. 
The two-state solution envisioned a united, democratic, mature, rich Israeli state next to a divided, undemocratic, immature, poor Arab Palestinian state. In retrospect it may not have been the smartest idea in history. A two-province solution that hands over (at least temporary) the West Bank to Jordan and the Gaza strip to Egypt may not solve all problems but is not the least viable. 
Last but not least, it may help figure out a final solution for the status of Jerusalem. The Arabs (not only the Arab Palestinians) still deceptively claim Jerusalem. There is no question that none of it is indeed not Arab (the many Arab/Muslim rulers did fight the war 1400 years ago and occupied it, and the Crusaders in the 1200 and just like the Ottomans won the war against the Byrantines and today nobody questions that Istanbul should be Turkish as opposed to Greek). The sensible solution is not to split Jerusalem between Israel and an Arab entity or Christian. The issue here is that Israel is the legitimate owner and it has no intention of handing over half of Jerusalem to the Arab Palestinians or anyone else for that matter. But Israel for the sake of peace is willing to waive its claim to the land east of the Jordan River for a stable Jordan neighbor. 
In other words, why can't we just let Israel that liberated its territory in the 1967 defensive war, now that, 50 years later, three of the countries that launched that awful attack (Egypt, Jordan, Syria) have not stopped planning the destruction of Israel? Do you want to give back to the Jewish people the City of Medina or the homes and the 75,000 sq. mi. of Jewish owned land confiscated by the Arab countries from the million expelled Jewish families who now live in Israel?