On May 16, 12:50 pm, mud...@sympatico.ca wrote:
> On May 16, 3:16 pm, DoD gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people
>> fails to stand up to historical scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were
>> newcomers to British Mandate Palestine. Until the 1967 Six-Day War
>> made it expedient for Arabs to create a Palestinian peoplehood, local
>> Arabs simply considered themselves part of the ‘great Arab nation’ or
>> ‘southern Syrians.’
>
>> “Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.”
>> Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels
>
>> “All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they
>> want to destroy, not what they want to build.”
>> New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman
>
>> There is no age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians
>> are relative newcomers to the Land of Israel
>
>> Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a
>> native people. The concept of a ‘Stateless Palestinian people’ is not
>> based on fact. It is a fabrication.
>
>> Palestinian Arabs cast themselves as a native people in “Palestine” –
>> like the Aborigines in Australia or Native Americans in America. They
>> portray the Jews as European imperialists and colonizers. This is
>> simply untrue.
>
>> Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing
>> numbers from the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area
>> called Palestine was a God-forsaken backwash that belonged to the
>> Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.
>
>> The land’s fragile ecology had been laid waste in the wake of the
>> Arabs’ 7th-century conquest. In 1799, the population was at it lowest
>> and estimated to be no more than 250,000 to 300,000 inhabitants in all
>> the land.
>
>> At the turn of the 20th century, the Arab population west of the
>> Jordan River (today, Israel and the West Bank) was about half a
>> million inhabitants and east of the Jordan River perhaps 200,000.
>
>> The collapse of the agricultural system with the influx of nomadic
>> tribes after the Arab conquest that created malarial swamps and
>> denuded the ancient terrace system eroding the soil, was coupled by a
>> tyrannous regime, a crippling tax system and absentee landowners that
>> further decimated the population. Much of the indigenous population
>> had long since migrated or disappeared. Very few Jews or Arabs lived
>> in the region before the arrival of the first Zionists in the 1880s
>> and most of those that did lived in abject poverty.
>
>> Most Arabs living west of the Jordan River in Israel, the West Bank
>> (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza are newcomers who came from surrounding
>> Arab lands after the turn of the 20th century because they were
>> attracted to the relative economic prosperity brought about by the
>> Zionist Movement and the British in the 1920s and 1930s.
>
>> This is substantiated by eyewitness reports of a deserted country –
>> including 18th-century reports from the British archaeologist Thomas
>> Shaw, French author and historian Count Constantine Volney (Travels
>> through Syria and Egypt, 1798); the mid-19th-century writings of
>> Alphonse de Lamartine (Recollections of the East, 1835); Mark Twain
>> (Innocents Abroad, 1867); and reports from the British Consul in
>> Jerusalem (1857) that were sent back to London.
>
>> The Ottoman Turks’ census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in the
>> Land of Israel. The real number is probably closer to 350,000 to
>> 425,000, since many hid to avoid taxes. The British census in 1922
>> reported 650,000 Muslims.
>
>> Aerial photographs taken by German aviators during World War I show an
>> underdeveloped country composed mainly of primitive hamlets. Ashdod,
>> for instance, was a cluster of mud dwellings, Haifa a fishing village.
>> In 1934 alone, 30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the
>> northern frontier into Mandate Palestine, attracted by work in and
>> around the newly built British port and the construction of other
>> infrastructure projects. They even dubbed Haifa Um el-Amal (‘the city
>> of work’).
>
>> The fallacy of Arab claims that most Palestinians were indigenous to
>> Palestine – not newcomers - is also bolstered by a 1909 vintage
>> photograph of Nablus, today an Arab city on the West Bank with over
>> 121,000 residents. Based on the number of buildings in the photo taken
>> from the base of Mount Gerizim, the population in 1909 – Muslim Arabs
>> and Jewish Samaritans – could not have been greater than 2,000
>> residents.
>
>> Family names of many Palestinians attest to their non-Palestinian
>> origins. Just as Jews bear names like Berliner, Warsaw and Toledano,
>> modern phone books in the Territories are filled with families named
>> Elmisri (Egyptian), Chalabi (Syrian), Mugrabi (North Africa). Even
>> George Habash – the arch-terrorist and head of Black September – bears
>> a name with origins in Abyssinia or Ethiopia, Habash in both Arabic
>> and Hebrew.
>
>> Palestinian nationality is an entity defined by its opposition to
>> Zionism, and not its national aspirations.
>
>> What unites Palestinians has been their opposition to Jewish
>> nationalism and the desire to stamp it out, not aspirations for their
>> own state. Local patriotic feelings are generated only when a non-
>> Islamic entity takes charge – such as Israel did after the 1967 Six-
>> Day War. It dissipates under Arab rule, no matter how distant or
>> despotic.
>
>> A Palestinian identity did not exist until an opposing force created
>> it – primarily anti-Zionism. Opposition to a non-Muslim nationalism on
>> what local Arabs, and the entire Arab world, view as their own turf,
>> was the only expression of ‘Palestinian peoplehood.’
>
>> The Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a charismatic religious leader
>> and radical anti-Zionist was the moving force behind opposition to
>> Jewish immigration in the 1920s and 1930s. The two-pronged approach of
>> the “Diplomacy of Rejection” (of Zionism) and the violence the Mufti
>> incited occurred at the same time Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq
>> became countries in the post-Ottoman reshuffling of territories
>> established by the British and the French under the League of Nation’s
>> mandate system.
>
>> The tiny educated class among the Arabs of Palestine was more
>> politically aware than the rest of Arab society, with the inklings of
>> a separate national identity. However, for decades, the primary frame
>> of reference for most local Arabs was the clan or tribe, religion and
>> sect, and village of origin. If Arabs in Palestine defined themselves
>> politically, it was as “southern Syrians.” Under Ottoman rule, Syria
>> referred to a region much larger than the Syrian Arab Republic of
>> today, with borders established by France and England in 1920.
>
>> In his book Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition, Daniel Pipes
>> explains:
>
>> “Syria was a region that stretched from the borders of Anatolia to
>> those of Egypt, from the edge of Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea. In
>> terms of today’s states, the Syria of old comprised Syria, Lebanon,
>> Israel, and Jordan, plus the Gaza Strip and Alexandria.”
>
>> Syrian maps in the 21st century still co-opt most of Greater Syria,
>> including Israel.
>
>> The Grand Mufti Al-Husseini’s aspirations slowly shifted from pan-
>> Arabism – the dream of uniting all Arabs into one polity, whereby
>> Arabs in Palestine would unite with their brethren in Syria - to
>> winning a separate Palestinian entity, with himself at the helm. Al-
>> Husseini was the moving force behind the 1929 riots against the Jews
>> and the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt against two non-Muslim entities in
>> Palestine – the British and the Jews. He gathered a large following by
>> playing on fears that the Jews had come to dispossess, or at least
>> dominate the Arabs.
>
>> Much like Yasser Arafat, the Grand Mufti’s ingrained all-or-nothing
>> extremism, fanaticism and even an inability to cooperate with his own
>> compatriots made him totally ineffective. He led the Palestinian Arabs
>> nowhere.
>
>> The ‘Palestinian’ cause became a key rallying point for Arab
>> nationalism throughout the Middle East, according to Oxford historian
>> Avi Shlaim. The countries the British and French created in 1918-1922
>> were based largely on meridians on the map, as is evident in the
>> borders that delineate the Arab states today. Because these states
>> lack ethnic logic or a sense of community, their opposition to the
>> national aspirations of the Jews has come to fuel that fires Arab
>> nationalism as the ‘glue’ of national identity. (see details on the
>> ramifications of British and French policy, which plague the Middle
>> East to this day in the chapter “The European Union.”)
>
>> From the 1920s, rejection of Jewish nationalism, attempts to prevent
>> the establishment of a Jewish homeland by violence, and rejection of
>> any form of Jewish political power, including any plans to share
>> stewardship with Arabs, crystallized into the expression of
>> Palestinianism. No other positive definition of an Arab-Palestinian
>> people has surfaced. This point is admirably illustrated in the
>> following historic incident:
>
>> “In 1926, Lord Plumer was appointed as the second High Commissioner of
>> Palestine. The Arabs within the Mandate were infuriated when Plumer
>> stood up for the Zionists’ national anthem Hatikva during ceremonies
>> held in his honor when Plumer first visited Tel Aviv. When a
>> delegation of Palestinian Arabs protested Plumer’s ‘Zionist bias,’ the
>> High Commissioner asked the Arabs if he remained seated when their
>> national anthem was played, ‘wouldn’t you regard my behavior as most
>> unmannerly?’ Met by silence, Plumer asked: ‘By the way, have you got a
>> national anthem?’ When the delegation replied with chagrin that they
>> did not, he snapped back, “I think you had better get one as soon as
>> possible.”
>
>> But it took the Palestinians more than 60 years to heed Plumer’s
>> advice, adopting Anthem of the Intifada two decades after Israel took
>> over the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 – at the beginning of the 1987
>> Intifada.
>
>> Under the Mandate, local Arabs also refused to establish an ‘Arab
>> Agency’ to develop the Arab sector, parallel to the Jewish Agency that
>> directed development of the Jewish sector (see the Chapter
>> “Rejectionism”).
>
>> In fact, the so-called patriotism of indigenous Muslims has flourished
>> only when non-Muslim entities (the Crusaders, the British, the Jews)
>> have taken charge of the Holy Land. When political control returns to
>> Muslim hands, the ardent patriotism of the Arabs of Palestine
>> magically wanes, no matter how distant or how despotic the government.
>> One Turkish pasha who ruled Acco (Acre) between 1775 and 1804 was
>> labeled Al Jazzar, The Butcher, by locals.
>
>> Why hasn’t Arab representative government ever been established in
>> Palestine, either in 1948 or during the next 19 years of Arab rule?
>> Because other Arabs co-opted the Palestinian cause as a rallying point
>> that would advance the concept that the territory was up for grabs.
>> “The Arab invasion of Palestine was not a means for achieving an
>> independent Palestine, but rather the result of a lack of consensus on
>> the part of the Arab states regarding such independence,” summed up
>> one historian. Adherents to a separate Palestinian identity were a
>> mute minority on the West Bank and Gaza during the 19 years of
>> Jordanian and Egyptian rule - until Israel took control from the
>> Jordanians and the Egyptians in 1967. Suddenly a separate Palestinian
>> peoplehood appeared and claimed it deserved nationhood - and 21 other
>> Arab states went along with it.
>
>> Palestinianism in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab
>> society on the West Bank and Gaza suffers from deep social cleavages
>> created by a host of rivalries based on divergent geographic,
>> historical, geographical, sociological and familial allegiances. What
>> glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of Israel
>> and the rejection of Jewish
nationhood.http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=AFBE83D4-1B8C-4D8...
>
> The Jews really originated between Indo-African trade 2000 years ago.
> That is why They still use INDIAN words in their religion.
>
> SEMETIC = BLACK
> This is not white as many JEWS claims now!
>
> Jews are born liers.If they are SEMETIC, they cannot be WHITES.
>
> Thier culture based on women.
>
> Every one knows well how the women destroy the world>
> Jews went to Israel as brothel runners and has nothing to to do any
> social work..
>
> Historians of the west, americans who mostly uneducated any history of
> the world
> promote the Jewish criminal ideolgy and support their murdering
> programs.
>
> Why did not Americans create a Jewish state in Arizona or in Texas?
How about Americans create a Pallie state in Southern California?
Deborah