#InterestingArticle ISRAEL: WHO ART THOU PALESTINE? In 516 B.C. after the Persians conquered the Babylonians, the Jewish Temple, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians, was rebuilt. And under Persian rule, the Jewish state enjoyed considerable autonomy. Then, Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered the area in 333 BC, and later, his successors -- the Ptolemies and Seleucids -- contested for control. The attempt of the Seleucid Antiochus IV (Antiochus Epiphanes) to impose Hellenism brought a Jewish revolt under the Maccabees, who set up a new Jewish state in 142 BC. The state lasted until 63 BC when Pompey conquered the region for Rome. When Jesus was around, the Jewish state was ruled by puppet kings of the Romans -- the Herods. When the Jews revolted in 66 AD, the Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem (70AD). The Bar Kokba revolt between 132 and 135 AD was also suppressed, Jericho and Bethlehem were destroyed, and the Jews were barred from Jerusalem. The Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea, took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. And at the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina. The Romans killed many Jews and sold many more in slavery. Some of those who survived left the devastated country and established Jewish communities throughout the Middle East, but there was never a complete abandonment of the Land of Israel. In other words, when the Roman Empire conquered or occupied the Land of Israel from the JEWS, they renamed it Palestine in an attempt to strip the Nation of Israel from their natural right to the land of Israel. Fast forward... From 1517-1917, Turkeys Ottoman Empire controlled a vast Arab empire, a portion of which is today Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. During World War I (1914-1918), Turkey supported Germany. And when Germany was defeated, so were the Turks. In 1916, the control of the southern portion of their Ottoman Empire was mandated to France and Britain under the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Arab region into zones of influence. Lebanon and Syria were assigned (mandated) to France, and Palestine (todays Jordan, Israel and West Bank and Gaza) was mandated to Great Britain. Because no other people had ever established a national homeland in Palestine since the Jews had done it 2,000 years before, the British looked favorably upon the creation of a Jewish National Homeland throughout all of Palestine. The Jews had already begun mass immigration into Palestine in the 1880s in an effort to rid the land of swamps and malaria and prepare for the rebirth of Israel. This Jewish effort to revitalize the land attracted an equally large immigration of Arabs from neighboring areas who were drawn by employment opportunities and healthier living conditions. There was never any attempt to rid the area of the few Arabs there or those Arab masses that immigrated into this area along with the Jews! In July 1922, the League of Nations entrusted the Great Britain with The Palestine Mandate, including the land east of the Jordan River, recognizing the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine. In 1923, the British divided the Palestine portion of the Ottoman Empire into two administrative districts. The Great Britain made a deal with Hashemite Kingdom, Egypt and France in order to obtain control over Suez canal and oil reserves in Kerkut, as well as accommodate Bedouin refugees from the Saudi Peninsula, who were allowed to settle, ‘temporally’, in 1922 on the Eastern side of the Palestinian Mandate. The trans-Jordan (77% of the Palestinian Mandate) was given to the Saudi Arabian kings brother; The Sinai was given to Egypt. Golan Heights (5% of the Palestinian Mandate) was ceded to the French controlled Syrian Mandate. In 1946, Trans-Jordan was renamed to Jordan. In other words, the eastern 3/4 of Palestine would be renamed TWICE, in effect, erasing all connection to the name Palestine! However, the bottom line is that the Palestinian Arabs had THEIR Arab Palestinian homeland. The remaining 18% of Palestine (now WEST of the Jordan River) was to be the Jewish Palestinian homeland. But, sharing was not part of the Arab psychological makeup then or now. With the help of British, Jews were forced out of Trans-Jordan! Encouraged and incited by growing Arab nationalism throughout the Middle East, the Arabs of that small remaining Palestinian territory west of the Jordan River launched never-ending murderous attacks upon the Jewish Palestinians in an effort to drive them out. Most terrifying were the Hebron massacres of 1929 and later during the 1936-39 Arab Revolt. The British at first tried to maintain order but soon (due to the large oil deposits being discovered throughout the Arab Middle East) turned a blind eye. It became painfully clear to the Palestinian Jews that they must fight the Arabs and drive out the British. The Palestinian Jews were forced to form an organized defense against the Arabs Palestinians, thus, the Hagana was formed -- the beginnings of the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF]. There was also a Jewish underground called the Irgun led by Menachem Begin (who later became Prime Minister of Israel). Besides fighting the Arabs, the Irgun was instrumental in driving out the pro-Arab British. Finally in 1947, the British had had enough and then turned the Palestine matter over to the United Nations. The 1947 U.N. Resolution 181 partition plan was to divide the remaining 18% of Palestine into a Jewish Palestinian State and a SECOND Arab Palestinian State (Trans-Jordan being the first) based upon population concentrations. The Jewish Palestinians accepted; the Arab Palestinians rejected. The Arabs still wanted ALL of Palestine -- both east and west of the Jordan River. Therefore, the resolution was not carried out and is not legally binding! Our Arab Cousins started the 48 war, and in so doing, released the warlike appetites of a nation of survivors, a people with no place to run, who had repressed their rage for millennia, and had now earned full title to it! On May 14, 1948, the Palestinian Jews finally declared their own State of Israel and became Israelis. But on the next day, seven neighboring Arab armies -- Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen -- invaded Israel. Most of the Arabs living within the boundaries of the newly declared ISRAEL were encouraged to leave by the invading Arab armies to facilitate the slaughter of the Jews and were promised to be given all Jewish property after the victorious Arab armies were to win the war. The truth is that most of the Arab Palestinians who left in 1948 – between 400,000 to 500,000 – never saw an Israeli soldier! They did not flee because they feared Jews, but because of a rational and reasonable calculus: the Jews will be exterminated; we will get out of the way while that messy and dangerous business goes forward, and we will return afterwards to reclaim our homes, and to inherit those nice Jewish properties as well. But they guessed wrong, and the Arab Palestinians are still tortured by the residual shame of their flight. So much for the blatant lie about Jews throwing out all the [Palestinian] Arabs! Israel survived, despite a 1% loss of its entire population! Those Arabs who did not flee became Israeli-Arab citizens. Those who fled are still called and artificially maintained as Palestinian Arab refugees. The Arab propagandists and apologists almost never mentioned that, in 1948, Arab armies launched a war against a one-day-old Israel; instead, they focused on the main consequence of that war -- the creation of Arab refugees -- stating that Israel, short of genocide, expelled 800,000 of them. This not only disagrees with UN estimates of a bit over 400,000 refugees, but also ignores the fact that most of the Arabs/Palestinians were encouraged to leave by the Arab World itself! The end result of the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence was the creation of a Jewish State slightly larger than the ridiculous partition plan which was proposed by the 1947 United Nations Resolution 181. Egypt (occupying the Gaza Strip) and Trans-Jordan (occupying Judea-Samaria, a.k.a. the West Bank of the Jordan River) and East Jerusalem. In the next year (1950), Trans-Jordan formally merged this West Bank territory into itself and granted all those Palestinian Arabs living there Jordanian citizenship. Since Trans-Jordan was then no longer confined to one side of the Jordan River, it renamed itself simply Jordan. In the final analysis, the Arabs of Palestine ended up with nearly 85% of the original territory of Palestine called Jordan, but in reality their ARAB-Palestinian state! But that was still not 100% and thus the conflict between Arab and Jew for Palestine would continue through four more wars and continuous Arab terrorist attacks upon the Israeli citizenry. It continues to this very day. From 1949-67 when all of Judea-Samaria [West Bank & Jerusalem] and Gaza were 100% under Arab [Jordanian& Egyptian] control, no effort was EVER made to create a second Palestinian State for the Arabs living there. Surely you do not expect Israel to now provide these same Arabs with their own country when their fellow Arabs failed to do so! And isnt it curious how Arafat and his PLO (formed in 1964) discovered their ancient identity and a need for self-determination and human dignity on this very same West Bank ONLY AFTER Israel regained this territory (three years later in 1967) following Jordans attempt to destroy Israel! Why was there no request ever made upon King Hussein of Jordan by the Arabs living on the West Bank when he occupied it? PLO was formed to DESTROY Israel! And that is STILL their goal! A cosmetic name change from PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) to PA (Palestinian Authority) does not change the stripes on this tiger! Throughout much of May 1967, the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian armies mobilized along Israels narrow and seemingly indefensible borders in preparation for a massive invasion to eliminate the State of Israel. The battle cry heard throughout the Arab world was then, as it continues to be, Slaughter the Jews and Throw the Jews into the Sea! But the Jews of Israel, remembering 2,000 years of being butchered, gassed, burned and skinned (eg. The Crusades, The Spanish Inquisition, the Arab rampages of early Palestine and particularly the Holocaust), planned and executed a perfect pre-emptive strike against Egypt . Within two hours, the Egyptian Air Force did not exist, and most of its planes destroyed while still on the runways! Unaware that the Egyptians had no more air force, King Hussein of Jordan launched his attack from the West Bank into Israels belly, while Syrian troops prepared to descend down the Golan Heights, high ground into northern Israel. For some facts about occupation: firstly, the Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians lost Gaza, the West Bank and Golan Heights (respectively) by participating in a failed attempt at genocide against the Children of Israel. Had Israel lost this 1967defensive war, the Arab-Palestinians and their Arab allies would have raped, butchered or driven out every Israeli they could get their hands on and gobbled up all of Israel. Now, 35 years later and despite the fact that Israel won a war BROUGHT UPON THEM, the Israelis are still willing to allow the Arab-Palestinians to have a state on much of the West Bank and Gaza if only they will stop sending their suicide/homicide bombers into the heart of Israel! (Talk about misplaced compassion!) From 1948 to 1967, Egypt ruled Gaza, Syria ruled the Golan Heights, while Jordan ruled the West Bank. They could have set up independent Arab-Palestinian states in any or all of those territories, but they didn’t even consider it. Instead, in 1967, they used the Golan Heights, Gaza and the West bank to launch a war that was unambiguously aimed at destroying Israel, which is how Israel came into possession of those territories in the first place. After ONLY six days of air, sea and hand-to-hand ground warfare, Israel defeated all three Arab armies along three separate fronts, taking control of the entire Sinai Desert from Egypt, the 37mile x 12mile Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem and its Old City) from Jordan. The God of Israel was surely watching over His children! Most importantly was the return to Israel of its holy 3,000 year old capital city of Jerusalem along the western edge of the West Bank... the same Jerusalem from which all Jews had been denied access for the 19 years (1948-1967) following Jordan’s seizure and control over it following the first Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9. Unfortunately, the world saw things differently and considered Israel an “occupier” of this disputed “West Bank” and the Gaza Strip along with the 850,000 Palestinian Arabs living there. These Arabs would refer to themselves as “refugees” and joined the masses of refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948-9. Once again, Israel was forced to fight a battle for survival, and sadly, once again, Palestinian [in reality, Jordanian and Egyptian] Arabs becoming refugees by their own actions – the actions of their leaders and from the actions of fellow Arabs from neighboring states! The Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were packed and ready to leave following their 1967 defeat. Suddenly, the victorious one-eyed IDF General Moshe Dayan persuaded them to stay. This singular act stunned no one more than the Arab enemy himself, who could not believe such an incredible manifestation of Jewish madness! After all, the Arabs knew what THEY would have done to the Jews if they had won! Dayan’s plan was to educate them, offer them modern medical treatment, provide them with employment both in the West Bank, Gaza and inside Israel Proper itself – living amongst each other in hopes of building bridges to the Arab world. Sadly, Israel is now paying dearly for this typically naïve “Leftist” gesture. That “bridge” led to two Intifadas and world-wide Arab-Palestinian terrorism. From a frightened and defeated enemy, these “Palestinian” Arabs under Israel’s jurisdiction turned into a confident, hateful and dangerous enemy now on their way toward forming a terrorist state determined to destroy Israel! :)
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:33:42 +0000
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