The Arab claim to Palestine is false

The Arabs have deceived the world for decades with their mendacious protests that their land has been "stolen" from them. One might take such proclamations seriously if it came from a pacifist people such as the Tibetans, who had quietly inhabited their land for ages before it was seized by the Communist Chinese in 1950.

The claim is laughable coming from the Arabs, who in the early Middle Ages conquered and reduced to slavery and penury ancient peoples and civilizations stretching from the borders of Persia to the Atlantic; who in 1947 rejected an Arab state in Palestine alongside a Jewish state and sought to obliterate the nascent Jewish state; who never called for a distinct Palestinian Arab state until the creation of the terrorist PLO in 1964—sixteen years after the founding of the state of Israel and three years before the Six Day War in 1967; and who to this moment continue to seek Israel's destruction, an object that would be enormously advanced by the creation of the manufactured entity of "palestine", the Arab state they demand.

With the exception of Egypt, all the countries of the Middle East are artificial creations. After World War I, England and France carved up the Ottoman Empire, with England retaining what are now Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, and France being in possession of what are now Syria and Lebanon.

The Arab claim to sovereign rights west of the Jordan is only humored because of a fatal combination of world need for Arab oil, leftist Political Correctness, that has cast the Israelis as "oppressors," and, of course, good old Jew-hatred.

Don't for once think that the blood of Jews is cheaper than the blood of a Syrian's or the blood of a Brit's. Israel has every right to defend herself and her land against Islam - which is not a religion - but a code of life, and a barbaric one at that.

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Occupation? What occupation?

The "Occupation" of the west bank and Gaza strip is not really an occupation, because there were never Palestinian territories. Arafat wanted the 1967 borders back. But remember, from 1948 till 1967, Egypt ruled Gaza, Syria the Golan Heights, and Jordan ruled the "West Bank", a fake name created by King Hussein.

Anytime during those years a "Palestinian" state could have been declared. So, why wasn't it? Why is it that the term "Palestinian" wasn't used until after the Six day war in which Israel was forced to defend itself against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq?

After Israel won the war, suddenly, "Palestinians" existed. Arafat himself claimed to have been born in Jerusalem, but his birth records say he was born in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt, August 24, 1929 to be exact. So why was an Egyptian head of the PLO?

Hmm. Could it be that the state of "Palestine" is a Political creation? That it never actually existed? And that the Palestinian Authority has sacrificed the children of their citizens for their own twisted thirst for power in the Middle East?

It may sound far fetched, but why don't you read this quote below and see if you still feel the same way:
Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national
interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

Still sound far fetched? There you have the word of a high ranking PLO member: an admission that the "Palestinian" struggle was created as means of destroying Israel and creating a corrupt dictatorship under Yasser Arafat.

The PA wants the land of Israel so bad that they are willing to send their own children to their deaths to get it.

We don't understand why their civilians have not questioned and investigated Arafat. They follow him blindly, somehow under the impression that his interests are the same as their interests. If Arafat had the best interests of the "Palestinian" people at heart, he wouldn't be so willing to sacrifice them. These poor people need to come to the realization that they are being used as pawns in a sick game of Chess which Arafat was playing against Israel.

The Occupation does not exist. Neither does Biafra. Neither - does - nor did it ever exist - a Palestinian nation.

Folks, you've all been lied to. How does it feel?

Source: The Voice of Truth

Did you know...

...there is absolutely no proof whatsoever of the existence of an ancestral Palestinian Arab homeland, while archeology, anthropology, history, and oral traditions all prove categorically that Israel, Judea, and Samaria make up the ancestral Jewish homeland?

...a person cannot be a colonialist in his/her ancestral homeland?

...there is no evidence of the existence of a Palestinian people (as a collective group) before the birth of Zionism?

...since the Jewish people, as an ethnic group, originate from Israel and surrounding areas, they best fit the truest definition of aboriginal/indigenous?

...Palestinian Arabs are native to Israel and surrounding areas, meaning they were born there, but they are not actually indigenous to the area, meaning they do not in fact originate from there?

...Jews have constituted the majority in Jerusalem since at least 1830?

...the Temple Mount, where the al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock sit, was largely unused and in disrepair before the birth of modern Zionism?

...no Arab or Muslim leader ever bothered to go and pray at the al Aqsa mosque while it was under Arab national control from 1948 to 1967?

...the notion of Jews ethnically cleansing Israel and surrounding areas of Arabs is false as proved by the overwhelming population growth of Arab communities post-Zionism?

...if Zionism were cruel toward Arabs, there wouldn't have been thousands upon thousands of Arab immigrants flocking to Palestine in the years shortly before Israel's declaration of independence because people don't move to areas where they are being abused to live and look for work?

...anti-Zionism has no plan whatsoever to make the lives of any individual person, group, community, region, or the world-at-large better, which shows it's merely a power-grab?

...anti-Zionism has no plan whatsoever to safeguard the holy sites and archeological treasures that may come under Palestinian Authority rule?

...anti-Zionism has shown no interest whatsoever in allowing for the existence and protection of minorities that should be allowed to live under Palestinian Authority rule?

...there are numerous officially Judenrein nations in the Arab League based upon institutionalized bigotry against Jews?

...Arab nations have never done one thing to enfranchise Palestinian Arabs?

...Palestinian Arabs are discriminated against in every single Arab League nation which shows that Arab nations are hostile toward Israel for reasons other than Palestinian Arab human rights?

...Arab nations built and forced Palestinian Arabs into refugee camps and invested nothing in their society while confiscating whatever land they could for themselves from 1948-1967?

...Israel never put one Arab into a refugee camp?

...the Middle East is not exclusively, "Arab land," but is the ancestral homeland of millions of indigenous non-Arab minorities?

...many indigenous Middle Eastern minorities are friendly toward Israel, such as Copts, Kurds, and Phoenicians, and see the conflict between Jews and Arabs as a tribal war instead of a colonialist one?

..."Fatah," the organization that Arafat started in the late 1950s before Israel acquired the West Bank and Gaza, means "Conquest" in English? You do the math.

...gay and lesbian Palestinian Arabs from the territories flee to Israel to escape persecution?

...Israel is the only nation in the world that creates human rights organizations specifically to protect their adversaries?

...Israel is growing increasingly more integrated into the world daily, given that she is forging new diplomatic relations and opening new trade offices with nations she has not historically had any relationship whatsoever?

Now you know. Now please spread the word to others who don't know.

Originally published on Smooth Stone, May 23, 2005.

Photos: The Holy Jewish Temple Mount - part 1

Below are some photos, originally printed on celluloid, of the Temple Mount and the mosques on top of it just before the birth of modern Zionism (1877). Note the utter disarray and lack of use of the third holiest site in Islam.

How odd. Weeds do not go untrampled in a highly trafficked area, do they? Buildings in use do not go without repair, do they?

Based upon these pictures, the tale of the importance of al Aqsa in terms of importance and holiness should be re-written to represent the truth, not the fiction each of you have been spoonfed.

Falling into the trap of endlessly explaining, in more and more words why Islam is not what it actually is as revealed by its 1,400 year history and the fruits of its followers, seems to be a losing game.









Originally posted on Smooth Stone on December 24, 2005.

Photos: The Holy Jewish Temple Mount - part 2

Folks, here is another photo of the dilapidated mosque of Omar, also referred to as "the Dome of the Rock" in Jerusalem and a photo of the first edition book in which it was printed, in 1922. Note the utter disarray and lack of use of the supposedly third holiest site in Islam.

As I originally wrote here, it's odd, these photos are. Weeds do not go untrampled in a highly trafficked area, do they? Buildings in use do not go without repair, do they? Based upon these pictures, the tale of the importance of al Aqsa in terms of its supposed "holiness" as a holy site in Islam should be re-stated to represent the truth, not the fiction each of you have been spoonfed.

Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran. Never. Oh surely, defensive Muslims will backpeddle and state that it is mentioned metaphorically - but the word Jerusalem is never mentioned. Never. How could it have been? Islam did not originate in Jerusalem, it originated in Mecca and Medina on the Saudi Arabian Peninsula. Not once is Jerusalem mentioned in the Koran, whereas the Bible mentions Jerusalem over 600 times. Therefore, Jerusalem could not possibly be important to Islam.

According to Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director of the International Christian Zionist Center, he writes how Eliyahu Tal describes this Muslim falsification of history:

Featured prominently in today’s headlines, Al-Aqsa, at the time of Mohammed, was according to some Orientalists, an obscure mosque located in Arabia distanced from the Ka’aba the most venerated shrine in Mecca. It was a ‘stopover’ in the Prophet’s nocturnal flight to Heaven as recounted in the Koran: “Glory be to him who transported his servant by night to Heaven from the Sacred Mosque to the Farther One.” Al-Aqsa, in Arabic, means the farther, the extreme one (Ch. 17, Verse 1). Jerusalem, of course, is not mentioned at all, because at the time it was still under Byzantine rule.

The Prophet, who died in CE 632 (six years before the city surrendered to the Muslims) could never have set foot in Jerusalem. The Arabic name of Jerusalem Al-Quds (The Holy One) is derived from “Beit-el-Muqadas” (e.g. ‘Beit H’amikdash’), the Hebrew name for the Temple mount. The sanctity of Jerusalem was not enshrined in Islam at its inception, but was introduced into it after the death of Mohammed.

If the people of Israel would have invaded and conquered Saudi Arabia had built their most beautiful synagogue over the Ka’aba stone claiming henceforth sole and exclusive ownership over Mecca and the Muslim’s most sacred shrine, demanding before the entire world what from henceforth is only a Jewish sacred place? The entire world would rebel.

The reason that Islam built the abominable Dome of the Rock on the Holy Jewish Temple Mount was to express its repudiation of Jewish or Christian claims of sanctity.






































For those who believe the Palestinians’ claims of an ancient culture, forced exile from their homes, nationalist claims and a desire for peace, here is a set of quotations from Arab and non-Jewish personas who think differently:

The Palestinian claim that the land for centuries sustained a thriving Palestinian culture is not verified by the facts of history. Yet the world community has given this claim a receptive hearing. The now dead PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in his speech before the U.N. in 1974 falsely declared, "The Jewish invasion began in 1881 . . . Palestine was then a verdant area, inhabited mainly by an Arab people in the course of building its life and dynamically enriching its indigenous culture."

What happens when this claim is compared with the observations of the following recognized authorities?

In 1738 Thomas Shaw observed a land of "barrenness…. from want of inhabitants."

In 1785 Constantine Francois de Volney recorded the population of the three main cities: Jerusalem had a population of 12,000 to 14,000; Bethlehem had about 600 able-bodied men; and Hebron had 800 to 900 men.

In 1835 Alphonse de Lamartine wrote, "Outside the city of Jerusalem, we saw no living object, heard no living sound. . .a complete eternal silence reigns in the town, in the highways, in the country . . . The tomb of a whole people."

In 1857, the British consul in Palestine, James Finn, reported, "The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population."

The most popular quote on the desolation of the land is from Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad" (1867),

"Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies….Palestine is desolate and unlovely…. It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land."

For many centuries, Israel was a sparsely populated, poorly cultivated and widely neglected expanse of eroded hills, sandy deserts and malarial marshes.

Mark Twain, who visited Israel in 1867, described it in "Innocents Abroad" as:

"...[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds – a silent mournful expanse... A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action... We never saw a human being on the whole route...There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."

As late as 1880, the American consul in Jerusalem reported the area was continuing its historic decline. "The population and wealth of Palestine has not increased during the last forty years," he said.

The report of the Palestine royal commission quotes an account of the Maritime Plan in 1913:

"The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts...no orange groves, orchards, or vineyards were to be seen until one reached [the Jewish village of] Yabna [Yavne]... Houses were all of mud. No windows were anywhere to be seen... The ploughs used were of wood... The yields were very poor... The sanitary conditions in the village were horrible. Schools did not exist... The western part, towards the sea, was almost a desert... The villages in this area were few and thinly populated. Many ruins of villages were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria and many villages were deserted by their inhabitants."

Lewis French, the British Director of Development wrote of Israel:

"We found it inhabited by fellahin who lived in mud hovels and suffered severely from the prevalent malaria... Large areas...were uncultivated... The fellahin, if not themselves cattle thieves, were always ready to harbor these and other criminals. The individual plots...changed hands annually. There was little public security, and the fellahin's lot was an alternation of pillage and blackmail by their neighbors, the Bedouin."

Surprisingly, many people who were not sympathetic to the Zionist cause believed the Jews would improve the condition of the Arabs. For example, Dawood Barakat, editor of the Egyptian paper "Al-Ahram", wrote:

"It is absolutely necessary that an entente be made between the Zionists and Arabs, because the war of words can only do evil. The Zionists are necessary for the country; the money which they will bring, their knowledge and intelligence and the industriousness which characterizes them will contribute without doubt to the regeneration of the country."

Even a leading Arab nationalist believed the return of the Jews to their homeland would help resuscitate the country. According to Sharif Hussein, the guardian of the Islamic holy places in Arabia:

"The resources of the country are still virgin soil and will be developed by the Jewish immigrants. One of the most amazing things until recent times was that the "Palestinian" used to leave his country, wandering over the high seas in every direction. His native soil could not retain a hold on him, though his ancestors may have lived on it for 1000 years. At the same time we have seen the Jews from foreign countries streaming to Israel from Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, and America. The cause of causes could not escape those who had a gift of deeper insight. They knew that the country was for its original sons (abna'ihi'lasliyin), for all their differences, a sacred and beloved Homeland. The return of these exiles (jaliya) to their Homeland will prove materially and spiritually [to be] an experimental school for their brethren who are with them in the fields, factories, trades and in all things connected with toil and labor."

When Jews began to immigrate to Israel in large numbers in 1882, few Arabs lived there, and the majority of them had arrived in recent decades. Israel was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in the Land of Israel. When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history, absolutely not."

In fact, ‘Palestine’ is never explicitly mentioned in the Koran, rather it is called "The Holy Land" (al-Arad al-Muqaddash).

So, folks, where is that "thriving palestinian Muslim society" that supposedly lived in "palestine" since the beginning of recorded history? According to these sources mentioned above, it never existed. All of you have been fed a lie, probably the greatest lie ever pitched to ignorant Americans and Europeans in the last 60 years.

Originally posted on Smooth Stone on December 27, 2005.