hen and how did the Arab-Israeli conflict morph into the “Palestinian”-Israeli conflict?
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Did you know that:
The “Palestinians” were not considered to be a party to UN Resolutions 242 and 338. They were not a recognized separate entity, nor are they one.
The so-called “Palestinians” are a conglomeration of Arabs from Egypt, Syria and the farthest reaches of the Arab world.
The “Palestinian” refugee problem was created by the Arabs themselves to promote the fiction of “Palestinians.”
In the 18th and 19th centuries there were 50,000 Arabs in all of Eretz Yisrael – Arabs, not “Palestinians”!
These Arabs were for the most part landless Fellahin working the unproductive soil through British largesse"!!!
Most Arabs who lived in Israel in 1948 (then some 600,000) came to Eretz Yisrael through British “largesse” during the League of Nations Mandate period, which provided for the return of Jewish exiles, only.
All it took for an Arab to become a bone-fide “refugee,” recognized by UNRWA, was two years’ residence anywhere in Eretz Yisrael. But even many of those Arabs who had no such residency were able to receive refugee status simply by claiming poverty.
The Arab-designated “refugee camps” are breeding grounds for terrorism. Their children are trained – in UNRWA-supported areas – for jihad, not for peace.
Until and unless these UNRWA-supported terrorist enclaves are dissolved, there will not be any kind of peace.
its so sad that we have become so racist, full of hatred and denial. whether we like it or not, we have taken the land, farms, houses that once belonged to other people and we are seriously at risk of continuing our oppression and humiliation of them. did we fight so hard and go through so much to become this?
Posted by: Daniel | August 16, 2008 at 04:07 PM
To Daniel
We feel it is important to respond to your comments, which sadly, are full of distortions and misrepresentations.
Let us then set the record straight.
First we are not racists – defending ourselves against an enemy bent on our destruction does not make us racists.
We are not in denial. It is those who fail to see facts and reality that are in denial.
Now, for some salient facts:
Eretz-Israel – the Land of Israel is our land. There was always a Jewish presence in our Land, even after most of our people were driven into exile, and tens or perhaps hundredths of thousands were massacred by the Roman invaders. We have never given up title to our Land.
There never was another State in Eretz-Israel after our expulsion.
The name “Palestine” was given to our Land by the Romans in their hope that the name of Judah and Israel will be erased “for all time”. It didn’t work. Many invaders came and went, devastating the Land, as they did. Some Empires among the invaders disappeared from history, but we are still here, thank G-d!
Our people rebuilt the despoiled land, and made it flourish once again. Despite all the wars of aggression by several Arab States, with openly genocidal intentions, our people prevailed with the Almighty’s help.
But Arab propaganda and the oil weapon attempted to turn the tables against Israel. Now, according to Arab Propaganda, it is not the Arabs who attempted to destroy the Jewish people in several wars of aggression, starting in 1948, when our people had practically nothing to defend themselves with against several Arab armies. Now, “thanks” to Arab propaganda, it is the Jewish people who are the “aggressors” and even “racists”!!
In order to achieve this, the Arab propagandists had to invent “the Palestinians”, who are now portrayed as “a victim”!! The P.L.O., a terrorist group, was invented by the Arab League in 1964 as “The Palestine Liberation Organization” to destroy Israel in stages!!
There never ever was a State called “Palestine” in Eretz-Israel, nor was there ever a “Palestinian” people hood!
This fiction was spread around the globe, and particularly in Europe, and then the U.S. In Europe through coercion and the “oil weapon”, in America through endowments by the Saudis in various Universities. The Saudis established Chairs of Islamic and M.E. Studies, where professional propagandists were using classrooms as platforms for Arab propaganda!
In the 17th and 18th Centuries, there were only some 100,000 people in all of Eretz-Israel – “Palestine”. Approximately half were Arabs; most of them guest workers from neighbouring Arab areas. These workers were rotated regularly by the few land owners, mostly foreigners.
So the Big Lie that “the Palestinians” lived here “from time immemorial” is nothing by fiction. But this fiction was created by the Arab League to undermine Israel’s right in its own Land!!
The Big Lie is responsible for the “two State Solution” which is intended to destroy Israel!
Israel did not take Arab land, quite the contrary. It is the Arabs who covet our Land!! The Arabs in our Land are relative new comers. Most came here during the British Mandate, and the land they acquired was through British “largesse”!!
The Land designated for the Jewish Homeland by the League of Nations for Jewish people, was wrongly and one may say illegally distributed also to the landless Arabs who infiltrated our Land!!
Those Arabs who left our Land in 1948, did so at the urging of their Arab leaders as is well documented. They were urged to leave “temporarily” to facilitate the massacre of our people. They were promised to return and take over Jewish homes and property!
The “Nagba” the catastrophe, the Arabs are referring to is that they did not succeed in their evil design!!
Jerusalem is and was the capital of Israel and the Holy City of the Jewish people for 3,000 years. It was never the capital of any other people during those 3,000 years.
Jordan illegally occupied half of Jerusalem in 1948, and destroyed and defiled our holy places in Jerusalem, including all synagogues and the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The Jordanians had no qualms when they unceremoniously removed the Jewish population from “East” (!) Jerusalem, where our people lived for generations!!
Since Israel retook Jerusalem, all holy places of all faiths are respected, but the Temple Mount, the holiest place for our people, though under Israeli sovereignty, is still off limits to our people!!
We must also understand that the Arabs in Gaza, and Judea and Samaria, under the Fatah-P.A., were educated for Jihad against our people; that was true under Arafat, and continues to this day. How our successive governments allow and allowed that to continue boggles the mind. Their young people were educated to kill and be killed. If they are also the victims of that education, they can only blame their leaders!! There is no difference between the terrorists in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, only their tactics differ - and we still refer to Abbas as our “peace partner”!!
If G-d forbid the “two State Solution” advocated by our “friends” on behalf of the Arab League should ever materialize, the Arab dream and our nightmare may yet come true!!
We are not racists. This is our Land. We did not wish to humiliate or destroy the Arabs – they want to destroy us!!!
Read the history. The record is clear. Do not fall prey to Arab propaganda.
Posted by: Just Peace For Israel | August 20, 2008 at 12:43 PM