Recently Forgotten History
Black September
The First Palestinian State
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel (Psalm 147:2).
Trans Jordan
TransJordan
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Actually, there is considerable historical support for the idea that Jordan is a part of the land long referred to as Palestine. Jordan was part of the original British Palestine Mandate after World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. At that time, the Hashemites, led by King Abdullah were in Arabia, where they were rivals of the Saud family for control. When they lost and the House of Saud created modern Saudi Arabia, they fled west, where the British, who had been their allies during World War I, gave them the portion of Palestine that lay to the east of the Jordan River (hence their original name, Trans-Jordan). The land was overwhelmingly occupied by Palestinian Arabs, but the British installed the Hashemites and King Abdullah as the ruling monarchy, a monarchy that still exists today under the formal name of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Ironically, in the late 1960s, Palestinian Arabs, including native Jordanians and refugees from the West Bank, began a campaign to displace the Hashemites and turn Jordan into a Palestinian State. Outright fighting broke out in June of 1970, culminating with the expulsion of the Palestinian fedayeeen by King Hussein in September (referred by Palestinians as Black September). Realistically, there is no more chance that Jordan would voluntarily become a new Palestinian state than there is of Israel doing the same. Statehood: The Hashemite Emir Abdullah, elder son of Britain's wartime Arab ally Sharif Hussein of Mecca, was placed on the throne of Transjordan. Britain recognized Transjordan as a state on May 15, 1923, and gradually relinquished control, limiting its oversight to financial, military and foreign policy matters.
This had an impact on the goals of Revisionist Zionism, which sought a state on both banks of the Jordan, as it effectively severed Transjordan from Palestine and so reduced the area on which a future Jewish state in the region could be established. In March 1946, under the Treaty of London, Transjordan became a kingdom and on May 25, 1946, the parliament of Transjordan proclaimed the emir king, and formally changed the name of the country from the Emirate of Transjordan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. After capturing the 'West Bank' area of Cisjordan during the 1948–49 war with Israel, Abdullah took the title King of Jordan, and he officially changed the country's name to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in April 1949. The following year he annexed the West Bank.
Modern Jordan
With the break-up of the Ottoman Empire at
the end of World War I, the League of Nations and the occupying powers chose
to redraw the borders of the Middle East. The ensuing decisions, most
notably the Sykes–Picot Agreement gave birth to the French Mandate of Syria
and British Mandate of Palestine. More than 76% of the British Mandate of
Palestine was east of the Jordan river and was known as "Transjordan." The
country was called "Transjordan" under British supervision until after World
War II. In 1946, the British requested that the United Nations approve an
end to British Mandate rule in Transjordan. Following this approval, the
Transjordanian Parliament proclaimed King Abdullah as the first ruler of the
Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Abdullah I continued to rule until a
Palestinian Arab assassinated him in 1951 as he was departing from the al-Aqsa
Mosque in Jerusalem. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan captured the
area of Cisjordan now called the West Bank (also referred to by Israelis as
Judea and Samaria), which it continued to control in accordance with the
1949 Armistice Agreements. Abdullah thereupon took the title King of Jordan,
and he officially changed the country's name to the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan in April 1949. The following year he annexed
the West Bank, but only two countries recognized this annexation: Britain
and Pakistan. In 1965, there was an exchange of land between Saudi
Arabia and Jordan. Jordan gave up a relatively large area of inland desert
in return for a small piece of sea-shore near Aqaba.
Jordan signed
a military pact with Egypt in May 1967, and together in June 1967 waged the
Six Day War against Israel along with Syria, Egypt and Iraq, launching
attacks against west Jerusalem. During the war, Jordan lost the West Bank
and east Jerusalem to Israel. In 1988, Jordan renounced all claims to the
territory now occupied by Israel, but retained an administrative role
pending a final settlement, and its 1994 treaty with Israel allowed for a
continuing Jordanian role in Muslim and Christian holy places in Jerusalem.
The period following the 1967 war saw an upsurge in the activity and numbers
of Arab Palestinian paramilitary elements (fedayeen) within the state of
Jordan. These distinct, armed militias were becoming a "state within a
state" threatening Jordan's rule of law. King Hussein's armed forces
targeted the fedayeen, and open fighting erupted in June 1970. The battle in
which Palestinian fighters from various Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO) groups were expelled from Jordan is commonly known as Black September.
The heaviest fighting occurred in northern Jordan and Amman. The Syrian army invaded Jordan, and attacked the Jordanian army in Amman and other urban areas in Jordan. In the ensuing heavy fighting, a Syrian tank force invaded northern Jordan to back the fedayeen fighters, but subsequently retreated. King Hussein urgently asked "the United States and Great Britain to intervene in the war in Jordan, asking the United States, in fact, to attack Syria, and some transcripts of diplomatic communiques show that Hussein requested Israeli intervention against Syria." Consequently, Israel performed mock air strikes on the Syrian column at the Americans' request. Possibly concerned at the prospect of an armed conflict with Israel, Syria's president at the time, Nureddin Atassi, ordered a hasty retreat from Jordanian soil. By 22 September, Arab foreign ministers meeting at Cairo had arranged a cease-fire beginning the following day. Sporadic violence continued, however, until Jordanian forces, led by Habis Al-Majali, with the help of Iraqi forces won a decisive victory over the fedayeen on July 1971, expelling them, and ultimately the PLO's Yasser Arafat, from Jordan.
In the late 1960s, the Fatah faction of the PLO had set up a state within a state - inside Jordan. Increasing numbers of armed, uniformed Palestinians set up checkpoints, collected taxes, and refused to travel with Jordanian license plates on their cars. In the southern zone, bordering on Israel, they demanded and seized autonomous control, rejecting the king's authority in Jordan. The aligned Palestinian organizations carried out a series of deadly attacks against Israel from Jordanian territory. Guerrilla raids against Israel, were mounted from bases in the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan. King Hussein, who became increasingly devoted to the promotion of peace in the region, made various peaceful attempts to re-establish his authority in Jordan, attempting a seven-point agreement with the PLO in November 1968, along with fostering peace between Israel and Egypt.
Ultimately, Palestinian fighters aimed to control increasing amounts of territory while gaining volunteers. At the beginning of September 1970, the activities of the leftist Palestinian organizations in Jordan turned into open defiance of King Hussein himself. On September 1, a failed attempt on Hussein's life was made while he was on his way to the Amman airport. Within a few days, Palestinian groups hijacked planes on multiple international flights. The Jordanian king quickly lost control of his kingdom. At the height of the drama of the hijacked planes, the Palestinians declared the area of Irbid in the north of the country a "liberated region," and announced that they were preparing for "the showdown." The Jordanian army began plans to expel the Fedayeen and PLO. On the morning of September 16, Hussein declared martial law. On September 17, the military attack began. Patton tanks from the 60th armored brigade, accompanied by armored vehicles, entered Amman from all sides, and attacked the headquarters of the Palestinian organizations.
Due to an internal split within the Jordanian government, many of King Hussein’s orders were not obeyed. Contrary to Hussein’s commands, many Jordanian commanders along the Israel/Jordanian border started to give the Palestinian guerrillas passive assistance. The Palestinian section of Jordanian society augmented by displaced Palestinians constituted a large internal population of Jordan, and King Hussein feared an independent West Bank under PLO administration would threaten the autonomy of his Hashemite kingdom. The Palestinian factions were supported by many Arab regimes, most notably Egypt's President Nasser, who gave political support; and Saudi Arabia, who gave financial support. Israel was repeatedly hit with cross-border attacks by Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas and these usually drew bloody reprisals that killed and injured Jordanians. The Palestinian nationalist organization Fatah had been organizing such attacks since January 1965, but received much broader support following the 1967 defeat. Jordanian forces killed several thousand Palestinians in the battles of September 1970, according to estimates. The PLO's independent military might suffered a major blow. Those were the circumstances which gave the name "Black September" to the events of the bloody month.
The First Palestinian State
Dec 10, 2003
The First Palestinian State
by Emanuel A. Winston
Oh. You didn’t know there was a First Palestinian State? It’s not necessary to go back to 1964 when, with Egypt’s help, the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was formed - with the sole intent of engaging in terror for the purpose of conquering the Jewish State, with the assistance of all the Arab/Muslim nations. Those goals of the PLO have not changed.(1) Yasser Arafat was elected Chairman of the PLO in 1969.
Arafat and his terrorists ended up in the Kingdom of Jordan after a series of unsuccessful wars by the Arab/Muslim nations against Israel. There, they arrogantly walked the streets of Amman well-armed and with supreme confidence. They intimidated the people of Jordan. Between 1967 and 1971, the PLO challenged King Hussein for political control of Jordan. Hussein made 26 agreements to keep the Peace. Arafat signed them all and broke them all. The last straw would be when Arafat put out a kill order for King Hussein’s brother, who commanded the Jordanian Army and, particularly, the special Bedouin troops who had clashed numerous times with Arafat’s thugs. This was not going to be Arafat’s State by coup d’etat, but it was a lesson in his MO (Modus Operandi). Hussein’s Army was called up and a memorable slaughter of Arafat’s followers took place, an event the Arab Palestinians called "Black September."(2) The major conflict began in September 1970, but took 17 months until Arafat’s terrorists fled, mostly into Lebanon. However, many crossed the Jordan and were rescued by Israeli settling pioneers on the west side of the Jordan River. In Lebanon, the Arab Palestinians were greeted with open arms by their so-called brother Arabs. It was a case of mistaken identity, which the Lebanese did not know then was a one-sided hudna (time of false peace, rest and re-arming for Arafat’s terrorists). To this day, the Lebanese people bitterly regret opening their borders to Arafat’s Arab Palestinians.
Then, it began. Arafat first established the parameters of a terror state much as they started to do in Jordan before Black September. Wherever they gained critical mass in numbers and arms, that area of the city or country became theirs. Every street corner was an Arab Palestinian ‘checkpoint’ to collect pass-through money, but also, frequently, to rape women passengers, steal cars and extort whatever they wanted. As in Jordan, Arafat’s Arab Muslim Palestinian gunman acted as conquerors, threatening everyone, looting and taxing through terror. As Arafat expanded his control over Christian and Muslim Lebanese, they too became part of the conflict that became a 12-year Civil War, killing 100,000 Christian and Muslim Lebanese. Lebanon had once been called the Paris of the Middle East, the Garden of Eden spot for vacationing Arabs, with a Banking Center for the Arab world - but all that was destroyed. The Christians and Muslims had worked out a ‘peaceful, political accommodation’ to run Lebanon and, particularly, Beirut. Arafat had stirred them up, so now they were bitter enemies, attacking each other and fighting Arafat’s Palestinian Mini-State of Terror. The killings went on day and night, with whole villages massacred, with a retaliatory massacre soon after. Arafat turned the various Arab refugee camps into his bases of operation. Weapons and explosives were stored in apartment building, hospitals and schools, using the civilians as human shields.
As confusion and terror reigned, Arafat continued to expand his mini-State of Palestine with the presumption that one day all of Lebanon would be a Palestinian State. Arafat’s methods were a mirror image of what Americans found in Iraq, particularly Bagdad, where Saddam’s family and Republican Guards wreaked havoc. Granted, Saddam’s regime was larger and very well-funded, but the hideous brutality was virtually the same. Arafat’s gunman roamed the streets with modified pick-up trucks, manned with 30-50 caliber guns mounted in back. They were looking for various factions of Christian militia to gun down, but Muslims were also shot dead - as were any of the few Jews who still lived in Lebanon. (By that time, the Arab/Muslim nations had ejected almost all of their Jews (approximately 800,000) and had confiscated all their property and assets - personal and community. In effect, this was a replay of Hitler and Europe’s confiscation of all that their Jews owned. Arafat launched frequent terrorist cross border attacks into Israel from his safe Mini-State in Lebanon - just as Hezb’Allah does now. Hezb’Allah, a fierce terror organization based in Lebanon, is run by Syria and funded by Iran. When those attacks became intolerable, Prime Minister Begin gave Defense Minister Gen. Ariel Sharon permission to attack Arafat’s Terror State in Lebanon.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) discovered and exposed many things that were photographed, catalogued and described in books published subsequently about the savagery of Arafat’s treatment of his Lebanese brothers. As today, the Left-leaning liberal media ignored what Israel had discovered, but they did castigate Israel for daring to respond to Palestinian terror attacks. Israel’s early encounters came from what then was called the RPG Kids (Rocket-Propelled Grenade). These were 9- to 11-year old kids who were trained (on Arafat’s orders) to use rocket-propelled grenades and hide behind their seemingly innocent youth. Many Israeli soldiers were killed because they hesitated to kill mere children. However, these were not ‘mere’ children; they were fully trained Palestinian killers who were merely smaller than Arafat’s regular terrorists. They were trained from early childhood to hate, kill and obey their master. (That education to hate, kill and obey continues to this day in the Palestinian Authority.) The IDF discovered miles of machine-dug tunnels, stocked full of arms, ammunition and plans for the next major war against Israel - aimed at her elimination. These were the pre-stocked positions for planned advancing Palestinians, with regular Syrian troops, into Israel. I believe it was the Austrians who supplied the huge tunnel-digging machines, which could dig wide tunnel into the Lebanese mountains, thus allowing large trucks to deliver their deadly loads.(1)
When Israeli troops broke through into Beirut in 1982, they were again shocked at what they found. Much the same as in 2003, American troops were shocked when they entered various compounds of Saddam Hussein and his two sons, Uday and Qusay. Torture rooms, masochistic sex rooms and always the fields of hundreds of thousands executed Iraqis - with Shi’ites and Kurds topping the list. In 1982 when the Israeli soldiers entered the hospitals in Lebanon, they found Lebanese Christians’ bodies stacked like cordwood in the hallways. Their blood had been totally drained for transfusions into Arafat’s wounded, ‘more worthy’ fighters (on Arafat’s orders). Arafat’s men often used a special torture and death on captured prisoners. Copying the Roman technique of drawing and quartering captured prisoners for the amusements of the crowds, Arafat used four cars to slowly pull a man apart by driving in four different directions. Here, too, the mob of Arafatian Arabs found this to be exciting and cheered. This ‘mind-set’ is endemic in most Arab nations; we recall the two Americans in Mosul, Iraq, being shot, pulled from their car, having their throats slit, and being mutilated. Then the mob moved in to crush their heads with cement blocks, and to stamp on the two doomed soldiers.(3) The surrounding mobs cheered delightedly.
This, in turn, was similar to the lynching the Arab Palestinians committed against the two Israeli soldiers who made a wrong turn into Ram’Allah,(4) and the frequent lynching of their own people who they accuse of being ‘collaborators.’(5) Then, there was the matter of the village leaders in Lebanon (the mukhtars of the village) paying baksheesh, a.k.a. protection money, to keep his own village protected from Arafat’s murdering marauders. One mukhtar refused to pay protection money. So, Arafat’s collectors kidnaped the mukhtar’s teen-age daughter, raped her, cut off her breasts and delivered her back to the mukhtar’s doorstep in a gunny sack.(1) No tax collector of a mini-state could have been more convincing. There were thousands of these examples, photographed, catalogued, books written and all seemingly forgotten - except for some.(1) This was Arafat’s First Palestinian State, which was crumpled by the invasion by Israel in 1982, when Arafat and his killers came under American protection as they shipped out to Tunis. Later, under the auspices of Oslo, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres resurrected Arafat, gave his Arab Palestinians and Arafat a reprieve and invited them back. Most recall what followed their return. Since Oslo was signed September 13, 1993 - 1,500 Israelis (and at least 45 Americans) were brutally murdered and hundreds of thousands wounded - many maimed for life.
Without the exact count of the Arab Palestinians tortured and murdered at Arafat’s orders in those territories handed to him under Oslo, there have been hundreds. Then, one must add in those suicide bombers - the young men, women and children convinced or brainwashed to blow themselves up in order to kill Jews and ascend to Muslim Paradise and receive 72 virgins. When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu turned over Hebron under pressure from America (expecting gratitude from America, which he did not get), the Palestinian businessmen begged Israel not to leave. They knew what was coming. In all the territories given over to Arafat and his Palestinian Authority, every business, manufacturer, farm suddenly had a new partner in one of Arafat’s officers. That was Al Capone’s business: the protection racket, which Arafat carried to astonishing levels of corruption. Even the Arab Palestinians in the Eastern section of Jerusalem want Israeli citizenship, before they fall under the control of Arafat at the behest of the Bush Administration - now a not-so-silent partner of the Geneva Accords. Wherever Arafat and his Arab Palestinians achieved a critical mass, they tried to produce a State born out of terror, torture, blackmail and extortion. The Arab Palestinian State that the Bush Administration is trying to create through the Road Map - and now through aberrant Leftist Jews, employed by the E.U. (European Union) - cannot be anything else but what it has always been.
It doesn’t matter that Israel is forced back to her indefensible 1967, or even her 1949, borders, or that there is no wall to separate terror from civilization. Arafat and his Arab Palestinians have proven time and again that any entity they can control, be it a state or merely a city, immediately becomes a base for launching terror and suppressing their own people. After all, why would Arafat and his Arab Muslim Palestinians rule any differently than Saddam of Iraq, the Assads of Syria, the Ayatollahs of Iran, etc.? Should Israel and Bush be foolish enough to actually give Arafat or his successor a large base of operations called a ‘state’ with Jerusalem as its capital, rest assured that, like Saddam’s Iraq, Syria or Iran, they will begin absorbing high-tech weapons of mass destruction, including NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical), and their reach will be shockingly far. They are already linked up with Syria and Iran, and had been closely linked to Iraq, and will probably be again when Bush pulls the American troops home - before elections. This new terrorist state will never be satisfied with a Palestinian State on only the ‘West Bank.’ The new state will use the Palestinians in Jordan, who are already 75% of the population (or more), to overthrow King Abdullah. Then, it is just a matter of time before they subvert the region, in lockstep with the other terror state of Syria.
So, this is the preamble to what will be the
Second State of Palestine, courtesy of the Bush family and a weakened
Israeli Prime Minister. Look at a map of the neo-Palestinian State, the
centerpiece of a chain of Islamic nations going north and south, which are
to be a choke chain for Israel and the region. This then will be the legacy
of Bush and Sharon to the Free World and the people of Israel - guaranteed
terror for millions in Israel and the Free West for years to come. Arafat’s
terror state will have many godfathers - not the least of whom would be
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin, the U.N., the Europeans, Colin
Powell and the pro-Arab U.S. State Department, the Bush family, James Baker
III, among many others. As I said at the beginning, the Arab
Palestinians had a first terror mini-state in Lebanon, which demonstrated
the prototype and Arafat’s MO - terror and murder. The godfathers know all
of this, but they plunge ahead - often with Israel’s acceptance of a
born-to-die fate, which some Jews have accepted as their destiny. They would
rather be de-Judaized as their entrance into acceptance by the world of
nations. Let us hope and pray that a new leader will emerge who will
understand that Israel must say: "No!" to their American friends; "No!" to
the Europeans; "No!" to the U.N.; "No!" to the Arab League; and "Absolutely
no!" to acceptance of a so-called mini-state of unremitting terror.
Footnotes:
1. PLO: Now the Story Can Be Told by Eliyahu
Tal; WZO (World Zionist Organization, 1982). Listing “Terror Attacks
Perpetrated Against Israeli Diplomatic Missions (1969-79)” with photos,
foreign allies, funders, victims and witnesses stories; “Terrorists & Child
Terrorists in Action”: "On a summer night in 1964, 3 years before the Six
Days War, Yasser Arafat forded the River Jordan, climbed a hill near Nablus
[Shechem], fired one shot from his pistol and declared: "The ‘Jihad’ (holy
war) has begun."
PLO in Lebanon: Documents, Research & Photos,
edited by Prof. Rafael Israeli.
The PLO Exposed by Britain Israel
Public Affairs Committee; December 1982.
2. "Black September in Jordan 1970-71", from OnWar.com. Within the
space of two hours on September 6, 1970, PFLP [Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine] gangs hijacked a TWA jet, a Swissair jet, and made
an unsuccessful attempt to seize control of an El Al airplane. About two
hours later, another PFLP group hijacked a Pan Am jet and forced the crew to
fly to Beirut airport, where the airplane landed almost out of fuel. The
next day, the airliner was flown to the Cairo airport, where it was blown up
only seconds after the 176 passengers and crew had completed their
three-minute forced evacuation.
3. "Lynch of
American Soldiers"; "On the Objective Support of Terror" from
http://phaedo.typepad.com/phaedo/2003/11/on_the_objectiv.html.
4. "Italian TV
Apologized to the PA for Screening the Video of the Lynching of the 2
Israeli Soldiers of Ramallah" from Israel’s Media Watch on Arutz Sheva News
Service on October 18, 2000; also on http://geocities.com/CapitolHill/2527/press104.htm.
5. "Lynch in Manger Square, Bethlehem - while
AP tries to Hide the Pictures"; March 15, 2002, from http://gamla.org.il/english/feature/lynch2a.htm.
Pope Under Fire For Yad Vashem Speech
May 12, 2009
Pope under fire for Yad Vashem speech
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS AND JPOST
STAFF
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1242029498309
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday paid tribute to the memory of six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, pledging to work tirelessly to prevent such hatred from recurring in the hearts of mankind again. Benedict says, "Church feels deep compassion for the victims." But the pontiff's closely-watched speech at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial stopped short of an apology on behalf of the Catholic Church, producing palpable disappointment among those Israelis who had expected a historic address from the German-born pope on the first day of his visit here.
"We're talking about the pope, who is also a representative of the Holy See, which has a lot to ask forgiveness from our people for," Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said during an interview on Israel Radio on Tuesday. "And he is also a German, whose country and people have asked forgiveness. But he himself comes and speaks to us like a historian, as an observer, as a man who expresses his opinion about things that should never happen, and he was - what can you do? - a part of them." "If we let this go, in the end they'll say, 'the Jewish people can manage,'" the Knesset speaker said. Rivlin added during the interview that "there is one thing which is forbidden to forget, and we must not allow ourselves to forget it, not even in the act of giving up on it in one way or another due to protocol. The Holocaust is not protocol."
After the pope's speech, the Knesset speaker - who was absent from all of the welcoming festivities other than the visit to Yad Vashem - said that "everything that we feared came to fruition." "I came to the memorial not only to hear historical descriptions or about the established fact of the Holocaust. I came as a Jew, hoping to hear an apology and a request for forgiveness from those who caused our tragedy, and among them, the Germans and the church. But to my sadness, I did not hear any such thing," he said. "The visit to Yad Vashem does not constitute an expression of regret as such," added Rivlin. "The eyes of Jews across the world, and of the nation in Israel, were directed here, in anticipation of hearing honest communion - personal and determined - regarding the Holocaust of their people. And we heard nothing of the sort."
Benedict had said during Monday's speech that "I have come to stand in silence before the monument erected to honor the millions of Jews killed in the horrific tragedy of the Shoah." "They lost their lives, but they will never lose their names. These are indelibly etched in the hearts of their loved ones, their surviving fellow prisoners, and all those determined never to allow such an atrocity to disgrace mankind again." The solemn memorial service, which was held at the Holocaust Memorial's darkened Hall of Remembrance, was seen as the highlight of the pontiff's visit to the Jewish state, especially in light of the recent controversy over the pope's decision to revoke the excommunication of a bishop who denies the Holocaust.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (Gen. 12:1-3).
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