God Has Given The Jews Palestine!
Anyone Who Separates The Jewish Homeland
Is Under God's Wrath
Palestinians Are An ‘Invented’ People
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:18-21)
Palestinians Are An ‘Invented’ People
Dec. 09, 2011
Gingrich says Palestianians are an ‘invented’ people
By Amy Gardner
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/gingrich-says-palestianians-are-an-invented-people/2011/12/09/gIQAV4VXiO_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
Republican presidential
contender Newt Gingrich said in a cable television interview that
Palestinians are an “invented” people with no apparent right to their own
state, a rejection of a decade of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy calling for
an independent Palestinian state. House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) speaks during
the Republican Jewish Coalition 2012 Presidential Candidates Forum December
7, 2011 at Ronald Reagan Building and International Center in Washington,
DC. The interview, which was taped in Washington Wednesday and will be
broadcast on The Jewish Channel Monday, was first reported by Politico.
In the interview, Gingrich was
asked if he is a Zionist, and he responded: “Remember, there was no
Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. We have invented
the Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs and are historically part of
the Arab people, and they had the chance to go many places.” “For a variety
of political reasons,” Gingrich continued, “we have sustained this war
against Israel now since the 1940s, and I think it’s tragic.” Gingrich’s
comments are sure to inflame Arabs but may also have repercussions among
Jews who support the policy, begun by former president George W. Bush and
continued by President Obama, of calling for a separate Palestinian state.
“It was definitely a surprise,”
said Steven I. Weiss, who conducted the interview with Gingrich for The
Jewish Channel. “It’s a comment I’ve heard before because I’ve covered the
far right in the Jewish community and the pro-Israel community. But I was
surprised to hear a mainstream Republican figure say it, and I’ve tried to
research to find other mainstream Republican figures who said it. I’ve yet
to find that.” Gingrich’s remarks may also feed into a longstanding
narrative about him that includes the idea that he says provocative things
that excite some of his supporters but leave others worried that he is too
volatile to muster the rhetorical discipline to survive the rigors of a
presidential campaign.
Is Newt Wrong About 'Palestinians'?
Dec. 11, 2011
Is Newt Wrong About 'Palestinians'?
By Joseph Farah
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=376613
Newt Gingrich has been taking
heat for a statement he made about the "Palestinians" being an "invented"
people. "We have had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs,"
Gingrich said in an interview with The Jewish Channel, a cable-television
network. "Remember, there was no Palestine as a state – (it was) part of the
Ottoman Empire. I think we have an invented Palestinian people who are in
fact Arabs and historically part of the Arab community and they had the
chance to go many places." Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum both took Gingrich
to task for his remarks, with Romney suggesting Gingrich should have talked
to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before making such a provocative
statement. Actually, no such conference call should be necessary.
Long ago, I wrote about the
indisputable historic reality raised by Gingrich, and Netanyahu liked it so
much, he posted it on his website with approving comments where it remains
to this day. Newt is absolutely right about this. I'm not surprised Romney
got weak in the knees over it, but Santorum's reaction is somewhat
surprising. Speaking the truth should never be a problem. Most of our
trouble in the Middle East has been created because policies are being
guided by myths rather than facts. I wrote that column about the "Myths of
the Middle East" about 11 years ago and updated it earlier this year.
Personally, I'm glad at least one prominent U.S. politician has taken these
words to heart.
Here's what Gingrich was talking
about. Prior to the 1948 rebirth of Israel, when you used the word
"Palestinians," you were referring to Jews, not Arabs. The Jews living in
"Palestine," then under the control of the British, called themselves
"Palestinians." The Jewish newspaper now called the Jerusalem Post was then
called the "Palestine Post." Arabs never referred to themselves as
"Palestinians." They would have shuddered at the idea of being confused with
Jews who had proudly adopted that term since the turn of the century when
the land was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
That didn't change substantially
until after the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel captured Judea, Samaria and
East Jerusalem from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Within a few
years, Yasser Arafat, an Egyptian, launched his unconventional terrorist war
against Israel literally "inventing," as Gingrich suggested, a new national
identity of Arab "Palestinians." Keep in mind, those territories were not
captured from a nation called "Palestine," which has never existed as an
independent nation in the history of the world. They were captured from
existing Arab nations – Jordan and Egypt.
As I first wrote 11 years ago,
"The truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Never Land. The
first time the name was used was in 70 A.D. when the Romans committed
genocide against the Jews, smashed the Temple and declared the land of
Israel would be no more. From then on, the Romans promised, it would be
known as Palestine. "The name was derived from the Philistines, a people
conquered by the Jews centuries earlier. It was a way for the Romans to add
insult to injury. They also tried to change the name of Jerusalem to Aelia
Capitolina, but that had even less staying power. "Palestine has never
existed – before or since – as an autonomous entity. It was ruled
alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman
Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to
restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their homeland.
"There is no language known as
Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been
a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs,
indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians,
Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. "Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of
the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the
landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is
ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy.
Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will
never be enough." Keep in mind, I write this as an Arab-American. But I'm
hardly the only Arab who recognizes these facts.
Let me quote an executive
committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Zahir Muhsein,
who said in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Dagblad de Verdieping
Trouw on March 31, 1977: "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. Only for political and tactical reasons do we
speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people. 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." That's been the case from the beginning. The "Palestinian"
ruse began as a means of asymmetrical warfare against Israel, and the Arab
propaganda barrage has been wildly successful. It's about time a prominent
U.S. presidential candidate has tried to set the record straight. The
shocker is that not every Republican candidate agrees with his clear
statement of the disturbing facts.
Definitions Of Palestinian
Dec. 11, 2011
Definitions of Palestinian
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_Palestinian
By Place Of Birth
A "Palestinian" can mean a person who is born in the geographical area known prior to 1918 as "Palestine," or a former citizen of the British Mandate territory called Palestine, or an institution related to either of these. Using this definition, both Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews were called "Palestinians."
Before the establishment of the
State of Israel, the meaning of the word "Palestinian" didn't discriminate
on ethnic grounds, but rather referred to anything associated with the
region. The local newspaper, founded in 1932 by Gershon Agron, was called
The Palestine Post. In 1950, its name was changed to The Jerusalem Post.
In 1923, Pinhas Rutenberg
founded the Palestine Electric Company, Ltd. (later to become the Israel
Electric Corporation, Ltd.) There was a [Jewish] Palestine Symphony
Orchestra, and in World War II, the British assembled a Jewish Brigade, to
fight the Axis powers, that was known as the Palestine regiment. Since the
establishment of Israel, its citizens are called Israelis, while the term
Palestinians usually refers to the Palestinian Arabs.
Mandate Definition
Britain used the term "Palestinian" to refer to all persons legally residing in or born in the boundaries of the British Mandate of Palestine without regard to their ethnicity, religion, or place of origin.
By Place Of Origin
In its common usage today, the
term "Palestinian" refers to a person whose ancestors had lived in the
territory corresponding to British Mandate Palestine for some length of time
prior to 1948. UNRWA definition: Palestinian refugees are those whose normal
place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 This
definition includes the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
(including Dom and Samaritans, but excluding Israeli settlers and most
Armenians), the Israeli Arabs (including Druze and Bedouin), the Israeli
Jews whose families moved there prior to The founding of the State of
Israel, and the Non-Jewish Arab refugees and émigrés from 1948 and their
descendants (though not the pre-Israeli Independence (1948) non-Bedouin
population of Jordan.)
The Jewish Virtual Library uses
a similar but slightly narrower definition: "Although anyone with roots in
the land that is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza is technically a
Palestinian, the term is now more commonly used to refer to Non-Jew Arabs
with such roots ...Most of the world's Palestinian population is
concentrated in Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jordan, although
many Palestinians live in Lebanon, Syria and other Arab countries."
By Ethnic Origin
Referring to the Arab
subculture of the southern Levant: The word "Palestinian" is occasionally
used by ethnographers and linguists to denote the specific Arab subculture
of the southern Levant; in that sense, it includes not only the Arabs of
British Mandate Palestine, but also those inhabitants of Jordan who are
originally from Palestine and the Druze, while excluding both Bedouin (who
culturally and linguistically group with Arabia) and ethnic minorities such
as the Dom and Samaritans. However, some of this definition is not accepted.
The Samaritans of the West Bank are usually referred to as Palestinian.
Referring to Jews in an ethnic rather
than religious sense: The term "Palestinian" used to refer to Jews in Europe
who were regarded as an alien presence. For example, Immanuel Kant referred
to European Jews as "the Palestinians living among us."
UN 1947 Partition Plan For Palestine
Dec. 11, 2011
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_UN_Partition_Plan
UN General Assembly
Resolution 181 (II)
Date: November 29 1947
The United Nations Partition
Plan for Palestine was a recommendation for partition by the United Nations
Special Committee on Palestine in 1947 to replace the British Mandate for
Palestine with "Independent Arab and Jewish States" and a "Special
International Regime for the City of Jerusalem" administered by the United
Nations. It was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 29 November 1947 as
Resolution 181.
Under the plan, the Mandate
would be terminated as soon as possible, and the United Kingdom would
evacuate Palestine no later than the previously announced date of 1 August
1948. The new states would come into existence two months after the
evacuation, but no later than 1 October 1948. The plan sought to address the
conflicting objectives and claims of two competing movements, Jewish
nationalism (Zionism) and Arab nationalism. The plan included a detailed
description of the recommended boundaries for each proposed state. The plan
also called for an economic union between the proposed states, and for the
protection of religious and minority rights.
The proposed plan was accepted
by the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine, through the Jewish
Agency. The plan was rejected by leaders of the Arab
community (the Palestine Arab Higher Committee etc.), who were supported in
their rejection by the states of the Arab League.
Under the plan, a transitional
period under United Nations auspices was to begin with the adoption of the
resolution, and last until the establishment of the two states. On the UN
adoption of the Resolution Civil War broke out. On 11 December 1947 Britain
announced the Mandate would end at midnight 14th May 1948 and its sole task
would be to complete withdrawal by 1 August 1948. On May 14th, an
independent state of Israel was declared "from the moment of the termination
of the Mandate." The 1948 Arab–Israeli War began on
the Invasion of Palestine by the Arab States on the 15th May 1948.
Transjordan
Dec. 11, 2011
Transjordan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transjordan
Palestinian period: In 1921 it
was excised from Palestine and became an autonomous political division under
as-Sharif Abdullah bin al-Husayn: "In a telegram to the Foreign Office
summarizing the conclusions of the San Remo conference, the Foreign
Secretary, Lord Curzon, stated: 'The boundaries will not be defined in Peace
Treaty but are to be determined at a later date by principal Allied Powers.'
When Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine, set up the civil
mandatory government in mid-1920 he was explicitly instructed by Curzon that
his jurisdiction did not include Transjordan. Following the French
occupation in Damascus in July 1920, the French, acting in accordance with
their wartime agreements with Britain refrained from extending their rule
south into Transjordan. That autumn Emir Faisal's brother, Abdullah, led a
band of armed men north from the Hedjaz into Transjordan and threatened to
attack Syria and vindicate the Hashemites' right to overlordship there.
Samuel seized the opportunity to
press the case for British control. He succeeded. In March 1921 the Colonial
Secretary, Winston Churchill, visited the Middle East and endorsed an
arrangement whereby Transjordan would be removed from the original territory
of Palestine, with Abdullah as the emir under the authority of the High
Commissioner, and with the condition that the Jewish National Home
provisions of the (future) Palestine mandate would not apply there.
Effectively, this removed about 78% of the original territory of Palestine
and left about 22% where the application of the Balfour Declaration calling
for a "Jewish" national home could be applied. Transjordan remained under
the nominal auspices of the League of Nations and British administration,
until its independence in 1928.
Ottoman period
Under the Ottoman empire, Transjordan did not correspond
to any previous historical, cultural or political division, though most of
it belonged to the Vilayet of Syria and a strategically important southern
section with an outlet to the Red Sea were incorporated into Transjordan by
Abdullah, the provinces of Ma'an and Aqaba from the Vilayet of Hejaz. There
were extensive pre-existing cultural, linguistic and religious ties between
the populations living on the east of the Jordan river with those living on
the west of the Jordan river. The inhabitants of northern Jordan had
traditionally associated with Syria, and those of southern Jordan with the
Arabian Peninsula.
Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan
Dec. 11, 2011
Hashemite Kingdom Of Jordan
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query2/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jo0018)
The population of Transjordan
before the war was about 340,000. As a result of the war, about 500,000
Palestinian Arabs took refuge in Transjordan or in the West Bank. Most of
these people had to be accommodated in refugee camps, which were
administered under the auspices of the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, set up in 1949. In
addition there were about 500,000 indigenous residents of the West Bank.
In December 1948, Abdullah took
the title of King of Jordan and in April 1949 he directed that the official
name of the country-- East Bank and West Bank--be changed to the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan, a name found in the 1946 constitution but not until then
in common use. In April 1950, elections were held in both the East Bank and
the West Bank. Abdullah considered the results favorable, and he formally
annexed the West Bank to Jordan, an important step that was recognized by
only two governments: Britain and Pakistan. Within the Arab League, the
annexation was not generally approved, and traditionalists and modernists
alike condemned the move as a furtherance of Hashimite dynastic ambitions.
Abdullah continued to search for
a long-term, peaceful solution with Israel, although for religious and
security reasons he did not favor the immediate internationalization of
Jerusalem. He found support for this position only from Hashimite kinsmen in
Iraq. Nationalist propaganda, especially in Egypt and Syria, denounced him
as a reactionary monarch and a tool of British imperialism.
The Arab League debates
following the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank were inconclusive, and
Abdullah continued to set his own course. The residual special relationship
with Britain continued, helping to keep the East Bank relatively free from
disturbance. Although not yet a member of the UN, Jordan supported the UN
action in Korea and entered into an economic developmental aid agreement
with the United States in March 1951, under President Harry S Truman's Point
Four program.
On July 20, 1951, Abdullah was
assassinated as he entered the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Friday
prayers. His grandson, fifteen-year-old Prince Hussein, was at his side.
Before the assassin was killed by the king's guard, he also fired at
Hussein. The assassin was a Palestinian reportedly hired by relatives of
Hajj Amin al Husayni, a former mufti of Jerusalem and a bitter enemy of
Abdullah, who had spent World War II in Germany as a proNazi Arab spokesman.
Although many radical Palestinians blamed Abdullah for the reverses of 1948,
there was no organized political disruption after his murder. The main
political question confronting the country's leaders was the succession to
the throne.
Abdullah's second son, Prince
Naif, acted temporarily as regent, and some support existed for his
accession to the throne. Naif's older brother, Prince Talal, was in
Switzerland receiving treatment for a mental illness diagnosed as
schizophrenia. It was widely believed that Abdullah would have favored Talal
so that the succession might then pass more easily to Talal's son, Hussein.
Accordingly, the government invited Talal to return and assume the duties of
king. During his short reign, Talal promulgated a new Constitution in
January 1952. Talal showed an inclination to improve relations with other
Arab states, and Jordan joined the Arab League's Collective Security Pact,
which Abdullah had rejected. Talal was popular among the people of the East
Bank, who were not aware of his periodic seizures of mental illness. But the
king's condition steadily worsened, and in August the prime minister
recommended to a secret session of the Jordanian legislature that Talal be
asked to abdicate in favor of Hussein. Talal acceded to the abdication order
with dignity and retired to a villa near Istanbul, where he lived quietly
until his death in 1972.
Hussein, who was a student at
Harrow in Britain, returned immediately to Jordan. Under the Constitution he
could not be crowned because he was under eighteen years of age, and a
regency council was formed to act on his behalf. Before he came to the
throne, he attended the British Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. When he
was eighteen years old by the Muslim calendar, he returned to Jordan and in
May 1953 formally took the constitutional oath as king.
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head....
(Joel 3:1-4)
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