Revisionist History And The Palestinian Lie - And Response (8)
posted December 31, 2008
"Stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand." - General Vo Nguyen Giap (Commanding General of the North Vietnam Army) as told to the leaders of the Palestinian movement. This message from a hard-line communist is an accurate blueprint for the undying support of an issue by those too lazy to research and find truth. Such is the case when discussing the legal land purchases by the Jewish people and the land stolen from them. Since the very beginning of the conflict, the Palestinian Arabs relied first on their collaboration with Nazi Germany, and later communist Soviet Union. The leaders attempting to "wipe Israel off the map" were trained and directed by communists in the Soviet Union for their own ideologically-driven goals.
The reality is the Levantine Arabs have never had a sovereign state. Nor have they been a people or a nation, or even claimed to be one prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. When the West Bank was controlled by Jordan, there was no move to liberate that land from Jordan: Arafat's gang had designs only on Israel. In fact, Arafat created "the only national movement for political self-determination in the entire world, and across all of world history, to have destruction of a sovereign state and the genocide of a people as its only raison d'etre."
Then there is the lie no major media outlet, "human rights" organization, or politician has the courage to reveal. That is a very specific lie, namely, "Zionists stole our land." And while it is true that from the year 1880 to 1930, about eight hundred families were indeed rendered landless by Jewish land purchases during that time, these were in fact legal purchases. I would add that the presence of the Jews improved the economy and caused an increase, not a decrease, in the Arab population.. Yes, there was a flight of Arabs in 1947 and 1948, but that was brought about not by the Zionists, but by Arab aggression, which caused the Jews to defend themselves. The resulting war did cause many Arabs to flee, but this was in no way a Jewish plot to steal land! Yes, I am sure that many Zionists dearly wanted to buy more land, but once again, I favor legal purchases of land and I think it is outrageous to call such purchases (especially when one is the high bidder and pays high prices) "theft." Instead, they speak (with tears in their eyes) about the Levantine Arab refugees where the State of Israel was not responsible for the refugee status of these people, and it is a malicious lie to say otherwise. In fact, I would remind people that Israel has been reprimanded by the United Nations when it has tried to get Arabs to be resettled and out of the refugee camps. It makes the U.N. feel powerful "helping" any refugee group by giving hand-outs.
The revisionists want people to believe that Israel had some "master plan" of taking over the region by ethnic cleansing. They tell the world that Arabs were massacred so Israel could complete their plan. When in fact, during this time, there were no reports in the world press, including the Arab press and those elements of the Western press openly hostile to Israel, about any such actions of which Israel today stands condemned. Even the battle at Deir Yassin (prior to the establishment of Israel) has been a tool of lies by those who want to show Israel in a negative light.
So for those of you who allow the media to dictate your beliefs, who choose to swallow the garbage fed to you, without ever taking the time to research on your own, I say "How sad!" Leaders of nations who would love to see our great Country fall have said repeatedly that America can be brought down from within without ever firing a gunshot. Their point being that if we continue to become increasingly indoctrinated by major media outlets, each with its own ideology, and we buy in to revisionist history because it is easier than searching for the truth, we will become easier to control. The Palestinians have taken the advice given them by General Giap and that, along with too many people eager to believe the worst of the Jewish people, has brought undeserved sympathy and support. Your grandchildren may one day read about how Americans hijacked four airplanes on September 11, 2001, and attempted to start a "holy war" by killing thousands of people. Do you think they would believe it?
Dr. Steven E. Adams, PhD
Hixson
LifeRCS@Yahoo.com
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To say that the Palestinian people were never a people or a nation, or ever claimed to be one prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, is like saying the Oglala Sioux were never a people or a nation, or ever claimed to be one prior to the arrival of the white man.
The indigenous people of Palestine had inhabited the land of Palestine for 2,000 years prior to the partitioning of the land by the United Nations and the establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 with its immediate recognition by America as its chief supporter. The fact that Palestine was not able to attain the status of a fully independent nation like Israel does not trump the fact that 2,000 years of continuous habitation gives Palestine the natural and inalienable rights of a people.
To say that the Palestinians are not a nation of people because they have been ruled over, beaten down, slaughtered and forced to live as prisoners behind walls without the rights of a free people does not make them any less a people or take away their right to consider themselves as a nation of people. Their freedom may be taken away but the only way to eliminate them as a nation of people would be to wipe them out through genocide.
History shows us many examples of how one nation of people have committed genocide on another nation of people and gotten away with it. The American government was something of a trail blazer and offers a good textbook example of it in the way it solved the Indian problem in our country.
First you gain a foothold in the country, then you grab more and more land by any method that you can, then you destroy the indigenous people as much as possible through war and battle, then you herd them onto reservations where you starve them as much as possible, allowing them to die slowly, and then you slaughter as many as possible when they rebel or try to break loose and attempt to live again as free people on the land that was theirs for thousands of years. Eventually there is no Indian problem. At least that was the American way of doing it.
The “Palestinian problem” of modern times has roots that go back to World War I and the League of Nations’ decision after the war to place Palestine under the administration of Great Britain during what was meant to be a transition period leading to Palestine’s eventual status as an independent nation as a Mandate under the League’s Mandate System. The Palestinian community objected to the selection of Great Britain as the Mandatory Power because of a commitment five years earlier on the part of Great Britain to the Zionist Organization regarding the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.
The course of this Mandate did not run smooth or bear the fruit of an independent nation status for Palestine, so Great Britain, with the fires of violence raging in Palestine, eventually tossed the problem into the hands of the United Nations to deal with a couple of years after World War II. The UN offered up a partition plan that would internationalize Jerusalem and give half of Palestine to the Palestinian Arabs and the other half to the Jewish people.
This plan didn’t work out and the violence eventually erupted into a Middle East war that was stopped by UN intervention. Israel successfully proclaimed its independence, and following a series of wars eventually managed to gain control of all the land of Palestine, leaving the Palestinian people to struggle for their right to national self-determination and land that is their own and is not separated into giant prison camps guarded, controlled and under the thumb of Israel.
This is not revisionist history, but actual facts as they have played out and continue to be played out even at this moment as Israel is punishing the Palestinian people of Gaza with another war aimed at destroying the Palestinian leadership at the expense of killing, wounding and ruining the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children; reducing their cities to ash and rubble, while seeding the land with the kind of blood out of which comes more hate, revenge and terror that will continue until the Palestinian people are either wiped out or destroyed to the point where they will starve and die out through sickness and disease that is a by-product of genocidal war.
The solution to the problem would be for Israel to simply give back the land they won in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and allow it to be given to the Palestinian people to live on as a free and independent nation of people which was promised to them by the League of Nations in 1917 and which they have a natural and historical right to because of their 2,000 years of inhabiting the land.
Israel’s spoils from the 1967 war were declared illegal under International Law and the UN issued a resolution at that time calling for Israel to give back the land. Israel, claiming to be innocent and threatened from all sides, has increased her land holdings all along at the expense of her neighbors, which is not being neighborly.
And Israel should be as accommodating as possible regarding the city of Jerusalem. Being a city sacred to all three of the major religions in that part of the world – Christians, Muslims and Jews – it should be shared equally and fairly in the spirit of godliness and peace.
Crazy Horse, even though his people lost their land and their right to self-determination, was right when he said that one does not sell the ground on which the people walk. In that same spirit, all people have a right to a piece of ground on which to walk and raise their families in peace and freedom, even the Palestinian people.
Naman Crowe
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There is no such a thing as a "revisionist" history, or any other history. History is a collection of information from all sources. To promote such a preposterous idea is to see the reason why Samuel Clemons once remarked, "I never let my schooling interfere with my education." It is a common occurrence that when someone doesn't have enough facts to support their argument they resort to distorting the argument of the other side. It is sad that Americans allow their politics to be separated by terms like "conservative" and "liberal," and historians to allow history to be branded "revisionist" or "classical." Carlos Santayana, the noted 20th Century philosopher remarked that, "History constantly needs to be rewritten, because it is always written incorrectly."
The present turmoil in the Middle East is more a result of the failure of the Great Powers at the end of World War 1 to allow political autonomy in that area than any other reason. Greater Arabia was made promises during World War 1 that were not kept. In addition, the great influx of Jewish immigration into the area beginning at the end of the Great War compounded an already tense situation. If we want to bring up any acts of terrorism in the Middle East we can't overlook the very people that formed the modern State of Israel used acts of terror against the British Army and their numerous enemies. Both sides have committed acts of terrorism in their history. At any length, the present violence in the Middle East should not be tolerated by either side. It seems that the MOST radical people are the leaders for both sides. At some point, reasonable people must decide whether to live together or die together. It is a simple proposition.
Facts are only small strokes in a large masterpiece of history. Fact: The Zionist Congress supported the rise of Adolf Hitler due to their belief that the State of Israel would be created. Fact: Prescott Bush (the father of GHW Bush) had companies seized in World War II by the United States government for violations of the "Trading with the Enemy Act." He also was the banker for Adolf Hitler, and was called Hitler's Angel in the newspapers in the 30's. Fact: More black men served in the Confederate Army than served in the Union Army. There are a lot of facts, and just looking at one or two will not give a person a true understanding of history. Facts are usually used to make decisions, and from looking at the facts involved it looks like there is enough blame to go around, because it looks like everyone was/is making bad decisions.
Steve Durham
freethinker1963@yahoo.com
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Words - if they are not true - are meaningless. As a woman and human being, I have been fooled on many levels. I finally get it. It is called being naive. Naivety is accepted as a virtue for having blind faith crammed down our throats. We must question everything and have no undying support for anything.
People are fooled by crafty politicians and ex-politicians. We are a vulnerable group of people. People will say, he said it so it is true. Just because someone says it or writes it, doesn't mean it is true. Just because a news station reports it doesn't mean it is true.
We want to get the right knowledge. It is our job to seek out information and knowledge and then test it and run it through our minds to see if it is true. We need to weigh and measure what we learn. Whether it is over a war or a crafty demonic person living off of their ego. I know one man who is literally considered a Sage, yet his heart nurtures a hate for women. It makes this powerful thinker a disaster for any naive woman.
We need to research the truth on everything and on every level. Live wisely and love wisely. Be honest and truthful and remember others will eat you for dinner if given half a chance. Research all information before you have an opinion or a blind love or belief for another story or another person. Dr. Adams, we will believe anything unless we set the intention to think for ourselves and that takes work.
Gwyn Green
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Doc Adams, I'll take your wise words a step or two farther:
Israel isn't the sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East. The Jews are a
few million people, one of the original tribes of the Old Testament.
They are surrounded by approaching a BILLION people who want to
exterminate them. Their neighbors send missiles into schools, hospitals,
and government buildings, in order to terrorize. Do the Israelis do
this? No.
Would someone please explain to me who the barbarian is? I know the
answer. If you can't figure it out, you're probably a liberal Democrat.
John R. Smickle
Chattanooga
jsbottomfeeder@juno.com
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If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history," I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine:
When was it founded and by whom?
What were its borders?
What was its capital?
What were its major cities?
What constituted the basis of its economy?
What was its form of government?
Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
What was the language of the country of Palestine?
What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the U.S. dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur? You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation. Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over or thrown out of the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology* for history won't work here.
The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal with military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it "Palestinian people" and installed it in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank" and Gaza, respectively?
The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less claim to nationhood than that Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them.
The so called "Palestinians" have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel, and that is not sufficient to consider them a "nation" - or anything else except what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.
Greg Cain
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There are two things that can be guaranteed. First, Israel will never be wiped off the map. Not by the Palestinians, Iran, Russia, China or any combination thereof. The land was given to them by God, and God never fails to keep His promises.
Second, any nation that opposes Israel will ultimately be destroyed. Israel is God's chosen people and He always protects and defends His own.
J. Ross Greer
Ringgold
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Would you keep throwing ice cubes at a big tough guy, armed to the teeth, who forced you to the next stool, and took your seat at the bar, knowing full well he might turn and kill you? Doesn't make sense does it? Only a fool would do that, right? Well, a fool, or someone truly capable of all-consuming hatred, which most sane humans are not. Hatred so consuming that you're willing to go up in flames yourself just to visit it on the object of your hatred. Normal people are unable to grasp such a mindset.
Does it matter whether the Palestinians or the Israelis are justified? Don't we all wish that whole situation would dry up and blow away? Every American living today has been forced to endure it their entire lives.
Imagine if the Native American Indian tribes were like the Palestinians. They'd be suicide bombing us still. They'd be firing rockets off their reservations from hidden artillery. They'd be in every venue crying to the world how we took their land. They'd be pulling 911's left and right.
The difference in the Palestinians and the American Indians is hatred. Neither American Indians, or anyone else can hate as the extremist Muslims hate. Very few of us Americans really understand such hatred because we're not capable of it.
Hatred, to the Muslim radical means not caring what happens to one's self as long as you do some harm to your enemy. That's why the suicide bombings. That's why Hamas harasses Israel with rockets knowing full well they're going to get it back in spades. They don't care what happens to themselves, their families or their children. Indulging their hatred means more than life itself.
Yeah, the Israelis have a claim, and they're going to bust some heads. And yeah, the Palestinians have a gripe, and they're going to keep hating. So what? If they can't settle it and quit ruining the world with it, maybe all nations ought to get together and go beat both of them until they decide to call it quits and give us some peace.
David Saluk
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At some point in time, Israel is going to cease to exist, as they become more and more of a minority population. The transition to an Arab government is inevitable. It doesn't matter who was the indigenous population.
Assuming intractable political positions, based on theology, is a recipe for a disaster. The best that Israel could hope for is some kind of less violent transition of power.
The U.S. has been on the wrong side of this for years, with all of the miserable consequences that we now have in the Near East.
Steve Daugherty
stevedaugherty48@bellsouth.net
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