Just The Facts

Myths and Facts

Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. [Hailie Selassie]

I think the first duty of society is justice. [Alexander Hamilton]

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. [Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail]

In 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution slandering Zionism by equating it with racism. In his spirited response to the resolution , Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Chaim Herzog [later President] noted the irony of the timing, the vote coming exactly 37 years after Kristallnacht.

History has demonstrated the need to ensure Jewish security through a national homeland. Zionism recognizes that Jewishness is defined by shared origin, religion, culture and history. The realization of the Zionist dream is exemplified by nearly five million Jews, from more than 100 countries, who are Israeli citizens. Approximately 1,000,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze, Baha’is, Circassians and other ethnic groups also represented in Israel’s population.

To single out Jewish self-determination for condemnation is itself a form of racism. “A world that closed its doors, to Jews who sought escape from Hitler’s ovens lacks the moral standing to complain about Israel’s giving preference to Jews,” wrote noted civil rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Martin Luther King responded: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism.” [‘Who Stands Alone’ by Chaim Herzog]

Trump has had an outstanding performance record to date, but now it is crumbling. He finds fault with Netanyahu, when he fails to comprehend what the latter fully understands. Netanyahu recognizes that if we do not fully defeat Hamas, in time we will be engaged in a 6th war with the devil.

Appeasement – The Lesson Not Yet Learned, surely applies to Trump. The history of appeasement is the history of failure. Remarkably, there are those who are so obsessed with this form of behavior that they are given to writing books in its defense. “Appeasement in International Politics” is an example of this type of literature which surfaced in 2000 and consisted of no less than 237 pages.

The author, Stephen R. Rock, a staff member at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY set out to demonstrate that appeasement served usefulness as a strategy. It now appears that the most useful purpose the book served was a review by one of its reviewers, TJ. Nelson. His arguments are cogent and masterfully precise. In summary, Nelson states:

[1]Overwhelming evidence from both history and every day life finds appeasement to be counterproductive and dangerous.
[2] The idea of feeding one’s friends to the crocodiles to buy a few more moments of safety exerts an irresistible pull on politicians.

[3]For politicians creating the appearance of being an angel of peace and a paragon of moral rectitude.

[4] Maintaining their standing in opinion polls and with special interest groups, is a quick and easy substitute for finding the courage and leadership skills necessary to actually solve problems.

In all of the above, one recognizes appeasement as a manifestation of contemporary liberalism.

Of the many papers on the subject, Richard Mather’s, “So-called Palestinians have no history in Israel—except as terrorists” is very appropriate. His introduction, “Until it is acknowledged by the UN and other bodies that the Jewish people and not the Arabs are the indigenous inhabitants of Eretz Israel, it is going to be difficult to break the impasse of anti-Jewish prejudice that is the real obstacle to peace.”

In 1714, Hadriani Relandi, a mapmaker from Utrecht published Palestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata. The book was a record of Relandi’s trip to Eretz Israel in 1695—96. On his travels he surveyed around 2,500 places that were mentioned in the Tanakh and Mishnah, and he carried out a census of the people who resided in such places. He made some very interesting discoveries.

For a start, he discovered that not a single settlement in Eretz Israel had a name that was of Arabic origin. Instead the names derived from Hebrew, Roman and Greek languages. His further discoveries are summarized hereunder:

[a] Not a single settlement in Eretz Israel had a name that was of Arabic origin…
[b] Conspicuous absence of a sizeable Muslim population.
[c] Nazareth was home to less than a 1,000 Christians, while Jerusalem held 5,000 people, mostly Jews.
[c] Drawing on work by statistician and demographer Roberto Bachi, it is estimated that there were only151,000 non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine in 1540.
[d] By 1800, the non-Jewish population had grown to around 268,000, rising to 489.000 by 1890, 589,000 in 1922 and just over 1.3 million in 1948. The vast majority of these non-Jewish migrants were Muslims.
[e] During the British civil administration in Palestine [1920 to1948], restrictions were placed on Jewish immigration in order to appease Arab troublemakers. The Hope Simpson Inquiry [1930] observed there was significant illegal Arab immigration from Egypt, Transjordan and Syria, which was negatively affecting prospective Jewish immigrants and contributing to Arab violence against Jews.
[f] There were very few non Jewish inhabitants in Palestine in the 16th and 17th centuries; what happened to the Arab invaders who arrived in 629 CE? Well, for a start, very few of the invaders actually stayed in Palestine.
[g] The Arab inhabitants were not indigenous but were latecomers. Historically, Arabs never talked about Palestinian identity—because there wasn’t one. They were Egyptian, Syrian, Moroccan, Iraqi and
Ottoman Arabs, and many of them expressed allegiance to the concept of a Greater Syria.
[h] In a conversation with the Dutch newspaper Trouw in March 1977, the leader of the pro-Syria as-Sa’iqa faction of the PLO, Zuheir Mohsen, remarked: “It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity [—]yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”
[i] [The Arabs] only interest, is abolishing the Jewish presence between the Mediterranean Sea, and the Jordan River.

The “Palestinian” Identity.

The 2011 statement by US Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich that the “Palestinians” are an “invented people” has been criticized by political opponents as indicating a lack of sobriety and stability. Yet, whatever one’s views of Gingrich sagacity or judgment on other issues, or one’s opinions on the more general issue of desirability and character of a “Palestinian” state existing alongside the State of Israel, the accuracy of his statement cannot be denied.

9/11 and the “Good War” by Fouad Ajami on Sept.11, 2009.

If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean and even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda could plot to kill more Americans. The impulse that took America from Kabul to Bagdad had been on the mark. Those were not Afghans who had struck American soil on 9/11. They were Arabs. It was important to take the war into the Arab world itself, and the despot [Saddam Hussein] in Baghdad had drawn the short straw. He had been brazen and defiant at a time of genuine American concern, and a lesson was made of him. In those [Obama] years, American behind us, American liberalism distanced itself from American patriotism, and the damage is there to see.

Think-Israel: A Fraudulent History of Palestine by Bernice Lipkin [Sep.20, 2002]

As Professor Bernard Lewis put it [Commentary Magazine, January 1975] “From the end of the Jewish State in antiquity to the beginning of British rule, the area now designated by the name Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries.”

The Arab invaders of the 7th century A.D. made Muslim converts of the natives, settled down as residents, and intermarried with them, with the result that all became so completely Arabized that one could not tell where the Canaanites left off and the Arabs began.

Over the years, most of the inhabitants were not Arabs. Nor did they think of themselves. As James Parkes wrote in “A History of Palestine”, the word “Arab” was applicable to the Bedouin and to a section of the urban and effendi classes; it is inappropriate as a description of the rural mass of the population, the fellahin, most of whom were tenant farmers, not land owners.

In the early part of the 19th century, Jewish resettlement was encouraged by the protection offered by the British consuls in Palestine. And there was resettlement, individual and in groups, through Medieval times. More to the point, the Jews never left, to quote Reverend Parkes from “Whose Land?, a History of the Peoples of Palestine.” It was inevitable that Zionists would look back to the heroic period of the Maccabees and Bar-Kochba, but there real title deeds were written by the less dramatic and equally heroic endurance of those who had maintained the Jewish presence in the Land all through the centuries, despite every discouragement.

The Mystery of the Philistines.

H.H.Ben-Sasson’s , “A History of the Jewish People” devotes an entire chapter to the Philistines.–Their Origins and Civilization. Of special significance in this connection is the explicit mention of the Philistines—there first appearance in extra-biblical sources [ c. 1198, 1187, or 1162 BCE, according to “high”, “middle” -to be preferred—or low” chronology]. It may well mark the date of the Philistines initial arrival in the country to which they were eventually to bequeath their name—Palestine. In order to ward off the danger threatening his own land, Rameses evidently sought a modus vivendi with the Sea Peoples, particularly the Philistines, allowing them to settle in Canaan and subsequently exploiting them as an instrument of Egyptian policy.

In 1170 pages of the given book, not one word of the Palestinians meaning that there was absolutely no connection to the Philistines!!!

Gatestone Institute: The Two-State Solution to Murder Jews” by Bassam Towil, [Nov. 2, 2023]

Every Palestinian child knows that if presidential elections were held today, the terrorist group Hamas would win. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority have proven again and again that they hate Israel as much, if not more, than Hamas hates Israel.

Creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank would mean turning it into another Iran-led base for Jihad against Jews.

There is a dangerously false idea that Abbas or any other Palestinian leader would rein in Hamas in the West Bank. Abbas has no problem with Hamas operating in the West Bank, as long as the terrorist group is targeting Israel, and not him or the Palestinian Authority leadership—but everyone who lives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip knows that this is a lethal lie.

Hadrian’s Curse—-The Invention of Palestine by Tzafrir Renon. [Think-Israel, May-June 2008]

Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called “Palestine” after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world’s stage more than 600 years earlier. It was his final twist of the knife and legacy after wars, massacres, persecutions, and exiles that had largely extinguished the Jewish presence from Judea.

Today, the modern enemies of a resurrected Jewish nation have dusted off Hadrian’s Curse and are attempting to pull off a monumental theft: the Arab world have reincarnated “Palestine” to steal Israel’s heritage and the Land of the Jewish people. “Hadrian’s Curse” will expose the BIG lie of the “Palestinian cause” in a full-length 120 minute documentary.

The world has become so accustomed to the “truth” of the “Palestinian” perversion of history and work backwards, exposing recent claims and acts whose absurdity and villainy shock uninformed observers. In 1977, Zaheir, a member of the PLO leadership revealed the truth in an interview by the Dutch newspaper Trouw:

“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 realty 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 ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism for tactical reasons.—However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”