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If you are against a Palestinian state in part of Judea and Samaria, then I hope you are for giving equal rights to all the people on the land of Israel! I am not accusing or attacking you, I just find it strange how you could advocate that. To have the Jewish state of Israel on the land of Israel will mean that Jews will be scared to leave their own homes fearing what their fellow citizens might blow them up at the bus stop or in a cafe.

Anonymous

An excellent question.  I do indeed believe in equal rights for Arabs living in Israel.  But just as in every other country, treason cannot be permitted.  The Arab population will need to accept Israeli sovereignty and law or face deportation.  Just after WWI, the Turks and Greeks did a transfer of populations.  All Greeks living in Turkey were sent to Greece and all ethnic Turks living in Greece were deported to Turkey.  Pakistan and India had a similar transfer of populations between Hindus and Muslims.  There is also the expulsion of Sudetenland Germans following the end of WWII.  More recently, Kuwait expelled 443,000 “Palestinians” for their support of Iraq’s invasion.  This happened in 1991!

The Arab states expelled their Jews after Israel declared independence and Israel absorbed them.  The Arabs who fled from Israel were suddenly called “Palestinians” and have been kept in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc. with no thought of absorbing them into the general population.  The so-called “Palestinians” are no different in language, ethnicity, culture and religion to Jordanians, most Syrians, Lebanese, etc.  Why haven’t they been absorbed?  Simple.  The so=called “Palestinians” are a great propaganda tool against Israel.  Their plight is now the focus of many in the Arab/Muslim world because it deflects the common person from facing the real issues within their countries such as poverty, corruption, religious coercion, violence against women, child rape, etc.  Why bother looking inward if you can focus on a common enemy: The evil Zionists…

But I digress.  Simply put, if the Arabs give up their notion of their fake national and ethnic “Palestinian” identity and want to live freely in Israel, I have no problem.  If they don’t they need to be expelled from Israel and live among their brethren.

Too much to ask?  Native Americans, who, unlike the so-called “Palestinians” are actually native and indigenous to the land are not blowing up pizza shops and schools.  They now live peacefully under American sovereignty even though  they have a genuine claim to the land.

Now let’s go back a few more years.  The Confederate States of America considered themselves distinct from the United States and other Americans in general.  They had a different culture and most Southerners originally came from different areas of Europe than their Northern counterparts.

(The following is a testimony from Dr. Clyde Wilson, a history professor at the University of South Carolina.  It was written as an explanation of Southerners as a separate ethnic group for a legal case in South Carolina concerning discrimination at school against a student for wearing a shirt that had a battle flag on it.)

  Scholars in every field in the humanities and social sciences have long recognized that Southerners have formed a distinct people within the body of Americans from the earliest colonial times to the present.  Authorities in history, political science, economics, sociology, folklore, literature, geography, speech, and music, have recognized and studied the significance of this distinctiveness.  The distinct identity  of Southerners has also, of course, been a commonplace of everyday life in the United States, and distinctive Southern manners,  customs, attitudes, and behavior  have been material  for our greatest creative artists in song, story, and movie-making.
   Nearly every college in the United States and many in Europe (as well as Japan and Australia) offer courses in Southern history, literature, and other subjects.  A number of universities have special institutes devoted  to study of the South.  (The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of South Carolina, the University of Mississippi, Johns Hopkins University, and Cambridge University are a few examples.)   Thousands of scholars around the world are studying Southernness.  Thousands of books and dozens of popular and academic journals and websites are  available today that are devoted specifically and exclusively to the South.  It cannot be credited that this activity would be devoted to something  unless it was real and  significant. 
     Many explanations and descriptions have been offered in scholarly literature as to the origins and nature of a distinctive Southern people, beginning with the ethnic origins of the American colonial population and coming up to recent date in studies of public opinion and voting behavior.
     An important recent and authoritative study is ALBION’S SEED;  FOUR BRITISH FOLKWAYS IN AMERICA   by David Hackett Fischer, prize-winning Professor of History at Brandeis University, Boston (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).  From exhaustive study in Britan and America, Fischer has identified four different cultural groups from the British Isles that formed differentiated  cores of cultural development in what has become the United States.  These groups came from different regions of Britain and were separated by religious denomination, economic activity, dialect, manners, and customs.
      1)  Puritan settlers of New England who came from the East Anglia region of England and formed an identifiable religious and cultural group  which spread to other parts of the Northern states.
     2)  Settlers from the English Midlands and Wales who settled the Delaware River valley, belonged to a variety of dissenting religions such as Quakers and Baptists, and pursued economc  activities and goals different from those of New England and the South.
     3)  Gentry and servants from the English southern counties who settled Virginia and the Carolinas in the 17th century, largely Anglican, engaged  in plantation agriculture, and displaying  manners, customs, and attitudes very distinct from groups 1 and 2..
      4)  Borderers, sometimes loosely described as Celtic, who came from Ireland, Scotland, and the Scots-English border region.  They were largely Presbyterian and their ways of living and making a living were markedly different from those of the ordinary English.  They settled the piedmont regions of the Southern colonies and spread across the Appalachians in the late 18th century. - From KnowSouternHistory.net

Why does any of this matter?  It matters because even though the South was and is distinct from the rest of the country, they were forced to stay in the Union and follow American Law and accept US sovereignty.  Even though they hated the US and wanted out, they were conquered and had to adapt to being part of the greater USA.

I believe that most Arabs living in Judea and Samaria want to live free.  They see the reality of the Arab world and I am sure that once they are able to reap the economic and democratic benefits of being Israeli, they will eventually shift their loyalties just as many Israeli Arabs and Druze have done.  Just as Reconstruction put an end to South distinction and replaced it with Southern cultural pride, so too can the Arabs maintain their ethnic pride while accepting the reality of the State of Israel and become faithful citizens.  Then there will be no wall, no checkpoints, no suspicion.  In short, the Arabs who choose to live in Israel (after Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria) will need to adjust their goals to ones of freedom and peace.  It is up to them to realize that treason and sedition are not acceptable in any country.  Why should it be in Israel.

Lastly, I find it quite interesting that people expect Israel to hold by a higher standard when it comes to security.  America has a wall with Mexico.  America has checkpoints within the USA (just travel through southern Arizona).  We annexed land crying Manifest Destiny!  Why should tiny Israel be forced to explain itself at every turn?

If you believe that indigenous people should live free in their native lands, you must support Israel which is the RE-establishment of Jewish sovereignty over their ethnic, religious and national homeland.  Jews are from Israel.  Arabs are not.

If you believe in “to the victors belong the spoils” then you must support Israel who conquered territory after being attacked.

Thanks for writing.  Hope this answers your question.

The Myth of Palestine

In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: “There is no such country as Palestine! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.”

The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations echoed this view in a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947, which said Palestine was part of the Province of Syria and the Arabs of Palestine did not comprise a separate political entity.

A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.”

Jan 8

Hypocrisy of the day!

Palestinian leaders turn backs on Syrian refugees as crisis mounts

PA minister says the Western Wall has no holiness to Jews

Let’s all sit down and have peace talks!

Dec 3
Um, there never was a “Palestinian” state anywhere ever.

Um, there never was a “Palestinian” state anywhere ever.

Gaza is getting bombed as we speak.

jacobslinger:

frompalestinewithlove:

2:15am.

Loud explosions filling the air in the middle of the night.

Think about that. 

Over 100 missiles sent from Gaza into Israel in the past five days.

Israeli air strikes over Gaza targeting militants and weapon storage units as an attempt to stop the constant rocket attacks.

Think about that.

Seriously?  The so-called Palestinians are weeping over Israeli retaliation to their rocket launches on civilians?  “Oh my, was it something we launched?” 

Terror is like an infection.  Israel needs to make sure it will drop enough antibiotics to wipe it out so it won’t come back.

To be fair, the recipe was just made up.  But the taste is explosive!
Num num!

To be fair, the recipe was just made up.  But the taste is explosive!

Num num!

Jun 7

A Palestinian Arab myth disproven yet again

jacobslinger:

sura93:

[…] The whole country of Israel was created for people who didn’t live there, and have no right to return. Again, common sense. […]

Ignorant people, get off Tumblr.

Where anti-Zionism turns into anti-Semitism.

Denying any Jewish right to their homeland? A new low, a new low.

(Source: movedtoanewplace)

girlactionfigure:

 “Bank of Palestine” promotional materials 

EoZ fan Ruchie emailed me that she was at an Arab business conference in Nazareth, and one of the promotional items being given away was this mug from the “Bank of Palestine:”
Of course, the map includes all of Israel, without any fear of controversy. Making it really hard to argue that the goal of Palestinian Arabs is not to wipe out Israel. No doubt if you ask them about it (in English) they would say that they were merely invoking a romantic map of “historic Palestine.” Yet the only time any entity called Palestine looked like this was between 1922 and 1948, which means that “historic Palestine” was a bizarre anomaly of a territory, whose boundaries were drawn by the West, which was under British rule, and  that lasted a mere 26 years. Isn’t it weird that people who supposedly had been there for centuries define themselves this way?
EofZ

I would LOVE one of those mugs, though they left out the Golan :)

girlactionfigure:

“Bank of Palestine” promotional materials

EoZ fan Ruchie emailed me that she was at an Arab business conference in Nazareth, and one of the promotional items being given away was this mug from the “Bank of Palestine:”

Of course, the map includes all of Israel, without any fear of controversy. Making it really hard to argue that the goal of Palestinian Arabs is not to wipe out Israel.

No doubt if you ask them about it (in English) they would say that they were merely invoking a romantic map of “historic Palestine.”

Yet the only time any entity called Palestine looked like this was between 1922 and 1948, which means that “historic Palestine” was a bizarre anomaly of a territory, whose boundaries were drawn by the West, which was under British rule, and  that lasted a mere 26 years.

Isn’t it weird that people who supposedly had been there for centuries define themselves this way?

EofZ

I would LOVE one of those mugs, though they left out the Golan :)

Falafel for Thought.

“There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it”.

- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937 -

Peleshet = Palestine? Not even close.

Peleshet

In Herodotus’ ‘History’ we can also read that the Philistines once inhabited the southern coast of today’s Israel. They lived in a region spoken of in the Old Testament as Peleshet,  a Hebrew name, often translated as: Land of the Philistines, Philistia or Palestine (see for example: Genesis 21:32, Isaiah 14:29 and Psalm 60:8).

The word Peleshet comes from the root Pelesh which mens ‘dividers’ or ‘intruders’.

Ancient Egyptian inscriptions mention a non-semitic seafaring nation coming from Crete (=Caphtor, see Amos 9:7) and invading Egypt.

When they were thrown out by Ramses II (1194 B.C.) they settled down in the coastal region of today’s southern Israel. They established five towns: Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gaza and Gath.

Even before conquering Jerusalem (587 B.C.) Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed all these five towns and had deported the inhabitants to Babylon (see 2 Kings 25). After that nothing was ever more heard of these Philistines!

The (uncircumcised) Philistines were neither Arabs nor Semites. There was no connection whatsoever  with the Arabs or the Arab countries.

The Arabs who had no name of their own for this region, adopted the Greco-Roman name Palestine, that they pronounced Falastin.

In 63 B.C. the Roman general Pompeius ruled in the Near East. He too used the name Palaistine for the land of the Israelites. In 135 A.D. Publius Aelius Hadrianus (Emperor of Rome from 117 to 138 A.D.) called Judea: Syria Palaestina. It is generaly accepted that Hadrian purposely called Canaan Palaestina to insult the Jews (and their God!). He was determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. So he actually cut them off from their Biblical inheritance and national history. In the same way Hadrian changed the name of rebuilt Jerusalem in Aelia Capitolina and on the Temple Mount he erected a pagan temple for the Roman god Jupiter Capitolinus! The Romans have killed many Jews and have sold even more as slaves. Others abandoned Canaan, but never has there been a time without Jews or Jewish communities in the land.

For over 2000 years Palestine has been in use as the name for the land of Canaan, Eretz Yisrael, the land God Himself promised to Abram and his offspring (Gen.12:7,

Psalm 105:11). So all the inhabitants, including the Jews were in fact Palestinians!

After the First World War the Ottoman Empire was divided and the borders of Israel were laid down,  naming the land Palestine. In 1920 the League of  Nations assigned Palestine to the British to govern it temporarily as a mandate, with the promise of establishing a Jewish National Home, as stated in the Balfour Declaration (1917).

In 1948 the government of the new Jewish nation decided to give the country the Biblical name of Israel again, so at once all ‘Palestinians’ became Israelites.

So it is very clear that Palestine has never exsisted as an autonomous entity. 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.

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.

Sources:

- ‘When Palestine meant Israel’ – D. Jacobson

- ‘Bijbelse Encyclopedie’ – W. H.  Gispen

- ‘Biblical Archeology Review’

- ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’

Me:  Hey, they settled Gaza?!?  For shame!  I demand they be uprooted!

sura93 is a putz.

They’re not trying to kill you because you’re Jews. They’re trying to kill you because they have nothing left, nothing to live for.

Really.  That’s why they massacred the ancient Jewish neighborhood of Hebron in 1929?  I guess they were prophets.

Because ISRAELIS are currently occupying THEIR land.

Pick up a history book, little man.  or better yet, a Bible.

Would you like to be forced out of your homeland & oppressed like the Palestinians are?

My family was indeed been forced out of our homeland for 2000 years and has been mercilessly oppressed - much of the time by Muslims.  That homeland is the Land of Israel.  Here’s a question for you, would you deny the Native Americans the right to reclaim their land?

How about having your family members killed because of Israeli airstrikes on hospitals and school buildings? Or maybe friends being taken in the middle of the night by the IDF with no reasoning whatsoever, and no way of finding out what’s going on?

Again, no terrorism, no airstrikes.  What makes you so dense? Is it your age?  is it some sort of Wahhabi brainwashing?  Are you really that naive or just incredibly stupid?  We uprooted Jews from Gaza for peace.  Gaza is essentially a “Palestinian” state and it is being used to launch rockets at a sovereign nation.  Israel has every right to rip Gaza a new a-hole.  I just wish they would show MORE force.  It’s the only thing these animals understand.

When you are the people that are being oppressed, tell me then that you’re not just trying to defend your land from foreign invaders.

We are doing just that.  JEWS are from JUDEA - ISRAELites are from ISRAEL.   ARABS are from ARABIA.  Your poor, oppressed so-called “Palestinians” are a myth and are not native to the land.It doesn’t matter how much BS you spew or how many times you say the lie.  Truth is Truth.  We have regained our ancient, religious, moral, ethical, national homeland from the invading Arabs and it kills the Muslim world.

Stop crying the “Oh it’s because I’m Jewish” card. It’s not because of your religion. It’s because Israel is taking over their land - and continuing to expand.

LOL.  yes, how DARE we try and build up our ancient homeland!  How DARE we try and resettle Hebron where OUR forefathers are buried!  Get a life and seriously, pick up a history book.  Oh, what part of Occupied Native America do you live in again?

Where are your crocodile tears for the Syrians being gunned down by their own government?  You seem to have an unnatural fixation with Israel and Zionism.  You are a misguided child.

Ps.  I’d like to personally pay for you to take a trip to Iran.  See how they treat you there.

(Source: sura93)

I am Palestine.

eretzyisrael:

Palestinians Airbrushing History since 1948 
Via : EoZ

eretzyisrael:

Palestinians Airbrushing History since 1948 

Via : EoZ

Hamas tweets its desire for ethnic cleansing

girlactionfigure:

A couple of tweets from Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades in a Twitter conversation they were having:

Al Qassam Brigades alongside with Arab spring revolts would sweep Zionist settlers out of Palestine, liberate al Aqsa. M.


they have to go back in America,Germany, Poland,Russia, etc

Hamas considers every Israeli Jew to be a “Zionist settler.”

EofZ