tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20084460828380019282024-03-13T15:04:38.108+02:00Israel, Jews, and JudaismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6504125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-87140259313350925512019-05-11T21:47:00.004+03:002019-05-11T21:47:54.479+03:00To whom does the land of Israel belong? Ask Robert F. Kennedy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The League of Nations 1923 “Any attempt to negate the Jewish People’s right to Palestine, Eretz-Israel, and to deny them access and control in the area designated for the Jewish People by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of international law. The Origin and Nature of the “Mandate for Palestine”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nehemiah: 18-20</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">18 And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, He will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build: But ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nehemiah is saying no to a two state solution or any solution that does not leave the land in Jewish hands. The Jewish People would rebuild Jerusalem and Eretz Israel and their enemies had absolutely no rights to their land. Their enemies did not want to see Israel resettled by the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yet these brave Jewish People never begged their enemies for peace and they never signed treaties with their deceitful ungodly neighbors.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Arabs have been promoting a lie and the world wants to believe it, namely that the territory taken in the 1967 war of Jewish survival should be given back to the Arabs, when it was never theirs to have or to keep. They have been invading Israel at least since the 1930s or even earlier .</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The U.N. demands that Israel must make the earlier theft of its own land legal, by agreeing to the Two State Solution.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">King David the Prophet said it best in Psalm 69:4, “They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: Then I was forced to restore that which I had not stolen.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Jewish People should never make treaties with the people residing in the Land.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exodus 34:12 Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the Land to which you go, lest it become a snare (trap) in your midst.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Deuteronomy 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ezra 9:12 12 nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Deuteronomy 7:2 make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How have the “Oslo Accords, the “Peace Process” or any other agreement with the Arabs worked for the Jews of Israel. Have they brought peace or have they been a "trap in your midst," as Exodus 34:12 has warned that they would be? It has cost hundreds and even thousands of Jewish lives.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most remarkable thing about the Oslo Accords and the Peace Process is their complete lack of success.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The British and the Arabs worked in collusion, in an attempt to destroy the State of Israel before it was even born. Arabs were encouraged and allowed to illegally mass immigrate into Israel, while the British detained and turned back the Jews from entering their own State of Eretz Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both of these two actions were against the intent and of the, nature of the “Mandate of Palestine” and were a breach of International Law. The British took things even a step further by supporting Arab violence against the Jews of Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those illegal Arab immigrants then demanded a Two State Solution from the Land that they invaded. This “Two State Solution,” is the lingering result of the British and Arab collusion to destroy Eretz Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robert F. Kennedy wrote a clear explanation of this despicable behaviour against Israel. In excerpts of his articles written in1948, while in his early twenties when he was in Israel working for the <em>Boston Post,</em> he gives examples of this collusion. He warned America that Jewish Rights in Israel were being trampled upon by both the British and the Arabs.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robert F. Kennedy wrote that he grew to admire the Jewish inhabitants of the Land. When he became a Senator in 1965 he became a strong supporter and advocate for Israel until his assassination during his Presidential Campaign in June 5, 1968, exactly twenty years after he had published his June 5, 1948 articles favouring Israel. The assassin was a Palestinian terrorist who disapproved of Robert Kennedy’s support for Eretz Israel. Robert F. Kennedy died 26 hours after being shot.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found Robert F. Kennedy to be a far more honourable man than I had thought, he stood on solid moral ground in his defence of a Jewish Eretz Israel. I think that he should be considered to be among the “Righteous of the Nations."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Boston Post-</em> Headline – “British Position Hit in Palestine. Kennedy says they seek to crush the Jewish Cause because they are Not in accord with it." </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Once again the land of Israel was desolate and underdeveloped before the Jewish migration. (By Robert F. Kennedy June 5, 1948.)"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beginning Articles- "Set Up Laboratories"</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Under the supposition that, at the finish of the mandate, this was to be their National State, they went to work. They set up laboratories where world-famous scientists could study and analyse soils and crops. The combination of arduous labour and...funds from the United States changed what was once arid desert into flourishing orange groves. Soils had to be washed of salt, day after day, year after year, before crops could be planted. One can see this work going on in lesser or more advanced stages wherever there are Jewish settlements in Palestine.”</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"From a small village of a few thousand inhabitants, Tel-Aviv has grown into a most impressive modern metropolis of over 200,000. They have truly done much, with what all agree, was very little. Once again the land of Israel was desolate and underdeveloped before the Jewish migration..” (Robert F. Kennedy)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs in the 12 years between 1932 and 1944, came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions that existed in no other Arab state. This is the only country in the Near and Middle East where an Arab middle class was in existence.” (Robert F. Kennedy).</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Israelis should have made a great outcry condemning the 500,000 Arabs who illegally mass immigrated into land designated for a Jewish Home land. By all rights they should have driven them back to the neighbouring Arab countries from which they invaded Israel. Pointing with pride at the Arab invasion into Eretz Israel was foolish and self-destructive. For a Jewish State this invasion was a catastrophe! Even so it can always be turned back.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Arabs,being ungrateful to the host nation of Israel, then began rioting, and committing murderous attacks against the Jewish population, predicated and dedicated to the lie that Israel had suddenly become their land, and not the land of the Jews as was stated in the “Mandate of Palestine.” </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even their leaders in Gaza admit that they are not so-called Palestinians but actually Egyptians, and therefore illegal aliens, illegally occupying your territory in Gaza.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the Mandate of Palestine the Arabs have no right to any part of Israel.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Just before I arrived in Palestine there was the notorious story of the foundry outside of Tel-Aviv. It was situated in a highly contested area, and the British accused the Jews of using it as a sniper post for the Jaffa-Jerusalem road. One day the British moved in, stripping the Jews of all arms and ordered them to clear out within 10 minutes. The British had scarcely departed, when a group of armed Arabs moved in, killing or wounding all the occupants. The British government was most abject in it’s apologies. ” (Robert F. Kennedy)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Because of this action I believe we have burdened ourselves with a great responsibility in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world. We fail to live up to that responsibility if we knowingly support the British government who behind the skirts of their official position attempt to crush a cause with which they are not in accord.” (Robert F. Kennedy)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I notice myself more and more conscious of the great heritage and birthright to which we as United States citizens are heirs and which we have the duty to preserve. A force motivating my writing this paper is that I believe we have failed in this duty or are in great jeopardy of doing so. The failure is due chiefly to our inability to get the true facts of the policy in which we are partners in Palestine.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The British government, in its attitude towards the Jewish population in Palestine, has given ample credence to the suspicion that they are firmly against the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine. ” (Robert F. Kennedy)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Five weeks ago I saw several thousand non-Palestinian Arab troops in Palestine, proudly pointed out to me by a spokesman of the Arab higher committee. Every Arab to whom I talked, spoke of thousands of soldiers massed in the 'terrible triangle of Nablus-Tulkarem-Jenin' and of hundreds that were pouring in daily.” He told me, 'whether it takes three months, three years, or 30, we will carry on the fight. Palestine will be Arab.'” (Robert F. Kennedy). </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to these handicaps that the Jews suffered through the presence of the British, there are many more far-reaching aspects of British administration which unfortunately concern or, rather involve us in the United States.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The Arab responsible for the blowing up of the Jewish Agency on March 11, 1948, said that after the explosion, upon reaching the British post which separated the Jewish section from a small neutral zone set up in the middle of Jerusalem, he was questioned by the British officers in charge. He quite freely admitted what he had done and was given immediate passage with the remark, Nice going.” |(Robert F. Kennedy) </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During the time leading up to the establishment of Israel as a Jewish State a concerted effort was made by the British forces to disarm the already badly out numbered and out gunned Jews of Eretz Israel. The British were raiding Jewish homes as well as institutions and confiscating all weapons found. While there was an opposite policy toward the Illegal Arab Aliens who invaded Israel. When the British were preparing to leave Israel just before Israeli independence, in the Arab neighbourhoods the British would leave behind weapons and munitions in their recently vacated police and military offices. This was nothing less than a blatant attempt of Genocide against the Jews of Eretz Israel on the part of the British and their Arab allies.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Israelis are being pressured to surrender their territory for the sake of Western Appeasement. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do not let the Jewish People once again become the Scapegoats for Western Appeasement of the Arabs. The Western World appeased Hitler and the Jews were the Scapegoat, and payed an incredible price on the mantel of Western Appeasement.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The invented national ethos of the Palestinian Authority is about to collapse, now that the PA has canceled the two agreements that allow its tottering government to survive.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When something is built on an unstable foundation, it is only natural for its long term survival to be at risk. It is also natural for it to be in need of constant support just to keep from falling. The belief that it will eventually be able to stand on its own two feet causes people to lend their support, but only egregious fools continue to do so if there is no hope of its ever being independent, because in that case, everythiing those supporters have invested is doomed to be irretrievably lost.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Palestinian Authority is in exactly that position today and this article will expound on the reasons it has no hope of every being able to become a viable and independent entity. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The prime reason for this situation is the very reason the PA was founded. In 1993, the Israeli government tried to find someone who would accept responsibility for eliminating the terror network created by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, someone willing to be rewarded for anti-terrorist activity by being granted the authority to rule the area and administer the lives of the Arabs living there. This was the "deal" concocted by the Israelis, and the "contractor" who accepted the challenge was the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) headed by arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. The Israeli government actually believed that Arafat was serious about eliminating terror and establishing an autonomous administrative system for running those territories.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course, this deal was doomed to failure from the start due to the residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza and also the government of Israel. The Arab residents considered the Palestinian Authority (PA), the governing arm of the PLO, to be the operative arm of Israeli policy, an organization collaorating with Israel by means of the coordinated security system that exists up until this very day.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Security coordination" to the Palestinian Arab mind is a laundered word for cooperation, meaning PA security forces attempt to apprehend the terrorists that belong to organizations other than their own and hand them over to Israel. Many of the Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza see this as no less than treason. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In order to cover up that perceived betrayal and silence its critics, the PA employs thousands in both real and artificial jobs (the kind where the worker does not have to do anything in order to be paid) . For the sake of earning a livng, people are willing to shut their mouths and utter not a word about what they really think of the PA and the reasons for its existence.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No matter, members of the PA know exactly in what esteem the authority is held by the public. To combat this and in order to create legitimacy for themselves and the PA, they invented a national ethos whose purpose was establishing a state under conditions to which Israel could never agree: the "right" of return for millions of "refugees" to Israel and insistence on Israel's relinquishing Jerusalem. These impossible demands were raised knowing full well that Israel would never agree to them, and that there would never be a Palestinian Arab state, so that Israel could continue to remain the eternal enemy. Anyone who thinks that a Palestinian Arab state adjoining Israel would live in peace with it does not comprehend the basic tenet of the Palestinian dream - fanning the flames of Israel-hatred, encouraging terror against its citizens and blaming it for all the ills of Arab society.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is why - according to the PA media - Israel is the result of a European colonialist venture originating in Europe's desrie to rid itself of the Jews, the Jews are nothing but cosmopolitan communities with no homeland, Judaism is a dead, not living religion, the Jews have no history in the lands belonging to "Falestin." In addition, the Palestinian Arabs are victims of a Euroean conspiracy and their legitimate goal is to free all of "Falestin" from the "river to the sea." Therefore "peace" with Israel can never be more than a temporary ceasefire, with the final goal the destruction of the Jewish state.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the past 25 years, more and more Israelis have begun to understand the failed "Oslo Accords" deal their government signed, and that is why the Israeli left, which engineered this fatal mistake, has gradually lost much of the public support it had during the initial euphoric period after the agreements were signed. The "Arab Spring" - which is more reminiscent of a wintery swamp filled with fire, blood and tears - helped the Israelis awaken from the dream of "a new Middle East" described in utopian terms by Oslo Accords master architect, the late Shimon Peres. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, it is clear that all Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas wanted and Abbas still desires is the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state on the ruins of the Jewish one. It is hard to find any enthusiasm among Israelis for continuing to pump oxygen into the artificial entity known as the Palestinian Authority, whose only source of life is the money it gets from other countries and pours into salaries for its employees and the murderous terrorists serving sentences in Israeli prisons.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second reason for the PA's failure is its lack of success in establishing a political entity with acceptable administrative norms, the kind whose existence is supported by the people's recognition of the importance of keeping the rules governing the political game, commonly known as "the rule of law."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The PA created various systems and bodies meant for outside consumption only, while their actual existence lacks any substance whatsoever. For example: The PA has a voting system, and in 2006 it elected a legislature and president, both for four year terms. If the PA would keep its own laws, there would have been new elections in 2010, 2014, and 2018, every four years, and we would have observed political parties acting to build a power base during those four years - and possibly even witness a change of leadership. None of this ever happened. There were elections, Hamas won most of the seats in the legislature, but all that body's authority was stripped from it by the PLO, so that Hamas would not succeed in attaining any chance of control in the Palestinian Authority. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In September of this year, the Hamas members elected to the PA legislature sent a letter to the UN Secretary General in which they demanded he not allow Mahmoud Abbas to speak before the General Assembly due to his not being the chairman of the PA anymore, since his term expired years ago, in 2010, and he was never reelected. Abbas heard of the letter and was enraged, accused the Hamas movement of pulling the rug from under his feet and then blamed the poor attendance at his speech in the General Assemly on that letter. To teach Hamas a lesson, he dissoved the PA legislature.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The elected chairman's term ended almost nine years ago, but PA leader Mahmoud Abbas extends his own presidential term annually by administrative decree. Do you get it? This is the system established by the "nascent state" because Israel, Europe and the US are in favor of it and will do anything - including stomping on the rules of the game - to keep Hamas from running the show. Is there any way for the Arab public to accept this as a legitimate way to play the game of running a government? Not a chance, so the PA, with its ridiculous rules and laws, is seen as an illegitimate entity by the vast majority of the Arab public residing in Judea and Samaria. Most of this public hates Mahmoud Abbas anyway, because his birthplace was Safed, a city not located in Judea or Samaria, and his two sons, Yasser and Tarik, spend their time stealing vast sums from the PA's dwindling public purse. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Hamas movement realized where the PA was headed back in 2007 and decided to take matters into its own hands by means of a violent takeover of the Gaza Strip. Hamas refuses to collaborate with Israel and continues the Jihad against it because without the anti-Israel Jihad, Hamas has no raison d'etre.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fact that Hamas runs the Gaza Strip prevents the PLO from realizing its dream, because Israel rightly fears that complete independence for the PA in Judea and Samaria means a Hamas takeover there on the lines of what occurred in Gaza. That is what lies behind Mahmoud Abbas' efforts to put down Hamas: He refrains from giving them the rehabilitation funding for Gaza granted them by various world donors, does not cover their fuel and electricity bills, and holds on to the salaries of PLO members in Gaza in order to keep the taxes on them out of the hands of Hamas. Is this not a betrayal of over one and a half million subjects suffering in Gaza under Hamas rule? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The PLO is on the verge of ideological bankruptcy. On the one hand, it cannot control Hamas and force that Islamist movement to accept its agenda, while on the other hand, Israel is not exactly enthusiastic about helping it establish a state that will threaten the Jewish one. Accordingly, the PA Central Committee came out with a recommendation to cancel PA recognition of Israel and end security cooperation with Israel. This week the Central Committee repeated its demand to end all cooperation with Israel on matters of security and to cancel the economic agreements the PLO and Israel signed - those very agreements allowing the PA to function. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These recommendations were designed to end the accusation hurled repeatedly by Hamas at the PLO, that of cooperation with the Zionist enemy, except that without security and economic cooperation with Israel, the PA is set to collapse within a few days. This no-way-out situation is about to bring the PLO and PA to a state of economic and ideoogical collapse, showing the world the utter failure that constitutes the Palestinian dream.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the alternative? The Emirate Plan, as we have previously expounded on from this very podium. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Written for Arutz Sheva, translated from Hebrew by Rochel Sylvetsky, Op-ed and Judaism Editor.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>They came in 1943 to plead for the rescue of Europe's Jews, when so many could still have been saved, but FDR left the White House by a back door and refused to meet with them. And millions more died.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Dr. Rafael Medoff</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In an era that has seen more than 400,000 people take part in a Women’s March on Washington, it may not sound very impressive that 400 rabbis marched in the nation’s capital in 1943. But numbers alone don’t always tell the whole story.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>This week marks the 75th anniversary of the rabbis’ march, which took place three days before Yom Kippur. The ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are among the most hectic periods for a pulpit rabbi, who has major sermons to prepare and countless logistics to arrange for the most well-attended services of the year.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So there was no small inconvenience involved for the rabbis who in the autumn of 1943 answered the call of the political action committee known as the Bergson Group and the Orthodox rescue advocates of the Va’ad ha-Hatzala, to come to Washington to plead for the rescue of Europe’s Jews.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>And their journey likely was made more than a little jittery by the fact that just one month earlier, a new high-speed train on its way from New York City to Washington, DC had derailed, killing 79 passengers.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Nevertheless, more than four hundred rabbis put down their books, left their communities and congregations, and headed for Washington. Most came from the New York City area, but others traveled from as far away as Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Worcester, Massachusetts.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>As the station master shouted, “Clear the way for those rabbis!,” the protesters emerged from Washington, DC’s Union Station and made their way toward the cluster of buildings known as the Capitol.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It was not only their numbers, but also their stature, that was noteworthy. The marchers were led by Rabbis Eliezer Silver and Yisroel Rosenberg, co-presidents of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. There were notable hasidic rebbes, such as the Boyaner Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Friedman, and the Melitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchok Horowitz. And there were a number of younger rabbis who would soon become leaders of their generation, in particular Moshe Feinstein and Joseph B. Soloveitchik.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A columnist for the Yiddish-language newspaper Der Tog (The Day) was impressed by the reaction of passers-by. As the rabbis in their “long silk and gabardines and round plush hats, moved along Pennsylvania Avenue…there [were] absolutely no snickers, no smirks on the faces of the onlookers,” he wrote. “They did not gape or guffaw as almost any crowd in a Central or East European land most decidedly would have. They watched in wonderment and in respect. The traffic stopped, and here and there a burgher removed his hat. I myself saw many a soldier in snap in salute…”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Fear of East European-style anti-Semitic mockery actually was a large part of the reason that the rabbis’ march was so unusual. It was, in fact, the only march in Washington for the rescue of the Jews during the Holocaust years. Many American Jews, as immigrants or the children of immigrants, were extremely anxious to be seen as fitting in. They worried that noisy Jewish protests might be perceived as unAmerican.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In fact, one Jewish member of Congress, Rep. Sol Bloom (D-New York), reportedly sought to persuade the rabbis to cancel the march on the grounds that “it would be very undignified for a group of such un-American looking people to appear in Washington.” The Jewish communal leader Cyrus Adler once referred to that attitude as “the ghetto crouch”—the phenomenon of Jews walking with their heads bowed so as not draw the attention of non-Jews.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Then they marched to White House. While most of the rabbis waited across the street in Lafayette Park, their leaders approached the gates of the White House to ask if President Roosevelt could “accord a few minutes of his most precious time.” They wanted to present him with a petition calling for creation of “a special agency to rescue the remainder of the Jewish nation in Europe.”</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A White House staffer informed the rabbis that the president was unavailable “because of the pressure of other business.” Actually, FDR’s schedule was clear that afternoon. But a presidential meeting would have conferred legitimacy on the protesters’ pleas for U.S. rescue action. And Roosevelt’s policy was that there was nothing that could be done to help the Jews except to win the war. So, in order to avoid seeing the marchers, the president quietly left the White House through a rear exit. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That move backfired. “Rabbis Report ‘Cold Welcome’ at the White House,” declared a Washington Times-Herald headline the next morning. A leading Jewish newspaper columnist angrily asked: “Would a similar delegation of 500 Catholic priests have been thus treated?” The editors of the Jewish daily Forverts (Forward) reported signs of a new mood among some American Jews: “In open comment it is voiced that Roosevelt has betrayed the Jews” —a shocking sentiment in a community that repeatedly cast 90% of its ballots for FDR.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The publicity from the march helped galvanize a congressional resolution urging creation of a rescue agency. A Roosevelt administration official gave widely misleading testimony at the hearings on the resolution. The embarrassing publicity that followed, combined with behind-the-scenes pressure from Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his aides, convinced President Roosevelt to establish the War Refugee Board. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although handicapped by the small size of its staff and the measly level of funding it received from the Roosevelt administration (private Jewish groups supplied 90% of its budget), the War Refugee Board accomplished near-miracles in its brief existence. It provided funds to hide Jewish refugees, bribe Nazi officials, and move tens of thousands of Jews out of the way of the retreating German armies. It also recruited Raoul Wallenberg to go to Nazi-occupied Budapest, and financed his rescue missions there. Historians calculate that the Board played a crucial role in saving the lives of some 200,000 Jews in Europe during the final fifteen months of the war. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is no straight line from the rabbis’ march to Raoul Wallenberg pulling Jews off trains bound for Auschwitz. But the march was an important part of the series of events which eventually led to that outcome. Seventy five years ago this week, the rabbis proved that you don’t always need 400,000 people in the streets of Washington to have an impact—sometimes 400 will do the trick.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, forthcoming from The Jewish Publication Society in 2019.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It seems that the proverbial penny has dropped in Washington and the US government has begun behaving rationally with regard to the delusionary Palestinian State.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>There are times when a state, especially a world power, realizes that it has been played for a fool over a long period of time and, infuriated, acts like anyone who is sick and tired of blackmail and chicanery. That is exactly what has been happening lately to the relationship between the US government and the PLO, the organization in charge of the Palestinian Authority.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>President Trump, who thinks like a businessman, keeps on asking himself: Is there anything to be gained from continuing the present situation? Or is maintaining it causing more damage? The answer to his question is what gave rise to his recent decisions. In other words, if something is worthwhile, he is willing to fund and back it, but if nothing is going to come of it, the thing to do is abandon it as soon as possible and stop throwing good money after bad.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is how Trump views a good many international issues: The nuclear agreement with Iran, signed during his predecessor’s term, the understandings with North Korea which previous governments kept up for the benefit of a string of dictators who ran that strange country, the trade agreements with China and North American states and others. He feels totally free to “recalculate,” to paraphrase Waze, on a cost-benefit basis. This is his businessman’s contribution to American foreign policy – and that is exactly what happened with regard to the Palestinian Arab issue.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it came to Jerusalem, Trump realized that more than twenty years have gone by since Congress passed a law mandating the US embassy move to Jerusalem, and although every president elected since then – Clinton, Bush and Obama – postponed the move again and again, there has been no progress on Jerusalem . In fact, Jerusalem has become the insurmountable bone of contention blocking any agreement between Israel and the PA. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He also realized that the Palestinian demand to make Jerusalem the capital of its proposed state does not make sense historically, because there has never been a king, Caliph, Sultan or Emir, Arab or Muslim, who made Jerusalem his capital. In contrast, there are Jewish, Greek and Roman sources documenting Jerusalem's being the capital city of the Jewish people. Trump came to the conclusion that putting off the embassy move serves no purpose, and moved the embassy to Jerusalem without exacting (at least so far) any price from Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trump then realized that the money the US has invested in the refugees since the late 1940s is being used to perpetuate the Palestinian refugee problem. Every other country with a refugee problem in the 1940s, after WWII, solved it by means of returning to former homes, settling in their new location or immigrating to another. The only refugees still extant from that period are the Arab ones from Israel's 1948 War of Independence, and they are also the only ones who passed on their refugee status to three generations of offspring with no end in sight. No one understands why the American taxpayer should continue funding a problem that will never be solved especially as this funding is what allows it to continue on forever. Trump said to himself: Let's stop funding the refugees and they will realize that each one of them is responsible for solving his own problems, and putting an end to the issue. The Arab states that invaded Israel one day after it declared its independence are those who brought about the 1948 war and the resulting refugee problem, so why should the US pay for an Arab problem caused by the Arab nations?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is quite possible that Trump received reports describing what UNRWA does with the money it gets – for example, payng the salaries of workers in Gaza who give part of their wages to Hamas, meaning that American taxpayers are funding a body their government designated as a terror organization </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This means that instead of investing the American money in development and improving the lives of Gazans, it is being invested in digging tunnels and producing rockets meant to attack Israel, a US ally. Can there be anything more absurd? Previous US governments allowed this absurdity to continue and purposely ignored the information they received about what was being done with American taxpayers' money.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In case no one remembers, Hamas is a terror organization which ran in the January 2006 elections for the Palestinian legislative council, garnering the majority of its seats. There have been no elections since that date, so that Hamas still has the - democratic! – right to pass laws in the Palestinian Authority, despite being defined as a terror organization. Is there any reason for the US to fund an authority whose laws are passed by terrorists? And why does Europe continue to do so?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When discussing Palestinian elections, it is useful to remember an important sentence penned by Shimon Peres in his book "A New Middle East" (1996), p. 154: "The only way open to the Palestinian organizations if they want to overcome Hamas is through elections. An armed, extremist minority must be met by the authority of an elected majority." Peres, who held key offices in the State of Israel – Foreign Minister, Minister of Defense, Prime Minister and President – did not even consider the possibility that Hamas would use the elections to take over the Palestinian Authority of which he was a major founder and for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize. If someone so blind to reality and to what the future might hold served in such important positions in the State of Israel, what does that say about Israeli wisdom?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition, Trump is not happy with the transfer of US funds to cover Palestinian Authority activities because of the rampant corruption in its every governmental department and because Mahmoud Abbas' two sons, Yasser and Tarek, have become "partners" in every PA business deal. Funding the PA security operations is even worse – they do the minimum demanded by Israel, leaving the IDF to deal with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other terrorists. If the IDF is the real PA defense force, why should America fund security operations that do not provide security?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Interestingly, Trump also stopped supporting so-called Palestinian "Peace organizations" which run activities for Palestinian Arab and Israeli youth meant to create an "atmosphere of peace" between the two sides. It seems that Trump understood that these organizations are an entire industry whose raison d'etre is to provide jobs and collect donations from well-meaning Europeans and Americans who have little understanding of the situation.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These donors are willing to hand over millions of euros and dollars to create something that is impossible to create as long as the official Palestinian Authority media spews incitement, delegitimization and dehumanization of Israel in particular and all Jews in general. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you get it? The PA creates an atmosphere of hate so that Palestinian organizations can hold meetings to create an atmosphere of peace – with US and European money, of course. About a year ago, a reliable and well known source told me that there are hundreds of these Palestinian "peace" groups as anyone who wants an easy income establishes an organization, prints promotional material using texts taken off the internet and approaches the Europeans and Americans for monetary aid. If a woman runs the organization, her chances are even better, and what is strangest of all, it seems that American Jewish organizations are the first to give money to these income-generating organizations.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trump also stopped funding hospitals serving the Arab population in Eastern Jerusalem. He may have felt that if Jerusalem is a united city and Israel's capital, the responsibility for running these hospitals is Israel's. Perhaps Trump is telling the Israelis: You wanted a united Jerusalem? Well, you've got it now, so pay for the hospitals which are now under your jurisdiction." This is a healthy and proper, purely business attitude based on the concept of responsibility: whoever is responsible has to foot the bills.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In essence, with the moves he has taken against the PLO and PA, Trump is intimating that he has done his part, and now wants to know what Israel is going to do to put the PLO and PA where they deserve to be. Is Israel going to continue giving artificial respiration to these dead bodies? Is Israel going to continue keeping the hallucinatory agreements with terrorists signed by people like Peres and Beilin? Or is it going to join Trump and begin thinking rationally? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Palestinian issue has direct bearing on the Iranian problem, because Trump is surely asking himself: If Israel, justifiably, is constantly warning about the danger facing it from Iran, how does it allow a terrorist organization to control the mountains overlooking Israel from Dimona and Beer Sheva in the south all the way up the coastal plain to Afula and Beit Shean in the north? Every schoolchild knows that the Palestinian Arabs will launch rockets against Israeli communities as soon as they are able to. Isn't there a contradiction between Israel's vehemence against Iran and its attitude towards the Palestinians? And if Israel creates dangerous situations for itself, why should America act against Iran and the agreements signed with that country?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems that the proverbial penny has dropped in Washington and the US government has begun behaving rationally with regard to the delusionary Palestinian State, putting it out to dry economically and ending decades of keeping it alive by artificial means. The Palestinian State can now find its rightful place in the history books as another march of folly.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only problem is that all this is reversible and a different US government can easily turn back the clock and begin pressuring Israel to leave Judea and Samaria in favor of a judenrein Palestinian Arab state. Israel, therefore, must take advantage of the Trump era by creating a new reality, one that is almost impossible to change or dismiss: Israel must cancel the Oslo Agreements and all the others that followed those Accords, knock down the Palestinian house of cards, send the criminals it brought from Tunisia back to where they came from, starting with Mahmoud Abbas and his sons – and create independent emirates in every Arab city in Judea and Samaria run by local clans and their natural, local leaders.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israel must remain in the village areas forever and offer Israeli citizenship to those living in those areas who make up about 10% of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the only solution based on local sociological reality. Only this solution can bring stability, growth and peace to the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria, security to Israel. This is the solution to which Trump's steps can lead. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tranlated from Hebrew by Rochel Sylvetsky</span></b><br />
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22764</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-48187227754570306952018-06-25T03:31:00.000+03:002018-06-25T03:32:31.953+03:00Anti-Semitism Is a Mental Disease<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Anti-Semitism Is a Mental Disease</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>By Shoula Romano Horing</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>As a Jew and an Israeli, every time I write an online article about Israel and the Middle East, Jew-haters come out of the woodwork or the sewer like cockroaches, with a barrage of comments full of hatred, prejudice, bigotry, fake news, and fake history against Jews in general and the Jewish state in particular.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>For me as an Israeli, the world's sick obsession with the world's only Jewish state, which constitutes a tiny area of around ten thousand square miles, including the disputed territory of the West Bank, compared to the 13 million square miles of the Arab world, 3.79 million square miles of the U.S., and the 3.931 million square miles of Europe, is bewildering, irrational, and outrageous. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>For me as a Jew, the world's repeated attempts to scapegoat and blame the Jewish people for many of world's ills have been sad and revolting, knowing that the Jewish population worldwide totals just 14.5 million, including the 6.5 million in Israel and the 5.7 million in the U.S., who make up only less than 2% of the country's population of approximately 325 million. In contrast, the population of the Muslim world totals 1.3 billion, which includes 423 million Arabs, and the world's Christian population numbers 2.1 billion. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Obviously, anti-Semitism is not a new phenomenon for Jews. It has been called history's oldest hatred and mental disease, and it has shown itself to be remarkably adaptable, stretching back thousands of years. But what is worrisome to me now is that it seems that 73 years after the Holocaust, Jew-hatred is re-emerging in Europe and the Western world as the barbarous events of World War II recede from collective memory and the cultural and political taboo of being an anti-Semite has disappeared.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Moreover, it includes anti-Semites from the far right and the far left, Christians and Muslims, including those in private and public life, many in the political establishment and leadership positions and many individuals in academia. It manifests itself in physical attacks on synagogues in Sweden; arson attacks on Jewish institutions in France; and a spike in hate crimes against Jews in the U.K., France, Germany, and the U.S.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>At its base, Jew-hatred is a neurotic condition based on irrational fear of the Jews and a lack of personal responsibility for one's failure to achieve success and happiness. Anti-Semites fear Jews because they perceive them as all-powerful individuals who control the U.S. government and the world as well as the banks and economic systems. This neurotic worldview makes rational analysis impossible for anti-Semites. Everything is a Jewish plot and conspiracy for them in business and politics. Through circular reasoning, anti-Semites see Jewish fingers in everything bad that happens to them.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Historically, anti-Semitism has taken the form of a double standard of labeling certain characteristics as specifically Jewish when they are in fact common to all of humanity: Jews are greedy, tricky, ambitious, rich, and clannish, as though Jews were uniquely or disproportionately guilty of all these. Since Israel was established, in 1948, Jews and the Jewish state have been condemned whenever they claim or exercise the right to do things that all other people are accorded without question, like having a state and defending its security and borders.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, similar double standards are evident in the fact that 86 percent of U.N. resolutions single out Israel while ignoring human rights abuses in countries such as Syria, North Korea, and Iran. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said in a new report in February 2018 that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. is nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record and the second highest number reported since the ADL started tracking incident data in the 1970s. There were 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents reported across the United States in 2017, including physical assaults, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions. Every part of the country was affected, with an incident reported in all 50 states for the first time in at least a decade. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of Britain's most senior Jewish leaders alleged last week that Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the Labor Party, the main opposition party, has anti-Semitic views and associates himself with anti-Semites delegitimizing Israel's existence, and that he is causing British Jews to question their future in the country.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week, Turkish state-controlled media blamed the "Jewish lobby" for the sudden drop of the value of the country's currency.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a recent May 2018 survey conducted by Ifop polling company in France, some 53 percent of the French respondents agreed with the statement that "Zionism is an international organization that seeks to influence the world and societies to the Jews' benefit." Furthermore, in the poll, Israel was described as a "threat to regional stability" by 57 percent of respondents, while in reality, all the wars Israel was involved in were due to Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim attacks and threats. In the same poll, Israel was described as a "theocracy" by 51 percent, even though in reality it is the only vibrant democracy in the Middle East.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Germany, there were 1,453 anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2017, including 947 in Berlin, and these came at a time when Germany is grappling with an influx of more than one million mostly Muslim migrants, along with the rise of a right-wing nationalistic parties.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Concerning European Jewry, I believe that there is no solution for European Jews other than to come and live in Israel. Anti-Semitism has never gone from the hearts of the Europeans for over 2,000 years, and now it has evolved into anti-Israel hatred. Jew-hatred is here to stay and has even worsened as Europe continues to decline economically and morally.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the U.S., anti-Semitism is mostly limited to universities and the liberal media on the far left, and to Nazi groups on the far right, but it has never been embraced by a majority of the American people and has never evolved into anti-Israeli hatred. On the contrary, Israel's favorability score is the highest in the country since 1991. According to a 2018 Gallop Poll, over 74 percent of Americans view Israel favorably versus the Palestinians.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only way to fight those outlier groups is by confronting them head-on with facts and true history, in every public stage, forum, newspaper, magazine, school, and university. There must be zero tolerance for any fake news provided by the leftist media, as well as legislation sidelining those groups calling for boycotting or divesting from Israel. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Increased education in high schools and colleges telling the truth about Jewish history and the evil of anti-Semitism will hopefully guarantee that being an anti-Semite remains a taboo in the United States. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shoula Romano Horing is an Israeli-born and raised attorney. Her blog: www.shoularomanohoring.com.</span></b><br />
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/antisemitism_is_a_mental_disease.html</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-82888134707157124552018-06-10T22:19:00.002+03:002018-06-10T22:19:37.633+03:00How to defeat Hamas without firing a shot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to defeat Hamas without firing a shot</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The people who organize and participate in current riots on the Gaza fences, are UNRWA employees.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By <span style="color: #333333;">David Bedein</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to defeat Hamas? Deprive Hamas members of their prime source of income, which is UNRWA, the largest employer of Hamas in Gaza. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The people who organize and participate in current riots on the Gaza fences, are UNRWA employees - 20,000 proud members of Hamas who control the UNRWA workers association and the UNRWA teachers association since 1999, all of whom incite for a mass invasion of Israel under the slogan of the "right of return by force of arms"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The "return" they refer to is to villages that Arabs left three generations ago, most expecting to return after the Arab armies destroyed the fledgling Jewish state, between 1948 and 1953, in the wake of the Israel War of Independence - in which the Arabs attacked Israel. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">UNRWA has kept 5 million descendants of Arab refugees in "temporary" conditions, while Hamas ads fuel to the fire.. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can be done to douse the flames of Hamas?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Donor nations to UNRWA can demand the cut off of their paying UNRWA salaries, which would transform Hamas into beggars who would starve for lack of cash.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">US, Canada, the UK and Australia all have tough laws on the books which clearly state that their respective nations must condition aid to UNRWA with a strict requirement that, in order to receive aid, no member of an FTO, a Foreign Terrorist Organization, can receive a salary.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Indeed, Canada cut off its aid to the general fund of UNRWA in 2009 after Hamas gained control of the UNRWA workers union and UNRWA teachers association, as documented in a study that our agency published that was commissioned by the European Parliament.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Canada renewed funding of the UNRWA general fund in 2016, after UNRWA lied to Ottawa that it no longer employs members of Hamas..</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since no Hamas members were removed from the staff of UNRWA, this would be an opportune time for donor nations to demand that UNRWA conduct a review of its employees for terror connections.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next logical step is to demand that UNRWA indeed dismiss any and all Hamas members on staff. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At an UNRWA policy symposium held in Geneva in 2004, I asked Peter Hansen, then head of UNRWA, how he could justify Hamas members on his staff. His answer was that UNRWA does not look at the religious affiliation of its staff members and he went on to say that he had no problem employing Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a result of that answer, donor nations forced UNRWA to fire Hansen. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hansen's dismissal provides a precedent that UNRWA donor nations could easily invoke.</span></b><br />
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22284</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-76959422396243447792018-06-04T07:30:00.004+03:002018-06-04T07:30:59.243+03:00REWRITING HISTORY AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: Why FDR abandoned the Jews<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>REWRITING HISTORY AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: Why FDR abandoned the Jews</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The U.S. Holocaust Museum's new exhibit on America and the Shoah tries to show that FDR did the best he could to help Jews during the Holocaust. Part 3 of a special 3 part series.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>By Dr. Rafael Medoff</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Did President Franklin D. Roosevelt do the best he could to help Jews during the Holocaust? That’s the surprising made claim made in a controversial new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Mainstream historians are calling the exhibit misleading and biased.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Below is the final installment of our 3-part series, adapted from the essay “Walls of Paper,” by Dr. Rafael Medoff, which was published in the spring 2018 issue of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, published by the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education, at Yeshiva University. It is reprinted here by permission of the journal and the author. (For a full list of the footnotes from the essay, write to: info@wymaninstitute.org)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 19 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest book is Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America’s Response to the Holocaust.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>PART 3: WHY FDR ABANDONED THE JEWS</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, a personal friend of President Roosevelt, was in charge of 23 of the State Department’s 42 divisions, including the visa section. In a June 26, 1940 memo, Long advised his colleagues: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>“We can delay and effectively stop for a temporary period of indefinite length the number of immigrants into the United States…by simply advising our consuls to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence and to resort to various administrative devices, which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of the visas.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The German invasion of Poland the previous September, followed by the rapid conquest of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, and France in the spring of 1940, provoked a wave of fear—among the general public and within the administration—of Nazi spies reaching the United States. Newspapers frequently published wild stories about Hitler planning to send “slave spies” to the United States. Attorney General Robert Jackson complained to the cabinet that “hysteria is sweeping the country against aliens and fifth columnists.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The president’s rhetoric fanned the flames. FDR warned about “the treacherous use of the ‘fifth column’ by persons supposed to be peaceful visitors [but] actually a part of an enemy unit of occupation.” In fact, there was only one instance in which a Nazi disguised as a Jewish refugee reached the Western hemisphere; he was captured in Cuba and executed. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Three days after Long’s June 1940 memo, the State Department ordered consuls abroad to reject applications from anyone about whom they had “any doubt whatsoever.” The new instruction specifically noted that this policy would result in “a drastic reduction in the number of quota and nonquota immigration visas issued.” It worked as intended: In the following year, immigration from Germany and Austria was kept to just 48% of the quota.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In the spring of 1941, with Roosevelt’s approval, Long devised what has come to be known as the Close Relatives Edict. On June 5, 1941, he instructed all US consuls abroad to reject visa applicants who had a “parent, brother, sister, spouse, or child” in any territory occupied by Germany, Italy, or the Soviet Union. The rationale was that the relatives might be taken hostage in order to force the immigrant to become a Nazi or Soviet spy. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Refugee advocates were horrified. The political weekly The Nation (July 19, 1941) denounced the new regulation as “brutal and unjust.” The October 1941 issue of Workmen’s Circle Call, a Jewish immigrant laborers’ publication, described it as “cruel and unimaginative.” B’nai B’rith’s National Jewish Monthly (December 1941) asserted that the new policy could be called “Keep Your Tired, Your Poor”—a reversal of the famous poem inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Protests were to no avail: The administration refused to budge. Actualization of the quota from Germany fell to less than 18% in 1942; only 14% of the quota for immigrants from German-occupied Poland was filled that year. In 1943, less than 5% of the German quota was used, as was only 16% of that for German-occupied France. A total of almost 190,000 quota places from Axis-controlled European countries were left unused during the Hitler years. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What motivated senior State Department officials to take such positions regarding Jewish immigration? Anti-Semitism certainly played a role. Wilbur Carr, an assistant secretary of state in the Roosevelt administration, wrote in a 1934 diary entry that he preferred a particular summer resort because it was so “different from the Jewish atmosphere of the Claridge.” Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle confided to his diary in 1940, “The Jewish group, wherever you find it, is not only pro-English, but will sacrifice American interests to English interests…It is horrible to see one phase of the Nazi propaganda justifying itself a little.” Undersecretary of State William Phillips, in his diary (on May 18, 1923), once described a Soviet official as “a perfect little rat of a Jew.” It is no exaggeration to say that anti-Semitism was rife in Roosevelt’s State Department. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Such sentiments also were common among the consular officials in Europe who directly decided the fate of visa applicants. Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker, in her book In Search of Refuge, the definitive study of US consular officials in Nazi Germany, found that the consuls “often commented on the danger of permitting a flood of Jewish immigration into the US,” warned of “its potentially dangerous impact on American society,” and suspected “a Jewish conspiracy in the United States to pressure the administration into facilitating immigration.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In a similar spirit, William Peck, at the US consulate in Marseilles, wrote to a colleague that he “deplore[d] as much as anyone the influx into the United States of certain refugee elements.” He was open to immigration by “aged people,” because they “will not reproduce and can do our country no harm.” On the other hand, “the young ones may be suffering, but the history of their race shows that suffering does not kill many of them.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>However, anti-Semitism within the State Department alone does not suffice to explain US immigration policy, because it was President Roosevelt, not Breckinridge Long, who was the final authority. Ignorance was not the issue: President Roosevelt’s correspondence makes clear that he was aware the quotas were underfilled. Many references in the correspondence and diaries of Breckinridge Long allude to his regular briefings of the president on immigration policy, to which FDR responded positively. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Some historians have explained Roosevelt’s strict policy as anticipating the likely electoral consequences (that is, the strong public opposition to immigration) and congressional opposition to liberalizing the immigration quotas, but those factors do not reflect that what is under discussion here is immigration within the existing quotas, not any effort to change the immigration system. An unpublicized instruction from the White House to the State Department to permit the existing German quota to be filled would have saved numerous lives while likely causing only the tiniest of political ripples. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A more plausible explanation is Roosevelt’s attitude toward minority groups that he regarded as unassimilable. FDR in general exhibited little sympathy for immigration, expressed concern about what he saw as immigrants’ resistance to assimilation, and harbored racist sentiments about the dangers of “mingling Asiatic blood with American blood.” His conviction that the Japanese were biologically different, undesirable, and untrustworthy made Roosevelt was receptive to the proposal by some of his military advisers, after Pearl Harbor, to incarcerate Japanese Americans lest their “undiluted racial strains” inspire them to secretly assist the Japanese war effort. By order of the president, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up throughout California and shipped to internment camps in Arizona, Wyoming, Arkansas, and elsewhere in 1942, even though there was not a single documented case of a Japanese American spying for Japan in World War II </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Roosevelt’s private remarks about Jews in many ways echoed what he wrote and said about Asians. Jews, he believed, tended to overcrowd specific geographical locations, dominate certain professions, and exercise undue influence. At a White House luncheon in May 1943, FDR told British Prime Minister Winston Churchill that “the best way to settle the Jewish question” would be “to spread the Jews thin all over the world.” According to Vice President Henry Wallace’s account of the conversation, Roosevelt said he had “tried this out in Marietta [Meriwether] County, Georgia, and at Hyde Park…adding four or five Jewish families at each place. He claimed that the local population would have no objection if there were no more than that.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Roosevelt resented what he perceived as excessive Jewish representation in a variety of institutions. As a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1923, he helped institute a quota to limit the number of Jews admitted to 15% of each class, and still boasted about doing so two decades later. In 1941, FDR remarked at a cabinet meeting that there were too many Jews among federal employees in Oregon. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The president was concerned about Jewish influence abroad, too. In 1938, FDR privately suggested to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the era’s most prominent American Jewish leader, that Jews in Poland were dominating the economy and were to blame for provoking antisemitism there. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the same spirit, President Roosevelt remarked at the 1943 Casablanca Conference that in governing the 330,000 Jews in North Africa, “the number of Jews [allowed to enter various professions] should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population,” which “would not permit them to overcrowd the professions.” He said this “would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore towards the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over fifty percent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany were Jews.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Certain individual, assimilated Jews could be useful to FDR as political allies or advisers, but the presence of a substantial number of Jews, especially the less assimilated kind, was, in his view, undesirable. Roosevelt’s private views help explain the otherwise inexplicable policy of suppressing refugee immigration far below the legal limits. His vision of America was of a nation that would be overwhelmingly white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant, with no room for any substantial number of others. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WHAT OPTIONS EXISTED? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Realistically, what options existed for President Roosevelt to assist Jewish refugees without endangering his political position or risking a difficult, and probably unsuccessful, clash with Congress? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, filling the existing quotas. The policy of almost never allowing the quotas to be filled “cost Jewish lives directly,” and “the restrictionist policy also played a crucial role in Nazi Germany’s decision to solve its ‘Jewish problem’ by more radical means,” Prof. Henry Feingold has argued; “The visa system became literally an adjunct to Berlin’s murderous plan for the Jews.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next, permitting more non-quota immigration. The existing law permitted professors, college students, and members of the clergy and their families to enter the United States outside the quotas. Yet from 1933 to 1941, the US admitted only 698 students identified as “Hebrews,” 944 professors (not all of them Jews), and 2,184 “ministers” (not all of them rabbis). With a more humane attitude, the administration could have taken advantage of this legal loophole and granted haven to many more endangered Jews. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, offering temporary admission to US territories. The determination as to whether an applicant for a tourist visa had a valid return address was strictly arbitrary; a more generous approach would have looked past that technicality and granted Jewish refugees temporary haven in an American territory, such as the Virgin Islands, whose governor offered to take them in, a move that would likely not have provoked any substantial domestic opposition. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tragically, the Roosevelt administration opted to turn its back on traditional American attitudes toward the downtrodden and chose instead, as Albert Einstein wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, “to make immigration impossible by erecting a wall of bureaucratic measures.”</span></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-28976934112362919872018-06-01T23:09:00.002+03:002018-06-01T23:09:20.131+03:00U.S. HOLOCAUST MUSEUM EXCUSES FDR’S SILENCE: Jews are inconvenient<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">U.S. HOLOCAUST MUSEUM EXCUSES FDR’S SILENCE: Jews are inconvenient</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Part 2 of a special 3-part series: It is inconvenient to rescue Jews.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Dr. Rafael Medoff</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Controversy continues to grow over the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s new exhibit, which claims that President Franklin D. Roosevelt did the best he could to help Jews during the Holocaust. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mainstream historians say that the exhibit’s claims fly in the face of decades of historical research. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is part 2 of our 3-part series adapted from the essay “Walls of Paper,” by Dr. Rafael Medoff, which was published in the spring 2018 issue of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, published by the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education, at Yeshiva University. It is reprinted here by permission of the journal and the writer. (For a full list of the footnotes from the essay, write to: info@wymaninstitute.org)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and author or editor of 19 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest book is Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America’s Response to the Holocaust.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PART 2: THE INCONVENIENCE OF RESCUING JEWS</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the world-famous German Jewish chemist Fritz Haber approached US Ambassador to Germany William Dodd in July 1933 to ask about “the possibilities in America for emigrants with distinguished records here in science,” Dodd told him (according to Dodd’s diary) “that the law allowed none now, the quota being filled.” In fact, the German quota was 95% unfilled that year. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ten-year-old Herbert Friedman was denied permission to accompany his mother and brother to the United States in 1936 after an examining physician at the Stuttgart consulate claimed he had tuberculosis. Tests all proved negative, and an array of German and American specialists who reviewed his X-rays likewise concluded that he did not have the disease. Yet the consulate would not budge. The family eventually managed to enlist the help of Albert Einstein, who, in a letter to the surgeon general about the case, reported: </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I have spoken to a reliable young man who recently emigrated from Germany; when I told him about the Stuttgart Consulate’s refusal to issue the visa for the child, without giving the young man the reason for the refusal [that is, Einstein did not tell him about the claim of tuberculosis—RM], he immediately said, ‘That is an old story. Tuberculosis!’ This shows clearly that this case is not an isolated case but that it is becoming a dangerous practice. “</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THE KETUBAH DILEMMA</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some applicants in Germany ran into trouble when they presented a ketubah, the traditional Jewish religious wedding certificate, as evidence of their marital status. Some of these Jews had been married in a religious ceremony only, and not according to civil law, while others simply found it impossible to obtain evidence of their marital status from a Nazi government office, or else had been married in Russia before the Soviet takeover and could not enter the USSR to retrieve documentation. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">US consular officials refused to recognize a ketubah as proof of marriage and therefore deemed the applicants’ children “illegitimate” and rejected the family on the grounds of low moral character. In these cases and many others, consular officials used their discretionary abilities to achieve what one consul characterized as “the Department’s desire to keep immigration to a minimum.” </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In late 1936, there was a modest increase in the number of German Jews admitted to the United States. By the end of 1937, a total of 11,127 immigrants from Germany had arrived, representing 42.1% of the available spaces.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Consuls in Germany had complained that they were short-staffed, so Foreign Service Inspector Jerome Klahr Huddle was sent to Germany to assess the situation. In his report, Huddle recommended that more-distant relatives could be relied upon to provide support because they undoubtedly felt genuine sympathy for their persecuted family members. Eliot Coulter of the Visa Division agreed, in an internal memorandum, that “the Jewish people often have a high sense of responsibility toward their relatives, including distant relatives whom they may not have seen.” </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet the majority of the German quota remained unfilled. John Farr Simmons, chief of the State Department’s Visa Division in the 1930s, was proud to note, in 1937, “the drastic reduction in immigration” that “was merely an obvious and predictable result of administrative practices.” </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SPURNED OPPORTUNITIES </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938 (the Anschluss) marked a significant intensification of the Jewish refugee crisis. Now a second major European Jewish community was in need of a haven. The well-publicized scenes of anti-Jewish brutality accompanying the German army’s entrance into Austria, including Jews being forced to scrub the streets with toothbrushes, showed that the problem was reaching crisis proportions. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although polls showed most Americans still opposed relaxing immigration restrictions, a handful of members of Congress and journalists began urging US intervention. Senior State Department officials decided to—in the words of the department’s internal year-end review—“get out in front and attempt to guide” the pressure before it got out of hand. They conceived the idea of an international conference on the refugee problem, to create an impression of US concern while coaxing other countries to assume responsibility for the bulk of the refugees. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On March 24, 1938, President Roosevelt announced he was inviting 32 countries to send representatives to a conference in the French resort town of Évian-les-Bains. FDR emphasized in his announcement that “no nation would be expected or asked to receive a greater number of emigrants than is permitted by its existing legislation.” He did permit the German and Austrian quotas, now combined, to be filled that year, the only year that happened. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With one exception, the delegates at Évian proclaimed their countries’ unwillingness to accept more Jews. Typical was the Australian delegate, who bluntly asserted that “as we have no real racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one.” The only exception was the tiny Dominican Republic, which declared it would accept as many as 100,000 Jewish refugees. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scholars have chronicled the sad fate of that offer. After the first several hundred refugees were settled in the Dominican region of Sosua, the “biggest problem” the project encountered—according to historian Marion A. Kaplan—was the “unrelenting US opposition” to bringing in more refugees and “the State Department’s hostility and obstructionism.” Prof. Allen Wells found that Roosevelt administration officials harbored paranoid fears that some German Jewish refugees entering Sosua would serve as spies for the Nazis and pressured the Dominican haven organizers to refrain from bringing in more Jews. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several additional opportunities to assist Jewish refugees in 1938 and 1939 likewise were spurned by the Roosevelt administration. The president refused to support the Wagner–Rogers bill of 1939, which would have admitted 20,000 German children outside the quota. The legislation went nowhere, thanks to the sentiments of nativists such as Laura Delano Houghteling, a cousin of FDR and wife of the US commissioner of immigration, who complained that “20,000 charming children would all too soon grow up into 20,000 ugly adults.” </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the spring of the same year, 930 German Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis was turned away from Cuba and the United States. The German–Austrian quota was already filled, and any proposal to Congress to admit them likely would have been defeated. However, they could have been admitted as tourists to the US Virgin Islands, as Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., proposed at the time. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, after conferring with the president, rejected Morgenthau’s proposal on the grounds that the passengers could not demonstrate they had permanent residences in Nazi Germany to which they would return after their visas expired. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">EMERGENCY VISAS </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the aftermath of the German conquest of France in June 1940, thousands of refugees, including many exiled German Jews, fled to southern France to avoid capture by the Nazis. Many refugee families included members who were prominent artists, scientists, and intellectuals. On June 22, Marshal Petain’s Vichy regime, the ruling authority in the southern part of the country, signed an agreement with the Nazis agreeing to “surrender on demand” anyone sought by the Germans. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the days to follow, American friends and colleagues of the refugees established the Emergency Rescue Committee, hoping to bring renowned cultural figures to the United States. With help from the First Lady, the committee secured President Roosevelt’s authorization of emergency visas for several hundred artists and intellectuals and their families. The president was receptive to the proposal precisely because it was not a typical request to admit ordinary Jewish refugees. The world-famous exiles in France were the cream of European civilization; the fact that most of them were Jewish was incidental. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">American journalist Varian Fry volunteered to lead the mission. He arrived in Marseille in August 1940 with a list of 200 endangered individuals and $3,000 taped to his leg to hide it from the Gestapo. During the months to follow, Fry’s network—which included a dissident US consul, Hiram Bingham IV—rescued an estimated 2,000 refugees, in many cases by smuggling them over the Pyrenees into Spain disguised as field workers. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Catching wind of the Fry operation, furious German and French officials complained to the State Department. Secretary of State Cordell Hull responded with a telegram, in September 1940, to the American ambassador in Paris, instructing him to inform Fry that “THIS GOVERNMENT DOES NOT REPEAT NOT COUNTENANCE ANY ACTIVITIES BY AMERICAN CITIZENS DESIRING TO EVADE THE LAWS OF THE GOVERNMENTS WITH WHICH THIS COUNTRY MAINTAINS FRIENDLY RELATIONS.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hull also sent a telegram to Fry, pressing him to “return immediately” to the United States in view of “local developments,” meaning in opposition of the Germans and French. When Fry failed to heed that demand, the Roosevelt administration refused to renew his passport, thus forcing him to leave France. It also transferred Bingham to Portugal, then to Argentina. </span></b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-51435407570418228402018-06-01T05:38:00.003+03:002018-06-01T05:38:36.696+03:00US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM TRIES TO RESCUE FDR: Keeping the Jews out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Part 1 of a 3 part series on the U.S. and the Holocaust, currently the subject of an exhibition at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. in which the facts brought here are obscured.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>By Dr. Rafael Medoff</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C, recently opened a controversial new exhibit which claims that President Franklin D. Roosevelt did his best to help Jews during the Holocaust. The Washington Post described it as “a posthumous makeover for FDR at the museum.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>“It is a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times,” wrote journalist Dorothy Thompson in 1938, “that for thousands and thousands of people, a piece of paper with a stamp on it is the difference between life and death.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>For over a century, the United States had an open-door immigration policy, welcoming newcomers from around the world in almost unlimited numbers. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, however, a number of prominent American anthropologists and eugenicists began promoting the idea that Anglo-Saxons were biologically superior to other peoples. This racialist view of society reshaped the public’s view of immigration in the years following World War I. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In 1921, Congress passed—and President Warren Harding signed into law—the Immigration Restriction Act. This legislation stipulated that the number of immigrants admitted annually from any single country could not exceed 3% of the number of immigrants from that country who had been living in the US at the time of the 1910 national census. If, for example, there were 100,000 individuals of Danish origin living in the United States in 1910, the maximum number of immigrants permitted from Denmark in any future year would be 3,000. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Johnson Immigration Act of 1924 tightened these regulations in two important ways. The percentage for calculating the quotas was reduced from 3% to 2%, and instead of the 1910 census, the quota numbers would be based on an earlier census, the one taken in 1890. The restrictions were intensified in order to reduce the number of Jewish and Italian immigrants, since the bulk of Jews and Italians in the US had arrived after 1890. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In the public debates over immigration that took place in the 1920s, Franklin D. Roosevelt came down squarely on the side of the restrictionists. As the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1920, Roosevelt gave an interview to the Brooklyn Eagle in which he expressed concern that immigrants tended to concentrate in urban areas and retain their ethnic heritage: “The foreign elements…do not easily conform to the manners and the customs and the requirements of their new home.” </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The solution he proposed was dispersal and rapid assimilation: “The remedy for this should be the distribution of aliens in various parts of the country.” Writing in the Macon Daily Telegraph in 1925, FDR said he favored the admission of some Europeans, so long as they had “blood of the right sort.” He urged restricting immigration for “a good many years to come” so the United States would have time to “digest” those already admitted. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Roosevelt administration inherited this harsh system and made it worse. When Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, large numbers of German Jews urgently began looking for countries that would shelter them from the Nazis —and US consular officials in Germany urgently looked for ways to reject their applications. By crafting a maze of bureaucracy and unreasonably rigorous requirements, these officials ensured that most Jewish refugees would never reach America’s shores. Prof. David S. Wyman characterized those restrictions s “paper walls” in his 1968 book of that name. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those walls ensured that the quotas would almost never be filled. The German quota was 25,957. Just 5.3%, or 1,375, of the quota places were used in 1933, Hitler’s first year in power. Of the next 12 years, the German quota was filled in only one. Places that were unused at the end of the year did not spill over into the next year; they simply expired. In 1934, a total of 3,515 immigrants filled 13.7% of the quota; the next year, 20.2% of the quota was filled (4,891 immigrants); and in 1936, the total was 24.3% (or 6,073 immigrants). </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In most of those 12 years, less than 25% of the quota was filled. As the Nazi persecution of Jews intensified, the US quota system functioned precisely as its creators had intended: It kept out all but a relative handful of Jews. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The visa application form, which had to be filled out in triplicate, was more than four feet long. Its length, however, was the least of the difficulties applicants faced. To begin with, the “likely to become a public charge” clause posed a kind of Catch-22. The applicant had to prove he would have a means of support in the US—but foreigners were not permitted to secure employment while they still lived abroad. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Typically, the way to satisfy this requirement was to provide an affidavit from an American citizen guaranteeing financial support until the immigrant found work. Obviously, many German Jews did not have American relatives or friends. Even for those who did, however, not just any relative would do. When New York Governor Herbert Lehman asked FDR in 1935 about the seemingly extraneous visa requirements, the president replied that guarantees offered by anyone other than a parent or child would be treated skeptically, because “a distant relative” might not feel any “legal or moral obligation toward the applicant,” as closer relatives presumably would. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the case of 19-year-old Hermann Kilsheimer, for instance, three relatives did not suffice. He presented the American consulate in Stuttgart with affidavits from his brother-in-law and two cousins, all gainfully employed American citizens, pledging to support him. The cousins’ affidavits were rejected on the grounds that they were not close enough relatives, and the consul decided that Hermann’s brother-in-law earned too little to both support his own family and pay for Hermann’s tuition if he chose to attend college. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reasoning behind other rejections of visa applications ranged from absurd to maddening. Numerous German Jewish refugee students, for example, were admitted to American universities but were prevented from entering the United States. As Raymond Geist of the US consulate in Berlin explained in turning down a student who had been accepted by Dropsie College (Philadelphia), “He is a potential refugee from Germany and hence is unable to submit proof that he will be in a position to leave the United States upon the completion of his schooling.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Faculty members at accredited European universities who were offered positions at American universities were eligible for non-quota visas. However, when the Hebrew Union College established a college-in-exile and began inviting European Jewish scholars to its faculty, the Roosevelt administration threw up an array of roadblocks. One distinguished German Jewish scholar was disqualified on the grounds that he was primarily a librarian rather than a full-time professor. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over fourteen centuries ago rose Muhammad, a supposedly illiterate hired hand of a rich widow, Khadija, claiming he was the bearer of a perfect life prescription from Allah: the Quran. He claimed that humanity could do no better than to follow its precepts as well as to emulate Muhammad's own life example for a guarantee of bliss and salvation. In exchange for this, people had to embrace Islam – surrender – by surrendering their liberty to Muhammad. Up to this day, the Muslim world considers a perfect Muslim as someone who follows in the footsteps of Muhammad,<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sunnah" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> by action and by deeds</a>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You have an excellent model in the Messenger of Allah, for all who put their hope in Allah and the Last Day and remember Allah much. (Surat al-Ahzab 21)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To faithful Muslims, the Prophet Muhammad is a role model, and they must follow his Sunnah and learn how to implement its precepts and practices in their lives. So to understand the Prophet Muhammad is to understand Islam.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fortunately, for both Muslims and non-Muslims, Muhammad is not around so that we can personally observe his conduct and be tempted to emulate him. What is possible, however, is to go to authentic Islamic records and discern what Muhammad did during his life and judge it for ourselves.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The absence of Muhammad is fortunate for the Muslims because it enables them to spin many yarns about how virtuous he was. There are more stories about the kindness, his generosity, his forbearance, and whatnot than any dozen men could do in ten lifetimes. Muslims, heads in the sand, keep reciting to each other all these made-up tales.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is fortunate for non-Muslims that we won't be inclined to do some of the things Muhammad did. Many accounts of his actions, as recorded and reported by reliable, authoritative Muslim <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheLifeOfTheProphetMuhammad-EnglishTranslationOfIbnKathirsAlSira" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">sources</a>, would be considered criminal in the civilized societies of today.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Muhammad, for one, was a model of spewing hateful speech, cursing all non-Muslims repeatedly, with special venom reserved for the Jews. In the Islamic scripture, headed by the Quran, the Jews are cursed and called <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/references-to-jews-in-the-koran" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">all kinds of names</a> so many times.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is it Allah who so despises the Jews, or is it Muhammad? Either way, it doesn't make sense. If it is Allah speaking these derogatory terms in the Quran, then I am shocked. It is unbecoming of the creator of the universe, the source of all good, to devote so much of his book to cursing a few millions of his own creatures. Recall that the Quran claims that not even a leaf falls without the permission and decree of Allah. So why is it that he allows the Jews to behave in ways he condemns?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If it is Muhammad who is angry at the Jews, then it makes sense. The Jews kept rejecting him and telling him to take his sale pitch somewhere else. But what doesn't make sense here is that Muhammad claims that every word of the Quran is that of Allah. So which is it?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Islamic records report that Muhammad had numerous wives. Some even admit that they can't provide an accurate count because he took <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/wives.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">wives</a> so often and with great liberty. A number of his wives were slave women – women taken as booty in battle. Well, okay. Maybe he was doing what the Arabs of his time did. Make war; take everything, including women and children; and treat them exactly the way you would treat your own livestock. If you found a woman you desired, she was yours. That simple.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But he also married a child of one of his most senior followers, Ayesha. The poor child was a nearly six-year-old little girl when he married her, and he consummated the marriage when she was barely nine and he was pushing sixty. Now, Ayesha was not a slave girl with whom he could take that kind of liberty. He could not treat her like a piece of property, rightfully his. She was Abu Bakr's daughter. Did Muhammad bamboozle the old Abu Bakr, or did the old Abu-Bakr's lust for power make him offer his little girl to Muhammad?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Either way, what Muhammad did establish was a shameful and criminal act of marrying little girls as a legitimate practice. Not long ago, a member of the highest Islamic Council of Saudi Arabia issued a fatwa saying that in Islam, there is no age limit for marrying even infants. Now, this is the kind of religious sanction that ought to make you cringe.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just a couple more points here. Muhammad also declared acceptable killing non-Muslims, plundering their possessions, and taking their women and children as slaves to be held or sold. He legitimized slavery and even described how slaves should be treated as second- and even possibly third-class chattel.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But again, if you are the representative of the creator and owner of the universe Allah, everyone must give you a wide berth. And people did. It just so happened that men of Muhammad's time very much liked what he did and preached. Never mind women. Women did not count in much of Arabia's baby, Islam.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let us set aside these well documented unseemly and even criminal activities and look at some of the good things attributed to Muhammad.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One particular case relates to Muhammad's trying time in Mecca. The story is that an old Meccan woman would throw tumbleweeds on Muhammad as he walked by. In response, Muhammad would speak to her kindly and inquire about her well-being. This is often cited as an example of how kind and forgiving he was. Keep in mind that Muhammad was meek in Mecca and had lots of ill-wishers and few friends. He was in no position to retaliate in kind to any abuse he was subjected to.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once out of Mecca and in power in Medina, Muhammad hardly bothered inquiring about the well-being of old women. He did treat his friends – his followers – kindly. But he showed absolutely no mercy to his enemies. He had his enemies – anyone and everyone who did not fall into his fold – treated by the sword.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Muslim's surrender of liberty is not merely a matter of personal choice. Muslims abandon their most precious rights and are out to make all non-Muslims do so, too, by hook or crook.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In short: I, for one, would hardly want to take Muhammad as my exemplar and emulate him.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Prof. Eugene Kontorovich: Israel liberated its own territory in 1967. Therefore the Fourth Geneva Convention (FGC) does not apply and the settlements are legal.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By </span></b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Ted Belman</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For thousands of years, nations came and went, pursuant to the rule that 'to the victor go the spoils.' This included the right to rape the women, enslave the men, confiscate their wealth and rule the country as they saw fit.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the beginning of the nineteenth century, this rule had changed considerably, but the right of the victor to change borders and transfer populations of conquered countries was enshrined in international law.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, in accordance with international law, the victors of WWI, Great Britain, France and the US negotiated the Versailles Treaty and forced Germany to accept it. This treaty changed borders of the defeated nations and moved populations. Their right to do so was never questioned.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Similarly, Britain, France, Italy and Japan met in San Remo in 1920 to dispose of the Ottoman Empire. They decided to break it up into various countries. These countries would start as Mandates under the newly formed League of Nations and would remain so until they were ready for independence.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet, the Palestinians and other Arabs refuse to accept that the victorious powers had the right to create Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In deciding what countries to create, they held hearings, recorded evidence and then made decisions which were set out in the San Remo Resolution. It is argued by leading authorities that the decisions were Res Judicata i.e., legally decided. In other words, they were legally binding.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of those decisions was to create the Palestine Mandate, which was intended to become the Jewish Homeland. In accordance with this intention, the Jews were given the right of close settlement of the land. The land covered by that mandate included all of what is now Israel and Jordan. Two months before this document was signed by the League of Nations, the Mandatory Power, Great Britain, inserted a new clause in the draft mandate which restricted the area of close settlement by Jews to the lands west of the Jordan River. This was in violation of what had been decided at San Remo but no one cared, except, of course, the Jews.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The land east of the Jordan River was called Trans-Jordan and it’s rulers declared independence and changed the name to Jordan in 1946.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After WWII and the crushing defeat of Germany and its allies, the victors changed borders and moved populations. It was their right.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Der Spiegel reported;</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“But the people fleeing the Red Army were unaware that the Allies had already agreed with the Polish government-in-exile to hand over large parts of eastern Germany to Poland and resettle the Germans who were living there.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“All those who didn't manage to escape in time fell victim to the frenzied expulsions that were carried out until July 1945. The organized resettlement of Germans and ethnic Germans from Germany's former eastern areas and the Sudetenland began in January 1946. In all, some 14 million Germans lost their homes.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These expulsions were often done in a brutal manner and were carried out as part of a broader program of nation-building pursued by the new communist government between 1945 and 1949. “The centre-piece of this programme was an attempt to achieve the ethnic homogenization of the state, to ensure as close a match as possible between its ethnic and political borders.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At no time did the allies object to this “ethnic homogenization”.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The flight of the Arabs from the Palestine Mandate and Israel, whether voluntary or forced, must be viewed in this context. It happened at the same time. The hypocrisy of the West is glaring. In post war Europe, they insisted on the ethnic cleansing as the path to stabilization and peace whereas in the case of the “Palestinian refugees”, the UNGA passed Res 194 in Dec 11/48 even before the war was over in which they recommended that the "Refugees" should be permitted to return. Fortunately for Israel, a recommendation has no binding affect and can be ignored.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On November 29, 1947 the newly formed United Nations, which took over from the now defunct League of Nations, passed non-binding Res 181 in the General Assembly which proposed a line partitioning the land west of the Jordan River, between Jews and Arabs and invited both to declare independence over their respective parts.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Jews accepted the invitation and declared their state of Israel on May 18, 1948.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Jewish Virtual Library recalls:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Before the United Nations voted in favor of the Partition Plan on November 29, 1947, the Arab Legion of Jordan attacked Jerusalem. Their forces blocked Jerusalem's roads and cut off the city's access to water. After bitter fighting, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City fell to the vastly superior arms and numbers of the Arab Legion. The surviving Jewish inhabitants fled to the "New City," the four-fifths of the capital that Israel successfully held.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Nearly twenty years later, during the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel's army liberated Jerusalem's Old City, finding the area completely neglected and virtually destroyed.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“All but one of the thirty five synagogues within the Old City were destroyed; those not completely devastated had been used as hen houses and stables filled with dung-heaps, garbage and carcasses. The revered Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives was in complete disarray with tens of thousands of tombstones broken into pieces to be used as building materials and large areas of the cemetery leveled to provide a short-cut to a new hotel. Hundreds of Torah scrolls and thousands of holy books had been plundered and burned to ashes.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So much for Arab respect for Jewish holy sites and their regard for the Al Aksa Mosque situated on the Temple Mount, which they today claim, is the “third holiest site in Islam.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Arabs rejected Resolution 181 and declared war rather than a state. Not until the Arabs were losing the war in 1949 did the international community arrange a ceasefire. The ceasefire line was based on who controlled what and thus Israel ended up with more lands than Res 181 had set aside for them.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement, was signed on April 3, 1949 and Israel became a member of the UN on May 11, 1949.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This armistice agreement made no mention of what to do with the newly created refugees even though Jordan had raised the issue.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jordan ended up in possession of the 'West Bank' and of the Old City of Jerusalem and formally annexed them. The international community, except for three countries, rejected this annexation.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So clearly the 'West Bank' does not belong to Jordan or the Palestinians for that matter, and Israel itself was legitimately created.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, who does the 'West Bank', otherwise known as Judea and Samaria, and the Old City, belong to?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some people argue that the Palestinian Arabs have a right to create a state there but they never quote the legal foundation for such a right. They simply reject the Balfour Declaration and its implementation. They claim that they, the Arabs, are indigenous to the area and therefor entitled to sovereignty over the land but international law does not support such right.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Professor Eugene Kontorovich is the head of the international law department of the Kohelet Policy Forum and a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He answers the question, “how can the legal position of Judea and Samaria [West Bank] be defined?”, in Israeli rule in the 'West Bank' is legal under International Law .</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The question that should be asked is: What were the borders of Israel when it was first established? What defines this are the borders at the moment of independence. Israel was created, like most countries, after a successful war where no one came to its aid. In international law, there is a clear rule regarding the establishment of new countries: the country’s borders are determined in accordance with the borders of the previous political entity in that area. So, what was here before? The British Mandate. And what were the borders of the British Mandate? From the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, he argued, Israel liberated its own territory in 1967. Therefor the Fourth Geneva Convention (FGC) does not apply and the settlements are legal. And if the FGC doesn’t apply then Israel has the right to expel Arabs from these territories just as the victors expelled Germans from the land they conquered.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The international community chose not to see it that way and passed UNSC Res 242 at the end of the Six Day War in 1967. It began with a misstatement of the law, when it recited; “Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war…” In fact, International law holds that victors, in a defensive war, can keep the land acquired.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nevertheless, the resolution did not demand that Israel withdraw from all territories but gave her permission to remain in the territories until the following conditions were met:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Clearly these conditions are far from being met.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is worth noting that the 67 War was a continuation of the 48/49 war and was made necessary by the violation of the ’49 Armistice Agreement by the Arabs. Looked at in this light, Israel totally defeated the Arabs just as the Allies totally defeated the Germans and their allies after WWII. Thus, Israel has every right to reject the return of any Arab refugees and to keep all the lands acquired to the Jordan River.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thursday is <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yom Ha'atzmaut –</i> Israel Independence Day. On this day 70 years ago, as authorized by the United Nations, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel and became the nation’s first prime minister.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Independence Day – which began at sundown Wednesday in accordance with the Jewish calendar – is an occasion for celebration in Israel. <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/somber-memorial-day-gives-way-to-israels-70th-independence-day-festivities/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fireworks, concerts and parties</a> began Wednesday night across the nation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israel received congratulations from the nation’s friends around the world – including President Trump, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/donald-trump-wishes-israel-a-happy-independence-day-in-tweet-1.6012202" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">who tweeted</a>: “Best wishes to Prime Minister <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@Netanyahu</a> and all of the people of Israel on the 70th Anniversary of your Great Independence. We have no better friends anywhere. Looking forward to moving our Embassy to Jerusalem next month!”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">tweeted in response</a>: “Thank you, President Trump! We have no better friend than America. We are greatly looking forward to your moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The anniversary of Israel’s independence from Britain is also a day of denunciation from many countries opposed to Israel’s existence, since this day is known to Arabs as <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">al-Nakba</i>, or “the catastrophe” – and is the day the Arab nations surrounding Israel declared war against the newborn state in 1948, determined to wipe it off the map.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israel’s existence inspires visceral responses from people, both positive and negative. People either see it as a bastion of stability and democracy, or a cause of instability and radicalization.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But whether they are for Israel or against it, everyone <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">thinks</i> they know it. That’s why I believe this 70<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> anniversary offers a perfect chance to meet the Israel you <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">don’t</i> know.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the past three years, film crews from CBN Documentaries have traveled to five remote locations around the globe to follow Israeli volunteers dedicating their time, talents and resources to international relief efforts and humanitarian aid.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our documentary on their work is titled <a href="http://tolifethemovie.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“To Life: How Israeli Volunteers are Changing the World”</a> and is airing now on CBN and YouTube (see below).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These Israelis are saving and changing lives wherever they go. Let me introduce you to just a few of the nonprofit organizations they work with:</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.innoafrica.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Innovation: Africa</span> </a>is an Israeli organization on a mission to bring Israeli solar and water technology to remote African villages. So far, the organizations has helped improve the lives of nearly 1 million people across the continent. Because of Israeli innovation, crops now grow where people were once starving. Boys and girls study in classrooms with electric lights for the first time in their lives. Clean water brings life where contaminated water once brought disease and death.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.saveachildsheart.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Save a Child’s Heart</span> </a>is an Israeli-based international humanitarian project that provides lifesaving heart surgery and follow-up care for children from developing countries. The group gives these children free medical care regardless of their nationality, religion, color, gender or financial status.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.springsofhope.foundation/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Springs of Hope Foundation,</span></a> another Israeli organization, provides food, supplies, medical care and comfort to the Yazidi refugees in Kurdistan. ISIS terrorists attacked the Yazidi people in Iraq in 2014, enslaving or killing thousands and creating a half-million refugees. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.israaid.co.il/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IsraAid</span></a> is an Israeli group that provides lifesaving disaster relief wherever people are in crisis. Its professional medics, search-and-rescue squads and post-trauma experts have been on the frontlines of every major humanitarian crisis, from rescuing Syrian refugees in Greece to helping Texans in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is not the Israel you read about in the headlines.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I’ve saved the most surprising organization helping people around the world for last.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.idf.il/en/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Israel Defense Forces</span></a> provide humanitarian aid worldwide. IDF doctors and nurses have established field hospitals at major disaster sites around the world, including Turkey, Nepal, Haiti, Mexico, the Philippines and even the United States.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know that many other countries and organizations do amazing things to help those in crisis or in need. But very few nations do it while facing a steady drumbeat of criticism and U.N. condemnation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After 70 years, I think it’s time we see the whole picture of the modern state of Israel. Perhaps it is time to see Israel as a light to the nations, and an example for us all.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So happy anniversary to Israel and <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">l’chaim</i> as you celebrate life.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Gordon Robertson is CEO of the Christian Broadcasting Network. The documentary “<a href="http://tolifethemovie.com/" style="background: rgb(237, 246, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">To Life: How Israeli Volunteers are Changing the World</a>” is airing now on CBN and YouTube.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some are willing to talk in public, most are afraid to be identified, but a growing number of Arabs and Muslims see Israel as a country to be admired.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Dr. Mordechai Kedar</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Usually, I present my readers with a most depressing picture of the Arab and Muslim worlds. I find it unavoidable because the troubles tearing apart those two worlds are beyond description – the last seven years alone have witnessed hundreds of thousands of people killed, and millions of women, children and the elderly turned into homeless, destitute and suffering refugees. Despite the Middle East's enormous potential, its vast natural resources, panoramic vistas and unlimited opportunities, the entire region is in a state of pitiful collapse.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the prevailing Middle Eastern discourse, the blame for all this chaos is placed squarely on the shoulders of one party – Israel, along with the colonialist regimes – mainly Britain and France – who brought the Jewish State into being.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Placing the blame only on Israel is easy to do, for several reasons:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">a. It is easier for our neighbors to blame someone else for their terrible plight instead of taking a hard look at themselves in order to find the reasons for their suffering;</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">b. Israel, neither Arab or Islamic, is considered an outsider in the region to begin with;</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">c. Israel is the work of Satan because Jews have no right to sovereignty and must be kept subjugated (with dhimmi status);</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">d. Israel gains the most from the surrounding chaos so it must have caused it to begin with, and</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">e. Israel is successful while its neighbors are abject failures and therefore consumed by jealousy.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This anti-Israel stance is the rule in many of the populations making up the Middle East and includes heads of state, subjects, the intelligentsia and the ignorant, the religious and secular, elites and marginal persons, Muslims and members of other religions, Bedouin, villagers, rural folk and city dwellers.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has become "bon ton" to talk negatively about Israel all over the Middle East, to the point where the Arabic word for normalization of relations with Israel has become a vulgar and negative word in Middle East discourse.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the last few years, however, a parallel conversation has emerged, one that is free of the conventional way of talking about Israel and that Is often dramatically different. It is hard to nail down those who participate in it, some are educated and secular, some are ordinary citizens, others members of the ruling class or the opposition, they include the religious and non-religious, Muslims and members of other faiths. The main thing they have in common is the ability to free themselves from accepted conventions and swim against the tide, willing to face criticism and to deal with it.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is important to note that the social media available at just about everyone's fingertips are the main force allowing a pro-Israel conversation to reach the wider public's eyes and ears. Means of mass communication cannot be controlled completely by a government or any other entity, so they provide a public platform for people who wish to think independently and are not bound by the conventions surrounding them.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just what are they saying? (Note: My comments are in parentheses, M.K.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first person quoted here is a Kuwaiti journalist named Abdallah Alhadlek. In an interview, he said: "Whether we like it or not, Israel is a sovereign and independent state. It exists in reality, has a seat at the UN, and most peace-loving nations have recognized it. There is, of course, a group of nations that have not come to terms with Israel's existence, but they are all despotic dictatorships."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Verse 21 in the Table Chapter of the Quran proves the Jewish right to the Holy Land: 'So says the exalted God: Moses said to his people: My nation go into the Holy Land that Allah granted you.' Accordingly, it is Allah who gave them the land and they did not steal it from anyone. In fact, the land was stolen by those who lived there before the Jews entered it. That is why I do not accept the outdated expressions like 'thieving entity' or 'Zionist entity.'</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"There is no Occupation, there is only a nation that returned to its promised land. The history of the Jews precedes Islam. As Muslims, it is our duty to recognize the right of the Jewish people to this land. In 1948, when Israel was established, there was no state called Palestine. There were people dispersed in different Arab countries, called Canaanites, Amalekites and by many other names."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another example is a very interesting woman named Nonie Darwish. She stems from Egypt where her father was an Egyptian Intelligence officer stationed in Gaza. During the 1950s he would send fedayeen – today's terrorists – to attack Israel and murder, rob and destroy whatever they could get their hands on. One day Israel sent him the gift of a book which, when he opened it, exploded in his face and sent him to the place reserved in Hell for terrorists.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Noni understood that her father deserved the punishment he received for his cruelty to Israel and decided to leave Egypt, abandon Islam and convert to Christianity. Today she lives somewhere in the West and manages the ArabsForIsrael website. This is where she fights Islamic activities, the acceptance of Sharia law in Western countries, the culture of Jihad and where she speaks positively of Israel, its right to exist, defend itself and live in peace in its historic land.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And despite what many Israeli Jews think, there are, among Israeli Arabs, those who see things differently and dare to utter their thoughts out loud. One of them is a young Muslim woman named Daima Taya, who appeared on a local Arab channel and told a hostile interviewer: "Israel is not an apartheid state, and anyone who says so should be ashamed of himself. You live in this country and have a blue identity card (like every other Israeli). You work, talk (as you wish), study (whatever you wish), become researchers, teachers, lawyers, leaders, and live in a country that shows you respect." </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Syria, Iraq, Egypt and all the other Arab countries – what have they done for their people? Israel is a democracy, and its Declaration of Independence states that it has Druze, Muslim Arab and other minority groups. What is a democratic state? One that respects its people, the people living in it, their right to lead their own religious lives, study, work, be elected, become judges, lawyers, and MKs, to speak freely in the Knesset on whatever subject they wish. (Israel) gives them the right to liberty and freedom. Just where do you find that (in the Arab world)? …I wish all the Arab states, Arab societies, and citizens of Arab states the privilege to live in a democratic state like the State of Israel. I define myself as an Arab, a Muslim, I have Israeli citizenship, am proud of myself and of my religion, proud that I live in a state that respects me and grants me my rights…."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later, she added: "There is nothing perfect, nothing is 100%, go look at what is going on in the Arab world. Compared to that, Israel is just fine! And show me one Arab state where one can criticize the government!"</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are just examples of the pro-Israel opinions in the Arab world. Names such as Wafa Sultan, Bridget Gabriel, Sacar Alnablasi, Camal Govriel, Walid Shoebat and the Saudi Arabian Louis Alsherif are others, who have said things like: "If Israel did not exist, the Arabs would have had to invent it" or "Israel does not fit in the Middle East because it is not a dictatorship, not a tribal state, not a clan-based state and not run by a military junta" and "The Arab world is not willing to accept Israel because Israel's head of state gets his bribes in envelopes and our rulers need boxes to transport their bribes" and "Arab and Israeli journalists have something in common: Their governments allow them to malign Israel" and "Israel mirrors the Arabs – when they look at it they see the opposite of themselves."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is much more to say about the few people who appear on Arab media and defend Israel. There is much more to say about those who do so secretly for fear of the reaction that would come from their surroundings. I myself am in contact with quite a few of these people, those who are out in the open and those who are afraid to reveal their identities. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am going to tell just one story. Every few weeks a group of 3-4 people phone me from somewhere in the Gaza Strip and beg me to tell Israel to re-conquer the region because their lives are Hell since the day in 2007 when Hamas pushed out the PA to take control of Gaza. In the past they had worked in Israel, earned decent wages and provided for their families. Israel as a state and the Israeli people treated them well, showed them respect and usually paid them fair wages for their work.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Hamas took over, they lost their jobs in Israel. Now only those who flatter Hamas manage to obtain some sort of employment and anyone not willing to sing Hamas' praise finds himself unemployed. Work, however, is only a minor issue, because there is something much worse – the difference between Hamas' treatment of women and local girls and Israel's. The friends who phone me remember well that if it was necessary to do a security search on a woman at a checkpoint or other place while Israel controlled Gaza, the IDF would ensure that a policewoman or female soldier was called in to perform the search. Not once did a male IDF soldier touch a local woman. Today the situation in that regard is simply horrible – if there is someone who has lost favor in Hamas eyes, the Hamas men arrive at his house late at night in cars without license plates, break in with their faces masked, remove the men from the house and abuse the women and young girls left unprotected inside.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is what makes all the difference. The Arabs themselves know the truth about Israel, how it treats its citizens. They know that those who malign and slander Israel, whether or not they have reason to do so, do not have truth on their side. Even those who support Israel realize that it is not perfect, that there is no perfect nation in the entire world. What Israel has, however, and none of its neighbors possesses, is the Israeli desire and intent to be decent, law-abiding and moral, to respect human rights and respect men and women. Israel does not wish to see dead and wounded Arabs. If its neighbors would only allow Israel to live in peace and tranquility, they would never find themselves attacked.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is really important, though, is for us, the Israelis, to remember that not every Arabic speaker is an Israel-hater by definition. There are many people to be found in the Arab and Islamic world who accept Israel's existence from the start and not just after the fact and believe in the right of Jews to live securely and tranquility in the land of their forefathers. They also believe in Israel's right to defend itself and its citizens' lives, welfare, and health.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is the Arab tragedy: The modern Arab state appears in several places as its nation's own worst enemy, hated by its citizens, murdering its residents, denying their rights and stealing their property – while the head of state, its ruler, can best be described as "the liaison officer between his citizens and the World to Come."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When such is the difference between Israel and its neighbors, is it any wonder that there is a not insignificant number of Arabs willing to accept Israel's right to exist and defend its citizens like any other nation in the world? Is there any way Israel can help them? Probably not, and they know this well.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We can only wish them long, healthy and successful lives, as we wish all the people of Israel.</span></b><br />
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<em><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Written in Hebrew for Arutz Sheva, translated by Senior Consulting and Op-ed Editor Rochel Sylvetsky</span></b></em><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why is there no ‘Palestinian’ rebel group mentioned in ancient Roman history, as for example the Jewish Zealots are?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Victor Sharpe</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently, the Holocaust-denying head of Terror, Inc, known as the Palestinian Authority, one Mahmoud Abbas, upped his erstwhile mentor and arch terrorist, Yasser Arafat, by spewing yet another Arabian Nights hallucinatory diatribe at the United Nations Security Council. It went as follows:</span></b><br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“We are the descendants of the Canaanites that lived in the land of Palestine 5,000 years ago and continuously remained there to this day.”</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We should remember that the grisly, blood soaked Arafat had claimed that those Arabs who call themselves Palestinians, were descended from the Philistines. But then the followers of the ‘religion of peace’ will tell you that even Adam was a Muslim. Loony tunes for loony people!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But let’s come back to reality and deconstruct the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is no such thing as a Palestinian people; no such thing as a Palestinian history; and no Palestinian language exists.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The present-day so-called ‘Palestinians’ are an Arab people sharing an overwhelmingly Muslim Arab culture, ethnicity and language identical to their fellow Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, with few if any distinctions. They are primarily the descendants of those itinerant Arabs who illegally flooded British Mandatory Palestine from Arab territories as far away as Sudan, Egypt, Syria and what was Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). They were attracted during the early decades of the 20th century by new employment opportunities provided by the Jewish pioneers, whose heroic efforts were turning the desert green again and restoring centuries of neglect that the land had endured under a succession of alien occupations.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Britain, during its Mandate over the territory, turned a blind eye to the flood of illegal Arab aliens entering, while at the same time often arbitrarily limiting Jewish immigration into the ancestral Jewish homeland. This was a betrayal of the Mandate given to Britain to facilitate a Jewish Homeland in the geographical territory known as Palestine.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yasser Arafat, the Egyptian born arch-terrorist, was fond of creating the absurd myth that Palestinian Arabs were descended from the Philistines.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Canaanites, without doubt, are mentioned in the Bible as the first known inhabitants of the Land of Israel before the first Hebrews, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives, settled there, and before Moses brought their descendants back to the Promised Land during the Exodus from Egypt.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Canaanites lived both along the coastal plain and in the mountain regions, which run like a spine down the biblical territory of Samaria and Judea. Their language was similar to Hebrew and their territory stretched north into present day Lebanon and included the present day Golan Heights.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Canaanites were finally subdued, decimated and intermarried and no longer exist as a distinguishable people.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ‘Philistines’ were non-Semitic peoples who had entered the land from their homes throughout the Aegean Islands in general and from Crete in particular. These ancient Cretans arrived in Southern Canaan and along the Egyptian coastline and were known as ‘Pelestim and Keretim’ by the Hebrew tribes.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It appears that their first settlement may have been Gaza. Later they settled in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gat and Ekron: the Pentapolis.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their territory was primarily along the coastal Mediterranean and they attempted at different times to invade Judah, but were turned back by the various Jewish Biblical heroes and finally defeated by King David. From that time onward, they were diminished as a threat and as a separate people, finally disappearing from history after King Hezekiah defeated them and Assyria exiled them. Any claim to lineage by the Arabs who call themselves ‘Palestinian’ is as absurd as that of links with the early Canaanites.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moving fast forward to 73 CE, the first attempt of the Jews to reclaim their independence from the repressive yoke of Roman occupation ended when Jewish warriors and their families fled to the fortress of Masada from Jerusalem. The Romans had destroyed the Jewish capital city Jerusalem, along with the Second Jewish Temple. Masada is where the heroic last stand took place and where the surviving warriors and their families took their own lives rather than be sent as slaves throughout the mighty Roman Empire.</span></b><br />
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<strong><i><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Land where these stirring and epochal events took place was in the province known as Judæa. There is absolutely no mention of any place called ‘Palestine’ before that time.</span></u></i></strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the suppression of the Second Jewish Revolt in 135 CE against the continuing Roman occupation, the Emperor Hadrian replaced the name of Judea (Yehuda in Hebrew from which the name Yehudim, Jews, originates) with Syria-Palæstina after the ‘Philistines’ who were the ancient enemies of the Israelites. Hadrian did so with the explicit purpose of effacing any trace of Jewish history.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No such name as Palestine occurs in any ancient document. It is not written in the Bible, neither in the Hebrew Scriptures nor in the Christian Testament, not even in Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian, Ptolemaic, Seleucian or other Greek sources. There is no ‘Palestinian’ people ever mentioned, not even by the Romans who invented the term. Yet, here again, the fantasist, Abbas, who ranted in the UNSC and then bid a hasty retreat, still claims Jesus was a ‘Palestinian.’</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why is there no ‘Palestinian’ rebel group mentioned, as for example the Jewish Zealots are? Why does every historic document mention the Jews as the native and aboriginal inhabitants, and the Greeks, Romans and others as foreigners dwelling in Judea while there is no mention of a ‘Palestinian’ people, neither as native or as foreigner?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is more, there is no reference to any ‘Palestinian’ people in the Koran, although Muslims claim that their prophet was once in al-Aksa (meaning the farthest place) which Muslims, for political purposes, chose to be Jerusalem.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saladin, a Kurd, knew the Jews and invited them to resettle in Jerusalem. He had no trouble in recognizing Jerusalem as their capital city and the territory as their rightful Homeland. But he did not know any so-called Palestinians and to claim that Palestinians are the original people of Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, is not only counter to secular history but is also opposed to Islamic history.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The so-called ‘Palestinians’ who claim Jerusalem want it so that they can take it away from the Jews for whom Jerusalem, known also as Zion, is the eternal, 3,000 year old Jewish capital.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps what links the modern day Arabs who call themselves ‘Palestinians’ with the ancient Philistines is that both are invaders.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Philistines wanted to take from the Israelites the Holy Ark of the Covenant, while today’s so-called ‘Palestinian Arabs’ want to take from the Jewish people the Holy City of the Covenant – Jerusalem.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So let me close, beginning with the words of a Christian Arab, Joseph Farah, in <em>Myths of the Middle East</em>. Farah has made his home here in America and knows of what he writes:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 per cent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one per cent of the landmass. But that’s too much for the Muslim Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today….No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.”</span></b><br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pre 1967:</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“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.” <em>Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Syrian Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” <em>Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, 1946</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.” <em>Representative of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations, 1956</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Concerning the Holy Land, the chairman of the Syrian Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919 stated:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The only Arab domination since the Conquest in 635 CE hardly lasted, as such, 22 years.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity….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.” <em>Zuhair Muhsin, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council</em>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people.” <em>Syrian dictator Hafez Assad to the PLO leader Yasser Arafat.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The fact is that today’s Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today’s Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life at the hands of Abdul Qader Al-Husseni after being accused of selling land to Jews.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My father used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants.” <em>Walid Shoebat</em>.</span></b><br />
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<strong><i><u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reports from travelers to the Holy Land before its rebuilding by modern Zionism:</span></u></i></strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel, Galilee); not for thirty miles in either direction….One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee….Nazareth is forlorn….Jericho lies a mouldering ruin….Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation….untenanted by any living creature</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“… A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds….a silent, mournful expanse, a desolation….</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“We never saw a human being on the whole route….Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country… Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes….desolate and unlovely…” <em>Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad”, 1867.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1590 a ‘simple English visitor’ to Jerusalem wrote: “Nothing there is to be seen but a little of the old walls, which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds much like to a piece of rank or moist ground.” <em>Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund.</em></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil.” <em>British archaeologist, Thomas Shaw, mid-1700s</em>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Palestine is a ruined and desolate land.” <em>Count Constantine François Volney, 18th century French author and historian.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The Arabs themselves cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters. The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it.” – <em>Comments by Christians concerning the Arabs in Palestine in the 1800s</em>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population.” <em>James Finn, British Consul in 1857.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The area was under populated and remained economically stagnant until the arrival of the first Zionist pioneers in the 1880’s, who came to rebuild the Jewish land. The country had remained ‘The Holy Land’ in the religious and historic consciousness of mankind, which associated it with the Bible and the history of the Jewish people.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Jewish development of the country also attracted large numbers of other immigrants – both Jewish and Arab. The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts. Houses were all of mud. No windows were anywhere to be seen. The plows used were of wood. The yields were very poor. Schools did not exist. The rate of infant mortality was very high. The western part, toward the sea, was almost a desert. Ruins were scattered over the area, as owing to the prevalence of malaria, many villages were deserted by their inhabitants.” <em>The report of the British Royal Commission, 1913.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That the world has fallen hook, line and sinker for duplicitous Arab propaganda speaks to the success of one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated. And Mahmoud Abbas is still at it!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em>Victor Sharpe</em><em> traces the Israel-Islam conflict in his <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/victor-sharpe/politicide-volume-four/paperback/product-23344196.html" style="color: #046eb9; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="cursor: pointer;">four-volume set </span></a> (previous volumes<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=POLITICIDE+BY+VICTOR+SHARPE&categoryId=100501" style="color: #046eb9; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="cursor: pointer;"> here</span></a>) titled, Politicide, The Attempted Murder of the Jewish State, and provides the reader with an immense amount of information about the biblical and post-biblical history of the Jewish homeland: Israel.He is a prolific freelance writer with many published articles appearing in leading websites dealing with the threat posed by resurgent Islam not only to Israel but to Western and Judeo-Christian civilization.</em></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Arab world, for many reasons, is not at all interested in giving the Palestinian Arabs a state. The Palestinian Arabs don't really want one either, because why kill the "refugee" goose that lays the golden eggs?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Dr. Mordechai Kedar</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Israel, and in much of the Western world, we tend to think that the Arab world is united in support of the Palestinians, that it wants nothing so much as to solve the Palestinian problem by giving them a state, and that all the Arabs and Muslims love the Palestinians and hate Israel. This, however, is a simplistic and partial point of view, because while It is true that many, perhaps even the majority of Arabs and Muslims hate Israel, there are a good many who hate the Palestinians just as much.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their hatred of Israel stems from Israel's success in surviving despite wars, terror, boycotts and the enmity aimed at the Jewish state; it stems from the fact that there is an existing Jewish state even though Judaism has been superseded by Islam, the 'true religion.' It is exacerbated by Israel's being a democracy while they live under dictatorships, because Israel is rich and they are poor, because Israel is Paradise compared to Arab countries, many of which resemble nothing so much as the last train stop before Hell (see Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan – and the list goes on) …and most importantly, because Israel has succeeded in areas in which they have failed, and their jealousy drives them up a wall.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But why should they hate the 'unfortunate' Palestinian Arabs? After all, the Arab narrative says that the Palestinian Arabs' land was stolen and they were forced to become refugees. The answer to this question is complex and is a function of Middle Eastern culture, which we in Israel and most Westerners neither understand nor recognize.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the worst things in Arab eyes is being cheated, fooled or taken advantage of. When someone attempts to cheat an Arab - and even more so, if that person succeeds – an Arab is overcome by furious anger, even if the person involved is his cousin. He will call on his brother to take revenge on that cousin, in line with the Arab adage: "My brother and I against my cousin - and my brother, my cousin and I against a stranger."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regarding the Palestinian Arabs, first of all, many are not originally Palestinians at all. They are immigrants who came to the Land of Israel from all over the Arab world during the British Mandate in order to find employment in the cities and on the farms the Jews had built. These immigrants still have names such as "Al Hurani (from Huran in southern Syria)", "Al Tzurani (from Tyre in Southern Lebanon)", "Al Zrakawi (from Mazraka in Jordan)," "Al Maztri (the Egyptian)" and many other names that point to the actual, geographically varied origins of the so-called Palestinians. Why, ask the other Arabs, should they get preferential treatment compared to those who remained in their original countries?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starting with the end of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, the politics in the Arab world began to center on Israel and the "Palestinian problem" whose solution was to be achieved only by eliminating Israel. In order to help succeed in that mission, the Arab refugees were kept in camps, with explicit instructions from the Arab League to keep them there and not to absorb them in other Arab countries.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">UNRWA ensured that they were provided with food, education and medical care without charge – that is to say, the nations of the world footed the bill, while the Arab neighbors of these eternal "refugees" had to work and provide food, education and medical care for their families by the sweat of their brow. Refugees who were supplied with free foodstuffs, such as rice, flour, sugar and oil, for the use of their families, would often sell some of it to their non-refugee neighbors and make a tidy profit.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those living in the refugee camps do not pay municipal taxes, leading to a significant number of "refugees" who rent their homes to others and collect exorbitant sums in comparison with those renting apartments in nearby cities, thanks to this tax exemption. In other words, the world subsidizes the taxes and the refugees line their own pockets .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Lebanon, several refugee camps were built near Beirut, but were incorporated into the expanding city, then turned into high class neighborhoods with imposing high rise apartment buildings. Someone has profited from this change, and it is not the man in the street, who has every reason to feel cheated.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Palestinian "refugee" camps located in Lebanon have been taken over by armed organizations, from the PLO to ISIS, including Hamas, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front and organizations of Salafist Jihadists. These organizations act viciously towards surrounding Lebanese citizens and in 1975 brought on a civil war that lasted for 14 long years of bloodshed, destruction and saw the emigration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese from their villages to lives of horrible suffering in tent camps all over the country' Many took refuge in Palestinian "refugee" camps, but the Lebanese refugees received less than 10 per cent of what Palestinian Arabs received, causing much internecine jealousy and hatred.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Jordan, in 1970, the Palestinian Arabs, led by PLO head Yassir Arafat, attempted to take over the country by establishing autonomous regions of their own, complete with roadblocks and armed Palestinian Arabs in the country's north that challenged the monarchy. In September 1970, known as "Black September", King Hussein decided he had had enough and would show them who is boss in Jordan. The war he declared against them cost thousands of lives on both sides.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, in Israel, 20% of the citizenry within the pre-1967 borders is made up of "Palestinian" Arabs who do not rebel or fight against the state. In other words, the "Palestinians" living in pre-1967 Israel enjoy life in the only democracy in the Middle East, while the Arab countries sacrifice their soldiers' blood to liberate "Palestine." Is there a worse case of feeling that you are being exploited than that of an Arab soldier putting his life in danger for this meaningless cause?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Worse still is what every Arab knows: Palestinian Arabs have been selling land to Jews for at least a century, profit immensely from the deals and then go wailing to their Arab brothers to come and free "Palestine" from the "Zionist occupation."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the years, the Palestinian Arabs were given many billions of euros and dollars by the nations of the world, so that the yearly per capirta income in the PA is several times greater than that of the Egyptian, Sudanese or Algerian man in the street. His life is many, many times better than that of Arabs living in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen over the past seven years.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On a political level, the Palestinians have managed to arouse the hatred of many of their Arab brethren: In 1990, Arafat supported Saddam Hussein's Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In revenge, Kuwait, once it was freed of Iraqi conquest, expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians, most of whom had been employed in its oil fields, leaving them destitute overnight. This led to an economic crisis for their families in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, who had been receiving regular stipends from their sons in Kuwait.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are supported by Iran, the country abhorred by many Arabs who remember that airplane hijacking and the ensuing blackmail were invented by the Palestinian Arabs who hijacked an El Al plane to Algiers in 1968, fifty years ago, beginning a period of travail still being endured by the entire world.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Despite the 1989 Taaf agreement that ended the civil war in Lebanon and was supposed to lead to the de-weaponization and dissolution of all the Lebanese militias, Syria allowed Hezbollah to keep its arms and to develop its military power unrestrainedly. The repeated excuse was that the weapons were meant to "liberate Palestine" and would not be aimed at the Lebanese. To anyone with a modicum of brains, it was clear that the Palestine story was a fig leaf covering the sad truth that the weapons were going to be aimed at Hezbollah's Syrian and Lebanese enemies. "Palestine" was simply an excuse for the Shiite takeover of Lebanon.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Worst of all is the Palestinian demand that Arab countries refrain from any relations with Israel until the Palestinian problem is solved to the satisfaction of the PLO and Hamas leaders. However, a good portion of the Arab world cannot find any commonalities that could unite the PLO and Hamas. They have given up on achieving an internal Palestinian reconciliation, watching the endless squabbles ruin any chances of progress regarding Israel. To sum up the situation, the Arab world – that part of it which sees Israel as the only hope in dealing with Iran – is not happy at the expectation that it must mortgage its future and its very existence to the internal fighting between the PLO and Hamas.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And let us not forget that Egypt and Jordan have signed peace agreements with Israel, have moved outside the circle of war for the "liberation of Palestine" and have forsaken their Palestinian Arab "brothers," leaving them to deal with the problem on their own.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Much of the Arab and Muslim world is convinced that the "Palestinians" do not want a state of their own. After all, if that state is established, the world will cease to donate those enormous sums, there will be no more "refugees" and the Palestinian Arabs will have to work like everyone else. How can they do that when they are all addicted to receiving handouts without any strings attacked?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One can say with assurance, that 70 years after the creation of the "Palestinian problem," the Arab world has realized that there is no solution that will satisfy those who have turned "refugee-ism" into a profession, so that the "Palestinian problem" has become an emotional and financial scam that only serves to enrich the corrupt leaders of Ramallah and Gaza.</span></b><br />
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<em>Translated by Rochel Sylvetsky, Senior Consultant to A7 English site, Op-ed and Judaism editor</em></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of the basis of "Palestinian" national identity, the two-state solution basically makes peace impossible. The objective factors that preclude a two state soluton should have been obvious to anyone analyzing the situation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By Dr. Yale M. Zussman</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As long as there was some hope that negotiation could produce a solution to the conflict with the Arabs, Israel and it supporters generally refrained from calling attention to several objective factors that have always made the so-called "two-state" solution impossible. In the wake of UNSCR 2334 and several more recent developments, the prospects of successful negotiations have dimmed further, even with all the talk of the Trump Plan, so the time has come to call attention to those factors.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are five objective factors, "inconvenient truths" if you like, that preclude a successful "two-state" solution that should have been obvious to anyone thinking about the issue seriously:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Opposition to Jewish rights in the region comes, at least in part, from religious sources. Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who led the Arabs during the Mandate, was a religious authority and appealed to his people to oppose the Jews using religious terminology. For Muslims, the entire Land of Israel is a Muslim <em>waqf</em> or religious trust, territory that, having been conquered by the Muslim sword, can never revert to its previous and rightful owners. As long as that belief isn't countered, no Muslim can accept that Jews will rule anywhere in the Land. The conflict over security for the Temple Mount complex is a manifestation of this problem as is the dispute over recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Both are largely driven by theological, even eschatological, factors because they directly challenge this Muslim belief.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There can be no peace between Muslims and Jews that fails to address the Islamic dimension of the problem. It is possible that finding an answer here will provide insights enabling solution of the other apparently intractable problems of the Muslim world. Given what is going on in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, etc., such insights cannot come too soon. The Arab-Israeli conflict is a result of the same factors that generated those others, and not the cause of them. Conventional wisdom has had it exactly backwards. Establishing a Palestinian state would do nothing about this issue.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. The demographics of the region require that either Israel or the putative Palestinian state be non-contiguous. While it is topologically possible to make both states contiguous, by exchanging the Jordan River valley for territory linking Gaza and Judea, the absurd borders this will produce, and the need to move tens, or hundreds, of thousands of citizens to get there, guarantee that this will not be done. The contiguity problem led to the Partition Commission's clever, possibly elegant, but conceptually flawed, borders in 1947. Because the wider region is mainly Muslim, it is more important that Israel remain contiguous, which it currently is, and that means that any Palestinian state established must consist of non-contiguous pieces.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Non-contiguity enables separate development in economics and culture at the very least, and these lead to divergent political paths. We see this phenomenon in "Palestine" with the Islamist Hamas controlling Gaza and the avowedly secular PA in power on the 'West Bank'. As long as "Palestine" is conceived as a single entity, the groups ruling its two lobes <em>must </em>compete for control of both by upping the ante against Israel, because hostility to the Jews is the only issue that unites their various peoples.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The track record of non-contiguous states is rather bad. The most obvious examples are Pakistan, from which Bangladesh seceded in a bloody war in 1971, and Germany and East Prussia, which contributed to the outbreak of World War II. Non-contiguity, by itself, may guarantee that the putative Palestine will be a failed state almost from birth. In turn, that makes the notion of a "Palestinian state" part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. A solution to the conflict that includes Israeli withdrawal to the Green Line, division of Jerusalem, and withdrawal of all the settlers to enable the establishment of a fully militarized Palestinian state along the 1967 lines, what "two-state" solution advocates claim they want, and what is envisioned in the 2002 Arab initiative and UNSCR 2334, would demonstrate that the cause of all Palestinian suffering, for the last 49 years, if not since 1949, is the unwillingness of their leaders to make peace with Israel: This is the solution they could have had in 1967, or even 1949, but chose not to pursue.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such a solution would mean that all Arab "suffering" since 1967, or even 1949, is the result of decisions made by their leaders and will have been "for nothing." No-one who has been part of the decision-making process during this period can escape responsibility for the costs they have imposed on their people, and many would undoubtedly pay with their lives. The longer the conflict continues, the more "suffering" there is and the higher the price the leaders will have to pay.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palestinian Arabs would benefit by being told the truth, but their leaders have never done so and can't start now; they have backed themselves into a corner. For this reason, all concerned must recognize that a solution before Mahmud Abbas' death is basically inconceivable.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have brought this reality to the attention of a few diplomats involved with the issue, and none of them has acknowledged being previously aware of it. Once it is pointed out, it's sort of obvious, and they recognized immediately why it would prove to be a problem.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only solution that can vindicate that suffering is the destruction of Israel, but there is no obvious reason why Israel should agree to that... This means that only the prospect of future losses can provide the incentive for Palestinian Arab leaders to settle sooner rather than hoping for better later. Since, apart from its propaganda value, these leaders don't appear to be bothered by the suffering of their people, Israel's only real leverage on the Palestinian Arabs is the possible loss of land.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Contrary to the widely-held assumption in the West, this means the prospect of additional 'settlements' is a net positive for getting the Palestinians to make peace, and the campaign against them has undermined the pursuit of a solution. It is no coincidence that as the campaign against the 'settlements' has gathered momentum the prospects for a negotiated solution have dimmed. Palestinian leaders understand this, which is why they are so adamant about building freezes, and why, when they get one, respond by doing nothing. Freezes do nothing more than remove Israel's leverage; they don't advance the cause of peace.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. "Palestinian" history demonstrates that there is no "Palestinian People." The 1910/11 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica lists more than a dozen identifiable nationality groups within the Muslim population of the land claimed by the Palestinians. During the Mandate, they were joined by additional Muslim groups, including some from Syria.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some Palestinian Arab leaders are willing to acknowledge that there is no Palestinian people. Thus, Zahir Muhsein, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, told the Dutch publication <em>Trouw </em>in 1977:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"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 reality 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 distinct `Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In an official PA TV special broadcast for the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, (Nov. 1, 2017) Palestinian historian Abd Al-Ghani Salameh responded to a question about the Declaration's impact on the Palestinian people with:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Before the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) when the Ottoman rule ended (1517--1917), Palestine's political borders as we know them today did not exist, and there was <em>nothing called a Palestinian people with a political identity as we know today</em> (emphasis added), since Palestine's lines of administrative division stretched from east to west and included Jordan and southern Lebanon, and like all peoples of the region [the Palestinians] were liberated from the Turkish rule and immediately moved to colonial rule, without forming a Palestinian people's political identity."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pinhas Inbari (Who Are the Palestinians? August 7, 2017 <a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/</a>) pointed out recently that the histories and genealogies of the various clans confirm that essentially all of them are new-comers, from Arabia, Egypt, or even Central Asia. Thus, contrary to Mahmud Abbas's claims, none of the clans or tribes claims to be descended from the Canaanites, much less the Natufians, the name anthropologists give to the people who may have discovered agriculture 10000 years ago.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even Hamas minister Fathi Hammad acknowledges that "half the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During the mandate, the Arabs of Palestine had no name for themselves; "Palestinian" referred to the Jews. When they took a name, in the 1950s, it was the name the imperialists -- Roman Empire or British, take your pick -- gave to the territory where they had lived. Where would they be if the Jews had decided to retain the name "Palestine" for their country?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two or three generations of separate development followed 1949, so there has been no opportunity for Palestinian Arabs to coalesce into a single people. If they had, the "Refugees of 1948" would be willing to forego their claimed "right of return" to their homes in 1947 for the opportunity to have a Palestinian state. Insistence on this right means the "Palestinians" aren't a people even today. They remain, as they were a century ago, a grab-bag of clans and tribes, some newly arrived in the Middle East, never mind "Palestine," and often at war with one another.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even if their leaders wanted to, this collection would be incapable of making the decisions necessary to establish peace. Indeed, as long as hostility toward Israel is the glue holding the "Palestinian People" together, they cannot make peace without putting themselves out of business. They are incapable of either unifying, which is a prerequisite for the "two-state" solution, or abandoning maximalist claims because that means abandoning the "Refugees of 1948."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palestinian leaders must be aware of this at some level, which explains their ridiculous claims about the antiquity of their people and their denial of demonstrable Jewish history and claims to the land, a lie made "official" by UNESCO. Reality doesn't support their political goals, so, in the absence of a real one, they have simply invented a history for themselves.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Curiously, the only time all the parts of the "Palestinian" people could intermingle freely was when there actually was an 'occupation'. It was also during the 'occupation' that their living conditions improved markedly, now labeled "suffering." Maybe Arafat concluded that if he didn't destroy these gains his hope to destroy Israel would never come to pass, and thus the <em>intifadeh</em>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Any solution now would demonstrate that the "Palestinian narrative" has been a lie all along, and without that narrative, Palestinian claims would be seen for what they are: a pretext for avoiding making peace.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That there is no "Palestinian People" does not mean there are no Palestinian people; there is a difference. The sad irony of this situation is that what is good for Palestinian people, like the economic and social progress that occurred during the 'occupation', is often bad for the notion that there is a "Palestinian People;" while what is good for that idea, like more "resistance," violence, and death, is usually very bad for individual Palestinians.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5. The solution suggested in item 3 does nothing for the "Refugees of 1948" because it doesn't include the "right of return" or enable them to destroy Israel, so they have no reason to support it or to pay any price to get it. That most of the leaders of the various Palestinian factions come from those "Refugees of 1948" means they won't consider settling on this basis, and as long as Palestinian society is not governed democratically, the "Refugees of 1948" faction will hold power and prevent a solution.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Consequently, resolution of the refugee issue is a prerequisite for achieving a peace settlement of any sort; it must come <em>before</em> the Palestinians will be willing to get serious about making peace. The solution will have to come from outside, perhaps a buy-out of their "refugee" status. Arab leaders have understood this since 1949, which is why they have refused to address the refugee issue and why there are Palestinian "refugees" living in camps under the jurisdiction of the PA and Hamas, the two candidates for their prospective "government." UNRWA must be closed down since its survival depends on perpetuating the refugee problem.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The above items are incontestable facts, and note that I have not included that the Palestinian Arabs have a different idea about what the "two-state" solution is intended to achieve: not peace but a new status quo from which they can pursue the destruction of Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for the implications:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are at least three alternatives to the establishment of a Palestinian state as envisioned in the "two-state" solution:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">a) Continuation of the current situation. This is basically a non-starter because since Oslo it has been understood as temporary and that has contributed to escalating violence. "Temporary" does not mean it is going away any time soon, just that ultimately it must end.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">b) Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Caroline Glick has proposed this, but her solution doesn't really explain why the Arabs would accept it and how Israel might address the consequences of having a large hostile minority inclined to engage in violence with free access to everywhere in the country.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">c) Look back to the situation between 1949 and 1967. In this scenario, Gaza is either annexed by Egypt or recognized as the Palestinian state (appropriate because Gaza approximates the territory once inhabited by the Philistines) while Israel and Jordan draw a border between them to resolve territorial issues in Judea and Samaria. Because both Egypt and Jordan have already recognized the legitimacy of Israel, such a solution doesn't require the conceptual breakthrough necessary for an agreement between Israel and "Palestine." Jordan can agree to demilitarize its West Bank territories without losing sovereignty, something a Palestinian state in the same territory could not do.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The counter-argument here is that this strategy will convert Jordan into a possibly second Palestinian state, but if the "Refugees of 1948" have already been resettled, they might be open to adopting a Jordanian identity that enables them to avoid Islamist rule, which Hamas has brought to Gaza.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This approach ends the "occupation" without empowering forces committed to destroying Israel, and may well be sufficient for the larger Arab and Muslim worlds to declare the problem solved.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The notion of a "Palestinian State" may be one of the worst ideas ever to come from the political elite. Because of the basis of "Palestinian" national identity, it basically makes peace impossible.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The question before diplomats who wish to address this conflict now is simple: Are they more interested in vindicating the theory that requires Israeli concessions or do they wish to find a solution to the problem? It is said to be intractable, but maybe what must actually change is the mind-set of those who seek to deal with it and their understanding of what it will take to find a solution.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />(The author holds a doctorate in Political Science from MIT)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS?</span></h1>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Palestinian Arabs have to decide what their objective is.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slogans will not do.</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>They seem to aspire to get emotional satisfaction more than practical results. For instance, getting a large number of United Nations resolutions condemning Israel or extolling their national cause or threatening ad nauseam that Israel and Israelis will be brought to trial before international tribunals have had scant positive effect on the conditions of the Palestinian Arabs.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Further, shouting loudly that the gates of hell will open each time anyone does anything that runs counter to their narrative adds only a poetic dimension to their cause, but nothing else.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Setting preconditions to any negotiations with Israel or leaving them when it suits the Palestinian Arabs have hardly improved their negotiating position vis a vis Israel.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>They had eight years of a positively-disposed US administration led by president Barak Obama, which were wasted in vain. An opportunity was presented to them to try to forge a diplomatic process convenient to them, but they didn’t. The Palestinian Arab leadership alternated between preconditions and post-conditions, between stating what Israel must do prior to negotiations and demanding Israel meet further conditions after negotiations had already started.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>There is a limit to how much the Palestinian Arabs can ascribe responsibility to Israel for anything wrong that has happened to them.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Now they have found an additional culprit: the United States. Their mode of conduct with the US is peculiar, though consistent: rather than try to shape reality for their own good, they remain on the sidelines finger-pointing and boycotting. President Donald Trump has said explicitly that US official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital does not predetermine the future boundaries of the city. Moreover, he made it clear that Israel was supposed to “pay” for it. Where were the Palestinian Arabs to ask for such a payment? The Palestinian Arabs are responsible for their fate no less than anyone else is. Within certain limits, they have a freedom of choice. The problem is that they know that no matter how many mistakes they might make, there will always be an automatic majority in the international community supporting them. To be sure, that may afford them scant tangible success, but it gives them considerable emotional satisfaction.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>If the Zionist movement had made even a fraction of the mistakes the Palestinian Arabs have made since 1947, by now it would have been consigned to oblivion.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Palestinian Arabs act as though they are immune from such a fate, as though they can afford to err as many times as they wish. After all, they can always blame Israel and get the regular automatic backing in international organizations.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Their strategy of weakening Israel has failed. They believed that attacks on Israeli civilians would weaken their resolve (in this context it should be stressed that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, has been consistently opposed to terrorism since the Oslo Accords of 1993); that a hostile diplomatic and legal campaign would weaken Israel’s international position; that boycotting Israeli products would weaken Israel’s economy; that threatening to engulf the region with hatred and violence would weaken Israel’s control of Jerusalem and other areas.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>If they wish to wait until Israel disappears or becomes significantly weaker, then many more generations of Palestinian Arabs will continue to cheer, applaud and announce that the gates of hell are going to open as Israelis prospers and become even more powerful and successful.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>To be sure, success is not assured even to the most capable of people, as the Palestinian Arabs know.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Israel can have its ups and downs. Israelis might suffer still more.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The question is how do the Palestinian Arabs see their own future? Are they going to determine the extent of their national destiny by defining the limits of Israel’s national fate? Shouldn’t their objective be depicted in positive rather than negative terms? Any success the Palestinian Arabs have in the international arena is ephemeral and hardly consequential.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It’s up to them to decide if they wish to continue waiting passively for a better future until hell freezes over or decide to shape actively their political environment in a constructive way.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>To be sure, any leader who wishes to do so has to face a large portion of the Palestinian Arab community opposed to any compromise, attached to an emotionally uplifting but politically destructive national narrative.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>However, whether such a leader exists or not the fact remains that rather than forge a positive national credo with which to carry its people forward, the Palestinian leadership has so far preferred to adhere to a negative collective memory leading its people to a diplomatic dead end. To paraphrase Winston Churchill: never have so many enjoyed so much international support in order to achieve so little.</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #5f5f5f;" /></span></b> <em style="color: #5f5f5f;"><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The author is a lecturer at the Diplomacy Studies Program of Tel Aviv University’s Political Science Department.<br /><br />He holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University and a master’s degree in international relations from Cambridge University. He read for his BA in history at Tel Aviv University.</span></b></em><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-43046842321306606892018-01-26T23:32:00.001+02:002018-01-26T23:32:03.986+02:00Abbas and his advisor lash out at Trump and US ambassadors - PMW Bulletins<a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=24827#.WmueQTr5Z7c.blogger">Abbas and his advisor lash out at Trump and US ambassadors - PMW Bulletins</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2008446082838001928.post-13593233371512100222018-01-19T20:19:00.001+02:002018-01-19T20:19:19.642+02:00Who Are The Palestinians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li class="first" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palestinian leaders claim that the Palestinians are descended from the Canaanite people who lived in the Land of Canaan before the Israelite tribes settled in it.</span></b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the source of the name “Palestine?” It is not Arab; it is derived from the name “Palestina,” by which the Roman Emperor Hadrian chose to call the land after the defeat of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 CE. His aim was to erase “Judea.”</span></b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to Palestinian historian Muhammad Y. Muslih, during the entire 400 year period of Ottoman rule (1517-1918), before the British set up the 30-year-long Palestine Mandate, “There was no political unit known as Palestine.” In Arabic, the area was known as <em>al-Ard al-Muqadassa</em>(the holy land), or <em>Surya al-Janubiyya</em> (southern Syria), but not Palestine.</span></b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not a single Palestinian tribe identifies its roots in Canaan; instead, they all see themselves as proud Arabs descended from the most notable Arab tribes of the Hejaz, today’s Iraq, or Yemen. Even the Kanaan family of Nablus locates its origins in Syria. Some Palestinian clans are Kurdish or Egyptian in origin, and in Mount Hebron, there are traditions of Jewish origins.</span></b></li>
<li class="last" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This study does not deny the right of the Palestinian clans as a whole to define themselves as a Palestinian people. It would be better, however, if the Palestinian leadership were to choose a positive and constructive narrative and not a baseless one that is intended to negate that of the Jews of Israel.</span></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet again, Palestinian leaders are claiming that the Palestinians are descended from the Canaanite people who lived in the land of Canaan before the Israelite tribes settled in it. No less than the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, made that claim in Germany; no one was taken aback by his remarks or questioned him.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">1</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat frequently makes the assertion,<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">2</a></span> and during an international forum, he insultingly sniped at senior Israeli politician Tzipi Livni that his origins lay with the Canaanites of Jericho who were wiped out by the Israelites, alluding to “war crimes” of Joshua ben Nun.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">3</a></span> Again, none of the senior international officials who were present made any effort to ask questions, raise doubts, or come to the defense of the abashed Israeli representative.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ironically, a strong dissenting view to this thesis that the Palestinians can be traced back to the Canaanites comes from Hamas. On March 23, 2012, the Hamas Minister of the Interior and National Security, Fathi Hammad, linked the Palestinians’ origins to Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the north, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians; we are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are part of you. Egyptians! Personally, half my family is Egyptian – and the other half are Saudis.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">4</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Palestinians’ Canaanite narrative is not new. It emerged after the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Syria in 1920, Syria’s incorporation into the French Mandate, and King Faisal’s flight to Iraq so that he could assume the throne there in 1921. Yasser Arafat claimed that the Palestinians are descendants of the Jebusites, whom he describes as a Canaanite tribe.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">5</a></span> In short, this argument has been around for a while.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is the source of the name “Palestine?” It is not Arab; it is derived from the name “<em>Palestina</em>,” by which the Roman Emperor Hadrian chose to call the land after the defeat of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 CE. His aim was to erase “Judea” and negate any connection of the land’s history and identity with the Jews.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">6</a></span> This denial of the land’s Jewish roots has regrettably been continued to the present day by today’s Palestinians. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the Islamic armies conquered the land, they adopted the administrative name used by the Byzantines and dubbed part of <em>Palestina Prima</em> (“the first Palestine”) – more or less today’s Jerusalem area and the <em>Shfela</em> [coastal plain] – as “<em>Jund Filastin</em>.”<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">7</a></span> Jund means “army;” <em>Jund Filastin</em> means “the Palestine military command.” In other words, the name did not signify the national identity of a “Palestinian people” who lived in the land, but instead, a military district, in line with the Byzantine nomenclature. The hub of Jund Filastin was the town of Ramle, not Jerusalem; the intention was apparently to protect the trade routes leading from Egypt to Syria and Iraq.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first generation of the Palestinian Muslim leadership took part in the Great Arab Revolt of the Hashemites in 1916. Palestinian leaders were members of the Hashemite administration in Syria, and it was only after King Faisal’s reign collapsed that they came to Palestine.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arab demonstration in Jerusalem, circa 1920. The sign on the left says: “We resist the Jewish immigration;” the sign on the right says: “Palestine is part of Syria.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to Palestinian historian Muhammad Y. Muslih, during the entire 400-year period of Ottoman rule (1517-1918), before the British set up the 30-years-long Palestine Mandate, “There was no political unit known as Palestine.” In Arabic, the area was known as <em>al-Ard al-Muqadassa</em>(the holy land), or <em>Surya al-Janubiyya</em> (southern Syria), but not Palestine.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">8</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Arabs of British Mandatory Palestine (1918-1948), then, had been exposed to competing narratives by which they could construct their political identity.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn9" name="_ednref9" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">9</a></span> Haj Amin al-Husseini, for example, was an Ottoman officer, but he joined the Hashemite army as a recruiter.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn10" name="_ednref10" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">10</a></span> Another figure from those days was Aref al-Aref, a supporter of the Hashemite regime in Damascus who orchestrated the April 1920 Nabi Musa riots in Jerusalem as a way of honoring the reinstatement of the Hashemite Faisal’s government. In 1919, al-Aref edited a Jerusalem-based publication called “Southern Syria.” At the 1920 riots, Haj Amin al-Husseini held up a portrait of King Faisal of Syria and showed it to the Jerusalem Arab crowd: “This is your King!” The crowd responded: “God Save the King!”<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn11" name="_ednref11" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">11</a></span> The focus of much of the protest at the time was on the imposed separation of British Mandatory Palestine from Syria, which came under a French Mandate. The goal was reunification not Palestinian independence.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Arab demonstration outside of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, 1920. The speaker may be Aref al Aref. The signs declared support for Palestine as part of Syria (<em>Library of Congress</em>)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As long as Palestinians saw themselves as part of Syria, they were not aware of their Palestinian identity. Adnan Abu Odeh, a senior Jordanian statesman of Palestinian extraction, wrote about Palestinian-Jordanian relations and made a distinction between the two peoples. In his view, the difference between Jordanians and Palestinians does not necessarily lie in how they define their identity but in how <em>others</em> define them.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn12" name="_ednref12" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">12</a></span> This distinction emerged, he maintains, when the British established the Emirate of Transjordan, which defined the Jordanians, and designated Palestine as the Jewish national home, thereby defining the Arabs who lived in the territory allocated to the Jews as Palestinians. </span></b></div>
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<li class="first" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trans-Jordanians: Jordanian citizens whose origin is in Transjordan,</span></b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palestinians: The Arab people of Mandatory Palestine,</span></b></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palestinian Jordanians: Palestinians who became Jordanian citizens after the West Bank and the East Bank were unified by Jordan in 1950,</span></b></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, the national definition of the Palestinians stemmed from the borders that the <em>Western powers</em>carved out, whereas, after the First World War, they defined themselves as part of the short-lived Hashemite regime in Syria.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A remnant of those early days is the flag of Palestine, which is actually the flag of the Great Arab Revolt of the Hashemites.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn13" name="_ednref13" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">13</a></span> It still serves as the official flag of the Syrian Baath Party and was only adopted as the official flag of Palestine at the PLO congress of 1964.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn14" name="_ednref14" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">14</a></span> In any case, the flag’s colors represent symbols from Islamic history and are in no way specifically linked with the Palestinians.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This latter flag represents the Syrian aspiration for an empire. Similarly, the first generations of Palestinian nationalists joined the Hashemite administration out of hope that pan-Arabism would liberate Palestine. To this day, the PLO regards itself as pan-Arab.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn15" name="_ednref15" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">15</a></span> This means that for the Palestinians, defining themselves as pan-Arabs entails the total negation of the other – in the Palestinians’ case, of Israel. The first article in the 1964 Palestine Liberation Organization’s Charter declares “Palestine is an Arab homeland bound by strong Arab national ties to the rest of the Arab Countries and which together form the great Arab homeland.”<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn16" name="_ednref16" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">16</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The flag of Palestine is, then, one of the flags of “Greater Syria.” It expresses a pan-Arab commitment, which the flags of Jordan, the Baath Party, and the Hashemites during their short-lived regime in Syria also upheld.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Nabil Shaath, head of the PLO’s foreign relations department, explained why they oppose the 1917 Balfour Declaration, he described Jewish history as “a potpourri of legends and fabrications.”<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn17" name="_ednref17" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">17</a></span> Britain had awarded the country to those who had no bond with it whatsoever. “[The Jews] he said, “have no connection with the country, neither in distant nor in more recent history. Britain destroyed Palestine and cleared the path for the colonialist settlers instead of the real owners of the country. That is history,” declared Shaath.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Associating Palestinian history with the Canaanites is, then, part of the total denial of Jewish history. It is echoed in the denial of the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount and the existence of a Jewish Temple there – nothing but a “potpourri of legends and fabrications.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This narrative is directly linked with the outrageous UNESCO resolutions that sever the bonds between the Jewish People and the cities of Jerusalem and Hebron. Some time ago, in one of the West Bank cities, I talked with a retired Palestinian teacher about the Canaanites. He claimed that they were a Yemenite Arab tribe that settled in Palestine and that the Israelites when they conquered the country, did not build a single new city or village; all the cities are Canaanite cities.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He also said that the Israeli Shekel bears a Canaanite name; the evidence is that it was a Canaanite currency that Abraham paid to the Canaanites for the Cave of Machpelah. He claimed the Palestinians hold the right to the name “Shekel.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to the Torah – so the Palestinian teacher claimed as well – Ishmael (Abraham’s son) was the firstborn, not Isaac. God’s promise to Abraham pertained to Ishmael and not to Israel, he insisted.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One theory associates the Canaanites with the tribe of Amalek,<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn18" name="_ednref18" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">18</a></span> hated by the Israelites. It posits that the Canaanites were among the Amalekites’ descendants, and that “explains” why the Jews want to annihilate the Palestinians. Thus, linking the Palestinians with Canaan reflects an uncompromising attitude of all-out war.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Palestinian scholar Khairiya Qassemiya wrote in the PLO’s journal that the Palestinians’ disengagement from Syria was difficult for them because they then had to contend alone, without the Arabs, against the Zionists. King Faisal, she wrote, opposed severing Palestine from Syria, and in doing so set the stage for the ongoing opposition of all Syrian governments to creating a separate Palestinian state that is detached from Greater Syria.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The collapse of Faisal’s government, however, cut the Palestinians off from Syria<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn19" name="_ednref19" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">19</a></span> and forced them to seek separate roots for their identity; thus, the Canaanite ethos was born.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For his part, PLO leader Yasser Arafat was known to describe the Palestinians as a “nation of heroes” (<em>kum jabarin</em>). The term comes from a Koran verse concerning the Israelites’ trepidation over entering the land of Canaan since it harbored a “nation of giants,” that is, the Canaanites. Thus, Arafat gave the Canaanite narrative Islamic roots.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn20" name="_ednref20" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">20</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such is the ethos. When one looks into what the Palestinians say about themselves, how each family describes its lineage, there is no trace of a “Canaanite” ancestry. Most of the families find their origins in Arab tribes, some of them with Kurdish or Egyptian background, and there are even – by word of mouth – widespread stories of Jewish or Samaritan ancestry. Although one might have expected some effort to adduce a <em>Philistine</em> ancestry, there is almost no such phenomenon.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn21" name="_ednref21" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">21</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Nablus, there is a family named Kanaan – that is, Canaan. We asked members of the family about its lineage, and they affirmed that they had been Canaanites for 3,000 years. However, a look at the family’s website gave a different picture.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn22" name="_ednref22" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">22</a></span> It is indeed an ancient family – part of it Christian, indicating its pre-Islamic origin; but coming from Aleppo in Syria. From Aleppo, the family branched out to Damascus, Cyprus, and other places, including Nablus. Although the name may indicate Canaanite ancestry, the Canaanite forebears were in Syria, not in the land of Canaan.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to another source within the family, the clan originated in Homs,<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn23" name="_ednref23" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">23</a></span> Syria and became widely dispersed in the Middle East, apparently including Nablus, about 300 years ago. Despite the fact that the name suggests a Canaanite lineage, this source says the family’s origins lie in the ancient Arab Tamim<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn24" name="_ednref24" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">24</a></span> tribe.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, apart from the Kanaan family with its possible Canaanite ancestry coming from Syria, not Palestine, and its possible Arab origins, there is no direct or indirect evidence of the Palestinians having descended from the Canaanite people as they claim.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On February 1, 2014, Saeb Erekat locked horns with his negotiating partner, Tzipi Livni, before a European audience in Germany. He pronounced:<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn25" name="_ednref25" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">25</a></span> “I am a son of Jericho. My age—10,000 years. I am a proud son of the Canaanites, and I was [here] 5,000 years ago, and 500 years before the coming of Joshua bin Nun, who burned my city, Jericho, and I will not trade in my history [because of a demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state].”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In other words, Erekat’s claimed Canaanite roots entail that he cannot recognize Jewish history; and in any case, Joshua bin Nun, Erekat intimates, was a war criminal.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To find out how the family views its lineage, we looked at his family’s genealogical sites.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It turns out that the Erekat family originates in the large Huweitat tribe, and they belong to the Ashraf (families that trace their lineage to the family of the Prophet). They are related to the descendants of Hussein, grandson of the Prophet, who migrated from Medina to the Syrian Desert and settled in the Aqaba area.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Erekat family itself settled in Abu Dis, Jericho, Amman, and Ajloun (in Jordan). The sheikh of the family was Kamal Erekat, commander of the jihad against the nascent Jewish state in 1948 after Abd al-Kader al-Husseini was killed in the Battle of Kastel during Israel’s War of Independence. Kamal Erekat himself was wounded in the war and later became the first speaker of the Jordanian parliament.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In general, the list of heads of the Erekat family includes many Jordanian cabinet ministers. Why is the family so prominent in Jordan? Because the Huweitat tribe was among the main tribes that backed the Great Arab Revolt of the Hashemites in Mecca, and it moved north along with Laurence of Arabia —that is, at the same time as the Zionists were establishing themselves in Palestine.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Hejaz-based Huweitat tribe linked up with the branch of the tribe that had already settled in Jordan, and together they conquered Aqaba.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn26" name="_ednref26" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">26</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How did the Arab tribes of the Levant and Arab tribes, in general, come to be so dispersed? The Ottoman Empire was a gigantic open space, and internal migration and free movement of individuals and nomadic tribes were a common and characteristic feature. Hence, Arab tribes that settled in the Land of Israel were also varied and of different lineages, and during the Ottoman Empire, the Arabs in the country did not identify themselves as Palestinians. The term Palestine was Western and was regularly used by Jews who immigrated to the country; the Zionists called themselves Palestinians while the Arabs simply identified themselves as Arabs. The Zionist institutions – such as the Anglo-Palestine Bank, the <em>Palestine Post</em>, and so on – were “Palestinian” whereas the Arab institutions, such as the Arab Higher Committee, were simply “Arab.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As Adnan Abu Odeh observed, the definition of the Arabs as Palestinians stemmed from how the British identified the land – that is, from how foreigners, not necessarily Arabs, referred to the area.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During and before the Ottoman Empire, Arab tribes were defined as <em>Qays</em> and <em>Yaman</em> – that is, the tribes of the “northern” Arabian Peninsula and the tribes of “Yemen.” That dichotomy characterized the disputes between the Arab tribes long before Islam began. It stemmed from the massive northward migration of the Yemenite tribes after a traumatic event in Yemen’s ancient history – the collapse of the Great Ma’rib Dam sometime between 570 and 575 CE.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those migrations were not typical of Palestine, which had not yet emerged, but rather of the Middle East as a whole, and in this regard, the Palestinian tribes were no different from the region in general.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Up to the present, almost every Palestinian family describes its origins by identifying either with the Qays (northern Arabian) tribes or with Yaman (Yemen).<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn27" name="_ednref27" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">27</a></span> We did not find a single Palestinian family or tribe that referred to a Canaanite origin, including the Erekat tribe, which locates its lineage in the northern tribes.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn28" name="_ednref28" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">28</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1938, the historian Ihsan Nimri published in Damascus a book about the history of <em>Nablus and the Balka.</em> Nimri was a resident of Nablus. Balka, a region in central Jordan in which the town of Salt is located, was connected to Nablus and was not referred to in terms of southern or northern, but rather, regarding the <em>eastern</em> direction – where Jordan is today. As Nimri wrote in the introduction:<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn29" name="_ednref29" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">29</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nablus was known in the days of the Canaanites as “Shechem” [the Hebrew name], and it was unimportant. The Israelites conquered it easily, and after that, the Assyrians deported them to Iraq, and Iraqis settled in it. In the days of Rome, the city rebelled, and the Romans destroyed it and rebuilt it and called it Neapolis, the new city…. Until the Muslims conquered it, its residents were an assortment of Christian Arabs, Samaritans, Arab governors, and soldiers… Subsequently, Nablus got caught up in events in Syria, and I have devoted a chapter to the events in Syria because of [Nablus’] connection with this history.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thus, according to this book on the history of Nablus, the references to the Canaanites are chronological rather than actual, and the Canaanites have left no trace in the current demography of the city.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Among the prominent tribes is that of the Barghoutis, from whose ranks have come Marwan Barghouti and other well-known figures. In a conversation with a member of the family many years ago, he told me that the Barghouti family symbolizes <em>sumud</em> – remaining steadfastly on the land. The family originally was Jewish, he said, and they converted to Christianity during the Byzantine Empire, and then, when Islam arrived, to Islam.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is no evidence of this description in the family’s genealogy. There are, however, signs of its Christian origins. The family comes from the village of Deir Ghasana in the Ramallah district.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn30" name="_ednref30" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">30</a></span> Today, it is a Muslim area, but the names of the villages indicate that it was Christian in the past. The word <em>Deir</em> means “monastery,” and “Deir Ghasana” means “the Ghasana monastery.” Thus, the village from which the Barghouti family spread to other points on the map bears a Christian name. Although the Barghoutis ignore this Christian origin, other sites refer to it.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn31" name="_ednref31" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">31</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For Muslim families, a Christian origin could indicate a Jewish origin, though not necessarily. The Christian families of Ramallah are an example. According to their tradition, the Christians of Ramallah are descended from the Christian Bedouin tribe of southern Jordan. (Yes, there were Christian Bedouins in the past.) They were the Haddadin tribe of the Karak area, 140 kilometers south of Amman, who were forced to leave 250 years ago by pressure from the Muslim tribes who sought to marry their daughters.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn32" name="_ednref32" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">32</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Originally, the Haddadin tribe was Yemenite, and it was forced to leave pre-Muslim Yemen at the time of the Jewish king, Dhu Nuwas (455-510 CE), to avoid converting to Judaism and to maintain their Christianity.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn33" name="_ednref33" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">33</a></span> Today, the Haddadin is one of Jordan’s important tribes, and its members hold senior positions in the Hashemite government; an example is Munzer Haddadin, who headed the Jordanian delegation to the talks on water with Israel.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Jewish origin of the <em>fellahin</em> [villagers, laborer] is a fascinating subject. The Israeli computer scientist Zvi Misinay has sponsored genetic studies that have demonstrated a “primary” genetic link between the Palestinian fellahin and the Jews.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn34" name="_ednref34" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">34</a></span> Arab researchers have rejected this thesis, ascribing it to the desire to Judaize the Palestinians.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn35" name="_ednref35" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">35</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nonetheless, in conversations, many Palestinians confirm ancient traditions of Jewish origins that are common in their families. For example, a female clerk in the office of Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala) once told me that her origins lay in the two biblical towns of Tzora and Eshtaol mentioned in the Samson story (<em>Judges</em> 13). Interestingly, the pairing of Tzora and Eshtaol is also preserved in spoken Arabic. The <em>Palestinian Encyclopedia</em>, published by the Palestinian Authority, describes “Sar’a” as a village that was founded in Canaanite days.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn36" name="_ednref36" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">36</a></span> The Israeli nonprofit organization Zochrot, which preserves the memory of the Palestinian villages that were destroyed during the War of Independence, makes use of the Palestinian descriptions but adds that the original name of this village was Sor’a and that it was known by this name at least until the 16th century.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn37" name="_ednref37" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">37</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A source in Mount Hebron told me once that the Mount Hebron villagers call the residents of Hebron “the Jews.” Although the families of Hebron do not regard themselves as having Jewish ancestry, in the Mount Hebron villages there are traditions with Jewish origins. The most notable examples are the village of Yatta – the Biblical Juttah – and particularly among the Makhamra family.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Israel’s second president, Yitzhak Ben Zvi, was a noted historian who researched the village of Yatta. In 1928 he described the lighting of Hanukah candles and observance of Jewish customs.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn38" name="_ednref38" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">38</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tradition that the Makhamra clan has Jewish ancestry is common to this family, noted Ben Zvi. Strikingly, one finds on a Palestinian Facebook page,<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn39" name="_ednref39" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">39</a></span> called “All of us are for Palestine,” a passage reposted from a different Facebook page called “Yatta is everyone’s”:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is said that the Makhamra family is of Jewish origin, and this was proved in the United Nations, and in 1947 Yatta was registered as a Jewish town, and it is said that all the residents of Yatta are of Jewish origin, and that the Samu, the Maharik family, the Carmel, Susya, Bani Naim, the Ta’amar, and the Rashaida and Azazmah tribes [in Jordan] are also Jews.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn40" name="_ednref40" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">40</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The Middle East scholar Moshe Elad said on Israel’s Arabic television that two members of the Makhamra family had converted to Judaism and were now Israeli citizens living in Israel and that in the village customs of lighting Shabbat and Chanukah candles had been preserved.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn41" name="_ednref41" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">41</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the two terrorists who perpetrated the Islamic State-inspired attack at Tel Aviv’s Sarona market on June 8, 2016, were members of the Makhamra family.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn42" name="_ednref42" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">42</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Arab families investigate their origins, they tend to associate themselves with a glorious chapter of Islam. The Huweitat family claims to be descended from the Imam Ali.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn43" name="_ednref43" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">43</a></span> One should take this affiliation with a grain of salt since honor considerations of the tribes lead them to seek honorable origins. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, when it comes to the ascriptions of the Arab tribes of Hebron, there are independent testimonies that the Tamim, a major Arab tribe, indeed has honorable origins connected with the dawn of Islam before the seventh-century conquest of the country. The tribe’s traditions, as well as other Islamic sources, such as the books of the <em>Hadith</em>, assert that the Hebronite Tamim family is among the descendants of the friend of the Prophet, Aws, from Medina days, and that the Muhammed gave him and his descendants Hebron as a patrimony – Habrun or Habra in the Hadith.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn44" name="_ednref44" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">44</a></span> Aws had no sons, but his daughter, Rukiyah, married a member of the Dar family, and the full name of the family is Tamim-Dari.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The family’s pre-Islamic origin was Yemenite. It converted to Christianity, and when the Prophet Muhammed came to Medina, the family came to him from “Hebron” (not al-Khalil) to convert to Islam. The family received Hebron and its neighboring villages from Muhammed as a patrimony.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Jordanian al-Majali tribe of Karak is also “Tamimi,” and its name, Majali, signifies that it was “exiled” at some point from Hebron to Karak. Just as Nablus was connected with Balqa of today’s Jordan, Hebron was connected with Karak of today’s Jordan.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn45" name="_ednref45" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">45</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whereas the Tamimi tribe consolidated the Arab origins of Hebron, there are testimonies by Hebronites themselves that half of the city is of Kurdish origins. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reason lies in Islam’s wars against the Crusaders. They were not waged by the Arabs but by Kurds and Turks (still before the Ottoman Empire), and the army of Salah ad-Din al-Ayyubi (Saladin) had a Kurdish command. After conquering the country, he transferred a considerable portion of his army to Hebron to safeguard the country’s borders against the Arab Bedouins. Within Hebron, the Arabs led by the Tamim tribe opposed these fighters, and Hebron’s history became fraught with the many wars between the Kurds and the Arabs. Numerous Hebron families, such as the Hashlamun, Kafisha, and other families, are of Kurdish origin. The Kurds also settled in other parts of the country and Transjordan.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn46" name="_ednref46" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">46</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">By now, the Kurds have completely Arabized, and they retain no connection with their origins. In Amman, however, a Salah ad-Din al-Ayyubi Society has been established that seeks to preserve the Kurdish background.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn47" name="_ednref47" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">47</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hebron’s demography, then, includes Kurdish families that fought over the birthright with the Arab tribes that united behind the Tamim-Dari tribe, whose origins go back to the dawn of Islam. The prominent Ja’bari tribe formed part of the Arab alignment, and it originated in Iraq.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn48" name="_ednref48" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">48</a></span> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Just as the wars against the Crusaders brought Kurdish families to the country, the eighteenth-century war of Ibrahim Pasha against the Ottoman Empire brought Egyptian families to it; Ibrahim Pasha’s army did not return to Egypt, but instead, settled in the country.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn49" name="_ednref49" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">49</a></span> The members of the Masarwa family, the largest one in the Triangle, do not hide their Egyptian origins.<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn50" name="_ednref50" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">50</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A study published by the <em>American Journal of Human Genetics</em> on July 27, 2017, reports that descendants of the Canaanites have indeed been found in the Middle East. They are “modern Lebanese.” Information of the study was released by <em>National Geographic</em>. “While the researchers were surprised at the level of genetic continuity between ancient Canaanites and modern Lebanese after some 4,000 years of war, migration, and conquest in the area,” <em>NG</em> reported, “They caution against drawing too many conclusions on ancient history based solely on genetic data.”<span style="height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top;"><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_edn51" name="_ednref51" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; text-decoration-line: none;">51</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of late, the Palestinian leadership has been repeating the theme that the Palestinians are descended from the Canaanites. Because it keeps reiterating this narrative, there is a concern that some in the West will fall for it.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The purpose of the “Canaanite” narrative, however, is not to shed light on the Palestinians’ real ancestry, but to deny the Jews’ narrative. Why the Canaanites? Because they were in the country before the Israelite tribes were and thus have precedence. According to Nabil Shaath, Jewish history is but a “potpourri of legends and fabrications.” The Canaanite narrative cannot promote reconciliation and compromise but only the destruction of the Israeli-Jewish narrative, according to the same principle by which the various communities are now destroying each other in Syria.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hence, it is important to clarify how the Palestinians themselves view their own ancestry. Indeed, not a single Palestinian tribe identifies its roots in Canaan; instead, they all see themselves as proud Arabs descended from the most notable Arab tribes of the Hejaz, today’s Iraq, or Yemen. Even the Kanaan family of Nablus locates its origins in Syria. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some families are Kurdish or Egyptian, and in Mount Hebron, there are traditions about Jewish origins.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This study does not deny the right of the Palestinian families as a whole to define themselves as a Palestinian people. It would be better, however, if the Palestinian leadership were to choose a positive and constructive narrative and not a baseless one that is intended to negate that of the other.</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">1</a> In Berlin on March 24, 2017, <a href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/871/289.html" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/871/289.html</a>. Mahmoud Abbas said:</div>
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My Palestinian homeland has a long history as a lighthouse to all the peoples; our people is an offshoot of the Canaanite people who lived 3,500 years ago. Our country, which has already existed for thousands of years, included the first agricultural community in human history in Jericho, as well as the most ancient city, Jerusalem, the city of peace.</div>
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He also referred to “Hebron, which bears the name of the father of the prophets, Ibrahim, and Bethlehem, the place of the Christian prophet’s birth. These historical cities constitute a significant change in human civilization.” </div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">2</a> <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/02/pa-negotiator-saeb-erekat-claims-family-was-canaanite-in-israel-for-9000-years/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/02/pa-negotiator-saeb-erekat-claims-family-was-canaanite-in-israel-for-9000-years/</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">3</a> <a href="http://www.vetogate.com/843797" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.vetogate.com/843797</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">4</a> Video: “Ḥamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad Slams Egypt over Fuel Shortage in Gaza Strip, and Says: ‘Half of the Palestinians Are Egyptians and the Other Half Are Saudis,’” Al-Hekma TV (Egypt), March 23, 2012, http://www.memritv.org/clip/ en/3389.htm.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">5</a> David Wenkel, “Palestinians, Jebusites, and Evangelicals,” The Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2007, pp. 49-56</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">6</a> <a href="http://www.indaweb.com/oil/editorialopinion/tzemach.news.service01l.htm" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.indaweb.com/oil/editorialopinion/tzemach.news.service01l.htm</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/origin-of-quot-palestine-quot" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/origin-of-quot-palestine-quot</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref7" name="_edn7" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">7</a> <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جند_فلسطين</a><u> </u><em>A History of Palestine, 634-1099; Moshe Gil; pg. 111 – best replacement?</em></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref8" name="_edn8" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">8</a> Muslih, Muhammad Y., <em>The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism</em>, Columbia University Press, New York, 1988. p. 11</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref9" name="_edn9" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">9</a> Khalidi, Rashid, <em>Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness</em>, Columbia University Press, New York, 1997. p. 11-12.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref10" name="_edn10" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">10</a> <u>(</u><a href="http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%201247.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%201247.pdf</a><u>)</u></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref11" name="_edn11" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">11</a> Philip Mattar, <em>The Mufti of Jerusalem</em>, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, pg. 17</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref12" name="_edn12" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">12</a> <a href="https://bookstore.usip.org/sites/usip/resrcs/chapters/1878379887_otherchap.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://bookstore.usip.org/sites/usip/resrcs/chapters/1878379887_otherchap.pdf</a>, p. 15.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref13" name="_edn13" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">13</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_flag" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_flag</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref14" name="_edn14" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">14</a> Ibid.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref15" name="_edn15" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">15</a> <a href="http://elkashif.net/site/news/14211#sthash.hRWZsvul.dpuf" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://elkashif.net/site/news/14211#sthash.hRWZsvul.dpuf</a>. Saeb Erekat defines Palestinian nationalism as belonging to pan-Arabism in opposition to the Kurds, who seek to divide the great Arab homeland. </div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref16" name="_edn16" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">16</a> Palestinian National Charter of 1964. http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=640&doc_id=8210</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref17" name="_edn17" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">17</a> Radio Palestine, April 23, 2017.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref18" name="_edn18" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">18</a> <a href="http://www.djelfa.info/vb/showthread.php?t=673850" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.djelfa.info/vb/showthread.php?t=673850</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref19" name="_edn19" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">19</a> Pinhas Inbari, <em>The Palestinian Option</em> (Jerusalem, 1989), 21. (Hebrew)</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref20" name="_edn20" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">20</a> <a href="http://quran.ksu.edu.sa/tafseer/tabary/sura5-aya22.html" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://quran.ksu.edu.sa/tafseer/tabary/sura5-aya22.html</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref21" name="_edn21" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">21</a> Munib al-Masri of Nablus placed in the living room of his villa a statue of an ancient Greek fighter that he had purchased in Crete, thereby seeking to express the Palestinians’ Philistine ancestry. In a conversation with him, however, he himself admits that the origins of the Masri family of Nablus lie in the Arab tribes of Yemen.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref22" name="_edn22" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">22</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=289095074446673&id=289025174453663" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=289095074446673&id=289025174453663</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref23" name="_edn23" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">23</a> <a href="http://dirbaalbitown.syriaforums.net/t33-topic" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://dirbaalbitown.syriaforums.net/t33-topic</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref24" name="_edn24" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">24</a> References to the Tamim tribe took on a political significance in the current crisis involving Qatar after it emerged that the emir of Qatar, Tamim, associated the family of the emirs with the ancient Tamim tribe, which is dispersed throughout the Middle East, and began to promote this tribe with the aim of building an Arab empire based on it, with Qatar at its helm. <a href="https://youtu.be/4j4l9yl64Tw" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://youtu.be/4j4l9yl64Tw</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref25" name="_edn25" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">25</a> <a href="http://www.vetogate.com/843797" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.vetogate.com/843797</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref26" name="_edn26" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">26</a> <a href="http://www.marefa.org/images/6/62/Tarek-jabal-nablis-walbalqaa.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.marefa.org/images/6/62/Tarek-jabal-nablis-walbalqaa.pdf</a> עמ’ 10</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref27" name="_edn27" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">27</a> <a href="http://www.subaa.com/chapterDetails.php?chapterID=12" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.subaa.com/chapterDetails.php?chapterID=12</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref28" name="_edn28" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">28</a> https://www.amad.ps/ar/?Action=Details&ID=173589</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref29" name="_edn29" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">29</a> <a href="http://www.marefa.org/images/6/62/Tarek-jabal-nablis-walbalqaa.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.marefa.org/images/6/62/Tarek-jabal-nablis-walbalqaa.pdf</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref30" name="_edn30" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">30</a><a href="https://goo.gl/tvuREY" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://goo.gl/tvuREY</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref31" name="_edn31" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">31</a> <a href="http://www.asrawi.com/main/?p=10" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.asrawi.com/main/?p=10</a>. The site is associated with a different family that is close to Barghouti and distantly related to him. According to the ascription, the family originated in the Hejaz and converted to Christianity in the pre-Islamic period.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref32" name="_edn32" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">32</a> <a href="https://goo.gl/Xa1dv1" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://goo.gl/Xa1dv1</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref33" name="_edn33" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">33</a> Ibid.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref34" name="_edn34" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">34</a> <a href="http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1095224" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1095224</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref35" name="_edn35" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">35</a> <a href="http://blog.amin.org/assi/2012/03/14/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B0%D9%88-%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://blog.amin.org/assi/2012/03/14/الفلاح-الفلسطيني-ذو-اصول-يهودية/</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref36" name="_edn36" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">36</a> <a href="http://www.palestinapedia.net/%D8%B5%D8%B1%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.palestinapedia.net/صرعة-قرية/</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref37" name="_edn37" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">37</a> <a href="http://zochrot.org/ar/village/49368" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://zochrot.org/ar/village/49368</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref38" name="_edn38" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">38</a> <a href="http://en.hebron.org.il/news/491" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://en.hebron.org.il/news/491</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref39" name="_edn39" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">39</a> Facebook page, Yatta is everyone’s, January 2, 2013. (Arabic)</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref40" name="_edn40" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">40</a> عائلة المخامرة – يطا</div>
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يذكر ان عائلة المخامرة اصلهم يهود وقد جرى اثبات ذلك في الامم المتحدة، وجرى تسجيل يطا كبلدة يهودية عام 1947 ويقال ان جميع سكان يطا من اصل يهودي. يذكر ان السموع وعائلة المحاريق والكرمل وسوسيا وبني نعيم وقبائل التعامرة والرشايدة والعزازمة هم ايضا يهود.</div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref41" name="_edn41" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">41</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/vEc8CdlWf9s" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://youtu.be/vEc8CdlWf9s</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref42" name="_edn42" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">42</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/vEc8CdlWf9s" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://youtu.be/vEc8CdlWf9s</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref43" name="_edn43" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">43</a><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/61kradcfbnm7kmi/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B9%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%201-1.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.dropbox.com/s/61kradcfbnm7kmi/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B9%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%201-1.pdf</a> ; (alternative to wiki?) Origin of Arab Tribes book ; <a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AA</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref44" name="_edn44" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">44</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=826718114037098&id=246335405408708" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=826718114037098&id=246335405408708</a></div>
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<a href="http://jcpa.org/article/who-are-the-palestinians/#_ednref49" name="_edn49" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">49</a> “Who Are the Canaanites’ Descendants?” <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/canaanite-bible-ancient-dna-lebanon-genetics-archaeology/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(89, 111, 121); color: #596f79; font-size: 13px !important; line-height: 16px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/canaanite-bible-ancient-dna-lebanon-genetics-archaeology/</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Op-ed: It remains an absurd anomaly that Jerusalem is the only world capital not recognized by the international community, and in which Israel, like every sovereign nation under international law, has been denied its inalienable right to designate its own capital. There is never a wrong time to do what is right, just and moral.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the past week, speculation has been rife that US President Donald Trump is set to announce the United States will <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5049989,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital</a>.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such a move, while reinforcing the United States’ position as Israel’s pre-eminent ally, would also correct a longstanding injustice and send a powerful message to the Palestinians about the future direction of the peace process.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To be sure, for Israelis, as well as most Jews around the world and our millions of Christian supporters, it is a given that Jerusalem is the heartbeat, soul and eternal capital of the Jewish people. This message though needs to be also reinforced to our Palestinian neighbors.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, like clockwork, no sooner than speculation began circling that President Trump is set to make the announcement, making good on his pre-election promises of <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4859481,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">recognizing “Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel”</a> and <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4755415,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“moving the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people”</a> the Palestinians have been predictably up-in-arms.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Palestinian Authority (PA) has threatened that peace talks will be “dead” if the US recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Hamas has <a class="bluelink" href="http://dataentry.ynet.co.il/Int/App/Article2/CmaArticleEdit2/(https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5050831,00.html)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">called for an “intifada,”</a> while the Arab League has warned that such a move would “fuel violence.”</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Newsflash: The PA has not exactly been engaged in “peace talks” for quite some time now, while the failure to date of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s rightful capital has not prevented the Palestinians from waging an incessant campaign of terror, violence and intifadas against the Jewish state.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enough is enough! The United States and the international community must no longer remain hostage to Palestinian threats, extortion and intimidation. President Trump should lead by example in this regard, by not only sending a powerful message to the Palestinians, but doing what is right and just, in recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such an act would further shatter the Palestinian delusions, calls of incitement and delegitimization propaganda that Jews have no connection to Jerusalem.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It would also send an unequivocal message to those in the international community, such as UNESCO, to halt their continuing acquiescence and encouraging of this incitement and blatant denial of history.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">President Trump has long professed his desire to reach the <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4877870,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“ultimate deal”</a> of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The conventional wisdom has been that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would hamper this effort, as the Palestinians continue to threaten.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are also some who suggest this would impede Trump’s efforts to establish a regional coalition to fight terrorism in the Middle East, specifically against the Islamic State.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reality, however, is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long ceased to be a top priority for the Arab and Gulf states, which are today more concerned with a nuclear Iran and rampaging ISIS than the geographic location of Israel’s capital. According to the latest <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5051672,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">report from the NY Times</a>, even the highly influential Saudis have proposed to the Palestinians an alternate capital, not Jerusalem, but the adjoining suburb of Abu Dis.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is noteworthy that since 1967, every US President has more or less sought to broker peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but each has failed—not for lack of effort, but due largely to Palestinian rejectionism and intransigence. Jerusalem has just been a handy excuse for the Palestinians.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Despite Trump’s best intentions, there is no indication that the Palestinians’ position under the present leadership, including in which Palestinian President Abbas continues to use US aid money to pay convicted terrorists and has sought to embrace the terrorist organization Hamas, has changed.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Simply put, there is never a wrong time to do what is right, just and moral. Although this past year Israel celebrated 50 years since the reunification of Jerusalem, the Jewish people’s historic, legal and inextricable bond to this holy city extends well over 3,000 years.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It remains an absurd anomaly that Jerusalem is the only world capital not recognized by the international community, and in which Israel, like every sovereign nation under international law, has been denied its inalienable right to designate its own capital.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people—and only the Jewish people—throughout recorded history. It is mentioned more than 850 times in the Bible, yet not once in the Quran. Jews end their High Holy Day prayers with the words “Next Year in Jerusalem,” where the city today has also become the seat of Israel’s parliament, government, judiciary and national institutions.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is no real impediment precluding Trump’s recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In fact, Congress has even mandated so in its 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, calling on Jerusalem to remain an undivided city and for it to be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the coming fortnight, the Jewish people in Israel and around the world will celebrate the holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, marking the recapture of Jerusalem and dedication of the Jewish Temple over 2,000 years ago.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just as Jerusalem is the burning light of the Jewish soul, there could be no better time or more powerful an opportunity to celebrate the unique history of Israel and the Jewish people, while reaffirming the unshakable bond between Israel and the United States, than to reaffirm and recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal and undisputed capital.</span></b><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Swedish magazine <em>Världen idag</em> ("<em>The World Today</em>") ran an article entitled <em>Time for the UN to Accept the Outcome of the Six-Day War</em> by Tomas Sandell. <em>Arutz Sheva</em> brings a translation of the article in its entirety for the wholly lucid dedication to truth Sandell demonstrates herein:</span></strong><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week, the international community will mark the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem. But despite the fact that Israel won its war against three Arab armies in early June 1967 in record time, the war seems to continue. Indeed, the international community still has difficulty accepting that the small country of Israel, against all odds over the Arab armies, and as a result of winning this war, received new lands.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The war ended formally after six days, June 10, 1967, but still fifty years later, the international community demands that the "occupied" territories of Israel should be returned even though it was not Israel who started the war. Thus, the Israeli "occupation" is considered to be the root of the entire Israel-Palestinian conflict.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The statement is incorrect for two different reasons. According to international law, one can not occupy an area already belonging to a legal entity. Judea and Samaria were assigned to the Jewish state in the 1922 Palestine Mandate in the land area that remained when the original mandate was divided into two parts, a Jewish Palestine (1948 Israel) and an Arab Palestine, today Jordan.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The United Nations partition plan of 1947, on the other hand, had been rejected by the Arab neighbors of Israel and thus never came into force. The lands that Israel regained in the Six-Day War therefore already belonged to it according to international law after being illegally occupied by Jordan for twenty years.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Secondly, international law expressly prohibits a war of aggression. On the other hand, it does not say anything about land areas gained after a regular war of defense. Thus, a country, or a group of countries, can not start a war of aggression and if they lose the war, the counterparty be called out for occupation. Public law can not reasonably forbid countries to defend themselves, or encourage countries to initiate a war of aggression with the promise that they can later regain all the territories that they lose. This would be a recipe for complete chaos where aggressive states are rewarded while the law-abiding ones have no legal rights.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now it is therefore time for the international community to accept the outcome of the Six-Day War.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Indeed, in UN resolution 242, the Government of Israel has agreed that certain lands should be returned in a peace agreement, but the allegation that Israel is currently occupying Palestinian land is wrong because they "occupied territories" that never belonged to a Palestinian state.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you repeat in international relations next week that the Six-Day War is the root of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, you are wrong.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If the Palestinian people (actually Arabs living in the Palestine Mandate) had been interested in their own state, one such was founded in 1947 when the UN partition plan offered them everything they are asking for today and more.In other words, one had twenty years, from 1947 to 1967, to create a state, but there was no interest. Therefore, it is intellectually unsound to claim that the war in 1967 is the core of the conflict.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As an external columnist, it is not my job to decide how to resolve the conflict, but the Israeli government has announced that it is prepared to negotiate with the Palestinians about a state, but insists that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel, and that today's status will not change and the Temple Mount be preserved under Jordanian administration. This is no unreasonable bargaining position.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After almost fifty years, it is time for the international community to acknowledge that the Six-Day War is over and that Jerusalem is, has been, and will always remain the capital of the Jews. This fact is acknowledged, de facto, every time a head of state travels to Jerusalem to meet the government of the country. These meetings do not happen in Tel Aviv but in Jerusalem. When you talk about partition of Jerusalem between East and West, you forget that only East Jerusalem with the Western Wall is the historic Jerusalem holy to the Jewish people. If you think Israel's demands on Jerusalem are unreasonable, one has to consider the options, to share Jerusalem, and to create a new Mecca in East Jerusalem where no non-Muslim may enter.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For those who want to safeguard universal legal principles and values, it is therefore important to safeguard Jerusalem's current status as a united city open to all religions as well as to those who do not belong to any religion. Jerusalem's reunion is an event worth celebrating, for Christians, Muslims, as well as Jews.</span></b><br />
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