There Is No Such Thing As 'Palestinians'
Oct 15, 2023 17:14:59 #
The patterns of the anti-Semitic/Marxist/”Palestinian”/LGBTQ/BLM/hate-filled alliance are nothing if not predictable. After expressing shock and dismay that their Palestinian friends in Gaza specifically targeted civilians, in under a week, they have quickly shifted back to their repeated old rhetoric. They are now blaming Israel for the horrific attacks from Hamas, calling Israel’s counter-attacks on Hamas a “terrorist siege,” blitzing the media with images of wounded from Gaza, and attacking Israel in all ways as an ‘apartheid state’ and, as Ocasio Cortez defined Israel, a nation devoted to “ethnic cleansing”.
We cannot let them try to control the narrative with their blatant lies.
The best way to dismiss falsities is to educate. And so, the purpose of this piece is to do just that: to give accurate information that is in direct contradiction to the lies of the Marxist alliance that seeks to destroy Israel, the United States, and Western Culture. The spiritual implications and religious components will be left for another time. This is about what Judaism calls tachlis: simple, practical understandings that are useable in any dialogue.
Let us start with a brief history lesson. Despite what the media has been preaching for almost 60 years, there is no historical Palestinian state or people. Over 4,000 years ago, there were small tribes living in Canaan, such as Moabites, Amalekites, etc. There was no Palestine of people or land. Then around 3,200 years ago, the 12 tribes of Israel, united under King Saul into the first kingdom in the region, a Jewish theocracy called “Israel.” That split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel (both Jewish), which were conquered by the Babylonian empire a little over 2,500 years ago. This became the Persian Empire, which was defeated by Alexander the Great, and Israel was controlled by the Greeks.
The Greeks were defeated by the Hasmoneans, and Israel once again became a Jewish state about 2,200 years ago. The Hasmoneans were beaten by the Romans, and there followed a series of kingdoms that controlled Israel: Byzantine, Sassanid, Ummayad, Frankish, Christian, and eventually the Mamluk Dynasty, which controlled the region in the 13th-16th centuries. This was the first time there was a governmental Muslim presence in Israel, but again, it was not related to Palestine as a people or nation at all. The Mamluks ultimately were absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the region until it was defeated by the British in the 20th century. Nowhere in this 3,000-year history does Palestine or Palestinians exist or even get discussed. The British created a mandate called “Palestine” on July 24, 1922, which was the first mention of the word in thousands of years.
For over 3,000 years, there has been no such thing as a Palestinian or a country of Palestine! So how did this Palestinian issue even start in modern times? In 1948, U.N. Resolution 181 granted statehood to two states: a Jewish one called Israel and an Arab one called Palestine. This is the first time there was a nation or people with the name of Palestine, even though they were in fact all Jordanians. Immediately, five Arab nations attacked Israel, which continued to be attacked repeatedly for the next 15 years but successfully defended her nationhood.
And now comes the seed that leads to the current support from the left of “Palestine.” In the early 1960s, the Arab coalition was not only physically losing wars, but was considered bullies of Israel in worldwide media. They were the Goliath that kept losing to David. So, they hired the public relations firm of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy in New York (founded in 1909, no longer in business) to change their image in the world. George Anderson told them they needed a “victim,” a group that would be perceived as smaller and even more abused than the Israelis, and the Palestinian cause was born.
At Anderson’s advice, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was established on May 28, 1964. This is the start date of the “Palestinian cause”: 1964. After the 1967 war, when Israel kept Gaza, the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank, the concept of the Palestinians as victims became more popular. While ultimately Egypt made a land-for-peace deal with Israel and has kept that peace, the other nations refused to do the same. “Palestine” has always, and continues today, to define itself as “from the River” (Jordan) to the Sea (Mediterranean) and refuses to accept the State of Israel as a neighbor. The Arab schoolbooks in Gaza, the West Bank, and many Arab nations do not even include Israel in their maps as taught to children in 2023.
As for Gaza? In 2005, the Israelis, in their eternal quest for peace, gave self-governance to the people of Gaza. In 2007, the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their leadership by over 90%, and they have reelected and kept Hamas in power for these 16 years. Please do not cry for a distinction between the citizens of Gaza and Hamas, for Hamas was and has been elected by the people of Gaza for almost two decades.
“But,” says the leftist that wants to destroy Israel, “the people of the region consider themselves Palestinian, and we need to act according to their self-identification based on the last few decades.” So, when confronted by the history that “Palestine” and “Palestinians” are made up, the response is that self-identification is the real determiner. This is beyond absurd, as we can see with a simple analogy.
We are currently being confronted with a media, supported by the same Marxist agenda, that claims that if a man self-identifies as a woman, he should be treated as a woman in all ways. Anyone with common sense realizes this is ridiculous. But as this agenda continues unchecked, more and more people are concerned about this craziness that is becoming commonly accepted.
A pig can call itself a chicken all day, but it is still a pig. Drag queens can call themselves women, but they are not. And an Arab born in Gaza is an Israeli or Gazan but not a Palestinian, no matter what the media has been pouring down our throats for decades. It is cultural suicide to allow self-identification to control the actions of the culture: be it drag queens calling themselves women or accepting “Palestine” as a historical reality.
This does not disqualify the idea of a two-state solution of a Jewish state living peacefully with Arab neighbors. But this cannot happen until this proposed neighbor entirely rejects and turns on Hamas and until they change their attitude that Israel has no right to exist and embrace Israel as a peaceful neighbor.
There is a story that the Israeli ambassador was about to give a speech to the U.N. He said, “Before I begin my speech, I’d like to tell a story. Moses was bathing in the Jordan River, and when he got out, his clothes had been stolen by a Palestinian.”
The Palestinian ambassador jumped up. “Outrageous!” he exclaimed. “We were not even in the region at that time!”
The Israeli ambassador continued, “Now that it has been clearly established that the Palestinians were not even there historically, I will now begin my speech.”
Before we can start a process of peace, some realities need to be acknowledged: there is no historical Palestine, the people of Gaza have chosen Hamas as their leadership, and Israel has the right to exist and defend herself. From the full acceptance of those facts, a dialogue could possibly be started — but not until they are all fully accepted.
We cannot let them try to control the narrative with their blatant lies.
The best way to dismiss falsities is to educate. And so, the purpose of this piece is to do just that: to give accurate information that is in direct contradiction to the lies of the Marxist alliance that seeks to destroy Israel, the United States, and Western Culture. The spiritual implications and religious components will be left for another time. This is about what Judaism calls tachlis: simple, practical understandings that are useable in any dialogue.
Let us start with a brief history lesson. Despite what the media has been preaching for almost 60 years, there is no historical Palestinian state or people. Over 4,000 years ago, there were small tribes living in Canaan, such as Moabites, Amalekites, etc. There was no Palestine of people or land. Then around 3,200 years ago, the 12 tribes of Israel, united under King Saul into the first kingdom in the region, a Jewish theocracy called “Israel.” That split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel (both Jewish), which were conquered by the Babylonian empire a little over 2,500 years ago. This became the Persian Empire, which was defeated by Alexander the Great, and Israel was controlled by the Greeks.
The Greeks were defeated by the Hasmoneans, and Israel once again became a Jewish state about 2,200 years ago. The Hasmoneans were beaten by the Romans, and there followed a series of kingdoms that controlled Israel: Byzantine, Sassanid, Ummayad, Frankish, Christian, and eventually the Mamluk Dynasty, which controlled the region in the 13th-16th centuries. This was the first time there was a governmental Muslim presence in Israel, but again, it was not related to Palestine as a people or nation at all. The Mamluks ultimately were absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the region until it was defeated by the British in the 20th century. Nowhere in this 3,000-year history does Palestine or Palestinians exist or even get discussed. The British created a mandate called “Palestine” on July 24, 1922, which was the first mention of the word in thousands of years.
For over 3,000 years, there has been no such thing as a Palestinian or a country of Palestine! So how did this Palestinian issue even start in modern times? In 1948, U.N. Resolution 181 granted statehood to two states: a Jewish one called Israel and an Arab one called Palestine. This is the first time there was a nation or people with the name of Palestine, even though they were in fact all Jordanians. Immediately, five Arab nations attacked Israel, which continued to be attacked repeatedly for the next 15 years but successfully defended her nationhood.
And now comes the seed that leads to the current support from the left of “Palestine.” In the early 1960s, the Arab coalition was not only physically losing wars, but was considered bullies of Israel in worldwide media. They were the Goliath that kept losing to David. So, they hired the public relations firm of Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy in New York (founded in 1909, no longer in business) to change their image in the world. George Anderson told them they needed a “victim,” a group that would be perceived as smaller and even more abused than the Israelis, and the Palestinian cause was born.
At Anderson’s advice, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was established on May 28, 1964. This is the start date of the “Palestinian cause”: 1964. After the 1967 war, when Israel kept Gaza, the Sinai, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank, the concept of the Palestinians as victims became more popular. While ultimately Egypt made a land-for-peace deal with Israel and has kept that peace, the other nations refused to do the same. “Palestine” has always, and continues today, to define itself as “from the River” (Jordan) to the Sea (Mediterranean) and refuses to accept the State of Israel as a neighbor. The Arab schoolbooks in Gaza, the West Bank, and many Arab nations do not even include Israel in their maps as taught to children in 2023.
As for Gaza? In 2005, the Israelis, in their eternal quest for peace, gave self-governance to the people of Gaza. In 2007, the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their leadership by over 90%, and they have reelected and kept Hamas in power for these 16 years. Please do not cry for a distinction between the citizens of Gaza and Hamas, for Hamas was and has been elected by the people of Gaza for almost two decades.
“But,” says the leftist that wants to destroy Israel, “the people of the region consider themselves Palestinian, and we need to act according to their self-identification based on the last few decades.” So, when confronted by the history that “Palestine” and “Palestinians” are made up, the response is that self-identification is the real determiner. This is beyond absurd, as we can see with a simple analogy.
We are currently being confronted with a media, supported by the same Marxist agenda, that claims that if a man self-identifies as a woman, he should be treated as a woman in all ways. Anyone with common sense realizes this is ridiculous. But as this agenda continues unchecked, more and more people are concerned about this craziness that is becoming commonly accepted.
A pig can call itself a chicken all day, but it is still a pig. Drag queens can call themselves women, but they are not. And an Arab born in Gaza is an Israeli or Gazan but not a Palestinian, no matter what the media has been pouring down our throats for decades. It is cultural suicide to allow self-identification to control the actions of the culture: be it drag queens calling themselves women or accepting “Palestine” as a historical reality.
This does not disqualify the idea of a two-state solution of a Jewish state living peacefully with Arab neighbors. But this cannot happen until this proposed neighbor entirely rejects and turns on Hamas and until they change their attitude that Israel has no right to exist and embrace Israel as a peaceful neighbor.
There is a story that the Israeli ambassador was about to give a speech to the U.N. He said, “Before I begin my speech, I’d like to tell a story. Moses was bathing in the Jordan River, and when he got out, his clothes had been stolen by a Palestinian.”
The Palestinian ambassador jumped up. “Outrageous!” he exclaimed. “We were not even in the region at that time!”
The Israeli ambassador continued, “Now that it has been clearly established that the Palestinians were not even there historically, I will now begin my speech.”
Before we can start a process of peace, some realities need to be acknowledged: there is no historical Palestine, the people of Gaza have chosen Hamas as their leadership, and Israel has the right to exist and defend herself. From the full acceptance of those facts, a dialogue could possibly be started — but not until they are all fully accepted.
Oct 15, 2023 17:59:54 #
Parky60 wrote:
The patterns of the anti-Semitic/Marxist/”Palestin... (show quote)
https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine
Oct 15, 2023 22:58:39 #
Oct 16, 2023 05:47:51 #
This is well thought out, and well written, Parky, and well detailed with factual, accurate information for anyone with eyes that are willing to see.
In a world culture that has ever increasingly given itself over to bypassing the mind, and reacting rather to emotions and "feeling," rather than thinking, it is difficult to make any inroads, but every serious attempt helps.
Addendum: The following information concerns DNA testing that disassociates the ancient Philistines from the modern Arabs now claiming to be Palestinian:
DNA showed ancient Philistines were European, and are unrelated to the Arab "Palestinians" of today who have tried to claim them as Ancestors.
A DNA discovery in Israel had implications for the political struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2016, archaeologists digging in Israel excavated a Philistine cemetery for the first time ever. In July, 2019, an extensive report on the DNA taken from the bones they uncovered confirmed the origins of the Philistines – one of the arch-enemies of the biblical Israelites.
"They demonstrated that the Philistines were immigrants to the region of Philistia,” according to the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon.
State-of-the-art DNA testing on the ancient Philistine bones showed they had European ancestry and migrated across the Mediterranean more than 3,000 years ago.
“In the thirteenth and twelfth-century empires collapsed, much of civilization collapsed. One of the groups that people noticed a hundred years later were the Philistines,” Master said, "DNA tests confirmed what they already believed."
“From the early 20th century people noticed that the styles of pottery they were finding in the area called ‘Philistia’ by the writers of the Hebrew Bible were similar to pottery found in Greece just a hundred years earlier and people started to draw the connection that perhaps this pottery indicated some connection between these two groups of people,” he said.
The coastal region known as Gaza was settled by the Philistines before becoming part of the territory apportioned to Judah (see map). Gaza, or Azza in Hebrew, was a city on the southern coastal plain of Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel, today Medinat Yisrael, or the modern nation State of Israel.
Ashkelon was one of five large Philistine cities. The Philistines lived there for about only about 600 years.
“The Philistines appear in the Hebrew Bible as one of the great enemies of the Israelites but where did they come from? In the Bible there’s a mention that the Philistines came from Caphtor. This is a mention in Amos many centuries after we think the Philistines arrive. This place was probably related to Crete,” Master said.
In Biblical times, God gave this Holy Land as an eternal covenant that can never be broken to the Children of Israel (the descendants of Jacob). Contested by Arabs, the deed of trust to Israel is documented in the Bible: Gaza was captured and conquered by the tribe of Judah: “Also Judah took Gaza with the regions thereof, and Ashkelon with the regions thereof, and Ekron with the region thereof.” (Judges 1:18), and it was included in the allotment to Judah’s tribe (see Joshua 15:47).
Here are a couple of other Scriptures that mention this troubled area on the coastline:
“The Philistines took [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza.” (Judges 16:21)
“[Hezekiah of Judah] smote the Philistines even unto Gaza …” (2 Kings. 18:8)
But if Palestinians were not always on the land as Islamic scholars allege, but were merely immigrants to the region from Europe, their claim to of “return” and their goal to expel Jews from modern-day Israel is baseless.
The cemetery, discovered in 2013, is dated from the 11th to the 8th century BC.
“How do we tell the story of the people who can’t speak for themselves, that haven’t left behind written texts? We can look at the scraps and the garbage that they’ve left behind, we can look at what other people said about them during the time period but the DNA actually gave us the opportunity to let these people speak for themselves,” said archaeologist Adam Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections at Harvard Semitic Museum and one of the archaeologists at the Philistine cemetery.
Aja said the DNA showed that even though the Philistines kept their culture physically, genetically they eventually blended with the locals.
“But the discovery of the cemetery and the analysis of the bones definitively revealed that this population came from away and then slowly integrated into the local population.” Aja said.
The Philistines then disappeared during the 6th century BC when the biblical King Nebuchadnezzar conquered the region. He destroyed Ashkelon and other cities at the time shortly before the Judeans were exiled to Babylon as described in the Bible.
After Rome renamed to Palestine the conquered area previously ruled by the Jews, all residents of the area were referred to as Palestinians - Jews, and later Christians, and after 600 C.E - the Arabs.
Even during the 1940s, before Israel’s independence, Jews considered themselves Palestinians. It was not until 1948 and the war of independence, that Arabs in the area appropriated the name exclusively for themselves and created the myth of “Palestinian refugees” that lingers today in politics, the media and most importantly, Middle East peace plans.
The DNA revelations are a problem for many Arab leaders, but especially the terrorist groups of Hamas which controls modern-day Gaza. If Palestinians have no valid historical claim of always have lived in the land, why is the conflict between Jews and Palestinians allowed to continue at great cost?
That is the question many asked after these 2019 discoveries.
In a world culture that has ever increasingly given itself over to bypassing the mind, and reacting rather to emotions and "feeling," rather than thinking, it is difficult to make any inroads, but every serious attempt helps.
Addendum: The following information concerns DNA testing that disassociates the ancient Philistines from the modern Arabs now claiming to be Palestinian:
DNA showed ancient Philistines were European, and are unrelated to the Arab "Palestinians" of today who have tried to claim them as Ancestors.
A DNA discovery in Israel had implications for the political struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. In 2016, archaeologists digging in Israel excavated a Philistine cemetery for the first time ever. In July, 2019, an extensive report on the DNA taken from the bones they uncovered confirmed the origins of the Philistines – one of the arch-enemies of the biblical Israelites.
"They demonstrated that the Philistines were immigrants to the region of Philistia,” according to the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon.
State-of-the-art DNA testing on the ancient Philistine bones showed they had European ancestry and migrated across the Mediterranean more than 3,000 years ago.
“In the thirteenth and twelfth-century empires collapsed, much of civilization collapsed. One of the groups that people noticed a hundred years later were the Philistines,” Master said, "DNA tests confirmed what they already believed."
“From the early 20th century people noticed that the styles of pottery they were finding in the area called ‘Philistia’ by the writers of the Hebrew Bible were similar to pottery found in Greece just a hundred years earlier and people started to draw the connection that perhaps this pottery indicated some connection between these two groups of people,” he said.
The coastal region known as Gaza was settled by the Philistines before becoming part of the territory apportioned to Judah (see map). Gaza, or Azza in Hebrew, was a city on the southern coastal plain of Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel, today Medinat Yisrael, or the modern nation State of Israel.
Ashkelon was one of five large Philistine cities. The Philistines lived there for about only about 600 years.
“The Philistines appear in the Hebrew Bible as one of the great enemies of the Israelites but where did they come from? In the Bible there’s a mention that the Philistines came from Caphtor. This is a mention in Amos many centuries after we think the Philistines arrive. This place was probably related to Crete,” Master said.
In Biblical times, God gave this Holy Land as an eternal covenant that can never be broken to the Children of Israel (the descendants of Jacob). Contested by Arabs, the deed of trust to Israel is documented in the Bible: Gaza was captured and conquered by the tribe of Judah: “Also Judah took Gaza with the regions thereof, and Ashkelon with the regions thereof, and Ekron with the region thereof.” (Judges 1:18), and it was included in the allotment to Judah’s tribe (see Joshua 15:47).
Here are a couple of other Scriptures that mention this troubled area on the coastline:
“The Philistines took [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza.” (Judges 16:21)
“[Hezekiah of Judah] smote the Philistines even unto Gaza …” (2 Kings. 18:8)
But if Palestinians were not always on the land as Islamic scholars allege, but were merely immigrants to the region from Europe, their claim to of “return” and their goal to expel Jews from modern-day Israel is baseless.
The cemetery, discovered in 2013, is dated from the 11th to the 8th century BC.
“How do we tell the story of the people who can’t speak for themselves, that haven’t left behind written texts? We can look at the scraps and the garbage that they’ve left behind, we can look at what other people said about them during the time period but the DNA actually gave us the opportunity to let these people speak for themselves,” said archaeologist Adam Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections at Harvard Semitic Museum and one of the archaeologists at the Philistine cemetery.
Aja said the DNA showed that even though the Philistines kept their culture physically, genetically they eventually blended with the locals.
“But the discovery of the cemetery and the analysis of the bones definitively revealed that this population came from away and then slowly integrated into the local population.” Aja said.
The Philistines then disappeared during the 6th century BC when the biblical King Nebuchadnezzar conquered the region. He destroyed Ashkelon and other cities at the time shortly before the Judeans were exiled to Babylon as described in the Bible.
After Rome renamed to Palestine the conquered area previously ruled by the Jews, all residents of the area were referred to as Palestinians - Jews, and later Christians, and after 600 C.E - the Arabs.
Even during the 1940s, before Israel’s independence, Jews considered themselves Palestinians. It was not until 1948 and the war of independence, that Arabs in the area appropriated the name exclusively for themselves and created the myth of “Palestinian refugees” that lingers today in politics, the media and most importantly, Middle East peace plans.
The DNA revelations are a problem for many Arab leaders, but especially the terrorist groups of Hamas which controls modern-day Gaza. If Palestinians have no valid historical claim of always have lived in the land, why is the conflict between Jews and Palestinians allowed to continue at great cost?
That is the question many asked after these 2019 discoveries.
Parky60 wrote:
The patterns of the anti-Semitic/Marxist/”Palestin... (show quote)
Oct 16, 2023 07:43:27 #
Zemirah wrote:
This is well thought out, and well written, Parky,... (show quote)
And there you have it! Excellent article Parky!
Oct 16, 2023 19:16:18 #
Palestin is nothing more than what the Roman empire called the region of Israel. These people that lived there are not only Jewish but are Arabic. After the second world War the nation of Israel was created. The land of Israel has always been just that the land of Israel
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