Or that colonialism is never as beneficial or benign as the Colonizer likes to portray it as.
Ever hear the phrase "White Man's Burden"? It comes from Rudyard Kipling in his justification of the British exploitation of it's empire of mostly non-white people. We are doing you a "favor" by stealing your land. What I didn't know was that he said it to extort Americans that their colonization of the Philippines was a good thing. Except it wasn't, really. Not for the Americans who went over there to die for nothing, and not for the Filipinos, who just wanted to run their own country.
President McKinley couldn't find the Philippines on a map of the world, but he announced our intent was to "Christianize" them (not realizing that 90% of them were already Roman Catholic.) Americans were horrified when a lot of Filipinos collaborated with the Japanese during World War II, and some of them even enjoyed political careers after the war.
Now, let's review the history of Palestine the Zionist Apologists don't want you to hear.
For centuries, Arabs in Palestine, who had lived their since Mohammed converted the indigenous people, lived under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks. The British sent in T.S. Lawrence, a man versed in Islamic and Arab culture, to convince them to rise up against the Ottomans, which they did. Then the British, being the British, double crossed them and started carving the place up into client colonies. They also started resettling the Jews of Europe in Palestine.
The Palestinians, despite this, fought for the British in WWII. Yes, the Zionists go on and on about the Grand Mufti, but they never talk about the 12,000 Arabs who fought side by side with Jews in the Palestine Regiments.
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So big surprise, when the Zionists decided to carve their own little country out of Arab land, Arabs, big surprise here, retaliated against synagogues they had left alone for centuries. That's kind of human nature, unfortunately. Someone wrongs you, you look for payback. Just ask not only Muslims who were beaten up after 9/11, but the Sikhs who got beaten up because some redneck didn't know the difference. ("Well, Cleetus, he has a towel on his head!!")
Yes, 800,000 Jews were driven out of Arab countries after 1948... and 5.6 million Palestinians were driven out of their country. Which is worse?
" For centuries, Arabs in Palestine, who had lived their since Mohammed converted the indigenous people, lived under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks."
(Learn English and History. That would be news to the Kurds who first invaded the area, and then the Arabs who followed. Not counting the Crusaders and Ottomans who came after )
(And it would be news to all the Jews, Druze and other tribes/Nations who lived in Judea/Palestine, who held on to their religions/cults to this very present day )
True:
Once the Ottoman Empire conquered the region of Palestine, all inhabitants, Arabs, Christians, Jews, etc...
found themselves under the Ottoman thumb. No different from the Roman, Byzantine, Kurdish, Arab, Crusader thumbs before them.
False:
5.6 million Palestinians were driven out of their country.
(None of their descendants counts as being driven from the area of Israel )
True:
During the 1947–49 Palestine war,
an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled, comprising around 80% of the Palestinian Arab inhabitants of what became Israel.
Nakba - Wikipedia
True:
"The Palestinians, despite this, fought for the British in WWII. Yes, the Zionists go on and on about the Grand Mufti, but they never talk about the 12,000 Arabs who fought side by side with Jews in the Palestine Regiments."
Except that it is SOME Palestinians, not all, and especially NOT.....the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and those he incited to kill Jews.
There are a lot of decent human beings who are Muslim and Christian Palestinians who are proud to live in Israel, be Israeli citizens and contribute to their country of choice.
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Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini’s infamous ties with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy are well-documented, as are as his efforts to block Jewish refugees from reaching British Mandatory Palestine during the Second World War.
Less known, however, is the story of the thousands of Palestinian Arabs who disregarded the mufti’s pro-Axis policies and instead opted to fight against Adolf Hitler’s henchmen.
Prof. Mustafa Abbasi, a historian at Tel-Hai Academic College in northern Israel, has found that some 12,000 Arab Palestinians volunteered to serve in the British army during the Second World War in North Africa and Europe, often fighting side by side with Jews. Abbasi’s findings were published in a recent issue of the Cathedra periodical titled “Palestinians Fighting the Nazis: The Story of Palestinian Volunteers in World War II.”
“Many of the [Arab Palestinians] lost their lives, others were wounded and many are still missing,” Abbasi’s research reads. “It appears that an important and central portion of the Palestinian public believed that it was necessary to stand on the British side, to postpone nationalist demands, to fight as one against the Germans and their allies, and to demand recompense at the end of the war.”
Jerusalem Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini’s infamous ties with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy are well-documented, as are as his efforts to block Jewish refugees from reaching British Mandatory Palestine during the Second World War. Less known, however, is the story of the thousands of...
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False:
"So big surprise, when the Zionists decided to carve their own little country out of Arab land, Arabs, big surprise here, retaliated against synagogues they had left alone for centuries."
True :
Jews chose to rebuild on their own ancient homeland which always had Jewish presence on it, as verified by all invaders and historians, travelers and writers.
The timeline of this One century exposes the lies JoeB wants to spread about Arabs having been good to Jews since they invaded and they always lived in peace. Many more attacks of Arabs on Jews happened in the previous centuries :
en.wikipedia.org
1834
The
1834 looting of Safed was a month-long attack on the Jewish population of
Safed by local Arab and Druze villagers. It was full of large scale looting, as well as the killing and raping of Jews and the destruction of many homes and synagogues. Before the attacks Jews made up over 50% of the population, but a lot of them fled to nearby cities which reduced their presence drastically.
( Anti Jews attacks were happening all over the world. Just because they were Jews )
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Nothing has changed about telling lies about the Jewish People and JoeB is a perfect example of it.
If anyone reads his posts, do the necessary research about what he writes. Can anyone trust anyone who considers dictators and terrorists his heroes?
