Palestinian identity ?

[Hollie]

YouTube Suspends Account of Palestinian Media Watchdog
What happens when you expose Palestinian Jew hatred.
March 10, 2016
Ari Lieberman

...

Western audiences are rarely exposed to such obscenities. They’re accustomed to viewing polished and often sympathetic Muslim characters who speak of the importance of peace and their desire for democracy and freedom. Of course, what it said behind closed doors, in Arabic to Arabic audiences, remains behind closed doors.

Faced with such malevolence, the importance of monitoring and exposing Arab media takes on a sense of urgency. Two organizations, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) have stood at the forefront of this endeavor. Their efforts have borne fruit and actually forced Western governments to confront Arab anti-Semitism and more carefully scrutinize allocation of funds. In some cases, Arab entities dependent on Western financing were compelled to modify their behavior as a condition of continued financial backing.

PMW operates a website where it hosts its translated Arabic videos and other content and also maintains an account with YouTube where viewers can screen uploaded videos. On March 3, PMW uploaded a disturbing video featuring a child on a Palestinian children’s program reciting a violent poem liberally laced with references to the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews. Shortly thereafter, YouTube suspended PMW’s account. Those who attempted to access PMW’s YouTube site to view their informative content were instead treated to a terse one-line statement that stated; “This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement.”

Apparently, Ramallah was upset over the fact that someone had exposed the grubs and maggots sheltered beneath the rock and immediately filed a complaint with YouTube. YouTube, either out of ignorance or malevolence, duly complied with the request to have PMW’s account suspended.

Fortunately, the suspension was brief. A flurry of protest from YouTube users coupled with negative media exposure generated by the fallout from the suspension compelled the social media site to rethink its rash and frankly, idiotic decision.

The incident is reminiscent of several recent embarrassing Facebook faux pas involving removal of benign pro-Israel posts, while leaving intact blatantly anti-Semitic images, depicting violence against Jews or alternatively, depicting Jews with grotesquely exaggerated features, wielding undue influence over the United States. In one such episode, Facebook removed a picture of Israel’s late Prime Minister, Golda Meir, accompanied by her famous quote, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” Apparently, someone at Facebook determined that the quotation or image represented a “genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.” Once again, public outcry against this obscenity compelled Facebook to quickly perform an about-face and the image with the quotation was restored.

...

The social media war continues unabated with anti-Israel rejectionists utilizing these mediums as tools to further their nefarious agendas. YouTube, Facebook and other social media forums have an obligation to their users to act fairly and responsibly. Content designed to educate and inform, such as the videos featured by PMW, should not be arbitrarily removed. Conversely, content uploaded for the sole purpose of propagating hate and violence, should be removed expeditiously. Facebook and YouTube have acted irresponsibly in this regard in recent months but hopefully, with proper community monitoring and the threat of legal action, this will change.

YouTube Suspends Account of Palestinian Media Watchdog

Just another example of Israeli thought control.

In most of the modern, first world, incitement to violence is a crime. The modern, first world would exclude Islamic terrorists.

 

[Hollie]

These Israeli children say they look forward to killing Arabs and "picture dead Arabs". Is there any difference?

That's the same silly YouTube video you have cut and pasted multiple times across multiple threads.

 

[Shusha]

These Israeli children say they look forward to killing Arabs and "picture dead Arabs". Is there any difference?

Look, its pretty tragic that children anywhere in the world have to grow up understanding war and conflict, but its a reality. And its not just a reality in Gaza and Israel -- the US is extremely proud of its military and many children in the US grow up glorifying war and wanting to become national heroes by killing the "enemy". And many countries in the world have "open houses" in the military where children and civilians can come and climb on the tanks and play with the weapons and talk to the soldiers.

But the difference between the American ideology surrounding war, the Gazan ideology and the Israeli ideology is significant.

Of course there is a difference between "kill all the Jews, because they are evil" and "the enemy is coming after us to kill us and we must defend ourselves".

Duh.

 

[Billo_Really]

In most of the modern, first world, incitement to violence is a crime. The modern, first world would exclude Islamic terrorists.

And that incitement, is the occupation.

 

[Billo_Really]

Look, its pretty tragic that children anywhere in the world have to grow up understanding war and conflict, but its a reality. And its not just a reality in Gaza and Israel -- the US is extremely proud of its military and many children in the US grow up glorifying war and wanting to become national heroes by killing the "enemy". And many countries in the world have "open houses" in the military where children and civilians can come and climb on the tanks and play with the weapons and talk to the soldiers.

But the difference between the American ideology surrounding war, the Gazan ideology and the Israeli ideology is significant.

Of course there is a difference between "kill all the Jews, because they are evil" and "the enemy is coming after us to kill us and we must defend ourselves".

Duh.

The US doesn't force its citizens to serve in the military.

 

[Shusha]

Duh.

The US doesn't force its citizens to serve in the military.[/QUOTE]

The US is also not under constant attack. And no, the US just glorifies the military and the "right" to use violence.

 

[American_Jihad]

Global Teacher Prize Winner's Husband Massacred Jews Celebrating Sabbath
March 21, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

You might have seen the media blowing up this story not long ago.

Hanan Al Hroub, a Muslim settler living in the West Bank, in '67 Israel, received the Global Teacher Prize and $1 million bucks that come with it. She was praised by Bill Clinton and Pope Francis. And she supposedly teaches non-violence to her students. Aussie Dave at Isreallycool uncovered the grim reality behind the hype.

...

The actual story is that her husband took part in the brutal terrorist attack on Jews walking home from synagogue. This was the Beit Hadassah attack. (Dabboya is the name used by Muslim settlers in '67 Israel to refer to the Jewish area.)

Six, not thirteen, Jews were murdered. Twenty others were wounded. There was no pursuit. This was a cold-blooded ambush. The terrorists set up their position on a rooftop and opened fire on Jews celebrating the Sabbath.

...

This is the truth behind the lies put out by and about Hanan Al-Hroub and her husband's "suffering" at the hands of Israel. Her husband is a coward and a murderer. And you can easily imagine what she really teaches her students.


Global Teacher Prize Winner's Husband Massacred Jews Celebrating Sabbath

 

[Phoenall]

YouTube Suspends Account of Palestinian Media Watchdog
What happens when you expose Palestinian Jew hatred.
March 10, 2016
Ari Lieberman

...

Western audiences are rarely exposed to such obscenities. They’re accustomed to viewing polished and often sympathetic Muslim characters who speak of the importance of peace and their desire for democracy and freedom. Of course, what it said behind closed doors, in Arabic to Arabic audiences, remains behind closed doors.

Faced with such malevolence, the importance of monitoring and exposing Arab media takes on a sense of urgency. Two organizations, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) have stood at the forefront of this endeavor. Their efforts have borne fruit and actually forced Western governments to confront Arab anti-Semitism and more carefully scrutinize allocation of funds. In some cases, Arab entities dependent on Western financing were compelled to modify their behavior as a condition of continued financial backing.

PMW operates a website where it hosts its translated Arabic videos and other content and also maintains an account with YouTube where viewers can screen uploaded videos. On March 3, PMW uploaded a disturbing video featuring a child on a Palestinian children’s program reciting a violent poem liberally laced with references to the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews. Shortly thereafter, YouTube suspended PMW’s account. Those who attempted to access PMW’s YouTube site to view their informative content were instead treated to a terse one-line statement that stated; “This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement.”

Apparently, Ramallah was upset over the fact that someone had exposed the grubs and maggots sheltered beneath the rock and immediately filed a complaint with YouTube. YouTube, either out of ignorance or malevolence, duly complied with the request to have PMW’s account suspended.

Fortunately, the suspension was brief. A flurry of protest from YouTube users coupled with negative media exposure generated by the fallout from the suspension compelled the social media site to rethink its rash and frankly, idiotic decision.

The incident is reminiscent of several recent embarrassing Facebook faux pas involving removal of benign pro-Israel posts, while leaving intact blatantly anti-Semitic images, depicting violence against Jews or alternatively, depicting Jews with grotesquely exaggerated features, wielding undue influence over the United States. In one such episode, Facebook removed a picture of Israel’s late Prime Minister, Golda Meir, accompanied by her famous quote, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” Apparently, someone at Facebook determined that the quotation or image represented a “genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.” Once again, public outcry against this obscenity compelled Facebook to quickly perform an about-face and the image with the quotation was restored.

...

The social media war continues unabated with anti-Israel rejectionists utilizing these mediums as tools to further their nefarious agendas. YouTube, Facebook and other social media forums have an obligation to their users to act fairly and responsibly. Content designed to educate and inform, such as the videos featured by PMW, should not be arbitrarily removed. Conversely, content uploaded for the sole purpose of propagating hate and violence, should be removed expeditiously. Facebook and YouTube have acted irresponsibly in this regard in recent months but hopefully, with proper community monitoring and the threat of legal action, this will change.

YouTube Suspends Account of Palestinian Media Watchdog

Just another example of Israeli thought control.

Read the article again dick head it was the islamonazis that complained and enforced the thought control

 

[Phoenall]

In most of the modern, first world, incitement to violence is a crime. The modern, first world would exclude Islamic terrorists.

And that incitement, is the occupation.

Hardly as the violence and terrorism was the incitement for the occupation in the first place. The Palestinians were given 3 chances to be good neighbours and destroyed all 3 by resorting to violence and terrorism.

 

[Phoenall]

Look, its pretty tragic that children anywhere in the world have to grow up understanding war and conflict, but its a reality. And its not just a reality in Gaza and Israel -- the US is extremely proud of its military and many children in the US grow up glorifying war and wanting to become national heroes by killing the "enemy". And many countries in the world have "open houses" in the military where children and civilians can come and climb on the tanks and play with the weapons and talk to the soldiers.

But the difference between the American ideology surrounding war, the Gazan ideology and the Israeli ideology is significant.

Of course there is a difference between "kill all the Jews, because they are evil" and "the enemy is coming after us to kill us and we must defend ourselves".

Duh.

The US doesn't force its citizens to serve in the military.

It did not that long ago, as did most of the civilised world. You can bet that if the US was ever threatened with violence and terrorism for its occupation of Texas, California and New Mexico then the draft would be brought back.

 

[American_Jihad]

The Religion of Colonialism
Why you can't "colonize" Palestine.
April 5, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

At Israeli Apartheid Week, campus haters claim to be fighting “colonialism” by fighting Jews. Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, dedicated to a country that doesn’t exist and which has produced nothing worth studying except terrorism, features diatribes such as Abdul Rahim al-Shaikh’s Palestine Re-Covered: Reading a Settler Colonial Landscape”. This word salad is a toxic stew of historical revisionism being used to justify the Muslim settler colonization of the indigenous Jewish population.

Colonialism is CPS’ favorite word. When Israeli social workers remove abused children from Muslim homes, that’s colonialism. Israeli farms are a form of environmental “colonialism”. When non-profits aren’t representative enough, it’s the fault of the “Israeli settler-colonial regime.” If it rains on Thursday, it’s caused by “colonialism,” preferably of the “Israeli Zionist colonial settler regime” variety.

But you can’t colonize colonizers. The Muslim population in Israel is a foreign colonist population. The indigenous Jewish population can resettle its own country, but it can’t colonize it.

Not even if you accuse Jews of being a “super-double-secret settler colonial regime.”

Muslims invaded, conquered and settled Israel. They forced their language and laws on the population. That's the definition of colonialism. You can't colonize and then complain that you're being colonized when the natives take back the power that you stole from them.

There are Muslims in Israel for the same reason that there are Muslims in India. They are the remnants of a Muslim colonial regime that displaced and oppressed the indigenous non-Muslim population.

There are no serious historical arguments to be made against any of this.

The Muslim conquests and invasions are well-documented. The Muslim settlements fit every historical template of colonialism complete with importing a foreign population and social system that was imposed on the native population. Until they began losing wars to the indigenous Jewish population, the Muslim settlers were not ashamed of their colonial past, they gloried in it. Their historical legacy was based on seizing indigenous sites, appropriating them and renaming them after the new conquerors.

...

Islamic colonialism has always been defeated, whether at the Gates of Vienna or in the Sinai Desert. Its colonial fantasies are false and will be defeated as many times as it takes, whether in the form of Palestine or ISIS.

The Religion of Colonialism

 

[Challenger]

The Religion of Colonialism
Why you can't "colonize" Palestine.
April 5, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

At Israeli Apartheid Week, campus haters claim to be fighting “colonialism” by fighting Jews. Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, dedicated to a country that doesn’t exist and which has produced nothing worth studying except terrorism, features diatribes such as Abdul Rahim al-Shaikh’s Palestine Re-Covered: Reading a Settler Colonial Landscape”. This word salad is a toxic stew of historical revisionism being used to justify the Muslim settler colonization of the indigenous Jewish population.

Colonialism is CPS’ favorite word. When Israeli social workers remove abused children from Muslim homes, that’s colonialism. Israeli farms are a form of environmental “colonialism”. When non-profits aren’t representative enough, it’s the fault of the “Israeli settler-colonial regime.” If it rains on Thursday, it’s caused by “colonialism,” preferably of the “Israeli Zionist colonial settler regime” variety.

But you can’t colonize colonizers. The Muslim population in Israel is a foreign colonist population. The indigenous Jewish population can resettle its own country, but it can’t colonize it.

Not even if you accuse Jews of being a “super-double-secret settler colonial regime.”

Muslims invaded, conquered and settled Israel. They forced their language and laws on the population. That's the definition of colonialism. You can't colonize and then complain that you're being colonized when the natives take back the power that you stole from them.

There are Muslims in Israel for the same reason that there are Muslims in India. They are the remnants of a Muslim colonial regime that displaced and oppressed the indigenous non-Muslim population.

There are no serious historical arguments to be made against any of this.

The Muslim conquests and invasions are well-documented. The Muslim settlements fit every historical template of colonialism complete with importing a foreign population and social system that was imposed on the native population. Until they began losing wars to the indigenous Jewish population, the Muslim settlers were not ashamed of their colonial past, they gloried in it. Their historical legacy was based on seizing indigenous sites, appropriating them and renaming them after the new conquerors.

...

Islamic colonialism has always been defeated, whether at the Gates of Vienna or in the Sinai Desert. Its colonial fantasies are false and will be defeated as many times as it takes, whether in the form of Palestine or ISIS.

The Religion of Colonialism

Good grief! Standard Zionist Hasbara re-write of events that pays no attention to actual historical fact and fails to substantiate any of the assertions made in the blog. Still what else can you expect from someone working for the David Horowitz "Freedom" Centre? Oh, yes, pure bullshit.

This must be the latest play that the Zionist Hasbara machine has come up with:

"This word salad is a toxic stew of historical revisionism being used to justify the Muslim settler colonization of the indigenous Jewish population."

To try to convince the gullable that white European colonists are somehow "indigenous" to a land of "brown" people.

 

[montelatici]

The Religion of Colonialism
Why you can't "colonize" Palestine.
April 5, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

At Israeli Apartheid Week, campus haters claim to be fighting “colonialism” by fighting Jews. Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, dedicated to a country that doesn’t exist and which has produced nothing worth studying except terrorism, features diatribes such as Abdul Rahim al-Shaikh’s Palestine Re-Covered: Reading a Settler Colonial Landscape”. This word salad is a toxic stew of historical revisionism being used to justify the Muslim settler colonization of the indigenous Jewish population.

Colonialism is CPS’ favorite word. When Israeli social workers remove abused children from Muslim homes, that’s colonialism. Israeli farms are a form of environmental “colonialism”. When non-profits aren’t representative enough, it’s the fault of the “Israeli settler-colonial regime.” If it rains on Thursday, it’s caused by “colonialism,” preferably of the “Israeli Zionist colonial settler regime” variety.

But you can’t colonize colonizers. The Muslim population in Israel is a foreign colonist population. The indigenous Jewish population can resettle its own country, but it can’t colonize it.

Not even if you accuse Jews of being a “super-double-secret settler colonial regime.”

Muslims invaded, conquered and settled Israel. They forced their language and laws on the population. That's the definition of colonialism. You can't colonize and then complain that you're being colonized when the natives take back the power that you stole from them.

There are Muslims in Israel for the same reason that there are Muslims in India. They are the remnants of a Muslim colonial regime that displaced and oppressed the indigenous non-Muslim population.

There are no serious historical arguments to be made against any of this.

The Muslim conquests and invasions are well-documented. The Muslim settlements fit every historical template of colonialism complete with importing a foreign population and social system that was imposed on the native population. Until they began losing wars to the indigenous Jewish population, the Muslim settlers were not ashamed of their colonial past, they gloried in it. Their historical legacy was based on seizing indigenous sites, appropriating them and renaming them after the new conquerors.

...

Islamic colonialism has always been defeated, whether at the Gates of Vienna or in the Sinai Desert. Its colonial fantasies are false and will be defeated as many times as it takes, whether in the form of Palestine or ISIS.

The Religion of Colonialism

The Zionists believed they could colonize Palestine and they did. How is Hasbara going to eliminate NYT and JTA news reports? Amazing how these nutters find propaganda publish it and never think to check if the Hasbara has eliminated access to source material that debunks their nonsense

Successful Jewish Colonization Will Extend Beyond Palestine Frontier, Weizmann Tells Actions Committee
July 25, 1926

"(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The various phases of the present situation in Palestine and in the Zionist movement throughout the world, and plans of Zionist leadership for the immediate future, were submitted for consideration at the Zionist Actions Committee which opened its session here yesterday.

The contemplated trip to the United States of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, the continuation of his efforts while in America to extend the Jewish Agency through his negotiations with the Marshall group, the possibilities of extending Jewish colonization work outside of the present Palestine frontiers, including. Transjordania and certain parts of Syria, were the main features around which the deliberations centered

Zionists plan to colonize Palestine in 1899 NY Times

An article about a Conference of Zionists published on July 20, 1899 in the New York Times expresses that the Zionists “will colonize Palestine.”

Zionists plan to colonize Palestine in 1899 NY Times - World Bulletin

 

[theliq]

The " palestinians" are arab outcast from surrounding arab countries...

The Middle East and Orwellian Historical Arguments
When lies are the foundation of policies.
October 16, 2015
Bruce Thornton

Many of our policy debates and conflicts both domestic and foreign call on history to validate their positions. At home, crimes from the past like slavery and legal segregation are used to justify present policies ranging from racial set asides to housing regulations long after those institutions have been dismantled. Abroad, our jihadist enemies continually evoke the Crusades, “colonialism,” and “imperialism” as justifications for their violence. Yet the “history” used in such fashion is usually one-sided, simplistic, or downright false. Nor is the reason hard to find: as we read in 1984, “Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Bad history is a powerful instrument for gaining political power.

Nowhere is the abuse of history more rampant than in the Middle East. Since World War II all the problems whose origins lie in dysfunctional tribal and religious beliefs and behaviors have been laid at the feet of “colonialism” and “imperialism.” Western leftists––besotted both by a marxiste hatred of liberal democracy, and by juvenile noble-savage Third-Worldism–– have legitimized this specious pretext, which now for many has become historical fact.

...

Everything about this narrative is false. There is no such thing as a “Palestinian” people, an idea that arose only after the Six Day War of 1967. The bulk of the people mistakenly called “Palestinians” are ethnically, religiously, and linguistically indistinguishable from Arab Muslims in Lebanon, Jordan, or Syria. Numerous comments by Arab leaders before 1967 emphasized this fact. For example, Zouhair Muhsin, a member of the Executive Council of the PLO, said, “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… Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”

...

Finally, the charge of an “illegal occupation” of the “occupied West Bank” is a canard. Those territories, comprising the heartland of the ancient Jewish nations of Judea and Samaria, are disputed, their final disposition awaiting a peace treaty. There are no “borders” thought to define the mythical Palestinian nation. Those lines on the map are armistice lines, created after Israel defeated the armies of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt in 1967. By all rights as the victor, Israel could have incorporated the so-called West Bank into the state of Israel, on the same eternal wages of war that led to the American Southwest being incorporated into the U.S. after the 1846-48 war with Mexico, or of Prussian Germany into Poland after World War II. Indeed, since the territory in question was for thousands of years the homeland of the Jewish people, Israel would have had a better case for restoring Judea and Samaria to Israel. Instead, in the Orwellian history created by Muslims and accepted by the West, the indigenous peoples are considered the “occupiers” of their own lands, and conquerors, invaders, and colonizers considered the disenfranchised victims.

The recent suicide-murders of random Israelis by Palestinians have been analyzed in terms that perpetuate this false history. Our intellectually challenged Secretary of State, John Kerry, referred to this false history when he said at Harvard, “There’s been a massive increase in settlement over the course of the last years and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing,” he said. “Settlements” is nothing more than a mindless mantra, like “cycle of violence” or “checkpoints” or the “sanctity of the al-Aqsa mosque,” for the pusillanimous West, while for Muslims they are the pretexts for practicing their traditional Jew-hatred and sacralized violence.

The history this reporting on the Temple Mount ignores is the great forbearance, and to be sure tactical pragmatism, of the Israelis in leaving the Temple Mount under the management of the Arabs; while a mosque created as a triumphalist boast over conquered Christians and Jews, in a city never mentioned in the Koran, is respected more by the West than its own empty cathedrals. Meanwhile the travails of Muslim immigrants are hyped and agonized over more than the crucifixions, torture, rape, and murder of Christians in the greatest mass persecution of Christians in history.

These are the wages of historical ignorance and the acceptance of a history made up by an adversary who can “thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened,” as Orwell says of the Party in 1984. Our foreign policy has often been predicated on these lies, and the outcome has been predictable when lies are the foundation of policies––the abject failure we are witnessing in the region today.


The Middle East and Orwellian Historical Arguments

Funny American whatever you are,that tens of thousands of Palestinians work in surrounding Arabic Countries,as Doctors(including Israel),Medical Staff(including Israel),in the Bio-Tech Industries(including Israel),Medical Research(including Israel)'Structual Engineers,Building Engineers,School Administration and Principles and Teachers,I could go on and on for reams but your inaccurate post(as usual) is just that.Please note that the Palestinians have one of the highest matriculation rate to University Entrance..........so much for Arab Outcasts....it is actually quite the reverse.

I suggest you Stop bleating from your Anti-Semitic,Anti-Palestinian.......ZIONIST TERRORIST MANUAL...which we all know is a CROCK OF SHIT

 

[theliq]

Really Front Page Mag, a hate mag by Horowitz, Zionist commie who turned right wing after the cold war. Good for starting fires, also the writer is also a Zionist Islam hater right winger. Of course the Palestinians were living in Palestine, 70% arabs in Palestine at turn of the century.

Funny, how quick arabs-muslims manage to crowd into a country, eh? Just look at Europe! A wink of an eye, and hordes upon hordes of them are in!

Same as the Jews then in occupied Palestine

 

[theliq]

It belongs to the people who were their 100 years ago. Period.

Well the Zionist do not consider them "people".

Definitely something with them palistanians. They're transpeople, as in transgender, and they're shapeshifting too, when busted-up gunmen suddenly turn into women-children, or somesuch. So, who are they, indeed, if everything about them is provisional, conditional, indeterminate?

Moron of the WEEK 15

 

[theliq]

The " palestinians" are arab outcast from surrounding arab countries...

The Middle East and Orwellian Historical Arguments
When lies are the foundation of policies.
October 16, 2015
Bruce Thornton

Many of our policy debates and conflicts both domestic and foreign call on history to validate their positions. At home, crimes from the past like slavery and legal segregation are used to justify present policies ranging from racial set asides to housing regulations long after those institutions have been dismantled. Abroad, our jihadist enemies continually evoke the Crusades, “colonialism,” and “imperialism” as justifications for their violence. Yet the “history” used in such fashion is usually one-sided, simplistic, or downright false. Nor is the reason hard to find: as we read in 1984, “Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Bad history is a powerful instrument for gaining political power.

Nowhere is the abuse of history more rampant than in the Middle East. Since World War II all the problems whose origins lie in dysfunctional tribal and religious beliefs and behaviors have been laid at the feet of “colonialism” and “imperialism.” Western leftists––besotted both by a marxiste hatred of liberal democracy, and by juvenile noble-savage Third-Worldism–– have legitimized this specious pretext, which now for many has become historical fact.

...

Everything about this narrative is false. There is no such thing as a “Palestinian” people, an idea that arose only after the Six Day War of 1967. The bulk of the people mistakenly called “Palestinians” are ethnically, religiously, and linguistically indistinguishable from Arab Muslims in Lebanon, Jordan, or Syria. Numerous comments by Arab leaders before 1967 emphasized this fact. For example, Zouhair Muhsin, a member of the Executive Council of the PLO, said, “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… Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.”

...

Finally, the charge of an “illegal occupation” of the “occupied West Bank” is a canard. Those territories, comprising the heartland of the ancient Jewish nations of Judea and Samaria, are disputed, their final disposition awaiting a peace treaty. There are no “borders” thought to define the mythical Palestinian nation. Those lines on the map are armistice lines, created after Israel defeated the armies of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt in 1967. By all rights as the victor, Israel could have incorporated the so-called West Bank into the state of Israel, on the same eternal wages of war that led to the American Southwest being incorporated into the U.S. after the 1846-48 war with Mexico, or of Prussian Germany into Poland after World War II. Indeed, since the territory in question was for thousands of years the homeland of the Jewish people, Israel would have had a better case for restoring Judea and Samaria to Israel. Instead, in the Orwellian history created by Muslims and accepted by the West, the indigenous peoples are considered the “occupiers” of their own lands, and conquerors, invaders, and colonizers considered the disenfranchised victims.

The recent suicide-murders of random Israelis by Palestinians have been analyzed in terms that perpetuate this false history. Our intellectually challenged Secretary of State, John Kerry, referred to this false history when he said at Harvard, “There’s been a massive increase in settlement over the course of the last years and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing,” he said. “Settlements” is nothing more than a mindless mantra, like “cycle of violence” or “checkpoints” or the “sanctity of the al-Aqsa mosque,” for the pusillanimous West, while for Muslims they are the pretexts for practicing their traditional Jew-hatred and sacralized violence.

The history this reporting on the Temple Mount ignores is the great forbearance, and to be sure tactical pragmatism, of the Israelis in leaving the Temple Mount under the management of the Arabs; while a mosque created as a triumphalist boast over conquered Christians and Jews, in a city never mentioned in the Koran, is respected more by the West than its own empty cathedrals. Meanwhile the travails of Muslim immigrants are hyped and agonized over more than the crucifixions, torture, rape, and murder of Christians in the greatest mass persecution of Christians in history.

These are the wages of historical ignorance and the acceptance of a history made up by an adversary who can “thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened,” as Orwell says of the Party in 1984. Our foreign policy has often been predicated on these lies, and the outcome has been predictable when lies are the foundation of policies––the abject failure we are witnessing in the region today.


The Middle East and Orwellian Historical Arguments

He rails against an "adversary who can “thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened,” as he “thrusts (his) hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened,”
He is the very definition of a Pedant in any case;
pe·dan·ticpəˈdan(t)ik/
adjective
of or like a pedant.
"many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal"
synonyms: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, perfectionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finicky; More
Scan a couple of his essays here (Bruce Thornton) and you'll see what I mean. I think this is one Professor of Classics and Humanities who should leave history to the historians. Even if he's right I find him too annoying to read, he's so....pedantic.
Some here though will find his opinion of Donald Trump loud and clear and agreeable;

But we too, for now, seem to have a prophet. Whatever his flaws and weaknesses, Donald Trump has thrust the problems of lax immigration policies and weak enforcement of immigration laws back into the national conversation. Like Enoch Powell, politicians from both parties have tried to marginalize him. But in the age of the Internet, YouTube, and cable news, the citizens who agree with Trump can voice their approval more loudly than in Powell’s day. And they delight in the rough treatment he gives to immigration hacks like Univision’s Jorge Ramos, whom Trump tossed out of a news conference. Let’s just hope that a critical mass of people is listening, and that the Republicans embrace Trump’s warnings on illegal immigration instead of demonizing him.

Donald Trump a Prophet, imagine that.

Donald Trump a Prophet,I think not......Crazy Baldhead most Certainly...steve


Play Loudy

 

[American_Jihad]

I see we hit nerve with the haters of Israel, that's a good thing...
"Jews for Bernie" Run by Anti-Israel Hater Who Defended Hamas
April 6, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Bernie Sanders lied that Israel killed 10,000 "innocent people" in Gaza in its campaign against Hamas. So it's not surprising that Jews for Bernie, or at least its social media, is run by Daniel Sieradski, an OWSer and a notorious anti-Israel activist, who at one point apparently worked with J Street, and spread a viral attack defending Hamas terrorism against Israel.

During the Hamas attacks on Israel in 2014, his meme listed a phony collection of grievances and concluded that, "That's why Palestinians are fighting back."

Their "fighting back" had involved the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.

Among the dead Israelis murdered by the "Palestinian" Muslim colonists who were "fighting back" against free Israeli electricity, food and medical care, was Daniel Tragerman, a 4-year-old boy.

...

Jews have already rejected Bernie Sanders. He has repeatedly lost Jewish areas. New York polling shows that he loses among Jews to Hillary Clinton by 29% to 56%. If Trump runs against Sanders, Trump picks up 39% of the Jewish vote.

Bernie Sanders has rejected the Jewish community. And Jews have rejected Bernie Sanders.

If Bernie Sanders wants to make any headway with Jewish voters, he needs to actually reach out to the Jewish community, instead of to the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic left that exists only as a spiteful rejection of the Jewish people. If he really believes that Hamas is a terrorist organization, he needs to distance himself from anti-Israel bigots who make excuses for the genocidal Islamic terror group.

If he fails to do that, all he will have are the "Jews for Bernie" who hate Jews, Judaism and the Jewish state... but love Bernie.

"Jews for Bernie" Run by Anti-Israel Hater Who Defended Hamas

 

[Challenger]

I see we hit nerve with the haters of Israel, that's a good thing...
"Jews for Bernie" Run by Anti-Israel Hater Who Defended Hamas
April 6, 2016
Daniel Greenfield

Bernie Sanders lied that Israel killed 10,000 "innocent people" in Gaza in its campaign against Hamas. So it's not surprising that Jews for Bernie, or at least its social media, is run by Daniel Sieradski, an OWSer and a notorious anti-Israel activist, who at one point apparently worked with J Street, and spread a viral attack defending Hamas terrorism against Israel.

During the Hamas attacks on Israel in 2014, his meme listed a phony collection of grievances and concluded that, "That's why Palestinians are fighting back."

Their "fighting back" had involved the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.

Among the dead Israelis murdered by the "Palestinian" Muslim colonists who were "fighting back" against free Israeli electricity, food and medical care, was Daniel Tragerman, a 4-year-old boy.

...

Jews have already rejected Bernie Sanders. He has repeatedly lost Jewish areas. New York polling shows that he loses among Jews to Hillary Clinton by 29% to 56%. If Trump runs against Sanders, Trump picks up 39% of the Jewish vote.

Bernie Sanders has rejected the Jewish community. And Jews have rejected Bernie Sanders.

If Bernie Sanders wants to make any headway with Jewish voters, he needs to actually reach out to the Jewish community, instead of to the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic left that exists only as a spiteful rejection of the Jewish people. If he really believes that Hamas is a terrorist organization, he needs to distance himself from anti-Israel bigots who make excuses for the genocidal Islamic terror group.

If he fails to do that, all he will have are the "Jews for Bernie" who hate Jews, Judaism and the Jewish state... but love Bernie.

"Jews for Bernie" Run by Anti-Israel Hater Who Defended Hamas

Daniel Sieradski? Never heard of him until you posted this, interesting individual,

"Sieradski has been described and as "a major figure of the Jewish Internet world and a cultural trailblazer with a diverse fan base" by The Forward. B'nai B'rith Magazine called him a "fresh faced iconoclast ... redefining American Judaism," and Tikkun said he was "fast becoming one of the most recognized Jewish literary voices on the Internet." The Jewish Standard described Sieradski as "a leader in a Jewish movement that is trying to a create a new image for Judaism to project to its youth," he was called "an innovator in Jewish new media" by Editor & Publisher. In 2008, The Jewish Week counted Sieradski among a group of 36 Jewish New Yorkers under the age of 36 "who are combining mitzvot, leadership and passion in making the world a better place." In 2010, he was numbered among The Forward 50, an annual listing of the 50 most influential American Jews. Haaretz has called him a "professional thorn in the side of the American Jewish establishment." Daniel Sieradski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seems Sheldon Adelson clearly isn't a fan as he's already bought Hillary, but can't buy Bernie.

 

[Challenger]

I see we hit nerve with the haters of Israel, that's a good thing...

"We" hit a nerve? Hardly but it's interesting you let slip you are part of an organised group of Hasbarists, thanks.