The Right To Destroy Jewish History

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

StopAntisemitism received these photos of material that Joseph Massad is teaching in his Columbia University "Palestinian/Israeli Conflict" course. It came from a student taking the course.




Ths comes from "Holy land, hollow jubilee: God, justice and the Palestinians" which is a collection of speeches given at the1998 Sabeel International Conference. Sabeel is the antisemitic Palestinian Christian organization that preaches Christian supersessionism. The co-editor of the book, Naim Ateek, is an antisemite.

The quote here is undeniably antisemitic, saying that Jews collaborated in the Holocaust. Zionists were trying to save Jewish lives, Nazis were trying to destroy Jewish lives. If this isn't antisemitic, nothing is.

And this is in a curriculum of a Columbia University professor.
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The point of the book is that Israel acted in a racist way towards its Mizrahi citizens. This is true - but this was also 54 years ago. The author of the book says that Israel should become more Oriental and integrate more fully into the Middle Eastern culture in order to have a chance to make peace with Arabs, and what has happened since then is that the Arab nations have (slowly) become more Westernized - and many of them have made peace with Israel.

The irony is that every time Israel adopts Middle East culture, whether it is cuisine or dance or dress or music, people like Joseph Massad freak out and say that Israel is stealing it.

Massad has a history of antisemitic rhetoric. The late Petra Maquardt-Bigman once made a quiz to see if anyone can distinguish between phrases written by Massad and the far right antisemites at Stormfront. He pushes the discredited Khazar theory. Oh, and he's a homophobe.

The question isn't whether Massad is an antisemite who is teaching antisemitism to his students. The question is why Columbia allows a professor to spew hate disguised as pseudo-academia.

(full article online)

Joseph Massad's insane antisemitic curriculum

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[RoccoR]

RE: The Right To Destroy Jewish History
SUBTOPIC: Credibility
※→ Sixties Fan, et al,
Interesting!

StopAntisemitism received these photos of material that Joseph Massad is teaching in his Columbia University "Palestinian/Israeli Conflict" course. It came from a student taking the course.
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The quote here is undeniably antisemitic, saying that Jews collaborated in the Holocaust. Zionists were trying to save Jewish lives, Nazis were trying to destroy Jewish lives. If this isn't antisemitic, nothing is.

(COMMENT)

There will always be alternative paths that lead the followers away from the Gateway to the truth. That is simply how the global society works.

Some issues, like antisemitism, have more diversionary options than other controversies. But all things being equal, the proper inquiry into the unknown will result in an outcome that is unassailable given the knowledge which is both sound and valid.

When you research the meaning of truth (as an example) in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy you will find four conceptual discussions:

◈ Truth​

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• Pluralist Theories
• Prosentential Theory
• Semantic Theory
• Truthmaker Theory

But should you look at other sources you will see other approaches to the meaning and derivation of the truth. To say that Rocco is an incompetent philosopher is TRUE is not the same as saying Rocco has the property of being an incompetent philosopher. This approach is unstable and at times will break down when placed under examination. This evaluation is similar to set theory and the assortment of characteristics.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Turtlesoup]

I was not going to start a new thread on the forums, but this one seems to be a must.

I know that there are many well meaning people on these threads who want to see an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, like Coyote and many others. And then, there are those who are very ill meaning and do nothing but bash Israel and Jews over everything.

I believe that any and all, need to be reminded that this is Jewish land. It has been Jewish land for over 3000 years, and never contested by any one of its invaders and conquerors until the "dreadful day" when the Jews assumed that they could legally regain sovereignty over it and the Balfour Declaration happened and the Mandate for Palestine was to give the Jews their ancient homeland back.

We all know what has happened since 1920.

But what many do not know and do not seem to be aware of is what the people who have been calling themselves Palestinians since 1964 have been doing to ancient places they should have been claiming as their own, for after all, do they not say that they have been on the land as the Ancient Palestinians for the past 5000, no - 6000, no - 10000 years?

Aren't these ancient places and artifacts in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria part of the Palestinian History? Then why are they destroying any and all of it?

This is what has been going on for decades. Why are the "Palestinians" destroying their alleged history?

Palestinians destroying ancient Herodian and Hashmonean antiquities - literally bulldozing Jewish history ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

We've discussed the The Temple Mount Sifting Project before:
The Temple Mount Sifting Project (formerly known as the Temple Mount Salvage Operation) is an Israeli archaeological project begun in 2005 dedicated to recovering archaeological artifacts from 400 truckloads of topsoil removed from the Temple Mount by the Waqf during the construction of the underground el-Marwani Mosque from 1996 to 1999.[1] The project is under the academic auspices of Bar Ilan University and until 2017 was funded by the Ir David Foundation and Israel Exploration Society.The destruction of so many tons of property from the Temple Mount was the biggest archaeological crime in history.

The project webpage is now warning of other large-scale destruction of Jewish history by Palestinians, ISIS-style.
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In full view of people passing on the highway 90, Palestinians are using bulldozers and other heavy equipment to destroy Second Temple-era Jewish settlements in order to build a new village.

This is all happening in Area B, under Palestinian administrative control.

Moreover, it looks like Palestinian antiquities thieves are working in the area at night to steal whatever ancient artifacts they can find to sell on the market.

The article notes that similar destruction has recently begun in the area of the Hasmonean palaces in Jericho.
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Give Area C and the former Jewish Quarter and the Temple Mount to the invading Arabs who are now calling themselves the ancient inhabitants of the land, who should be protecting their ancient history and making tourism out of it?

Which one of you would dare do so?

Does the UN have any say on the Arabs destroying other people's ancient places?
Where has UNESCO been all of this time? What is their position about the endless destruction of Jewish History? Have they not complained about ISIS destroying antiquity?

Oh, wait......they have been giving Palestinian Status to Jewish places like the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb, and many other places.

I guess if the UN is in on it, then there is no hope for the Jewish people to ever get their ancient lands back, much less be allowed to freely visit those places, which is true when it comes to the Cave and the Tombs, etc, where Jews can only visit if they have a military escort.

Questions:

How can peace be achieved with the PA, the alleged partner for Peace, when it is the PA itself which allows such destruction to happen?

How can peace be achieved when destroying Israel is still in the Hamas and PLO, and Fatah charters and is taught on a daily basis to all Arabs who live in Gaza and areas A and B, and C and even in Israel?

What in the world is going to be done about the endless destruction and the want to destroy all which is Jewish on the Land of Israel, which does include all of Judea and Samaria which is the land of the Jewish People.
(I will not eve speculate what may already have been done to Jewish history in Jordan and Gaza )

DO the Arabs have the right to destroy any and all Jewish History they find and never have to answer to the rest of the world, much less to the Jewish People?

Nonsense...the muslims killed off the middle eastern jews to gain control of the land and to get rid of jews on the continent. European Jews squatting on the property is still stealing as it was never really yours until the early 1900's when you stole it.

I don't like muslims--but seriously we should be telling the truth.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Nonsense...the muslims killed off the middle eastern jews to gain control of the land and to get rid of jews on the continent. European Jews squatting on the property is still stealing as it was never really yours until the early 1900's when you stole it.

I don't like muslims--but seriously we should be telling the truth.

the muslims killed off the middle eastern jews to gain control of the land

Muslims killed Jews and stole their land?

 

[RoccoR]

RE: The Right To Destroy Jewish History
SUBTOPIC: Accusations
※→ Turtlesoup, et al,

Nonsense...the muslims killed off the middle eastern jews to gain control of the land and to get rid of jews on the continent. European Jews squatting on the property is still stealing as it was never really yours until the early 1900's when you stole it.

I don't like muslims--but seriously we should be telling the truth.

(QUESTION)

I always get confused about the issue of land theft and squatting. When and where did this happen. Get me an example.

I'm sure that I am confused. I thought that the Arab Palestinians agreed to (Para 3, A/PV.2268. 14 October 1974), snd ANNEX III Protocol Concerning Civil Affairs • ARTICLE IV Special Provisions concerning Area "C" • which assigned Israel full civil and security control over Area “C".

Straighten me out here.

I also thought that the Arab Palestinians were specifically supposed to exercise Article V. Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements September 13, 1993:

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD AND PERMANENT STATUS NEGOTIATIONS

1. The five-year transitional period will begin upon the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and Jericho area.
2. Permanent status negotiations will commence as soon as possible, but not later than the beginning of the third year of the interim period, between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian people representatives.
3. It is understood that these negotiations shall cover remaining issues, including: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security arrangements, borders, relations and cooperation with other neighbors, and other issues of common interest.
4. The two parties agree that the outcome of the permanent status negotiations should not be prejudiced or preempted by agreements reached for the interim period.

And if that was not satisfactory then they had the option of exercising the Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States:

"States shall accordingly seek early and just settlement of their international disputes by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements or other peaceful means of their choice. In seeking such a settlement the parties shall agree upon such peaceful means as may be appropriate to the circumstances and nature of the dispute."​

Did the Arab Palestinians exercise any International Dispute Resolutions Process at all?

Did HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) withdraw this policy:

18. The following are considered null and void: the Balfour Declaration, the British Mandate Document, the UN Palestine Partition Resolution, and whatever resolutions and measures that derive from them or are similar to them. The establishment of “Israel” is entirely illegal and contravenes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and goes against their will and the will of the Ummah; it is also in violation of human rights that are guaranteed by international conventions, foremost among them is the right to self-determination.​

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19. There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity. Whatever has befallen the land of Palestine in terms of occupation, settlement building, Judaization or changes to its features or falsification of facts is illegitimate. Rights never lapse.​

I wonder... Did the Palestine National Charter get amended?

Article 9​

"Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. This it is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute determination and firm resolution to continue their armed struggle and to work for an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country and their return to it ."​

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They also assert their right to normal life in Palestine and to exercise their right to self-determination and sovereignty over it.​

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Article 19:​

The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations; particularly the right to self-determination.​

Article 20:​

The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them is deemed null and void. Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood. Judaism, being a religion, is not an independent nationality. Nor do Jews constitute a single nation with an identity of its own; they are citizens of the states to which they belong.​

The Israelis never really occupied Palestinian Territory. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) actually Occupied Sovereign Jordanian Territory. The Jordanians annexed the territory in April 1950. DID these things change?

On April 11, 1950, elections were held for a new Jordanian parliament in which the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were equally represented. Thirteen days later, Parliament unanimously approved a motion to unite the two banks of the Jordan River, constitutionally expanding the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in order to safeguard what was left of the Arab territory of Palestine from further Zionist expansion.​

Article 3 • International Boundary, ◈ Jordan-Israeli Peace Treaty (1994) • essentially says that the boundary between Israel and Jordan is the Jordan River.​

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On 31 July 1988, the King of Jordan cut all ties with the territory West of the Jordan River. By default, that left Israel (the Occupation Force), the only organized government with assets already in place.​

I cannot remember such an event, but then I am an old man.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[Sixties Fan]

Nonsense...the muslims killed off the middle eastern jews to gain control of the land and to get rid of jews on the continent. European Jews squatting on the property is still stealing as it was never really yours until the early 1900's when you stole it.

I don't like muslims--but seriously we should be telling the truth.

Yes, tell the truth and tell us why you do not like Jews to the point of killing all Misrahi and Sephardic Jews in Asia?

European Jews, South American Jews, Australian Jews are still Jews, always have been and will continue to be just as their very much alive "Middle Eastern" Jews.

Thank you for attacking Jews on this thread.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The "Jew as Nazi" meme is common among antisemites. To Jew-haters, the grotesque analogy is delicious: the Jews are just as bad as their oppressors, the Jews are just as guilty of genocide, killing Jews is as moral as the French Resistance, Jews have no right to defend themselves, Jews haven't learned the "lessons" of the Holocaust - as if the Holocaust was merely a university for Jews who keep flunking their classes while the rest of the world who stood by and allowed them to be slaughtered are the professors.

Who was the first to make this disgusting claim?

The earliest I can find comes from the British.

Lord Moyne, the British Minister of State in the Middle East, engaged in debate in British Parliament on June 9, 1942 about whether Jews in Palestine should be allowed to fight the Nazis. Lord Moyne opposed the idea, forcefully supported by Lord Wedgwood. His arguments sound a lot like antisemitism: he complained that the Jews wanted to allow their fellow Jews to immigrate to Palestine to save their lives:

The Zionist claim has raised two burning issues: firstly, the demand for large-scale immigration into an already overcrowded country, and, secondly, racial domination by these newcomers over the original inhabitants..... The inhabitants of that small country—about the size of Wales, but much less fertile—are already threatened with conditions of grave congestion. At the present rate of increase, the Arab population will double within twenty-seven years. All the fertile soil is not only occupied but very closely cultivated. At the end of the last war, the Jewish community numbered 80,000. It now numbers about 450,000; and yet the Zionist Organization have indignantly refused the terms of the White Paper, under which further immigration should be allowed up to another 75,000 in five years.....

Lord Wedgwood's effort has a far greater power of mischief in being addressed to America. It must surely have a deplorable effect upon our Allies to be told by an ex-Cabinet Minister that the Palestine Administration do not like Jews, and that there are enough Anti-Semites in Great Britain to back up the Hitler policy and spirit. This suggestion is a complete reversal of the truth. If a comparison is to be made with the Nazis it is surely those who wish to force an imported régime upon the Arab population who are guilty of the spirit of aggression and domination.

Here, he directly compared all Zionists who wanted to save the lives of millions of Jews to the Nazis.

Lord Moyne also threw in the Khazar theory that Ashkenazic Jews aren't really Jews and don't belong in the Middle East:

It is very often loosely said that Jews are Semites, but anthropologists tell us that, pure as they have kept their culture, the Jewish race has been much mixed with Gentiles since the beginning of the Diaspora. During the Babylonian captivity they acquired a strong Hittite admixture, and it is obvious that the Armenoid features which are still found among the Sephardim have been bred out of the Ashkenazim by an admixture of Slav blood.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill brought up the analogy of Jews to Nazis not as a fact but as a fear after Lord Moyne was assassinated by members of Lehi in Egypt. From November 17, 1944:

This shameful crime has shocked the world. It has affected none more strongly than those, like myself, who, in the past, have been consistent friends of the Jews and constant architects of their future. If our dreams for Zionism are to end in the smoke of assassins' pistols and our labours for its future to produce only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany, many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained so consistently and so long in the past.

Lord Moyne's successor, Sir James Grigg, echoed that opinion on January 3, 1945:

(full article online)

The British were the first to compare Jews to Nazis as early as 1942. Arabs enthusiastically followed.

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[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

I found an interesting if quite biased academic paper called "Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the
Apartheid Analogy" which traces the beginnings of the accusations that Israel is guilty of apartheid - an accusation that pre-dates "occupation."

While the author, Nina Fischer of Goethe University Frankfurt, tries to position the apartheid slur as just another means of "resistance"for Palestinians, she doesn't quite realize she is saying that lying about and slandering Israel is a conscious decision on the part of Palestinian leaders as a means to destroy it - just as violent resistance is.

She traces the accusation to Fayez Sayegh, one of those "Palestinians" who was born in Syria and whose family moved to Palestine in the 1920s to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by Jews. Sayegh became a major Palestinian theorist. He wrote a book about "Zionist colonialism" before 1967 and then became the UN's special rapporteur to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which enabled him to become one of the architects of the 1975 UNGA "Zionism is Racism" resolution.

He would often equate Zionism with “genocide”, “crimes against humanity”, and “racist discrimination” alongside apartheid. It is clear to all that this was his weapon, in concert with Palestinian bombs.

Sayegh may have helped draft an UN resolution against apartheid, 3151 of 1974, by adding Zionism in its text. The resolution decried the “unholy alliance” between “Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, zionism [sic] and Israeli imperialism.”

Fischer admits that Sayegh used the apartheid slur mainly as "a metaphorical trope with much emotive power, shaping the international discourse and aiming to cause condemnations and the political isolation of Israel."


Fischer reiterates this:

[T]he term apartheid is harnessed for its emotive power. ...The Palestinian story needs telling in a way that resonates with an audience and guides listeners’ interpretations. This means that the apartheid analogy in the Palestinian context functions ...politically, as it allows being heard, aims to influence and shape opinions, and can create a reaction.....Internally, in Arabic, a different story might be happening concerning terms employed, but Palestinian discourses in English that use apartheid as a prism were always intended for international consumption.

In other words, the apartheid analogy was always all about propaganda and never about facts. Its effectiveness is not a reflection of reality but of the eagerness for many people to label Jews as evil.

The sequence of events since then is that the accusations that Zionism is racist and apartheid keep resurfacing, and every new generation tweaks the slur with more "facts" fed to them by fraudulent academics to make the accusations sound more legitimate. Even the reports of B'Tselem, HRW and now Amnesty show an evolution: each successive one tries to refine the argument because the previous ones were demolished.

(full article online)

From the beginning, the "apartheid" slur was meant as a rhetorical weapon, not as truth. And so it remains today.

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[Sixties Fan]

( Not enough Psychologist to deal with this sick culture of Appropriation of Jewish History. Israel created the PA. Israel should destroy it. But how, when so many Christians and Muslims continue to work with lies and cheating to destroy Israel )


The Palestinian Authority has written a fictitious history for itself that is both comical and dangerous. The PA claims Palestinians to be distinct in the annals of history, being the only people to have defeated many of the greatest empires. Incredibly, the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Pharaohs, Hyksos and Tatars, all were defeated by the Palestinians, according to Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh speaking in the name of Mahmoud Abbas, at the Palestinian Martyrs’ Day ceremony in Ramallah.

Given that only last century after the creation of the State of Israel did some Arabs of the land of Israel adopt a Palestinian identity, the PA’s Prime Minister’s fantasy could be dismissed as laughable and irrelevant. However, the continuation of the PM’s words, using this fantasy history to justify his call to fight to destroy Israel, shows how dangerous even a lie can be:

“We have defeated all the invaders who passed through the land of Palestine. On behalf of the Martyrs we will defeat this hated occupation [Israel] that will leave our land.”
[Official PA TV Live, Jan. 9, 2022]

Tragically, this fictitious history and its terror demands are being passed on to Palestinian youth. As Palestinian Media Watch recently exposed in its report on Fatah’s Waed children’s educational magazine for ages 6-15, the identical messages are taught although the empires that the Palestinians are said to have defeated change. Palestinian children are taught that they defeated the “Babylonians, the Persians, the Samaritans, the Assyrians, the Hyksos, the Hittites, the Pharaohs, and the Hebrews,” and this proves they will likewise defeat and destroy Israel:

Miraculous Palestinian history: âWe [Palestinians] defeated the Hyksos, the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Tatars, and the Pharaohs,â and will defeat Israel as well | PMW Analysis

“We defeated the Hyksos, the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Tatars, and the Pharaohs. We have defeated all the invaders who passed through the land of Palestine. On behalf of the Martyrs we will defeat this hated occupation [Israel] that will leave our land.”

palwatch.org

 

[Sixties Fan]

But it was the third guest on The Current whose comments were the most detached from reality.

CBC gave the last word to Yara Hawari, a Palestinian writer and senior analyst at Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, and host of the podcast “Rethinking Palestine”, who told the host that “our material and archival history has been systematically destroyed and looted by the Israeli regime for decades.” This comment is especially perplexing, since it is the Israeli government which helped fund the development of this documentary, and Israeli television stations who are broadcasting it. Those are not the actions of a government and society attempting to stifle information, or censor the truth, but the complete opposite.

Hawari didn’t stop there. Rather than addressing the film itself, or the incident of Tantura, she launched into an anti-Israel tirade.

“What Israel continues to do…it’s very much a continuous part of our lived reality. Last year in May, the Israeli regime massacred Palestinians in Gaza,”Hawari told Galloway, who did not attempt to challenge or correct her.

Israel did not, contrary to Hawari’s assertions, commit “massacres”, “war crimes” and “atrocities” in Gaza during the 2021 war with Hamas in Gaza. The armed conflict began with violent Arab riots against Jewish targets in Jerusalem, which were cheered on by Hamas, who later fired an estimated four thousand rockets against Israeli targets, both civilian and military, killing not only innocent Israelis, but also one Indian and two Thai nationals who were working in Israel.

In the face of such overt terrorism, all countries, Israel included, have the right of self-defense. Despite Hamas’ proclivity to embed its terrorists within densely populated areas, Israel’s targeted focus was laudable.

The Current and host Matt Galloway deprived listeners of this context and instead granted Hawari a platform to vilify Israel and frame it as a systematic violator of human rights.

(full article online)

CBC The Current Features Speaker Peddling Anti-Israel Misinformation

On the January 31’s edition of CBC’s The Current, host Matt Galloway discussed a new Israeli documentary film about the

honestreporting.ca

 

[Sixties Fan]

It’s an often-used tactic by the Palestinians to deny history as well as legitimate Jewish rights to the land of Israel.

A PA TV program attempts to erase history and said that Jewish presence at the Temple Mount is a “break-in,” the “alleged Temple” is a “myth.”

The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is indisputable and archaeological discoveries have proven the Jewish connection to the land of Israel and of the existence of the two Jewish Temples.

Palestinian lies can never change that.

WATCH: TV Show Erases Jewish History, Claims Temple is a ‘Myth’ | United with Israel

PA TV describes existence of First and Second Jewish Temples as 'myth.'

unitedwithisrael.org

 

[Sixties Fan]

One of them, A/76/289, is based on previous UN resolutions calling for Israel to compensate Palestinians for properties they abandoned in 1948. It refers to this one from 2018 but virtually identical resolutions have been put forth regularly for decades.

These resolutions "Calls upon all the parties concerned to provide the Secretary-General with any pertinent information in their possession concerning Arab property, assets and property rights in Israel that would assist him in the implementation of the present resolution."

Who responds to these resolutions?

In 2021, four countries responded. Not one of them responded with "pertinent information in their possession concerning Arab property, assets and property rights in Israel."

The responses were from Bahrain, Ecuador, Japan and "the State of Palestine."

Ecuador wrote a couple of paragraphs about the importance of the resolution. Japan wrote a long, irrelevant submission about how it is trying to help Palestinians and promote peace. The "State of Palestine" used this as an opportunity to write an Israel-bashing essay and support for UNRWA.

Bahrain's submission is the most problematic:

• We affirm that the Palestinian refugee issue is at the heart of the Palestinian cause. We uphold the inherent and inalienable right of generations of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to the homes from which they wer e displaced, in accordance with international resolutions, and in particular General Assembly resolution 194 (III) and the Arab Peace Initiative.
• We condemn and reject any attempts by any party to nullify Palestinian refugees’ right of return or to distort the refugee issue by attempting to resettle them, dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), stop its funding or deprive future generations of their right of return through a so-called redefinition of their legal status.

Like the others, this has nothing to do with the resolution. It is a call for Israel to allow itself to be destroyed with an influx of millions of fake refugees.

Bahrain did not have to submit anything. But it chose to emphasize the false "right of return."

I can imagine that this was a response to Palestinian rage at their normalization agreement with Israel, a message that "hey, we are still on your side." Even so, given that they are now at peace with Israel, this is concerning.

(full article online)

A look at one of the 40 anti-Israel UN reports last year

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[Sixties Fan]

Herizons describes itself as a Winnipeg-based feminist magazine, published quarterly, which according to its website, “covers gender justice, the activists and artists making it happen, and the global feminist movement.” Herizons acknowledges that it receives funding both from the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Government of Canada.

In its Fall 2021 issue, Herizons published a review by Nuzhat Abbas of “A White Lie,” a book by Barbara Bill and Ghada Adeel, published by the University of Alberta Press, which purports to share stories about women’s experiences during the Nakba, an Arabic term meaning “catastrophe,” referring to when Israel successfully achieved independence in 1948 from the United Kingdom. (As the review is not online, it can be read in full at the bottom of this alert).

The book’s forward is sympathetically described by Abbas as “moving” and refers to Israel’s independence as “the largest, longest, most continuous ethnic cleansing operation in the history of Palestine.”

Abbas later makes reference to how, in 1948, “Indigenous Palestinians fled to Gaza to escape Israeli massacres and the mass destruction of their villages.”

Reading such historical revisionism, one is reminded of the famous quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American diplomat, and politician, who said that “everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to his own facts.”

In this case, the authors of “A White Lie,” and the reviewer alike, are playing fast and loose with the truth.

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But perhaps most perplexing about Abbas’ review of “A White Lie,” is not what was included, but what was omitted, especially for a feminist magazine. The review did not mention at all how women in Gaza live today under the oppressive Hamas Islamist regime. Women are not, as per Hamas laws, allowed to leave the home without a male escort, and they suffer enormously under the gender apartheid system of Hamas’ extreme Sharia law, which dictates how women dress and what they cannot do in society. In Israel, conversely, Muslim women have the freedom to live, pray and travel as they see fit, and without any restrictions. Meanwhile, Israeli women are at the pinnacle of Israeli society, whether as CEO’s of major start-ups, supreme court justices, leaders of political parties, broadcasters, etc. Just this past week, Israel’s first female Muslim district court judge, Osaila Abu Assad, was announced.

(full article online)

Winnipeg-Based Feminist Magazine Publishes Book Review Accusing Israel of 'Ethnic Cleansing Operation' of Palestinians

Herizons describes itself as a Winnipeg-based feminist magazine, published quarterly, which according to its website, “covers gender justice, the activists

honestreporting.ca

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

You will note that there was no ‘Palestinian’ uprising or ‘Palestinian’ claims to Jerusalem against the Romans, only a Jewish fight for their indigenous lands. Thus, it is from the term Philistines that the name Palestine derives and both Philistines and Palestinians have the commonality of being invaders, the former from the Greek Islands, the latter from surrounding Arab countries. The very definition of their name has nothing whatsoever to do with ethnicity but is simply a descriptive application linked to the geography. Furthermore, and unsurprisingly the origination of the name Philistine derives from the Hebrew ”Peleshet” meaning invaders or penetrators.

Is it not therefore an absurd irony that today’s Palestinian Arabs call themselves after extinct Greek, seafaring invaders or uncultured, uncouth heathens? Why would any people, tribe or race accept, indeed be proud of such negative descriptions? The former immediately debunks their very existence and the latter is not the kind of description to take pride in.

Even more imbecilic, why call themselves a name they cannot pronounce in their mother tongue? An English word derived from Hebrew, describing Greeks, then translated into Latin without any Arabic derivation and with such offensive definitions to their, albeit false history and culture.

No, no, shout the offended Palestinians, we are called Filastinians, that is the Arabic word for us. Oh really, this disciplined researcher retorts in astonishment. But ‘Filastine’ is simply the Arab pronunciation of Philistine and therefore apart from one letter to conform with Arabic vocalization the Filastinians are still naming themselves after extinct Greek sailors or uncouth, uncultured heathens – and in Queen’s English. You really couldn’t make it up, it’s Monty Pythonesque – that was a British comedy mocking absurd situations which were themselves exaggerated.

Further investigation is surely necessary as it is patently imbecilic that supposedly, indigenous peoples should be satisfied with such negative and offensive definitions debunking all claims of indigenous ethnicity. So we research into the Filastinian historical archives in the expectation of discovering a people or persons who identified as indigenous Filastinian leaders or a war, battle or conflict fought by indigenous Filastinians against any domestic or foreign invaders throughput the centuries of warfare in their apparent homeland in an attempt to recapture their cherished Jerusalem.

Maybe we will find archaeological evidence of a Filastinian currency, town or city; maybe an historical construct originated and built by indigenous Filastinians and the name of the Filastinian architect. If the Filastinians are indigenous then history and evidence must surely reveal the name of any one, just one historical Filastinian King, Queen, Prince, Princess, President, Imam, Leader, Warrior, Apothecary, Writer, Poet, Scribe, Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, Tailor, Butcher, Baker or Candlestick maker.

Alas, there is no such evidence to be found of any race, culture, or people. Other noted travelers to the area , listed here such as Edward Webbe, 1553 – 1590 , Adrian Reland 1676 – 1718 , Count Constantine Francois Volney 1757 – 1820 , William Thackeray, 1811 – 1863 , Gustav Flaubert , 1821 – 1880 , James Finn 1806 – 1872 , Mark Twain , 1835 – 1910 , and B.W. Johnson, 1833 – 1894 , never recorded , discovered nor wrote of the indigenous Palestinians or Filastinians. These itinerant scribes did not write about them nor the villages they supposedly inhabited because they never existed.

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The Palestinian myth explained and analyzed

Are Palestinian historical claims to the geography a lie? Read and decide for yourself. Opinion.

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[Sixties Fan]

Elder of Ziyon has taken note of a recent article in “the most influential newspaper in the Arab world” that calls into question the real Holocaust – the murder of six million Jews – and instead, claims that the “worst calamity” of the 20th century was the “Palestinian Holocaust.”

His article can be found here: “‘Most Influential Arab Newspaper’ says ‘Palestinian Holocaust’ worse than …The Holocaust,” Elder of Ziyon, January 30, 2022:

Ad Dustour is a pro-government Jordanian newspaper that was declared as the most influential newspaper in the Arab world in Industry Arabic’s latest rankings. It is partially owned by the Jordanian government itself, so it will never say anything that goes against official government policy.

Ad Dustour is not some disreputable checkout-counter tabloid; the Jordanian newspaper, chosen as the ”most influential newspaper in the Arab world,” must be taken seriously, even when it spouts nonsense. It can run articles like this, that question the Jewish Holocaust and bewail the real “worst calamity of the 20th century,” the “Palestinian Holocaust,” and be taken seriously by its benighted audience across the Arab world.

That includes Holocaust denial.

Columnist Rashid Hassan not only casts doubt as to whether the Holocaust actually occurred, but he parrots a claim that the “Palestinian Holocaust” was the worst calamity of the past century.
More than the Shoah. More than Cambodia or Rwanda or Darfur.

The Shoah claimed the lives of six million Jews. The Khmer Rouge killed between 1.5 and 2 million people in Cambodia. In Rwanda, between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutus. In Darfur, the Arab Janjaweed killed between 80,000 and 500,00 black Africans. In the Bangladesh war for independence in 1971, the Pakistani army and Islamist collaborators killed between 300,000 and three million Bangladeshis. During the Ukrainian Terror-Famine, or Holodomor, of 1932-1933, between seven and ten million people starved to death. During the Stalinist repression of 1937-1938, between 700,000 and 1.2 million Soviet citizens were murdered — a small part of the total of 40 million people are believed to have died because of Stalin’s murderous rule throughout the 1930s. About 80 million Chinese died unnatural deaths when Chairman Mao ran the country, most of them in the famine following the Great Lea Forward. But what are all these, compared to the “worst calamity of the 20th century” – the “Palestinian Holocaust”?

He writes about how Holocaust Remembrance Day is a cynical ploy by Israel to gain sympathy and distract the world from the real genocide.

Rashid Hassan has his doubts about that so-called “Jewish Holocaust.” He’s convinced it has been exaggerated by the wily Zionists, to gain the world’s sympathy despite Israel’s horrendous treatment of the Palestinians. And what’s more, the world’s Jews have managed to distract attention from the great tragedy of the past century, the “Palestinian Holocaust.” You haven’t heard of it? Of course not. It’s not in any of the schoolbooks. Or the history books. The Jews who, let’s not forget, control the world’s media, have made sure of that. It’s the greatest cover-up in world history. Those diabolically clever and malevolent Jews have simply removed the story of the Palestinian Holocaust from the world’s collective consciousness; it’s a gone down the rabbit hole to that underground river, the Lesser Lethe. So it’s up to a few intrepid souls, with Rashid Hassan in the lead, to make sure that the world remembers the “Palestinian Holocaust.”

While the hypocritical world – and most of it – celebrates the so-called “Zionist Holocaust” and makes a date for it[sic] January 27, we find this world ignoring the Palestinian Holocaust, which has been going on for 105 years… since the ominous promise… the Balfour Declaration of 1917 until today..

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The Arab population in Palestine in 1917 was about 600,000. Today there are over, according to the Palestinians themselves, some 12 million Palestinians.</p>

So from 1917 until today, the Palestinian population has, despite this terrible “Holocaust” that no one, save Rashid Hassan, has ever heard of, increased 20 times.

Some Holocaust!
Oh, and the UN spends orders of magnitude more time and money on Palestinian issues than on the [Jewish] Holocaust.

The U.N. gives more critical attention to Israel than it does to any other country. At every session of the UN Human Rights Council, a special agenda item – Item #7 – is devoted to the “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories,” which is defined by UNHRC Resolution 5/1 as covering “Human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.” The other nine items on the Council’s permanent agenda are all generic, and do not refer to any particular country or situation. There is no special agenda item on Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Russia, or any other country. Only Israel.

And the U.N. General Assembly similarly spends an inordinate amount of time on Israel. In 2020, the UNGA singled out Israel for condemnation a total of 17 times, while for the entire rest of the world combined – 192 countries – there was a total of six such condemnations.

Now the UN General Assembly has voted to establish a commission that will engage in an open-ended investigation of Israeli “war crimes.” No other country – not Syria, not China, not Russia – will have its “war crimes” investigated by a permanent commission of inquiry.

Rashid Hassan wants us to believe that Israel has managed to win the world’s sympathy by spinning tall tales about the so-called Holocaust of the Jews. The record at the U.N. do not support that claim about Israel having “the world’s sympathy.” Nor do the venomously anti-Israel reports issued by such NGOs as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

When did this “Palestinian Holocaust” begin? In Rashid Hassan’s telling, it all started with the Balfour Declaration, though not a single Arab in Palestine died when the Declaration — in the form of a letter to Lord Rothschild — was issued. It was only when the Palestinian Arabs began to attack the Jewish pioneers, in the 1920s, and the Jews fought back in self-defense, that hundreds of Arabs died. More Arab combatants were killed, mainly by the British Army, during the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939; possibly as many as 5,000 died. During the 1948 war, about 800 Arab civilians were killed. Holocaust? What Holocaust?

Certainly, this hypocrisy is linked to the major international conspiracy carried out by Britain, America and many Western countries to establish the Zionist entity on the land of Arab Palestine… and to displace its people in the four winds of the earth.

There was no “international conspiracy” to establish the Zionist entity. In fact, the British refused to recognize their duty, under Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine, to facilitate Jewish immigration and “close settlement by Jews on the land.” From the late 1930s on, the British did everything they could to prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine. In 1939 the British government’s White Paper allowed for a maximum of 15,000 Jews to enter Mandatory Palestine during each of the next five years; after that, any Jewish immigration would be subject to an Arab veto, which meant that such immigration would stop. This White Paper was adopted just when the Jews of Europe were entering a state of maximum peril. Just before and during World War II the British prevented ships carrying Jewish refugees from reaching Mandatory Palestine. This policy prevented perhaps a million desperate European Jews, who might have escaped to Palestine by sea from French and Romanian ports early in the war, from doing so. After the war, the British continued their unspeakably cruel blockade, in order to prevent Jewish survivors of the Nazi camps from reaching Palestine. The most famous episode of wanton cruelty by the British concerned the ship called Exodus. From the Holocaust Encyclopedia:

(full article online)

That ‘Palestinian Holocaust' | Frontpage Mag

Worst calamity of the 20th Century,’ according to most influential Arab newspaper.

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[Mindful]

Pretend for a moment that the Vatican has in its possession some sacred and precious relics that were originally in the Herodian Jewish Temple located in Jerusalem 1,950 years ago.

If you were the pope living in the 14th century and could verify this fact, would you not ask yourself how indeed such Jewish artifacts had come to your residence in the first place?

After some digging around (no pun intended), you would have found that your new Vatican residence was actually built over sections of Caesar’s Palace – the Vatican, including St. Peter’s Basilica, was constructed over Emperor Vespasian’s Roman palace approximately 200 years after the sacking of Rome in 455 AD. Indeed, there are excavations going on there right now, even as you read this magazine.

What this means is that the vandals and the Visigoths passed over, or simply didn’t find, the select treasures secreted away in that palace, and instead took with them the many items on public display in the Temple, located not far away.

Is there new evidence of Jewish Temple treasures in the Vatican?

There are several people alive that can personally attest to being eyewitnesses of the Vatican possessing Temple vessels, including the Menorah candelabra.

www.jpost.com