by Gerald A. Honigman
Recently, The Hill published an AP report about “Settler” violence against Arabs in “the occupied West Bank”…
Firstly, there is absolutely no historical doubt that the land in question is the 4,000 year old, soundly corroborated ancestral Jewish homeland in Judaea and Samaria which was not renamed “West Bank” until some four millennia afterwards in the first half of the 20th century C.E..
This occurred when after the Cairo Conference of 1921, Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill engineered the separation of almost 80% of the original 1920 Manifesto of Palestine and awarded it to His Majesty’s Hashemite Arab allies, who were getting booted out of the Arabian Peninsula by the rival clan of Ibn Saud.
All the land on the East Bank of the Jordan River, which was originally designated to also be part of the area of the Balfour Declaration’s reestablished ancestral home for the Jewish People, henceforth became Judenrein. Yet Arabs were still permitted to become citizens in what was left in the much truncated Jewish state which later emerged.
Arabs, after all, would wind up with over six million square miles of land, mostly conquered and forcibly Arabized and Islamized from numerous other non-Arab peoples….almost two dozen states to date.
Question:
Go the Gospels state that Yehoshua/Jesus was born in Bethlehem of the “occupied West Bank,” or Bethlehem of Judaea—where King David was born three thousand years earlier and anointed King of Judah and Israel by the Prophet Samuel in Hebron a little later—the same town in Judah/Judaea where the Hebrew Prophet and Patriarch, Abraham, purchased a burial plot for most of the Jewish People’s Patriarchs and Matriarchs a thousand years earlier, roughly 4,000 years ago.
That the Jewish People had to repeatedly fight a series of imperial invaders over the millennia, and at times were forcibly exiled as a result, did not legally deprive them of ancestral rights to their homeland.
Yet The Hill, etc., seems to believe this.
The biased, antagonistic language The Hill and the AP routinely uses reveals an obvious anti-Israel agenda.
The lands in question are indeed historically Jewish ancestral homeland.
One does not “occupy” what has been proven to be historically their own.
Look at the coin atop the following link and note carefully what appears:
It’s an Iudaea/Judaea Capta coin…not an Arabia, and certainly not a never existing “Palaestina” Capta one.
Most Arabs NOW present arrived from the latter 19th century into the early 20th century Mandate period post-WWI.
Many are the ancestors of Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha’s Egyptian army who invaded the Ottoman Turkish territory the land of Judaea/Israel was part of since the 16th century C.E. and stayed behind. Hence, many “native ‘Palestinians’ “ have the surname, al-Masri…the Egyptian.
The Minutes of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations and other East Bank and official correspondence testify to the above and record scores of thousands of Arabs crossing into the Mandate from Syria and Egypt alone in just a short period of time due to the economic activity going on due to Jewish initiatives. Many others arrived later, with one of the world’s largest birth rates.
Fatah/PLO’s Yasir Arafat was born in Cairo, and the other side of the terror coin, Hamas’s virtual “patron saint, Sheikh Iz eddin al-Qassam, was a Syrian Arab born in Latakia. Hamas’s butchers and rockets are named for him—Qassam Brigades, and so forth.
The people now having issues with Jews in historic Judaea and Samaria are Arabs, who like the overwhelming majority of others now calling themselves the original aboriginal people of the land of Israel, actually immigrated into ancestral Jewish homelands from other Arab colonized, settled, and conquered adjacent areas.
Travelers over the centuries described the land as desolated, misused, and depopulated since the last of four major revolts of the Jewish People for their freedom and independence in the land. America’s Mark Twain was one of them.
The last of four major revolts the Jews fought for their freedom and independence in the land had the Persian Empire allied to them in fighting the mutually hated Byzantine successors to the Romans, just decades before massive hordes of invading jihadi Arab armies poured in from a fast desiccating Arabian Peninsula, quite literally to steal, forcibly Arabize and Islamize hundreds of millions of other non-Arab peoples’s ancestral homelands.
Countless millions were slaughtered in this Caliphal Arab imperialist, colonizing, settling process. On the Indian subcontinent alone, the numbers were staggering, and Arabized terrorists are still victimizing Indian Hindus and Sikhs to this very day. The recent war between Pakistan and India was a result of this never ending attempt to conquer kafir infidel lands for the Dar ul-Islam.
The Arab-Israeli conflict reflects this as well.
And from those 7th century C.E. invasions unto this very day, as seen above, Arabs next had the audacity to claim that the conquered lands were henceforth and forever more simply “purely Arab patrimony,” part of an ever expanding Dar ul-Islam, which under no circumstances could ever be allowed to revert back to kafir/infidel status.
The above, dear Hill, AP editors, authors, NYTimes, and whomever else point fingers just in Israel’s direction, are the facts…not skewed reporting devoid of any sense of balance on this complicated subject.
The supremacist, rejectionist Arab mindset created most of the conflicts in MENA today, be they Arab and previously Arabized—black African; Arab—Kurdish and Assyrian or Chaldean Christian; Arab—Egyptian Copt; Arab-Lebanese Christian; Arab—Jewish Israeli; Arab and Arabized Pakistani—Hindu Indian; Arab—North African Amazigh/Kabyle (“Berber”); Arab—Buddhist; Arabized Aryan—native Persian; Arab—Druze; and other conflicts with assorted other non-Arab peoples as well.
They have largely been an intolerant scourge…
Arabs used this modus operandi to forcibly acquire some two dozen states for themselves today as a result, including one gifted to ARABISM, to deliberately restate again, on some 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine in 1922, today’s Jordan.
Having stated all of the above, I’m not saying, as Arabs indeed do about non-Arabs, non-Muslims themselves, that there is to be no justice for the relatively newly arrived Arab population.
But, to have much of the rest of the world wallowing in either ignorance or antisemitism claiming that Jews are “occupiers” in their own firmly corroborated ancestral homelands is unacceptable.
Read the following to see what minimally must occur, and it involves the territorial compromise built into the final draft of UNSC Res. 242, established by a usually hostile United Nations itself in the days after the June ‘67 War, started by an Arab blockade of Israel, shelling of Jerusalem, and expulsion of the international peacekeeping force from the Sinai Peninsula.
Just as a footnote, I’ve done extensive doctoral work in this and related areas of study…See below:
and…
“Occupied”? Yes, indeed…
By ARAB settlers and supremacist colonizers—not Jews, some who never left the land despite numerous attempts at their expulsion, forced conversions— by both Christians and invading Arab Muslims as well.
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