by Gerald A. Honigman
Map showcasing the Mandate for Palestine (Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan) in 1923. Photo by Shuaaa2 – Own work, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
They’re merely the flip side of Hamas and Islamic Jihad fellow butchers of Jews.
Yet much, if not most, of the world, including folks like VP Vance and his boss, insist that Israel remain a 9-15 mile wide zipper of a state, while ARABISM gets to have a second, not first, additional state in the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine.
Today’s Jordan was created from almost 80% of the total area in 1922.
Vance has verbally threatened Israel about claiming sovereignty in any part of historical Judah/Judaea and Samaria.
The very name “Jew” is a shortened form of “Judaean”—a person whose origins are in Judah/Judaea/Israel as seen here in this Roman coin of conquest:
Note it’s an Iudaea/Judaea Capta coin—not an Arabia, and certainly not a non-existent “Palaestina” capta one.
Indeed, there never, ever, was such thing as a “Palestinian” people, kingdom, language, nation, etc…
“Soviet Russia: Creator of the PLO and the Palestinian” People”
It was the Jewish People, in their 4,000 year old ancestral homeland since their Patriarch Abraham purchased a burial site in Hebron; the Prophet Samuel anointed a teenage shepherd, from the Hebrew tribe of Judah, King of Israel there 900 years later; and David’s son King Solomon built the first Temple in Jerusalem about 100 years after that, etc., etc., and so forth.
Just one more brief example:
David was born in Bethlehem, and another important Judaean leader, Yehoshua, Jesus, was born there a thousand years later.
There are few people, other than the Chinese, who possess such a long, validly historically corroborated claim to an ancestral homeland as that of the Jewish People to Zion/Judaea/Israel.
That their land suffered repeated imperial insrvasions resulting in many—not all—of their deaths and exiles does not deny them internationally recognized legal rights to their homeland.
While America is contemplating sovereignty over Greenland, and has already claimed it in places as far away as Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and so forth—with absolutely no previous ancestral rights to those lands—Vance, once again, when not religiously lecturing Jews, and who employed his good, blatant antisemite buddy, Tucker Carlson’s, son until recently, repeatedly warns Israel about not doing what it is entitled to after the June ‘67 War, demanding an effective territorial compromise granted by UNSC Resolution 242, in those historic Jewish lands, the stench of hypocrisy becomes unbearable.
My question to folks like him and his State Department and foreign counterparts goes like this:
Do the Christian Gospels say that Yehoshua/Jesus was born in Bethlehem of “the occupied West Bank,” or Bethlehem of Judaea?
Do we speak of the Judaean Wilderness/Desert and hills, or the hills of “the occupied West Bank” wilderness and such?
One does not “occupy” one’s own international law recognized historically ancestral homeland…
Two worthwhile series about this historical time period are currently streaming;on television, The House of David, and David: King of Israel.
Here’s what’s needed to be studied very carefully…Historical corroboration:
The Jews, not Arabs, revolted at least 4 major times against their Roman and Byzantine imperial oppressors—the last occurring just before the onslaught of caliphal imperial, colonizing, genocidal, settling jihadi Arab armies pouring into the land from a fast desiccating Arabian Peninsula, quite literally in search of other peoples’s greener pastures to steal on behalf of their ever expanding Dar ul-Islam.
An interesting footnote is that in Judaea’s last revolt for freedom and independence
in the early 7th century C.E., it was aided by Sassanid Persia—a time when Jews and pre-Arab Islamic conquest Persia/Iran actually were allies together… in fact, since the days when King Cyrus the Grear freed them from Babylonian captivity six centuries before the Romans arrived.
They returned to Zion (Jerusalem/Judah/Judaea) and built the Second Temple, and Cyrus the Great wrote about this himself…
Here’s a reminder about what Israel can expect from the allegedly more moderate “ peace partners created for it by President Clinton and point man Denis Ross’s Oslo Peace (of the grave) Accords negotiated with Yasir Arafat, and his current successors in the PLO/Farah/PA of Mahmoud Abbas’s administration in the link at the end.
Recall that the original Fakestinian leader, Fatah’s Yasir Arafat, was an Arab born in Cairo, Egypt—not a “native” Fakestinian.
Fatah’s counterpart and rival, Hamas’s own virtual patron saint, Sheikh Izz ed-dine al-Qassam, was born in Latakia, Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of other Egyptian, Syrian,North African, and other Arabs poured into the area of the Mandate from the 19th century onwards according to
the Minutes of the Permanent Mandates .Commission of the League of Nations and other official documentation, biographical material, and correspondence..
New coming Arabs, with Arafat and Russia working together, renamed themselves “Palestinians “ in the 1960s as a ploy to deny Jews any rights at all in their own ancestral homeland, and the links referring to these facts are above.
Here’s Israel’s alleged “peace partners,” who pay murderers of Jews and their survivors large rewards (“pay to slay” with American tax payer money) below..
For various reason – migration under the Mandate and flight in 1948 – a third of the Gaza population are surnamed Masri (Egyptian) and some more Mughrabi (Moroccan) so drive them into Egypt and let Egypt take the resposibility and blame for their fate.