Contra Palestinianism

by Gerald A. Honigman

David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948, Tel Aviv, Israe. Photo by Rudi Weissenstein – Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The following interesting post appeared on Facebook, and I felt compelled to respond and add my own insights as well afterwards.

So, please begin by reviewing what the author has written in this first link, along with my initial response…

Hi, I’m Palestinian

There is much truth in the above, but the author falls into the same trap so many other people do…

The reality is that there is no such separate people called “Palestinians,” and never in history was there ever a kingdom or country known as “Palestine.”

They’re simply another group of Arabs who originated from elsewhere in MENA and eventually, especially during the Mandate era post WWI, came into the 4,000 year ancestral homeland of the Jewish People due to the enormous economic activity going on with the return of many Jews who’d been forcibly exiled over the millennia, along with other Egyptian Arabs who entered with Muhammad Ali and son Ibrahim Pasha’s armies to grab the land from a weakened Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Many Egyptian soldiers stayed behind in that 19th century invasion, so many of “Palestinians” have the surname “al-Masri”—the Egyptian.”

Their original homeland, except for the native Judaeans Arab armies forcibly converted to Islam upon their invasions, as they also did to Zoroastrian Persians, Egyptian Copts, Indian Hindus, Kurds, and others, was a fast desiccating Arabian Peninsula, from which hordes of jihadi Arabs burst out from in the mid-7th century C.E. onwards to colonize, steal, and forcibly convert or murder hundreds of millions of diverse peoples to Islam, and then declaring the entire region and other adjacent conquered territories to be merely “Purely Arab Patrimony” henceforth and forever more—part of the ever expanding Dar ul-Islam.

Arafat of Fatah and the PLO was born in Cairo, and Hamas’s own virtual patron saint, Sheikh Izz eddin al-Qassam, was born in Latakia, Syria.

The Records of the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations and other official correspondence recorded many scores, if not hundreds, of thousands of Syrian, Egyptian, and Arabs from elsewhere coming into the Mandate of Palestine after 1920—with one of the highest birth rates found anywhere.

Be sure to include the two essential internal links when reading the following eye-opening analysis on this subject:

Thinking ‘Palestine’

When the Ottoman Turkish Empire fell apart after WWI, much of the land it controlled was divided into Mandates in which future peoples would eventually gain independence in.

Right from the getgo, in 1922, the Brits lopped off almost 80% of the total original area of the 1920 Mandate to award ARABISM the lion’s share of the land.

As the decades passed, almost two dozen independent Arab states would be created on over six million square miles of territory—-most formerly other native peoples’s ancestral homelands which had been forcibly Arabized and Islamized, with the people usually given the choice of conversion to Islam, slavery, or death.

Dhimmitude was later introduced for certain “peoples of the Book” who were in a slightly better position, survival wise, among their Arab and Arabized conquerors (like Boko Haram in black Africa today)as long as they accepted certain humiliations and paid special taxes to their conquerors.

Never satisfied with any kafir infidels retaining any part of the envisioned future Dar ul-Islam, nobody except Arabs and the Arabized (Turks, Pakistani former Hindu Indians, Arabized Persians, etc.), could thus rule anywhere in the region…

Hence the Arab-Israeli, Arab-Kurd, Arab-Amazigh/Kabyle, Arab-Druze,  Arab-Assyrian and Chaldean Christian, Arab-Copt, Arabized Pakastani-Hindu and Sikh Indian, Arab and Arabized black-black African Christian and pagan conflicts and problems today.

Thus, no amount of territory—no matter how small—could be kept out of Muslim Arab control in this overwhelmingly dominant Arab mindset.

So, when yet another partition of the Mandate of Palestine was offered in 1937, 1947, in the 21st century in the wake of the disastrous Oslo Accords, and so forth, nothing would suffice for ARABISM’s insatiable appetite except uncontested and absolute possession of the entire region.

And the rest of the world is just expected to cater to and cave into this supremacist Arab bull manure… And largely does.

Meanwhile, over a hundred million other non-Arab peoples in the region remain stateless and virtually ignored.

Israel’s 78th rebirth day is fast approaching, on April 21, 2026.

We’ve grown up together, Israel Reborn and myself.

I made my own worldly debut on the birthday of the American President who fought his own antisemitic State Department (and others as well) to recognize Israel on May 14, 1948, Harry S. Truman (5/8/48).

Arabs immediately attacked the day afterwards, listening to their leaders who promised an easy victory, especially since the most effective Arab army was led and trained by Great Britain itself, General John Bagot Glubb’s Transjordanian Arab Legion, equipped with vast quantities of arms left over from the Rommel Campaign in North Africa and so forth. Ditto for the Egyptian army, etc.

While this was happening, Israel was not allowed to officially receive military support….!!!

With what certainly had to involve Divine intervention, Israel was, at tremendous human cost, finally able to turn the tide of battle for its very existence.

In the aftermath of the Arab attempt to extinguish both a newborn Israel and slaughter of all of its Jews, the Arabs then played the victim card—audacity to the nth degree.

Had Arabs accepted partitions which greatly favored themselves, there’d not be one Arab refugee today.

Their supremacist, conquering mindset would not tolerate any percentage of the 4,000 year old ancestral homeland of the Jewish People to remain in non-Muslim hands….hence the Arab refugee problem today

At the same time that this was occurring, more Jews native to the region, the Sefardi and Mizrahi communities, fled from Arab conquered lands than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction due to a war they themselves started.

The difference was that unlike the Arabs, these Jewish refugees had no separate United Nations agency set up to assist them, like UNRWA.

May 15th is designated by Arabs as al-Nakba Day, their “catastrophe,” Israel’s resurrection.

Pardon me if no tears will be shed for those whose vision of justice is solely for themselves and at all other indigenous peoples to the region’s expense.

That they have managed to gain the world’s support reflects the ignorance of most of the latter to the actual facts of this and other related conflicts Arabs have been involved with other native peoples as well. And is also a testimony to age-old antisemitic beliefs.

For far too many, in a post Auschwitz world, hatred for individual Jews has simply been transferred to vilification of their sole, minuscule, 9-15 mile wide sardine can of a nation instead.

I’ll end this for now with the following comparative observations on this important topic…

Self-inflicted ‘Nakba’

and…

“The Case of the Missing Nakbas”