The Devil’s Lexicon

By Sha’i ben-Tekoa 

Contrary to the corrupt state of today’s Orwellian language, Israel’s enemies are not “Palestinians,” “Islamists,” “Radical Extremists” or even “terrorists.” These terms are deceitful and for that antisemitic.

Palestinian – A nationality empty of all identifiable content. There is no Palestinian language unique to this alleged nationality. Claiming to be at home in Palestine for thousands of years, they have no knowledge of Palestine’s borders. Article 2 of their Palestine Covenant (1964) defined the geography of Palestine as the map drawn up by the League of Nations in 1922. In other words, their idea of the shape of Palestine is what the West’s imperial powers taught them. No Arab had any idea of what Palestine looked like.

West Bank – This name no less is evidence that the term “Palestinians” is essentially a verbal hologram; that is something that looks like it is there when it is not. The name is evidence there never was a “Palestinian” people in what today people call the West Bank, because authentically indigenous peoples commonly give names to their mountains, rivers and lakes, etc., when West Bank is a topographical description possessing no association to any nation or historically famous individual or battle. It is a no-name name that historically did not come into common usage until after the Six-Day War of 1967.

Indeed, when the League of Nations drew up its map in 1922, the leader of the Arabs in Eretz Yisrael, the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini was furious and began publishing a newspaper in Jerusalem whose very title, Al-Suria al-Janubia/Southern Syria became his political crusade: Al-Husseini insisted Jerusalem was located in southern Syria, not Palestine. He said there never was such a country with that name in Islamic history and he was right. Only Jews and Christians knew “Palestine” as a synonym for the Bible’s Promised Land; in the Koran, there is no Palestine.

Haj Amin murderously opposed the Balfour Declaration that was incorporated into the Palestine Mandate by the League that created the jurisdiction with that name. Husseini was adamant there never was such a country. In fact, in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, the only people in Palestine calling themselves Palestinians were Palestinian Jews, a.k.a. the Zionists.

From 1945 to 1970, the first quarter-century of United Nations operations, there were hundreds of resolutions drafted and voted on concerning Israel and the Arabs, but not even one mentioned any “Palestinians” as a party to the “Arab-Israeli Conflict,” as it was then known. Only in the 1970s did that name morph into the “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” an antisemitic mutation that reversed the relationship. In the original sequence, the aggressing Arabs were in the dominant first position, the Goliath in population, men and armies, vs. Israel as little David defending itself. In the new name, big, powerful Israel is first, the Middle East superpower oppressing the poor, poor, stateless “Palestinians.”

World anti-Jewry today is teary-eyed over the plight of these “innocent Palestinian civilians” in Gaza who they insist bear none of the guilt of Hamas and are believed to being starved by Israel, because in truth, it is Hamas that is starving Jews. It is a textbook case of psychological projection. Anti-Jews are incapable of pity for the real victims of intentional starvation, the Israelis still in the clutches of these antediluvian sadists whose idea of religion glorifies the satanic torture of infidels.

Islamism/Islamist – More Orwellian camouflage words invented by Western, non-Muslim academics for their own personal and political agendas that significantly are never used by Muslims themselves. It is as if these non-Muslim professors created a new sect in Islam the Muslims themselves do not recognize.

The purpose of these neologisms is, of course, to distance Islam from the fiendish terrorist horrors perpetrated in the name of Islam, their academic bread and butter whose experts enjoy fat grants from Qatar, the Saudis, Kuwait & Bros.

Have you taken a commercial airplane flight recently and endured the onerous security checks at the airport? We old-timers remember when there was no such inconvenience at airports, and the one-word explanation for their installation some years back is: Islam.

Immediately after October 7, anti-Jews began insisting the “innocent Palestinian civilians” in Gaza were not to be associated with what Hamas had just done, and never mind these same civilians voted Hamas into power in 2006 and never voted them out. More than one liberated hostage and IDF veteran of the fighting has said, “They are all Hamas,” which makes perfect sense. Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar personally murdered four men with his own hands whom he believed betrayed him. Gaza under Hamas produced a population that knew no opposition to Hamas. That could mean death at the hands of brutal men of no human empathy and conscience.

Of course, all the Muslims in Gaza are Hamas supporters.

Radical Extremists – This is more of the same, erroneous verbal sleight-of-hand. “Radical” derives from the Latin radix/root, when today, “radical” connotes the opposite, something far-out and unrepresentative of the moderate, centrist majority, people out there on the fringes.

In fact, the “radical” Muslim is closest to the heart of Islam, whose root is jihad, waging war against all other religions with the mandate to destroy them, and the right to do to their adherents whatever a Believer desires.

Does this mean that all or most Muslims are terrorists? Not at all. Only a statistically insignificant number of Muslims become mass murderers of people at random (terrorists). However, the passive Muslim masses do smile on, and pass out candies to celebrate, the ghastly bloodshed that their violent brethren inflict on mankind.

Terrorism – There is no such thing. An ism commonly denotes an ideology or philosophy, when even Islam does not believe in terrorism as a way of life. And Believers do not call themselves terrorists.

Terror is a feeling, intense fear, and while terrorists are commonly sadists and thrill to inflicting unbelievable pain and fear in their victims, their principal purpose is not terror but murder. Their ideology is not terrorism but Islam, a truth Israelis have never been able to face.

The Oslo Abomination in 1993 of shaking the bloody hands of Arafat and Abbas on the White House Lawn and giving them the promise of Judea, Samaria and Gaza rested on the belief in those two pathetically uneducated Marxists Rabin and Peres that Fatah was a nationalist movement just like Zionism; secular nationalists like themselves — versus Hamas, who those two shallow, Marxist fools were taught to dismiss as impossible to deal with for being religious. Neither Rabin nor Peres likely knew that all eight of the Fatah founders had been as boys in the Muslim Brotherhood youth group. Or, if they were told this, they paid it no mind.

What is known is that the Mossad did tell them that Arafat had made 200 agreements with other parties in his career and broke every one of them, which character trait these two anti-religious Zionists ignored.

So, Israel’s enemy is neither “Palestinians” nor “radical extremist Islamists.” It is just Islam, the same violent rip-off of the Jewish religion whose doctrine is that Musa (their mispronunciation of Mosheh) on Mt. Sinai was given the Koran, which he brought down to the perfidious Jews who ripped it out of his hands and re-wrote it. Muslims are taught that when the Jews’ Torah says that Ibrahim’s second son Eeshhok was tied up for a sacrifice, this is a lie. Muslims are taught that the son chosen was Isma’il, father of the Arabs.

The Koran also contains the stories of other Jews appearing in the Torah and Tanakh, and in every case altered, with the corollary that the Jews’ Torah is the dishonest, plagiarized version. And when confronted with the historical record that the Five Books of Moses were written down some 2,000 years before Muhammad was born, Believers in the One True Faith have a miracle explanation for that worthy of A Thousand and One Nights.

So, better than “terrorist,” these Muslims need to be called “assassins,” since the very word derives from the medieval Muslim sect of suicide murderers adumbrating the Muslim suicide bombers in our day.

The Oslo Peace Plan was the atheistic brainstorm of the fake philosopher of Political Science Dr. Yosef (Yossi) Beilin, PhD, who said many times, “If we define the conflict as religious, there can be no peace, so let’s call it a political conflict between nations that can be negotiated to a compromise” — which required fostering the fraud of a “Palestinian” national identity.

Thus, Israel’s real enemy today is the same Islam whose devotees in the year 1066 slaughtered all the Jews in Toledo, Spain; whose Almohad sectarians in the next century terrorized teenage Maimonides into fleeing for his life from Spain to Morocco, from which he also had to flee to Egypt, where he received a letter from the suffering Jews in Yemen oppressed and humiliated by the Muslims there; where five centuries later in 1679, the entire Yemenite community was driven into the desert to die.

The history of the Jews in Muslim lands in every century contains episodes of pogrom-like abuse and the quotidian restrictions on them as dhimmi. Maimonides in his Iggeret Teman/Letter to Yemen, his reply to the Jews there, wrote that Muslims have been the greatest enemies of the Jewish people, even as he knew of the Crusaders in his lifetime butchering Jewish communities in Europe on their march to Eretz Yisrael to protect the Christians there being massacred by – not “Radical Islamist Extremists” — but Muslims.

Just Muslims.

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.