Whose Gaza is it, anyway?

Peloni:  International recognition of the Jewish state stems from the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, as confirmed following the establishment of the United Nations.  The boundaries were set and agreed upon in the Paulet-Newcombe Agreement, and simultaneously the foundation of the state of Jordan was also created as the sister state to what would become the State of Israel.  Importantly, Article 5 of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine states that “no …territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power.”  So, as Sha’i asserts, whose Gaza is it...

League of Nations.  Photo by Frédéric Boissonnas – National Library of Norway, Public Domain, Wikipedia

by Sha’i ben-Tekoa

On November 3, YNETnews.com headlined, “The United States has circulated a draft resolution at the U.N. Security Council calling for the creation of an international force in Gaza with authority to oversee demilitarization and reconstruction under a new transitional body.”

On what Authority does Trump dictate the future of the Gaza Strip, including, apparently, the reconstruction of the Strip benefitting the party that ignited the war?

Since when did he become the sovereign owner-ruler of this 25-mile-long beach-front property empowered to decide its future?

The history of Gaza is no secret. The name appears twenty times in the Jewish Bible in eleven of its books referring to a town — if no mention of it in the Koran.

Throughout thousands of years, there were Jewish communities living in the town and vicinity. There was Jewish life with a synagogue in the Mishnaic Period and in the Talmudic period as well, the letters of pilgrims down the centuries of time carried reports of them.

The hymn “Yah Ribbon Olam” sung today at the Sabbath evening table by Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities was composed by Rabbi Israel Najara, who officiated as the chief rabbi of Gaza in the 17th century. The period of the Najara rabbis was one in which the Jewish community there flourished, though the situation changed due to Nathan of Gaza, the right-hand man of the false prophet, Shabtai Tzvi. The false coronation of Shabtai Tzvi also took place in Gaza. This is Jewish history.

Versus the truthful reality of no historical records whatsoever of any people calling themselves “Palestinians” and being called that by others ever living in this country.

And as for today’s “Gaza Strip,” the historical record is also clear that the gentiles now there, though called “Palestinians,” are not Palestinian in the least.

The Strip only came to life as a distinct district in 1949 in the wake of the Arab invasion of the infant state of the Jews who declared national independence on May 14, 1948, which triggered an Egyptian army force that came up the coast bent on reaching Tel-Aviv and other Jewish communities in order to massacre the independent Jews and loot their property – a forerunner of what happened on October 7, 2023.

But the Egyptian column was stopped by the heroic communards in Yad Mordechai, named in honor of the Jewish leader of the doomed resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto five years earlier, during which invasion some 200,000 Arab migrant workers from all over Araby who had entered Mandatory Palestine in search of work ran behind the Egyptian force. And they could run as they did because they were migrant workers with no immovable property to protect – versus the 150,000 Arabs who did and did not run and became citizens in the new state.

For ten years until 1959, the United Nations Organization including the officially Muslim and Arab states, called them generically the “Arab refugees” because they were a mixed bag of men from all over the Middle East. It was only after March 29, 1959 when the acknowledged leader of the Arab world Gamal Abdel Nasser, reigning “pharaoh” in Egypt, lofted the idea at an Arab League meeting that he ruled over and suggested that henceforth they rebrand the refugees in Arabic the “al-Kiyan al-Filistini” meaning the “Palestinian entity,” and here is why: For five years, Nasser had been backing the Muslims in Algeria in their terror war to drive out the French who had created the country of Algeria after conquering the port city of Algiers in 1830, after a thousand years of its cruisers hijacking French and really all Christian civilian merchant ships to keep the ships, their cargoes and to enslave the merchant seamen and passengers.

Algiers was commonly nicknamed the worst of the “Barbary Pirates, but in truth they were not “pirates” at all. That word connotes common criminals, when they were religious crusaders waging the jihad, holy warriors against all infidels. They were not freebooting “pirates” who flew the Skull & Bones at the masthead but the green flag of Islam. They did not drink rum in taverns and paw out wenches. They prayed three times daily toward Mecca. The French invasion in 1830 was unique in the annals of Westen imperial colonialism which commonly saw Christian powers invading countries for their natural resources, peoples who had never aggressed against the invading European power.

By contrast, the invasion of Algiers was meant to suppress a port that that had aggressed against France for a millennium.

In 1954, and not for the first time, the Muslims in Algeria rebelled. But after more than a century of French culture, they knew they would receive no support in France if they preached holy war. Instead, they had the sense to adopt the vocabulary of “freedom fighters waging a war of national liberation,” which was a “war” of terror atrocities against civilians.

Nasser supported the rebels by allowing the terrorists of the FLN (Front for National Liberation), to use Egyptian radio to broadcast propaganda and coded messages to the comrades back home, also allowing them to smuggle weapons to them across the Sahara. After five years, he had the bright idea of rebranding the Arab refugees of 1948 the “Palestinian” refugees, and the rest is history, including calling their offspring refugees too, also entitled to support, even though to this day there is nothing Palestinian about these people in Gaza sucking on the UNWRA teat.

Israel’s double flaw has been never speaking this historic truth and never telling the world that in 1922 the League of Nations created the Palestine Mandate that recognized all the land “from the river to the sea” i.e. Judea, Samaria and the future Gaza territory as the “historic homeland of the Jewish people. And that in 1945 when the new United Nations Organization replaced the League, the new body preserved the Mandate.

In sum, the so-called Gaza Strip is rightfully Israeli territory, only Israel never says this and has the right to evict the hostile Muslims from it, especially because these fake “Palestinians” have proven over 77 years to be implacably, sadistically, cruel enemies of the tiny Jewish state.

Instead, the government has adopted the fiction that Hamas is the “bad guys” but all the rest are the “innocent Palestinian civilian refugees.”

Whatever happened to the Zionists who believed all of Eretz Yisrael was rightfully Jewish land and even such a friend as Donald Trump has no right to want to turn Gaza into a new French Riviera with gambling casinos and a golf course like the project his company is working on for Qataris, financiers of horrors of October 7?

Israel has the right to claim the “Strip” and evict the enemy people. After the war with Mexico, the United States took over a third of that country; “to the victors go the spoils.” After WWII, the Allies took away hundreds of thousands of square miles from Germany and handed it over to the victims of its aggression.

The Russians too kept a major chunk of eastern Poland claiming many Russian soldiers who fought, died and are buried there.

But the Jewish blood of the last two years now mixed with the sand of Gaza means nothing? What Trump, Witkoff & Kushner see in Gaza is mountains and rivers of cash that will flow to the contractors and developers of the new Gaza Strip.

The UN Charter of 1945 took on as a living legal document in international law the League of Nations 1922 Palestine Mandate. What keeps Israel from demanding its rights?

Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s book is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com and www.IsraelNewsTalk Radio.com