Tuesday, December 30, 2008

CNN “sees” with ears - Karl Penhaul says he “saw” from the captain’s mouth what happened to the anti Israel propaganda boat called “free gaza”

CNN “sees” with ears - Karl Penhaul says he “saw” from the captain’s mouth what happened to the anti Israel propaganda boat called “free gaza”

CNN’s Karl Penhaul says he “saw” from the captain’s mouth what happened to the anti Israel propaganda boat called “free gaza”

Seeing is not believing at CNN.

Propaganda boat

Suffice to say that anti Israel bigots like: Cynthia McKinney and Jimmy Carter “star” in this tarnishing Israel campaign under a blanket of providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, in other words, it’s a good trick to show how “bad” Israel is.
You can’t really tell from the pictures if there is more “food” or cameras everywhere, after all it’s MAINLY a CAMERAS oriented boat, humanitarian? Kidding me? just try tell those busy people to convince one Palestinian Hamas adult not to shoot rockets from a civilian room into an Israeli room…

The accident

Drama on High Seas: Navy Stops Pro-Arab Boat
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129112

Let’s see, Israel claim that the infamous propaganda boat was hit accidental amid disobeying Israeli security warnings, but CNN’s Mr. Penhaul was on the ‘propaganda boat’ (what for?, oops sorry, it is a media-show boat after all…), he says that it is not true, but that he “saw” the Israeli boat ramming intentionally into it, when he elaborated on it he only told CNN about what the captain of this fiasco boat “told” him…


More on CNN’s this morning’s alleged boat ramming.http://www.youtube.com/v/8ceyIHaLXoA&hl=en&fs=1

All he “saw” was what he “heard” from that capitan which like the entire boat idea is a great Hamastan publicity stunt.

Oh boy, if seeing is believing, apparently CNN has a different physiology when it comes to any of the human senses, logical sense included.

More on the Propaganda boat

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e005.htm

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2008/07/the-isms-big-boat-trip/

On Cynthia McKinney

On Cynthia McKinney’s Jewish problem.
http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/07/27/mckinneys-jewish-problem/

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed outrage over the incident last evening in which members of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s security entourage
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4869_12.htm



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Monday, December 29, 2008

WaPo steps in Pallywood Doodoo? Something Smells … Apparently, Gaza journalists are having trouble finding civilians among the casualties

WaPo steps in Pallywood Doodoo? Something Smells … Apparently, Gaza journalists are having trouble finding civilians among the casualties. Reports estimate 90% of killed are “militants.”

(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/12/27/wapo-steps-in-pallywood-doodoo-something-smells/

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Where does CNN get the "info" that there are "scores of civilians" in the op. targeting Hamas?

Where does CNN get the "info" that there are "scores of civilians" in the op. targeting Hamas? Dec 29, 2008 Where on earth does CNN get the “information” that there are “scores of civilians” (Jim Clancy this morning) in the air strike targeting Hamas? CNN admits that they are not allowed into Gaza because of the danger, so they “rely” on Arab “journalists” but mainly on Palestinian sources in Gaza for info, oh well, because the Pallywood is a new thing? have they not been known to add dead bodies in Jenin or to fake images as a whole?



We realize that they have SOME kids dead, as this was Hamas’ (like Hezbollah's) intention when they fire rockets from most densely-populated houses (that's what anti-human Islamists do) , so that their graphic ‘shocking’ photos gets spread well in the “world propaganda arena”, but “scores” - out of the 300?



How do they know that it's not the 90% Islamic Hamas? Why would there be only 300 dead after 3 days of pounding warplanes if humane Israel really hadn't be careful NOT to hit at civilians?




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Related:

The Jihadi Civilians :: Faith Freedom International :: Regarding the so-called civilians of the Shiite-dominated South Lebanon and those of the ... These so-called civilians are the part and parcel of the Jihadi ...

http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=377




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Hamas "Explains" CRIMINAL Use of Civilians as Human Shields

Hamas Explains Use of Civilians as Human Shields


By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook





"We desire death as you desire life."



The UN announcement that 51 civilians have died in the conflict in Gaza must be understood in the context of Hamas's declared ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters. Indeed, Hamas continues to emphasize and promote the religious ideology that death for Allah is an ideal to be actively pursued.



The goal is to convince Palestinians, including women and children, not to fear death but even to face it at the front to protect Hamas fighters. Hamas's placement of its military installations and fighters among civilians reflects this ideology, and has led to these 51 deaths.



A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a "death industry" at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians "desire death" with the same intensity that Israelis "desire life."



The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: "For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life."


http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide

Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide.


Israel has always faced (radical) Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be reminded [1]


CLEAR GOAL OF GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN SINCE THE 1920s








Contents






1920s


The Hebron Massacre of 1929, Thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting "Kill the Jews!" in Arabic [2]


This was not the first mass racist attack by Arabs against unarmed civilian Jews in British Mandate ‘Palestine,’ nor would it be the last attempted extermination. [3].


The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, the Mufti and Hitler, Nazism ... In his last public appearance in a speech before a World Islamic Conference in 1962, the Mufti called for the ethnic cleansing of all Jews [4].



1967


[1967] The Six-Day War, Gamal Nasser tells cheering Egyptians he intends to throw the Jews into the sea [5], the Arab leaders' slogan : We’ll Throw Them into the Sea" [6]





Current



Palestinian Arabs


The Palestinians Encouraging Genocide [7] and on Palestinian TV openly call: Kill All The Jews [8], Palestinian Muslim cleric urges all Arabs to kill Jews, Christians [9], (Even calling to Kill all Americans [10]), Islamic sermons broadcast on Palestinian Authority have also been openly genocidal [11] An ideology of genocidal radical Islamism - Jihad-Islamism.[12]


At the second Palestinian violent Intifada, they came up with a new (tool in) Genocide: Suicide Bombing [13].


An emphasis in radicals' work is indoctrinating Palestinian Children to Genocidal Hate, Imams are extremely influential in successfully emphasizing the goals of jihad and martyrdom [14]


Especially the Islamic party: Hamas promotes Islamic supremacy over the world, "The Hamas Ideology of Hatred and Genocide: Islamic supremacy over the world, destroying Israel and Jews [15], vows to 'drink' Jewish blood, group would drink the blood of Jews [16], Hamas Mickey-Mouse-like character to incite for genocide [17], Genocide of Jews remains Hamas goal [18] and declare: "The Final Goal of the Resistance is to Wipe This Entity Off the Face of the Earth" "We are making the preparations for a confrontation. This is not because we need to be prepared for an Israeli act of aggression - after all, aggression is intrinsic to this entity - but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out." [19]


Shoebat (former Palestinian terrorist) notes that; "The Arab war against Israel is a genocide jihad," [20], It is part of an all out 'Islamic Genocide Plan' [21]


S. Singer: Confront Real Obstacle: Genocidal Jihad, the more Israel embraced Palestinian statehood, including even the right-wing icon Ariel Sharon, the more violent and radicalized the Palestinians have become. [22]



Al Qaeda


In Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy - Islamic Thinking justifying the genocide of infidels, According to al- Ali, all citizens of Israel are to be considered combatants.[23].



Hezbollah


Hezbollah calling on Muslims to kill all Jewish Israelis with firearms, knives and poison [24]


The widening arena of Hezbollah's attacks stemmed from Nasrallah's perception that Jews anywhere are legitimate targets. In fact, Nasarallah has said: If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002) [25].


Recent Hezbollah’s renewal of Jihad Genocide on Global “Jewish Targets”[26].



Ahmadinejad


Islamic Republic of Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has triggered a sharp international response and widespread condemnation [27] [28] (It was not mistranslated [29]). He'faced genocide case', in 14 Dec 2006 was expected to be the target of a lawsuit which accuses him of inciting genocide against Israel. [30]


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ONLY Hamas To Blame For Deaths


Hamas To Blame For Deaths
‘Hamas To Blame For Dead’
Sunday December 28, 2008

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has told Sky News that there is no option but to use force against Hamas.

…the responsibility for civilian casualties lay with Hamas.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Israeli-Foreign-Minister-Tzipi-Li


Egypt lays blame on Hamas - Israel News, Ynetnews - 27 Dec 2008
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645195,00.html



Israel is the victim, not the aggressor in ongoing battle

December 27, 2008

The writer of “Israel’s form of execution” shows a total lack of understanding of the situation in Gaza. Israel only retaliates after it has been attacked by terrorists, and the so-called “targeted assasinations” of Hamas leaders are a pre-emptive attack on the people who plan and coordinate the attacks.
When your country is outnumbered 100 to 1 by your neighbors, who openly declare that they wish to exterminate you, the actions by Israel are a reasoned response. This letter is a classic case of “blame the victim.”
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-pbmail683pndec27,0,2986114.story

Hamas is to blame for trouble in Gaza
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Hamas+blame+trouble+Gaza/1119488/story.html



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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Defending Israel's action against bloodthirsty Islamic "Palestinians" who use their own kids as human shields

Defending Israel's action against bloodthirsty Islamic "Palestinians" who use their own kids as human shields


Boston Jewish leaders defend Gaza strike

Boston Globe, United
States

Hamas's disregard for Israeli life is matched by its disregard for
the lives of Palestinians living in Gaza. Using innocent Palestinians as human
shields, Hamas purposely fires its missiles from homes, schools and community
centers, confident in the knowledge that when Israel finally acts to stop the
killing of its own civilians, Palestinians will also inevitably be harmed. The
use of Palestinian civilians as human shields is not merely unspeakably cruel.
It is also a fundamental violation of Palestinian human rights by the Hamas
leadership.

Israel cares deeply about protecting the lives of civilians,
both in Israel and in the Gaza Strip. Its efforts this weekend to stop the Hamas
attacks represent classic self-defense, undertaken reluctantly by an Israeli
nation that longs for peace.

Israel is now compelled to act to defend
its citizens.


http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/12/boston_jewish_l.html

Hamas took no heed of the plight of their own brethren, "and just as they have
used human shields in their terror operations, they are now taking the whole ...


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868820574&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Israel’s Challenge
Family Security Matters, NJ - Dec 26, 2008
Why is
criticism never leveled at Hamas or Hezbollah who regularly use children as
human shields to protect their leaders and their weapons? ...

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2115/pub_detail.asp

Israel retaliation in Gaza, Hamas hit hard
Canada Free Press, Canada
Any
suspected hideouts of Hamas leadership must be taken out. Israel had
opportunities in earlier decades to do this and refused because of the human
shield


http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7171

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So, "Palestinians" -- unfortunaletly-- had caused a few kids (besides the majority militants killed today), they succeeded in their objective to make Israel look bad, that's very important in their objective of hating Israel (Arab racism & Islamic bigotry) no matter what Israel does, and "legitimizing" their radicalism so that the world looks away Hamas' real ultimate goal, Genocide of course, or "wiping off map" in its Islamic protectors of Tehran's vocabulary...


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Friday, December 26, 2008

Pallywood slow on pinning its murder on the "zionists" - Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza

Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza

Masked Palestinian militants are seen during an Islamic Jihad rally in Bureij, AP – Masked Palestinian militants are seen during an Islamic Jihad rally in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Friday, …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls.

The attack came as Israel sent mixed signals over its plans to respond to continuing Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli defense officials say politicians have approved a large-scale incursion into the territory once rainy conditions clear. But at the same time, Israel appeared receptive to international pressure against an invasion, opening the Gaza border Friday to allow in deliveries of humanitarian aid.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians

If it was 'Palestinians' plan again, to murder own civilians of their own population and pin it on the Zionists, this time, Pallywood failed!

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The usual system: Hamas Murders Children in Palestine, Blames Israel

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So many benevolent Jews lose so much money to one twisted [Madoff] guy and anti Jewish bigots applause.


Worth mentioning –at this juncture– the unknown fact that ‘most donations by Jews go to non-Jewish causes.’


Then again, what is classic garbage of anti-Semitism if not picking one ‘bad’ Jew and omitting all ‘good’ Jews?



The very first self proclaimed “writer” to dance the evil dance was no other than the already infamous Nazi: HERR Jöran Jerma, that has adapted (among a list of names like ‘Adam Ermash’, also a) “Hebrew” name: Israel Shamir.


This awful human being couldn’t wait and not cede the opportunity and provide “antisemitic wisdom for the perplexed”…, it’s worth mentioning that for years, this “aryan-writer” has been posing as a “pro-palestinian advocate”, decrying how “poor palestinians suffer”, imagine such a white-supremacist telling us how he “aches” for brown Arabs, actually, this tactic of damning the Jews (who are trying to survive against terrorism and genocide) with a mask of caring for palestinians have been used by KKK’s D. Duke too…



[Israel Shamir exposed as an open neo-Nazi, - he has a Book out , even European anti-Israel activist groups repudiate him as an embarrassment].




Websites carrying his “work” are: (KKK’s) David Duke, Rense, some other “white power” or “white powder” pages.





Because they are jealous of Jews’ special morals and kindness…


Only one-tenth of Jewish philanthropists limit their giving to Jewish charities alone, while one-fourth give only to non-Jewish causes.. - Why Aren’t Jews Giving to Jews? Jewish philanthropic donations to the secular community are outweighing those going to the Jewish community. - Poll: Richest U.S. Jews give mostly to non-Jewish causes




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Monday, December 22, 2008

Xmas, 'Palestinian' Muslims Oppress Bethlehem's Christians

Xmas, 'Palestinian' Muslims Oppress Bethlehem's Christians



* Jihadists persecuting Palestinian Christians in Gaza




* Muslim grinches steal Bethlehem Christmas



* Christians persecuted in Bethlehem



**Bethlehem Christians fear neighbors A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their silence and talk openly about what they describe as Muslim persecution of the Christian minority in this city

Technorati -

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Monday, December 15, 2008

Islamists define "Zionism" anyone standing up against terror-massacres and for security and survival

Islamists define "Zionism" anyone standing up against terror-massacres and for security and survival

Islamic Pakistani TV channel blames the Islamic massacre on “Indian (hindu) zionists”


Pak TV channel says 26/11 hatched by Hindu Zionists - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Pak_TV_channel_says_2611_hatched_by_Hindu_Zionists/articles



There you go, the usual Islamic follow-up crime, after committing the massacre - (on top of everything) blaming the victims!


What the heck is an “hindu zionist” anyway??? then again, Who said Islamofascism makes sense?


The truth — however — is that the Islamists consider ANY anti terrorists pro-security, pro-survival, pro-life acting “entity” as “zionists”, that’s IslamiPedia for “Zionism”.



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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Good guy Israel’s good will vs dangerous “modereate palestinian”

Good guy Israel’s good will vs dangerous “modereate palestinian” -


Israel’s plan to free Palestinian prisoners is foolish – and illegal

Christian Science Monitor, MA - Dec 14, 2008

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert intends to free 230 Palestinian prisoners Monday – a “gesture of goodwill” toward the Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinians. We shouldn’t worry, we’re told, because the men belong to the “moderate” Fatah, not Hamas or Islamic Jihad, are “without blood on their hands,” and must sign a commitment not to return to violence.


Make no mistake: These outlaws are, to all intents and purposes, terrorists bent on Israel’s destruction. And, if past is prologue, Israel can expect more terror as a result of this appeasement.


A formal agreement from terrorists not to terrorize is a silly document. Likewise, the presumption that a Fatah-led “Palestine” would be better for Israel is plainly wrong. Fatah’s present statements may be moderate, but its past and its hoped-for future tell a different story. In its bloody history of violence against Israelis, Fatah is essentially indistinguishable from Hamas. And a glance at official Palestinian maps of “Palestine,” which encompass all of Israel, shows what it really thinks of the “two-state solution.”


http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1215/p09s01-coop.html



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Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and Our Responsibilities

Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and Our Responsibilities
Right Side News, GA - Dec 9, 2008
In April 2008, Mr. Carter met with leaders of the Islamic supremacist group Hamas, linked to the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812092933/culture-wars/human-rights-islamic-supremacism-and-our-responsibilities.html


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Sunday, December 07, 2008

ISRAEL'S PREFERENCIAL TREATMENT FOR ARABS

ISRAEL'S PREFERENCIAL TREATMENT FOR ARABS


(Dec 2008)


Israeli Police evict Jews from Jewish-owned Hebron home
As applauding Palestinian Arabs looked on, hundreds of Israeli police forced their way into a Jewish-owned home in the ancient Jewish city of Hebron Thursday and evicted the Jewish families living there.

http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2587

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Israel's Arabs, Muslims have more rights than Israeli Jews!

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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Palestinians

Palestinians ‘Peoplehood’ Based on a Big Lie
Eli E. Hertz

The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were newcomers to British Mandate Palestine. Until the 1967 Six-Day War made it expedient for Arabs to create a Palestinian peoplehood, local Arabs simply considered themselves part of the ‘great Arab nation’ or ‘southern Syrians.’

“Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.”
Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels

“All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they
want to destroy, not what they want to build.”
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman

There is no age-old Palestinian people. Most so-called Palestinians are relative newcomers to the Land of Israel

Like a mantra, Arabs repeatedly claim that the Palestinians are a native people. The concept of a ‘Stateless Palestinian people’ is not based on fact. It is a fabrication.

Palestinian Arabs cast themselves as a native people in “Palestine” – like the Aborigines in Australia or Native Americans in America. They portray the Jews as European imperialists and colonizers. This is simply untrue.

Until the Jews began returning to the Land of Israel in increasing numbers from the late 19th century to the turn of the 20th, the area called Palestine was a God-forsaken backwash that belonged to the Ottoman Empire, based in Turkey.

The land’s fragile ecology had been laid waste in the wake of the Arabs’ 7th-century conquest. In 1799, the population was at it lowest and estimated to be no more than 250,000 to 300,000 inhabitants in all the land.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Arab population west of the Jordan River (today, Israel and the West Bank) was about half a million inhabitants and east of the Jordan River perhaps 200,000.

The collapse of the agricultural system with the influx of nomadic tribes after the Arab conquest that created malarial swamps and denuded the ancient terrace system eroding the soil, was coupled by a tyrannous regime, a crippling tax system and absentee landowners that further decimated the population. Much of the indigenous population had long since migrated or disappeared. Very few Jews or Arabs lived in the region before the arrival of the first Zionists in the 1880s and most of those that did lived in abject poverty.

Most Arabs living west of the Jordan River in Israel, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza are newcomers who came from surrounding Arab lands after the turn of the 20th century because they were attracted to the relative economic prosperity brought about by the Zionist Movement and the British in the 1920s and 1930s.

This is substantiated by eyewitness reports of a deserted country – including 18th-century reports from the British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, French author and historian Count Constantine Volney (Travels through Syria and Egypt, 1798); the mid-19th-century writings of Alphonse de Lamartine (Recollections of the East, 1835); Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad, 1867); and reports from the British Consul in Jerusalem (1857) that were sent back to London.

The Ottoman Turks’ census (1882) recorded only 141,000 Muslims in the Land of Israel. The real number is probably closer to 350,000 to 425,000, since many hid to avoid taxes. The British census in 1922 reported 650,000 Muslims.

Aerial photographs taken by German aviators during World War I show an underdeveloped country composed mainly of primitive hamlets. Ashdod, for instance, was a cluster of mud dwellings, Haifa a fishing village. In 1934 alone, 30,000 Syrian Arabs from the Hauran moved across the northern frontier into Mandate Palestine, attracted by work in and around the newly built British portand the construction of other infrastructure projects. They even dubbed Haifa Um el-Amal (‘the city of work’).

The fallacy of Arab claims that most Palestinians were indigenous to Palestine – not newcomers - is also bolstered by a 1909 vintage photograph of Nablus, today an Arab city on the West Bank with over 121,000 residents. Based on the number of buildings in the photo taken from the base of Mount Gerizim, the population in 1909 – Muslim Arabs and Jewish Samaritans – could not have been greater than 2,000 residents.

Family names of many Palestinians attest to their non-Palestinian origins. Just as Jews bear names like Berliner, Warsaw and Toledano, modern phone books in the Territories are filled with families named Elmisri (Egyptian), Chalabi (Syrian), Mugrabi (North Africa). Even George Habash – the arch-terrorist and head of Black September – bears a name with origins in Abyssinia or Ethiopia, Habash in both Arabic and Hebrew.


Palestinian nationality is an entity defined by its opposition to Zionism, and not its national aspirations.


What unites Palestinianshas been their opposition to Jewish nationalism and the desire to stamp it out, not aspirations for their own state.Local patriotic feelings are generated only when a non-Islamic entity takes charge – such as Israel did after the 1967 Six-Day War.It dissipates under Arab rule, no matter how distant or despotic.

A Palestinian identity did not exist until an opposing force created it – primarily anti-Zionism. Opposition to a non-Muslim nationalism on what local Arabs, and the entire Arab world, view as their own turf, was the only expression of ‘Palestinian peoplehood.’

The Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a charismatic religious leader and radical anti-Zionist was the moving force behind opposition to Jewish immigration in the 1920s and 1930s.The two-pronged approach of the “Diplomacy of Rejection” (of Zionism) and the violence the Mufti incited occurred at the same time Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq became countries in the post-Ottoman reshuffling of territories established by the British and the French under the League of Nation’s mandate system.

The tiny educated class among the Arabs of Palestine was more politically aware than the rest of Arab society, with the inklings of a separate national identity. However, for decades, the primary frame of reference for most local Arabs was the clan or tribe, religion and sect, and village of origin.If Arabs in Palestine defined themselves politically, it was as “southern Syrians.” Under Ottoman rule, Syria referred to a region much larger than the Syrian Arab Republic of today, with borders established by France and England in 1920.

In his book Greater Syria:The History of an Ambition, Daniel Pipes explains:

“Syria was a region that stretched from the borders of Anatolia to those of Egypt, from the edge of Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of today’s states, the Syria of old comprised Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, plus the Gaza Strip and Alexandria.”

Syrian maps in the 21st century still co-opt most of Greater Syria, including Israel.

The Grand Mufti Al-Husseini’s aspirations slowly shifted from pan-Arabism – the dream of uniting all Arabs into one polity, whereby Arabs in Palestine would unite with their brethren in Syria - to winning a separate Palestinian entity, with himself at the helm. Al-Husseini was the moving force behind the 1929 riots against the Jews and the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt against two non-Muslim entities in Palestine – the British and the Jews.He gathered a large following by playing on fears that the Jews had come to dispossess, or at least dominate the Arabs.

Much like Yasser Arafat, the Grand Mufti’s ingrained all-or-nothing extremism, fanaticism and even an inability to cooperate with his own compatriots made him totally ineffective. He led the Palestinian Arabs nowhere.

The ‘Palestinian’ cause became a key rallying point for Arab nationalism throughout the Middle East, according to Oxford historian Avi Shlaim. The countries the British and French created in 1918-1922 were based largely on meridians on the map, as is evident in the borders that delineate the Arab states today. Because these states lack ethnic logic or a sense of community, their opposition to the national aspirations of the Jews has come to fuel that fires Arab nationalism as the ‘glue’ of national identity. (see details on the ramifications of British and French policy, which plague the Middle East to this day in the chapter “The European Union.”)

From the 1920s, rejection of Jewish nationalism, attempts to prevent the establishment of a Jewish homeland by violence, and rejection of any form of Jewish political power, including any plans to share stewardship with Arabs, crystallized into the expression of Palestinianism. No other positive definition of an Arab-Palestinian people has surfaced. This point is admirably illustrated in the following historic incident:

“In 1926, Lord Plumer was appointed as the second High Commissioner of Palestine. The Arabs within the Mandate were infuriated when Plumer stood up for the Zionists’ national anthem Hatikva during ceremonies held in his honor when Plumer first visited Tel Aviv. When a delegation of Palestinian Arabs protested Plumer’s ‘Zionist bias,’ the High Commissioner asked the Arabs if he remained seated when their national anthem was played, ‘wouldn’t you regard my behavior as most unmannerly?’ Met by silence, Plumer asked: ‘By the way, have you got a national anthem?’ When the delegation replied with chagrin that they did not, he snapped back, “I think you had better get one as soon as possible.”

But it took the Palestinians more than 60 years to heed Plumer’s advice, adopting Anthem of the Intifada two decadesafter Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 – at the beginning of the 1987 Intifada.

Under the Mandate, local Arabs also refused to establish an ‘Arab Agency’ to develop the Arab sector, parallel to the Jewish Agency that directed development of the Jewish sector (see the Chapter “Rejectionism”).

In fact, the so-called patriotism of indigenous Muslims has flourished only when non-Muslim entities (the Crusaders, the British, the Jews) have taken charge of the Holy Land. When political control returns to Muslim hands, the ardent patriotism of the Arabs of Palestine magically wanes, no matter how distant or how despotic the government. One Turkish pasha who ruled Acco (Acre) between 1775 and 1804 was labeled Al Jazzar, The Butcher, by locals.

Why hasn’t Arab representative government ever been established in Palestine, either in 1948 or during the next 19 years of Arab rule? Because other Arabs co-opted the Palestinian cause as a rallying point that would advance the concept that the territory was up for grabs. “The Arab invasion of Palestine was not a means for achieving an independent Palestine, but rather the result of a lack of consensus on the part of the Arab states regarding such independence,” summed up one historian. Adherents to a separate Palestinian identity were a mute minority on the West Bank and Gaza during the 19 years of Jordanian and Egyptian rule - until Israel took control from the Jordanians and the Egyptians in 1967. Suddenly a separate Palestinian peoplehood appeared and claimed it deserved nationhood - and 21 other Arab states went along with it.

Palestinianism in and of itself lacks any substance of its own. Arab society on the West Bank and Gaza suffers from deep social cleavages created by a host of rivalries based on divergent geographic, historical, geographical, sociological and familial allegiances. What glues Palestinians together is a carefully nurtured hatred of Israel and the rejection of Jewish nationhood.

http://www.mythsandfacts.com/article_view.asp?articleID=53

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