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The History of Israel and Palestine Israel today (in blue) + Jordan today (in Red) equal what

was Palestine before 1923 How !any "eo"le #now that$ %etter yet& how !any "eo"le want to #now that$

Ta#e a 'lose loo# at the PR()(*T +,- .,P of the .iddle (ast -ou 'an see that 22 ,rab and/or .usli! 0Iran is not 'onsidered ,rab1 nations 'o!"letely en2ulf Israel 3an you or anyone e4"lain to !e how 5e4"ansionist Israel5 has 5ta#en o6er5 the .iddle (ast The ,rab 'ountries o''u"y 789 ti!es !ore land !ass than Israel ,nd& they outnu!ber the Jews of Israel by nearly fifty to one )o !u'h for ,rab "ro"a2anda$ *ow noti'e the T:T,; area of Israel and Jordan This was referred to as <Palestine5 and was !andated under %ritish ad!inistration followin2 =orld =ar I (see !a" below) How 'on6enient that today>s ,rab "ro"a2andists for2et that land east of the Jordan Ri6er was also "art of 5Palestine5 and is& in fa't& the ,rab?Palestinian )tate$

@ro! 1A1B?191B Tur#ey>s :tto!an (!"ire 'ontrolled a 6ast ,rab e!"ire& a "ortion of whi'h is today ;ebanon& )yria& and Palestine +urin2 =orld =ar I (1918?191C)& Tur#ey su""orted Der!any =hen Der!any was defeated& so were the Tur#s In 1917 'ontrol of the southern "ortion of their :tto!an (!"ire was 5!andated5 to @ran'e and %ritain under the )y#es?Pi'ot ,2ree!ent& whi'h di6ided the ,rab re2ion into Eones of influen'e ;ebanon and )yria were assi2ned (!andated) to @ran'e and 5Palestine5 (today>s Jordan& Israel and 5=est %an#5) was !andated to Dreat %ritain %e'ause no other "eo"les had e6er established a national ho!eland in 5Palestine5& that is& sin'e the Jews had done it 2&999 years before& the %ritish 5loo#ed fa6orably5 u"on the 'reation of a Jewish *ational Ho!eland throu2hout ,;; of Palestine The Jews had already be2un !ass i!!i2ration into Palestine in the 1CC9>s in an effort to rid the land of swa!"s and !alaria and "re"are for the rebirth of Israel This Jewish effort to re6italiEe the land attra'ted an equally lar2e i!!i2ration of ,rabs fro! nei2hborin2 areas who were drawn by e!"loy!ent o""ortunities and healthier li6in2 'onditions (,'tually& they be'a!e fond of li6in2 in the 19th 'entury as o""osed to the 17th 'entury ) There was ne6er any atte!"t to 5rid5 the area of what few indi2enous ,rabs there were or those ,rab !asses that i!!i2rated into this area alon2 with the Jews$

In 1923& the %ritish di6ided the 5Palestine5 "ortion of the :tto!an (!"ire into two ad!inistrati6e distri'ts Jews would be "er!itted only west of the Jordan ri6er In effe't& the %ritish had 5'ho""ed off5 BAF of the ori2inally "ro"osed Jewish Palestinian ho!eland to for! an ,rab Palestinian nation 'alled Trans?Jordan (!eanin2 5a'ross the Jordan Ri6er5) This territory east of the Jordan Ri6er was 2i6en to (!ir ,bdullah (fro! HeGaE& now )audi ,rabia) who was not e6en an ,rab?5Palestinian$5 (The "oliti's behind this !o6e is all to2ether another story$) This "ortion of Palestine was rena!ed Trans?Jordan Trans?Jordan would a2ain be rena!ed 5Jordan5 in 1987 In other words& the eastern 3/8

of Palestine would be rena!ed T=I3(& in effe't& erasin2 all 'onne'tion to the na!e 5Palestine$5 Howe6er& the botto! line is that the Palestinian ,rabs had TH(IR 5,rab Palestinian5 ho!eland The re!ainin2 2AF of Palestine (now =()T of the Jordan Ri6er) was to be the Jewish Palestinian ho!eland Howe6er& sharin2 was not "art of the ,rab "sy'holo2i'al !a#eu" then nor now (n'oura2ed and in'ited by 2rowin2 ,rab nationalis! throu2hout the .iddle (ast& the ,rabs of that s!all re!ainin2 Palestinian territory west of the Jordan Ri6er laun'hed ne6er?endin2 !urderous atta'#s u"on the Jewish Palestinians in an effort to dri6e the! out .ost terrifyin2 were the Hebron !assa'res of 1929 and later durin2 the 1937?39 5,rab Re6olt 5 The %ritish at first tried to !aintain order but soon (due to the lar2e oil de"osits bein2 dis'o6ered throu2hout the ,rab .iddle (ast) turned a blind eye It be'a!e "ainfully 'lear to the Palestinian Jews that they !ust fi2ht the ,rabs ,*+ dri6e out the %ritish

The Palestinian Jews were for'ed to for! an or2aniEed defense a2ainst the ,rabs Palestinians thus was for!ed the Ha2ana& the be2innin2s of the Israeli +efense @or'es 0I+@1 There was also a Jewish under2round 'alled the Ir2un led by .ena'he! %e2in (who later be'a!e Pri!e .inister of Israel) %esides fi2htin2 the ,rabs& the Ir2un was instru!ental in dri6in2 out the "ro?,rab %ritish @inally in 198B the %ritish had enou2h and turned the Palestine !atter o6er to the Hnited *ations The 198B H * Resolution 1C1 "artition "lan was to di6ide the re!ainin2 2AF of Palestine into a Jewish Palestinian )tate and a )(3:*+ ,rab Palestinian )tate (Trans?Jordan bein2 the first) based u"on "o"ulation 'on'entrations The Jewish Palestinians a''e"ted the ,rab Palestinians reGe'ted The ,rabs still wanted ,;; of Palestine both east ,*+ west of the Jordan Ri6er The Palestinian ,rabs started the >8C war& and in so doin2 released the warli#e a""etites of a nation of sur6i6ors& a Jewish "eo"le with no "la'e to run& who had re"ressed their ra2e for !illennia& and had now earned full title to it$ :n .ay 18& 198C the 5Palestinian Jews5 finally de'lared their own )tate of Israel and be'a!e 5Israelis 5 :n the ne4t day& se6en nei2hborin2 ,rab ar!ies (2y"t& Jordan& )yria& ;ebanon& )audi

,rabia& Iraq and -e!en in6aded Israel .ost of the ,rabs li6in2 within the boundaries of the newly de'lared 5I)R,(;5 were en'oura2ed to lea6e by the in6adin2 ,rab ar!ies to fa'ilitate the slau2hter of the Jews and were "ro!ised to be 2i6en all Jewish "ro"erty after the 6i'torious ,rab ar!ies won the war The truth is that B9F of the ,rab Palestinians who left in 198C I "erha"s 399&999 to 899&999 of the! I ne6er saw an Israeli soldier$ They did not flee be'ause they feared Jewish thu2s& but be'ause of a rational and reasonable 'al'ulusJ the Jews will be e4ter!inatedK we will 2et out of the way while that !essy and dan2erous business 2oes forward& and we will return afterwards to re'lai! our ho!es& and to inherit those ni'e Jewish "ro"erties as well They 2uessed wron2K and the ,rab Palestinians are still tortured by the residual sha!e of their fli2ht Their sha!e is so 2reat be'ause in their eyes runnin2 fro! Jews was li#e runnin2 fro! wo!en )o !u'h for the blatant lie about Jews throwin2 out all the 0Palestinian1 ,rabs$ The re!ainin2 39F either (1) saw for the!sel6es that these Jews would fi2ht and die for their new nation and de'ided to "a'# u" and lea6e or (2) were dri6en off the land as a nor!al 'onsequen'e of war =hen the 19 !onth war ended& Israel sur6i6ed des"ite a 1F loss of its entire "o"ulation$ Those ,rabs who did not flee be'a!e today>s Israeli?,rab 'itiEens Those who fled be'a!e the seeds of the first wa6e of 5Palestinian ,rab refu2ees 5 The ,rab "ro"a2andists and a"olo2ists al!ost ne6er !entioned that in 198C& ,rab ar!ies laun'hed a war a2ainst a one?day?old Israel Instead they fo'used on the !ain 'onsequen'e of that warJ the 'reation of ,rab refu2ees& statin2 that Israel 5war of 2eno'ide5 e4"elled C99&999 of the! This not only disa2rees with H* esti!ates of a bit o6er 899&999 refu2ees but also i2nores the fa't that !ost of the ,rabs/Palestinians were en'oura2ed to lea6e by the ,rab =orld itself$

The end result of the 198C?89 Israeli =ar of Inde"enden'e was the 'reation of a Jewish )tate sli2htly lar2er than that whi'h was "ro"osed by the 198B Hnited *ations Resolution 1C1 =hat re!ained of that al!ost?'reated se'ond ,rab Palestinian )tate was 2obbled u" by (1) (2y"t (o''u"yin2 the DaEa )tri") and by (2) Trans?Jordan (o''u"yin2 Judea?)a!aria (a # a the 5=est %an#5 of the Jordan Ri6er)

and Jerusale! In the ne4t year (19A9) Trans?Jordan for!ally !er2ed this =est %an# territory into itself and 2ranted all those 5Palestinian5 ,rabs li6in2 there Jordanian 'itiEenshi" )in'e Trans?Jordan was then no lon2er 'onfined to one side of the Jordan Ri6er& it rena!ed itself si!"ly 5Jordan 5 In the final analysis& the ,rabs of Palestine ended u" with nearly CAF of the ori2inal territory of Palestine 'alled Jordan but in reality their ,R,% 5Palestinian state$ %ut that was still not 199F and thus the 'onfli't between ,rab and Jew for 5Palestine5 would 'ontinue throu2h four !ore wars and 'ontinuous ,rab terrorist atta'#s u"on the Israeli 'itiEenry It 'ontinues to this 6ery day @ro! 1989?7B when all of Judea?)a!aria 0=est %an# L Jerusale!1 and DaEa were 199F under ,rab 0Jordanian L (2y"tian1 'ontrol& no effort was (M(R !ade to 'reate a se'ond Palestinian )tate for the ,rabs li6in2 there )urely you do not e4"e't Israel to now "ro6ide these sa!e ,rabs with their own 'ountry when their fellow ,rabs failed to do so$ ,nd isn>t it 'urious how ,rafat and his P;: (for!ed in 1978) dis'o6ered their 5an'ient5 identity and a need for 5self?deter!ination5 and 5hu!an di2nity5 on this 6ery sa!e =est %an# :*;- ,@T(R Israel re2ained this territory (three years later in 197B) followin2 Jordan>s atte!"t to destroy Israel$ =hy was no request e6er !ade u"on Nin2 Hussein of Jordan by the ,rabs li6in2 on the =est %an# when he o''u"ied itO Is it lo2i'al that the P;: was for!ed in 1978 to re2ain the lands they would lose three years later in 197BO This sort of lo2i' !a#es sense only to those who ha6e not learned that the P;: was for!ed to +()TR:- Israel ,nd that is )TI;; their 2oal$ , 'os!eti' na!e 'han2e fro! P;: (Palestine ;iberation :r2aniEation) to P, (Palestinian ,uthority) does not 'han2e the stri"es on THI) ti2er$

Throu2hout !u'h of .ay 197B& the (2y"tian& Jordanian and )yrian ar!ies !obiliEed alon2 Israel>s narrow and see!in2ly indefensible borders in "re"aration for a !assi6e in6asion to eli!inate the )tate of Israel The battle 'ry heard throu2hout the ,rab world was then& as it 'ontinues to be 5)lau2hter the Jews5 and 5Throw the Jews into the )ea$5 %ut the Jews of Israel& re!e!berin2 2&999 years of bein2 but'hered& 2assed& burned and s#inned (e2 The 3rusades& The )"anish Inquisition& the ,rab ra!"a2es

of early Palestine and "arti'ularly the Holo'aust)& "lanned and e4e'uted a "erfe't "re?e!"ti6e stri#e a2ainst (2y"t =ithin two hours the (2y"tian ,ir @or'e did not e4ist !ost of its "lanes destroyed while still on the runways$ Hnaware that the (2y"tians had no !ore air for'e& Nin2 Hussein of Jordan& laun'hed his atta'# fro! his =est %an# into Israel>s belly while )yrian troo"s "re"ared to des'end down the Dolan Hei2hts hi2h 2round into northern Israel *ow for so!e fa'ts about 5o''u"ation 5 @irstly& the (2y"tians& Jordanians and )yrians lost DaEa& the =est %an# and Dolan Hei2hts (res"e'ti6ely) by "arti'i"atin2 in a failed atte!"t at 2eno'ide a2ainst the 3hildren of Israel Had Israel lost this 197B defensi6e war& the ,rab?Palestinians and their ,rab allies would ha6e ra"ed& but'hered or dri6en out e6ery Israeli they 'ould 2et their hands on and 2obbled u" all of Israel *ow& 3A+ years later and des"ite the fa't that Israel won a war %R:HDHT HP:* TH(.& the Israelis are still willin2 to allow the ,rab?Palestinians to ha6e a state on !u'h of the =est %an# and DaEa if only they will sto" sendin2 their sui'ide/ho!i'ide bo!bers into the heart of Israel$ (Tal# about !is"la'ed 'o!"assion$) @ro! 198C to 197B& (2y"t ruled DaEa& )yria ruled the Dolan Hei2hts& while Jordan ruled the =est %an# They 'ould ha6e set u" inde"endent ,rab?Palestinian states in any or all of those territories& but they didn>t e6en 'onsider it Instead& in 197B they used the Dolan Hei2hts& DaEa and the =est ban# to laun'h a war that was una!bi2uously ai!ed at destroyin2 Israel& whi'h is how Israel 'a!e into "ossession of those territories in the first "la'e

,fter :*;- si4 days of air& sea and hand?to?hand 2round warfare& Israel defeated all three ,rab ar!ies alon2 three se"arate fronts& 'a"turin2 the entire )inai +esert fro! (2y"t& the 3B!ile 4 12!ile )yrian Dolan Hei2hts and the so?'alled 5=est %an#5 (in'ludin2 (ast Jerusale! and its :ld 3ity) fro! Jordan .ost i!"ortantly was the return to Israel of its holy 3&999 year old 'a"ital 'ity of Jerusale! alon2 the western ed2e of the =est %an# the sa!e Jerusale! fro! whi'h all Jews had been denied a''ess for the 19 years (198C?197B) followin2 Jordan>s seiEure and 'ontrol o6er it followin2 the first ,rab?Israeli =ar of 198C?9

Hnfortunately& the world saw thin2s differently and 'onsidered Israel an 5o''u"ier5 (rather than a 5'a"turer5) of this dis"uted 5=est %an#5 and the DaEa )tri" alon2 with the CA9&999 Palestinian ,rabs li6in2 there These ,rabs would refer to the!sel6es as 5refu2ees5 and Goined the !asses of refu2ees fro! the first ,rab?Israeli war of 198C?9 :n'e a2ain Israel was for'ed to fi2ht a battle for sur6i6al and& sadly& on'e a2ain Palestinian 0in reality& lar2ely (2y"tian& Jordanian and )yrian1 ,rabs be'o!in2 refu2ees by their own a'tions& the a'tions of their leaders and fro! the a'tions of fellow ,rabs fro! nei2hborin2 states$ I)R,(; )3R(=) HP T::$ Israel was res"onsible for brin2in2 about so!e of its own "roble!s The ,rabs in the =est %an# and DaEa )tri" were "a'#ed and ready to lea6e followin2 their 197B defeat )uddenly the 6i'torious one? eyed I+@ Deneral .oshe +ayan "ersuaded the! to stay This sin2ular a't stunned no one !ore than the ,rab ene!y hi!self who 'ould not belie6e su'h an in'redible !anifestation of Jewish !adness$ ,fter all& the ,rabs #new what TH(- would ha6e done to the Jews if they had won$ +ayan>s "lan was to edu'ate the!& offer the! !odern !edi'al treat!ent& "ro6ide the! with e!"loy!ent both in the =est %an#& DaEa ,*+ inside Israel Pro"er itself li6in2 a!on2st ea'h other in ho"es of buildin2 brid2es to the ,rab world Israel is now "ayin2 dearly for this ty"i'ally nai6e 5;eftist5 2esture That 5brid2e5 led to two Intifadas and world?wide ,rab?Palestinian terroris! @ro! a fri2htened and defeated ene!y& these 5Palestinian5 ,rabs under Israel>s Gurisdi'tion turned into a 'onfident& hateful and dan2erous ene!y now on their way toward for!in2 a terrorist state deter!ined to destroy Israel$ *oteJ =hen "eo"le say Jordan (first 'alled Trans?Jordan) is an ,rab?5Palestinian5 )tate& they are 'orre't$ Jordan a''ounts for 3/8 of Palestine>s ori2inal land !ass Thou2h they !ay 'all the!sel6es 5Jordanians&5 they are 'ulturally& ethni'ally& histori'ally and reli2iously no different than the ,rab?5Palestinians5 on the 5=est %an# 5 (6en the fla2 of Jordan and the fla2 of the "ro"osed 2nd ,rab?Palestinian state on the =est %an# / DaEa loo# al!ost identi'al )o& if the ,rab?Palestinians and Jordanians thin# of the!sel6es as one and the sa!e& why should we fall for the lie that the ,rab Palestinians west of the Jordan Ri6er are any different fro! the Jordanian ,rabs on its eastern shoreO

Hsually when one side starts a war and loses both the war ,*+ so!e territory& no one on the "lanet would e4"e't the winner to 2i6e ba'# anythin2$ This not only sounds "re"osterous& it I) "re"osterous$ %ut the Jews had su'h an insane obsession of wantin2 the world to lo6e the! that they were willin2 to 2i6e ba'# the entire )inai +esert (oil fields& air bases and endless !iles of se'urity buffer) to (2y"t for a "ie'e of "a"er Thus& in 19C2 (2y"t re2ained their )inai and Israel lost a !assi6e buffer a2ainst any future (2y"tian a22ression$ Thus far& (2y"t has not a22ressed a2ainst Israel !ilitarilyK howe6er& the basest& anti?)e!iti' 6ile to 'o!e out of (2y"t is not unli#e the worse of *aEi anti?Jewish "ro"a2anda$ This 19C2 3a!" +a6id Pea'e ,''ord has to be the 'oldest "ea'e deal in history$ Israel still o''u"ies )yria>s Dolan Hei2hts whi'h& "rior to the 197B war& had been by )yria used solely for terrorist in'ursions into and artillery bo!bard!ent u"on Israel>s northeastern settle!ents The Dolan should ne6er be 2i6en ba'# to Israel>s !ost 6i'ious ene!y$ ,nd of 'ourse& Israel still 5o''u"ies5 the =est %an# with its :*( .I;;I:* T=: HH*+R(+ TH:H),*+ and& until re'entlyK DaEa with its (IDHT HH*+R(+ TH:H),*+ 5Palestinian5 ,rabs Had Israel done to these ,rabs what the ,rabs would ha6e done to the Jews had TH(- won& she would ha6e e4"elled these hostile ,rabs and !ade it offi'ially "art of a Dreater Israel$ %ut by re!ainin2 an 5o''u"ier&5 Israel set herself u" for a 'a!"ai2n of 6i'ious "ro"a2anda& the s'o"e and intensity of whi'h the world has ne6er before seen$ .ore on 5Palestinian *ationalis! and the Real =ar ,2ainst Israel The .iddle (ast war is not now and ne6er was a 'onfli't between Israelis/Jews on the one hand and Palestinians on the other In fa't& the ,rab?5Palestinians5& while 'urrently the "er"etrators of !ost of the anti?Jewish atro'ities& were ne6er a 6ery i!"ortant "art of the 'onfli't In fa't& before about 19B9& 6irtually no one in the world 'onsidered the .iddle (ast 'onfli't to be one between Israelis and Palestinians The ter! 5Palestinian5 itself had referred to Israeli Jews ba'# in the 1989s& and had been slowly de'onstru'ted and redefined to refer to the ,rabs in the =est %an# and DaEa The .iddle (ast 3onfli't was always a war by ,rabs a2ainst Jews& not a 'onfli't between Israelis and 5Palestinians 5 The war was re"a'#a2ed as a 'onfli't between Jews and Palestinians as a "ubli' relations 2i!!i'# by the ,rab fas'ist re2i!es These re2i!es had ne6er had any interest in 5Palestinians&5 in 'reatin2 a 5Palestinian5 state& or in 5Palestinian nationalis!5 before 197B That is be'ause Palestinian nationalis! did not and +:() *:T e4ist The Palestinians were a re2ional 2rou" of ,rabs ha6in2 6irtually no 'ultural nor national distin'ti6e traits se"aratin2 the! fro! )yrians& ;ebanese& and Jordanians They are all basi'ally ,rabs$ The bul# of what are 'alled 5Palestinian ,rabs5 are !e!bers of fa!ilies who !i2rated into the ;and of Israel be2innin2 in the late 19th 'entury Palestinian nationalis! is a !islabelin2 of ,rab nationalis! ,rab nationalis! e4ists& althou2h it is 'losely bound u" with Isla!i' nationalis! and e6en Isla!is! Palestinian nationalis!& howe6er& is a "hanto! It is nothin2 !ore than 2eno'idal hatred of Jews$ The ,rab assaults and a22ressions a2ainst Israel in 198C& 19A7& 197B& 197C& and 19B3 had nothin2 to do with Palestinians The Palestinian terror 'a!"ai2n would itself be easy to su""ress today and eradi'ate if the .iddle (ast 'onfli't were really a Palestinian?Israeli 'onfli't Israel would si!"ly obliterate the terrorists and e4"el their su""orters to )yria and ;ebanon The .iddle (ast war 'ontinues be'ause it is really an ,rab?Israeli war& not an Israeli?Palestinian 'onfli't It is also in lar2e "art a war between barbaris! and 'i6iliEation In !any ways an Isla!i' reli2ious Gihad a2ainst the Jews

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